My
answer is always the same. I have believed in God’ s law of abundance and I
have always practiced it in my life. Even as a very young boy I knew that I
could have anything I put my mind on, and I had no reservations about
telling my peers this secret. The other children complained about not having
any money to buy what they wanted, but my pockets always seemed to
jingle with the coins I had earned. I would actually sleep with the snow shovel under my blanket on a snowy
night and awaken at five A.M. I would go through the neighborhood and
shovel every walkway that I could manage, and then at ten A.M. I wouldinform the neighbors that I had shoveled their walkways and without fail
they would give me a dime or a quarter for my ef forts. I’ve always known that God’ s law is one of unlimited abundance. Early on I
sensed that the master was teaching us this when he manifested fish and
loaves to overflow the baskets of those who believed otherwise. Most
people believe in, and practice, a law of scarcity , and most of their problems
derive from a fastidious hanging on to this law . They wallow around in their
self-imposed problems, rather than moving upward to a faster and more
spiritual ener gy. I have been able to see and visualize God’ s abundance in my life. I see it
even before it arrives, but the knowing that I can make it arrive stems from
my inner conviction that I am already connected to what only seems to be
missing. This feeling of connectedness propels me to act in such a way as if
what I want, wants me. Thus, when I pray , I never attempt to influence God,
ask for favors, or beg God to do something for me while I wait around and
do nothing. Instead, I use prayer to open the gates of my soul to this divine
presence. I’ve used prayer as a way of residing in that one power and not
asking God to do something, but rather to be in God consciousness where
thoughts of scarcity simply dissolve and I feel directed to attract the missing
pieces of my life like iron filings to a magnet. As I see it, God’ s law states one, “My son you are always with me, and
everything I have is yours,” and two, “W ith God all things are possible.”
Trusting in these two promises will make all the dif ference for you in
raising and maintaining your spiritual ener gy. Examine these two key
phrases. “Everything I have . . .” What does that leave out? And “all things . . .” Again, what does this exclude? The answer is your key to understanding
that everything you consider missing from your life, without exception,
stems from your failure to understand and apply God’ s laws of abundance. “Resist Not Evil” Means Giving Up Fighting Y our Problems
I have written of this earlier and I want to stress again the significance of
removing force from your life as a way of achieving a problem-free life. One of the most troubling passages in the scriptures is spoken by Jesus in
Matthew 5:39: “But I tell you, do not resist an evil person.” I would like toapply it here to also mean “Do not resist your problems.” This seems to be
something that we all are taught. W e learn that good triumphs by resisting
and fighting evil. W e believe winning means that good is victorious over
wicked. W e battle a malignancy so that health wins. A few lines further in Matthew to 5:45 you can read “He causes his son to
rise on the evil and the good.” I believe this is key to understanding and
practicing nonresistance because this tells us to bring the spirit of God to all
perceived evil and that alone will transform it into good. Y ou want to avoid
ever giving any power , in your mind or in your daily life, to the presence of
these problems in your life. Bring a higher consciousness of spirit to the
presence of problems, and the light of that presence dissolves the darkness. When you become a fighter against  anything you join forces with that
which created the problem in the first place in the form of a counterforce. When Mother T eresa was asked during the V ietnam W ar, “Will you join our
march against the war?,” she replied, “No I won’ t, but if you have a march
for peace, I’ll be there.” Fighting against war is just another war . Putting
your ener gy and your attention on what you are for, not giving credence to a
power that is other than good or God, results in that all-knowing, all-
powerful force disintegrating those illusions. This same logic applies to worldwide conflicts. When we put our collective
energy on what we are for , bringing kindness and love to bear on our
differences of opinions, the need to resist ends. When we know that on a
round planet there is no choosing up sides, and that there is only one mind
here, with many sparks of that same mind, we’ll end the illusion of hatred,
anger , and repression. It is only through a change in consciousness that our
world will be transformed. This is true of your life, and all your problems as
well. Benjamin Hof f, writing in the clever little book, The T ao of Pooh , put it this
way. “The masters of life know the W ay. They listen to the voice within
them, the voice of wisdom and simplicity , the voice that reasons
beyond cleverness and knows beyond knowledge. That voice is notjust the power and property of a few , but has been given to everyone. It
is the key to harnessing the power of the uncarved block.”
It is your key to harnessing the one power , and giving up your belief in a
second power of evil or problems. This one power , having been given to
everyone, has definitely been given to you! This law of resisting not evil applies to your own dark or shadow side as
well. T o fight your demons or to be angry with yourself for the errors of
your ways is to give more ener gy to that second nonexistent power of evil. Always remind yourself there is but one power , the power of good, and
choose to bring this power to bear on any and all your own dark behaviors. Your inner dialogue can be one of “I believed in an illusion that I was
separate from God, and I acted on it, now I will bring the one power of
good to these thoughts of anguish and they will be nullified.”
Certainly you take responsibility for those deeds. Bringing spirit to the
presence of those shadows is the same as bringing light into a dark room. The very presence of the light nullifies all the darkness. Send love to your
dark side and watch it dissolve and simultaneously raise your spiritual
energy. Don’ t fight it, because by doing so, you perpetuate the illusion that
this evil is a real power . There is only one power . Use it. Hold No One or No Thing in Judgment
In the material world we often find ourselves in conflict because of our
opinions about right and wrong. When we negotiate for peace, we generally
see one side as wrong and the other as right. This is true in conflicts
between nations, communities, families, and in your personal relationships
too. Y ou cannot bring spiritual harmony into a problem resolution as long as
you accept the idea that one side is right and the other is wrong. In the
world of spirit there is no right side and wrong side. There is only a field of
infinite harmony that we are calling spiritual. As the scriptures say , “There
is but one good, the Father in Heaven.” Again, there exists but one power ,
not two. Letting go of judgments concerning matters of right versus wrong,
and simply finding a way of bringing nonjudgmental harmony to a problem,
eliminates the ego’ s need to make someone wrong, which inevitably
exacerbates the problem.One of the most compelling ideas I have personally learned regarding
judgment is this. When you judge another person you do not define them. You mer ely define yourself as someone who needs to judge . Just because
you make an assertion that someone is stupid, or cheap, or arrogant, or
flighty , or promiscuous does not define that person. It only says something
in you is having a conflict with something outside of you. If judgment continues without seeking the source of the conflict within you,
problems will continue unabated. A spiritual solution when you enter a
problem-plagued judgmental mental mode might be to “Stop judging by
mere appearances” (John 7:24). Y our own level of spiritual ener gy is
immediately raised when you are able to resist that strong temptation to
judge others as wrong and yourself as right. Think of all good as God
expressing itself, and evil (or wrong) or discord as ignorance of this truth. By bringing that sense of harmony to the presence of the conflict, you’ll see
that the problem not only goes away , but your frequency of vibration will
move upward and you will feel more peaceful and prosperous. When you are living with a great deal of hatred within you, you’ll find
yourself attracting the lower frequency ener gy of hatred that you despise. When Denise (not her real name) was going through a divorce she spouted
her venom about her spouse on every occasion. Her daily life was filled
with the mental anguish of hatred, revenge, sorrow , depression, and fear of
how she was going to survive financially . Her judgments were always
justified by relating how he had wronged her . While she held on to these
inner attitudes her “luck” continued to be on the downswing. Her skin
suddenly developed blotches, she was diagnosed with a bleeding ulcer , she
had horrible leg cramps, one of her daughters was arrested for possession of
illegal drugs, and finally she was involved in a very serious automobile
accident resulting in fractures and head injuries. Everything kept going
from bad to worse for Denise. She could never see that the presence of the
judgmental hatred kept her at those lower frequencies in which more and
more of that low ener gy was being attracted to her . As dif ficult as it may
seem, when your luck is down and things seem to be deteriorating, ask
yourself how much right versus wrong judgment you are carrying around
and work one moment at a time to replace it with the one power of spiritual
harmony .True Nobility Is Not About Being Better Than Anyone Else: It Is About Being Better
Than Y ou Used to Be
As I sit and write these words I imagine you, the reader , somewhere on this
earth in a future moment. I know in my heart, that regardless of who you
are, what age or sex, whatever status you have achieved or failed to
achieve, regardless of your educational merit badges or your level of
material wealth, that I, W ayne Dyer , would have just as much to learn from
you, as you do from me. Furthermore, I have the profound awareness that in
a very deep and spiritual sense you and I are connected to each other . Knowing that you have just as much to teach me as I to teach you, af firms
for me that I am not better than any person out there on this entire planet. Yet at the same time I know that I am better than I used to be. Much better . And that is what I use as a barometer of my ability to raise my spiritual
energy. I am better than I used to be. I no longer am totally dominated by
my ego’ s need to be right, to accomplish and triumph. I can now ask how
may I serve before wondering what’ s in it for me. I now find myself
spreading a message of peace, grace, love, for giveness, connectedness,
kindness, and joy rather than one of winning, being right, forceful, strong,
on top of the heap, successful, and so on. I teach meditation rather than
medication, and I am a better father , husband, and son than I was. I’ve heard it said that the only dif ference between a flower that is alive and
one that is dead is that the live flower is growing. This is the true test of
spiritual growth and whether you are raising your vibrations to be in
harmony with spirit. Are you growing? Are you better than you used to be? Here is how Lao Chu put it several thousand years ago. It applies today and
it will apply several thousand years from now . At birth all people are soft and yielding. At death they are hard and stif f.
All green plants are tender and yielding. At death they are brittle and dry .When hard and rigid
We consort with death. When soft and flexible,
We affirm greater life. You Must Slow Down to Speed Up Y our Spiritual Energy
Ironically , this fast-paced frantic activity is a very slow form of ener gy. When your mind and your body are in a constant state of worry and anxiety ,
analyzing and figuring, always on the go, meeting deadlines and scurrying
to keep the next appointment, remember , that in the world of physical form
the actual ener gy pattern is extremely slow . It is only when you approach
the ener gy waves of light and spirit that the vibrations are faster . Light
waves, although appearing motionless vibrate much faster than the
frequencies of solid matter . Hence the irony when you slow yourself down and emanate peaceful,
tranquil thoughts, you actually send the anxiety and stress out of your life. Similarly , when you meditate you bring God’ s silent love into your present
moments. In silence and stillness God’ s ener gy will become yours. By
slowing your mind and freeing it from the endless chatter of thoughts
competing against other thoughts, you allow the fastest vibrations of spirit
to enter . That faster vibration is one of harmony , love, and peace. It is like
Patanjali said, coming to know God by making conscious contact with God. I have used a technique in traf fic to slow my mind down and consequently
allow the peace of God’ s fast vibrations to be present with me. When I am
stopped at a red light, I remind myself to choose to let my mind stand still
as well, or allow it to continue to chatter with thoughts about how I’m being
delayed, why the driver ahead of me didn’ t go through the yellow light, and
it is his fault that I’m still sitting here, how I’m now going to have to stop
for all the lights ahead of me because of the sequencing conspiracy of the
traffic planners, and so on. I usually choose to use this minute or two in
which everything else has stopped, to still and stop my mind as well. It is alla choice. I find that I can simply close my eyes, meditate for the prescribed
stoppage time and experience the peace of that moment. I have also discovered that there is almost always someone behind me who
will give me a considerate wake-up honk to remind me that my meditation
time is up! By slowing down and stopping my mental chatter at the traf fic
light, I invite the increased vibration of spirit into my life. And conversely ,
by staying in a frenetic vibration in my mind and body , I block the presence
of God and continue to live with my so-called problems. These are some of the principles that I encourage you to study and adopt as
you think about consciously raising your own ener gy levels to approach and
sustain spiritual awareness. This also concludes this section on ways to
adopt the view that there is a spiritual solution to every problem. In the remaining chapters I present perhaps the most famous prayer of all
time and relate what Saint Francis of Assisi intended as very practical
advice for implementing spiritual solutions. The title of each chapter is a
line of the Saint Francis prayer , followed by specific suggestions for putting
the intention of the thoughts of Saint Francis into our lives and our world
today . OceanofPDF .comPART II
PUTTING SPIRITUAL  
PROBLEM SOLVING  
INTO ACTION
Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love;
Where there is injury , pardon;
Where there is doubt, faith;
Where there is despair , hope;
Where there is darkness, light;
Where there is sadness, joy . O divine Master , grant that I may not so much seek
To be consoled as to console,
To be understood as to understand,
To be loved as to love;
For it is in giving that we receive;
It is in pardoning that we are pardoned;It is in dying to self that we are born to eternal life. —Saint Francis of Assisi
In the first half of this book I have detailed the principles involved in
understanding that there is a spiritual solution to every problem. In this
second half I of fer some practical applications of these principles based on
the well-known prayer of Saint Francis of Assisi. It seems to so perfectly
reflect the theme of this book that I have selected each line from the first
half of this famous prayer as a title for the next seven chapters. Each line provides a simple and perfect exercise to increase your ener gy
level, thereby enabling you to experience your problems as illusions which
dissolve when you bring the one power of spirit to them. Y ou don’ t have to
be a celibate monk without worldly goods, devoted to an impoverished way
of life, to grasp the profound message inherent in this prayer . You will also
find specific suggestions which apply to your everyday world, inspired by
the Saint Francis prayer , in the second half of each chapter . Ultimately these
will lead you to the life-changing realization that you can benefit from so-
called problems when you opt for spiritual solutions. With the inspiration of the Saint Francis prayer you need not give up
anything other than the illusion that supports the problem. Motivated by
your desire to increase your ener gy level and practicing the suggestions
originating in the Saint Francis prayer you will be able to stop thinking
about what you need to receive from the universe. Y ou can learn to replace
this needy attitude with thoughts of what you can contribute to the ener gyenvironment of situations that appear problematic. This is in the spirit of the
second half of this powerful prayer which asks, “Grant that I may not so
much seek to be consoled as to console, to be understood as to understand,
to be loved as to love . . .”
Spiritual solutions mean you are an instrument for giving peace rather than
demanding that you be given  peace. This means coming to grips with the
ultimate irony of a problem-free life, as expressed in the conclusion of the
Saint Francis prayer . “For it is in giving that we receive; it is in pardoning
that we are pardoned; and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.”
Yes, we receive by giving, and this turnaround in thinking is essential to
finding spiritual solutions. It begins with becoming an instrument of peace. OceanofPDF .com7
LORD, MAKE ME  
AN INSTRUMENT  
OF THY PEACE
If you are yourself at peace, then there is at least some peace in the world. Then share your peace
with everyone, and everyone will be at peace. —THOMAS MERTON
The two words thy peace  are the most significant part of this first request
of Saint Francis. When you think of God, think peace. That is what occurs
when we are in conscious contact with God. I’ve heard enlightenment
described as being immersed in and surrounded by peace. This definition
implies that the enlightened life is one in which peace is the overriding
experience. Connecting with your highest spiritual sense is the same as
living in the peace that we refer to as God. Consider the greatest saints who have ever walked among us. They are
different from the rest of us in one unique quality . All they have to give
away is peace. And what is this peace? It is the expression of the universal
creative intelligence, which winds its way in and through everything. It is
the perfection of creation. This is what the term “thy peace” means to me. It
is something I am always connected to, since there is no place that it doesnot exist. I lose peace when I allow my thoughts to entertain the illusion of
problems. I recall my friend Edgar Mitchell, the Apollo 14 Commander and the sixth
man to walk on the moon, describing to me how he could cover the entire
earth with his thumbnail from inside his capsule as he circled the moon. He
had an epiphany in which he realized that this was an intelligent system of
peace that we are all a part of as he saw millions of heavenly objects
hurtling, spinning and orbiting in perfect unison. W ithin each object this
same peaceful harmony exists, and this includes the earth as well as every
cubic inch of space on the planet in every single object and living creature. “Thy peace” is the essence of our universe. It is God at work, at play , and
everywhere in between. It is infinite love. There is no anger , fear , greed,
malice, or envy . There is a vast ocean of peace always available when one
comes to know “thy peace.” It is only a thought away . In this place,
problems do not exist. The most compelling aspect to all of this is that “thy peace” can become
exclusively yours one hundred percent of the time whenever you make the
conscious decision that this is how you are going to live. “Thy peace”
becomes what you are an instrument of, as Saint Francis requests in this
opening line of prayer . When followed, it provides you with a spiritual
solution to every problem. MAKE ME AN INSTRUMENT
If harmony is the nature of things, and it is all held together in perfect unity
by the invisible power , then it seems sensible to say to yourself, I too want
to be in that peace since it is my nature to be in agreement with, rather than
against the peace of God. Deep within you, you know that being at peace is
natural even when you feel that it is impossible to be peaceful with the
presence of so many problems. Not feeling peaceful is the result of an error
in your thinking. Thoughts that send you away from your peace go something like this: “If
only you were more like me, then I wouldn’ t have to be upset right now ,” or“If only the world were the way I think it should be, then I could be at
peace.” But people are not the way you think they should be, nor is the
world anything but what it is. Peace is the result of retraining your mind to
process life as it is, rather than as you think it should be. As simple as this
sounds, this is the secret to being an instrument of God’ s peace. I am not asking you to become indif ferent or apathetic, but to simply
observe the world and all the people in it as they are and refuse to allow
yourself to create thoughts that result in leaving your peaceful natural
energy state. I gave this advice to a flight attendant after our plane had been
on the runway for forty-five minutes and the captain announced that we
would be returning to the gate because of a warning light that had appeared
in the cockpit. As we headed back to the gate for a lengthy delay , the flight
attendant began to bemoan her upcoming fate to me. “Here we go,” she
said. “I’m going to have two hundred and fifty passengers all mad at me
and giving me angry looks as they leave the airplane. This causes me so
much stress when these delays occur .”
I talked with her for several minutes suggesting that she realize that she was
at peace in her innermost being. I explained to her that this innermost being
is covered by her skeletal structure, just as her body has a uniform covering
it. “T ry not letting anyone who does not come in peace into the territory of
your true being,” I told her . “Let them only impact the uniform or the outer
covering called your body , but determine that your inner self can only be
penetrated with peace.” I watched as each of the passengers who glowered
at her was met with a peaceful, loving response. In just a few moments she
had managed to deflect what used to infiltrate to her very soul. In a nineteenth-century chapel in New England, a manuscript called
Desiderata  was found. It contains much wisdom, and one exquisite line I’ve
always remembered. “A void loud and aggressive persons. They are
vexations to the spirit.” I might add, they keep you away from your peace! The real you can always choose to remain impervious to nonpeaceful
entreaties. When others don’ t come to you in peace, they can only reach the
outer protective coverings. It is always about how you choose to process
events, not the events themselves that determine your level of peace.You can become an instrument of peace in any given moment of your life
by deciding that you are not going to use your mind for anything other than
peaceful thoughts. This may sound extreme to you when you take into
consideration all the dif ficult people you have to deal with, your financial
picture, the illness of a close relative, the inconsiderate boss you must face,
the taxes you owe, as well as outrageous traf fic delays, and on and on. T ry
taking a breather from your habit of continuously looking for occasions to
be nonpeaceful. Go to that quiet, serene peaceful place within you that is
covered by the outer layers of your material life. It is here that you know
what being an instrument of peace means. Here, your emphasis is on giving,
rather than receiving, peace. DELIVERING PEACE
When you are an instrument of thy peace, you are not seeking anything, you
are a peace provider . You do not seek peace by looking into the lives of
others and wishing that they would change so that you could become more
peaceful. Rather , you bring your own sense of calm to everyone you
encounter . You do not go about viewing every circumstance of your life in
terms of whether it meets with your standard for peace. Rather , you bring
your peaceful countenance to the chaos you encounter and your presence
soothes the outer turmoil. Even if the turmoil continues, you have the
freedom to choose a peaceful thought, or to quietly remove yourself from
the immediate scene. How do you do this? Memorize this line of the prayer
and silently repeat it: Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Those
chaotic moments are times to remember that you will not gain your peace
from anyone else and that you choose to bring peace to every life situation
you encounter . Gradually this reality will begin to sink in. The most important moments for cultivating this awareness are when you
find yourself right smack in the middle of a tumultuous exchange, when
someone is ar gumentative, surly , or irrational and you sense yourself falling
into the pandemonium. Usually , in such moments your inclination is to
blame all of the external forces for your absence of peace. Begin to look at
these situations in a totally new way , one that will help you to not only
become a delivery person of calmness, but will make you a more reliable
and steadfast instrument of peace.HONORING YOUR GREA TEST TEACHERS
Who are the people who seem to be able to push your buttons and send you
into a frenzy? Y our spouse? Y our children? Y our parents? A certain
employee? Y our boss? A neighbor? I’m talking about the ones who really
seem to get to you. Anyone else might say the same thing and you are able
to blissfully ignore them and even respond in your most spiritual and
unconditionally loving tone, “Thank you for sharing.” Obviously those
people do not present any threat to your being an instrument of peace. It’ s
those button pushers, the ones who succeed in sending you into a state of
frustration and turmoil with a simple look of disapproval or a frown, who
are your greatest teachers. Begin recognizing that all of these people are your master teachers,
assisting you in being an instrument of peace. That’ s right, these are your
guides, and they have much to teach you. The moments when you think
someone else is causing the disorder and chaos that you are feeling are
moments to recognize that that person is allowing you to discover that you
have not yet mastered yourself. That’ s right, you needed a reminder that
you have work to do on yourself in order to be an instrument of peace. Remember , the state of enlightenment is a state of being immersed in, and
surrounded by peace. Anyone whom you have given authority to remove
you from that position is a reminder to you of just what you must do in
order to become more peaceful. In my life, my wife and children are my greatest teachers. I call these very
special teachers my soul mates. Now my definition of a soul mate is not
someone who agrees with you on every issue, shares the same interests, and
is always attempting to please you. I define soul mates as the ones you love
deeply , but whom you can never get rid of, who always show up, and with
whom you are often in disagreement. These soul mates are your greatest
teachers because they are a continuous reminder , sent by God, to help you
to master yourself. So it is tremendously beneficial if you are aware that
these are people to honor . My wife is just such a person. W e have been together for many years,
weathering various crises together , but still I can be upset over something
she said or the tone of voice she may have used. I know full well that hadanyone else said it to me that way , I would have dismissed it and been at
peace instantly . Yet, with my soul mate, I am not at peace. Likewise, I have
given my children the same power . In moments of quiet reflection on my being upset I realize that once again I
have not passed this simple test—the ability to be at peace in the face of my
master teachers. T o be an instrument of thy peace you (and I) must be able
to radiate outward that which we are inside. Regardless of what or when we
encounter them, our master teachers are there to help us to become an
instrument of peace. Someday , gradually to be sure, I will be able to be at
peace even in those moments when my greatest teachers are doing their
very best work! CHOOSING PEACE
There is a line in A Course in Miracles  that has always attracted me. In fact,
I have reproduced it and displayed in my home, of fice, and automobile at
various times. It says so simply , “I can choose peace, rather than this.” It is
a terrific reminder to recall in moments when you are not being an
instrument of thy peace. At one of those moments, this reminder can turn
everything around for you. I remember feeling very much out-of-sorts when one of my children had
been involved in an encounter late one evening in a bar . He was leaving the
premises when several men who had been drinking attacked him. He ended
up with his front teeth smashed in and several minor injuries. I was
obviously upset for him, but I was also going through my own agony
reviewing how many times I had talked about not being in places where
alcohol brings out the lowest levels of behavior and where one often
encounters trouble with a capital T . In the midst of this mental torment I suddenly remembered the line from A
Course in Miracles . I repeated to myself, I can choose peace, rather than
this, and instantly the agony dissipated. I then set about to get him to an
emer gency meeting with a friend who is a dentist, and was able to be that
instrument of peace. Furthermore, my son decided from that experience that
he was through with drinking and bars.Not being an instrument of peace kept me immobilized and upset. Choosing
peace in that moment brought about a solution that I possibly couldn’ t have
even considered had I stayed in the anguished state of mind. The Lebanese
poet Kahlil Gibran said, “Much of your pain is self chosen. It is the bitter
potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.” This holds
true for all of those circumstances we label nonpeaceful or painful. When you come to the realization that you can choose peace even in the
most trying of moments you become an agent of God. Rather than praying
for pain to go away , you begin to recognize the wisdom of praying that you
learn as much as you possibly can. Choosing peace is an ener gizing call to
action that eliminates self-pity and thoughts of why something shouldn’ t be
happening. Choosing peace then gives you a serene quiet mind that makes
conscious contact with God and brings peace to bear on the so-called
problem. Again, as A Course in Miracles  states, “all pain comes simply
from a futile search for what you want, insisting where it must be found.”
In this opening line of Saint Francis’ s prayer he beseeches God to make him
an instrument of His peace. He recognizes that God and peace are
synonyms, and that to be in any state other than one of peace is to believe
you can be separated from God. It is only your thoughts that tell you God is
absent. Peace and God are one and the same. When you work each day at
being in that peaceful state of grace, regardless of what goes on, you are
open to the spiritual solutions. While the facts may not change, and you still
have to deal with the realities of your daily life, being at peace allows you
to process problems from the awareness that it is how you think about it
that is your truest experience. Once you are at peace you will be guided to
act reasonably and sensibly . But the problem itself, which is what you are
experiencing inside of yourself, will be gone. Here then are my suggestions for using the request Saint Francis made to
God in this first line, “Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace,” to
provide spiritual solutions to the problems you encounter . SUGGESTIONS FOR BECOMING AN INSTRUMENT OF THY
PEACEWrite this affirmation and have it duplicated to post in strategic places in
your home, workplace, and automobile: I can choose peace, rather than
this. When you find yourself experiencing anguish, fear , depression,
turmoil, even anger , stop and read or repeat this line to yourself. As you
ponder these seven words make a concerted ef fort to bring thoughts of
peace and calm into your mind right in the midst of your mental anguish. You will be delightfully surprised to discover that your old habit of
nonpeaceful thinking will disappear in the very moment that you
consciously elect to bring in a peaceful thought. This is not to say that this technique will immediately mend a broken leg, or
undo an accident, or rid your house of termites, but you will have proven to
yourself in that magical moment that you do have the power to choose
peace. Moreover , as you bring that peaceful thought to bear on the presence
of whatever problem you were experiencing, you will discover an even
greater truth. Y our problems, all of them, can only be experienced in your
mind, and when you bring peace to your mind, you put yourself into a mode
of taking whatever action is appropriate. By choosing peace in a moment of
nonpeace, all nonpeace is nullified where you feel it, which is in your
thoughts. Give yourself a specific period of time each day to be alone and
undisturbed. Take a brisk walk, or lock your bedroom door so you can sit
quietly , or leave the frantic pace of your of fice to go somewhere else to be
alone and remind yourself that you are making conscious contact with God. The well-known phrase, let go and let God,  is a very useful notion. In your
precious moments of being alone and undisturbed, say to yourself, “I am
letting go and letting God.” What happens is that you let go of your sense of
taking personal responsibility for everything and everyone around you, and
in a calm way you turn all that over to God. Y ou will feel the peace
enveloping you almost immediately . Remember it is your ego that is the most formidable obstacle to the
attainment of God. It is your identification with this idea of yourself as
separate from God that creates your so-called problems. By giving yourself
only a few moments of alone time which I call God-time, you become an
instrument of peace if only for those moments. Y our return to the noisyworld will now be with a new partner , God, which is really “thy peace.”
Gradually , with this exercise, you will find yourself becoming a regular
instrument of peace in all your waking moments. Make meditation a part of your daily life. Resistance to meditation is a
universal phenomenon in the western world. I hear it every day: “I’m too
busy. I just can’ t seem to quiet my mind. It doesn’ t work. I have too much
on my mind.” I’m certain that you have your own version of why you can’ t
find the time or the way to meditate. Stick all your excuses for not making
meditation a part of your daily life into the giant ego hopper . These excuses
are nothing more than your fear of coming to know God and therefore
taming your demanding ego. For the next sixty days give yourself a directive to practice meditation at
least once, preferably twice, each day . The technique that you use is totally
up to you. I have created a tape/CD titled Meditation for Manifesting,  in
which I guide you through a morning and evening meditation called JAP A,
which is the repetition of the sound of the name of God as a mantra. It is an
ancient technique, one that Patanjali describes in his Yoga Aphorisms  that I
described in chapter two. I am not so concerned with your methodology as
with your commitment to meditation. There are many techniques and
guides available. I have discussed extensively the value and techniques for
meditation in many of my books and tapes. Any method is fine if it allows
you to quiet the chatter of your mind and assists you in arriving at the peace
that is “the secret that sits in the center , and knows,” as Robert Frost put it. In meditation you go to the silence. The silence cannot be divided. Like
zero in mathematics, it can never be cut up to be anything other than zero. And so it is with God. Only one. Indivisible. Y our meditation practice is
your avenue to experience the indivisibleness, the oneness that is God. All I
can tell you is that when you practice meditation regularly , each session is
like lifting the weight of your problems of f your shoulders for those
moments, and a feeling of having your soul nourished so that you now
approach everyone and everything with the accompaniment of thy peace. Saint Francis told his devotees, “What is it that stands higher than words? Action. What is it that stands higher than action? Silence.”Stop yourself when you ar e making your peace dependent on outer
circumstances. The simple recognition of blaming others or circumstances
for your lack of peace is enough to bring you back to your senses. Right in
the midst of a no-peace moment give yourself a gentle reminder that no one
and no thing can take away your peace without your consent. If the children
have spilled fruit juice all over the carpet and made a mess of the house,
and you are yelling and screaming, a soft inner reminder that you do not
have to give up your peace just because the world is not going as you would
prefer right now can bring you back to your peace. The more you can
overcome your conditioned response of blaming things outside of yourself
for your lack of peace, the more likely you will eventually become a living
statement of “thy peace.”
Your peace is between you and God. Period. It is not between you and
anyone else, or any set of circumstances, as dif ficult as that is to accept
sometimes. When people say to me, “How can you possibly be at peace in a
nonpeaceful world?,” I always remind them that inner peace is just that,
inner , not outer . You must come to the point where you bring your peace to
everyone and everything, rather than attempting to secure it from outer
experiences. One of my least favorite nonpeaceful experiences is the twice-weekly visit
of the lawn people to my writing haven. They come well armed with
extremely loud mowers, edgers, trimmers, and blowers, filling the air with
their fumes and thunderous noises. There was a time when I would
complain and moan to my wife and anyone else who would listen
sympathetically to my complaints about these disturbers of the peace. Now
I see them as my teachers. My wife has encouraged me to get to the point
where I don’ t even notice them. As they pull up I send a silent blessing, and while I am still not a huge fan
of those noise machines, I no longer allow myself to go to nonpeace in their
presence. My peace is my own choice, and I no longer blame the armed
men and their noise machines for disturbing my peace, in fact I welcome
them all as my master teachers who are helping me to master myself and
my ego. Thomas Carlyle has a helpful thought about the dif ference between
noise and creation that I recall when the lawn people arrive. “When the oakis felled the whole forest echoes with its fall, but a hundred acorns are sown
in silence by an unnoticed breeze.”
Practice thinking peace. Remember , you become what you think about all
day long. How often do you clutter your mind with thoughts of nonpeace? How many times a day do you say out loud how terrible the world is? How
violent we have all become? How uncaring we seem to be? How racist we
are? How little the government cares about us? All of these thoughts and
their expression are indications that you have become trapped in a
nonpeaceful mind and, therefore, a nonpeaceful world. Every time you
bemoan the horrors of the world, or listen to media reports on all that is
evil, or read tabloids that exploit the unpleasant facts about other ’s lives,
you are continuing the conditioning that takes you away from becoming an
instrument of thy peace. When you remind yourself that for every act of evil there are a thousand
acts of kindness, you put your thoughts back on peace. When you stop
someone who is relating yet another disaster story and change the tone to
something more loving, you become an instrument of peace. When you stop
yourself from rehashing the same old scenes, with new characters,
concerning accidents, crimes, poverty , mistreatment, and disasters of all
kinds, and put your mind on making these things disappear , you become an
instrument of peace. Use your mind to think peace, because peace is the
happy natural state of man, and evil, war , and hatred are his disgrace. Be a
part of the natural in your mind and not our disgrace. Become a peacemaker . Each day you are provided many opportunities to
practice peacemaking. Saint Francis wrote, “For it is in giving that we
receive.” By giving peace you will receive peace, and after you are at
peace, your problems all dissolve. By becoming a peacemaker you are
literally providing yourself with a remedy for virtually all your anxious
moments. T oday be on the alert for any opportunity to become a
peacemaker . Just this morning while I was at the ministore waiting to pay for my
gasoline, the cashier was being rude to a young man who didn’ t understand
how the three-dollar car wash operated. The cashier was verbally assaultingthis teenager who was asking to have his money back, which the cashier
was obstinately refusing. Furthermore, the teenager obviously did not speak
English and could not understand what he was being told, let alone why he
was being the victim of the cashier ’s abuse. As the teenager stood there
bewildered, I saw an opportunity to be a peacemaker . I put my arm around
the young man walked outside with him and showed him how to operate the
machine, which allowed him to smile for the first time since I’d
encountered him. Last evening at a lar ge dinner gathering of family and friends, I began to
sense that two of the older people who are persistently at odds with each
other were perilously close to an explosion of anger over a disagreement
about the facts of what had happened at an earlier function attended by both
of these potential antagonists. I knew that what was about to take place
would be unpleasant for everyone, because I have witnessed it on many
occasions. I shifted into my peacemaker mode and of fered a way for both of
these individuals to be right. In one instant of stepping in to provide peace, I
saw them both back down and actually smile at each other . On the freeway this afternoon I encountered a driver who was driving on
the shoulder of the road during a long construction delay and attempting to
get back into the lane. Driver after driver would not allow this person to
return to the open lane, punishing him for his action. As I pulled up I
remembered that it wasn’ t between me and this driver , it was between me
and God. And my intuition from God was that I could be a peacemaker for
this man, who very well may have had a legitimate reason to drive on the
shoulder , and I motioned for him to go in front of me. In just one day I had ten or eleven opportunities to be a peacemaker . And
each time I seize that opportunity I have become an instrument of peace,
while bringing a sense of a spiritual ener gy into my life, which allows me to
be problem free in those moments. Make this the day that you practice
being a peacemaker , rather than looking for peace to come to you from
outside. T ruly, it is in giving peace that you will receive it. Make peace with yourself. You cannot give away what you don’ t have. If
you are not at peace with yourself you cannot give peace away . If you don’ tgive peace away , you’ll never become an instrument of peace. Make the
decision to for give yourself for all your weaknesses and failures, to let go of
your self-destructive guilt over past mistakes and know there was value in
your journey through the dark night of your soul. When you make peace with yourself you take a hard look at everything you
have ever done and you remind yourself that you needed all of those
experiences in order to provide you with the ener gy to propel yourself to a
higher spiritual frequency . Eventually you acknowledge that virtually every
spiritual advance is preceded by a disaster of some kind, and that all of the
unwanted events of your life were necessary . Why? Because they occurred,
and there are no accidents in this intelligent system we call our universe. If
you are better than you used to be that is reason enough to make peace with
yourself. All the self-reproach, guilt, disappointment, self-hatred, and anger
that you direct at yourself simply take you away from peace. I have found that whenever I go into an episode of self-renouncement that I
begin to feel anxious and even sick. In these exact moments I now think
about the opening line of Saint Francis’ s prayer , “Make me an instrument of
thy peace.” Then in my mind I surround myself with the brilliant light of
peace, and I summon peaceful loving ener gy toward myself enveloping me
in a self-imagined blanket of serenity from God. As if by magic, my anxiety
and ill feeling fade to a wonderful feeling of well-being. W ith this newly
envisioned peace I find myself giving that away rather than the harshness I
was giving away in my moments of anxiousness and self-repudiation. By
making peace with myself, and summoning peace from God I am able to
forgive myself for my trespasses and vow to simply be better than I used to
be. T ry it today in any moment of self-repudiation. Y ou’ll be surprised and
delighted with the results. Get back to natur e. Luther Burbank observed, “There is no other door to
knowledge than the door nature opens, there is no other truth except the
truths we discover in nature.” Becoming an instrument of peace is easy to
do when you return to the natural world. Many times I’m sure you’ve heard
it said that the solution for chaos is to go for a walk on the beach or in
nature. When you return to nature you are returning to the silence and
harmony that is your most natural setting.Away from the fast-paced world of high technology , investment decisions,
cell phones and e-mail, disputes, noises, and mostly a crowded world,
nature beckons to you. I know that you can feel nature calling because
everyone I talk to about it expresses a desire to escape to a natural
environment. Every time you pass a beautiful park there seems to be
magnetic ener gy that pulls you to just walk among the trees and flowers and
quiet your mind. The idea of hiking or camping out in the wilderness has
enormous appeal to even the most committed city dwellers. Listening to the
sounds of birds and bugs and the wind is a pleasing experience for almost
everyone. The experience of being in a dark place and looking up at zillions
of stars on a clear evening sends a rush of peace and bliss up the spine of
everyone I know . Recently my wife and I walked down inside the Haleakala
Crater on Maui and our one comment to each other was to note the peace
we felt in the silence of this majestic place. My wife’ s grandmother always
told her “walking makes you beautiful.” She was referring to more than
physical appearance. Give yourself the gift of nature as often as you can. Immerse yourself in the
peace that surrounds you, and notice for yourself how you are almost swept
up into the arms of God, how you love the silence and the way it all seems
to fit together in perfect harmony . For me, a long-distance swim in the
ocean fills me with peace regardless of what is transpiring in my life at the
time. The bonus I receive from that swim is that I sense a new clarity in my
work. Areas that had appeared muddy and unclear become lucid and
apparent. Nature gives you peace, because you are in the ener gy field of
God, where spirit rather than illusion rules. Y our return to nature literally
opens up a whole new set of spiritual solutions to every one of those so-
called problems. Edna St. V incent Millay conveys this message as beautifully as I’ve ever
seen in her poem God’ s World. Her ecstatic feeling of peace conveys what I
write about here. GOD’S W ORLD
 O world, I cannot hold thee close enough! Thy winds, thy wide gray skies! Thy mists, that roll and rise! Thy woods, this autumn day , that ache and sag
And all but cry with color! That gaunt crag
To crush! T o lift the lean of that black bluf f! World, world! I cannot get thee close enough! Long have I known a glory in it all
But never knew I this,
Here such a passion is
As stretcheth me apart. Lord, I do fear
Thou’ st made the world too beautiful this year . My soul is all but out of me—Let fall
No burning leaf; prithee, let no bird call. In bringing about a spiritual solution to any and all problems, first and
foremost, become “an instrument of thy peace.” It is this peace that you will
deliver to the presence of problems and see them dissolve in the power of
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WHERE THERE IS HA TRED,  
LET ME SOW LOVE
Earth’s crammed with heaven,
And every common bush afire with God, 
And only he who sees takes off his shoes; 
The rest sit around it and pluck blackberries
—ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING
As you examine the bag of troubles that are your unique problems keep in
mind three words written by Saint Paul in his letters to the Corinthians,
“Love never fails.” Ponder these three words while asking yourself if you
can think of any exceptions. “Never” means what it says—never . I think
you will come to the same conclusion I did. Whenever I am caught in a
perceived problem, sending love never fails. Whatever you perceive to be
your problems you can find a solution in these three straightforward, no
nonsense, no room for equivocation words, love never fails . This holds true
even in situations where hatred seems to be the problem. I take a stand on hatred that is consistent with what I have presented
throughout this book. The presence of a belief  in hatred is a major source of
most troubles. At first this may seem incomprehensible to you. Nevertheless, I believe examining how you think about hatred will help you
do what the title of this chapter suggests. Sowing love means dissolving theillusion of hatred by becoming a delivery system for love. When you can do
this you are on the path of accessing spiritual solutions for all problems. WHA T IS HA TRED? You can see the contending forces of good and evil, love and hatred
everywhere. Many believe that these two opposing forces in the world are
God versus the devil. I have spent considerable time in this book attempting
to disavow such a preposterous notion. How is it possible for both God and
the devil to exist if there is only one creator and one power in the universe? Did God create the devil? Or if the devil exists, did he create God? If there is only one creative truth behind the universe and you accept the
devil as this truth you are then required to believe that hatred, violence,
ugliness, prejudice, disease, poverty , and chaos are manifestations of this
truth. And all love and goodness are false. If you accept God as the truth
then you must accept that love is the truth and that evil is false. And hatred
is surely part of that evil that is false. For me, the truth about hatred is that hate is love. That’ s right, I perceive
hate as love ener gy going in the opposite direction. All hatred can be
transcended by love because love is all there is, so it must include hate. The
feeling and expression of hate must be reversed to head in the opposite
direction. In the ancient Dhammapada  we are reminded that hating ceases
by loving, not by hating. This is why Saint Francis asked God for the ability
to bring love to the presence of hatred, and thus remove the illusion that
hate exists. Basically , people who seem to be spewing hate are projecting their feeling
of being unloved. They do not perceive life as loving them. When you feel
unloved by life, you deny the presence of love, even though love is the
elixir that holds everything together in the universe. So you take the
presence of this omnipresent force called love and turn it in the opposite
direction and begin to practice hatred. A person who hates is a person who
feels hated, and projects that feeling or belief outward.When you encounter someone who resents you, you can be certain that this
person feels resented, and is doing only what it is possible for him to do,
which is giving away what he has. If you see a person who is judgmental
toward you, be assured that this person is only sending out the judgment he
feels directed at him. These are examples of people believing they are not
loved, sending out disagreeable and hateful ener gy. We know that God is love, the one power that is everywhere, so there is no
place that this one power is not, including within the person who hates. This
is why I say that the truth about hate is that it is love, and the way to
dissolve hate wherever it is found is to reverse the direction and make a
loving ef fort to convince the hater that he or she is loved. As Saint Francis
beseeches, where there is hatred, let me sow love. Let’s look at where hatred is encountered and how one can send love to the
problems that accompany the presence of hatred. SOWING LOVE T OWARD THE HATRED IN THE WORLD
You can observe what appears to be hatred in the marketplace of the world
in a myriad of forms—one race of people expressing their hatred by
invading or mistreating other racial groups; some people controlling food
supplies while others are left to starve; a steady diet of violence force-fed to
others in the form of killing, fighting, verbal abuse, and attempts at
cheating; laws passed that favor one group over another group that is hated
by the majority in power . When the reins of power shift, revenge toward
those who were the former haters then becomes the norm. Hatred seems to
beget hatred. Into this world you are thrust with a natural inclination to love. Most of the
time when you encounter people projecting hatred toward you, you perceive
yourself as having a problem. Like the problem of hatred in the form of a
disgruntled government employee who won’ t listen and keeps you waiting
endlessly . Like the problem of hatred in the form of legal action taken
against you solely for the sake of obtaining some of your money . Like the
problem of hate spewed by a power hungry authority browbeating you forhis own pleasure. The examples are endless. What appears to be real to you
is their hatred. The common belief of those who are hateful is a firm conviction that life
does not love them. Hate is their response to feeling hated. It is uncommon
for a person who feels loved to project hate. Keep in mind the important
biblical reminder , “God is love.” Evil is in the mind of man. Any hate you
encounter comes from the minds of people who feel disconnected from God
and the flow of love ener gy that exists. When you buy into their hatreds you
too are disconnected. Revenge, anger , retaliation, gloom, and all the things
that you perceive as problems are mental constructs. When you make the shift to sowing love in the circumstances of your life
where you are encountering hate, something unique happens. First to
yourself, and then to the ener gy field of hate which you are in. When you
start to trust love and recognize that ultimately we will be one with that
love, you make a huge impact on the low ener gy pattern of hate. Every
single time that you observe anyone in the world demonstrating hate, know
with complete certainty that this person feels hated. At the same time, know
that this person is loved by God (since God is love). As a witness or a
recipient of that hatred you are a spark of love. If you are able to sow love
in response to hate (one of the three most dif ficult things a human being can
do which I described in an earlier chapter) you will ultimately see hate
become love. Then, you know with certainty that hate is only an error
created by the mind of man. In our long history of tyrants and dictators we’ve seen hate directed at
others by humans who felt hated themselves. When divine masters came to
teach us, they all said without exception, love never fails. Just look at this
list of paraphrases from various or ganized religions. Christian:  God is love; you are God’ s and children of the most high. Shinto:  Love is the receptacle of the Lord. Zoroastrian:  Man is the beloved of the Lord and you should love him in
return.Judaic:  Thou shall love the Lord thy God with all thy heart and thy
neighbor as thyself. Sikh:  God will regenerate those in whose hands there is love. Buddha:  Let a man cultivate toward the whole world a heart of love. Tao: Heaven arms with love those it would not see destroyed. Islam:  Love is this, that thou shouldst account thyself very little and God
very great. Baha’i:  If you lovest me not, my love can no wise reach thee. Confucian:  To love all men is the greatest benevolence. Hindu:  One can best worship the Lord through love. I believe the tyranny of hatred is being replaced by a loving consciousness. Nelson Mandela brought love and reconciliation to the hatred of apartheid
and it has slowly been dissolving. The hatreds of past wars are gradually
supplanted with recognition of the oneness we all share with each other . And ancient enemies become brothers in peace. Of course the illusion of
hatred remains and we have much to do in our evolution of learning to sow
love where there is hatred. It is imperative for all who seek spiritual
solutions to realize that only love can possibly exist. Hatred comes from those who feel hated in some way . There are two ways
you can help them to change that feeling of being hated. One, by letting
people with hateful behavior see that you personally have only love to give
them, and two, by your seeing that God loves them unconditionally even
though they cannot recognize that truth. Saint John is quoted as saying,
“Love lies in this, not in our love for Him, but in his love for us.” Y our
absolute love will ultimately banish hate because absolute love is aware of
there being only one indivisible existence.You may be thinking that all of this love stuf f seems too theoretical and
theological to apply when you are in an encounter with someone who is
directing hate your way . I assure you that the simple recognition of hatred
being a form of misdirected love and a reflection that a person feels unloved
is enough to disempower and release the hatred. At the end of this chapter I
will give you some specific recommendations for dealing with hatred. For
now, just let in the idea that your willingness to sow love in the field of hate
and to see hatred as a need for love, will change the environment and
eventually replace hate with love. I would like to share part of a letter I received from a woman who was
faced with an extreme situation of hatred and violence. She was able to
bring love to the presence of this hatred in a moment of deep fear and terror . Here is how she related it to me. On Friday morning around 2:30 am, I was awakened from my sleep by
a masked man who was holding a knife at my throat. At first, I thought
I was just having a nightmare, but then soon realized that I was in real
time and this person was really there and needless to say , I was
terrified. He asked me quite a few questions as he put tape over my
face from above my eyes to halfway over my mouth and then taped my
hands behind my back and cut my nightgown and underwear with a
knife. I realized that I had a choice to fight him and possibly get hurt
badly or just quietly go along with it and hope for the best. I chose the
latter and as he touched me I was able to detach myself from what was
happening to a degree and then suddenly I got really calm and started
talking to him. The thoughts from the tapes must have come back to
me because the words I said were not what one would just naturally
say in this situation. (Ruth is referring to an earlier part of her letter where she described
listening to a tape series of mine, which had been helpful during her
brother ’s dying process the year before. During the week preceding this
attack she had started listening to the tapes again while exercising.) He told me he was from LA and needed money and a car to return
back there. The words came out . . . “Y ou’re such a nice young man,
would you like me to pray for you? God, help this nice young man toget the money he needs to go to LA and help him to be happy and to
have a good life.” I asked him if he had a girlfriend, and he said, “Y es,
in LA.” I then asked him if he had any children and he said, “No,
would I be here if I had any children?” I said, “I have children and I
have grandchildren and they are so wonderful, you should get together
with your girlfriend and have children some day they are so
wonderful.” I continued to talk to him as if he were a nice man and he
eventually said, “this isn’ t working,” and never did actually rape me. He still did more and I thought that was possibly going to be the end of
me, but he eventually left and on his way out he said to me, “Y ou’re a
nice lady .” 
    I totally attribute my ability to be calm and use kind words in this
situation to having listened to your tapes, which I know without a
doubt came back to me, gave me that extraordinary peacefulness and
strength and words of kindness. And now I want to thank you very
much for sharing your life and wisdom, which have provided such
wonderful alternatives to “getting caught up in things.”     Thank you,
thank you, thank you from the bottom of my heart for your wonderful
books and tapes . . . they are so much more than just written and
spoken words. I talked with Ruth and she gave me permission to include this story here in
hopes that someone “out there” might be able to sow love in the face of
hatred. SOWING LOVE WHEN HA TE SURF ACES IN YOUR IMMEDIA TE
RELA TIONSHIPS
Here is the secret for dealing with those close to you who exhibit hatred. First, remember that hatred is a reaction to frustrated love. Then silently
repeat to yourself over and over , “Lord, make me an instrument of thy
peace, where there is hatred, let me sow love.”
You are delivering love by peacefully recognizing that the hater , at some
deep, and quite likely unconscious level feels hated and is giving away what
he or she feels inside. Absolute love cannot reside with hate so it is your job
in these moments to sow love where there is hatred. Y ou convey to theperson who is feeling unloved that no matter how dif ficult it may seem, you
do not hate them. By doing so you will banish hatred as well as bring a
spiritual solution to this problem of hatred. The hatred you see directed outward toward you is actually pain being
exposed by the person who is experiencing it. When the hate is dissolved
the pain loses its horror and torment. This line from the Saint Francis prayer
asks for the strength to sow painkilling love in the face of hatred. Y ou can
do the same thing even when it is directed at you by those with whom you
live and work. Nothing in what I am saying here implies that you need be anyone’ s victim. One of the most loving things you can do in response to hate is to silently
send that person a blessing and remove yourself from the ener gy field of
fear and hatred. Gently leaving without screaming or cursing or even loudly
responding, sends a message to the hater that you love yourself too much to
be his or her victim. Then, when they calm down you can be there to talk
when the ener gy field is not permeated by hate. What you want to avoid is allowing anyone to cause you to feel revulsion,
disgust, or agony . Remaining in a state of love is your objective. Removing
yourself from the scene is a way to keep your ener gy field uncontaminated
and to give the hater a space to reflect on their actions in private. Remember , their hatred is their torment. If you don’ t allow their hate to
become yours, you assist the hater in nullifying their pain. When you encounter hate from anyone in your life, use those moments to
remind yourself to turn to God. By getting out of your ego, which wants to
retaliate and triumph over the hate, you allow yourself to sow love in those
moments. Y our source is God. The source of hatred is someone’ s misbelief
that they are separate from God. T urn to your source when you are
confronted with hatred, and you will be guided to send love. If someone
attempts to lure you in with his or her hatred you have a choice not to take
the bait. It is like trying to pick a fight with someone who refuses to join in
the fracas. The angry person is disarmed by the response of pacifism or
love. All that love looks upon is transformed to joy and beauty .
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answer is always the same. I have believed in God’ s law of abundance and I
have always practiced it in my life. Even as a very young boy I knew that I
could have anything I put my mind on, and I had no reservations about
telling my peers this secret. The other children complained about not having
any money to buy what they wanted, but my pockets always seemed to
jingle with the coins I had earned. I would actually sleep with the snow shovel under my blanket on a snowy
night and awaken at five A. M. I would go through the neighborhood and
shovel every walkway that I could manage, and then at ten A.
The author believes in the law of abundance and has always practiced it in their life, stating that God's law is one of unlimited abundance.
What is the author's perspective on the concept of abundance and scarcity?
The author uses prayer to open the gates of their soul to the divine presence, and does not attempt to influence God or beg for favors, but rather seeks to be in God consciousness, dissolving thoughts of scarcity and attracting what they want.
What is the author's approach to prayer?
The author suggests recognizing that those who are hateful are actually feeling unloved and are giving away what they feel inside, and advises to send them love and not respond with anger or hatred.
What is the author's advice for dealing with difficult people?
The author believes that "thy peace" is a synonym for God's love and that it is the key to accessing spiritual solutions to problems. They emphasize the importance of recognizing that this peace is always available and can be chosen, and that it is not dependent on outer circumstances.
What is the author's view on the concept of "thy peace"?
The author suggests that one should not resist or fight hatred, but rather bring love to the presence of hatred and recognize that it stems from a feeling of being unloved.
How does the author recommend dealing with hatred?