I heard someone share recently in a recovery meeting where the topic was on “tolerance”, about how much they truly hated a small number of people in life, but loved mostly everyone else. As far as I’m concerned, hating anyone only condemns me to living a life that’s moving me in the exact opposite direction of where my recovery and spirituality is trying to send me.
I’m a firm believer that a life recovery and spirituality lead a person to love unconditionally. I also believe they lead a person to a life of peace and serenity as well. But when hate occupies any part of the mind, body, or soul, it’s impossible to be any of those things. I should know given that I spent a good chunk of my life hating so many people.
Today, I do my best to love everyone because I truly believe that a piece of God lives within each and every one of us. Unfortunately, some people block out this sunlight of their spirit through toxic behaviors and means. The more they continue to do this, the darker they become. And the darker they become, the more they fill themselves up with that feeling of hate. And the more they fill themselves up with that feeling of hate, the more they move themselves away from that life of recovery and spirituality. Thus anyone who’s still harboring hatred towards even a single soul on this planet says but one thing. It says they are blocking out God’s light within themselves in some way and moving in the completely wrong direction.
Thankfully, I’m not one of those people who are doing this anymore as I learned my lesson on how sick I became in life by doing so. But I have met many others who still do, and I keep my distance from all of them. While I still love them from afar because God still lives somewhere within each of them, I do not wish to subject myself to their hatred, or any of their other dark behaviors or mannerisms.
The only people I surround myself with these days are those who are doing everything they can to unconditionally love everyone around them. I find that those who do are usually filled with the same peace and serenity I seek in life. But anyone who is advocating hatred in any way, shape, or form is really just someone that’s shunning themselves from the love of God and getting nothing more out of it except growing sicker the more they do so.
The bottom line is this. Harboring hatred towards anyone isn’t healthy for someone who’s trying to live a life of recovery and spirituality. So if you happen to still have any hatred within yourself, I encourage you to take a moment, breathe, and do everything you can to free yourself from all of it. And know in doing so, that you’ll be heading in the right direction, which is towards God’s love and light.
Peace, love, light, and joy,
Andrew Arthur Dawson