“An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.” (Mahatma Gandhi)
What do you do when someone hurts you? Do you try and hurt them back? Take for example a time you find yourself driving on the road and a person purposely cuts you off. Do you speed up and try to do the same thing back to them? Or maybe you flip them off with your middle finger as they do it? Or do you try to do something else altogether just to get even? Hopefully it’s none of things because going tit for tat only leads in one direction and that’s to greater spiritual imbalance. While this is just a simple example of what an eye for an eye looks like, there are countless of other ways this happens all too often nowadays. Case in point, I’ve been a recent recipient of harsh judgments about various aspects of my life from several different individuals. But rather than allow my ego to send my own harsh judgments back onto them, I’ve refrained from responding at all. Why? Because I know that any time I’ve ever tried to get back at someone, wanting them to feel how I feel, it’s only resulted in me becoming even angrier and more unsettled. I believe this is precisely why there is as much senseless violence in the world these days as there is because so many continue to seek revenge hoping it will mend their pain. It never works though. The only solution I’ve found that ever does is to keep sending any person that hurts me three things, love, forgiveness, and peace, and I do that until the pain is gone. Trust me, it works, but an eye for an eye never does.
I pray to be free of any anger I hold towards ________ and I send them love, forgiveness, and peace.
Peace, love, light, and joy,
Andrew Arthur Dawson
