There have been people in my life, who at times, have been verbally abusive. These specific individuals can sometimes be overly critical, hostile to my decisions and talk down to me on a regular basis. Sometimes I get mad at these people, other times I hold my in feelings and just “put up with it.” Some relationships seem more pivotal and hence worth saving, while others are more casual and easily dismissed. Today, however, I discovered how pivotal all relationships are towards communion with the inner Master. Howe we treat others, is directly proportional to how we connect with the inner Master, and ultimately to Source itself.

Over the past few days I’ve noticed that my “putting up with it,” has created a separation between certain people and myself. When these people stop their critical attitudes towards me, offering friendship once again, I find that I pull away. I put a mental barrier between them and myself. I thought it was appropriate. However, today I realize that it is a wedge between all Greater Spiritual aspects, and myself.

How I am treated, is directly related to how I treat others, specifically how I treat God and the Master. It dawned on me this morning, that I have been speaking negatively against certain faiths. I thought my criticisms were appropriate and insightful, but now I see they are so similar to the criticisms that I am receiving on a daily basis. When I am critical of another faith, it is talking against God as manifested in one specific way, to people who need to discover God in that way.  A political Christian, for example, may need that path in order to make a few steps towards God. When I speak against a group (like the political Christian), I speak against a process of belief that God is using to meet someone where they’re at. I have my thoughts. If asked, I can give a respectful viewpoint on a topic like political Christianity, but I must also accept where other people are at without trying to change them. When I was a Buddhist (so many years ago), I knew then (what I’ve recently forgotten), that I can’t change anyone but myself. What others live, is their karma, and that is not easily modified or changed by others. We are each others influencers, and we can influence others to be better or worse. In the end, however, each person plays out the karmic seeds they have themselves sown. So why should I be dismissive or hold negative feelings towards another’s faith? Why should I mock it? What do I gain? Answer: I gain separation from Unity, which unfolds as a separation from the inner Master, as well as the Union of Source (God).

I have also come to terms with my frustrations put upon God. When I am stressed, sometimes I lash out, and if no one is to blame, then I blame the Universe. When I am angry with God, or perhaps better stated, when I take my anger out on God, I share a similarity with those who take their frustration out on me.

This morning, sitting with the Master, the Master showed me the key: I need to harmonize with specific people in my life that I have withdrawn from. My emotional separation, when dealt with, will create a deeper resonance with all beings, including the Master and Source itself.

“Holding something against others is to hold something against God.”

I also want to be clear. People may read this post and consider that I’m suggesting they remain in toxic relationships. In my recent years, I have chosen to disconnect from certain people that were hindering my spiritual growth. These choices were not taking lightly, but after careful contemplation and with delicacy, I withdrew. We all have the right to choose whom we will be close to and sometimes it’s best to step aside from a relationship that isn’t going to heal, but is more akin to a cancer. Yet, even in these situations, I feel there must be acceptance of the other to the point of respect.

Far too often the easiest choice is to walk away, and human beings tend to go with what’s easiest. Sure, it’s difficult to initiate a separation, but in the end it’s far easier to walk away than to rebuild. At the same time, there are situations that simply do us little to no good. Only the individual can determine who must be let go of, and what is worth saving. The answer shouldn’t come from the ego personality itself, but rather the Master within.

What I realized this morning is that to heal our human relationships, is to heal the relationship with God. Everything is inter-related. As I acclimated to this idea of reconciliation, my heart softened and like the air itself, I accepted every point of connection. In order to be free with God, I must be free with everything: the animate, inanimate, corporeal, and non-corporeal.  All life and energy must be accepted, so that no blockage remain between God and myself. To heal one direction, is to heal in all directions.

Be clear like the air… It has no preference where it blows or goes.  It accepts all situations equally. 

“Like the wind, like the air, I accept all situations: expanding into the space, withdrawing from no one, everywhere the same, present.”