You are here to learn to be love. You cannot fully know and experience love while holding onto emotions and beliefs that are not-love. Start by recognizing what is not-love. Hatred, judgement, fear, anger, rage, fault finding, resentment, worry —these and others are not-love. Examine your thoughts and emotions for what is not-love and forgive it and release it from you. Do you love the members of your family but not your neighbors? Do you love only those of your religion? Of your socioeconomic class? Of your skin color? Of your country? Do not limit love to one group and exclude others, that is not love- that is judgement that may also include hatred, envy, resentment, and fear, among others.
Judgement is finding fault or differences with another that makes them inferior to you. You may find fault with their hair color or hair style, their body weight, the food they eat, the clothes they wear, their religion, their speech, their actions; all of these are just degrees of judgement. Judgement leads to exclusion, bullying, and separation from others. If judgement, hatred and murderous rage are in control, the destruction of property or life may result. Forgive judgment and hate, forgive the beliefs under the emotions before they take control. Release them. See them in truth as not-love. These emotions and beliefs are not evil, yet if they are encouraged to grow and fester they may lead to atrocities being committed.
Forgive those who commit acts of judgement as well as acts of hatred and rage. Forgiving them will help to reduce their emotions and eventually to see the beliefs within their mind and soul. Forgiveness is an act of love and will help clear your own soul as well as theirs. Individuals who are consumed with judgement and hatred of others see others as lacking, as not being the same as themselves, so others cannot be trusted and are not worthy of understanding, forgiveness, kindness or charity. When an individual is all-consumed by judgement and hatred a physical outlet is used to release the pressure building in the mind. Why are some individuals consumed by emotion to the point of committing an atrocity? The degree and depth of their emotions and beliefs, the fervor to which they learned to and were encouraged to judge and hate as children, the stability of their mind, and the condition of their soul are all involved in what the individual does when consumed by these emotions as a way to resolve them. Some factors have more weight than others in determining the person’s actions.
Remember that there is a plan and everything and everyone has a purpose. The plan of their soul may have been to place them in the area where and when they could face their hatred. Perhaps the purpose was an opportunity for that individual to learn that there was no basis for hatred, to see others as good and loving, and to find a way not to be consumed by emotion. Remember that all choose what they will face in their life for their soul’s growth and the growth of other souls as a service to others. Some souls willingly choose to give the greatest gift for another soul’s growth- their very life.
Note: This message was written after the Tree of Life Synagogue atrocity.