Spiritually, it is said the cure for darkness is the shining of the light. The dark simply cannot exist when light is shined on it. This has been shown repeatedly all over the world.
But I also believe that our hope also lies in a deeper spiritual insight. I promised yesterday to give it to you straight from my mind and heart and I will continue to do so today. Peace Brother posted an article Friday on OpEd News in the Life, Arts section called From "A Course in Miracles": Defenselessness is Strength. That opened the door for me, thank you, Peace Brother. A Course In Miracles begins with what is to me the most powerful insight for spirit-based hope:
"Nothing real can be threatened.
"Nothing unreal exists.
"Herein lies the peace of God".
A Course goes on for 700 wonderful and deep pages on what is real and unreal, but to oversimplify greatly, it comes down to this: Love is real; all else is illusion and will ultimately yield to love. You are in reality spirit that has chosen to occupy a body for the benefit of the experience spirit can only have through flesh and earth. Spirit is invulnerable.
Now, it is important to understand how religion is different from spirituality. (I don't much like that word either, but I don't know what else to use here.) Christianity and Islam have it exactly the opposite: we are bodies with spirits that are forced to live in this awful fleshy place to determine whether we will spend eternity in heaven or hell. Spirit blesses flesh and the earth as a sacred vessel in which to experience holy grace. Religion (at least Christianity and Islam) view the flesh and the earth a necessary evil to be transcended or burned in. These religions long for the end of the earth and its evil, not its preservation as eternal holy ground.
Sorry for the digression. It is very important to understand that love in this spiritual sense includes all the synonyms we tend to use in its place: peace, joy, hope, charity, generosity, empathy. And love sometimes means quite firmly and forcefully saying "No, you will not treat me or anyone else this way, and I will stand in your path and shine the light on your harmful behavior until you change and return to love yourself."
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