Every thing is connected with everything else. As our attention creates energy, intention bring about transformation of that energy. Attention and intention are the most powerful tools of the spiritually adept. We are all mirrors for others, and we need to learn to see ourselves in the reflection of other people. Through the mirror of relationships---all relationships--we discover extended states of awareness. Those who we love and those whom we are repelled by are both mirrors of ourselves. Whom are we attracted to? People who have the same traits as we have, but more so. We want to be in their company because subconsciously we feel that by doing so we, too, might manifest more of those traits as well. By the same token we are repelled by people repelled by people who reflect back us traits that we deny in our own selves. So if you are having a strong negative reaction to someone, you can be sure that thy possess some traits in Communion with you, traits that you are not willing to embrace. If you were willing to accept those qualities, then they wouldn't upset you.
The next time you're attracted to someone, ask yourself what attracted you. Is it beauty, or grace, or elegance, or influence, or power, or intelligence. Whatever it is, know that that quality is also blossoming in you. Pay attention to these feelings, and you can begin the process of becoming more fully yourself. Of course, the same is true of people who repel you. In becoming more fully your true self, you have to understand and embrace the less attractive qualities in yourself. The essential nature of the universe is the coexistence of opposites values. You cannot be brave if you do not have coward inside of you. You cannot be generous if you do not have a tight-fisted person inside you. You cannot be virtuous unless you also contain the capacity for evil.
We spend much of our lives denying that we have this dark side to ourselves, and then end up projecting those dark qualities onto other people in our lives. Having you ever know people who naturally attract the wrong people into their lives? Usually they don't understand why this happens time after time, year after year. The truth is not that they attract that darkness, but that they are not willing to acknowledge it in their own lives. Finding a person you dislike is an opportunity to embrace the paradox of the coexistence of opposites, and to discover a new facet of yourself.
Imagine that you are a person in a hall of mirrors where you can see yourself for miles and every reflection you see is of yourself, but appears different.
Imagine that the whole universe is a vast ocean of consciousness, and your intentions shoot out from your heart and ripple across the vast ocean of consciousness.
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