One day in India on my second stay, Maharaji said to me, âYou donât have
to change anybody; you just have to love themâ. In relationships, when
the other person doesnât fit into your model of how heaven would be, you
donât have to play God. You just have to love individual differences
and appreciate them the way they are. Because love is the most powerful
medicine.
The key is that you arenât even doing it manipulatively: âI love you,
now change.â Youâre looking at another being, just the way they are, and
saying, âLet me appreciate Godâs perfection.â You lost the key? Great.
You forgot to pick up the laundry? Right. If each of us is separate,
and yet each of us is part of the whole, but we got lost a little bit
into dualism and weâre finding our way back out, every time weâre in the
presence of unconditional love, we remember. And when we remember, we
open. And when we open, the light pours through us.
If you became a person who could love unconditionally, everyone you love
would flower before your very eyes. Every way you look would be light.
Thatâs one of the fringe benefits of this method. Itâs breathtaking. At
every level.
- Ram Dass -
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