Learn to Love your Enemies - a Requirement for Committing to Oneness

In STRENGTH TO LOVE, a book written in a Georgia prison, Dr. Martin Luther King is very clear on the need to love our enemies. And his writing is the clearest on the why? and the how?
When I speak of love. I am not speaking of some sentimental and weak response. I am speaking of that force which all the great religions have seen as the supreme unifying principle of life. Love is somehow the key that unlocks the door which leads to ultimate reality. This Hindu-Moslem-Christian-Jewish-Buddhist belief about ultimate reality is beautifully summed up in the first epistle of Saint John: "Let us love one another: for love is God and everyone that loveth is born of God and knoweth God."
In the foreword, Coretta King writes: "If love is the eternal religious principle, Martin Luther King, Jr. believed, then nonviolence is it's worldy counterpart. He wrote:
At the center on nonviolence stands the principle of love. The nonviolent resister would contend that in the struggle for human dignity, the oppressed people of the world must not succumb to becoming bitter or indulging in hate campaigns. To retaliate in kind would do nothing but intensify the existence of hate in the universe. Along the way of life, someone must have the sense enough and morality enough to cut off the chain of hate. This can only be done by projecting the ethic of love to the center of our lives.
Coretta, his beloved wife, wrote: "Martin Luther King Jr.'s theological belief in the interdependence , of all life inevitably led to the methods for social change advocate as well as his adversary. Christ gave us the goals, he would often say, and Mahatma Gandhi provided the tactics."

THURSDAY, MAY 8th

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Committing to Oneness
A Learning To Love Every One Group
(including your enemies)

Ron Alexander has been an adventurer his whole life, traveling around
the world to study with a healer in Bali, a medicine man in California,
worked with Jerry Jampolsky and young adults with life-threatening
diseases, and with Yolanda King and the Dali Lama working with
Children of War. He has been licensed as a a clinical pathologist, sailing boat captain, and then as a counselor in California. He has learned much from
former “enemies” and thinks we can all learn more about how to love
even those we do not like.

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We will also be studying the writings of Byron Katy, Eckhart Tolle, Thich Nhat Hahn, A Course in Miracles, and what you bring.
Joyfull Oneness/ Divine Timing
Thich Nhat Hahn (correct spelling)

In this Inquiry Meditation dialogue (passing Native American Talking Stick) Group, we will primarily be listening to the Voice of Great Spirit as it comes through You! For more info. please click on: now that you are here - please read the other posts to find our more.