If there’s one thing that I continue to learn in this journey, it is that to move towards love, we must let go of ego and all its ploys to pull us into conflict.  To be an instrument of love, we must be anchored by love.  Unfortunately, we are easily challenged by this in the in the smallest of circumstances.  The person at the checkout counter is rude for no apparent reason and ego claims injustice to justify our anger.  The problem with this reaction is that there is no room for love to blossom when we are bound by the constraints of fairness and justification.

If our response to others is determined by how others respond to us, we cannot serve as the great instrument of love that we were meant to be.  Instead, we are stuck in a reactive cycle, vulnerable to the whims of ego.  We blindly react from a place of past conditioning…a place that justifies our responses in the name of fairness and respect.  Admittedly, this is one of the more difficult hurdles to overcome in this journey to shift out of ego and into …

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