As a young woman I was particularly confrontational. In fact, I used to carry around a fan looking for shit. I was angry and I needed an outlet. I was angry about the amount of injustice in the world. I was angry at people being bullied and humiliated. I was angry at the amount of unkindness and mean-spiritedness in people. I was angry that I had come to a planet where hate seem to reign supreme. I was just angry.
However, in my anger I inadvertently became all I was angry about. I became unjust seeking justice; I became mean looking for kindness and even though I would bully the bullies in defence of those who felt they couldn't defend themselves - I could still be termed a bully. It took a few years to learn the difference between aggression and assertion. Aggression is when you stick up for your rights while walking all over someone else's. Assertion is when you stick up for your rights while also respecting another's. It took a while, but I finally learned to live the truth of Martin Luther King's words "Darkness cannot drive out darkness, only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that" – MLK
In my words, thought cannot drive out thought - only Spirit can do that.
It is foolish to think that the same consciousness that created your problems can solve them. One must use the mind differently so that the light of our true self as Spirit can shine on our ways, enabling us to be the light in the world rather than just more darkness.
The being mind is where the light comes through. The thinking mind veils it.
~ Tracy Pierce
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