Summary

The path to peace, the journey from where we are to where we want to be, is summarized in three words: Love, Compassion and Forgiveness.

Love

We express our Love when we treat ourselves and all others with respect and honor, whether or not we "like" them or agree with them. We express our Love when our thoughts and behavior reflect consideration for the well being of ourselves and others.

Love is the contexts of contexts. For many it is Spirit.

Compassion

When we know, not just understand, that we are all innocent children we experience compassion. When we know that our True Self and the True Selves of all humanity are the same, we experience Compassion. When we know that all behavior is the highest form of the expression of love that one can manifest at the time, based on each person’s experience of life, the development of their belief system, their inability to operate outside their belief system, and their lack of experience of the context of contexts, of Love, we experience Compassion.

When we transcend ourselves and truly experience the attitudes, beliefs and perceptions of others, particularly our parents and our partners, we experience Compassion. When we lovingly accept and celebrate ourselves and others just as we and they are, we experience Compassion. We can even experience Compassion without being in the presence of or enjoying the company of or feeling safe with some others.

Forgiveness

When we experience the essence of who we are, which is Love, and we know the essence of others in the experience of Compassion, the act of Forgiveness follows as the wake behind a boat. We can even experience Forgiveness when we do not forgive behavior and when it is not safe nor appropriate nor possible to express our Forgiveness.

Forgiveness is not the removal of responsibility. Forgiveness is the removal of blame and the termination of judgment. Forgiveness is when we acknowledge our connection at the level of the context of contexts, the level of Love, the level of Spirit, and we are one.