Who is your brother?

We do not consider someone who has different beliefs, lives in another country, or has a different skin color to be our brother.

We do not consider someone who disagrees with our opinions to be our brother, nor do we consider our “enemies” to be our brothers.

How far we are from living the great teaching of Love, in which, in essence, we are all part of the same indivisible Unity. We are the many faces of an enormous polyhedron whose center is Love. We are the drops in the ocean of consciousness.

What you do to another, you also do to yourself. 

I ask you, who is your brother?

No one irritates you

When someone makes a comment, about anything, and it really upsets you, it's because it has brought to the surface a part of your mind that is unhealed and in conflict. You were already feeling bad inside, even though you were unaware of it, and this person appeared, as it could have been anyone else, and with their comment they held up a mirror in which you unconsciously saw your reflection and didn't like what you saw at all. 

That person helps you identify your shadow, your inner swamp. No one irritates you; you irritate yourself through that person. You will blame them for what they have said or done, but in reality it is your unconscious guilt that makes you feel bad. Relationships help us to know ourselves internally.

To the extent that you assume that the outside world is a reflection of your inner world, through the psychological mechanism of projection or the law of the mirror, and you forgive yourself for what you see, you will take control of your life. As you heal your inner self, your perception of the world you see will change. In a movie theater, you cannot change the film on the screen (the outside world); you have to change it in the projector (the inner world).

This is the path to peace.