Love Thy Neighbor as you love Thyself
While we have often heard the phrase, "Love Thy Neighbor" it is often hard to do when our neighbor is
our enemy. Still, we strive to love all beings unconditionally.
Fr. Rizzo once offered a nice practical view on loving one's Neighbor. He said at first he thought
unconditional love should be all embracing, but he found he did not want to be embracing every single
human being. He then thought, he could wish everyone happiness and love in their lives.
He found he could love even the most hardened criminal through well wishes for his overall being. And
that often he was praying for murders and such to give up their ways of life and turn to a healthier way of
living. A way of living that did not cause others pain and suffering. He realized for this to happen the
dis-ease and unhealthy aspects of their lives must somehow be transformed. He would wish them well,
and that their dis-eases and mis-behaviors would heal and become well and whole.
He found that then he could love everyone, no matter what their background. This is very inspiring and
challenging for many of us. Yet, it is what we are all striving for, a time and place where we can live in
Peace and Harmony with one another regardless of who we have been in the past.
If we now extend this concept to political and cultural levels, we may find the Neighbor we wish to extend
well wishes to, on our left to be a member of the Chinese Army responsible for preventing Tibetan
Children from crossing the country's borders into India or Nepal. And to our right may be one such
Tibetan Child trying to do just that.
Can we wish well for both these individuals and their families?
They say love can transform the world, and indeed it is the only thing that can! It has been said we must
love one another, respect one another, and treat each other with dignity. This is much easier when we
are in an environment of coherence.
A funny thing happened during the TM Meditation experiment in Washington DC. Not only did the crime
rates drop, but so did the number of court cases filed. Also the number of previously filed cases that
settled out of court increased. A more harmonious environment actually reflected back in a more
harmonious set of interactions among the people within the environment.
What would happened we started to wish well for all of our Neighbors? Regardless of who they are and
what they have done in their pasts? Now, this is what we are proclaiming when we ask for World Peace.
We are asking for Peace for each and every person alive, and yet to be born, isn't it?
This is how World Peace starts and Crime rates are reduced, those who were creating war and
committing crimes have a "change of heart". It is not those who are not committing crimes that need to
change, it is those who are. How often do we pray for them to stop, but do we pray for the well being. Do
we pray for their inner healing were they can find joy in life again, regardless of their past? Or do we
condemn "those particular cases" to a life of endless suffering and thereby, perpetuate suffering in the
world on the one hand, while praying for World Peace on the Other Hand?
This is a major challenge to Humanity at this time, because we are coming face to face with many aspects
of our collective past and real needs of the present at the same time. How often have we seen injustice in
the world, and how often have we seen the greatest examples of unconditional love and compassion. We
have been praying for the strength to love, the strength to recognize and change that which needs to be
changed in order for World Peace to finally emerge as a natural way of being on the planet.
And here we are on the Threshold of a Dream becoming Reality, and it rests in our own hands. Can we
be the Unconditional Love we have been praying for? For in the end, how can we have unless we, the
ones who have been praying for it start to live it? At some point don't we need to take the prayers out of
moments of Prayer and bring it into our daily lives?
One of the major ways to move into unconditional love is through Forgiveness. Ask yourself,
"What would happen if you truly forgave each and every person and institution and entity in your life?
And if you truly forgave everything and everyone, yourself, your neighbors, what would happen then?"
You would be free of judgement, anger, resentment and bitterness wouldn't you? And aren't those the
major obstacles to World Peace?
Imagine growing up in an area where your family has been at war with its neighbors for many
generations, and your grandparents and parents can not remember what is was like to live without war,
as they never had the chance to find out? And now we are asking them, "Please stop fighting and live in
peace and harmony with your neighbor who has been shooting at your family for generations." Or
"Please stop hating the Drug Lords who have destroyed your children and your communities youth and
turned them into gang killers."
Wow, this is a big task and a big step for everyone. And yet in the worst areas we find the brightest stars.
Shining the light of love and forgiveness into all areas of life for all beings. For those of fortunate enough
to not be fighting for survival, we have a responsibility to help our fellow humanity. We have seen time
and time again, it only takes a handful working together in harmony for the betterment of the whole, for
the whole to receive the benefit and become more stable and more harmonious.
We realize it is not always easy to love our Neighbor, but remember we are asking the same of him, and
you yourself are the neighbor of your enemy. And we want our enemies to start loving us and treating us
kindly, what better way then to lead the way be example?
We invite to participate in our Forgiveness Prayer. It is a wonderful prayer which many have found very
helpful and deeply healing. It touches on many aspects of life, and includes our ancestors. Please feel
free to down load the audio and text and share freely as you wish. And we look forward to Creating
Peace on Earth with you, when most said it could not be done. When so many said "humanity can not
change", or "it has always been this way and it always will" we said, "NO!, we chose another way! We
chose Love and Peace!" "We may not be perfect but this is what we chose!" "We may stumble in our
actions, but our intentions are strong and rebound, we chose Peace and Harmony!"
Join us is making this a formal declaration by signing for peace!
Blessings of Love and Peace to you and your family and ALL your Neighbors!
Arthur Collins
Forgiveness Prayer Downloads
Each day people from around the world will be praying for world peace and forgiveness.
Forgiveness helps to open the door to freedom, harmony and world peace by re-writing the
past. We are all expressions of our unique soul's journey and our heritages as well. As such
we can we re-write the texts of our ancestors pointing to war, old debts and karmic
obligations.
This old energy has been predicting and greatly influencing humanity's future by keeping old
wounds alive. Through forgiveness we bring light into the dark and heal the past and thus
releasing the future from the old predictions and energies of domination, and welcome the
new energies bathing the planet of love, harmony and truth.
Nothing unreal can last, and Nothing real can ever be destroyed, the love of life and all that is
prevades all that is and is becoming more expressive and influencing the shift from the old
and into the new. We are all part and parcel of so many aspects of this shift and that which is
being changed, our attitudes and responsibilities as light workers. We are helping to anchor
the light and hold the visions of love and world peace. Like a lighthouse shining its lights so
those guiding their boats to the sure can find safe passage through the storms.
Those in the boats do not know the light keepers, nor do the light houses change or impose
upon those stirring the ships. Rather, the lighthouses and those in them, keeping their lights
shining, simply keep their light shining! They shine their light for others to use as they wish.
They help those lost at sea find their ways home. No judgement, no glamor, just shining the
light for all.
Our forgiveness helps to take the shudders off the Light Houses within, and lets the light
within to start to shine a little brighter, old wounds are released, we no longer count debts
from ages past, and instead we live in the love of now. Most problems on the earth are
sections of humanity oppressing and fighting one another based on events and teachings
from ages long past. It is time to start a new, in the new energies of harmony and love as well
as integrity and dignity. During these times much is being brought to the surface for all to
see, and then chose what is the course of love and world peace.
Six Degrees of Separation to World Peace: An experiment in Co-Creation
We invite you to join us for a day of prayer for harmony and oneness in the world and the healing of any
resentments and obstacles to this harmony through the power of forgiveness and collective prayer. We
have included the following free downloads for your enjoyment and use. They will greatly explain the role
of group prayers of forgiveness may play in the creation of world peace