On Hate

They say the opposite of love is not hate but indifference. Well, it's Elie Wiesel who said it originally. Who said it initially really is no matter though. What is important is that he (they) is correct. And when we come upon a path and have the option to choose among the three, I believe hate to be the least productive for our soul.

Love we reserve for those who deserve it. Or at least we should, right? Loving those who are incapable or unwilling of loving us in return has dire consequences for our own soul identity. Giving love without love in return only hinders our ability to trust in love itself. Now, in the case of loving those who reciprocate the sentiment, our souls are filled with positivity and light. Our hearts rejoice in knowing that we are connecting with another person on the soul level, and that love brings us closer to Universal Truth. Conversely, if we love someone who does not love us in return, we are simply wasting that positive energy and depleting our own soul of the love we so deserve.

Hate, I believe comes from this desire to be loved but which is not reciprocated. Hate invokes the same passion from which love is born, and it uses seemingly twice the energy that love does but negatively. I am seeing this play out in observing people around me, and I am learning so much from that. When we hate, it consumes us. Hate can become obsessive, all-consuming, and it is entirely subversive. Hate detracts from our path to the light, and chips away at every loving conviction within us. Hate brings with it a very powerful negative energy that has the ability to completely derail our soul purpose, which is to become all-loving. This hate can become so powerful that our bodies react and have the ability to become toxic themselves, causing physical pain and other chronic ailments. Hate is the ultimate weapon of self-destruction.

But what about indifference? Indifference is the neutrality between love and hate, and it can be used both as protection from hate and as a defense mechanism against love. It truly is the double-edged sword! This sword, however, is absolutely our best defense against those incapable of love. Those of us who have been victims of abusive relationships know that these people do exist. These people who are incapable of love have been devoured by hate, and we must not play into their hands and continue the cycle. We must use the neutral "charge" of indifference in order to move forward on our path to the light, the ultimate love that our soul deserves and desires. We must not get caught up in the dispassionate web that hate attempts to weave before us. We must learn to turn away from these unhealthy relationships and look to fill those voids with people who fill our soul with the light and love.

The simple truth is that love breeds love, and hate breeds more hate. When people say hateful things, do hateful things, and we reciprocate that negativity, we only fuel that evil fire. We are feeding the dark monster within us that aims to lead our souls astray, causing even our own bodies to turn against us sometimes. Let us not fall into hate's trap. Let us follow the path to the light of love, using indifference as our sword and our shield from those who can no longer see the light themselves.

May we understand that these hateful beings that have come into our lives, whether they be family, friends, lovers, or foes, have succumbed to the dark forces within and are of no benefit to our souls. May we understand that giving any credence to their complaints or criticisms only fuels their path to darkness and dims our own internal light. We must expel that negative energy. Let us only love those who love in return. Let us bestow grace upon those who request it, and let us all move forward in our lives with loving intentions.

Til next time,
XoXo -Xile