Your heart yearns to become One with Me and One with all. If this were not so, if you did not wish to claim your rightful Oneness, why, then, why would you get inflamed when someone doesn’t acknowledge you sufficiently or, God forbid, happens to disagree vehemently with you? You want your sense of Oneness, and this seeming person or persons before you or uppermost in your mind has thwarted your sense of Oneness. No wonder you are upset.
To your bewildered eyes, it is as if the person or event or situation has taken your birthright from you. Stolen your birthright from you. How dare they undercut your sense of Oneness. That would, indeed, be a crime.
Now you have a better understanding. Whatever awkward situation you face, the way to look at it is that it is here to strengthen your sense of Oneness. You notice I keep saying sense of Oneness. Of course, no one and nothing can take away your Oneness because your birthright holds fast. But your awareness, ah, that is another story. Your awareness has been a flibberty-gibbet, bouncing here and there and everywhere, looking for something it knows not what, yet knowing, whatever it may be, that it is beholden to you, and that you have to have it.
Following your belief that what is supposed to be yours has been taken away from you, you mislead yourself into anger or resentment or one or more of all the shades of unwanted emotions you are so practiced at.
Come, elope with Me. Forget all these red herrings. Abide with Me. Leave the lesser matters to dissolve. Sooner or later, they will dissolve on their own as you calm down and allow your sense of Oneness to come back and settle in once again.
Know forevermore that no one takes your birthright away. No one can. Nothing can. A thief cannot. A murderer cannot. Someone who speaks falsely cannot. A mob cannot. When it comes to your birthright of Oneness, there are no identity thieves. No one can wrest your sense of Oneness away from you. Not even the worst violator can.
You are the only one who can do that. You give your birthright away.
Apparently, you think that insult, or the proponents of insult in one form or another, took away your sense of Oneness, ran off with it. Beloveds, no one, no situation, can take away your sense of Oneness without your say. You can give it away, however. You certainly have.
Because of someone’s temerity, you give away your sense of Oneness. You vacate it, beloveds. An unfair trade, wouldn’t you say? Anyone can buy your sense of Oneness at a cheap price, poor bargainer that you are. You substitute anger for your sense of self-worth, which is to say, your sense of Oneness. You let others take your birthright away for a mere glance, a word, a pittance, for anything at all.
Short-term, you glory in your anger and call it self-righteous, honorable, meritorious, yet what you then call self-respect is nothing more than shoddy ego in disguise. Yet time after time, you sell yourself short. Time after time, by your haughtiness, you lower yourself. You must think you raise yourself as you put up your fists, ready to have a go at your supposed opponent. Can you accept now that you are your own opponent? It is you who proudly throws your sense of Oneness into the ring. You throw your sense of Oneness out the window so that you have the opportunity to fight this fight and win it.
Even when you win, you lose. You have nothing when you’re done. Again, you find other opponents of your sense of Oneness in front of you who are yourself, and every time you fall for your disguise, and you battle it out, if not in the ring, in your own thoughts. You are the one who has to stop giving your sense of Oneness away to any bidder.