Last night during a meditation I found something within myself, something insidious and existent in everyone. I call it justification. It is a little part of your brain, working in the background, telling your consciousness why you are justified in your hate, your fear, your resentment, all your negativity. It tells you that you are justified in hating that person with the wrong idiology, it tells you why you must prove the other guy wrong in his philosophy, it tells you that your feelings and thoughts are justified, that those with other feelings and thoughts are an enemy of yours.
This is what makes you hate, this is what makes you feel consumed with the need to defeat that which you're sure is wrong, to convince others to think on your wavelength, and destroy those you will not. But just consider, for a moment, that the existence of god is not the most important thing, the nature of reality is not the most important thing, the philosophy you're absolutely certain is right is not the most important thing. The most important things are the results. The most important thing is to attain a world of unity (even in disagreement), of love, of peace. Kill that little area in your brain driving you separate, and categorize, your enemies from your allies. Stop allowing it to give council to your consciousness, and let compassion be the driving force from within. That little area in your brain is nothing but a primitive bi-product of the ego, a part that keeps you convinced reality ceases to exist beyond your perception, even if you know otherwise intellectually.
Who's right and who's wrong is irrelevant, how we can work together and teach each other, to the end ideal of peace, is the much higher goal.
