Anything that you resent and strongly react to in another is also in you.

The particular egoic patterns that you react to most strongly in others and misperceive as their identity tend to be the same patterns that are also in you, but that you are unable or unwilling to detect within yourself. In that sense, you have much to learn from your enemies. What is it in them that you find most upsetting, most disturbing? Their selfishness? Their greed? Their need for power and control? Their insincerity, dishonesty, propensity to violence, or whatever it may be?

Accept - then act.

Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it. Always work with it, not against it. Make it your friend and ally, not your enemy. This will miraculously transform your whole life.

Whatever wants to be created, manifested, done, at this moment – to be aligned with that, you need to first accept whatever form this moment takes.

It’s easy for the mind to become absorbed in one particular cause, to become obsessed with that, and then you lose yourself trying to fight one manifestation of human unconsciousness...There’s no way of winning that fight against unconsciousness because you cannot fight unconsciousness itself. You can do little things to sometimes remedy certain extreme manifestations here and there, but unawareness of the root cause of all those manifestations leads to being lost, losing oneself in that battle and ultimately getting drained.

You also find that within many groups that are fighting, initially against some common enemies, conflict develops within the groups themselves. This is because the people who are engaged in those struggles haven’t looked at the core — the root cause of human unconsciousness. They carry the human unconsciousness, whose manifestations they are fighting against, into their own action, into their activism. Before they know it, they’re fighting amongst themselves as well.

It’s so important to look at the root cause of all that. And that is spiritual work — to realize what the root cause is. It’s a false sense of self, a sense of identity that’s based on a conceptual reality and a sense of identity that it is never enough. It always needs more, and it needs its enemies. So the activist must begin to look at this deeply embedded structure in the human mind, the egoic mind, which is the need for enemies. In some cases, it looks as if you’re fighting for a good cause. But if you haven’t looked truly within yourself, very often the deeper unconscious motivation for those struggles is the unconscious egoic mind structure that needs its enemies. Because when you are fighting against something or someone, your sense of who you are gets strengthened. That ultimately fictitious sense of identity gets strengthened, especially for people who carry a lot of anger into their activism. For them it can temporarily feel good.

Reality is a unified whole, but thought cuts it up into fragments.