{"id":227,"date":"2009-10-08T00:00:51","date_gmt":"2009-10-08T00:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/angelsonyourshoulder\/2009\/10\/evil-and-angels.html"},"modified":"2009-10-08T00:00:51","modified_gmt":"2009-10-08T00:00:51","slug":"evil-and-angels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/angelsonyourshoulder\/2009\/10\/evil-and-angels.html","title":{"rendered":"Evil and angels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aloha everyone,<\/p>\n<p>Angels are all about love. Love, love, love. They are never judgmental, and they don&#8217;t fight or resist anything because they know there is nothing to fight. They know that anything except love is an illusion we create with our filter system. <\/p>\n<p>I find the <a href=\"http:\/\/search.blog.beliefnet.com\/cgi-bin\/mt\/mt-search.cgi?IncludeBlogs=154&amp;tag=Tao&amp;limit=20\">Tao<\/a> a very elegant philosophy; so concise, simply put, and yet you can ponder it for years. In the <a href=\"http:\/\/search.blog.beliefnet.com\/cgi-bin\/mt\/mt-search.cgi?IncludeBlogs=154&amp;tag=Tao&amp;limit=20\">Tao<\/a> there is a line: &#8220;Give evil nothing to oppose and it will disappear by itself.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nIf we focus on love, if we truly cultivate our ability to see the world through the eyes of love, evil disappears all by itself. If we fight evil or judge it, we actually encourage it. We create evil with our judgment. Jesus and Buddha taught about love and suggested, rather strongly, that we avoid judgment.<\/p>\n<p>Have you ever really imagined what the world looks like to the angels? How they view us and our world? Where we see suffering, they see expansive, loving possibilities and where we see fear, they see an opportunity for us to reach out and deepen our connection to the divine.<\/p>\n<p>Just for today, really imagine seeing the world through the eyes of love, and see what happens. A fun exercise is to carry around a notebook with a line down the center. At the top of one column put the word &#8220;love&#8221; and in the other column put the word&nbsp;&#8220;judgment&#8221; or &#8220;not love.&#8221; Each time you notice a thought, put a check mark in one of the two columns. At the end of the day, notice where you spent most of your time.<\/p>\n<p>With love and a very active imagination,<br \/>Susan<\/p>\n<p>There only real world is the loving one angles see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Angels are all about love. Love, love, love. 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