Finding the love in a situation vs a feeling of indifference

[Plenum]

heya Mr Jeremy.

great question, and one that comes up often.

I think the issue is that we have our own internal barometer of feelings, sympathies, love, reactions, acceptances, and that because of the nature of social expectations and 'fitting in', we have an unconscious way of comparing our reactions to what a hypothetical 'normal' and 'well-adjusted' individual might feel or respond given certain situations. Esp in more charged situations, like the funeral or child abuse cases that you mentioned.

I think one can develop an internal trust in oneself and one's reactions ('self authenticity'). Not that this self authenticity is never wrong, but there is less of a need to feel like we are not 'normal'.

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I think the essence of calmness is the ability to continue accepting the other-self as Creator, despite the most outrageous, destructive, violent, and cruel acts.

when anger and rage enter the picture, there is an almost instinctive wish to destroy, bash, punish, and even kill the person who committed the 'crimes'. I think we can both agree that such an attitude is not really conducive to the love/acceptance/forgiveness vibration

everything is karmic, and the universe has internal balancing mechanisms at play. It is an act of faith to accept that such a mechanism is operant, at all levels, but if one can see this in operation on a micro-scale in own's own life and personal sphere, then that gives a good basis to make the leap to this point of view.

indifference is fairly easy to spot ... it is a type of callousness which opens the doorway to cruelty. It is a lack of caring for the feelings of others, rather than an absence of any feelings in the self.