Distance

Your life is one moment after another in which you get to choose how you respond to people and situations. That is the path to spiritual mastery. The choices in front of you can look endlessly varied, but in truth they come down to two: Love or fear.

Choosing Love on purpose, even when that choice asks something difficult of you, is what the whole path of spiritual mastery turns on.

Some people do this easily and naturally. Others find themselves challenged again and again by the same person or the same situation. The angel of perspective asks you to make the effort, and to look at other people with compassion and understanding.

That does not make certain words or actions acceptable. What it can change is your understanding of them, and with it, how you respond. Are you staying in fear, or are you choosing Love?