Neutrality. Switzerland comes to mind. How many times has someone said to you, “Why can’t we become like Switzerland and just live without all the conflict?” To be neutral you have to not take sides, not divide yourself up, not see bad or good but the truth in both sides and lets face it that is not how most of us have learned to be.
To relinquish effort however is actually what we must do. Loving without conditions means acknowledging both sides without judgment. It means forgiving ourselves where we see judgment. Most interesting I learned in this chapter that it means accepting that I do feel both sides of almost everything and it is that fight within me that keeps me in constant battle and unable to be at peace.
In relinquishing effort I am not choosing and living one side over the other, I am accepting both sides within myself, feeling them and then letting them be fixed by a power higher than myself simply because if I feel broken I can not fix myself. Feeling being the important word here because I am exactly how I should be. My “broken” is only my confusion in not realizing that I am whole only when I accept all my feelings and let the larger Whole find my place within It.
Nothing is good or bad, wise or stupid… those are only judgments we lay upon a situation. A situation which in itself is neutral. The wind will blow, the earth will shake, the waters will rise and fall whether I am there or not. People have lessons they are learning in ways I think I understand or not but I am not here to understand their lessons. I am here to accept each moment for it being here, acknowledge it for being without weighing it down in my own mind for its meaning. It is here because it is here to show me love and the way home. It is an opportunity to en joy a bit of home while still on the journey.
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