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The
Universal Law of allowing
The
Universal Law of Allowing means dropping all judgments and all emotional
attachments to what others are, have, or do. This is quite different from
being tolerant. Being tolerant is not liking what someone else is or
does and holding emotion-laden, negative thoughts about them, but letting them
be or do it any way.
Practicing The Universal Law of Allowing requires granting
to others the same rights you ask for yourself -- the right to be, have, and do
whatever you choose. Here's one interpretation of that law:
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I
am that I am and You are that which You are. I accept, honor, and
respect you as you are. I honor, allow, support, and respect your right
to be who you are, do as you do, and have whatever you have. I honor
your right to live your life as you choose, to worship God, or not, as you
choose. I honor those same rights in me and call for you to do
likewise.
I honor the Golden Rule, “Do onto others as they would
be done onto” and call for you to do likewise. As long as you
avoid violating others or violating the rights of others, I will honor your
right to be, do, have, express, and experience whatever you choose.
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Here’s
another way of expressing this law:
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Love
God, love your neighbor, and love yourself.
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One
way to practice the Law of Allowing is by transforming whatever you’re making
someone else wrong for into something you are simply not willing to accept in
your own life. Then
to allow the other person to be, have, and/or do as they will, without trying to
fix anything, or change them, or make them wrong.
Christian
tradition has done well at teaching about love for God and your neighbor.
Unfortunately, it has been a dismal failure at teaching people to love
themselves, and as you may already know, if you don’t love yourself, your
ability to love anything or anyone else is drastically reduced.
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