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All great spirituality teaches about letting go of what you don’t need and who you are not. Often these are addictive feelings—and they are addictive. Then, when you can get little enough, naked enough, and poor enough, you’ll find that the little place where you really are is ironically more than enough and is all that you need. At that place, you will have nothing to prove to anybody and nothing to protect from other people.
That place is called emotional freedom. It’s the freedom of the children of God (Galatians 5:1). Such people can connect with everybody because they are not so attached to themselves, their hurts, memories, and neediness. To live from this place cuts the roots of violence at their very foundation, for now there is no irrational basis for fear or anger or self-protection or hatred. Negativity must be nipped in the bud—that is to say, in the mind and in the emotions, or it will invariably lead to negative actions and behaviors.
Adapted from Healing Our Violence Through the Journey of Centering Prayer (CD)
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