Making Hostility Fuel for Love and Understanding

Rupert, you seem surrounded by pure love, and from our conversation about ‘what you put out comes back’, that suggests there’s love and honesty within yourself. How do you stay honest with yourself on this path and not get entangled with the mind trying to claim this understanding? Rupert says: ‘Here I am surrounded by love, but out in the world, I receive my fair share of hostility. When anyone goes out into the world to represent truth or love, they draw out of humanity a resistance to it. You use all this for the fire of understanding. You transform it all into love. You notice if it upsets you on the inside – if it upsets you, you are established in your mind, not in your being. Any way where you meet hostility, judgement, criticism, where you would normally resist and defend, you do the opposite. You just open yourself, love more, resist less, so it becomes fuel for this love and understanding.’

From event 30 August - 06 September, 2025 Seven-Day Retreat at Mandali, 30 August–6 September 2025

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