Recently, I posted the following on Facebook:
"Choose not to be harmed—and you won’t feel harmed. Don’t feel harmed—and you haven’t been."
Aurelius, Marcus. Meditations
Someone replied saying that they thought he sounded like a ... well, a something not very nice.
Now, I don't know what this person was thinking or feeling or why they posted what they posted. But I'm speculating that they found the idea objectionable. The corollary of this is the belief that harm is real, and there appears to be an attachment to the idea that harm is real.
The short answer to this is the introduction to A Course In Miracles:
INTRODUCTION
This is a course in miracles 2 It is a required course. 3 Only the time you take it is voluntary. 4 Free will does not mean that you can establish the curriculum. 5 It means only that you can elect what you want to take at a given time. 6 The course does not aim at teaching the meaning of love, for that is beyond what can be taught. 7 It does aim, however, at removing the blocks to the awareness of love's presence, which is your natural inheritance. 8 The opposite of love is fear, but what is all-encompassing can have no opposite.
T-in.2. This course can therefore be summed up very simply in this way :
2 Nothing real can be threatened.
3 Nothing unreal exists.
4 Herein lies the peace of God.
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