The Undivided Heart

You divide the world into 'family' and 'stranger,' 'kin' and 'enemy.' 

This is the distinction that births confusion and bars the gate to the Inner Kingdom.

You believe your spiritual work is to love your family. 

But the mind that clings to 'family' also forges the 'other.' 

This preference, this division, is the disease of the heart.

I say to you, let your heart be purified. 

See the plank in your own eye that separates you from your brother.

When you love the one who curses you, show mercy to the one who wrongs you, and make peace with the 'enemy'—in that very moment, the two circles of 'family' and 'stranger' dissolve into One.

You become a peacemaker. 

And in this, you realize all are children of the One, and the entire world becomes your true family.