There isn't one thing, in every moment of our life, that isn't a mirror. Not one. Only we've never been taught that there is an invisible, eternal, incorruptible intelligence that is literally both that which we see and ourselves seeing it.
We don't understand much at all about the way creation -- not the world that we see directly and that is the source of our unfolding experiences, but that which gives rise to it -- is trying to teach us. It's trying to educate us about love. It's trying to educate us about what it means to be the true son or daughter of the divine intelligence that is never not being expressed in which we are always seeing the effect of our misunderstanding.
Instead of receiving the education that's produced through the conflict created by our misunderstanding, we resist the condition and say that it's the cause of the conflict. We don't understand that there is a rudimentary form of conflict in the act of creation itself, that without celestial forces needed to reconcile it -- Christ, Love, the Light -- goes on reproducing itself; so that instead of acting as a vital source of impressions for us, we not only miss the discovery of our relationship with these laws that oversee creation, but for our unseen separation from their intersection, we lose our place in a ceaseless genesis by which the Divine's work is continuing to be perfected. Why is the above so important? Because conflict seeds conflict. Hatred seeds hatred. Resentment seeds resentment. It's inescapable. But we've never seen that it's inescapable!
Have you ever had a moment where you've really been angry or frightened, and your mind is driving you crazy? "What's going to happen? How am I going to resolve this?" And you can't do it! Because no matter what thought comes up with as the best scenario according to the image you have of yourself -- of what needs to remain in place -- you will love one result and despise the other, meaning there is always conflict!
But every once in a while, you have to let it go -- even if it's just to say, "I can't think about this anymore. I can't!" And what happens when you do that? Relief. Then we have, by moments of grace, an act of forgiveness that comes over us. And I don't know if you've noticed this: it's never forgiveness of the other person. It's a release of the person in you that holds the grudge, isn't it? So here we have a beautiful understanding of forgiveness and love that has nothing to do with the activity of thought, but rather with a part of ourselves seeing the incapability of thought to bring an end to conflict. And in that split second of release, there is reconciliation.
What is true reconciliation? It is the ending of the opposites by an action upon them that produces something greater than themselves -- the ability we have to give ourselves over to that which is greater than ourselves as well as the thing we resist, because the thing we resist is ourselves.
I'm not going to pretend to you that hearing this is going to change every moment, but what it can do is help you to understand that when you're frustrated, ask yourself: what is frustration other than the negative effect of a mind resisting its own insistence? How can you be a person who says, "I hate this. I hate this. I hate this," when what you hate is what you want? That's a mind asleep to itself. Why is it asleep to itself? Because it lives only from active and passive stages of thought. It is never still enough to recognize what those forces, unattended, do to themselves.
This is where surrender, letting go, the idea of "Be still, and know that I am God" comes in, because you learn to start recognizing, "I have been in this situation so many times...," and that your mind will find something about the situation you're in to resist. Why? Because then you're fully occupied with giving yourself the very thing that you wish you weren't experiencing.
If you can see that by resisting life -- what people say to you, what they don't do for you, the way you feel, your physical health, the way the moment goes when you're with friends or with someone who doesn't approve of you, or you don't succeed the way you wanted to succeed, or you see someone succeeding that you wish you could be like -- that in every one of those instances is a divine mirror, then the divine mirror helps you recognize, through the reflection you see, that you live in a beautiful universe, governed by beautiful laws. Every last one of these laws is intended to bring you into alignment with it, through surrender, through recognizing that you live in a world, in a life that is greater than yourself.
Maybe just try letting God's greatness be your life. Discover for yourself whether there's a greatness that transcends everything that you insist happened to you that you call "great," because everything that you've called great has brought you down. As you see this and work, you'll start to understand that it's entirely possible for you to suffer creation without being unhappy about what's taking place in it.
You must work -- in solitude -- and with others -- to polish the mirror of yourself, and then take it out into the world to test your skill. When it reflects everything just as it is, the mirror is complete.
But should you step before it, only to hear it call out some ugliness in yourself or in another, the mirror is not yet finished; for even though a mirror may reflect an ugliness that appears before it, you must understand there can be no ugliness within the mirror itself. Otherwise, when the ugliness revealed cries out, "I detest what I see," it may convince you the fault lies with the mirror.