It is in loving we are loved.

You but waste time in imagining other people can be separate from you. They cannot be.  All are from the same fabric; all are One.  If others seem separate, it is you making them seem so.

You use other people as agents of your own decisions. If you believe rich people have hard hearts, the rich people you notice will seem hardhearted.  You are not primed to notice examples of good heartedness; they would pass unnoticed or you will say they are the exception that proves the rule. If you think a particular group is lazy, clever, treacherous, or charming, you will find plenty of examples from the people around you. Whatever you are primed to see, you will see. Thus, the people around you become puppets in your show, acting out your beliefs.

Who do you interact with? Is it another being, pristine in glory, sent here from the same Source as yourself? If it were, nothing could move you to slight or injure a brother; it would be impossible.

We must conclude that in your interactions with other beings, you are interacting with your own beliefs.

I meet someone and all I see is what happened before; all I think of them is what I have already decided. All I see is the past, and so I am living with dead forms, in a world of my own making.  Oh God, may I be let out of this prison!  How can I avoid living in the past? How can I avoid making other people the puppets of my beliefs and remembrances?

Be relentlessly in the present. Give your full attention to the Other, listening, observing with love, attending, helping.

This becomes very easy to do when you remember it is your Self you serve.

It is in loving that we are loved

St Francis of Assissi