Some gifts are obvious, like love, the joy of sharing, warmth, support and laughter, while other gifts are not so evident. Nevertheless, they are there if we know how to identify them. The gift an angry person brings could be for you to practise patience. Or if you don’t like the look of somebody, it’s usually because there is a part of you that you have yet to embrace in yourself.

The gift in this case is for you to open your mind, to investigate your thinking and gain a better understanding of yourself. The world is like a mirror in which we can see our own reflection. Any aspect that we feel an aversion to is the very part of us that is calling us to love. And the day we can love ourselves unconditionally, we will be a lover of all life.