CHAPTER 6
Love not the beauty of the body, for its beauty is like that of
a flower, a beauty that is short lived. Work hard instead, to
emit the beauties that lie in the self, for the beauty of the
self can change you and touch the lives of several others.
Know, that beauty lies in a simple truth, beauty shines in an
act of sacrifice, beauty awakens in the one that is patient, and
the beauty of love, is love like that of God.
Consider Me to be your doctor, and love your medicine. The
doctor may perform procedures that may be unpleasant and
painful, but your faith in him allows him to do his work that is
needful, without any complaints. The medicine itself is
sometimes bitter and sometimes sweet, but you know that the cure
for your illness lies in it.
In the same way, you may undergo circumstances in life that
inflict pain and suffering, but this is just My procedure to
correct your imperfections. My love, which is the cure for your
mental illnesses, may sometimes be sweet and calming, and at
other times, be strict with discipline. Accept all with love,
My love for you.
Let your love for God be most intense, the intensity of this
love can moderate all other forms of love and eliminate your
passions. If your love is intense for something or someone in
this world, then that love turns into a jealous obsession, and
the presence of God gets masked in your insanity.
You ask Me several times as to "how do I love all?" My answer
to you is practice of love. Practice love, delibrately and
intentionally at first. Continual practice in My presence, with
no need of praise, will allow your attempts of love to grow into
a love that one day will flow automatically, without even any
effort. Put love into your routines, and your everyday will
become a refreshing change. Shut your ego with the love of God,
and let the fountain of love from within flow. Do not let the
failure in your practice discourage you. Love can face all
failures, and turn each of them into a divine, miraculous
success. Your success to Me, is to pick yourselves up after
every attempt, and pursue your goal to love. You must walk
every step in the confidence of the self. Your determination to
find the truth of God in love must compel you to think like God,
speak like God, and act like God, too!
God's love has no limitations, thus your love, too, must extend
itself to the fullest of its ability. Love will only have
limitations, when your expectations to receive love back begins
to rise, and you begin to envision the rewards of what you have
given in love to others. Let Me tell you, that each of you is
capable of giving this divine love. Your excuse of being only
"human" makes you lazy, and lets you look for an easy way out to
support your imperfect ways of life. Within every human lies
the virtues of the divine. However much you may stray today,
each one of you, will one day, come back to Me. Even when you
are lost, you are still within My reach. All will leave one
day, but God stays! You can never leave Me, and I, My child,
will never leave you.
The beauty of love lies in your humility to serve. Serve
without a question, serve to fill in the need to help the cause.
Work hard to uplift the distressed, help to heal the diseased
with the cure of compassion, and share your worldly riches with
the poor. Let your shoulders support the burdens of the
elderly, let your spirit of selfless love encourage the youth to
work with you in your project of love, and let the child born
today grow in the warmth and security of a loving and caring
family. I want you today to be leaders of love, models of
compassion and to be the ideals of the future to come.
Your mind is a fickle companion that shifts its loyalties
continuously. It may prompt you to act in one way now, but the
next moment it may degrade you and make you repent for the act
that it prompted. The judgements of the mind are rash and
sometimes unforgiving. Your mind is heartless and does not know
compassion and love.
Your heart, on the other hand, does not have a mind. It does
not think, evaluate and judge. It acts promptly where the truth
of love exists. The mind and the heart, both, belong to you.
For you to learn the language of the divine, your minds, My
dears, must go; your hearts must awaken. Follow the heart, and
leave your mind behind. The heart will always speak My voice,
and the mind will only doubt. Your heart beats with a strong
will to find love, your mind will only fear the losses involved
in finding this love. The heart serves with no purpose, it
gives to gain pleasure from the act of giving. Your mind serves
with the purpose of gain, it will give, only to receive at least
the same value of the gift, if not more, and it suffers severe
disappointments upon not receiving. Your goal is to train the
mind to be devoid of thoughts. Let your thoughts become fewer
and purer. The fewer your thoughts, the lesser your worries and
fears. Your mind needs a focus. Whatever your mind focuses on,
those are your thoughts, your desires, and it is this focus,
that gives you the instant need to act and react. The mind is
like a machine that needs to be fed with data all the time. It
takes strict discipline and strong will power to keep the mind
empty and pure.
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