| beings -- and indeed you should. But this love will have its proper value; it will not | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| if for some reason you lose a human love as long as God has his rightful place | 28 COMMUNICATION WITH GOD -- DAILY REVIEW |
| path of purification, for example, or learning to love are such. Overcoming your weaknesses, or wanting to | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| Let us suppose a person sincerely desires to love a fellow-creature and desires to do so because | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| this question: What are the various aspects of love? ANSWER: There are many and I cannot attempt | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| my friends, without truth, there can be no love! This will suffice for the moment. QUESTION: A | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| What is the opposite aspect of vanity? ANSWER: Love and humility. For if you are vain, you | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| friends, God's blessing is given to you. God's love is streaming to you. May the words I | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| and strengthen you. Be in peace, be in love, be in God! 30. SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR | 29 THE FORCES OF ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY -- FINDING GOD'S WILL |
| Such a basic quality may be courage, another love and kindness, and so on. To have courage | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| does not mean that you do not possess love or the capacity to love. Though the highest | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| do not possess love or the capacity to love. Though the highest angel representatives of each force | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| is meant by loving your brother as you love yourself. As long as you feel differently for | 30 SELF-WILL, PRIDE AND FEAR |
| unjust, for you demand and expect respect and love from others although you do not respect and | 31 SHAME |
| from others although you do not respect and love yourself. Mind you, this is not because of | 31 SHAME |
| do that, the more you need to demand love and respect from others to make up for | 31 SHAME |
| people around you to actually give you the love and respect you desired in the first place | 31 SHAME |
| your pride and your need for respect and love from others, you begin to withdraw from what | 31 SHAME |
| for it and not other people's lack of love and understanding. No matter how incapable of love | 31 SHAME |
| love and understanding. No matter how incapable of love the people around you may be, you would | 31 SHAME |
| and what I have done, they would not love me. That makes you feel alone, suffering, and | 31 SHAME |
| they who are spiritually developed and capable of love will most certainly not love you less; quite | 31 SHAME |
| and capable of love will most certainly not love you less; quite the contrary. And they who | 31 SHAME |
| they who are immature and therefore incapable of love will not be retracting their love for you | 31 SHAME |
| incapable of love will not be retracting their love for you since they never really gave it | 31 SHAME |
| are in now: craving for affection, respect, and love to assuage their own lack of self-respect, absent | 31 SHAME |
| the courage to be themselves. Their kind of love was an illusion in the first place. So | 31 SHAME |
| am; I do not strive for respect and love that I think is not really due me | 31 SHAME |
| Though you are wrong in that too, for love and respect are due every living creature. In | 31 SHAME |
| you have some faults which you are in love with. This explains why you do not get | 31 SHAME |
| weakness, or imperfection is a direct hindrance to love -- and therefore to God. I will also | 31 SHAME |
| work together for the good for those who love God. Let us examine this statement of the | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| find its deeper meaning. The words, those who love God do not mean merely that you believe | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| believe in God or that you profess to love Him or that you recite some prayers. As | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| recite some prayers. As you know, the true love of God means to work spiritually, to develop | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| but also your emotions. You must come to love God in your emotions. To achieve that is | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| on the road of spiritual development can truly love God. How then can we explain that all | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| this path and thus proves his or her love for God. Yet so many of you do | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| in other words a person who does not love God above everything, will find that the best | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| from the outside! You all know that to love your fellow-creatures is one of the most important | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| important laws of the universe. We have discussed love at great length: how to acquire it, what | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| its way, how to face your inability to love as you would like to, etc. However, now | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| of my friends who are already capable of love to some degree. It is only a question | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| long as you are not completely purified, your love cannot be divine and perfect. Your love will | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| your love cannot be divine and perfect. Your love will be blurred to the extent you are | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| are still lacking purification. The deviation from divine love may take place in various ways, according to | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| that this is really a proof of your love. This is not true. It must be a | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| idealized image. All human beings are starved for love; most seek it in the wrong way, namely | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| there is no risk involved. This longing for love forces the subject to struggle to maintain the | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| that if they fail to do so, the love may be jeopardized. At the same time, the | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| same time, the subject resents the giver of love, because deep down they feel that this kind | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| deep down they feel that this kind of love is wrong. The unpurified soul lacks the strength | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| soul lacks the strength to risk losing the love given on false premises. So the person feels | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| that this is not a good and healthy love, neither beneficial to you nor to the loved | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| self, but also by trying to see and love the other as he or she really is | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| and hidden reasons for needing a more perfect love subject than reality produces. In all probability there | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| which you cover up with the type of love you are bestowing. In addition, there must be | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| as they are. You should be able to love a person, accepting his or her imperfections, not | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| any way. Remember, my friends, when you do love, think about how you are doing it. Consider | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| first words of tonight's lecture, my friends. To love God means naturally, among many other things, to | 32 DECISION-MAKING |
| cannot understand others, and he who does not love himself cannot love others. Again, the objection may | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| and he who does not love himself cannot love others. Again, the objection may be made that | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| Again, the objection may be made that to love oneself means selfishness. Again, I say that this | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| you have no healthy self-respect and do not love your greater being, which is the divine being | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| divine being you are, you can never truly love others. The right kind of self-respect and self-love | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| accept other people better, understand them better, and love them better. You do not have to be | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| see another person's faults when there is strong love or sympathy present. Not wanting to see the | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| see another's faults and not be afraid to love and respect that person any less because of | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| person, so as to handle life better and love and help others more effectively. In this endeavor | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| the desire to come near to God, the love for the Creator -- mingle with the bad | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| transitory state in your development. Your longing and love of God is awakening before your pride and | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| that He really exists, do it for the love of others that is a basic part of | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| whose faith is still weak has a greater love for other human beings than someone else whose | 33 OCCUPATION WITH SELF -- RIGHT AND WRONG FAITH |
| relationship with another human being--perhaps to learn to love and to accept this other person--and that the | 34 PREPARATION FOR REINCARNATION |
| beings proves to be unsatisfactory. Perhaps not enough love is forthcoming; perhaps fear and caution cloud the | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| God will not disappoint me. God has enough love. God is far away and intangible: I risk | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| refuge, He will have to show you that love does not work in such a way. Your | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| people, the hazards and risks of life and love as you know them, and then ask yourself | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| to find God is always by learning to love other people. As you know, this is a | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| are continuing to work on this. Nothing but love of your fellow creatures can open you to | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| that what they actually long for is to love. It is just that they do not know | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| and the physical body translates the longing to love into a longing to receive love. In this | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| longing to love into a longing to receive love. In this layer exists the ego with all | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| believes that the best thing is to receive love without taking the risk of getting wounded; it | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| You calculate. You extend yourself only to receive love. And then you are bitter -- because it | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| to work, you are not gratified by the love bestowed upon you. Think about it. Has it | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| but since you were incapable or unwilling to love, their love was more of a burden than | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| you were incapable or unwilling to love, their love was more of a burden than a cause | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| within you knows that you do not deserve love, and so you feel guilty. The more love | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| love, and so you feel guilty. The more love is given to you, the unhappier you become | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| overcome a weakness and begin to give some love, even before you are capable of giving real | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| even before you are capable of giving real love, your act of unselfish giving will bring you | 35 TURNING TO GOD |
| withhold it, my friends. The experience of God's love depends on how receptive one is. It is | 36 PRAYER |
| from God's grace, God's strength, God's mercy, God's love, and all the other divine attributes. Prayer is | 36 PRAYER |
| rechanneling of wrong currents, and the attainment of love, brotherhood, humility, and the union and development of | 36 PRAYER |
| into the bad habits of their erring souls. Love, well-meaning and unselfish goodwill, can be expressed in | 36 PRAYER |
| So, my friends, do not tell me, I love God and I try to be a good | 36 PRAYER |
| to help you to feel wholeheartedly within yourself love for everyone, at least while you pray. Everyone | 36 PRAYER |
| you pray. Everyone should pray for peace, for love, brotherhood, justice, the spreading of divine law. But | 36 PRAYER |
| can further or hinder divine truth, peace, and love, will make you feel more responsible, and your | 36 PRAYER |
| every human being will give way to humility, love, and the willingness to have God's will done | 36 PRAYER |
| well as happiness. Pray that you do not love your ego so much that you shirk the | 36 PRAYER |
| its opposite extreme. This is easy to determine. Love has turned to hatred and resentment, justice to | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| One of the most misunderstood divine currents is love. Many other things pose as love that really | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| currents is love. Many other things pose as love that really have nothing to do with love | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| love that really have nothing to do with love. The yearning of the ego to break through | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| break through the barrier of loneliness poses as love. So does its possessiveness. I will be more | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| subject when I speak to you about erotic love, its meaning, its perfect ideal, and its deviations | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| of this lesson, of this sign that I love myself too much? Am I afraid of all | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| little goodwill can often establish a bond of love between two people at odds. Try to find | 37 ACCEPTANCE, RIGHT AND WRONG WAY -- DIGNITY IN HUMILITY |
| image exists. I have sometimes mentioned that people love some of their faults. How and why would | 38 IMAGES |
| of their faults. How and why would they love them? For the simple reason that according to | 38 IMAGES |
| claims God does not send tests. God is love; how could He want us to be unhappy | 38 IMAGES |
| strength if you accept it now willingly. The love of God touches all of you, my dear | 38 IMAGES |
| to live, afraid to feel, and afraid to love. The outer intellectual knowledge you may gain through | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| is by facing the fear of life and love. To risk the hurt and bear your fear | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| rationalize away your inner fears of life, of love, and of being hurt. Is that clear? COMMENT | 39 IMAGE-FINDING |
| you. God will show you the light of love and help. Courageous and noble is the person | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| leave the dark tunnel behind. Joyful blessings of love envelop and penetrate you. Be in peace, my | 40 MORE ON IMAGE-FINDING: A SUMMARY |
| knows what feels good or bad. It knows love and pleasure when its will is done. It | 41 IMAGES: THE DAMAGE THEY DO |
| time of the year, the strong forces of love, coming from the King of the Universe, touch | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| the best of you. Try to strengthen your love, understanding, and forgiveness so as to be able | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| increase until you can be touched only by love and brotherly understanding. Then you will not be | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| a necessity. His was the greatest act of love. You all know about the Plan of Salvation | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| is to choose such a fate out of love hardly needs an explanation. True love, true kindness | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| out of love hardly needs an explanation. True love, true kindness, true unselfishness is unthinkable without courage | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| you lack courage, you do so because you love yourself too much in a sickly way. There | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| person as to the self. Therefore courage and love, in the last analysis, are inseparable. Think about | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| you will always find that you must lack love as well. And now I will discuss objectivity | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| category as blindly idealizing the person in whose love you feel secure. In such cases you do | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| deceiving yourself into believing that your idealization is love and tolerance. You try to convince yourself that | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| your eyes to the faults of those you love because they love you. No, my friends, that | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| the faults of those you love because they love you. No, my friends, that is not true | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| my friends, that is not true loving. True love can see reality. If you are ready to | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| can see reality. If you are ready to love in the most vital and mature way, you | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| trends, half-consciously thinking that this attitude proves your love and tolerance, but it is done really out | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| are so insecure about your own ability to love that you need an idealized version of the | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| an idealized version of the loved person. Your love is not true love if you are compelled | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| the loved person. Your love is not true love if you are compelled to see this person | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| is a weakness and often a bondage. Real love is freedom, dear friends. It can stand the | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| of the other, you are not capable of love. Indeed, you are so aware of your incapacity | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| loving. Pride, and your present inability to truly love, make you go from one extreme to the | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| dear ones. If you learn to see and love other people as they really are, you can | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| you, my friends: Think of the people you love most in the world, and then make a | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| reasons already stated: pride, and your inability to love the other as he or she really is | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| You will learn to evaluate the people you love, and your love will mature and grow in | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| to evaluate the people you love, and your love will mature and grow in stature. Thus you | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| out of the immature state in which you love like a frightened child who cannot see the | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| and this emotion forces you to withdraw your love. But that is not the truth at all | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| this particular search with the knowledge that your love, instead of weakening, must grow and mature, you | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |
| in others, as well as in yourselves. Mature love means to love others in spite of their | 42 CHRISTMAS BLESSINGS -- OBJECTIVITY AND SUBJECTIVITY |