Hatred severs human lives, fosters persecution, and hurls nations into ruthless wars, yet men, though they do not understand why, retain some measure of faith in a Perfect Love; and to reach this Love and to live consciously in it is peace.
Such a simple prescription for all that troubles us. Yet most will wait till they have descended into the pit of despair before coming to the point of surrender.
Unconditional Love is distinguished from conditional love in its freedom from judgment. Conditional love clings to particular ideas of how things should be or how people should act, and when those ideas are not lived up to, deep is the resultant suffering. Unconditional Love contains within itself the whole, without clinging to any part, and they who come to it gradually, releasing their preconceived ideas, cease from suffering. No suffering can result from that Love which is so absolutely pure that it seeks nothing for itself.
You might say, “How can I love the drunkard, the hypocrite, the thief, the murderer? If you ask this in true sincerity, Love will open the door of understanding for you. You will become aware of the causes by which these people have become as they are, to enter into their intense suffering, and to know the certainty of their ultimate purification. This awareness will fill you with a deep compassion for them and make it impossible for you to dislike or judge them.
When you surrender you are allowing for the Divine within you to influence your thoughts, your feelings and your impulses. When you surrender you are also trusting in The Divine within you to look after you.
In your meditations, therefore, let your heart grow and expand with ever-broadening love, until, freed from all hatred, and judgments, it embraces the whole universe with thoughtful tenderness. Be fearless, and believe in the grandest possibilities. Believe that a life of absolute humbleness is possible, believe that a life of joy and happiness is possible; believe that a life of prosperity is possible; believe that a life of perfect peace is possible; believe that the realization of the highest Truth is possible. As you believe, so will be your experience.
As there are silent depths in the ocean, which the fiercest storm cannot reach, so there are silent, holy depths in the heart of man which the storms of confusion and sorrow can never disturb. To reach this silence and to live consciously in it is peace.
Meditation must be distinguished from daydreaming. There is nothing dreamy and unpractical about it. It is a process of awareness which allows nothing to remain but the simple and naked truth. Meditating in this way you will slowly let go of your limiting beliefs and you will remember the Truth of who you truly are. And so the process of letting go of limiting beliefs will occur, one by one, and you will patiently wait for the revelation of Truth which will come when your limiting beliefs and judgments have been sufficiently released. In the silent humility of your heart you will realize the simplicity in all things.
They surface so you may surrender them. As you are consistent with surrendering, you are releasing all the stagnant energy in and around your field of energy. You will then begin to experience a lightness of being and a sense of joy in your whole being.
Where hatred, dislike, and condemnation are, Unconditional Love is not experienced. It is experienced only in the heart that has been freed from all judgment.
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