ON GIVING LOVE...BY HIS HELP

Be patient. The path of self-discipline that leads to God-realization is not an easy path: obstacles and sufferings are on the path; the latter you must bear, and the former overcome -- all by His help. His help comes only through concentration. Repetition of God's name helps concentration. -- Swami Ramdas

Long, long ago blinding flash of the obvious: We have all the patience there is within us now...all we need do is use it.

It's a sobering realization that that is true of kindness, compassion, thoughtfulness...there is no inner goodness for which we need pray...all were gifted us at birth to be shared with others.  

It is in the sharing of those gifts that we receive the peace of mind that ego promises yet can never deliver. It is our not sharing that causes us to pray for them...we never consider that we already have them within us. 

Simply put, all those inner goodnesses are of no use to us if we are not sending them out by our thoughts, our words, our acts. It is the giving to others that returns to us.

The pearl of spiritual life is in nonresistance...or, the love we give. Nonresisting, I give to you, you give to Ed, who gives to Gertrude who, etc. The unbroken circle of spiritual love is the world's best hope of recovery. 

Without spiritual insight and, face it, personal grit, that will not happen. Ah, but help is already with us, within us...obstacles and sufferings are on the path; the latter you must bear, and the former overcome -- all by His help.

All by His help.

Thank you.