Category: Religious Messages

What Is Love?

“If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal.

2 If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing.

3 If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing.

4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5 It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

8 Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10 but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears.

11When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me.

12 For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.

13 And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.”

1 Corinthians 13:  1 – 13

Raise Your Thinking

Raise your thinking; see the light shining before you and keep your eyes fixed on the light. All around you, there may be darkness, but that does not matter as long as you keep your eye on the light and follow that straight and narrow path, neither looking to the right nor to the left.

Keep on ever onward, knowing that no matter what happens you will reach the goal.

The way may be very rough at times but be not daunted, be strong and of good courage. You each have a contribution to make toward the whole situation.

Thoughts start from individuals and grow and spread.

When your thoughts are of victory and you refuse to allow one thought of defeat into your consciousness, you are doing your part to help lift the whole world situation.

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Love Him In All

“We must love others not for their human personalities, but because they are manifestations of God, Who dwells equally in all.

Never imagine that you can win God’s love if you can’t win the love of your fellow creatures.  As you love Him, so should you love Him in all.  Whenever you see wrong in others and are distressed by it, remember, it’s wrong with you.  When you are right inwardly, all things are right, for you see everything as part of God. You then accept all things as they are, without judgment, and look with kindness and sympathy on everyone no matter how foolish.

You can’t love God and at the same time be unkind to your associates.  You can’t love Him and be full of wrath.  How you behave toward others both reflects your inner consciousness and conditions it.

Never imagine that you can win God’s love if you can’t win the love of your fellow creatures.  As you love Him, so should you love Him in all.”

The Essence of Self-Realization – The Wisdom of Paramhansa Yogananda, Recorded and compiled by his disciple, Kriyananda (J. Donald Walters), p. 184-5.

The Lord’s Prayer – Translated From Aramaic

This is The Lord’s Prayer… translated from Aramaic directly into English rather than from Aramaic to Greek to Latin to English:

“O cosmic birther of all radiance and vibration, soften the ground of our being and carve out a space within us where your Presence can abide.

Fill us with your creativity so that we may be empowered to bear the fruit of your mission.
Let each of our actions bear fruit in accordance with our desire.
Endow us with the wisdom to produce and share what each being needs to grow and flourish.
Untie the tangled threads of destiny that bind us, as we release others from the entanglement of past mistakes.
Do not let us be seduced by that which would divert us from our true purpose, but illuminate the opportunities of the present moment.
For you are the ground and the fruitful vision, the birth, power, and fulfillment, as all is gathered and made whole once again. And so it is.”

The Situation Around You All Depends On You

Let there be Light, Light and more Light. See Light, think Light, be Light, send it forth in ever increasing force and strength.

You are a channel for My divine Light, open yourself up and let yourself be used to radiate Light out into this darkened earth.

The more uplifting your thoughts, the more loving your actions, the more help you are to all those around you.

It does not matter what you are doing, you can bring Light into it.

Never wait for someone else to throw light onto a situation, do it yourself. You do the uplifting, you help to raise the thinking, and you shoulder your

responsibility with real joy in your heart.

The situation around you all depends on you. Expect the best and the best will be forthcoming. Expect the best in every soul and the best will be drawn forth no matter how deeply hidden away it may be.

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