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Human loves are reflections of the Divine Love.

February Twenty-seventh.

MEN, clinging to self, and to the comfortless shadows of evil, are in the habit of thinking of Divine Love as something belonging to a God who is out of reach ; as something outside themselves, and that must for ever remain outside. Truly, the Love of God is ever beyond the reach of self, but when the heart and mind are emptied of self then the selfless Love, the supreme Love, the Love that is of God, or Good, becomes an inward and abiding reality.

And this inward realisation of holy Love is none other than the Love of Christ, that is so much talked about, and so little comprehended ; the Love that not only saves the soul from sin, but lifts it also above the power of temptation.

Divine Love knows neither sorrow nor change.

Twenty-Seventh Morning

Men go after much company, and seek out

new excitements, but they are not

acquainted with peace; in divers paths of

pleasure they search for happiness, but

they do not come to rest; through divers

ways of laughter and feverish delirium they

wander after gladness and life, but their

tears are many and grievous, and they

do not escape death.



Drifting upon the ocean of life in

search of selfish indulgences, men are

caught in its storms, and only after many

tempests and much privation do they fly

to the Rock of Refuge which rests in the

deep silence of their own being.

Twenty-Seventh Evening

Meditation centered upon divine realities

is the very essence and soul of prayer.

It is the silent reaching upward of the

soul toward the Eternal.



Meditation is the intense dwelling,

in thought, upon an idea or theme with

the object of thoroughly comprehending

it; and whatsoever you constantly meditate

upon, you will not only come to understand,

but will grow more and more into its

likeness, for it will become incorporated

with your very being, will become, in fact,

your very self.



If, therefore, you constantly dwell upon

that which is selfish and debasing, you will

ultimately become selfish and debased;

if you ceaselessly think upon that which

is pure and unselfish, you will surely

become pure and unselfish.

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