W here there is no love or only little love, nothing can grow. Nothing can flourish. There may be a brief flicker, which then dies down.
Love is the fuel for our life and for what we do.
So we must ask ourselves: Is what we do only a flicker or is it born out of love?
We have to learn and experience that God is present. We experience this only when we tune out again and again, when we withdraw for a short time and become calm.
W ho is God?
God is creator.
God is strength; God is light; God is the infinite All-Intelligence.
God is the stream.
God is the life.
God is the law of love. We human beings breathe because God is the life in us. God is in the very basis of our soul. It is the power and the law of infinity.
Life cannot cease living. Life is the invincible, unceasingly flowing stream of light, of divine energy. No energy is lost.
Life is God, and the one who fulfills the will of God lives. He will neither feel nor taste death.
The one who is willing to question himself, to fathom and recognize himself in the situations of the day is a winner.
We should become aware that no person can leave his life on earth up to others, nor to an external religion. Every person is called by the great Spirit to refine himself and to ennoble his character.
To pray means: To empathize and bear responsibility.
How often do we look to see that we are well? Do not look to be well from without; it is in you. And our spiritual motto is: I transform myself from within to without. I work on my all-too-human aspects, so as to become a new person, because it does me well and I am well. I am free.
To fill our thoughts with strength and life means that already in the morning we begin by affirming CHRIST in us.
Let your fellowman be free. Do not force him to do what you want or what you could do yourself.
It is the Christ of God who goes with me, who is with me at my work, who is with me no matter what may happen to me. He wants me to recognize myself in everything that moves me and to clear it up with His strength, so that a new person may emerge, the renewal of life that comes from within. For to live in Christ makes us happy.
To live in Christ is the gain in life that we need so very much— particularly in our time, particularly in this troubled world.
Christ calls: Come to Me, to Christ in you. Come and entrust yourself to Me, the Christ in you. Pray from your heart and fulfill your prayers.
I, the Christ of God in you, make you happy, free and healthy.
Active faith means: I recognize my egotistical behavior, those things to which I have bound myself: to the chains of not wanting to let go. I will change this, my behavior. And the one who changes it and fulfills the teachings of Jesus, the Christ, step by step, journeys to within and changes himself into a new person, who is good. And this, we can take with us into eternity.
Love your fellowman from your heart. Do good and experience the unity of the cosmic being. Experience the power of nature.
Be good to Mother Earth, to everything that she bears, and you will live and walk on the trail and in the trail of inner light.
W here there is no character there is no sense of duty either.
The opposition, the adversary, fears nothing more than unity and togetherness. For he says: Divide, bind and rule, and the Spirit says: Link and be.
Do not be rubbed wrong by what you don’t like about your neighbor; otherwise you will be hit with far more of it than you already have.
Reciprocate with the power of mercy— that is greatness.
In gratitude lies strength. In gratitude lies help. Even when it is ever so hard for us—a heartfelt thank you lends us strength, help and lets us sense the nearness of God.
As long as we are dependent on people, even though they rejoice with us, the joy is merely superficial, and we expect our neighbor’s encouragement and ultimately, his energy, as well.
A sentence from the Lord: If you do not learn to live, you will not learn to give either.
And the one who does not give selflessly takes. He is poor and grows more and more impoverished. That is the fall of this world.
How can we gain trust if we cannot trust ourselves, if we ourselves do not know what we are thinking? And if we ourselves do not know what we are thinking, we do not know who we are. And if we do not know who we are— how can we then turn to God, and how can we then achieve trust?
To trust means: I rely on God. And if I rely on God, then I have to tear down
my human aspects, so that I can rely on Him. Only in this way, does trust grow.
In the whole world, there is nothing that ennobles a person’s character so inestimably, that harmonizes his nature and lends his disposition a peaceful unison as the eternal, cosmic love that comes from God.
People who surrender to God’s love grant selfless joy to their fellowman, because they also give selflessly, without expecting thanks and acknowledgement.
Be enthusiastic about what you do for God and for your neighbor— be it the slightest work—
then you will attain further capabilities, which still slumber in you, for you are greater than you think.
Where is the experience of God? We think it must be something very grandiose, monumental.
Oh no! It is in the song of a bird. It is in the breeze that wafts about us. It is in the blade of grass that we consciously perceive, in the fragrance of a rose. And if we become aware of this from our heart, we begin to think away from our small egotistical world.
In the great cosmic event, everything that is pure keeps the commandment of love. To experience this in our heart makes us free.
In the long run, we are served only by what serves everyone.
God-pleasing thoughts and deeds make others happier and stronger in hope and at the same time return fortified to your heart.
Cause harm to no person, neither person nor animal nor plant or stone.
God is not only for older people. God is for the youth; God is for so-called adults; God is for older people. God is always present and gives totally of Himself. Get to know and experience Him, by following Jesus, and you will have the best friend consciously at your side.
If people would encounter each other as they should, then each would share the responsibility for the good in this world and bring a sense of well-being to man, animal and nature.
Aform of theft also consists of taking energy from our neighbor, in that we —be it only in thought—preoccupy ourselves with him until he becomes aware of us and does for us what we do not want to do ourselves.
Free is solely the person who lives according to the All-law of love, freedom and unity.
Gentleness is also humility: To withdraw myself and be silent when my neighbor thinks he knows better. I can then give an explanation, but when he still thinks he knows better, then I am silent. This is also the right kind of humility, because God knows about all things.
We are not alone.
The darker it becomes on earth, the more the light of God comes. Let us set out for the light— and we will also receive it in the darkest and gloomiest time.
In being faithful to responsibility lies conscientiousness, concentration and consistency, purposefulness and brotherliness.
W hoever takes his life in hand, that is, who resolves for a spiritual goal, becomes sensitive. He will question himself more and more, for example: What I think, say or do, is it the life, or is it unholy? Is it thus against the law of God?
Jesus wanted the inner religion, the devotion to the great, almighty, eternal love, to the law of freedom, of beauty, of justice, to the cosmic eternally ruling law, which is God, and which is in the very basis of every soul and every person.
External love covets— inner love gives.
W hat would the earth be without animals?
What would the earth be without plants?
Could we, at all, live? We could not live.
We must learn what unity means, then we will experience the language of the animals, of the plants. Yes, we will hear the orchestra of Mother Earth. Then we will torment no animal anymore. Wars will stop— person against person. We will become friends, brothers and sisters in the spirit of our big brother, CHRIST.
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