An Endless Quest for Spiritual Truth: A Practical Guide to Everyday Spirituality. Eric Chifunda

One cannot find lasting comfort out here, so it’s helpful to stop holding onto the way things have always been. One gets trapped by insisting on sticking to what’s familiar only. In order for one to move on to greater awareness, one must not resist change. This way, one moves on in life, to new heights be it spiritual, material, or social. Not fearing going into areas we’ve not treaded before. Have courage in knowing that we are not alone; God is always with each one of us in one way or another. And with God in our lives, there’s nothing to fear about change.

      With right change, we grow in strength, wisdom, and more importantly, increased capacity to love more.

ELEMENTS OF LOVE

      Love is what makes life change for the better. The elements of love are found in life situations that sometimes appear negative. This is the way things are sometimes set up so that only the pure in heart and mind would see beyond the illusion of negativity. You see good because you have good within your heart. You recognize love because you view life from the vantage point of your heart. You feel love because your heart is open to love. You love life because you embrace and face life with a loving attitude. You enjoy life because you recognize it’s a gift from God.

      When love comes into one’s heart, things of the like nature are drawn to one.

      Love opens new doors to new opportunities. These opportunities are windows for further advancement. These are opportunities for further growth, more love, more uplifting life experiences, which lead to a more fulfilling life.

Love Is the Key to All Life

      When selfless love enters your heart, your entire life changes. Life becomes a pulsating force that moves you along forward. Your life is no longer what it used to be.

      It gets run in part by a higher power, a force greater than you, the essence of God. Thus your life becomes God-like in many respects. God-loving people who view life from the vantage point of their awakened, open hearts, will recognize it and become inspired by your living example.

      You begin to walk on holly grounds wherever you go irrespective of outer conditions.

      You become the center of activity and life moves to serve you. You begin to receive blessings where you didn’t expect any. Therefore it behooves you to infuse yourself with love, make your deeds reflect love, and everything else will fall into place. With that, you will learn that love is the key to all life.

LOVING SELF AS SOUL, NOT AS EGO SELF

      This relationship of God-child is what makes a child potentially possess higher love—the love for God. This is love beyond the little self, the ego self. The ego is the self that’s most troublesome. Excessive love for the ego self impedes love for God. In other words, too much love for self diminishes the capacity for Divine Love in one’s heart.

      One needs to go beyond the little Self in order to be able to externalize love, to bring it out to the world through some modus operandi, often through one’s talent, hobbies, interest, special ability, love given to another unconditionally.

      God’s love sustains all existing forms; it is externalized and at the same time internalized. The process of externalizing and internalizing love, strikes a proper balance between the inflow and outflow of love rendering one a balanced individual in one’s daily life. One needs to love Self as Soul, not as ego, for it’s by going beyond the ego that one is able to externalize love to the outer world. By so doing, you will grow in your capacity for more love.

Love Conquers Time

      Divine love is the only force that can take one beyond time, space, energy, and matter.

      Because of its penetrative nature, it is the only force that permeates and creates a common link among all things that have life. For everything that has life is sustained in some way by love.