How To Walk On The Path Of Peace (Part 5 of 6)
As you surrender your limiting beliefs you will begin to see
things differently. When you are holding on to any passion,
discrimination, like or dislike, you see all things through the
lens of that particular bias, and will see only your own
perceptions. When you are free from all discrimination,
preferences, and preconceptions, free of your limiting beliefs,
you see yourself as you are; see others as they are; and see all
things through the eyes of Truth.
Having nothing to attack, nothing to defend, nothing to conceal,
and no interests to guard, you are at peace. You have realized
the profound simplicity of Truth, for this unbiased, tranquil,
blessed state of mind and heart is the state of Truth.
Only in the peace and bliss of Truth is all sorrow released. If
you suffer disappointment because your cherished plans have been
let down, or because someone has not come up to your
expectations, it is because you are clinging to your limiting
beliefs. If you are overwhelmed with disappointment and regret
because of the attitude of someone else toward you, it is
because you have been cherishing your own limiting beliefs about
how everyone else should be. If you are hurt because of what has
been done to you or said of you, it is because you are walking
in the painful way of your own limiting beliefs about yourself.
All suffering is of limiting beliefs. All suffering ends in
Truth. When you have entered into and realized Truth, you will
no longer suffer disappointment, remorse, and regret, and sorrow
will flee from you.
Hidden deep in every human heart is the spirit of Divine Love,
whose blessed and pure essence is eternal. All else changes and
passes away; this alone is permanent and imperishable; and to
realize this Love by continual awareness, to live in it and to
become fully conscious in it, is to enter into immortality here
and now, is to become one with Truth, one with God, one with the
central Heart of all things, and to know ones own divine and
eternal nature.
To reach this Love, to understand and experience it, you must
work at being aware of your thoughts, be patient and have
unwavering faith.
Watch yourself, and every slip, every pang of pain will show you
where you have work to do, and what you have to let go of to
experience divinity and Unconditional Love. And as you proceed,
day-by-day detaching yourself more and more from your limiting
beliefs, the Love that is unlimited will gradually become
revealed to you. And when you are growing patient and calm, when
your anger, and irritabilities are falling away from you, and
prejudices cease to have power over you, then you will know that
the divine is awakening within you. Unconditional Love is
distinguished from conditional love in its freedom from
judgment. Conditional love clings to particular ideas of how
things should be or how people should act, and when those ideas
are not lived up to, deep is the resultant suffering.
Unconditional Love contains within itself the whole, without
clinging to any part, and they who come to it gradually,
releasing their preconceived ideas, cease from suffering. No
suffering can result from that Love which is so absolutely pure
that it seeks nothing for itself.
But how may you attain to this sublime realization? The answer
which Truth has always given is, - "Empty thyself, and I will
fill thee."
Divine unconditional Love is not a mere sentiment or emotion; it
is a state of knowledge which dissolves limitations, and lifts
the soul into the joyful realization of all possibilities and
the supreme Good. This state of knowledge flows into your
consciousness as you meditate upon it, and as you go about your
day.
Where hatred, dislike, and condemnation are, Unconditional Love
is not experienced. It is experienced only in the heart that has
been freed from all judgment.
You might say, "How can I love the drunkard, the hypocrite, the
thief, the murderer? If you ask this in true sincerity, Love
will open the door of understanding for you. You will become
aware of the causes by which these people have become as they
are, to enter into their intense suffering, and to know the
certainty of their ultimate purification. This awareness will
fill you with a deep compassion for them and make it impossible
for you to dislike or judge them.
When your heart is centered in Unconditional Love, you do not
discriminate against others, or seek to convince others of your
own opinions and views. Knowing the Law of Love, you live it,
and maintain the same calmness of mind and sweetness of heart
towards all.