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Dynamics for Living
Love
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LOVE, in Divine Mind, is the idea of universal unity. In
expression, love is the power that joins and binds in
divine harmony the universe and everything in it. Among the
faculties of the mind, love is pivotal. Its center of
mentation in the body is the cardiac plexus. The physical
representative of love is the heart, the office of which is
to equalize the circulation of the blood in the body. As
the heart equalizes the life flow in the body, so love
harmonizes the thought of the mind.
We connect our soul forces with whatever we center our love
upon. If we love the things
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of sense or materiality, we are joined or attached to them
through a fixed law of being. In the divine order of being,
the soul, or thinking part, of man is joined to its
spiritual ego. If it allows itself to become joined to the
outer or sense consciousness, it makes personal images that
are limitations.
Regeneration
In the regeneration, our love goes through a
transformation, which broadens, strengthens, and deepens
it. We no longer confine love to family, friends, and
personal relations, but expand it to include all things.
The denial of human relationships seems at first glance to
be a repudiation of the family group, but it is merely a
cleansing of the mind from limited beliefs of love when
this faculty would satisfy itself solely by means of human
kinship.
Meditate on Love
One should make it a practice to meditate regularly on the
love idea in universal Mind, with the prayer, "Divine love,
manifest thyself in me." There should be periods of mental
concentration on love. Think about love, and all the ideas
that go to make up love will be set into motion. This
produces a positive love current which, when sent forth
with power, will
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break up opposing thoughts of hate, and render them null
and void.
The thought of hate will be dissolved, not only in the mind
of the thinker but in the minds of those with whom he comes
in contact in mind or in body.
The love current is not a projection of the will. It is a
setting free of a natural, equalizing, harmonizing force
that in most persons has been dammed up by human
limitations.
The ordinary man is not aware that he possesses this mighty
power, which will turn away every shaft of hate that is
aimed at him. Here is a faculty native to man, existent in
every soul, which may be used at all times to bring about
harmony and unity among those who have been disunited
through misunderstanding, contentions, or selfishness.
Love is more than mere affection, and all our words
protesting our love are not of value unless we have this
inner current, which is real substance. Though we have the
eloquence of men and of angels, and have not this deeper
feeling, it profits us nothing. We should deny the mere
conventional, surface affection, and should set our mind on
the substance of love.
Phases
Charity is not love. You may be kindhearted, and give to
the poor
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and needy until you are impoverished, yet not acquire love.
You may be a martyr to the cause of Truth and consume your
vitality in good works, yet be far from love. Love is a
force that runs in the mind and body like molten gold in a
furnace. It does not mix with the baser metals. It has no
affinity for anything less than itself. Love is patient. It
never gets weary or discouraged. Love is always kind and
gentle. It does not envy. Jealousy has no place in its
world. Love never becomes puffed up with human pride, and
does not brag about itself. It is love that makes the
refinement of the natural gentleman or lady, although he or
she may be ignorant of the world's standards of culture.
Love does not seek its own. Its own comes to it without
being sought.
Jesus came proclaiming the spiritual interrelationship of
the human family. His teaching was always of gentleness,
nonresistance, love. To do this, one must be established in
the consciousness of divine love, and there must be
discipline of the mental nature to preserve such a high
standard. The divine law is founded in the eternal unity of
all things.
Fearlessness
Divine love in the heart establishes one in fearlessness
and indomitable courage. A woman who understands
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this law was waylaid by a tramp. She looked him steadily in
the eye and said, "God loves you." He released his hold
upon her and slunk away. Another woman saw a man beating a
horse that could not pull a load up a hill. She silently
said to the man, "The love of God fills your heart and you
are tender and kind." He unhitched the horse; the grateful
animal walked directly over to the house where the woman
was, and put his nose against the window behind which she
stood. A young girl sang "Jesus, Lover of My Soul" to a
calloused criminal; the man's heart was softened, and he
was reformed.
The new heaven and the new earth that are now being
established among men and nations the world over are based
on love. When men understand each other, love increases.
This is true not only among men, but between men and the
animal world, and even between man and the vegetable world.
Feelings
We may talk about the wisdom of God, but the love of God
must be felt in the heart. It cannot be described, and one
who has not felt it can have no concept of it from the
descriptions of others. The more we talk about love, the
stronger it grows in the consciousness. If we persist in
thinking loving thoughts and speaking loving words, we are
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sure to bring into our experience the feeling of that great
love that is beyond description--the very love of God.
Purity
It is popularly taught and believed that there is but one
love; that God is love and that all love is from Him, hence
that all love is God's love. Love is a divine principle and
man can know it in its purity by touching it at its
fountainhead. There it is not tinged in any way by man's
formative thought, but flows forth a pure, pellucid stream
of infinite ecstasy. It has no consciousness of good or
evil, pure or impure, but pours itself out in great oceans
of living magnetic power, to be used by whosoever will.
Thinking gives color, tone, shape, character to all
creation. Error thought has put greed into love. Wherever
love is tainted with selfishness, we may know that error
thought has made muddy its clear stream, so that it no
longer represents the purity of its source.
A Magnet
Love is the drawing power of mind. It is the magnet of the
universe, and about it may be clustered all the attributes
of Being, by one who thinks in divine order. Many who have
found the law of true thinking and its effect wonder why
supply does
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not come to them after months and years of holding thoughts
of bounty. It is because they have not developed love. They
have formed the right image in mind, but the magnet that
draws the substance from the storehouse of Being has not
been set into action.
To demonstrate supply, we must think supply, and thus form
it in the consciousness. We must conserve all the ideas of
substance in the mind. We must vibrate with love in
thought, word, and act. Then will come to us on the wings
of invisibility that which will satisfy every need. This is
the secret of demonstrating plenty.
Love never sees anything wrong in that which it loves. If
it did, it would not be pure love. Pure love is without
discriminating power. It simply pours itself out upon the
object of its affection, and takes no account of the
result. By so doing, love sometimes casts its pearls before
swine, but its power is so great that it transforms all
that it touches.
Evil
Do not be afraid to pour out your love upon all the
so-called evil in the world. Deny the appearance of evil,
and affirm the omnipotence and omnipresence of love and
goodness. Take no account of the evil that appears in your
life and your affairs. Refuse to see
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it as evil. Declare that what seems evil has somewhere a
good side, which shall through your persistent affirmation
of its presence be made visible. By using this creative
power of your own thought you will change that which seemed
evil into good, and divine love wilI pour its healing balm
over all.
Always remember that love is the great magnet of God. It
is, of itself, neither good nor evil. These are qualities
given to it by the thinking faculty in man. Whatever you
see for your love, that it will draw to you, because as a
magnet it attracts whatever you set your desire upon.
To focus your love about self and selfish aims will cause
it to draw around you the limited things of personality and
the hollow shams of sense life. To focus your love upon
money and the possessions of the material world will make
you the slave of it, and will make your life a failure and
a disappointment.
Difficulties
You may trust love to get you out of your difficulties.
There is nothing too hard for it to accomplish for you, if
you put your confidence in it and act without
dissimulation. Do not talk love and in your heart feel
resentment. This will bring discord to your body. Love is
candor and frankness. Deception is no part of love. He who
tries to use
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it in that sort of company will prove itself a liar, and
love will desert him in the end.
Love is satisfaction in itself--not that satisfaction with
personal self, its possessions and its attractions, which
is vanity, but an inner satisfaction that sees good
everywhere and in everybody. It insists that all is good,
and by refusing to see anything but good it causes that
quality to appear uppermost in itself and in all things.
When only good is seen and felt, how can there be anything
but satisfaction?
Universal Goal
When love, the universal magnet, is brought into action in
the consciousness of our race, it will change all our
methods of supplying human wants. It will harmonize all the
forces of nature and will dissolve the discords that now
infest earth and air. It will control the elements until
they obey man and bring forth that which will supply all
his needs without the labor that is called the sweat of his
face. The earth shall yet be made paradise by the power of
love. That condition will begin to set in for each one just
as soon as he develops the love nature in himself.
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