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from Jesus:
My friend, I do not want
to seem insensitive to your situation or to the suffering of so many
other people who have experienced difficulties in their lives and therefore
feel like you do. I feel great compassion for you and so many other
people who have lost hope. Yet I am a spiritual teacher, and I cannot
help you by making you feel that it is understandable, and therefore
supposedly acceptable, that you remain depressed. I can help you only
by giving you a teaching that can take you out of your current state
of consciousness—if you are willing to heed my words. So allow
me to point out that the central problem in your letter is selfishness.
Would you like to know what I consider the ultimate form of selfishness?
It is suicide. I know this will surprise many, but allow me to explain.
Consider one of my statements that has baffled many:
Greater love hath
no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
(John 15:13)
What does it mean to lay
down your life for another? It doesn’t necessarily mean that you
lose your physical life, although it can be interpreted that way. The
higher spiritual meaning of my statement is that you lay down your life
to serve others and help make this world a better place. In other words,
you set aside any selfish or self-centered desires in order to help
other people who are worse off than you are.
I know that many people who are depressed or are contemplating suicide
feel as if no one could be worse off than they are. However, this is
an illusion, and it is an illusion reinforced by dark forces. Yet what
makes a soul vulnerable to this illusion is that the soul has become
too self-centered. The soul is therefore blind to the fact that there
is always someone who is worse off than you are. This refusal to see
that there is always someone you can help is the ultimate selfishness.
So when a person commits suicide, that person is refusing to acknowledge
that there are those less fortunate. The person is unwilling to set
aside his or her self-centered feelings of despair and reach out to
help others. So the person completely refuses to “lay down his
life for a friend” and instead takes the life that is given by
God as an opportunity to make the world a better place. This is the
ultimate form of selfishness.
Depression, especially the feeling that life is not worth living or
that you have nothing to live for, is a close second when it comes to
selfishness. I know I have stated elsewhere that dark forces always
play a big role in depression. Yet I will now give the next phase of
my progressive revelation on depression. And what makes a soul vulnerable
to depression in the first place is that the soul has allowed itself
to become far too self-centered. This causes the soul to enter a negative,
self-reinforcing spiral that will overpower the soul until it makes
a determined effort to change the equation by looking beyond itself.
Therefore, the surest cure for depression is to set aside your personal
misery in order to help those less fortunate. And there are always some
who are less fortunate than you.
If you are reading this, you can obviously read, yet millions of people
– even in the richest countries – cannot read and millions
of children grow up with no hope of getting an education. If you are
reading this on a computer, you obviously have or have access to a computer.
Many people are not that fortunate.
How can I say there is always someone who is worse off than you are?
No young children commit suicide or go around stating they are depressed.
Yet millions – by some estimates a billion – children grow
up under the most horrible conditions imaginable and have no hope for
a better future. Why have they no hope? Because too many adults in the
richest and most privileged nations of the world are so busy feeling
depressed – feeling like they have nothing to live for –
that they don’t have attention left over to see that they are
in a position to help these children who cannot help themselves.
Imagine what would happen if all depressed people decided to look beyond
their own situation and set aside their own – what they consider
worthless – lives in order to help someone else. The world would
literally change in the blink of an eye, yet even one person can make
a difference. If you think your life is not worth living for your own
sake, then open your eyes and see that it is worth living for the sake
of someone else. All it takes to change the world is that some people
lay down their lives for those who cannot defend themselves.
So here is my surest and quickest cure for depression. Wake up and realize
that there are thousands of worthy causes in this world that are simply
waiting for someone – anyone with any skill level – to lay
down their lives to make the world a better place. There is no one in
the rich and privileged nations who cannot find a cause to work for.
And I can assure you that once you start working for a cause, you will
quickly forget your sense of depression. You will begin to feel that
you are making a difference, and once you realize that you have done
something for someone else – not out of selfishness but for the
sake of doing good – you will never again feel like life is not
worth living. The only life that is not worth living is a life lived
in complete selfishness. So snap out of that selfishness and find a
cause. If you want my specific advice, use the tools
on this website to connect to me in your heart.
You might work to improve the physical conditions in which people live
through anything from humanitarian organizations to politics, science
or the media. Or you might help improve people’s spiritual lives
by working to enlighten them to the path to Christhood. You might even
help me spread my true teachings in this age. Just take your pick and
consider how other people have made a difference. Mother Teresa being
a prime example, yet each one of the many beautiful souls who supported
Mother Teresa’s mission also made a difference as do the many
other people who work for worthy causes.
Let me point out to you that in the book Save
Yourself I give the teaching that the universe is a mirror.
What you send out, the universe will mirror back to you. You know that
when you are looking at yourself in a mirror, there is only one way
to get the image in the mirror to smile at you. That’s right,
you have to smile at the mirror. Yet when people become too self-centered,
they take the opposite approach. They sit in front of the cosmic mirror,
thinking that when the mirror smiles at them, they will smile at the
mirror. Will this approach make the world a better place? Will it improve
your own life? Obviously not, so stop waiting for some miracle to improve
the world. Snap out of the passive approach to life that makes you feel
like a victim. Instead, take an active approach. Smile to someone less
fortunate than yourself and I guarantee you that your soul will begin
to smile.
Please understand that I am not trying to single out one person. I am
trying to use the above letter as an example of how easy it is for people
to become trapped in taking a passive approach to life. So allow me
to comment on this letter.
You say you feel alone, but there can be only one reason. You have not
made an effort to reach out to those less fortunate than yourself. There
are so many people who would gladly receive any help you could give,
and once you get started helping others, you will never feel alone.
You will quickly find others who are seeking to make the world a better
place, people with whom you can share your heart and soul. Yet remember
that to get the image in the mirror to smile, you have to smile yourself.
And don’t reach out in order to receive something back because
that only binds you even more to the treadmill of selfishness. Reach
out to give!
You say that people make you sick, and this reveals that you see yourself
as a victim, and thus you are taking a passive approach to life. You
think other people or the world can make you feel anything. Yet the
reality is that you have the potential to take command over your thoughts
and feelings, and it is your responsibility to do so. This website is
filled with practical methods that can help you do this. Start by following
my advice concerning how to combat a lifelong
addiction. Truly, a prolonged depression is a form of addiction.
You say this place is Hell, but Hell is a state of consciousness. I
said that the kingdom of God is within you because the kingdom of God
is a state of consciousness, namely Christ consciousness. So Heaven
is where you find the Christ consciousness and create Heaven. Likewise,
Hell is where you allow yourself to be sucked into the negative vortex
of selfishness. Hell is a place created by the souls who are the most
selfish souls in the entire universe. Please don’t join them.
Join me in the kingdom of Heaven. Use my tools to get there.
You say that all you see are people who care only about themselves.
Yet I see millions of people who work every day to make the world a
better place by fighting for worthy causes. And I see that together
all of these people are making a difference and slowly – but surely
– they are lifting this planet out of the darkness and into the
light. The universe is a mirror. What you see in the world is what you
get. What you project into the cosmic mirror, the universe reflects
back to you. So change your vision and you will change your life.
You say, “All that I wish to see is people caring about other
people.” Who is going to start caring? Are you going to wait for
someone else to make the first move and when you see them caring you
will start showing that you care? Are you going to sit in front of the
mirror and wait for it to smile at you? Or are you going to decide that
you simply don’t have time to feel depressed, so you are going
to go out and do something for someone else?
You might not think so, but you are so very close to changing your life
for the better. All it takes is the flip of a switch inside your mind.
You flip it from off to on and turn on the light. I invite you to make
the decision right now to lay down your sense of hopelessness, to set
aside your self-centered feelings, and join the ranks of those who are
positively making a difference by taking a positive approach to life.
I promise you that if you smile at the cosmic mirror, the image in the
mirror will smile back at you. In fact, one day you will see my image
smiling back at you. I am looking forward to that day! Be there with
me!
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