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from Jesus:
Imagine that you meet a
person who has never tasted an apple. How would you describe the taste
of an apple by using words? It is nigh impossible, so what you really
need to do is to give the person an apple and let him or her experience
the taste. I would love nothing more than to see every human being experience
the unconditional love of God because I know that once you experience
that love, your life will be transformed.
Unfortunately, many people have been programmed to close their minds
and hearts to God’s unconditional love, and therefore it can be
difficult for them to open themselves up to this experience. Yet for
those who are willing to experiment, I suggest you use the technique
for attunement.
Go into the garden, and then ask me to give you an experience of God’s
unconditional love. If you can open your heart to that love, you will
have the experience.
To help you open your heart, let me give you a few thoughts to ponder.
Let me also encourage you to read the discourses by the Presence
of the Unconditional Love and by Mother
Mary. Finally, do not forget to use the Rosary
of Unconditional Love to facilitate your experience of this love.
Thought 1
To gain a deeper understanding of unconditional love, consider the physical
sun. According to the current scientific understanding (which is somewhat
incomplete), the sun is completely self-contained. It produces light
by burning its own fuel, and therefore it needs nothing from outside
itself. Without the life-giving rays of the sun, no life could exist
on planet Earth. Yet despite the fact that the sun gives to the beings
of Earth, the sun is asking nothing in return. The sun receives nothing
from the Earth in order to produce its light.
It does not matter to the sun whether the people on Earth worship it
or seek to hide from it, whether they praise it or curse it. No matter
what people do or say, the sun simply keeps shining. It gives its light,
and it continues to give its light without asking anything in return.
There is nothing that human beings could do to cause the sun to turn
off its light.
God’s love is like a spiritual sun. God is completely self-contained
and has no need to be worshiped by human beings. The concept of a god
who needs to be worshiped is an example of how human beings project
their own needs and desires unto God. This then becomes a graven image
that replaces the true God. God is self-contained and is constantly
radiating his unconditional love to all parts of creation. God’s
love truly rains upon the just and the unjust, as the sun's rays shine
upon the just and the unjust.
God gives his unconditional love unconditionally. There are no conditions
on Earth that could possibly cause God to turn off or limit his unconditional
love. If there was, God’s love would not be unconditional. No
matter what people do, God keeps radiating love.
Thought 2
The very fact that you have self-awareness makes you worthy to receive
God’s unconditional love. Contrary to human belief, even the belief
propagated by certain Christian churches that people are by nature sinners,
there is absolutely nothing you could do to make yourself unworthy to
receive God’s love. God’s love is unconditional, so how
could there be any conditions that would make you unworthy to receive
unconditional love?
The question is not whether you are worthy or whether God is offering
that love to you. The real question is whether you are able and willing
to receive that love. You cannot turn off Gods love because it constantly
radiates like the rays of the sun. Yet as you can hide from the sun,
you can hide from God's love. You can build a sense of identity which
makes you believe that you are unworthy to receive God’s love
or that you are incapable of receiving it.
However, such a sense of identity is a temporary manifestation that
will exist only as long as you choose to maintain it. You can at any
time make the decision to abandon this sense of identity and gradually
reclaim your true identity as a son or daughter of God who is fully
worthy to receive God’s love. You are worthy because you are part
of God’s creation. How could a perfect God ever create anything
imperfect, so how could any part of God’s creation be unworthy
of God’s love?
Thought 3
Because most people are trapped in the dualistic state of mind, they
cannot understand God's unconditional love. Because they cannot fathom
the idea that God’s love is truly unconditional, they cannot let
go of the mindset that you have to do something to deserve it. You somehow
have to live up to an outer standard before you are worthy to receive
something as sublime as God’s love. Yet all of the outer standards
that human beings have defined were defined based on the duality of
the carnal mind. Therefore, they have no reality in God.
God has no standard for determining whether you are worthy of his love.
His love is unconditional. It constantly radiates to all aspects of
God’s creation, including you. Those who deny this fact, by referring
to this or that church doctrine, simply have not experienced God’s
love.
Why does God give love regardless of what you have done or have not
done? God’s love is the basic drive behind all creation, the desire
for self-transcendence, the desire to become more, that caused God to
start the process of creation. If God were to restrict or turn off that
love, God would immediately destroy parts of his creation—parts
of himself. God has no desire to do so because God is truly a God of
love. God is love. God is a sun of unconditional love, and
suns radiate light. God radiates unconditional love because that is
who God is. It's what a God does.
Furthermore, God has no need to restrict the flow of his love. Although
love is the driving force behind creation, the universe in which you
live is created based on certain laws. It is possible that a human being
with free will can decide to violate the laws that God used to define
the form of this particular universe. Yet violating God’s laws
for this universe has no effect whatsoever on the central sun of God’s
love, as no human action can affect the flow of light from the physical
sun. God is not mocked, and God is no respecter of persons.
However, one of God’s laws for this universe determines that you
will receive back from the universe what you send into the universe.
This is the law of cause and effect, the law of karma. Because of this
law, God has no need to restrict his love or to punish human beings.
God has created an impersonal law whereby you punish yourself by reaping
what you have sown.
In other words, your actions in the material universe have no impact
on God's love, and that is why no actions can turn off the flow of God’s
love. Certain actions might make you feel you are unworthy to receive
that love, and thus you turn off your experience of love. This then
becomes a Catch-22, because the only true way to transform your actions
and transcend the lower state of consciousness is to experience the
perfect love that casts out all fear and other human limitations.
So instead of thinking that you have to follow certain outer rules before
you are worthy to experience God’s love, it would be far better
if you go directly to the source. Thinking that you have to reform your
actions (by conforming to church doctrines) and change your state of
consciousness before you are worthy to receive God’s love is really
putting the cart before the horse. It would be far better to do everything
possible to attain an experience of God’s love and then allow
that love to transform your actions and your state of consciousness
as it surely will.
Thought 4
When I said, “I am the open door, which no man can shut,”
I was referring to the fact that the Christ consciousness is the open
door through which God’s unconditional love can be experienced
by human beings. When you embody the mind of Christ, you become an open
door, whereby the unconditional love of God can be given a tangible
form that can be experienced by people who are unable to accept their
worthiness and therefore cannot experience God’s love without
help. What does it take to become the open door for God’s unconditional
love?
You must become like the sun, namely completely self-sufficient and
self-contained. In other words, you must stop thinking that the source
of God’s love is outside yourself. You must internalize the full
truth behind my statement that “The kingdom of God is within you.”
You must find the source of love deep within your soul and allow the
love of your I AM Presence to stream through you until your soul becomes
one with that stream of life.
Yet to unite with the source of love, you must first overcome the many
conditions that cause human beings to turn off the flow of love. This
means that you must overcome the forces of this world and the forces
in your own psychology that cause you to block the flow of unconditional
love through you. These are the forces that cause you to set up conditions
in your mind, and then you turn off the flow of love when those conditions
are not met.
To overcome conditionality, you must internalize the fact that God loves
you unconditionally and that God loves all other human beings unconditionally,
regardless of their current state of consciousness or outer appearances
and actions. I suggest you start by internalizing that God loves you
unconditionally. Physician, heal thyself!
Thought 5
You must realize that unconditional love is not soft and mushy. As explained
by the Presence of Unconditional Love, love is the driving force behind
creation because love is the drive for self-transcendence, the drive
to become more than you are right now.
Therefore, one aspect of unconditional love is that it wants you and
all human beings to have life. Having life means that you are growing,
that you are transcending yourself. When you stand still and refuse
to become more than you are, then you are dead in a spiritual sense.
God’s unconditional love will not allow you to remain in this
state of spiritual death, spiritual paralysis. It will not allow human
beings to remain where they are comfortable but where they are not self-transcending.
God’s unconditional love will not accept any conditions for stopping
self-transcendence, for stopping the flow of life.
Therefore, to be an open door for God’s unconditional love, you
must be willing to challenge people's comfortability and their unwillingness
to change. This is what you saw me do on many occasions 2,000 years
ago. In fact, my entire ministry was an act of challenging the illusions
and the mindset in which most people had become comfortable. That is
still an essential part of my ministry and the driving force behind
this website.
Thought 6
Unconditional love is like a sun that constantly gives without expecting
anything in return. This is the hardest aspect for human beings to understand.
Human beings are so used to giving conditionally or to have other people
give conditionally. So many people have grown up believing that in order
to receive, they must live up to certain conditions. They also believe
that for them to give to others, other people must live up to certain
conditions. As long as you hold on to such conditions, how can you be
the open door for unconditional love?
To be the open door for God's love, you must be willing to give without
expecting anything in return and without ever allowing other people's
reactions to cause you to turn off the flow of love through you. To
do this, you must become a self-sufficient and self-contained spiritual
being. You must realize that you have everything you need inside yourself.
The major block to the flow of unconditional love through you is the
feeling that you need something from outside yourself in order to be
whole, in order to be complete. This is one of the most insidious serpentine
lies, and it has been programmed into the conscious and subconscious
minds of human beings for thousands of years. Yet it is a lie, and once
you experience God’s unconditional love for you, you realize that
you truly need nothing from outside yourself in order to be whole and
complete. When you experience God's love, you feel complete because
perfect love casts out all unwholeness, all unholiness.
The truth is that unconditional love can come from only one place, namely
inside yourself. It can come only from your I AM Presence, which is
the open door to God’s love for your soul. A spiritual teacher
with a sufficient level of Christ consciousness can become an instrument
to facilitate your experience of unconditional love. Yet that love does
not come from the teacher. The spiritual teacher is simply a facilitator
who tricks you into opening the flow of love from your I AM Presence.
In other words, even when it seems like you are receiving unconditional
love from another human being or from a spiritual being, that love truly
comes from your I AM Presence—the kingdom of God within you.
So the key to giving without expecting anything in return is to accept
that the key to your wholeness is found inside yourself, inside your
spiritual self. Therefore, you do not lose anything by giving away your
love. You simply open up the inexhaustible flow from the source of love.
You give with no hope of a reward or a certain outcome. You give for
the sheer joy of giving, which is its own reward.
Thought 7
To be the open door for God’s unconditional love, you need to
continually transcend yourself. The carnal mind has a dream of finding
a permanent and everlasting paradise in which it nevermore has to change.
This is a false dream about a false paradise. Paradise is a state of
consciousness, namely the Christ consciousness. In this state of consciousness,
you are constantly transcending yourself. This is the true meaning of
the abundant life.
You are constantly experiencing more of who you are, more of God. One
might say that God’s unconditional love is a stream, and the essence
of a stream is that it is always flowing. The carnal mind causes people
to refuse to flow with the stream of life. They attempt to hold on to
the river banks and some even attempt to dam the stream.
When you fully embrace the Christ consciousness, you let go of all desire
to hold on to a particular place on the river bank. You let go of the
desire to stop the flow of life. Instead, you emerge yourself in the
river of life and curiously and lovingly flow with it. To experience
God’s love, you must allow yourself to flow with the river of
love. You must have the faith that the river of love can only take you
closer to the source of love.
You must immerse yourself in the river until your soul becomes one with
the stream of life and you love the experience of the flow more than
the experience of standing still. When you reach that point of oneness
with the flow, your love can become the bread of life that is broken
for others and inspires them to leave their nets and immerse themselves
in the flow. I look forward to the day when we can all flow together
in the never-ending stream of God’s unconditional love.
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