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A Parenthesis in Eternity
"The only way to love God is to love one another, but not just those others in our immediate environment. That would be such a restrictive sense of love that it would be selfishness rather than love. If this love that we feel for one another is true love, it makes us also want to help people who are in distress, people of any nation, any color, or any creed. "If this love that has entered our heart does not give us an interest in all of the unfortunates of the world, we can be assured that it is not the love of God, and we have deceived ourselves. We love one another only because we have opened ourselves to God and have thereby discovered the God in me and the God in you, and found It to be the same God, the same Life, and the same Love. Even though depressed and despised peoples of the world may not yet know their identity, we do; and moreover, we know that one of these days they will awaken to their true identity, just as those persons whose material needs are being met so abundantly that they feel no need of God will someday awaken to their spiritual identity. "There can be peace on earth, peace between nations and races, peace in our communities, peace in our homes, but this peace will come on a permanent basis only when it comes because of some measure of realization of our relationship to God. We ourselves must first attain that realization." -- from Joel Goldsmith's "A Parenthesis in Eternity"Chapter 28 - The Tree of Life Other passages from A Parenthesis in Eternity on this site: from Weekly Passage for 9/1/19 Use the back button on your browser to return to this page. Return to the Infinite Way Book Gallery Main Page |
