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| Activating the Power of Love |
Believing in the Power of Love
The power to express love, which each of us has, is not a power of attack but a power to accept, appreciate, understand, and enfold. It is not a power not of blame but of forgiveness, not of censure but of praise, not of struggle but of harmony. We must never reject this all-encompassing power. We must believe in it. When we live under the illusion that we are incapable of expressing love, and stubbornly believe in that illusion, we can feel only pain and misery.
The belief that we cannot express love is an illusion that we ourselves created. When we tell ourselves things like I can't! It's beyond my ability! It's no use, I am a hopeless case! and so forth, we are giving our precious creative power to words that work against us. By means of those words, we are placing limitations on our shining, limitless potential. We are creating a belief in difficulty, mishap, and failure. That kind of belief closes off our path to a happy future, because we can only attain what we firmly and steadily believe in.
The power of our thought constructs the reality that we live in, and we can each live as strongly and expansively as we believe we can. We must never let ourselves be beaten down by the harsh circumstances that we see in front of us, nor should we ignore them. Above all, we must never try to run away from them. Whatever the circumstances, we must know that we can overcome them when we call forth and activate the power of love. Any dilemma, any hardship, any dispute can be eased when we give expression to love. Even with seemingly insurmountable problems relating to domestic matters, child-raising, illness, poverty, frustration and failure, or conflict and violence, when we intently and positively exert the power of love, a true solution will come into view.
A great many of us are living our lives according to the small-scale, slanted beliefs that we hold about ourselves. And even though those beliefs may have been acquired irrationally or simply copied from others, once we have caught hold of them we are reluctant to give them up. Then, not wishing to take the trouble of revising our beliefs, we jump at any excuse to justify them. I will definitely become ill. No matter how I try, I always fail. When I am old, I will be friendless and alone. I have no talent. I never have any money. No one trusts me. No one cares about me. I am always taken advantage of. I am always ignored and looked down upon. By refusing to let go of stubborn beliefs like these, many of us are using our precious life-energy to create more and more problems.
If we firmly hold on to a belief for a very long time, whether it is a correct or a mistaken one, it will eventually manifest itself as a reality. For example, if we firmly believe that we have a certain illness, although we actually do not have it, our strong belief can, over time, lead us to manifest its symptoms or even contract the illness. On the other hand, if we firmly believe that we are healthy, we can, through the power of our positive belief, avoid or recover from illnesses that might indeed come to us.
There is an enormous difference in the way of living of those who believe in their innate power of love and those who do not. This is because beliefs and thoughts are, in themselves, energy. Energy flows where we direct our attention. It becomes concentrated into matter and, in the end, the exact image we have depicted with our beliefs takes shape in the world we live in. If we firmly believe that we are miserable, loathsome creatures, the power of our belief works to create miserable images or circumstances in our future. On the other hand, when we firmly think and believe that we are embodiments of love, holding an inexhaustible source of forgiveness, healing power, happiness, success, and richness, our unshakable belief will, without fail, cause those qualities to appear in our lives.
Even if we are in the final stages of an illness, and even if the people around us are one hundred percent convinced that our death is imminent, if our essential purpose in this world has not yet been completed we can, indeed, live longer through the power of our own positive belief. On the other hand, if our purpose in this world has been achieved, and it is time for us to part from this earthly body, we can do so with a blissful and appreciative feeling. |
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