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Speaker 1: Perfect love. The children of Light who abide in the

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Kingdom of Heaven see the universe and all that it

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contains as the manifestation of one law, the law of love.

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They see love as the molding, sustaining, protecting, and perfecting

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power imminent in all things animate and inanimate. To them,

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love is not merely and only a rule of life.

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It is the law of life. It is life itself.

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Knowing this, they order their whole life in accordance with love,

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not regarding their own personality. By thus practicing obedience to

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the highest, to the divine love, they become conscious partakers

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of the power of love, and so arrive at perfect

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freedom as masters of destiny. The universe is preserved because

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love is at the heart of it. Love is the

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only preservative power. There is hatred in the heart of man.

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He imagines law to be cruel, But when his heart

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is mellowed by compassion and love, he perceives that the

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law is infinite kindness. So kind is the law that

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it protects man against his own ignorance. Man, in his

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puny efforts to subvert the law by attaching undue importance

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to his own little personality, brings upon himself such trains

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of suffering, that he is at last compelled, in the

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depths of his afflictions to seek for wisdom, and finding wisdom,

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he finds love and knows it as the law of

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his being, the law of the universe. Love does not

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punish Man punishes himself by his own hatred, by striving

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to preserve evil, which has no life by which to

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preserve itself, and by trying to subvert love, which can

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neither be overcome nor destroyed, being of the substance of life.

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When a man burns himself, does he accuse the fire. Therefore,

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when a man suffers, let him look for some ignorance

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or disobedience within himself. Love is perfect harmony, pure bliss,

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and contains therefore no element of suffering. Let a man

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think no thought and do no act which is not

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in accordance with pure love, and suffering shall no more

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trouble him. If a man would know love and partake

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of its undying bliss, he must practice it in his heart.

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He must become love. He who always acts from the

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spirit of love, is never deserted, is never left in

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a dilemma or difficulty. For love impersonal love is both

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knowledge and power. He who has learned how to love

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has learned how to master every difficulty, how to transmute

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every failure into success, how to clothe ever ever re

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event and condition in garments of blessedness and beauty. The

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way to love is by self mastery, and traveling that way,

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a man builds himself up in knowledge as he proceeds.

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Arriving at love, he enters into full possession of body

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and mind by right of the divine power. Perfect love

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casteth out fear. To know love is to know that

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there is no harmful power in the whole universe. Even

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sin itself, which the worldly and unbelieving imagine is so unconquerable,

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is known as a very weak and perishable thing that

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shrinks away and disappears before the compelling power of good.

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Perfect love is perfect harmlessness, and he who has destroyed

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in himself all thoughts of harm and all desire to harm,

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receives the universal protection and knows himself to be invincible.

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Perfect love is perfect patience. Anger and irritability cannot dwell

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with it nor come near it. It sweetens every bitter

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occasion with the perfume of holiness and transmutes trial into

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divine strength. Complaint is foreign to it. He who loves

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bewails nothing, but accepts all things and conditions as heavenly guests.

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He is therefore constantly blessed, and sorrow does not overtake him.

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Perfect love is perfect trust. He who has destroyed the

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desire to grasp can never be troubled with the fear

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of loss. Loss and gain are alike foreign to him.

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Steadfastly maintaining a lovable attitude of mind toward all and

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pursuing in the performance of his duties a constant and

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loving activity, love protects him and evermore supplies him in

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fullest measure with all that he needs. Perfect love is

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perfect power. The wise, loving heart commands, without exercising any authority.

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All things and all men obey him who obeys the

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highest he thinks, and low he has already accomplished. He

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speaks and behold a world hangs upon his simple utterances.

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He has harmonized his thoughts with the imperishable and unconquerable forces,

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and for him, weakness and uncertainty are no more. His

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every thought is a purpose, his every act and accomplishment.

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He moves with the great law, not setting his puny

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personal will against it, and he thus becomes a channel

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through which the divine power can flow in unimpeded and

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beneficent expression. He has thus become power itself. Perfect love

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is perfect wisdom. The man who loves all is the

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man who knows all. Having thoroughly learned the lessons of

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his own heart, he knows the tasks and trials of

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other heart arts, and adapts himself to them gently and

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without ostentation. Love illuminates the intellect. Without it, the intellect

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is blind and cold and lifeless. Love succeeds where intellect fails,

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sees where intellect is blind, knows where intellect is ignorant.

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Reason is only completed in love and is ultimately absorbed

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in it. Love is the supreme reality in the universe,

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and as such it contains all truth. Infinite tenderness enfolds

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and cherishes the universe. Therefore is the wise man, gentle

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and childlike, and tender hearted. He sees that the one

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thing which all creatures need is love, and he gives

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it unstintingly. He knows that all occasions require the adjusting

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power of love, and he ceases from harshness to the

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eye of love. All things are revealed not as an

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infinity of complex effects, but in the light of eternal principles,

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out of which spring all causes and effects, and back

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into which they return. God is Love. Therefore, then love,

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there is nothing more perfect. He who would find pure knowledge,

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let him find pure love. Perfect love is perfect peace.

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He who dwells with it has completed his pilgrimage in

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the underworld of sorrow, with mind calm and heart at rest.

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He has banished the shadows of grief and knows the

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deathless life. If you would perfect yourself in knowledge, perfect

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yourself in love, if you would reach the highest ceaselessly

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cultivate a loving and compassionate heart,