Q.103

Your true purpose on earth is to EXPRESS in thoughts, words, deeds and desires the DIVINITY in which you have your being. (A15)

You can do this through meditation, through cleansing your mind of negative thoughts, by reaching out to others during the day to offer them a smile of friendliness, recognition of their being ⎯ that they too are ALIVE and are therefore important ⎯ co-existent with yourself, no matter what their status is in life. (A15)

What a tremendous joy it is to be able to love the man who has come down to rags, possessing nothing of material things, forced to live by begging ⎯ just as much as you may be able to love the man who has made untold wealth, prestige, and lives a life envied by others. This ability to love each and every one without reservations is indeed DIVINE LOVE ⎯ pure unconditional love. It is a quality of mind and heart where all sense of superiority or inferiority no longer exists. (A15)

‘Why should this bring one so much joy?’, you may ask. (A15)

It gives you joy beyond all imagining because you have risen high above the demands and critical senses of the self which judge and demean others. (A15)

What tremendous liberation of spirit you will experience when you can, at last, be insulted or defrauded by another but can still look through his words and actions and perceive his basic divinity. You now rest in a state of pure tranquil acceptance of what the human world may try to do to you, and you never cease smiling ⎯ because yours is a world of sunshine and spiritual light created by the Divine ⎯ and you are aware that those who try to hurt you have not yet managed to find this sacred world conceived and fashioned by Pure Love. (A15)

Knowing this so surely, so clearly, how can you NOT have only the deepest compassion and concern for them as they struggle, sometimes bravely, with their enmeshing ego? (A15)

As you learn to love all states of human being equally, you will come to intuit the actual state of earthly being of each person and will be able to perceive for yourselves what is valuable in life and what is mere ego ‘frosting’ for comfort and prestige. (A15)

You will no longer be led astray ⎯ or even moved ⎯ by outward show. (A15)