Sweet Surrender

"All you must do is accept and love all that is unacceptable to you."

-- Cheri Huber

"More wisdom is latent in things as they are than in all the logic and words men use."

-- Antoine De Saint-Exupery

"A humble, intimate knowledge of thyself is a surer way to God than a deep search after learning about facts."

-- Thomas ã Kempis

"I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with themselves and their pain."

-- James Baldwin

"When we truly know that Love (His, not so much ours) matters more than anything else, and we know that nothing else really matters much at all, we move into the state of obedient surrender. And, unlike what the world says about 'letting go' of other things, we actually become more 'responsible' than ever. Because we become more consciously aware and responsible for ourselves, and the removal of our unconscious selves from the apparent conditions of 'the problem' (which, quite miraculously, then ceases to be a problem). And, unlike what the world says about vulnerability and risk, surrender in this way does not diminish our power or security, it dramatically expands and enhances them. In fact, the opposite of the what the world (and our fear) says is true; the more open and surrendered we are, the more Love becomes available."

-- Yours Truly

As Heather's birthday weekend approaches, my spirit is Soren

"It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey." (Yes, we can be a defiant, rebellious lot.)

"Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom waiting to be snatched." (It is an invitation, not a punishment or threat.)

"Love is all; it gives all, and it takes all. Love does not alter the beloved in its pouring out; it alters itself and grows."

"It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important. The hard part is discerning this." (unless you're a child; then its easy - see below)

"It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his deepest desire by intentionally passing through (vs. avoiding, circumventing, or denying) its opposite." (Yes, as adults, we so often must make fools of ourselves before arriving at our desired destination, and we're damn good at it.)

-- all of the above by Soren Kierkegaard

And it's not really that hard, Soren, - in fact, it's often child's play, or should I say child's artistry, if you're lucky enough to have a brilliant little child available to teach you. And, man, is my little Heather (who turns 6 on Sunday) really available. She brings obedience (to God, if not always to me), freedom (to my anxiety), life- and love-altering love that grows and grows, powerful discernment of what's really significant and important, and she frequently and so patiently walks me through the opposite of love (on my part) to get to it. She brings the whole package, in mind-blowing simplicity.

Let me give you an example of what I mean:

Last night I was laying with Heather in her bunk bed, helping her fall asleep, and she kept fidgeting around endlessly, and I finally said, "Heather, will you please stop fidgeting." She said, "But Dad, that's the way God made me, with lots of energy that needs to wind down." I smiled and said, "OK, I will try to be patient." She then said, as she gently patted my chest, and this is the part that really blew me away, "Just be as patient as you can, Dad, and that will be good enough, and I will love you even after your patience runs out. But my love for you will never run out, no matter what, even when you send me to my room. I will always love you."

Lesson received, Heather, as my spirit is Soren.

"The truth is a snare: you cannot have it, without being caught by it. You cannot have the truth in such a way that you catch it, but only in such a way that it catches you."

-- Soren Kierkegaard



Yes, she most definitely catches me in truth's snare, and I am delighted to keep being caught by it.

Ignoring circumstances, while standing for hope and redemption

"The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present circumstances, but is a constant source of inspiration, of vitality, and of hope where others have fallen exhausted and resigned; it enables a man to hold his head up high, to claim the future for himself, in accordance with a grand vision of His co-creation, and not to abandon himself to his enemy."

-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer

"To hope means to be ready at every moment for that beautiful vision which is not yet born, to stand for it relentlessly, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime."

-- Erich Fromm

"What we hope ever to do with ease (including achieving an attitude of hopefulness), we must learn first to do with great diligence."

-- Samuel Johnson

"Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man, and sometimes we must read it aloud to remind each other."

-- Victor Hugo

This message is for me. It is to bolster me in my stand of unwavering hopefulness - to remind me of my calling and my Caller - to replenish my capacity to hope with His love for me, in the face of the sometimes overwhelming depth and volume of perilous circumstances in the lives I am invited into. It has already served me well, just the finding and the writing of it. I am breathing Him in. And now I walk out into my morning, with dog in tow (or maybe I'm the one in tow), to take on another day of learning and loving, with His love flowing through and bursting out of me like a fire hose.



1-3 God, my shepherd! I don't need a thing.
You have bedded me down in lush meadows,
you find me quiet pools to drink from.
True to your word,
you let me catch my breath
and then send me out in the right direction.

4 Even when the way goes through
Death Valley and despair,
I'm not afraid
when you walk at my side.
Your trusty shepherd's crook
makes me feel very secure.

5 You serve me a six-course dinner
right in front of my enemy.
You revive my drooping head;
my cup brims with Your blessing.

6 Your beauty and love chase after me
every day of my life.
I'm back home in the house of God
for the rest of my life.

-- Psalm 23 (The Message)

And from there, grounded there, nothing can go wrong.

The struggle to understand is relieved only through great love

"It always takes an awfully long time, and eventually letting go of it, to understand unbelievably simple things."

-- Joe Chung

"Life is the first great gift, love is the second, and understanding the third, only visible through the lens of love."

-- Marge Piercy

"The secret of forgiving everything, of accepting things as they are, is to be clear that you understand nothing."

-- George bernard Shaw

"Trust God from the bottom of your heart; don't try to figure out or seek to understand everything on your own. Listen for God's voice in everything you do and see, everywhere you go; He's the one who will keep you on track. Don't assume that you know anything. Run to God!"

-- Proverbs 3:5-8 (The Message)


God, thank You for this great gift of life, however long it lasts, for each and every one of us.

And thank You for Your amazing love of this incredible baby boy, Rhyder, and for the humble, surrendered, thankful love of his amazing parents, Dave & Michelle.

And God, we look to You for deeper understanding in all of this, for we are awestruck and totally speechless, and we know only You know the reason and purpose for everything being exactly as it is.

Please help us to realize and remember always that understanding only comes from asking You in an attitude that is ready and willing to receive You - that we can't understand anything from a place of complaint, criticism, judgment, lack, or rejection. Here we are, God, open and ready to receive You. Please fill us with Your life, Your love, and ultimately Your acceptance, if not understanding, of everything that is and why. We thank You from the bottom of our hearts for this incredible miracle life named Rhyder. He was not given a chance. You saw otherwise and gave Him more than a chance, and we are grateful for every moment of his beautiful existence. He has come to us as our teacher in a class called Life Appreciation Using God's Hope, which really makes me LAUGH!!!!!

The hallmark of Love Machine as "Ekklesia," as "Parakaleo," as "Tuwi" (a cry of shared pain that is Totally Unconcerned With Itself)

"Community means caring: caring for people. Dietrich Bonhoeffer says: 'He who loves community destroys community; he who loves the brethren builds community.' A community is not an abstract ideal with its own needy identity. We are not striving for perfect community, for promoting community's virtues, for branding community as our own. Community is not an ideal; it is people; it is you and me. In community, we are called to love people just as they are, with all of their wounds and gifts, not as we would want them to be. Community means giving people space, and protecting that space, which helps them to grow. It means also receiving from them so that we too can grow. It is giving each other freedom; it is giving each other trust; it is confirming but also challenging each other. We give dignity to each other by the way we listen to and honor each other, in a spirit of trust and of dying to oneself, so that we may all live, grow, and give."

-- Jean Vanier, in From Brokenness to Community

Community emerges and grows naturally out of our shared brokenness and pain, focused on people, not growth or status, unconcerned with itself as an object, really, birthing hope and life as its primary unfolding. It is about to "show up" once again, and powerfully this morning, in support of Rhyder (during his challenging birth in Clear Lake) and his parents, Dave & Michelle. There are no words to describe the sacredness of this perilous occasion that is also filled with such unlimited possibility for God to do what He does, in ways way beyond our understanding. Please pray for our understanding and appreciation of the miracles about to unfold.

The love involved here is through the roof and scary as all get out. As Henri Nouwen once said, "Every time we make the decision to love someone, we open ourselves to great suffering. But if we want to avoid the suffering, we will never experience the joy of loving. And love is so much stronger than fear, life so much stronger than death, hope so much stronger than despair. We have to trust that the risk of loving is always worth taking and do it extravagantly, letting it flow through us beyond our comfort and convenience."

Love emerges and flows naturally out of God's grace in healing us, together. They go hand in hand, community and loving, so I will repeat Saturday's main quote from Sri Chinmoy in my message entitled, "Love in Abundance - the real thing vs. the imposter," here to reinforce the point and to distinguish between our feeble human attempts at loving and God's overpowering victory in loving us and making that love so readily and absolutely available, especially at scary times such as these.



"Dear sisters and brothers, I wish to share with you my humble philosophy, which is based on love, but not just any love. We know that there are two types of love: human love and Love Divine. In human love, what we actually try to do is to possess the many without caring for the One, the true Source. But if we do not possess the Source, then the many cannot be of any help to us or us to them. If there is no root, then how will the tree grow? How will we be able to claim the branches or the flowers and leaves as our very own? With the Divine Love, we go first to the One, the Source, and from there we go to the many. We become one with the root, and then we grow into the tree, which will manifest itself through the branches and leaves, the flowers and fruits. Divine Love is the song of multiplicity in unity.
In human love there is demand or, at least, expectation. Very often we start with demand, and when a higher wisdom dawns we no longer demand, but still we expect something from others. We convince ourselves that this expectation is justified. Since we have done something for others - offered our love - we feel it is quite legitimate to expect something in return.

But in Divine Love there is no such thing as demand or expectation. In Divine Love we just give what we have and what we are. What we have and what we are is dedicated service. In the human life, before we give our love, we try to discover love in others - that is, their love for us. In the Divine Life, before we give our love to others, we try to discover Love in its reality and integrality within ourselves. Only then are we in a position to offer love to others. At first our satisfaction dawns when we feel that those to whom we offer our love accept it wholeheartedly. But there is an even higher form of Divine Love when we go beyond this feeling, and give love just for the sake of giving. We give, and even if our love is not accepted, we do not mind. We shall go on giving, for we are all love, because our Source is all Love.

In human love there is not only demand and expectation, but there is something even worse: withdrawal. First we demand, then we expect. When our expectation is not fulfilled, we sometimes try to withdraw from the person to whom we have offered our love. In Divine Love, it is never like that. With Divine Love we try to become one with the weakness, imperfection, and bondage of others. Although we have inner freedom, we use this inner freedom not to lord it over others, but to become one with them, consciously one with their imperfections. In this way we can understand them and serve them at their own level, with a view to transforming their imperfections as our Source transforms ours. It is actually Love (vs. ourselves) that is doing the transformation work in both places.

The capacity of human love is so limited that we cannot expand ourselves (due to a scarcity mentality) and so we totally embrace (in an unconscious attempt to consume) another. There is bound to be a feeling of supremacy while doing this. I shall love you, no doubt, but I wish to remain an inch higher than you, with you 'needing' my love. On that condition I shall love you. The superior loves the inferior because he is satisfied to some extent with his position in this relationship. The inferior very often loves the superior because of his insecurity. So love binds them at the place of their limitation and gives them both some sense of satisfaction. But in Divine Love there is no such thing as superiority and inferiority. Divine Love always gives itself freely and wholeheartedly. Divine Love gets satisfaction only by offering itself totally and unconditionally. In Dvine Love, we come to notice that the personal and the impersonal perfectly go together. There is a balance between the two. The personal in us enters into the vast, which is impersonal; and the impersonal in us enters into the personal to manifest its unmanifested Reality, Divinity, and Immortality. In human love, the personal and the impersonal are two strangers; worse, they are at daggers drawn. The personal and the impersonal at best try to reach a compromise, but this compromise brings no satisfaction at all; in the very depth of human love, there is always a rivalry and competition between the two, and therefore no hope. On rare occasions, the personal says to the impersonal, which is inside the human being, 'Let us alternate our reality, our height, our wisdom, our capacity. This moment you stand up and I shall remain seated; the next moment I shall stand up and you will sit.'

In human love, very often the physical mind, the doubting mind, the suspecting mind, comes to the fore. But in Divine Love, we see only the loving heart, the surrendering heart, the all-beckoning heart. The mind loves a reality because it sees the reality according to its own understanding and vision of itself. But the heart loves a reality because it sees the reality in the reality's own form. The heart becomes inseparably one with the reality, with the very existence of that reality as it is, both inner and outer. It sees the living breath of the reality in its own form and shape; it sees the body and soul of the reality all together.

In human love, the lover and the beloved are two separate persons. The lover is running toward the beloved, and when he reaches the beloved he finds his satisfaction, if only temporarily, in a fleeting fantasy way. In Divine Love, the lover and the beloved are one and inseparable. In Divine Love, the Lover is the Supreme and the Beloved is the Supreme. In human love, we feel that satisfaction lies somewhere else - not within us, but in somebody else. But in Divine Love, satisfaction is found nowhere else but in ourselves. The Lover and the Beloved are one and the same - the Supreme dwelling within, the Supreme flowing to us, and the Supreme outside us waiting to receive itself. When we speak of our 'self' as the Divine Lover or Beloved, we have to know that this is the 'Self' which is both the One and the many. This Self, the Supreme, finds its satisfaction only when it gets a glimpse of God's Reality, Infinity, Eternity, and Immortality in the many. This 'Self' is the One, and it wants to see and feel its Reality in the many.

Love is duty. In our human life we see duty as something mechanical, lifeless, forced - something thrust upon us from the outside. But in the Divine Life, duty is something full of opportunity and power. At every second an opportunity dawning for us to expand our life's consciousness, our life's reality, our life's healing, our life's delight. So, in the divine Life we welcome duty, for it increases our capacity and potentiality and expands the dream of our divine, unhorizoned Reality.

Life is the lesson of Love. Love is the lesson of Life. When we study Life's lesson in our human life, the lesson is composed of fear, doubt, anxiety, worry, and frustration. But in the Divine Life, we see that Love is the lesson not only of Life, but also for Life - for the Life that is everlasting, ever-illumining, and ever-fulfilling.

A Divine Lover is he who believes in the divine miracle. A human miracle is something that feeds our curiosity, something that lasts for a fleeting second. But the divine miracle is the elevation of consciousness. To raise somebody else's consciousness, to raise humanity's consciousness even an iota is the true divine miracle. The conscious help the divine Lover gives to the seeker performs this divine miracle.

We are of God the eternal Love and we are for God the eternal Love. We are of God the infinite Love and we are for God the infinite Love. Eternity is the Source of the Silence life; and Infinity is the message of the sound life. From the One we came and for the many we exist. This is the real message of Divine Love. We are of the One and we are for the many -the many in the One. This is the quintessence of Love Divine."

-- Sri Chinmoy


Here's to God using Rhyder to take us all for a loving ride. We're ready, Father!

The dying life

"Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live, anticipating life in some dreaded, ill-defined, or very tentative future. Before they know it, their time runs out."

-- Oliver Wendell Holmes

"How could there be any question of 'acquiring' or 'possessing' when the one thing needful for a man is to finally 'become' - to BE, at last, and to die (often, if not every day) in the fullness of his being."

-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

"The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully and openly and totally surrendered is prepared to die at any time or lose everything he has in any moment."

-- Mark Twain

"To abandon oneself to sound principles is really to die - and to die for an impossible love, which is the contrary of romantic love."

-- Albert Camus

"Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us unintentionally while we live."

-- Norman Cousins

"One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive."

-- Friedrich Nietszche

"From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die."

-- Samuel Johnson

"Only those who have dared to let go can dare to re-enter."

-- Meister Eckhart

"For 'tis not in mere death that men die most."

-- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

"Die of nothing but a holy rage to live."

-- Alexander Pope

Holy rage to live. I like that.



In fact, I resemble that remark!

FREEDOM!!!

There's no need to avoid the void - in fact, it is pregnant with new and true life.

I keep finding new life - and the only true life worth living - in this great and vast Void, that amazingly creative White Space inside myself, where He waits for me in every moment. Jesus leads me there by the hand, through the dark, lonely valley of my deepest suffering - occasionally pushing me off the cliff, into my own personal valley of the shadow of death. And God waits right there for me in His infinite patience, silence, and vastness, with His arms wide open. How very cool that it is T.S. Eliot speaking here, the poet who I read at my father's funeral. Thanks, Jerry!

"The Void," by T. S. Eliot

"You say I am repeating
Something I have said before.
I shall say it again.
Shall I say it again?
In order to arrive there,
To arrive where you are, to get from where you are not,
You must go by a way wherein there is no ecstasy.
In order to arrive at what you do not know
You must go by a way which is the way of ignorance.
In order to possess what you do not possess
You must go by the way of dispossession.
In order to arrive at what you are not
You must go through the way in which you are not.
And what you do not know is the only thing you know
And what you own is what you do not own
And where you are is where you are not."

When you focus on exploring inside yourself,
in that great VOID, does that make you an:



In that place of void, after dropping through the self, you are free of self, and to do this with another is to make the ultimate "sacrifice." And what does this really mean? Well, according to dear Tiamae, who watches me sacrifice daily:

JIM!
Do you know the root words that the word sacrifice come from???
Facere: means to make or do
Sacer: means holy or sacred

So, the literal meaning of sacrifice means "to make holy" ... which gives self-sacrifice a whole new meaning ... with Christ being the ultimate example of self-sacrifice, he was making himself holy in dying for us :)

So, as you look into the abyss that is the self, remember to cry out as you leap (or get pushed, gently or otherwise)!

Love in abundance - the real thing vs. the imposter

Many have asked me about the nature of the love they feel they receive from me. They want to more deeply know it and they'd like to more fully receive it, even while sometimes trying to possess it more exclusively for themselves, but they can't because it isn't mine or theirs to possess. I simply follow my Master, receiving Him completely and then giving what He's given me so generously, expanding, healing, and transcending my fear-based self as His love flows through me. What do I mean by this? Simple. As human beings, we try to love, so as to receive love, but therein lies the problem - we try and fail and resent the person we're trying to love for our own failure and their refusal to give back, when the only problem is that we are drawing from (and trying to receive from) the wrong (and severely limited) source. There is only One Source of true and reliable love. I found something that expands my ability to understand and communicate this, after first finding an old familiar quote that has always moved me (which I have annoted based on this expanded understanding). I hope both prove useful and helpful and shed brighter light on the most beautiful topic there is.

"I have found the paradox, that if you love (with your love) until it hurts, and then love even more (beyond your capacity), there will be no more hurt (as He heals you), only more love (because this will now be His - the real thing)."

-- Mother Teresa

"Dear sisters and brothers, I wish to share with you my humble philosophy, which is based on love, but not just any love. We know that there are two types of love: human love and Love Divine. In human love, what we actually try to do is to possess the many without caring for the One, the true Source. But if we do not possess the Source, then the many cannot be of any help to us or us to them. If there is no root, then how will the tree grow? How will we be able to claim the branches or the flowers and leaves as our very own? With the Divine Love, we go first to the One, the Source, and from there we go to the many. We become one with the root, and then we grow into the tree, which will manifest itself through the branches and leaves, the flowers and fruits. Divine Love is the song of multiplicity in unity.

In human love there is demand or, at least, expectation. Very often we start with demand, and when a higher wisdom dawns we no longer demand, but still we expect something from others. We convince ourselves that this expectation is justified. Since we have done something for others - offered our love - we feel it is quite legitimate to expect something in return.

But in Divine Love there is no such thing as demand or expectation. In Divine Love we just give what we have and what we are. What we have and what we are is dedicated service. In the human life, before we give our love, we try to discover love in others - that is, their love for us. In the Divine Life, before we give our love to others, we try to discover Love in its reality and integrality within ourselves. Only then are we in a position to offer love to others. At first our satisfaction dawns when we feel that those to whom we offer our love accept it wholeheartedly. But there is an even higher form of Divine Love when we go beyond this feeling, and give love just for the sake of giving. We give, and even if our love is not accepted, we do not mind. We shall go on giving, for we are all love, because our Source is all Love.

In human love there is not only demand and expectation, but there is something even worse: withdrawal. First we demand, then we expect. When our expectation is not fulfilled, we sometimes try to withdraw from the person to whom we have offered our love. In Divine Love, it is never like that. With Divine Love we try to become one with the weakness, imperfection, and bondage of others. Although we have inner freedom, we use this inner freedom not to lord it over others, but to become one with them, consciously one with their imperfections. In this way we can understand them and serve them at their own level, with a view to transforming their imperfections as our Source transforms ours. It is actually Love (vs. ourselves) that is doing the transformation work in both places.

The capacity of human love is so limited that we cannot expand ourselves (due to a scarcity mentality) and so we totally embrace (in an unconscious attempt to consume) another. There is bound to be a feeling of supremacy while doing this. I shall love you, no doubt, but I wish to remain an inch higher than you, with you 'needing' my love. On that condition I shall love you. The superior loves the inferior because he is satisfied to some extent with his position in this relationship. The inferior very often loves the superior because of his insecurity. So love binds them at the place of their limitation and gives them both some sense of satisfaction. But in Divine Love there is no such thing as superiority and inferiority. Divine Love always gives itself freely and wholeheartedly. Divine Love gets satisfaction only by offering itself totally and unconditionally. In Dvine Love, we come to notice that the personal and the impersonal perfectly go together. There is a balance between the two. The personal in us enters into the vast, which is impersonal; and the impersonal in us enters into the personal to manifest its unmanifested Reality, Divinity, and Immortality. In human love, the personal and the impersonal are two strangers; worse, they are at daggers drawn. The personal and the impersonal at best try to reach a compromise, but this compromise brings no satisfaction at all; in the very depth of human love, there is always a rivalry and competition between the two, and therefore no hope. On rare occasions, the personal says to the impersonal, which is inside the human being, 'Let us alternate our reality, our height, our wisdom, our capacity. This moment you stand up and I shall remain seated; the next moment I shall stand up and you will sit.'

In human love, very often the physical mind, the doubting mind, the suspecting mind, comes to the fore. But in Divine Love, we see only the loving heart, the surrendering heart, the all-beckoning heart. The mind loves a reality because it sees the reality according to its own understanding and vision of itself. But the heart loves a reality because it sees the reality in the reality's own form. The heart becomes inseparably one with the reality, with the very existence of that reality as it is, both inner and outer. It sees the living breath of the reality in its own form and shape; it sees the body and soul of the reality all together.

In human love, the lover and the beloved are two separate persons. The lover is running toward the beloved, and when he reaches the beloved he finds his satisfaction, if only temporarily, in a fleeting fantasy way. In Divine Love, the lover and the beloved are one and inseparable. In Divine Love, the Lover is the Supreme and the Beloved is the Supreme. In human love, we feel that satisfaction lies somewhere else - not within us, but in somebody else. But in Divine Love, satisfaction is found nowhere else but in ourselves. The Lover and the Beloved are one and the same - the Supreme dwelling within, the Supreme flowing to us, and the Supreme outside us waiting to receive itself. When we speak of our 'self' as the Divine Lover or Beloved, we have to know that this is the 'Self' which is both the One and the many. This Self, the Supreme, finds its satisfaction only when it gets a glimpse of God's Reality, Infinity, Eternity, and Immortality in the many. This 'Self' is the One, and it wants to see and feel its Reality in the many.

Love is duty. In our human life we see duty as something mechanical, lifeless, forced - something thrust upon us from the outside. But in the Divine Life, duty is something full of opportunity and power. At every second an opportunity dawning for us to expand our life's consciousness, our life's reality, our life's healing, our life's delight. So, in the divine Life we welcome duty, for it increases our capacity and potentiality and expands the dream of our divine, unhorizoned Reality.

Life is the lesson of Love. Love is the lesson of Life. When we study Life's lesson in our human life, the lesson is composed of fear, doubt, anxiety, worry, and frustration. But in the Divine Life, we see that Love is the lesson not only of Life, but also for Life - for the Life that is everlasting, ever-illumining, and ever-fulfilling.

A Divine Lover is he who believes in the divine miracle. A human miracle is something that feeds our curiosity, something that lasts for a fleeting second. But the divine miracle is the elevation of consciousness. To raise somebody else's consciousness, to raise humanity's consciousness even an iota is the true divine miracle. The conscious help the divine Lover gives to the seeker performs this divine miracle.

We are of God the eternal Love and we are for God the eternal Love. We are of God the infinite Love and we are for God the infinite Love. Eternity is the Source of the Silence life; and Infinity is the message of the sound life. From the One we came and for the many we exist. This is the real message of Divine Love. We are of the One and we are for the many -the many in the One. This is the quintessence of Love Divine."

-- Sri Chinmoy