Blessed Night, Loves 😊

I Pray All Is Well With Everyone…And Your Hearts And Minds Are Full Of Love, Joy, And Compassion…For Yourselves… And Everyone Else…All Over The World. In Addition To Being Love To Ourselves And Our Loved Ones… Let Us Not Disregard Being Love To Others – For The Loving Spirit Of Our Life Stream Contains No Discrimination For Anyone; That Could Only Be The Conditioning Of Our Human Perceptions. But Since We Have Come To Know That There Is The Presence Of The Living God Within Each And Every One Of Us – Our Very Own “Mighty I AM Presence”; Let Us Then, With A Clear Mind And Focus – Call Forth, Receive, And Radiate That Heavenly Love …All Around Us; Representing In Thought, Word, And Deed…The Divine Plan…In Action! Amen…

Give Thanks And Praises For Love And Life…

And Y’all Be Love…

“There is one great, one simple principle, which, if firmly laid hold of, and if made the great central principle in one’s life, around which all others properly arrange and subordinate themselves, will make that life a grand success, truly great and genuinely happy, loved and blessed by all in just the degree in which it is laid hold upon, a principle which, if universally made thus, would wonderfully change this old world in which we live, ay, that would transform it almost in a night, and it is for its coming that the world has long been waiting; that in place of the gloom and despair in almost countless numbers of lives would bring light and hope and contentment, and no longer would it be said as so truly today, that, “man’s inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn”.

…I have seen the supreme happiness in lives where this principle has been caught and laid hold of, some, lives that seemed not to have much in them before, but which under its wonderful influences have been so transformed and so beautified, that have been made so sweet and so strong, so useful and so precious, that each day seems to them all too short, the same time that before, when they could scarcely see what was in life to make it worth the living, dragged wearily along.

So there are countless numbers of people in the world with lives that seem not to have much in them, among the wealthy classes and among the poorer, who might under the influence of this great, this simple principle, make them so precious, so rich, and so happy, that time would seem only too short, and they would wonder why they have been so long running on the wrong track. For it is true that much the larger portion of the world today is on the wrong track in the pursuit of happiness; but almost all are there, let it be said, not through choice, but by reason of not knowing the right, the true one.

The fact that really great, true, and happy lives have been lived in the past and are being lived today gives us our starting point. Time and again I have examined such lives in a most careful endeavor to find what has made them so and have found that in each and every individual case, this, that we have now come to, has been the great central principle upon which they have been built. I have also found that in numbers of lives where it has not been, but where almost every effort apart from it has been made to make them great, true, and happy, they have not been so; and also, that no life built upon it in sufficient degree, other things being equal, has failed in being thus.

Let us then, to the answer, examine it closely, see if it will stand every test, if it is the true one; and if so, rejoice that we have found it, lay hold of it, build upon it, tell others of it. The last four words have already entered us at the open door. The idea has prevailed in the past, and this idea has dominated the world, that self is the great concern, that if one would find success, greatness, happiness, he must give all attention to self, and to self alone. This has been the great mistake, this the fatal error, this the direct opposite of the right.

The true as set forth in the great immutable law that, we find our own lives in losing them in the service of others; and in longer form, the more of our lives we give to others, the fuller and the richer, the greater and the grander, the more beautiful and the more happy our own lives become. It is as that great and sweet soul who when with us lived at Concord said that it is the generous giving or losing of your life which saves it. …We shall soon see that our love, our service, our helpfulness to others, invariably comes back to us, intensified sometimes a hundred or a thousand or a thousand thousand fold, and this by a great immutable law.

The Master Teacher, he who so many years ago in that far-away Eastern land, now in the hill country, now in the lake country, as the people gathered round him, taught them those great, high-born and tender truths of human life and destiny. The Christ Jesus, said identically this when he said and so continually repeated, “He that is greatest among you, shall be your servant”; and his whole life was but an embodiment of this principle or truth, with the result that the greatest name in the world today is his, the name of him who as his life-work, healed the sick; clothed the naked; bound up the broken-hearted; sustained the weak, the faltering; befriended and aided the poor, the needy; condemned the proud, the vain, the selfish. And through it all, taught the people to love justice and mercy and service, to live in their higher, their diviner selves. In brief, to live his life, the Christ-life, and who has helped in making it possible for this greatest principle of practical ethics the world has thus far seen, to be enunciated, to be laid hold of, to be lived by today. “He that is greatest among you shall be your servant”, or he who would be truly great and recognized as such, must find it in the capacity of a servant.

And what, let us ask, is a servant? One who renders service. To himself? Never. To others? Always! Freed of its associations and looked at in the light of its right and true meaning than the word “servant”, there is no greater in the language; and in this right use of the term, as we shall soon see, every life that has been really true, great and happy, has been that of a servant, and apart from this, no such life ever has been or ever can be lived.

O you who are seeking for power, for place, for happiness, for contentment in the ordinary way, tarry for a moment, see that you are on the wrong track, grasp this great eternal truth, lay hold of it, and you will see that your advance along this very line will be manifold times more rapid. Are you seeking, then, to make for yourself a name? Unless you grasp this mighty truth and make your life accordingly, as the great clock of time ticks on and all things come to their proper level according to their merits, as all invariably, inevitably do, you will indeed be somewhat surprised to find how low, how very low your level is.

Your name and your memory will be forgotten long ere the minute-hand has passed even a single time across the great dial; while your fellow-man who has grasped this simple but this great and all-necessary truth, and who accordingly is forgetting himself in the service of others, who is making his life a part of a hundred or a thousand or a million lives, thus illimitably intensifying or multiplying his own, instead of living as you in what otherwise would be his own little diminutive self, will find himself ascending higher and higher until he stands as one among the few, and will find a peace, a happiness, a satisfaction so rich and so beautiful, compared to which yours will be but a poor miserable something, and whose name and memory when his life here is finished, will live in the minds and hearts of his fellow-men and of mankind, fixed and eternal as the stars.

A corollary of the great principle already enunciated might be formulated thus: there is no such thing as finding true happiness by searching for it directly. It must come, if it come at all, indirectly, or by the service, the love, and the happiness we give to others. So, there is no such thing as finding true greatness by searching for it directly. It always, without a single exception has come indirectly in this same way, and it is not at all probable that this great eternal law is going to be changed to suit any particular case or cases. Then recognize it, put your life into harmony with it, and reap the rewards of its observance, or fail to recognize it and pay the penalty accordingly; for the law itself will remain unchanged. The men and women whose names we honor and celebrate are invariably those with lives founded primarily upon this great law.

Note if you will, every truly great life in the world’s history, among those living and among the so-called dead, and tell me if in every case that life is not a life spent in the service of others, either directly, or indirectly as when we say, he served his country. Whenever one seeks for reputation, for fame, for honor, for happiness directly and for his own sake, then that which is true and genuine never comes, at least to any degree worthy the name. It may seem to for a time, but a great law says that such a one gets so far and no farther. Sooner or later, generally sooner, there comes an end.

…Henry Drummond, in one of his most beautiful and valuable little works says, and how admirably and how truly that, “love is the greatest thing in the world.” Have you this greatest thing? Yes! How then does it manifest itself? In kindliness, in helpfulness, in service, to those around you? If so, well and good, you have it. If not, then I suspect that what you have been calling love is something else; and you have indeed been greatly fooled. In fact, I am sure it is, for if it does not manifest itself in this way, it cannot be true love, for this is the one grand and never-failing test.

Love is the statics, helpfulness and service the dynamics, the former necessary to the latter, but the latter the more powerful, as action is always more powerful than potentiality; and were it not for the dynamics, the statics might as well not be. Helpfulness, kindliness, service, is but the expression of love. It is love in action; and unless love thus manifests itself in action, it is an indication that it is of that weak and sickly nature that needs exercise, growth, and development, that it may grow and become strong, healthy, vigorous, and true, instead of remaining a little weak, indefinite, sentimental something or nothing.

It was but yesterday that I heard one of the world’s greatest thinkers and speakers, one of our keenest observers of human affairs, state as his opinion that selfishness is the root of all evil. Now, if it is possible for any one thing to be the root of all evil, then I think there is a world of truth in the statement. But, leaving out of account for the present purpose whether it is true or not, it certainly is true that he who can’t get beyond self, robs his life of its chief charms, and more, defeats the very ends he has in view.

It is a well-known law in the natural world about us that whatever hasn’t use, that whatever serves no purpose, shrivels up. So it is a law of our own being that he who makes himself of no use, of no service to the great body of mankind, who is concerned only with his own small self, finds that self, small as it is, growing smaller and smaller, and those finer and better and grander qualities of his nature, those that give the chief charm and happiness to life, shriveling up. Such a one lives, keeps constant company with his own diminutive and stunted self; while he who, forgetting self, makes the object of his life, service, helpfulness, and kindliness to others, finds his whole nature growing and expanding, himself becoming large-hearted, magnanimous, kind, loving, sympathetic, joyous, and happy, his life becoming rich and beautiful. For instead of his own little life alone he has entered into and has part in a hundred, a thousand, ay, in countless numbers of other lives; and every success, every joy, every happiness coming to each of these comes as such to him, for he has a part in each and all. And thus it is that one becomes a prince among men, a queen among women.

Why, one of the very fundamental principles of life is, so much love, so much love in return; so much love, so much growth; so much love, so much power; so much love, so much life, strong, healthy, rich, exulting, and abounding life. The world is beginning to realize the fact that love, instead of being a mere indefinite something, is a vital and living force, the same as electricity is a force, though perhaps of a different nature. …There is nothing that can stand before this wonderful transmuting power of love.”

What All the World’s A-Seeking, by Ralph Waldo Trine, 1896

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