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Welmek: This morning I would like to continue with what we started in our prior session. We said that the purpose of life is to live, to learn and to love. Each of these can be talked about in combination. Last time many of you focused on learning to live and we discussed this. Today, I wish to focus learning to love. What does that mean? How has loved changed your life? How can others find the love they seek? Why is love something that must be learned? Need it be learned in all situations? As you can see, there are many facets to this question, but I will pause for now. Later after you have shared your ideas, I will share mine.

Welmek: This morning I would like to continue with what we started in our prior session. We said that the purpose of life is to live, to learn and to love. Each of these can be talked about in combination. Last time many of you focused on learning to live and we discussed this. Today, I wish to focus learning to love. What does that mean? How has loved changed your life? How can others find the love they seek? Why is love something that must be learned? Need it be learned in all situations? As you can see, there are many facets to this question, but I will pause for now. Later after you have shared your ideas, I will share mine.

(Comments from students)

(Comments from students)

 

I sense the lessons grow more difficult. We search more deeply. We have talked before about the human nature. You are indwelt by a spirit of God, and yet you have your identity, your self, your ego. As you grow, you are taught to seek outwardly for all that you desire. You are taught to seek with your ego, through your outward search with other people, experiences….these are what will bring you happiness and joy. And so, when you are unhappy or not feeling joy or not feeling love, you seek outwardly. You seek satisfaction of values in other humans. It is well that you do that, but like so many things, when you seek these things from other humans, you must be prepared to realize that it may not be exactly what you hoped for; it may not last as long as you hoped for. There may be difficulty in maintaining and sustaining relationships, as all of you know.

I sense the lessons grow more difficult. We search more deeply. We have talked before about the human nature. You are indwelt by a spirit of God, and yet you have your identity, your self, your ego. As you grow, you are taught to seek outwardly for all that you desire. You are taught to seek with your ego, through your outward search with other people, experiences….these are what will bring you happiness and joy. And so, when you are unhappy or not feeling joy or not feeling love, you seek outwardly. You seek satisfaction of values in other humans. It is well that you do that, but like so many things, when you seek these things from other humans, you must be prepared to realize that it may not be exactly what you hoped for; it may not last as long as you hoped for. There may be difficulty in maintaining and sustaining relationships, as all of you know.

The outer world will not so much give you the answers to the things you need. These will come from within. The outer world gives you the opportunity to share what you have found. When you have found this, you will feel the need to share it with others. If they do not return it, you will not feel resentment, you will not feel anger. You will only feel compassion for you know they have not found real love in their lives. So what does it mean to learn to love? You must learn the source of real true love. Then you must learn to seek this love, and when you feel it inside you will learn to share it with others. I will pause and entertain questions and comments

The outer world will not so much give you the answers to the things you need. These will come from within. The outer world gives you the opportunity to share what you have found. When you have found this, you will feel the need to share it with others. If they do not return it, you will not feel resentment, you will not feel anger. You will only feel compassion for you know they have not found real love in their lives. So what does it mean to learn to love? You must learn the source of real true love. Then you must learn to seek this love, and when you feel it inside you will learn to share it with others. I will pause and entertain questions and comments

 

Q: Synposis of comment: moving from the external focus to more of an internal focus as it relates to faith, student asking Welmek for his comments.

Q: Synposis of comment: moving from the external focus to more of an internal focus as it relates to faith, student asking Welmek for his comments.

As these concepts grow in your consciousness you will find that even as you look at these experiences in your material world, it will begin to be seen through new eyes. Do you remember my analogy of wearing the glasses? I said that you have three sets of glasses. One set is that you look at only the material world through the glasses that have the lenses of the ego. That is much of your day. Then, when you go into stillness you wear another set of glasses whose lenses are only the eyes of spirit. They see only love and joy and good. But if you wear the glasses that have the dual lenses, one allowing you to see the material world as it is and the other allowing you to see God and the spirit world as it is, then when you look at each person through both you will always be in balance. This is the way the Master saw the world. He did not pretend that evil and suffering did not exist. He saw it every day, he saw it through the light of spirit. In the light of spirit he saw that it could be transformed. Love and goodness and service could transform the material world. So, by always looking through both lenses he could always remain in balance; he always saw the way things were and the way they could be. This allowed him to continue to walk every day to serve, to make the world a better place each day. He saw each day as a new opportunity to make it a little bit better. This is the opportunity you and everyone else have. But if you do not seek and find the love--the truth of spirit--then you cannot wear this pair of glasses.

As these concepts grow in your consciousness you will find that even as you look at these experiences in your material world, it will begin to be seen through new eyes. Do you remember my analogy of wearing the glasses? I said that you have three sets of glasses. One set is that you look at only the material world through the glasses that have the lenses of the ego. That is much of your day. Then, when you go into stillness you wear another set of glasses whose lenses are only the eyes of spirit. They see only love and joy and good. But if you wear the glasses that have the dual lenses, one allowing you to see the material world as it is and the other allowing you to see God and the spirit world as it is, then when you look at each person through both you will always be in balance. This is the way the Master saw the world. He did not pretend that evil and suffering did not exist. He saw it every day, he saw it through the light of spirit. In the light of spirit he saw that it could be transformed. Love and goodness and service could transform the material world. So, by always looking through both lenses he could always remain in balance; he always saw the way things were and the way they could be. This allowed him to continue to walk every day to serve, to make the world a better place each day. He saw each day as a new opportunity to make it a little bit better. This is the opportunity you and everyone else have. But if you do not seek and find the love--the truth of spirit--then you cannot wear this pair of glasses.