Realize Your Role In A Divine Love Story GF Live 9-28-24

This morning,

We're going to talk about finding your role in a divine love story that never ends.

I think we'll go ahead and bring up the first key lesson,

Kate.

There are three lessons today,

And I'd appreciate it if you would,

When they're posted,

Let me read them with you and you read them with me,

And then we'll go on from there.

But don't post when a key lesson goes up.

Here's the first one.

It sets the stage for our time together this morning.

It reads,

Being renewed by love and being willing to begin our life all over again are one and the same interior action.

Learn what it means to do the latter,

And the freedom of the former will prove itself time and time again.

Being renewed by love and being willing to begin our life all over again are one and the same interior action.

What on earth does that mean?

I don't know when it was.

I think it was just within the last few weeks.

I couched some ideas around the story of Jerry Maguire,

And that wonderful idea of how he and Dorothy went through these immense up and downs,

The end of which was a change in their character,

And he says at the end,

You complete me.

And of course,

The point of that story,

As I told it,

Wasn't that Dorothy completes him,

But that through their relationship,

He was able to realize where he had an incomplete understanding,

Not just of life,

But of himself and of the nature of love.

I want to look at this with you in a new way,

And I'm going to urge you,

As best you can,

Listen with your heart as open as you can make it.

Try not to let your mind run in and color everything with its conditioned opinions and beliefs.

If what I say is true,

It'll ring true.

If not,

You don't have to listen.

We all love love stories,

Do we not?

Is there anyone.

.

.

In fact,

I'll just tell you,

If you don't love love stories,

Then who I am and what I have to talk to you about,

It is not worth it to you.

Most of us love love stories,

Love songs.

So it's more rhetorical than I want you to post,

But if you want,

You can throw something up there.

What is the one thing that all timeless love stories share in common?

What is the one thing that all timeless love stories share in common?

Anybody want to venture,

I guess,

Just for grins?

The one thing that all love stories share in common.

Terry says surrender,

Hope,

Connection.

All right,

That's good.

If you've got something else added,

Sharing.

No,

Of course,

These are all true.

But every great love story,

The lovers have to meet and overcome what challenges their union.

Every great love story,

You will never find a love story that doesn't involve the players having to go through,

Meet what challenges,

What they hope to find with each other.

Just quick examples.

Pride and Prejudice.

Don't know if you ever read the book,

Saw the movie.

Elizabeth Bennet,

I think her name was,

And Mr.

Darcy.

Both of them come from different classes,

Both of them come from different classes,

Different levels in society,

But they're drawn together.

And in order for them to overcome these conditioned biases that belong to their classes,

They have to learn each of them in their own way to sacrifice pride and prejudice.

And it isn't until they have learned to see through what stands in their way,

That they are actually strengthened in their relationship through understanding that,

And they're brought together and come to love one another as they are,

Not as they wanted the other to be or fear that they weren't.

This is a great love story,

Overcoming conditioned societal biases.

Romeo and Juliet,

Star-Crossed Lovers,

Paris and Helen of Troy.

All of these,

Cleopatra and Anthony,

And maybe you can think of other love stories.

The Remains of the Day is one of my favorite stories.

Gosh,

Shadowlands.

Great,

Great love stories always have something that seems to be setting the two against something and keeping them apart.

And it doesn't have to be people,

By the way.

You can have a love story,

Einstein,

Martin Luther King,

Washington Irving,

Tiger Woods.

This is where a person has a love for something.

And for the love they have of that,

They are introduced to all these things that oppose them,

Completing,

Finding what they are drawn to.

So there is always that character,

That quality.

Let's bring up the second key lesson to put a little stamp on this idea,

Kate,

Please.

Read along with me,

Everybody.

All forms of seeking what is true.

Every timeless love story begins with being,

Begins with being the central character being drawn to that which calls to be completed in the one who's called to that relationship.

Every true story of love,

Of seeking completion,

Consummation,

Begins with that hero,

That central character is drawn to what calls to be completed in the one who's called to that relationship.

Every true story of love,

Of seeking completion,

Consummation,

Begins with that hero,

That central character is drawn to what calls him or her in the world that they will then go into and find through that relationship what completes them.

Because they make these discoveries through that relationship of what they could never,

Ever even suspect was both the possible Is that much clearer?

Are we on the same page here so far,

Everybody,

Eight minutes into our talk?

This idea,

It's so crucial,

And you'll understand why we're going to look at some extraordinary principles this morning,

That if I have time I will indeed flesh out.

All right,

So quick summary.

All true love stories are about how some character in a person or in persons is transformed because you don't really have a great love story that doesn't involve in one way or another the transformation or redemption of those characters in that story,

Of those characters in that story,

A journey of redemption that can only take place because of what they are drawn to and that because of what they are drawn to encounter that which seeks to keep them from discovering what it is that that relationship has asked them to discover.

And that relationship that they've they're asked to discover,

That love is always the awakening of new eyes through which the gradual illumination of what they could not see before brings them into a revelation of something about themselves.

How about this for a love story,

And referring what I'm saying,

Schindler's List.

Here's a German,

Nazi party,

Ambitious,

Greedy,

Starving for the societal approval of himself,

Approval of himself.

And over that time that he goes through all that,

Becoming immensely successful,

At first saving Jews to work in his factories for the sake of himself,

And then gradually coming to see the goodness in these people,

The corruption in his own heart,

The conditions of the world that he was raised in as being a complete aberration of upside down of what's good.

He goes through an immense transformation,

At least that we can begin to see takes place,

So that at the end of that,

The world becomes a better place for the love that is awakened in him through meeting these forces that oppose first what he starts out to give himself through his greed,

And then in the revelation of those opposing forces,

The discovery of something that could never be found otherwise.

Now,

Take a nice deep breath,

Because we're looking,

I hope you want to look,

We're looking at this idea of love,

But not the kind of love that you and I primarily think of,

Which is the satisfaction of a conditioned pleasure,

The sensation of a pleasure being fulfilled.

There are innumerable names for love in the Bible itself,

There are at least seven different kinds.

And part of the journey of a human being,

The journey of the soul in its relationship and discovery of its divine source,

Is literally walking through these different orders of love,

Eventually finding out that the love of a hamburger is not the same as the love of his wife,

Or the love of her dress is not the same as the love of their family.

That these are different orders of love,

But that in the end,

When all of these loves have proven to be incapable of anything but a temporary sense of well-being,

Then a man or a woman,

If they are indeed called,

If they are drawn to love,

Not drawn to something to love,

Drawn to love itself.

The first intimation of that being somewhere out in nature or seeing something where the observer just disappears into the observed,

That unity is there and a quality that is timeless and holy,

Supplants all of our thoughts and feelings at least for a moment.

And then a person stands in that next and higher dimension of what is timeless,

And there is love.

It is not that they found love,

It is more that love has drawn them into what was already an aspect of their consciousness yet discovered because of all the attraction to the lower forms of this desire.

So behind the scene of every one of these great love stories,

And I hope I illuminated this well enough,

There are invisible forces at play.

These invisible forces we can understand at the simplest level and at literally the simplest level where something draws the lovers together.

Physical attraction,

Mutual understanding of a subject,

Mutual love of something,

Something draws them together,

Something draws that individual.

And as they are drawn to what they are drawn to,

It is inherent that before there can be a blending,

Before there can be a union,

Something opposes that action.

The limitation,

Tiger Woods,

Anybody who's ever excelled at anything in any athletic form,

Any scholarly philosophical search,

One always runs into the limitation of their own understanding.

So that if they weren't drawn to want a new understanding of love,

They would never understand how little they know about it and how incapable they are at the level they are to be able to enter into that relationship.

So something is drawing and something is resisting it.

And at the same time that these forces are at play,

Something is overseeing them.

Because if it was just what I'm drawn to and just what opposes it,

Then there would never be anything.

These seemingly completely opposing forces would never be reconciled.

So there is always a midwife,

Something that is there to see that those forces,

In one way or another,

Gradually purified and blending.

And in that blending from that unification comes forth a new conception.

That's as simple as I can put it to you.

I'm talking about the fact that in every relationship,

There are three divine forces.

We can understand them at the simplest level as I just described.

I remember the first girl I fell in love with.

She was called a geographically unavailable because I lived on this side of the valley and she lived on the other.

And it was like a 40-minute drive to get to see her.

That's an opposing force.

So three forces.

What is active?

Something is being,

Something is drawing,

Something is acting to awaken a longing.

Then there is that which is passive,

That which is resisting whatever it is that we are being drawn to see and become.

And then there is a kind of constant reconciliation of that interaction.

In some ways,

We know this as the Trinity,

The Father,

Son,

And the Holy Ghost are actually a religious representation of the interaction of these forces.

So you can call whatever you want.

I don't care.

I'm hoping you're following me.

This opposing force.

Another example,

The same girl that I fell in love with a thousand years ago,

She broke my heart.

And when she broke my heart,

I thought that was the end of the world.

And all I did,

I think it was the end of the world.

But that pain of having the first heart break,

You've probably said it yourself.

I swear to God,

I'm never going to go through this again.

I'm never going to fall in love again.

It's too painful.

And of course,

You might as well say,

I'm never going to eat again.

But the remnant of that fear,

Of that pain that was not understood at all,

Becomes placed as an obstacle to the next relationship.

So that when you meet someone or look at someone as I would,

Then in that moment,

Your mind is already thinking about the pain that it went through.

And there's the opposing force.

So call it what you will,

That opposing force,

The fear of repeating the circumstance,

Some tough condition,

The world just won't let me do this.

I can't get through whatever it is.

Something is always in the way of consummating that relationship that we feel drawn to.

Can you see this with me?

It could be something outside or it can be your own thought,

Your own reaction.

Please.

How am I doing on time?

18 minutes.

Okay.

Now,

Nice deep breath.

We're talking about a new kind of love.

The truth is,

It's not a new kind of love.

It is the love that gave birth to everything that falls in love and everything that we fall in love with.

But here's the point.

If you've understood this,

Something is drawn,

Something opposes,

Something marries,

Something is active,

Something is passive,

Something reconciles that relationship so something can come out of it.

Yin Yang,

New creation.

What seems to be in the way of our wish at the moment to enter into whatever this love is that we have.

Again,

It can be a love for a person,

Can be a love for a game.

I love the game of golf.

I never go out without learning something new about my body,

About my mind,

About my intention,

About my impatience.

I never,

Ever go out and play something,

Try and work on something without learning.

I've been married for over 40 years.

I always learn something whenever my wife and I are together.

As I trust,

She always learns something.

It's built into it.

Something brings us together.

Something wants to create a schism.

Something wants to keep us apart.

It's built into life.

But there is that which holds us together that allows both of those forces to be realized as something that are not working against each other.

This wish for love and what stands between us and that reconciliation,

That which seems to resist what we love is not there to deny us that love.

That which seems to deny us what we love is not there to deny it.

If you're an aspirant,

You're on a spiritual journey.

You run into these moments where,

And unless you run into them,

You're not on any real journey at all.

You see how absolutely dead set this conditioned mind and heart is to continue itself at all costs.

You run into your impatience,

To your anger.

You run into your greed.

You run into the resentments that you can't let go of.

You run into them over and over again.

You would never even know they were lodged in this mind or in your heart unless it was something drawing to you that which,

As it was asked to merge,

That which was to complete itself unless something was keeping it from completing itself.

So the very thing that we need to know that keeps us apart from what we love is revealed through everything that we blame as being in the way.

Resistance is not there to keep you from realizing what is true and good.

Resistance is there as a force of revelation.

It's part of the Trinity.

Father,

Son,

Holy Ghost,

Act of passive reconciling.

That which is denying isn't denying love.

It is denying within us what we have yet to see and understand is in the way of that perfect union.

And there's no way that we'll ever realize that union until we have met what is setting the limits on it,

What is crushing the life out of it.

So only by seeing and realizing deeply,

I might add,

What seems to deny us our heart's desire,

By the way,

Whose appearance,

Yes or no,

The minute you have that reaction,

That resistance on the spot,

That resistance that the resistance that we have to what seems to be in our way is actually a part of our way.

The thing that seems to stand there and go,

No,

You're never going to be able to,

You'll never,

That very sense of negativity could never be known as a character in this context.

Could never be known as a character in this consciousness that needs to be given up,

Seen through,

But seen through as something that isn't standing in the way,

But helping us to see our way through that level of being.

Because when we start to realize that this immediate onset of this,

Now listen,

Resistance to something that stands in our way,

Do we realize that we couldn't feel that kind of resistance,

That anger,

That disappointment?

We couldn't feel that unless there was something in us that was so identified with what we believed was the nature of ourselves,

Our characters,

Our quality,

Our possibilities.

So there I am,

I'm so sure I can do this.

And then life says,

Well,

Look,

You can,

But you're never going to do it the way you imagine you're going to do it.

You're going to have to let go of certain things that produce this resistance.

And the only way you'll know that there's something in you clinging and reincarnating itself as it does is when,

Because of what you are drawn to,

You meet this character that isn't seeing that you're delivered to what you want,

But that when you see it as being in the way you're able to finally recognize,

Ah,

What a fool I've been,

How stubborn I've been.

Then you have a new understanding that you are never apart.

I am never apart from God's love.

I wouldn't exist.

You wouldn't exist if it weren't for God's love.

And please,

For the sake of all that is good and true,

Don't take this sentimentally or religiously.

Don't go into some sensation imagined about God's love.

Because in the end,

God's love is not the confirmation of myself as I imagined myself.

It is that which dissolves the imagined self altogether.

So that there's no longer a me looking to try to get something,

To add something,

To become something.

I'm realizing at all points in time,

As an awakened man or woman will,

That there is no moment in which everything that is coming is being met by that which resists it.

And out of that coming,

Out of that kingdom,

Something is constantly reborn within us.

And then we know what real rebirth is because we're participating in the spiritual,

Celestial,

Divine act of love,

Our role in love.

Only,

And I literally mean only in the light of this kind of new self-knowledge,

Which has to,

It's hard won.

But see,

That even,

That's not even right.

When you're really drawn to something,

And we're all in different levels of that,

I get it.

When you're really drawn to something,

What's in the way is just an irritation.

Sometimes a huge irritation.

Sometimes something that seems the size of a half dome in Yosemite Park,

This slab of stone,

Impossible,

This impassable barrier.

But there's no such thing as an impassable barrier when it's understood that the only thing that stands between you and what it is that will complete you is some false idea you have of what you need to be completed.

So that the love of God reveals these illusions,

And as the illusions disappear,

So does the sense of self clinging to them.

And as I disappear,

Lo and behold,

That's love.

The cell,

All,

That's what love is.

So it is this revelation of where it is that we don't know we're clinging to,

Whatever it may be,

That we are shown how what we're clinging to will never complete us because it always involves some sense of self that's constantly terrified of anything that interferes with what it believes it needs to have love.

This is what perfect love casts out fear means.

Why does perfect love cast out fear?

Because perfect love shows you that the onset of this fearful reaction is required for you to realize the nature responsible for creating it.

How else would I know the fears that live in this unconscious nature?

The spirit of God did not create fear.

The spirit of human imagination and its attraction and dependency on imagery is what has created fear.

So the light of truth reveals fears as being the shadows they are,

Which is why perfect love casts out fear,

Because light shows that darkness has no right to exist wherever light lives and dwells.

I trust you're following me because I want to go on now and speak of something that is like the perfect illustration of this.

One of my favorite stories,

If you never read,

I think I'm allowed to say this,

In one of my books,

I think it was Relationship Magic.

I go into great depth,

But I'm bringing that story here into a new light.

Let me take a breath.

So we're talking about love stories,

But we're looking at love stories as being as difficult as it may be to understand at first.

It may be God,

It may be the divine loving the divine and being loved back by the divine.

Nothing that exists isn't made of light so that light reveals light.

Love reveals love.

But we have to understand some of this in order to begin to place ourselves in a true relationship with the moment.

Because for us,

I love this,

I hate that.

I want this,

I don't want that.

Oh,

That's good.

This is terrible.

An absolute incessant back and forth,

Back and forth in a conflicted mind,

Because the things that it loves,

It only loves them until something brings up something that sets that love into question.

And then the love goes out the door.

You might think,

No,

The love didn't go out the door.

Well,

Why are you angry?

What's the nature of this immense sense of disappointment,

Of anger?

Where does all that come from?

Love doesn't have anger in it.

Love doesn't have fear in it.

Love casts out.

Love transforms.

Love doesn't cement the sense of self by setting it against something.

Love realizes that whatever seems to be against itself is actually a part of itself that it is using to reveal the secret parts of itself.

To see all of this is incredibly liberating,

Because at least then you start to realize that a lot of the things that come along in your day,

That suddenly you're set against it.

If you could understand,

You can't be set against something without something in you bringing to you that which you need to realize that sense of self that's always against something.

Let me go on.

I don't know how many of you know the story of the Count of Monte Cristo.

There was a pretty decent film.

I don't know who starred in it.

But by and large,

It was a story of a kind of a trinity that was actually a fourth pivotal role.

But there was Edmund,

There was Fernand,

And there was Mercedes.

Edmund and Fernand grew up together,

But very much like Pride and Prejudice,

They belonged to two different classes.

Fernand was a nobleman,

A duke or something like that,

And Edmund was a fisherman who wanted to be the captain of his own ship.

Mercedes and Edmund were in love with each other,

But Fernand was secretly jealous of them because he loved Mercedes too.

So there was this competition going on all the time.

The whole thing turns on a dime when finally Edmund gets his captaincy from a shipping company,

And Fernand realizes now they can get married,

Meaning Mercedes and Edmund.

And so he plots to have Edmund,

His best friend,

In quotes,

Thrown into jail,

Complete shift of character.

And he succeeds,

And Edmund is sent off to this hellacious prison where he spends the next X number of years in absolute hell.

And Fernand wins,

In quotes,

Mercedes' love.

We don't know this at the time,

But Mercedes is pregnant with Edmund's child and does not want the world to know that she had sex out of wedlock,

Whatever it was.

And so she marries Fernand to hide and give a name,

A good,

Noble name to her son.

How am I going to get all through this?

Now,

In this prison,

Edmund,

As dejected as you could possibly be,

Meets this old man who is a philosopher king.

He is a political prisoner.

And this old man teaches Edmund everything,

But not only teaches him everything about languages and philosophy.

I mean,

Just this whole thing.

It's like finding your teacher in the darkest dungeon.

All these metaphors,

So precious,

All drawn to him.

He escapes by the sake of the old professor dying.

You have to see it.

And takes this map that this old man gave him,

And he finds a treasure just beyond belief.

And he goes from being a nothing nobody in a prison to becoming the Count of Monte Cristo,

A name he has made up,

And finds a man to help him pull this thing off.

And so here he comes back into the very place that he was thrown out of so long ago,

But he doesn't look anything like he used to.

Kind of always troubles me.

How could Superman put on glasses and be called Clark Kent?

Just like,

Oh,

Those glasses,

What a disguise.

And so the wealth and the new appearance,

His pomp and circumstance apparently hides Edmund from being seen as Edmund.

Everybody sees him as the Count of Monte Cristo when he returns to that city.

But he returns to that city with one thing on his mind,

And that is to destroy Fernand,

For destroying his life.

Edmund is consumed with hatred,

With resentment.

All he knows is what he loves,

And what he loves in that moment is the idea of Fernand feeling all the pain that he put Edmund through.

But by the sake of love,

As the story goes along,

I've got to go along.

Mercedes begins to recognize that the Count of Monte Cristo isn't really the Count of Monte Cristo,

But that it's actually Edmund.

And one for one reason,

Edmund always used to twirl some piece of hair or something like that.

Anyway,

Comes this very critical moment where Mercedes,

She's still married to Fernand.

They have a son.

Fernand doesn't know that the son belongs to Edmund,

Nor does Edmund know,

Nor does the Count of Monte Cristo know that the boy is his.

Quite elaborate,

Beautiful movement,

Attraction,

Denial,

Conciliation over and over again.

Anyway,

She confronts Edmund finally when he's getting ready to bury,

To trick Fernand into being himself thrown into prison.

She recognizes her first love.

And she comes to him in this darkened room,

And he's trying everything he can.

He's denying across the board.

No,

I'm not.

No,

I'm not.

She says,

I know that you're Edmund.

And he says,

And I've never stopped loving you.

He says,

Oh,

That's great.

Easy for you to say.

But the first thing that happens,

You marry Fernand.

And then she shows him this little ring made out of string or something.

And he's always had it.

And I think he still has something he wears.

Anyway,

The point being,

She says,

You've got to give this up.

We can have something,

Something new and beautiful,

But not as long as you continue to love this idea of having revenge.

So here is this immense opposing force.

In this instance,

It's what Mercedes is trying to get him to see.

And she begs him to let go of that hatred,

To give up this rage in his heart,

And to forgo that hatred that he is so drawn to completing in favor of what?

Of remembering the love that they shared before that opposing force tore them apart.

And at that point,

And I've got to get to the end of this.

She's compelling him,

And he makes this unbelievable,

Honest,

Brutal response that I'll paraphrase for you.

He says to her something like,

I beg of you,

Please don't take from me the only thing I have left,

My hatred.

Literally,

Don't take this from me.

I've lived for this,

He says.

And at that point,

You can see he has lived for that.

Everything that he loved seemed to be thrown out.

Everything standing in his way until by a twist of fortune that only love could arrange.

This whole iteration of relationships,

The ups and downs,

The darkness,

The light of it.

He goes through it,

And he gets to this point,

And he's saying,

Don't take this from me.

I have to do this.

She says,

No,

You don't.

And she,

In spite of him pleading to leave him alone and let him exact this revenge,

He asks,

How can I possibly do what you're asking?

She says,

You have to give it up.

Now,

In essence,

And it's not in the language they share,

She's saying,

You have to choose.

You have to choose what it is.

It's the turning point in that story.

Do you want this union that was always so true and good and pure and that remains that way if you will remember?

So that she,

In that moment,

Allows him to recall.

Love allows him to remember why they were drawn together to begin with.

And essentially,

I mean,

It's a long ending.

He does let go.

And there's all this action that takes place.

And Fernand,

This is perfect.

He decides to let Fernand go.

He's going to kill him.

But out of love for Mercedes and the fact that in the last moment,

Fernand,

In spite of his love for Mercedes,

Holds a gun to his head or something like that so that Edmond won't do any.

And she sees that.

The whole thing comes undone.

And then Edmond's still willing to let him go.

Fernand starts to ride away.

He comes back because now he's drawn to the destructive act.

And he wants to kill Edmond out and out.

And Fernand loses his life.

Love wins the day.

Now,

I know how that sounds on one way.

I really like that.

Well,

Why doesn't love win the day when impatience gets in the way of what it is that I'm trying to understand about my own spiritual life?

Why doesn't love win the day?

Why does judgment win the day when you're with somebody and they say something you don't like?

Why does resentment win the day?

There you are,

And you're talking to somebody,

And they do something,

And you don't see it.

Just like that,

Up wells this dark shadow of some remembrance of some pain in the past,

What this person is or what they did.

And the next thing you know,

You're not in that moment anymore,

Experiencing the interaction of these forces as they move through their relationship.

Now you're back in relationship with who and what you were,

And what happened that gave you that sense of self,

So that what you love in that moment,

And you refuse to see it,

What you love in that moment is what you hate,

Because your heart is filled with it.

Please try and see this with me,

Not for my sake.

My heart is filled with what I don't want,

Because it gives me a sense of who I am and of being real.

No human being suspects that when they're angry or full of fear,

It's because their attention has been taken and placed on something that,

As it is,

Allows them to be complete in that darkness.

Imagine.

So the question is for all of us,

If we're going to work with these ideas,

What's in our heart in any given moment,

Whether it's a troubled thought,

A condition that seems set against us,

What's in my heart when something seems to stand in the way of what it is that I believe I want?

Because we believe that if we get what we want,

That's love,

That is not love,

That's desire,

And it destroys the one who becomes attached to and identified and dependent upon what he's imagined.

Another kind of love.

But it's a love that we have to at least work to remember,

That we have a choice.

Where is my attention?

Because as goes my attention,

So comes my experience.

And if my attention goes on to what I don't want,

Because it seems to not want me to be happy,

Then I get that relationship and I will never find happiness fighting with what makes me unhappy.

Happiness is the end of a nature that only knows how to resist what seems to stand in its way,

Because you are reconciled to the moment.

Love shows you a completely different relationship to not just what's taking place outside of you,

But the parts of you that are meeting it.

We can understand.

It is possible.

I know what a stretch it is.

I'm 75 years old.

All of these years to awaken and realize that love is always a form of an exchange,

That your life is an exchange.

It is never not being exchanged.

It's what Christ's life represents,

Buddha's life,

Any avatar,

Always the same thing.

And at any moment of exchange,

In order for something to come in that is new and reborn,

Something has to pass.

There is a sacrifice inherent in the act of love.

We don't know much about the act of sacrifice.

We know only how to constantly go through the pain and sorrow we give ourselves when trying to acquire what we believe will make us whole,

Instead of the sacrifice of giving up that idea that we know what love is,

That we know what holiness is.

Only God,

Only love can teach you what love is.

Only the divine can teach you what is truly divine in nature.

So if there's an exercise,

And I've got to go on.

Did I ever bring up that?

Let's bring up that third key lesson.

We'll close with that,

Kate,

Please.

Read along with me.

Just as the eyes that see the sun cannot understand the light by which they behold the shape and beauty of all things,

Neither can the heart understand the love that calls it to know and embrace all things.

Eye and heart are creatures in time,

But light and love are not.

Even so,

They meet,

And in their union is the mystery,

The miracle,

And the fulfillment of our yet-realized divine possibility.

And what is our highest possibility as a human soul?

It is that we are reunited with that which cast this soul into this world that it might reflect and ultimately glorify through love,

That which gave it its life.

But in order for that to happen,

We have to have this new relationship.

Everything I talk about is vested in the hope and the attempt to clarify that which remains in the dark of us,

So that as long as we live in the dark of ourselves,

We have this aberrant relationship to the moments that this darkness calls trouble and pain,

Because darkness has no light in it.

It can't see that everything is an action of the divine,

To reveal the divine,

And to bring the divine into this life so that love can be known by individuals and in the world itself as the true redeeming force.