Love is not “ordinary” in the sense that we generally understand the word “ordinary.” Love is greater than anything that this world has to offer. What this world calls love, for the most part, is not enough to keep any heart feeling alive and happy.

My dear ones, the point of your entire existence is to love. Learn to love, transcend yourselves for the sake of love, for the sake of others. That is the whole reason that you are here, to love. Many people go through their whole lives pursuing other things. When they die they are unfulfilled. No person can be fulfilled until they learn to truly love, to love from the heart, without self-protection, without fear.

Love means that you are aware of others around you, that you care about them from the depths of your heart, with all the emotion and attention that you feel for yourself and your own life. Love means that the spiritual emotional wellbeing of others means everything to you, and you will commit your being and your life to enriching the lives of others, to uplifting their spirits, to reminding them of who they are, to helping them let go of false ideas, and fears, and to love.

This may seem out of reach my dear ones. You may be thinking, “That’s far ahead of where I am. I’m just a beginner in the spiritual path. I’m not saint.” You may then think that you are invalid. My dear ones, you need to understand, that you learn to love by loving. And since there is no other purpose to being here, on this planet, you may as well start now.

It is true that love takes learning to love. It is true, that you will have to go through many cycles of learning what you are doing that is unloving, and adjusting to be more loving. You see, this part of the love itself, to learn, to adjust, to transcend yourself.

There may be many things that you do now that you call love, but you will come to find out that they are not done out of love, but out of fear or self-protection. Love requires that when you see that truth, you face it with courage, and adjust. The ego requires that when you see that fact you collapse, feel terribly ashamed, and fail to make the adjustment, fail to love, because you are too busy feeling bad about yourself. Or else, ego will require you to deny it, or become defensive. Either way, love will not be fulfilled.

Love will be fulfilled when you are willing to be honest. Yes, this is one of the first requirements for love: Self-honesty. When you are self-honest it is because you hold something, or someone, as being more important than defending your bad habits or negative beliefs. When people are willing to look honestly at themselves it is almost always for love’s sake.

So, my dear ones, look around you, at your beloved ones, your friends, your family, whoever is most near to you, and love them. Learn from them what you are doing what is unloving, either by asking them, or by paying attention to their responses to what you are doing. Learn to love them better. Commit yourselves to this task of loving, truly loving.

And also, look at those who you do not consider your friends, and love them too, despite everything that causes you to feel distant from them, or angry or unhappy with them. Love them despite these things. See past their negative attributes and bad habits to the soul that they are, and love that soul, and pray for their release from the bad habits that have bothered you and hurt you for so long.

My dear ones, this is love. Love is to see. Love is to see who people are, and who God is, who God REALLY is, and who people REALLY are, and to love them. And to see what everything really is, and to love everything, as it really is. And also, love is to see what people are going through, and to care, and to respond honestly, without letting self-protective or fearful feelings get in the way.

This is love. Love is to transcend oneself for others. Love is to adjust for others. Love is to see others, and love them. And by means of true love, others feel less and less like others. You come to feel like every man and woman, and God, and the whole earth is your own, your own child, brother, sister. And then, further, you come to feel that these ARE you, part of your own body, your own soul. Your desires are not separate from those of God, or from the true heart’s desires of others. When this comes to be, you will have found inner peace, and there will no longer be any need for struggle.

Love is for the beloved. It is being willing to transcend oneself for the sake of another. It is SEEING another person for who they are, and being willing to work your butt off to help them become who they are. Love is feeling heartbreak for the myriad beings who are suffering all over the world, as well as right next door, or in your own house. Love is crying for those. Love is wanting to fix the broken hearts. There is no self in love.

"The lover is but a dead thing, the beloved is all that lives."  - Rumi

Beloved ones, God did not create beings who need to be  punished. None of you are of the nature that you need to be punished. You may act and think, at times, as if you were,  but you are not.

When you relate to one another, remember who each other are. Remember, that each person is good, truly good. Do not act as if they TRULY are the person who would act in ways that are reprehensible, for that is not who they are. Sometimes, when people do things that you don't like, or which hurt you, you want to punish them, or hurt them, you are angry. You want them to get what they deserve. But ask yourself this: WHO ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT? Are you talking about the child of God that that person is? No. You cannot be, for God did not create children who are bad. My children are perfect. And ALL are God’s children.

When I look at people, and see them doing things that hurt others, and themselves, I still know who each one is. I still see your vulnerable hearts. I still see the one who needs love, who needs to be seen, to be known. You are a human being, you are innocent. I do not ever become convinced that you are the one who you are acting like. That is not you. That is the result of false ideas that you have believed, about yourself, about others, which cause you to act in strange and fearful ways.

So, remember who people really are. Remember that each one around you is like yourself, with all the same heart needs, and with all the same fear that causes them to act in strange ways, that they DO NOT actually agree with. See that there is really no difference, and forgive.

What is forgiveness? Forgiveness is not saying that it is okay that a person should act bad. Forgiveness is not overlooking. Forgiveness is seeing who the person is no matter what they do. Forgiveness is to not form a negative idea of who a person IS based on how they act, but to remember that they are a child of God, a magnificent person, a vulnerable heart, a human being. Forgiveness is to say, "I KNOW YOU. In spite of all that you have done that suggests that you are of bad nature, I know that you are a child of God, a heart full of love and feeling. I see you, through all that you do. I continue to see you, for who you are, and I continue to love you AS YOU ARE, no matter how you are acting. When you act differently than a child of God, than a sensitive, loving, feeling heart, I know that that is not you, but the result of false fears and ideas that are causing you to act in unnatural ways." And furthermore, forgiveness says, "I will help you to let go of your ideas, so that you do not fear me, others, God, the world, or yourself; so that you are able to relax, and be who you are, and not be burdened by this false identity, which alienates you from your fellow man, from God, and from your true feelings." This is forgiveness.

I do not mean that you should only memorize the above statements, but that you should KNOW these things. It is a feeling, a feeling.

Forgive, my dear ones, forgive one another. This is the only way to stay in touch with reality. For when you bear grudges you forget the truth of who people are, who God is, and who you are. For example, if you forget who people are, and think that they are bad, you relate to people as being something that they are not. Then you are living in a false world, a world of false entities. You are relating to the world as something that it is not. My dear ones, this is a very confusing and depressing state to be in.

The same is true of God. If you cannot forgive, you cannot see who God really is.  You need to forgive God for the things that you think God is, and for the things that you think God has done to you, so that you can see who God really is, and have a true relationship with God.

So you see, dear ones, you need to forgive. And, as I said, when I say forgive, I don’t mean that you should forgive a bad world for being bad, I mean that you should forgive a good world, by seeing that it is truly good. By forgive, I mean SEE. See the truth of who people truly are. Let go of your personal hurt, so that you can see who people truly are. Then you can forgive.

If you hang onto your personal hurt you may want to take revenge on people, or you may relate to them as if they are bad, in your anger. When you do that, you are convincing people, further, of the false ideas they already have about who they are. BY relating to them as if they were bad, you are agreeing with who they THINK they are. And by doing so, you are creating a miserable world for yourself, and everybody, to live in. If you reinforce the goodness in people, the heart sensitivity in people, the divine, loving nature in people, then you will live in a better world. The world around you will be happier, and eventually, the whole world will be happier.

You get to have the world that you relate to my dear ones. If you relate to what you perceive to be a bad world, you bring out badness, wherever it can be brought out. If you relate to the true goodness of all, you bring out that goodness, wherever people are willing.

Therefore, loved ones, forgive, and see.