Love can transform persons, cultures, and even entire planets. If you want a better world, love lavishly. Love is a flow you enjoy as it passes through you. It leaves a memory and a pattern within you and has a beneficial effect on all who recognize what they are witnessing.

Wake up every morning and say, “Good morning God. What have you got for me Today?”

God is your partner in every moment of your life. He is never absent or not paying attention.
He is tremendously and eternally invested in you, in each of us.
Take advantage of the opportunity to get acquainted.
He will like that and so will you.

Your personal religion should be unique. It should consist in following the leading of your own Spirit Within who arrives in your childhood with a unique plan for your life.

Continual progress toward excellence of character is the objective and purpose of this life. Excellence of character is not completed in this life, but direction can be reliably set. Excellent character results from loyalty to excellent values. In this way you create yourself.

There is a truth response in your heart which guides and counsels you on all things having meaning and value. This is an inborn talent for recognizing spiritual truth.

Your thoughts will be clearer and of higher quality if you meditate and think in partnership with the spirit of God within you. God delights in helping you identify higher values, appreciate beauty, enjoy goodness and unlock knotty problems. Ask and meditate on these.

For inner peace and satisfaction, establish a continuous, constant, and eternal relationship with your Spirit Within. Contemplating your gratitude to the giver of beauty and goodness prepares you for awareness of the Spirit Within.

Forgiveness does not require forgetting. It does require setting aside the desire to punish, to penalize, or to even the score. When you forgive, you are saying “Here is a fresh chance to do right.” Relationships are spiritually important and deserve serious thought and encouragement.

When you forgive, you reopen the possibility of beneficial relationship. Forgiveness is an opportunity to try again for a friendly relationship.

When you forgive another, you relieve yourself of the ugly burden of assessing the guilt and punishment of the offender and of determining how much they must suffer to pay their debt. Preserving anger or hurt blocks understanding and forgiveness.

Allowing yourself to seek vengeance or to hold grudges involves great spiritual costs to you and to everyone related to you. And we are all related to you. Desiring vengeance crowds out love, forgiveness and respect.

Service extends the helpful hand of brotherhood and that is really impressive. Small services confirm friendship and willingness to be helpful.

Service is love expressed in action. It participates in the immense magical power of love.

Service is a cause of love, and it is a consequence of love. Loving service is emotionally, psychologically, and spiritually very powerful, very attractive, and very inspiring. Loving service has transformative power.

Service builds a mutual sense of relatedness on which all sorts of benefits grow. Service is active caring and that builds friendships.

Service is how love gets expressed through action. It is a primary way we develop our connectedness to others through love. Service satisfies emotional needs as well as physical ones.

Service shows actual willingness to give oneself and one’s assets for the benefit of another. The essential element of service is the intent unselfishly to benefit others.

Sharing is a big service even when the thing shared is small.

To make a friend of someone, find something you know they want and do it for them. Kindnesses are remembered as friendly acts.

Service develops friendships. If you want a friend, be a friend. Just sharing pleasant moments can be a service to someone who feels alone.

Helping another achieve her worthy needs and goals is an important service. Service can bond people together, and that is a very good thing.

A smile, a helping hand, courtesy, good attitude, cheerfulness, polite assistance; these are all services to others requiring no planning and no sacrifice. A basic quality of service is that it expresses care and respect.

A lot of little services by many people will do wonders. Serving in small ways as you pass by requires only modest levels of planning and commitment. Service can be as small as friendly attention or respect.

Service is not just an attitude or a desire. It is good deeds. Service involves action to fulfill generous motives.

You won’t find anything in life that will give you more pleasure than being of service to others. Helping another brings warm feelings to them and to you.

While love is the desire to do good for others. Service is the action of doing good for others. Even little actions can fill a heart with love. That is indeed a valuable gift.

Learn to cope cheerfully and graciously with disappointment. Disappointment is a fast track to spiritual insight, and it is inevitable. Disappointment can make you stop and think about what matters.

Pray for spiritual growth (character development) because that is the purpose of life. Character grows by adopting virtues into your way of living.

 Trust is at the heart of faith. Prayer communicates with God. While faith acts — according to God’s principles and leading.

Be aggressive and lavish with love. The more you give the more you get from the spiritual source of all love. There is an endless supply. It is designed to be enjoyed as it is given. Pushing your love into the world enriches everything for you and for others.

Be gentle with others and yourself because we are all works in progress.
It may not be visible, but we are slowly perfecting as we respond to experience.
Especially the experience of loving and being loved.

Perfection now is not required or expected.

Nor is it even desirable.

The experience of imperfection and failure

Is an important achievement of this mortal life.

Learn the most from them as they confront you 

So you will not need to repeat them.

When you go apart to visit with your inner spirit

What does your inner spirit say to you?

What! You don’t visit!

God is your parent. Children just naturally grow up to be like their parents. In fact, they must work hard to avoid it. The goodness of our spiritual parents is so alluringly beautiful that you will want to be like them.

Evil challenges virtue. Virtue consumes evil. Slay evil with love. Start within yourself.

An attitude of persistent, unselfish love works miracles of values transformation and good health in the person holding that attitude, and it has good consequences in the lives of all who witness it. Respecting and supporting the good reputation of others is one type of loving service.

Practice love, forgiveness, and respect. Spiritual magic from these will reward you
and all who know you, with lasting friendships. These attitudes and actions have
magical spiritual consequences.

We can use our creativity to invent ourselves by imagining the best possible behavior and then managing ourselves to display that behavior. Self-creation by our choices for morality and noble character is a personal power and a great privilege. 

Love grows vigorously when its seeds take root in a love hungry soul and those are everywhere.

The joy of either love given or love received is a valuable reward of living. The Joy of love given is ours to have by unselfish service and caring for others. Life provides lots of opportunities for loving behavior.

Every living thing and every person responds favorably to being loved. Love feels great and reassures.

Love is the best action and the best reaction, always. Love behaves gently, tolerantly, kindly, and respectfully in all circumstances. Love excels at everything and will carry you with it.

It is a great privilege to experience life on such a primitive planet as this. It will help us to understand and help others in our eternal career.

We have self-creative choices to make. We can choose to be an animal or a noble spirit being. The animal part of us will die. The spirit being will live forever, and what it achieves now is permanent. Spiritual reality (reality of goodness) is even more beautiful than material reality.

We are meant to be partners in each other’s lives. We are intended to be linked to one another by love, caring and respect. Enjoying being together is an important thing we can discover in this life.

This life is the important beginning of your eternal career, not a purposeless occurrence. Some of the things you can learn here about love and service are unique. Pay attention. Examine, understand, be grateful. Eternity and meaningful service in the universe start here.

You can smell beauty from fresh mown grass, cinnamon, wisteria, bread baking, sea breezes. The scent of beauty surrounds its source with an invisible reality.

God said to me: “Be perfect as I am perfect. Become like me.”

I replied: “God, I have taken my measure and concluded that is impossible.”

God replied: “No it isn’t. It is happening by small steps right now. And that is adequate.”

Love rules the universe. Inevitably, love will one day rule this world and every heart in it. Love is gentle but it possesses power. Love is the unifier and peace giver.

Living every moment lovingly is the will of your Spirit Within for your life. All love is significant.

Love is a valuable gift. Love benefits both the giver and the receiver and even the
observer. All feel richer who recognize that a gift of love has been given.

Love should be our universal approach to everything. It has magical powers on personal, social, and political levels to lead to things that are important and which nothing else can achieve. Loving is wanting good for the object of your love. There now, that’s not so hard is it?

Love disciplines in reasonable ways. It does not seek to hurt, harm, or administer vengeance. Discipline teaches self-mastery rather than fear of consequences. It is effective even when no one is around to administer punishment.

Respect virtue even in the sinner. It proves the Spirit still dwells within. Loving proves there is capacity  to love and to appreciate being loved.

Yes. Despise the sin, but still love the sinner. He is not without value just because he has so far failed to master his weakness.

Love comes in many forms. Love serves. It does not exploit. Love is gentle, kind, forgiving, merciful, and tolerant. So, if you behave this way, you are a loving person.

by Rumi

With life as short as a half-taken breath, don’t plant anything but love.

Your values are the attitudes and actions you base your life on. They are the way you distinguish and present yourself to the universe. They define your character. They make you different from everyone else, and that is the way it is supposed to be.

Your feelings, like your dreams, mean something. Examine them when they arise, but do not be their slave. There are good spiritual reasons why both are almost never messages from God or the angels.

Most of the benefits of forgiveness flow to the person who forgives. So, forgive as much as you can as quickly as you can, even when the offender is unworthy or unrepentant. Forgiveness gives a fresh opportunity to rebuild relationships.

It is better to love too much than to love too little.

What you achieve now of spiritual maturity (loving goodness) is real and lasting.

Optimism is your ally for achievement. What you believe is possible, you might try. What you try, you might possibly achieve. What you do not try, has no chance.

The values you actually live by are the building blocks of your character. Your loyalty to your values stabilizes your character. Your disloyalty to your values proves they have not yet become part of you.

Spiritually you are a first -generation child of the God of all creation. So, what do you expect you will grow up to be?

Inner beauty, with a little encouragement, grows eternally and lasts forever. What you can become in eternity is indescribable.

Truth is what works effectively to produce goodness and kindness. The purpose you choose to serve in life should be firmly attached to truth if you are to have a sense of mattering personally.

When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them.

By Confucius

It does not matter how slow you go, as long as you do not stop.

Inner beauty is far more significant than outer beauty. Inner beauty comes from loving, caring attitudes carried into action. It is spiritually seductive, drawing you into meaningful friendships.

Is life simply a result of a long string of physical and chemical coincidences or accidents which have no purpose or plan related to them? Is life no more than a trip from nothing into nothing?
Do the math, if you can, on the probabilities that a series of coincidences stretching over hundreds of billions of years could accidentally evolve a God seeking, intelligent human species of immense physical, mental, and spiritual complexity. It is possible, but the probability is so low that it is more rational to conclude there is a God who designed and engineered the process for a definite purpose.

These things matter and always will.
Relationships
Goodness
Higher values
Nobility of character
Learning to love and to serve the needs of others
Being useful
Seeking to know and do God’s will

You are both material and spiritual in nature. The material part of you is temporary. The spiritual part survives and continues to grow. It is your choice which part you identify with. Loving and doing good is the spiritual way. What you achieve now of loving goodness is real and lasting.