Life is a constant imposition to regain our inner cosmic perception as a divine being. All the suffering we experience in life, all the present drastic situations we find ourselves in with the vast intelligence of nature. Nature, this planet, now is going to teach some very humbling lessons. Aren’t we all fearful of earthquakes right now? Aren’t we constantly worrying where is that great catastrophic destruction which is going to annihilate us by the millions? What kind of a life is this, to live constantly in fear of something happening to you?
That, my dear, is going force each one of us to depend more and more to live in the presence of God. There is no place to go anymore. There is no more security anywhere. Now, you don’t have to worry about bomb into your plane; now they are going to send “stingers rockets” on you. There is absolutely no more possibility to protect yourself in a plane. So where is security now? And fear –– as long as there is fear in your heart, you cannot know God. When I go into a plane, I usually have a small icon in my hand of the Mother, and I concentrate upon Her until all fear is gone from me. Takes me about twenty minutes
After twenty minutes it’s gone completely. But in the plane, I feel like a sitting duck. You know, as a fighter pilot, at least I can fight it out, [he chuckles] but on the plane I’m like a sitting duck. And, believe me, when you look around you see everybody having that long face, too. Therefore, you place your consciousness in God.
The first quality required from a person who wants to live a higher life is the ability to deal constructively with reality, and not allow his life to be structured by the endless worldly suggestions of your television. Most people perceive the world through their video tape and television. They live in a cloud as the Germans said, a dream world which is unreal. You have to learn to deeply think. Television robs you of the most important part of your life –– deep thinking, and deep feeling.
Only a strong man, a strong woman, can stand up to their fate, where their inner security enables them to endure to the end. It is only when we have the courage to face things exactly as they are without any sort of illusion, that their life will develop out of events by which the path to succeed may be recognized. In other words, you have to be a hard thinker and analyze life every day, and begin to withdraw yourself from the herd of unthinking people. Hey look, you walk around people; they don’t see you. They block the place and they won’t move for you, you don’t exist. They live in a complete closed universe –– they have no more rapport between human beings. I tried to go at FedCo [garden supply store] at ten o’clock in the morning when they opened the door. Last time I was there my feet did not touch the ground; I was just catapulted right inside.
This wisdom which we are seeking cannot motivate you to be a moral person, to be a noble person, to be a dignified person. That wisdom can only be reawakened through meditation. Meditation reawakens your conscience. That’s why for so long meditation has been left aside, because meditation forces you to face yourself. You begin to face yourself in meditation; you begin to realize what you are doing to yourself. Therefore nobody wants to meditate. They want to keep restless all the time so they are not aware of themselves.
Therefore, the Master says that is, “You must analyze everything which happens to you in your life with the mind firmly anchored in God’s intuitive wisdom, which alone gives undistorted answers to all the ‘why’ of our lives.” And as long as you have to question another individual to guide your life, you have distorted perceptions. I have no confusion in my life. There is no more, where it has been long enough, I must say, but I have no more confusion. There is no more doubt in my mind. There is no more nothing, no more abstraction in my life. But I had to work for it.
Therefore, the more that we understand that the only true purpose of life is to find your own Self, and not to lose ourselves into the labyrinth of this world, and that each one of us is required by God to graduate and pass all the diplomas which God requires from us.
That talk of freedom –– don’t you know that you are under a cosmic dictator? That twenty-four hours the karmic laws observe your life, your thoughts, your feelings, your words, your actions? That you are constantly building the future by the way you behave every day? That’s why one of the most difficult things to accept is that the first thing you have to learn in life is to learn to behave properly. And that behavior was supposed to be taught to us by ourfather and by our mother. Now, if they would have accepted it? No. Therefore we do not get discipline and deeply spiritual parents to train us because we are unfit to be trained. We are unteachable. I became a very good fifteen hundred meter and eight hundred meter [runner] because if I said a single cross word to my mother, my father ran after me; I was lucky he was two hundred pounds, believe me. I got a discipline in Switzerland which prepared me to be a monk in the future, believe me.
The discipline I got in my life in Switzerland –– there is no children battling –– your father takes care of you in a way you begin to behave properly, believe me. And in school, every week I had to present to my father a behavior book which my father had to sign to see what kind of grade I had got during that week. Boy, I tell you, my mother saved my life many times.
All of this is gone –– the development of character. We train our body –– we do everything for the body, but what about the mind? How about training our characters? And that cosmic dictator, my dear, no one—don’t ever think you can escape it. You can’t. You can postpone it as long as you want, but such call for perfection will hound you life after life with the hoard of deep physical, mental, emotional, and collective spiritual suffering. We are reborn here, you and me, because we are—do you know why you are here on this planet? A penitentiary for spiritually retarded people.
That’s what you are. That’s what we are, because we were unteachable; we refused to obey properly, therefore we are getting the third degree now. Now we see the whole planet revolting against us, and we are going to have to change or be destroyed. Look at all those new diseases. At Christmas I got from Shanghai with love, I got that famous flu from China, and I was the sickest I’ve been in my lifetime. And those diseases become more and more and more and more powerful. Therefore, unless we change our ways, we are going to start to be decimated by plague. We have plague right now, but we don’t know it. So let us now put our consciousness in God and sing “Listen, listen, to my heart’s song; I will never forget Thee, I will never forsake Thee.”
Stop for a few seconds during the day and sing this song mentally to God: “I will never forget Thee, my Lord. I will never forsake Thee.”
PART 2
I just came back from the desert, where I was ten days. I fasted for about seven days on juices and in silence. Now, I compared my state of consciousness now with what I had about twenty years ago. I was completely alone in the middle of the Mohave desert. In the past, it reflected my own emptiness. I felt so lonely, so lost. I was asking myself, “What am I doing on this path? How come nobody loves me, nobody cares for me. I’m completely alone.” A total monument to self-pity. Now this time, now I walked in the desert in total joy, total peace, total love. It’s so unbelievably beautiful. If only you could all experience it, you know, because now I can see the colossal difference of having spent a good part of my life to try to develop that intimate depth of a relationship with God.
We try to do that in marriage; we try to develop a beautiful relationship with another soul, but because of our misbehavior, most of the time we are unable to be really in love with each other. Now what is beautiful with God is that He loves you no matter how you are. But as He sees you striving to change, then more and more of His love begins to be your reward. Remember that. Love is the fulfilling of the Law. The more you please God, the more you become in love, because He gives it to you. Therefore I experienced this, which is described by our Guru during those days:
“The yearning for our lost perfection, the urge to do and to be that which is the noblest and the most beautiful of which we are capable is the creative impulse behind every high achievement. We strive for perfection here on earth because we long in our souls to be restored to our oneness with God.”
All that increase of perfection in our scientific world, the incredible beauty of art and music –– all of this is the aspiration of that which is the most beautiful. And those who succeed give to the world something to remain with us, like the great symphonies of Beethoven or Mozart or Hadyn, or the greatest sculpture, the greatest painting.
Some momentarily have expressed all the beauty they had within their soul. We all have that. But this intuitive inner call to regain our inner perfection is the cause of all our suffering we face in life, and it means that it creates in us a choice we have to make between good and evil, which is the architect of our character. How much you listen to your inner voice in your conscience when you have the choice between good and evil will determine what kind of character you are going to be in tune, what kind of architects you are going to build your destiny.
“As men progress from life after life, they become aware of a constant increasing demand of perfection imposed by his own conscience. He then becomes aware of a gigantic battle within himself of two powers: one destructive, leading him toward increasing misery, and one power leading him toward everything which is noble, beautiful, uplifting. [ ? 14:04] come an inner awareness of a faintremembrance of a lost paradise where he knew nothing but joy and bliss.”
That is, as you begin to strive to live in beauty, to walk in beauty, therein gradually comes within you some remembrance of who you were, because right now we’re in a state of cosmic amnesia; we don’t know where we come from. But when you begin—when those thoughts begin to rise in you, what’s happened to you? Tears of joy, tears of beauty begin to flow in you.
I get that when listen to some of Rachmaninoff piano concerto, when he comes to the crescendo there, it becomes so uplifting, so beautiful, that tears come to your eyes, because it’s a call to the soul. Music does that to you. Just listen [to] Requiem by John Rutter, that English composer. If you have never heard it, try to get it; and there is such a beauty into it.
“Then increasing longing arises within himself, until he has returned where he came from. Our conscience is the voice of God calling us back Home. Man is a prisoner in this creation only for a little while,” –– if hundreds of thousands of years can be called a little while.
“Then he will go back to his Home of Cosmic blissful consciousness. Therefore, even though your state of consciousness is the real you, stand before the introspecting gaze of your own soul wisdom to discover your faults and virtues. By constantly following the inner voice of conscience, which is the voice of God, you will become a truly moral person, a highly spiritual being, a man and a woman of peace. Be honest with yourself. The world is not honest with you. The world loves hypocrisy. When you are honest with yourself, you will find the road to inner peace.”
That’s why yoga starts with yama-niyama –– what you are supposed to do to maintain constant equilibrium in your emotional life. That becomes a very strict life. Therefore the Master says, “Very people are willing to analyze their situation in life to determine whether they are progressing or going backward.”
There are two things in life: there is fate, and there is destiny. It’s not the same. If you do not assert yourself what you are going to do in life, you either go forward or backward. Therefore, only when you are certain and begin to analyze your life will you go forward. If you are not aware, you cannot remain still on the that platform of Spirit –– you are going to move one direction or the other –– and unless you begin to be aware of your life, you are going backward. The world takes over and you become an automaton.
Therefore the Master said, “It is our greatest duty to use our reason and wisdom rightly.” That’s why the Master demands from each one of his disciples that you first in the morning, “Lord, today I will reason, I will will, I will act; but guide Thou my reason, will and activity in everything I’m going to do today, every second of the day.” He demands that from you. When you do that, you will see God during the day taking care of you, “so that you may know,” the Master said, “whether you are going forward or backward.”
“You must never forget that an important part of your equipment in life is your purpose in life. The world stands aside for the person who knows where he’s going and is determined to get there. When you have resolved definitely upon a purpose in life, you must make everything serve that purpose.”
Therefore, what are you going to ask yourself today, first requirement: do you have a true purpose of life? Or are you going to die –– you never knew where you came from, you don’t really know what you are doing here, and you don’t know where you are going; and you are going to reincarnate with the same state of consciousness. The Master says, “The second part of your life is the most important part of your life.”
You know why? Because you shall be reborn with the state of consciousness you have now. That’s why at sixty-four years old I have built myself that I feel much better than when I was twenty. I am not as dumb as I used to be. So my dear, now is the time for us to—if you spend fifty years on this planet, there you must spend most of your time trying to develop yourself spiritually to gain what you have forgotten in the past. And therefore you must find out if you are fulfilling your immortal Self or if you are spending your time deifying your own ego. The Master said, “The love of the body is the love of your jail.” And the mind? You’re not the mind either.
“Therefore, purpose and aim are the qualities which make or mar an individual life. If we have a driving purpose in life, we can tap the resource of the Infinite for power; and that if that stirring purpose is in tune with the Oneness of all creation, we shall come to find life growing richer and wiser. Such a motive builds the eternal things of the Spirit and they never fail.”
I realized more and more as I practiced the Energizing, this technique of cosmic—you recharge your body with cosmic energy. Energizing means to apply voltage. Seven times a day every day I practiced those Energizing. I learned from the Chinese also, for instance, deep breathing: when you do a deep breathing you tense the whole body and you relax. Why? Because that Master wants you that that breath goes all the way like the Chinese do; when they inhale, they inhale all the way down to their feet.
Now I realize that what the Master is trying to teach us: when you sing, sing with your whole body; when you talk, talk with—you are the whole self there, you are not talking to somebody while your mind is all over creation. Learn to be whole with yourself. Imagine –– you have a hundred trillion cells. When you are singing to God, and you are singing with your hundred trillion cells, what a difference, isn’t it?
Try to analyze how you are in life. How much do you give? You want to see a person—in Switzerland we have a test: we shake your hand. You shake the hand of a person, and you can see how much they are giving of themselves in life. [Brother probably extends his hand out to the nearest devotee] “Hi. How are you.” The children ask me, “Why should I shake your hand?” And they look at you. I say, “Because then I can love you, and you can love me.” What can they really answer to that? I got them –– pow! That’s what God is waiting for you. He’s like an archer. He’s waiting, the slightest opening in you ––– Pssst! –– He puts His grace in you. [he chuckles] But He has a hard time to find a target in us because we are constantly moving.
PART 3
You see, don’t be naive. In this world, in a world of [ ? ] tears, Sri Daya Mata told me, there are very little happiness in this world. You have to squeeze it out of it. And they ask when they—Saint Francis of Assisi was walking in the woods with good Brother Juniper. Brother Juniper said, “How happy are the birds in the air, the animals in the grass, and the fish in the brooks. Father, why is it that men are not as happy as that?” And Saint Francis of Assisi answered, “Well Brother, it is this way: the birds, the animals, and the fish are made for this world. That is why they are so happy. Men are not made for this world. That is why they cannot be happy here.”
“My kingdom is not of this world.” Some people contradict that: “Oh ya, but Jesus said, he said, ‘I have come here to give you life more abundance.’ Within. That’s what he meant. And if your life is more abundant within, magnetically you will draw the thing you need –– not what you want, which is an obstruction in your life –– but only the thing you need. When you simplify your life –– you have to make room for God and you have to simplify your life.
The Master says, “Remember, you have a quality within yourself which is called initiative, which can,” he said, the Master says, “remove a great many crippling barriers in your life,” –– our lack of imagination, our lack of initiative, our unwillingness to think. The Master says, “The moment you deeply think, you are going to find a way out of your problem.” So you come to somebody else; you want somebody else to think for you and tell you –– “How am I going to get rid of my problem?” –– when actually you are just a plain lazy thinker; you refuse to think for yourself. It’s simple. I’m always willing to help anybody that comes to me, but I can only suggest, that’s all.
So the Master said, “By the faculty of divine initiative within you, you can defeat every invasion of fate created by the power of your own past karma or bad actions, and march victoriously into paradise. Do not continue to live in the same old way. Make up your mind to do something to improve your life, and then do it. Change your consciousness; that is all that is necessary. A higher life means a higher state of consciousness. Resolve that you are not going to be affected by problems –– you are not going to be finicky, you are not going to be the victim of habits and moods –– you are going to become free like a lark. You need not remain the same old self. Destroy the image you have superimposed upon your true Self. Bring forth the soul-image that God gave you. Every day, when you look into the mirror, you should see reflected there a better person.”
That’s what a great advantage is a mirror I had for twenty years right there. [Brother probably pointed to the Guru’s picture] That was my mirror. No matter how I felt, I had that big picture of my Guru. I sat down in front of him, I looked at him like that, that close. That was the mirror of my conscience. Try to go—if Yogananda is your guru, and you have done something really wrong, and go into and look into his eyes and see how you feel.
I remember Dr. Lewis, who was the first disciple of Paramahansa Yogananda –– Dr. Lewis said, “Well, when Master asked me that question, I answered very quickly. I did not realize what I was saying.” The Master said, “Dr., will you promise me that during our life as I train you, you will never avoid me?” Dr. Lewis said, “Of course!” He said, “Mama Mia.” He said, “After that,” he said, “How many times I didn’t want to see that guru, because he was my walking conscience.” Like a man like Abraham Lincoln –– why do we love him? He was the conscience of his nation –– if ever we had a good president.
“Therefore,” the Master said, “if you change your mind from the worldly consciousness,” –– I add, which the television is endlessly filling –– “of the senses to the consciousness of God, you become a conqueror. All achievements lie within the mind. Ask yourself, ‘Am I a slave to my senses, or am I a king? Am I a creative genius, or a victim of circumstance? Am I in divine peace, or am I poor within?’” And that, my dear, to be poor within is the worst form of poverty, because it leads to alcoholism, to drugs, and obsessive materialism.
“Planes of consciousness correspond to various levels of thought. Thought, conversely, is an indicator of the plane of consciousness in which one’s mind dwell. Life unfolds its wealth according to the unveiling of higher states of consciousness. A higher life means a higher consciousness.”
In other words, you have to take some principle –– you must become like steel, like steel within yourself, and gentle like a flower to other human beings. But with yourself you must have a shield where nobody can hurt you anymore, and no one can bring out of you ugly thoughts of revenge and retaliation. Not easy if you want to be a peace within yourself. And therefore, remember I want you to know that every suffering you are experiencing in life physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually are prods to remembrance that you have forgotten God, that you are not making enough effort. Once you take that vow of Kriya, of Kriya Yoga in Self-Realization, you have made a commitment which is terribly serious. Make no mistake about it.
“A man who forgets his real Self for numerous lives becomes so riddled with complex suffering that he cannot stand himself or his own habits. But as soon as he tried earnestly to improve, he will discover the path to divine joy.
“There are millions of people on this earth who keep bringing unconsciously upon themselves all kinds of unpleasant incidents, and invite disaster by the power of their own thoughts and set feelings, and they ignorantly blame some imaginary external factor, such as fate and destiny. But when you realize that it is your own uncontrolled thought processes and unconscious feelings springing from your subconscious mind which magnetically bring to you most of your trouble in life, you realize then that the mind is the instrument that God has given to you to lead yourself from darkness into light, from sorrow into joy, from ignorance into wisdom, and from the fear of death. Here, the full knowledge that you are an immortal being.”
That’s why each time I go in a plane God wants to be sure if I’ve got it. Last time we were hit by lightening, and I’m telling you, if you want to be scared, there is nothing else in the world. I said to the Lord, “You try to scare me, Lord –– you succeeded.”
I thought the whole tail of the plane was gone. The bang of that lightening on that aluminum was unbelievable.
Therefore, be realistic. What is the true reason you are here? The Master said, “Life here on earth appears futile and chaotic until we are anchored in the Divine. That is why I always tell you that I am here to testify of the supreme importance of Spirit. Do not concentrate upon ephemeral worldly goals and human attachments. Such absorption draws your mind away from the Lord and your eternal Self in Him. Therefore, remember that all difficulties in life that confront you are meant only to stimulate you to greater effort.”
are getting kicked around. The moment you refuse to—everyone of us lives in his own spiritual class where he has to graduate; and therefore, if you do not fulfill and graduate, the karma comes to hit you on the head. I usually try to stay one step ahead. I don’t always succeed, and at Christmas I didn’t.
“Therefore, so that you may reach greater heights, if it is happiness you want, have it. There is nothing to stop you. You are an immortal child of God. Your mind should be charged with joy and detached from all unpleasant experiences. Strengthen your will power so that you will not be controlled by circumstances, but will control them. Plan your life so that you will be able to accomplish all the good things you want to do, that you know you should do. As you work and play, remember it is God who is working through you; thus you will develop endurance and strength. God made you His child.
You have made yourself a beggar. If you have convinced yourself that you are a helpless mortal and you allow everyone else to convince you, then you have passed a decree in your own mind that you are down and done for. No judgement from God or fate, but your own pronouncement of yourself, keeps you poor and worried. Even against the negative opinion of the rest of society, if you bring out by your all-conquering God-given will the conviction that you can’t be left to suffer in difficulties, you will feel a secret divine power coming upon you; and you will see that the magnetism of that conviction and power is opening new ways for you.”
Now you should understand that it is highly scientific. One day our physicists will explain to you what it is to be spiritual. When you pray, hold your heart into your hand like a bowl. You are going to God. God will not change your circumstances. You open yourself to God; God pours His cosmic energy, fills up the bowl of your heart; that energy begins to flow into every cell of your body, and you become magnetically like the solar system, the galaxies –– everything is interrelated with the power of magnetism –– you begin to draw to yourself automatically the thing you need.
I saw it in Sri Yukteswar’s service I led the other night. It was so clear to me, I said to the people out of the blue, “Go to the altar; hold your heart into your hand; receive the divine magnetism you need. I never knew it until it came to me the other day. It was so clear. God will not change anything; He is going to give you the power in you, the power of magnetism, which is going to be able to draw that which uplifts you.
And remember the Master said, “The Bible says, ‘Know they way; acknowledge Him, and He shall direct thy path.’ His ways are unknown and mysterious to those who rely on their own understanding; but for those who seek His face unceasingly with utmost faith and devotion, and attune their earthbound will with His wisdom-guided will, He will give the greatest blessings, directing them in every activity. Learn to commune with God by meditating intensely, and you will know exactly what course to follow to the minutest detail. Be alert to the intuitive prompting,” –– that means remained centered. “Be alert to the intuitive prompting which comes from within, and you will see that daily activities form a perfect pattern of spiritual and material fulfillment.”
How did I become a monk? How did I get this incredible kingdom, living in the house of God? I live in paradise in this Lake Shrine. I always knew it. But I had to make a paradise of this box right here. [Brother probably points to his head] I had to, as much as I could, lock up that Pandoras box of my own mind. You cannot change that mind, but you can bypass the mind. When you live in intuition of the soul there is no more thought process. You feel all things. It’s like love. Love is not a mental concept. You don’t say to somebody, “Hold a minute; I have to read a book about love to know if I love you.” You know very well if you love a person or not. How? You feel it.
Therefore remember this is what you and me are going to face at the end of our life. When we’ll be on our deathbed, this is alone. We came alone, with God alone; we saw a gallery of faces –– my father, my mother, my home –– then we go back to God alone. And those are going to be—this is going to be in front of you.
“When this book of life shall be closed there will remain with you only the realization gained from desires you have fulfilled in connection with God. So man must realize that his own happiness lies not in pleasing men, but God, the earth’s sole President and Owner. The whole world may not know you, but if Christ knows you, you are eternally a spiritual king, a spiritual queen. Always say to yourself, ‘Lord, Lord, not my will, but Thine.’ You are entitled[?] to a nonattached state of great inner freedom. You harbor only one wish: ‘Lord, I want only to do Thy will, whatever it might be.’”
So my dear, unless you begin to make room for God, you begin to remove from your life too many desires –– your greatest enemy in your spiritual development: too much desire for entertainment. Can’t you remain by yourself and begin to think deeply and entertain yourself by your own mind? The desert was made by God for you, not to go with those crazy biker motorcycles or shooting cannons –– one guy was shooting a cannon the other day.
You go to the desert to remember –– you go to the Grand Canyon, you go to the Zion National Park, you go all the incredible beauty of this planet to make you remember the beauty of your own soul. If you have a chance, go to Monument Valley in Utah, where John Wayne was ceaselessly chasing Indians. You go over there, you can sit in the silence –– unbelievable silence. You have absolutely no effort you make –– you sit down and you are just bathed by the beauty of the love of God who approaches you inT silence. If you have a chance to go over there, it’s one of the most—everybody talks about how great and wonderful is Switzerland. Go in America –– look at your own country. You have everything Switzerland has a million times bigger. We haven’t got any desert like that.
Therefore, Sri Daya Ma said to us, “Never be discouraged. Never think that you cannot make the spiritual grade, no matter how steep it seems at times. One of the most consoling and heartening encouragements Master gave to us was this reminder: ‘A saint is a sinner who never gave up,’ which we should remember whenever we get discouraged or feel that we have fallen short of our spiritual goal.
The saving grace of the would-be saint is that he never gives up. He always keeps on trying, no matter how many times he falls, no matter how many mistakes he makes. By never giving up we prove to God that our devotion, our loyalty, our desire for Him, is unconditional. When the Lord is once convinced that it is He alone we want then He is satisfied, in spite of all our weaknesses and shortcomings.”
Isn’t that encouraging? In spite of all our shortcomings, our sins, our mistakes, when you can convince –– you say, “Lord, I want go Home, my Lord. Have mercy on me,” –– what can He do. When they asked Sri Yogananda, “Master, will you forgive me?” And the Master said, “What else can I do?” So then God takes us by the hand and He walks with us and He talks with us, and He tells us that we are His own.
It is God who guides you to live a higher and a higher life, who reawakens—you don’t have to polish your ego. You just have to step out of it. Everything good is waiting for you.
Please rise and have our closing song, “Oh God Beautiful.” Realize that when you are singing to Him that He’s going to watch your heart. Be sure your mind and heart are united, because then you open yourself to His grace, and He removes some of your karma. As Yogananda said, “No one leaves this door empty-handed.” You have gained something by being here.
[Chanting, healing service, and closing prayer:]
Heavenly Father, Mother, Friend, Beloved God, Jesus Christ, Bhagavan Krishna, Mahavatar Babaji, Lahiri Mahasaya, Swami Sri Yukteswarji, our Guru, Paramahansa Yogananda, saints of all religions, we bow to all of you.
Most beloved God, take possession of my body that I may realize in my daily life, in a tangible way, that I am not this body which is born and passes away. Take possession of my mind that I may think no evil, see no evil, feel no evil, fear no evil, spread no evil, but behold nothing but goodness and purity. Take possession of my heart that it may belong to Thee and to Thee alone. Take possession of my soul that it may manifest Thy ever-new Joy. Beloved God, naughty or good, saint or sinner, I am Thy child. I am Thine; Thou art mine. I am Thine; Thou art mine. Om. Peace. Amen.
And may God give us the power to open our hearts and mind and soul every day of our life to the full flow of His loving presence.
