What follows herein has been taken directly from The Children of the Law of One - The Lost Teachings of Atlantis by Jon Peniel, but paraphrased where possible.
Virtually everyone can agree that kindness, compassion, caring, giving, creation are good things. Thus, these things are far more significant than any belief, any teaching, any wisdom, any knowledge.
We call these traits the basic spiritual virtues or qualities, and they are the natural result of true spiritual growth. If these qualities are not the outcome of your growth, then the growth is not really spiritual.
True spiritual growth moves you away from the world of separateness and selfishness, and towards Universal Consciousness and Oneness. Such a shift in consciousness can only result in caring for all - for you realize that all beings are you (the Universal Spirit).
Compassion is the greatest of all these virtues that are a part of Unselfish Love. Compassion means feeling for others, caring about others. A person without compassion is truly empty and cold. There is such a thing as imbalanced compassion however. If compassion clouds the mind, and alone dictates your actions, you can make mistakes and end up harming yourself, and the ones you care about.
In the future after you are enlightened and have left here, when you meet people, it will almost always be the first time they have ever met someone who really Loves them. And you will often be a stranger to them. It will always be a blessing for them, even though they may not know it, or now what’s going on. It will be more powerful than your words (even though it will be in harmony with both your words and your actions).
Because the experience of being Unselfishly Loved involves feeling something from someone, something subtle possibly, but something that you’ve never felt before. It also involves and inner spiritual kindling, a knowing, and actually seeing an example of the way someone lives and acts when they are Universally Conscious. Most people can’t Love Unselfishly, until they experience being Loved Unselfishly first.
Too few have experienced the impact of being in the presence of a being who is fully Unselfishly Loving. It is because they have not been willing to experience it within themselves - they have not been willing to surrender to the Universal Spirit within them. When a person is willing to begin to change, to start to Unselfishly Love, then they will meet someone who Loves them Unselfishly.
Experiencing being Loved by a totally Unselfishly Loving being is a great blessing, and this can spark the flame of Unselfish Love within the loved one (if they are open to change and to begin giving themselves). Unselfish Love can spread this way.
Know that there will be great pain. Because often those who you have completely opened up your great heart to, and made yourself vulnerable to through your Love, will hurt you. You already know though, that such is the price of being a loving servant of the Universal Spirit.
Most people have never experienced pure Unselfish Love, either giving it or receiving it. And how can anyone expect to even know what it is unless someone first Loves them unselfishly?
Earlier you read that Unselfish Love and Oneness were like two sides of a coin. Unselfish Love is what a person does, who knows they are One with God, the Universal Spirit. Unselfish Love is the way of the flow of the Universe, the way of the One. Unselfish Love is both the end result of breaking our illusion of separateness, and a way of attaining Oneness.
Living life with an attitude of Unselfish Love is the technique of a Universal lifestyle. And that is the essence within all the Children’s teachings.
Unselfish Love is the way of eternal everyday meditation. It spans 24 hours a day, everyday. Meditation has often been considered a process of stilling the mind, but that is not the whole of it. Just the stilling of the mind can be relaxation, concentration, or discipline. These build your mind into a strong tool for the Universal Spirit, but are prerequisite to true meditation. The mind must be still for you to be a channel for Spirit. Of what good is any belief or growth’ method if it doesn’t make life better, more kind, more beautiful? The opportunity to grow, to give, and to Unselfishly Love is here every moment. Your whole life can be a constant meditation, meditation in action, a flow in harmony with Universal flow. This is the song of life; the art of living. For when one truly attains Universal Consciousness, everything else, every thought, every action, reflects it. It is a change from a life of wanting and fearing to a life of giving and security.
The essence of it all is to manifest the Universal Spirit in, and through, the physical vehicle (body-mind-self) by living a life of Unselfish Love.
Thank you for sharing your valuable time with me.
Namaste,
Michele
