eep compassion.

If you love people and speak of them with praise until they in some way
thwart you, or do something of which you disapprove, and then you dislike
them and speak of them with dispraise, you are not governed by the Love
which is of God. If, in your heart, you are continually arraigning and
condemning others, selfless Love is hidden from you.

He who knows that Love is at the heart of all things, and has realized the
all-sufficing power of that Love, has no room in his heart for
condemnation.

Men, not knowing this Love, constitute themselves judge and executioner of
their fellows, forgetting that there is the Eternal Judge and Executioner,
and in so far as men deviate from them in their own views, their particular
reforms and methods, they brand them as fanatical, unbalanced, lacking
judgment, sincerity, and honesty; in so far as others approximate to their
own standard do they look upon them as being everything that is admirable.
Such are the men who are centered in self. But he whose heart is centered
in the supreme Love does not so brand and classify men; does not seek to
convert men to his own views, not to convince them of the superiority of
his methods. Knowing the Law of Love, he lives it, and maintains the same
calm attitude of mind and sweetness of heart toward all. The debased and
the virtuous, the foolish and the wise, the learned and the unlearned, the
selfish and the unselfish receive alike the benediction of his tranquil
thought.

You can only attain to this supreme knowledge, this divine Love by
unremitting endeavor in self-discipline, and by gaining victory after
victory over yourself. Only the pure in heart see God, and when your heart
is sufficiently purified you will enter into the New Birth, and the Love
that does not die, nor change, nor end in pain and sorrow will be awakened
within you, and you will be at peace.

He who strives for the attainment of divine Love is ever seeking to
overcome the spirit of condemnation, for where there is pure spiritual
knowledge, condemnation cannot exist, and only in the heart that has become
incapable of condemnation is Love perfected and fully realized.

The Christian condemns the Atheist; the Atheist satirizes the Christian;
the Catholic and Protestant are ceaselessly engaged in wordy warfare, and
the spirit of strife and hatred rules where peace and love should be.

"He that hateth his brother is a murderer," a crucifier of the divine
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