Daily Meditation: Wednesday, August 28, 2002

Men and women instinctively know that if they want to win …

08/28/2002

Men and women instinctively know that if they want to win the friendship or love of someone, they have to use pleasant words, make compliments, give presents, in other words mutually flatter their vanity. And in doing so, they are obviously not addressing people's higher nature but their lower nature. It is their lower nature they are caressing and feeding. How can anyone then be surprised when a relationship that was born in such conditions continues amidst misunderstandings, tension and confrontation? The desire to be loved and to have friends is undoubtedly a sincere and commendable one, but it must occur in the right conditions. If men and women want to arouse in others truly noble and luminous expressions, they must take into account the higher nature they also possess and must learn to address it. To love someone is not wanting to attract them to you under the pretext that you need them, but seeking all the time to enlighten them, to strengthen them and make them increasingly conscious of their divine predestination.