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Sunday Meditation

April 29, 1979

And yet, all that we can tell you is that that freedom is within yourself and not within the outer world, for the outer world is a distraction and a series of distractions which serve as a catalyst for your understanding. This catalyst you may ignore; you may become unhappy; you may become tired or you may consider these things within yourself, deciding what each lesson of your life might have to do with love. And when you see the love in a situation, then you have come one step closer to what you would call the kingdom of heaven. That is the place in which we dwell, for our dimension relates very closely to your heavenly vibration, as you would call it. In that vibration we live, and from that vibration we reach back to you to help, as it were, by inspiration, to help you want to be lifted up into a place in which there is peace and joy in reality and not only in dreams.

I have come to realize that our task here is not to dream of escape to a heavenly world, but to transmute each moment of our lives into heaven by the power of the Love that is always available to us, if we would tune in to it with our hearts and minds. Samsara is Nirvana. If we develop the ability to transmute even the most difficult circumstances into love, are we not invincible?