Love and knowledge

When we like and dislike traits in people, it is a projection of our ego conditioning. Below our filter, is the reservoir of pure love for all. We cannot truly judge another, since we do not know how God sees him, we do not know his capacity or his upbringing. Yet the inherent laws of morality and religion are for all. This is still the ideal, since following them brings unity. But how each is following them has infinite determinants, and only God can be the final judge. We can love all despite their character traits and actions. We should love all, because that is how they will grow and change to better conform to the ideal.

To truly love someone, we need to be cleared away of our own ego concerns, or we will not have the space to listen and love. True love comes from God, and from communing with his spirit. Otherwise, we just create a false ego self which listens and speaks from the point of view of our particular ego conditioning. We must access the spirit realm in order to truly love another. Until then, we should be honest about the fact that we still have our own ego needs, fears, and desires. And together we can bring ourselves to God in prayer and worship. This way, we learn to rely on God when loving each other, instead of creating a false self on top of our inner fears and desires. Conventional love is usually only this false self connected to a warm feeling of false ego power and human relatedness, which does not access the Holy Spirit. Then a dependency and attachment is created to this false self in ourselves and others, and a veil is created against the Spirit. One must surrender even these attempts at love, in order to access the Spirit. These attachments on the human level seal off the Spirit, and become substitutes for one's relationship with God.

When we teach someone anything, the first thing to do is to love God and to love the person. The point is not to dispense information, but to create unity and show love. The knowledge is a reflection of God's grace, and the point is to glorify God. So hidden motives should be uprooted. These motives include self-exaltation, in order to compensate for an inner lack of self-worth. If this is the case, one should notice the inner shame, feel it, and surrender it to God, knowing that one is made worthy by the grace of God, not by one's selfish efforts--except by those efforts to acknowledge God and commune with Him, and do His will.