The old story of religions that you have to choose between good and evil, between the narrow road and the wide road, between God and the devil, is not the solution. I do not think that’s appropriate now.
Everything is all right what a man does because
he wants it, because he chooses it, because it’s on his way, because he cannot
do anything else. And the consequences of his actions will be felt
automatically, sometimes quite quickly visible. So whether it was good or bad,
bad for his inner self or not, whether he is letting another person down or
not, everything will become clear sooner or later.
So the advice is not that man must choose
between good and evil or between God and the devil, because these are the
traditional suggestions of religions.
Even a bit old fashioned. In this time of freedom and education and
healthy individualism, the spiritual world stimulates a third way. God's advice
is that man must do what his heart imparts to him, what he likes, what he
thinks to be attractive, what is fascinating him, for there is his way, there
his life will be fulfilled, there his destiny will be visible, there is he
going to make his mistakes, there he is going to acquire experience, there his
big life insights will come true, nowhere else. Too many people in early days
have been forcedly influenced by norms and values from ruling morals, and so
creating a lot of sorrow, repressing many talent and abolishing many life
experiences.
The third way is the way of the heart, even if
the heart draws into wrong directions and inclinations. Everything eventually
becomes clear because everything is done entirely in a system of God's laws. So
how can it go wrong in the long run? Because in evil deeds the consequences are
included which lead to insight and change and eventually to the right choices.
Evil is not for the sake of evil but for the sake of the good.
Therefore, today, one chooses no longer between
good and evil but for the own individual heart. And that is all right. In this way one comes closer to God than by forced and unnatural goodness.
My blessings to you all
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