Effortlessly doing good deeds comes from abundance and humility

"True goodness is like water in that it blesses everything and harms nothing. And like water, true goodness seeks the lowest places, even those levels which others avoid." Taoism, Urantiabook §131 Page 1452

I knew a very righteous and holy priest who had his farewell Mass before he retired. Yes, he was over 80 years old, so he'd continued his good work until he couldn't anymore. In this Mass I experienced that from the spiritual world a great grace and blessing was given about his earthly work and I "saw" and felt all this happening. I'm now not going into what I've experienced here. But heaven opened up there on that altar in a way that filled me with awe and emotion.

When I told him later on in a letter my experience and expressed my admiration and respect for this sacred event, he wrote "I am pleased for you that you have been through this, but as far as I am concerned I can only say "I owe everything to my parents and the Virgin Mary". At the time I didn't understand his modesty, but now I'm starting to experience for myself that goodness and handling out of goodness are really nothing but parts of the abundance that you've been given, and that that's natural and really can't be otherwise. There doesn't seem to be a more natural way. And now I came across this Taoist quote and in it it is described even more zen and even more beautiful and more self-evident than I had suspected.

Would You like to comment on this, My God?

This is the will of God. True love is effortless, and acts without self-interest, and shares its own abundance. And flows from good man as water to lower and unreachable places, to people who need it most. True love therefore comes from a humble man who has come to realize that one can only get empty hands if the full hands and the full heart are handed out, handed out and handed out, effortlessly. How else can the hands and heart be filled with more?

This quote shows that God truly loves all religions. The beauty and truth of this Taoist quote may touch and inspire any other believer and unbeliever.  

My blessings to you all

No 511

If your heart is good, you'll see God in everything (Thomas à Kempis)

If your heart is good, every creature is a mirror of life and a book of divine lessons. Even the smallest and most despicable creature has the goodness of God in it (Thomas à Kempis)

Would you like to comment on this thought?

This thought of Thomas à Kempis, one of the great sons of mankind, is a pearl of wisdom. I would like to comment on it on the basis of two important parts.

"If your heart is good"

How can one's heart always be good in this world in which also matter and temptations, misery and sorrow are claiming their place? That’s almost impossible, although mystics and saints and truly great sons and daughters of mankind have achieved this.
The aim at a good heart is yet important. Every act of you must be determined by the question "is this good for my fellow man or fellow creature"?
The aim is indeed important because through trial and error one is achieving something.

"every creature is a mirror of life and a book of divine lessons. Even the smallest and most despicable creature has the goodness of God in it. "

If you could see the world and all life through Our eyes, you would observe this: a luminous world of energy and love and harmony, despite the struggle for life in nature, despite the confusion of mankind, despite the long road one has to pass to an evolving physical world of light and love. Behind the scenes this is the case, the spiritual side of life is like this. The hidden grain of truth of everything and everyone is like this, because it is in and from God.

The spiritual world is as it is wished to be.
The material world is as it temporary is.

Know that every prayer for good, every thought of it, any attempt to feel it, every honest belief, any focus on kindness, every act of love, every desire for a sacred world will bring this world more nearby.

"If your heart is good, every creature is a mirror of life and a book of divine lessons. Even the smallest and most despicable creature has the goodness of God in it."

Thomas à Kempis lived six hundred years ago, but his message is entirely relevant. And time is on the horizon, when many people will live this truth. But the world needs more time, before this is the case.

Do realize in the meantime God is in everything.

My blessings to you all

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