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LOVING SELF AS SOUL, NOT AS EGO SELF

This relationship of God-child is what makes a child potentially possess higher love—the love for God. This is love beyond the little self, the ego self. The ego is the self that’s most troublesome. Excessive love for the ego self impedes love for God. In other words, too much love for self diminishes the capacity for Divine Love in one’s heart.

One needs to go beyond the little Self in order to be able to externalize love, to bring it out to the world through some modus operandi, often through one’s talent, hobbies, interest, special ability, love given to another unconditionally.

God’s love sustains all existing forms; it is externalized and at the same time internalized. The process of externalizing and internalizing love, strikes a proper balance between the inflow and outflow of love rendering one a balanced individual in one’s daily life. One needs to love Self as Soul, not as ego, for it’s by going beyond the ego that one is able to externalize love to the outer world. By so doing, you will grow in your capacity for more love.