There's an emptiness within people, a deep loneliness, a hole that's unfulfilled, a feeling of isolation and disconnection, an unhappiness they people can't seem to shake.
People have tried everything to fill that emptiness: relationships, family, work, money, religion, adventures, new experiences, sex, drugs, music, alcohol, gambling, food, power, knowledge, honour, fame etc. All these pleasures are fleeting and people remain unfulfilled.
Today, we're all immersed in the quality of selfishness, seeking to benefit ourselves. In this state, any pleasure we feel is fleeting and it quickly fades away. So we remain unfulfilled.
The reason we're unfulfilled is because we've been looking for love in all the wrong places. Love is about connection with others and we've been immersed in ourselves.
Love is when you seek to benefit others instead of yourself. This is the quality of bestowal.
The quality of bestowal is God's quality and God is love. If our internal qualities change from selfishness to bestowal, we'll become similar to God in quality.
In this way we'll connect to God in quality and we'll connect to each other in mutual responsibility - we'll seek to benefit others instead of ourselves.
When we taste this true connection, the connection with God and the connection with each other, we'll sense a new kind of pleasure, spiritual pleasure, and this pleasure comes directly from God Himself. This pleasure will fill us completely and the emptiness within us will disappear.
We're all one family and we have to start behaving like one family. We have to treat each other with respect, dignity, compassion and love. We have to seek to benefit others instead of ourselves.
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