Selected Thoughts: Life,Love,Freedom from Master Beinsa Douno (1864-1944)
The source of life is Love. Love brings the fullness of life. Life becomes real when man comes to know Love. If man does not understand Love, he cannot understand life. If he does not understand life, he cannot understand time, in which life flows as a continuous process. And if he does not understand time, he will lose the musical rhythm of life and fall into a series of inharmonious conditions, which will cause him much unhappiness. All worlds, through all eternity, have come forth and shall come forth from the Source of Love. Love is the most beautiful being. All worlds, through all eternity, have come forth and shall come forth from the Source of Love. Only love can awaken within the soul its hidden potentialities.Science and art cannot be the stimuli for the awakening of the human soul. This is temporary knowledge. The only true work in the world is the science of Love. It is the great object of learning for the soul. When man becomes conscious of love as a great and mighty power, his soul and spirit awaken, and he enters into actual connection with the physical, the spiritual, and divine worlds. Only through love can man understand the relationship that exists between these worlds, as well as the meaning of life. It is written in the Scripture: "Thou shall Love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and thy neighbor as thyself."
This is the only law that manifests itself in three worlds.
The human soul longs and aspires to be free. This is a great inner impulse, not of the ordinary man but of the man in whom Divine consciousness has been awakened. You have heard it said: "Know the Truth, and the Truth shall make you free." Freedom cannot come from without. It cannot be enforced by laws. Every freedom, religious or political, which is enforced from without, is only a shadow of freedom. The ideal freedom, the freedom which proceeds from Truth, is not based upon force. It depends neither on human knowledge nor on human legal order. It is not defended by outward law and force. Indeed, is the freedom which must be defended with arms, really freedom? The only being who is free is God. And the only being who can fully set a man free is God. God desires that all beings be free, as He is free. And they must be free because they are parts of the divine organism.
Life's outer forms are subject to destruction, but Life continues forever. Nothing can annihilate it: Life is mightier than death. The Life that is within us is perfect.
