Love Fails for You When You Do Not Love

From Chapter 40

It Is Not Necessary (or Even Possible) To Become Immune To The Feeling Of Being Rejected. To Become Thus Immune, You Would Have To Become Immune To Love Itself. What Is Necessary (and Also Possible) Is To Enter Fully (and Fully Devotionally) Into The Spiritual Life-Sphere Of Love. In The Only-By-Me Revealed and Given Way Of The Heart, This Is Done By First Entering (Devotionally, and, Thus, By Heart) Into My Humanly-Incarnated Divine Spiritual Company, and (Therein) Surrendering To My Divine Spiritual "Embrace" Of Love-Bliss–Wherein You Are Not Merely Loved As a self-Contracted ego-"I", but You Are (To The Degree That, By Means Of My Avatarically Self-Transmitted Divine Spiritual Grace, the ego-"I" Is Surrendered, Forgotten, and Transcended In Me) Awakened To Be (and To Show) Love-Bliss Itself. Then You Must, Through Life-Active Devotion To Me, Allow The Demonstration Of My Own Love-Bliss-Radiance In the world of Your human relationships.

If You Will Do This, Then You Must Do The Sadhana (or Concentrated Practice) Of True Devotion, Active Love, and Real (True and Steady) Trust. As A Practical Matter, You Must Stop Dramatizing The egoic Ritual Of Betrayal In Reaction To The Feeling Of Being Rejected. You Must Understand, Transcend, and Release The Tendency To Respond (or React) To Signs Of Rejection (or Signs That You Are Not Loved) As If You Are Insulted, Rather Than Wounded. That Is To Say, You Must Stop Punishing and Rejecting others When You Feel Rejected. If You Punish another When You Feel This, You Will Act As If You Are Immune To Love's Wound. Thus, You Will Pretend To Be Angrily Insulted, Rather Than Suffer To Be Wounded. In The Process, You Will Withdraw and Withhold Love. You Will Stand Off, Independent and Dissociated. You Will Only Reinforce The Feeling Of Being Rejected, and You Will Compound It By Actually Rejecting the other. In This Manner, You Will Become Un-Love. You Will Fail To Love. You Will Fail To Live In The Sphere Of Love. Your Own Acts Of Un-Love Will Degrade You, Delude You, and (Ultimately) Separate You From My Avatarically Self-Transmitted Divine Love-Bliss Itself. Therefore, one who Fails To Practice The Sadhana Of Love In his or her human relationships Will, By That Failure, Turn Away (or Contract) From Real God (or The Divine Self-Condition, and Source-Condition, That Is Reality Itself).

Love Does Not Fail For You When You Are Rejected or Betrayed or Apparently Not Loved. Love Fails For You When You Reject, Betray, and Do Not Love. Therefore, If You Listen To Me, and (Also) If You Hear Me, and (Also) If You See Me–Do Not Stand Off From Relationship. Be Vulnerable. Be Wounded, When Necessary–and Endure That Wound (or Hurt). Do Not Punish the other In Love. Communicate To one another, Even Discipline one another–but Do Not Dissociate From one another or Fail To Grant one another The Knowledge Of Love. Realize That each one Wants To Love and To Be Loved By the other In Love. Therefore, Love. Do This Rather Than Make Any Effort To Get Rid Of The Feeling Of Being Rejected. To Feel Rejected Is To Feel The Hurt Of Not Being Loved. Allow That Hurt, but Do Not Let It Become The Feeling Of Lovelessness. Be Vulnerable, and (Thus) Not Insulted. If You Are Merely Hurt, You Will Still Know The Necessity (or The Heart's Requirement) Of Love, and You Will Still Know The Necessity (or The Heart's Requirement) To Love.

The Habit Of Reacting To Apparent Rejection (By others) As If It Were An Insult Always Coincides With (and Only Reveals) The Habit Of Rejecting (or Not Loving) others. Any one whose Habitual Tendency Is To Reject and Not Love others (In The Face Of their Apparent Acts Of Rejection and Un-Love) Will Tend To Reject and Not Love others Even When they Are Only Loving. Narcissus–The Personification Of the ego, the self-Contraction, or The Complex Avoidance Of Relationship–Is Famous For his Rejection Of The Lady, Echo (who Only Loved him). Therefore, If You Listen To Me, and (Also) If You Hear Me, and (Also) If You See Me–Be Vulnerable In Love. If You Remain Vulnerable In Love, You Will Still Feel Love's Wound, but You Will Remain In Love. In This Manner, You Will Always Remain In The human (and, Ultimately, Divine) Sphere Of My Avatarically Self-Transmitted Person Of Love-Bliss.

The Most Direct Way To Know Love In every moment Is To Be Love In every moment.