You make a judgement based on a standard which you hold within yourself
If you are a person that does not have principle, then when you view something as good or bad, your judgement has no value.
Random judgments are based on self-centeredness.
A true judgment can only come from a basic law or principle within yourself. The mind has an unchanging quality, while the body always changes. The mind should have a permanent foundation.
The body follows the direction dictated by your five senses which are always changing direction. If your eyes see a lovely flower, then your body will walk over to it.
But the mind is not bound by the five senses. The mind can refuse to obey, and it gives direction to your body.
Your mind tries to bring the body to the place where all the five senses can be contented. If the mind favored only the eyes, then the other senses would complain.
The mind takes in account all the five senses. The mind decides how it will respond to the desires of each sense. The mind can only make these decisions based on principles.
Actually, we should thank God that we have a conscience as a command post for the body. Before knowing this, you may have felt bothered by the mind limiting your activities.
Americans look for the comfortable and convenient way of doing things in life. To those who just want to party and enjoy sex, the conscience seems to be an obstacle to those activities.
When it is time to eat, the body craves delicious food. It prefers to have delicious pleasures all the time. Why does the mind put certain limits on what the body desires?
Habits and customs are hard to change, no matter how logical it is to change them.
Addiction to drugs, alcohol and sex are hard to cure.
Have you ever thought how we can truly cure these addictions in our society? Our lives must be planted on a firm foundation of principle.
If we do not already have one, then we have to create one. Without standards or principles, we will only cause and see destruction around us.
If there are no principles that bind the parents and children or husband and wife, then the family will fall apart.
The mind wants a principled life, but the body pursues all kinds of addictions.
Don't you feel the war between your good mind and your sinful body?
This contradiction is a terrible burden.
People feel sorry for mentally ill people, but the reality is, those whose mind becomes sick is even harder to restore. Religion deals with that world.
A grasshopper doesn't plan ahead for the winter, but instead enjoys the warm weather thinking about how sweet his life is. Spring and summer always come to an end, however.
We must come to a standard law and principle that should be followed by everyone in their homes, society, nation and world standard based on your conscience.
This standard will be acceptable by everyone and it will be unchanging, eternal and unique.
Thus, we conclude that the conscience provides such a standard.
Everyone appreciates material treasure, but would material things like everyone?
If treasure could speak, it would tell you that it would like to be possessed by someone that has a higher standard than it holds. You feel this way because you yourself are like that.
We like things that are higher and nobler than ourselves. So do material things. A diamond would like someone who shines brighter and is harder than it is.
Gold's deep color represents peace, and it wants to be loved by someone more peace loving than itself.
A pearl will respect and love someone with a more harmonious color than itself.
Would a diamond like some unworthy person who just grabs it or prefer to be possessed by someone with a moral ethic?
A diamond also has a preference and would resists the thief who reaches to snatch it.
This is also how we would react.
One person does not consider if he is worthy to possess a diamond, while the other considers whether he is really entitled to it.
If you have this quality, then the diamond would have that inclination, too. This is elementary, but necessary education.
America's problem is that it doesn't really know the power and existence of the world of conscience.
How large do you think that the conscience is?
Seven billion people live in the world today. So that means there are 7 billion different kinds of conscience. Then if we were to include people in the spirit world that is billions more.
If you did the work of ten people today, the conscience would not tell you to do the work of nine tomorrow.
There is no such conscience.
The conscience will tell you to do more work the next time. If you gave ten people ten dollars, would your conscience permit you to give nine people ten dollars the next day and keep the ten for yourself?
Your conscience will tell you to give the money to eleven people instead. As you can see, the conscience is never satisfied.
Even if the whole planet earth was contained within your conscience, you would want to reach out farther and possess the whole galaxy. Then if you had the whole galaxy, you will want to have God.
Even then your journey would not end until you owned the heart of God and had His love.
Even if you contained the whole planet earth in your conscience, it would still want to reach out farther and possess the whole galaxy.
Even if it had the whole universe, it would still want to have God. Your journey wouldn't end until you owned the heart of God and had His love.
That is how the conscience works.
When you try to set a standard for this extraordinary kind of conscience, it is not easy.
Who made the conscience so big?
God did. If He had nothing that He could put into it, He would run away. He is responsible. What can fill the conscience?
God knows you like diamonds. Would He be satisfied by filling everyone's conscience bag with a lot of diamonds? Why not?
God can make all the diamonds and gold at will, but there is one thing He cannot control. True love. True love is only activated in a reciprocal relationship of subject and object.
Without an object, love is not created.
Can you show the love that you have? Man's love is only activated when he finds a partner.
When you are sitting by yourself, your love cannot be activated.
God has been sitting all by Himself, lonely just like you would be, so can He enjoy His love alone?
Even if He was holding a piece of chalk and can laugh with enjoyment, then it would make a little better sense.
No matter how much potential love God has, by Himself God cannot feel its excitement.
An object is always needed in order to activate love through give and take. When a woman has a man to relate to, the vibration of the give and take can begin. How about between woman to woman? Even God needs an ideal object.
What was the purpose of God creating the whole universe?
For the perfection of His object. Since God is gigantic, He needs an equivalent object who can stand side by side with Him. Therefore, He created man with a conscience as big as God's conscience.
When man completely fills his conscience and starts to laugh, then God can respond.
Then the whole universe can laugh together with them. That is God's design.
Nothing else except love can fill that conscience, however. Love alone can excite God.
In love, God is an enormous plus and man is an enormous minus, when they come together a giant spark will flash. How much power do you think that will generate?
The entire universe will jolt at that connection.
Then God, men and women will be totally intoxicated and melt within the power of that love. From the one-celled amoeba, the insects all the way to the galaxies, all of creation will be affected by the unity of God and man.
You might think that God is too far away for us to unite and cause such a great spark. Electricity can speak between any distance.
God's electricity travels faster than the electricity we know on earth.
When He is totally happy and intoxicated in love, then all of mankind can respond that they are happy, too. Then the entire creation will echo around the world that they are happy.
I like the word "too." The cross bar on the "t" represents the horizontal absolute; the vertical line represents you-you are a pillar of love. The "oo" means everything is OK. Americans say OK; the O means perfection, and K comes from "keep." So OK means that you keep perfection, that everything is going well. You didn't know I had a definition for this!
Conscience is OK, but what is it centered on? Life? That is good. Knowledge? That is also nice. Power?
These are nice, but are not the central things.
What is one substance that everyone likes and participates in? Love alone has that universal character.
When the cornerstone of existence is conscience that is based on true love or true love is based on conscience, then everything is in the right place. That is the standard.
This is not a temporal standard, but it has an eternal, unique, and unchanging quality. The essentialities of love is the same, but the components are different from person to person, depending on where love appears.
Each individual is a truth body with unique love and characteristics.
They all share a common essentiality in God.
Each person is a cell of love.
If you have true universal love within you, then you have become a standard man or woman of the universe. The conclusion we have come to is that we need the standard of conscience which is true love.
Through just this standard alone, we can digest the world and bring it into our consciences. We can even bring in God with our invisible true love.
As long as you have that true love, you can go in any direction. The world of true love also transcends time and space.
The five senses will cooperate with that standard of true love instead of repelling each other, for they do so out of happiness, not duty.
Return for Tomorrow's Post: Search for God in the Conscience
This Post was rewritten from the speech Our Standard
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