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Leading A Spiritual Life
It is also a law of nature that if you add a pinch of dye
to a glass of water, all of the water becomes coloured.
This principle is also applicable in the case of love.
When a person has love in his heart for his Creator, at
the same time he cannot resist showing his love to his
neighbours. And in this electronic age, the whole world
is one’s neighbour.
One can say that love has two dimensions: theoretical
and practical. In terms of the theoretical dimension,
love means love of God and in terms of the social, love
means love for all human beings.
Divine Food
While physical food gives you physical health, spiritual food
maintains the health of the non-physical part of your
personality.
esus Christ once said: ‘Man cannot live by bread alone.’
J(Matthew 4:4) What Jesus meant was that material
provision does not suffice. All bread does is sustain us
physically. Further to this, one needs divine provision,
or spiritual food. Without receiving such food, the
individual cannot develop his or her personality.
The fact is that, in this world, everything has two
distinct sides to it: the material and the spiritual. From
the material things which surround you, you must be
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