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APRIL 1953

what you are, and to understand what you are brings freedom, freedom
from fear of what you are or what is.
Virtue is not a matter of time. Virtue is freedom, immediate release—is

this a matter of time? Are you kind, generous, affectionate through the
process of time? Will you be kind the day after tomorrow? Can kindness
be thought of in terms of time? Affection, mercy, generosity are the true
expression of Life, they are the only solution for all our problems, but our

so-called virtue cannot solve any problems, therefore there is no virtue in
“becoming” only in “Being.”
Can you say that you have goodwill towards all? But goodwill is

essential, otherwise we can never solve our problems. Have your politicians,
your leaders, both in religion and commerce goodwill towards all? If they
have not goodwill how can their followers have goodwill towards all? Then

is the use of conferences and the like, without goodwill which is real affection
and without it we can never solve our problems.
So most of us, like politicians and the vast majority of humans, are

unkind. They have not got the goodwill that is the only solution to all problems.
Since they have not got goodwill it cannot be a mere question of time whether
there will be goodwill tomorrow or ten years hence.
Now if kindness and mercy are not a matter of time, why is it that we

are not kind now? If we can understand why we are not kind, this under-
standing being immediate, now, we shall be kind immediately, now. Then
we will forget what nationality we are, to what religion we belong, what

our differences are, we will immediately be generous and kind.
My intention to be kind is futile if I do not know the cause of my
unkindness. Therefore I must know the whole process of my thinking, and
upon what my thoughts are built. When I see the falseness of the structure, it

will immediately fall away, so the study of oneself becomes more important
than becoming virtuous.
The world, which is the self, can only be raised in consciousness, in

the first instance, by the action of the individual. Then the seeker who seeks out
his or her own hindrances, is helping humanity and will attain the Christ
Consciousness now in performing a significant part in bringing nearer the

Kingdom of God on Earth.
“He who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy
of me; he who loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy

of me. . .” Matthew 10: 37

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