Would you like to talk about your love or the universal definition of love?
 

We will talk of both.  Jade Fire likes to joke. Let us talk of your love first. It is complete and it is whole. And so is universal love. It is complete and it is whole.  But your love is complete in its conditioning. And the universal love is complete in its expanse. Your love is whole, wholly towards Ego-self. Universal love has
no Ego. Your love expects and gives nothing without some return!  You have a very good saying for your love. You say "love is give and take". Love is only give. When there is the expectation of 'take', just as Ego has hidden 'Self' from it with the veils
of conditioning, so also physical love is hidden from the vastness of the universe by conditioning. Your love punishes. Your love makes another suffer.  Your love hurts and hurts another. Universal love has no Ego to hurt, knows no Ego to inflict punishment and suffering upon. Your heart beats, swells and falls with physical love.  The Universe has no heart, it is all love. You limit your love and place boundaries of family, and country, race and religion, caste and colour. Universal love cannot exist within boundaries. It is limitless.

What this child wants to know is how you bring this universal love into your daily lives. How do we break free from those chains that we have tied around ourselves? The chains are not the chains of love. They are the chains of the Ego. The simpler chains to cut are the veils of the 5 senses. The veils of conditioning are very, very strong. In order to break those chains there must be a willingness to die.  There
must be a willingness to cause your ‘death’ with your own free-will. It is much simpler to take a knife and stab it within you, than it is to separate the ego and kill it. As long as Ego IS, Love is not. The two cannot co-exist in one space.

But Ego is essential, as we have often told you.  And there is the dilemma. How can you kill that which is essential - you ask, must I choose always between Ego and love? Let your limits of Ego widen. Let them expand, so that within Ego there is not only one being, but all.  It is difficult to kill all at once. You must first makes its veils thin by stretching them further and further and further. And then one day the skin of this Ego will stretch so far and become so thin that it will part on its own.

How do you 'expand' your Ego? I can hear 'will that not make me even more egoistic'? We are not asking you to become more arrogant and vain and boastful. Every word and thought and action that you experience from the outside and every word and thought and action that you transmit to the outside must have boundaries that are very, very far.  Try them slowly. Let the boundary first move from one to family. From family to all those that you consider friend. From friend to all those that you know, however briefly. From acquaintance to stranger that you meet. And from stranger that you meet to stranger that you never meet. How does one do this? You must be aware that every word and every thought and every action of yours is merely energy and that this energy must permeate into the environment around you. Let this be your purpose:  First, let my word and action and thought not harm my family. Then it 'expands'.  Let my word, my action and thought not harm those whom I call friends.  Then it 'expands'. Let my word, my action, my thought not harm those whom I know, however briefly. Then it moves farther. Let my word, my action, my
thought not harm a stranger that I meet. Let my word, my action, my thought not harm all those who are in this embodiment, strangers to me but those who I know are all a part of me. And its farthest expanse at which the Ego will tear - let my word, my action, my thought harm no particle of the Universe.

It is not as difficult as some of you are thinking right now. Draw upon this large well of selfishness that exists within each ego. Do you have a word or a thought or an action that you know or that you did deliberately to cause harm to you? You are working from that same Ego-Well and now draw further upon that Ego-Well and expand it. Make use of the same Ego - that is essential children. Draw upon that same Well of selfishness that you are conditioned to use. As the Ego expands you will find, dear ones that Love resides not in your heart, it resides within every cell of your physical being. Every cell of that which you are. A large, large part of it. With your Ego will expand the experience of universal love and when Ego tears its skin, the
butterfly of love will fly free. And on its wings will be the colours of the universe. The butterfly seems to be small and just one and yet there is something magical in its
wings. The entire Universe seems to contract and become just one atom covered completely by the small gossamer wings of the butterfly.