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IDEAL OF LOVE.
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human nature is not for the little doll of a child. If you bestow it blindly and exclusively on the child, you will suffer in consequencebut through such suffering will come the awakening, by which you are sure to find out, that the love which is in you, if given to any human being, will sooner or later bring pain and sorrow as the result. Our love must therefore be given to the Highest One -Who never dies and never changes--to Him, in the ocean of Whose love there is neither ebb nor flow. Love must be directed to its right destination--it must go unto Him, Who is really the infinite ocean of love! Even as drops of water coming down from the mountain-side cannot stop their course after being formed into a brook or a river, however big they may be--but at last find their way somehow to the ocean—so God is the one goal wherein all our passions and emotions will and must go in the end. Therefore if you want to be angry, be angry with
