What Fundamentally Changes a Person

★To Encourage the Independence of the Soul

To actively and voluntarily encourage the independence of the soul, as your own matter and not someone else’s, there is a truth that anyone who aims for the evolution of consciousness should know deep in their gut.

It is this truth: “Others cannot fundamentally change others. The only thing that can fundamentally change a person is that person’s own evolved heart.”

In other words, having others fundamentally change you and fundamentally changing others yourself are both impossible dreams, illusions. The only way for anyone to achieve essential evolution is by changing themselves.

Putting it so bluntly may sound very harsh, but there is no way to build a life of infinite harmony without repeating disharmony other than truly changing by your own will.

Well, how shall I put it… when you think you’ve changed by relying on something, or when only the surface situation has changed, the change stays only temporary.

In such cases, the person’s unchanged habits of thought will eventually create the same kind of situation in their destiny again, and the disharmonious situation repeats.

Put the other way around, humanity can remake itself in any way at all, depending on its own evolution of consciousness.

You can redo the design of your life as you wish.

It’s never too late to do that.

By evolving in consciousness, anyone can live radiantly.

The existence of such a person also becomes a light for those around them and a lamp that illuminates the darkness of the world.

That is what can be called real change, evolution, and growth, and humanity is the only living being that can do it.

★The Working of Love Toward Others

★On Altruistic Love in the Age of Misunderstanding

The people of Earth sometimes, wanting to improve the destiny of someone close to them, clutch at straws and rely on powerful people or gods and buddhas, on foods said to be good for the body, or on goods said to have mystical power, trying to change the person close to them or to have them changed by something.

But the living being called a human is created so that, whether or not self-interest is hidden in those thoughts, however hard you try to make yourself and others better, the power to fundamentally overcome the disharmony that has appeared (illness, misfortune in destiny, and so on) is, in the end, within the person themselves.

So in the end, there is no way to overturn the situation from the root other than each person changing voluntarily.

To put it even more clearly, replacing your habits of thought with divine consciousness is the fundamental power that reverses (turns for the better) the disharmonious situations that appear as seeming unhappiness, into happiness.

Why? Because behind the disharmony that appears in the world lies the flow of the thoughts and actions of all humanity from countless past lives up to the present, and it is also the unfolding of causes and connections, cause and effect, appearing and trying to come to an end, just as the seeds of plants you sow sprout, bloom, and scatter.

If I point out here “what you must not misunderstand,” it is this: when someone watching a loved one suffer thinks, “I want to make them better,” that is an extremely natural expression of love, and it is not wrong in itself.

But that alone is not enough.

What’s missing? Unless you dwell constantly in a consciousness that can see the reality of “how love works,” how your love is actually acting upon the person you love, then with your habitual thoughts until now, that love gets swept along by sentiment, and you concentrate the energy of your thoughts on the negative side: “I’m worried,” “The situation isn’t getting better at all,” “Something must be very wrong with this part of them,” “Maybe they won’t get better.” Then your loving wish to “make them better” doesn’t become the priming water that encourages the other person’s self-cleansing ability and the healthy functioning of their renewal, and thoughts sent with good intentions can instead make it harder to support their recovery. That is exactly why I hope you will send those thoughts of love not as worry but as the light of prayer.

To say this (concentrating the energy of thoughts on the negative side) from a different angle, it’s like gathering sunlight into one point with a magnifying glass and scorching the spot where the light falls, or in some cases even setting it on fire.

Lighting a fire where there was none and letting it spread is a specialty of thoughts that have completely forgotten their divinity.

This is a very important point, so please take it deeply to heart.

Why do I go out of my way to say so? Because what I’ve just said connects to the principle of creating destiny: “what movements of thought work, and how, as the energy that creates reality.”

Once you understand this principle, anyone can use their consciousness correctly and revive in their surface consciousness the ability, the power they had left sleeping, to guide their own destiny and that of their loved ones toward good.

★On the Altruistic Love of People Who Have Evolved in Consciousness

The love that humanity practiced before the evolution of consciousness, which I just talked about, doesn’t work directly as love. Swept along by sentiment, it becomes the energy of attachment and sometimes has a hard time supporting recovery. That’s what I said.

In contrast, the altruistic love expressed by humanity after achieving the evolution of consciousness is love that isn’t swept along by sentiment, but works straight as love itself (divine will), setting in motion energy that truly gives life to self and others.

True love, the tender affection that arises from divinity, the energy of divine will, is a power that, when someone is suffering or in an unfortunate position, strengthens that person’s soul and guides them so they can escape from the disharmonious state through their own voluntary efforts.

That is why each person’s Higher Self and others don’t rashly rescue the human they protect from hardship, but guide them so they can overcome the hardship by their own strength, right?

And so they never directly intervene in the creation of destiny by humanity living in the manifest world, but always respect the voluntary will of human beings so that they guide their own destiny toward good through their own actions.

★On Changing Yourself

Finally, let’s reconfirm what it means to change not others, but yourself.

The truth that “no one can have others fundamentally change them; the only thing that can change you is your own action, set in motion by your voluntary will”: have you taken it to heart and understood it by now?

“Changing yourself” can mean many things on the surface.

For example,

• I got sick (injured) → I want to heal, I want to get well
• My relationships don’t go well → I want to live in harmony with others
• I lost everything in a natural disaster → I want at least to get back to my old life
• Life is hard → I want to be materially well off
• I’m narrow-minded and short-tempered → I want to become big enough to forgive people
• My habits of thought are pessimistic → I want to make an optimistic consciousness my own
• I can’t trust others → I want to become an open person
• I can only judge myself and others on the surface → I want to become someone who can see into the depths

and so on. Depending on the person, there are probably many more ways they’d like to change.

So, to put the fundamental point about changing yourself in a single phrase: “Just achieve the evolution of consciousness.”

Changing the parts of this world that appear is also important, but by achieving the evolution of consciousness along with it, you arrive at a fundamental solution in the true sense.

Situations that seem unhappy, illness, injury, the hardship of living, and the anguish of relationships sometimes also involve, deep down, the state of your habits of thought. But that is not meant to blame the people who are suffering.

So easing pain with a doctor’s treatment and medicine, or switching your mood with hobbies to forget or dilute unpleasant things, is very important. But alongside that, you need to live with, as the foundation of your way of life, returning all your habits of thought to “the light of life” and living anew with the resonance of divinity, the vibration of infinite harmony.

Your physical cells are renewing themselves moment by moment, right?

In the same way, you have to set your spiritual cells free so that they too can renew themselves moment by moment, just as life does.

What prevents that is the thoughts stuck to the physical body that you have believed to be yourself.

That means it becomes important to live doing things like “letting go of fixation,” “becoming a self that is caught by nothing,” “returning your thoughts to heaven instead of holding them in yourself,” and “activating the renewal of your consciousness,” moment by moment.

If you can just do that, before you know it the disharmonious situations will dissolve like mist, you’ll think, “How grateful I am,” thankful for the fact that you are kept alive, that gratitude will come back to you, you’ll enter a chain of more and more grateful situations, and at last that state will become genuine, and you can become a self caught by nothing, with unwavering love and courage.

That will surely happen.

You surely can.

Because the number of people on Earth who have reached that state has been increasing rapidly in recent years, and it has become only a matter of time before they number in the tens of thousands.

★Let’s Play the Role of Construction Workers Building the Road of Conscious Evolution

The fact that someone could do it means that the road of that way of living has already been made in the space-time of consciousness, and it has become easier for those who come after to find that road and walk along it.

Because there are as many roads there as the number of people who have walked them.

You walk the road someone opened up, and you, coming after, make that road wider.

Then those who come after you will find that road even more easily and walk it even more easily.

By repeating this, people on Earth at any level of consciousness can achieve the evolution of consciousness.

Maybe you were born with the role of opening up a road no one else has ever walked.

In that case, you may walk an unusual life, a difficult journey. But each person’s Higher Self does not give anyone a mission they can’t accomplish, so think, “I can surely do it, I’ll see it through,” and go forward with peace of mind and confidence.

The road of life you walk is without doubt the main road of the evolution of consciousness.

You will open that main road from a small path into a great highway.

If you, who noticed this a little earlier than others, live this way, many, many more people can evolve in consciousness even one day sooner.

Then the time when the Earth world joins the society of the universe will come that much sooner too, and the great nature of the living being that is Earth, and all living things other than humans, can ascend together with less pain.

I hope you will take this to heart as you walk your path each day.