On the Eve of Your Age

★The Importance of Acknowledging Yourself

Unless you acknowledge yourself, a self-image that has become servile can’t recover, no matter how much others keep praising you to the skies.

We really want you to keep this firmly in mind.

Because how you see yourself is also the foundation of your relationships with others, and it determines whether or not you can acknowledge everyone’s divinity.

And so that you can do that, you must clearly tell apart the essence of human life from the karmic thoughts attached to the physical body, which are far removed from that essence.

As long as you can’t do that, you end up with nothing but very surface-level, shallow emotional comfort, which doesn’t help real evolution of consciousness.

It’s often said, “Be kind to others,” or “Loving people is important,” but truly loving and forgiving yourself isn’t something that’s conveyed as a major theme very much.

In spiritual circles, people often say things like “Everything is all okay” or “It’s important to accept yourself, including the parts of you that fall short,” and that’s an important entrance too, but the essence of truly forgiving and acknowledging yourself lies one step deeper.

Why do we say that? Because those talks mix up karmic thoughts and divine consciousness, and everything… let’s see, to put it a bit roughly, they “lump everything together.”

That’s why they fall one step short of truly saving people.

★The Outside Is the Inside, and the Inside Is the Outside

Any method is fine, but find the real truth.

You could also say that means remembering the truth of life.

If you live fully immersed in truth, anyone can gain a true happiness that never crumbles.

Because truth is what could be called the law of the universe, with its origin in the world of the essence of life.

So if you truly want to master truth, as we said before, take information from outside to heart within yourself first, and then receive it anew as realizations and flashes of insight welling up from within.

If you can do that, what you sought outside and the truth that was within you from the start come into agreement, and you can apply it to your very way of living.

We said before that the outside is the inside, and the inside is the outside, right?

No matter how much you seek real truth and real principles only outside, you can never make them your own.

Why? Because they are in the depths of everyone’s heart from the very beginning.

It’s been within you from the start, so what’s the point of only seeking it outside?

Even if you seek it outside and grasp only the wording of truth, it’s merely knowledge and won’t become a power that raises you.

That’s why we say the will to polish and raise yourself is important.

Even those who think this kind of talk is boring abstract theory will touch the essence of truth when the time right for each of them comes.

That time will surely come for people of every way of thinking.

You’ll be all right.

Because you’re holding on tight and not letting go.

From now on, on Earth, the values that held until now will shift greatly, and value will come to be found in things that were thought worthless until now.

When that happens, your age will come.

In the not-so-distant future.