This is worth the extra post, so read it carefully.

Vernon Howard did not have an ounce of sentimentality in him, nor did Gurdjieff. Instead, they exposed it ruthlessly.

So it is time to understand that truth must precede love, or it will be just another form of mechanical love! The kind you give and then resent giving. The kind you moon around goo-goo-eyed with. The kind that betrays you again and again.

Until that love has been seen through, you cannot come to conscious love, which is what Jesus taught.

He knew that His Father’s love required him to die on the cross.

Once you have died, you will be born into conscious love. But as yet, you do not have it except momentarily.

It is a gift from the conscious circle of humanity, which cannot be known by humanity.

It is taken on faith.

This is the realm of miracles and grace.

Surrender precedes it.

Vicki Woodyard