Unselfed spiritual love was what I needed to learn about and practice, instead of trying to find love and happiness in others or in changed situations.
Once
at the closing performances of a musical festival, I heard four finalists of different nationalities, ages, and backgrounds play the same concerto on the same piano.
Hearing the voice of Truth is never a thing of ritual, never a limited, occasional, intermittent prospect dependent on our being in a certain place at a certain time.
We need to turn from the mortal picture of despair and hopelessness, and from all the reasons we think got us into the mess we may be in, and accept the fact that God's man—our true being—is always in the Father's care, never burdened or trapped.