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If we are attentive in how we look upon the world, and upon other people, love in us will grow. This will unleash the Gospel revolution in the world.

The lamp of the body is your eye. When your eye is sound, then your whole body is filled with light.
(Lk. 11: 34)

In however many neighbours you meet throughout your day, from morning to night, in all of them see Jesus.
If your eye is sound, the one who looks through it is God. And God is Love, and love seeks to unite by winning over.

How many people, in error, look at creatures and things in order to possess them. It may be a look of selfishness or of envy, but whatever the case, it is one of sin. Or people may look within their own selves, and be possessive of their own souls, their faces lifeless because they are bored or worried.

The soul, because it is an image of God, is love, and love that turns in on itself is like a flame, that because it is not fed, dies out.

Look outside yourself, not in yourself, not in things, not in persons; look at God outside yourself and unite yourself to him.

He lives in the depths of every soul that is alive, and if dead, the soul is the tabernacle of God that awaits him as the joy and expression of its own existence.

The lamp of the body is your eye. When your eye is sound, then your whole body is filled with light.

Look at every neighbour then with love, and love means to give. A gift, moreover, calls for a gift, and you will be loved in return.

Understood in this way, love is to love and be loved: as in the Trinity.

God in you will ravish hearts, igniting the life of the Trinity in them, which may already rest in them through grace, although extinguished.

You cannot light up a space—even if electricity is available—until the current’s two poles are brought together.

The life of God in us is similar. It must circulate in order to radiate outside of us and give witness to Christ, the One who links heaven to earth, and people with one another.

The lamp of the body is your eye. When your eye is sound, then your whole body is filled with light.

Look, therefore, at every one of your neighbours. Give yourself to them in order to give yourself to Jesus and Jesus will give himself back to you. It is the law of love: ‘Give, and it will be given to you’ (Lk. 6: 38)

Out of love for Jesus, let your neighbours possess you. Like another Eucharist, let yourself ‘be eaten’ by your neighbours. Put your entire self at their service, which is service to God, and your neighbours will come to you and love you. The fulfilment of God’s every desire lies in fraternal love, which is found in his commandment: ‘I give you a new commandment, that you love one another’. (Jn 13: 34)

The lamp of the body is your eye. When your eye is sound, then your whole body is filled with light.

Love is a Fire that pervades hearts in perfect fusion.

Then, within yourself, you will no longer find yourself, nor your neighbour; you will find Love which is God living in you.

And Love will go out to love other brothers and sisters because, with your eye having been made sound, it will find itself in them and all will be one.

And around you will grow a Community: just as around Jesus there were twelve, seventy-two, thousands….
It is the Gospel that in its fascination – since it is Light in love – fills people with rapture and carries them away.

Then perhaps you will die on a cross so as not to be more than the Master, but you will die for the one who crucifies you, and so love will have the final victory.

But its vital fluid – poured out for hearts – will not die.
It will be fertile, bearing fruits of joy and peace and Paradise opened.
And the glory of God will grow.
But you here on earth, be perfect Love.

 

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