Live but with love

 If we only identify with what we see (our body, weaknesses, and helplessness), then naturally we fall into depression. Because the body and worldly life are full of limitations.

Because when we look closely at ourselves we see our weaknesses and helplessness. 

 Great souls and teachers are our pillars of light who drive away the darkness of our depression. Teachers introduce us to ourselves; they operate on the eyes of our mind. Then we see that we are not only the body — there is something behind whatever is happening here that we cannot see or understand, and we remain lost in thought asking why this is so.

But everyone wishes for a magic wand that would instantly make their pain and sorrow vanish. For that, however, one must have the courage to step briefly outside this world. To go outside the world, we must grasp what is beyond it — and that is God. We cannot see God, but we can sense Him, because by His love He is always with us. We are His children; He protects us. Whenever trouble comes, help arrives in one form or another. We are not even deserving of that help — it comes to us far more than we deserve — but our attention is not on being grateful to Him; instead we are busy trying to gain more than what we already have. Sometimes we should also pay attention to the blessings we have received. Then we will find that we are indebted to Him.

God gives us complete freedom to live according to our wishes; we place ourselves in trouble by nurturing various foolish desires, and then exhaust ourselves trying to fulfill them. He watches us and smiles, just as we sometimes smile at our children’s mischiefs and sometimes give them a little reprimand — all for their own good. But with God there is no need to reprimand, because He has created nature’s system so that wrong actions bring suffering. Whatever happens, however, is limited to this body. Even amid suffering, if we remember our true existence we will pass beyond the pain. If we can remember that God always loves us, then we will have no need to desire anything. But because of the results of the desires we have already formed, we find ourselves in the position we are in now; we must fulfill the responsibilities we have been given — but do so with love.