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Just After I Dedicated My Life To Service, I Felt That I Could No Longer Accept More Than I Need While Others In The World Have Less Than They Need. This Moved Me To Bring My Life Down To Need Level. I Thought It Would Be Difficult. I Thought It Would Entail A Great Many Hardships, But I Was Quite Wrong. Instead Of Hardships, I Found A Wonderful Sense Of Peace And Joy, And A Conviction That Unnecessary Possessions Are Only Unnecessary Burdens.

People Of The World, The Time For Decision Is Short. It Is Measured In A Few Years. The Choice Is Ours As To Whether Or Not We Will Pay The Price Of Peace. If We Are Not Willing To Pay It, All That We Hold Dear Will Be Consumed In The Flame Of War. The Darkness In Our World Today Is Due To The Disintegration Of Things Which Are Contrary To God's Laws. Let Us Never Say Hopelessly This Is The Darkness Before A Storm; Rather Let Us Say With Faith This Is The Darkness Before The Dawn Of The Golden Age Of Peace, Which We Cannot Now Even Imagine. For This, Let Us Hope And Work And Pray.

I Would Like To Mention Some Preparations That Were Required Of Me. The First Preparation Is To Take A Right Attitude Toward Life. This Means, Stop Being An Escapist! Stop Being A Surface Liver Who Stays Right In The Froth Of The Surface. There Are Millions Of These People, And They Never Find Anything Really Worthwhile. Be Willing To Face Life Squarely And Get Down Beneath The Surface Of Life Where The Verities And Realities Are To Be Found. That's What We Are Doing Here Now.

If We Could Put Material Things Into Their Proper Place, And Use Them Without Being Attached To Them, How Much Freer We Would Be. Then We Wouldn't Burden Ourselves With Things We Don't Need. If We Could Only Realize That We Are All Cells In The Same Body Of Humanity - Then We Would Think Of Having Enough For All, Not Too Much For Some And Too Little For Others.

It's Very Important To Get Your Desires Centered So You Will Desire Only To Do God's Will For You. You Can Come To The Point Of Oneness Of Desire, Just To Know And Do Your Part In The Life Pattern. When You Think About It, Is There Anything Else As Really Important To Desire?