PHILOKALIA

Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.

THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO SAINT MATTHEW

To remake ourselves, we don't have to bring goodness, love, fearlessness, and the like from without and stuff them all into ourselves some how. They are already present in us, deep in our consciousness; that is why we can never really rest content with being anything less than per fect. If we work to remove the impediments that have built up over many years of conditioning, to dislodge all the old resentments and fears and selfish desires, our life will become like a foun tain of living waters, as it was meant to be.

An old fountain may be so clogged with rub bish that not a drop of water can get through. But with a lot of cleaning, you can get the water to start playing again. Then grass and flowers will grow around it, and birds will come there to have their bath. Just so, love can flow from us as from a living fountain, and those we live and work with will come to us to be refreshed.

Parvamani.