and glories becomes a reality.

Not to love is not to live, or it is to live a living death. The life
that goes out in love to all is the life that is full, and rich, and
continually expanding in beauty and in power. Such is the life that
becomes ever more inclusive, and hence larger in its scope and
influence. The larger the man and the woman, the more inclusive they
are in their love and their friendships. The smaller the man and the
woman, the more dwarfed and dwindling their natures, the more they
pride themselves upon their "exclusiveness." Any one--a fool or an
idiot--can be exclusive. It comes easy. It takes and it signifies a
large nature to be universal, to be inclusive. Only the man or the
woman of a small, personal, self-centred, self-seeking nature is
exclusive. The man or the woman of a large, royal, unself-centred
nature never is. The small nature is the one that continually strives
for effect. The larger nature never does. The one goes here and there
in order to gain recognition, in order to attach himself to the world.
The other stays at home and draws the world _to him_. The one loves
merely himself. The other loves all the world; but in his larger love
for all the world he finds himself included.

Verily, then, the more one loves the nearer he approaches to God, for
God is the spirit of infinite love. And when we come into the
realization of our oneness with this Infinite Spirit, then divine love
so fills us that, enriching and enrapturing our own lives, from them it
flows out to enrich the life of all the world.

In coming into the realization of our oneness with the Infinite Life,
we are brought at once into right relations with our fellowmen. We are
brought into harmony with the great law, that we find our own lives in
losing them in the service of others. We are brought to a knowledge of
the fact that all life is one, and so that we are all parts of the one
great whole. We then realize that we can't do for another without at
the same time doing for ourselves. We also realize that we cannot do
harm to another without by that very act doing harm to ourselves. We
realize that the man who lives to himself alone lives a little,
dwarfed, and stunted life, because he has no part in this larger life
of humanity. But the one who in service loses his own life in this
larger life, has his own life increased and enriched a thousand or a
million fold, and every joy, every happiness, every