Would it really be so hard to bring the world to its knees? Would it be so hard for the world to denounce misery and announce love instead? What would it take to erase suffering from the face of the Earth?

Suffering in the world has been like a contract ordered by the Mafia. Yet because a hit was once ordered does not mean it must be followed, and followed over and over and again and again.

Those who would commit suffering upon another think they are winning something or returning suffering for suffering, and yet they revisit suffering upon themselves. Any glory felt or gained is short-lived. Man does not suffer alone. One who perpetuates suffering has given his allegiance to suffering. He thinks he inflicts it on someone else, yet he has inflicted it on himself, and he is unaware that he is free to drop it once and for all. For all.

I call for an end to suffering.

Love exists whether or not I say so. However, I said long ago that love is all. I continue to say that love and love alone exists. When did I ever say that man must be hard-hearted? When did I say that man must ignore others' hearts? On the contrary, I have said that the heart must be heard. I say it now, loud and clear: All hearts must be heard. And all hearts must be answered.

A man who is happy with himself would not squeeze suffering from any other. One who acts cruelly must be listening to a god of his own making. He has made up a god in his own mind. He believes in a god where might makes right, and that is the image he acts in. He who enacts cruelty must feel that cruelty enlarges him. He must believe in a god of separation. A man who persuades himself that he believes in a god of justice must also believe in a god of injustice itself. In his clouded view, one who is cruel believes in the necessity of perpetuating superiority and therefore inferiority.

When you believe in need, you will believe you need whatever you perceive as lacking. This is not a conscious procedure. It is simply that you must have whatever you believe you need. You will go to great lengths to fill your perceived need. From perceived lack come the troubles of the world.

Better to know all that you are and let go of need, most especially in any need that you be superior.

I say again that life is not all about you. It is not about what you gain. If life is about filling needs, then at least on every other occasion, will you kindly look to fill someone else's need? See what happens to your own heart. See how it grows. See how good it feels to have your heart grow rather than contract.

If you have a need, beloveds, you have a need for freedom, and so now you give freedom to others, for you must give whatever it is you feel you need, so you will see that you have enough of it to give. In the giving of it, you will see it. Unkindness begins in misperception.

A beautiful rose does not have to be the most beautiful of all. It does not have to be taller or rosier than the other roses in the garden. A rose is just happy to be. The flowers in a garden do not try to enhance themselves by stepping on other flowers. And no garden on one side of the street feels it has to be better than the garden across the street or across the ocean.

Be not like the queen in the story who had to keep looking in the mirror to make sure that she was the fairest of all. I see My children as One, and all are fair. And now I ask you to do the same.