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that drives us further within ourselves. We establish rigid scruples by which
we endeavor to regulate our behavior in the hope that our haunting sense of guilt will be
relieved by intermittent periods of self-acceptance.
If only every human soul could see that these unrelenting gates that imprison us are controlled by one master switch, and that by the finding of that key, all three can open at once and set the captive free! That master switch is LOVE. Your need is simply to experience real love.
Lovelessness is the basic cause of all human misery. To live without love is to find no purpose, reason or plan for life, and our very existence becomes an empty, futile passage of time. The majority of our hospital beds are occupied by mental patients, those who are incapacitated because of crippling emotional and mental problems. Weary with trying to open the gates to freedom, they have given up to their prison and lost all contact with reality. The suicide rate in America is extremely high and is the third highest killer among the young people of our land. Yet, the answer to all their questions and solution to their problems in this life is to experience a real and lasting love. Most can relate to the sad words of Napoleon during the days of his exile, "No one ever loved me, not even my mother." Facing the inescapable reality of what he was, and remembering
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