THE ART OF MAKING FRIENDS
Question I sincerely love people. I make every possible gesture of friendship. I long so greatly for friends, but I never seem to make any.

ANSWER—Love begets love. We have learned this through experience. A recognition that the other person is but another Embodiment of the Great Self, even as you, yourself, are an Embodiment of that Universal One, will smooth out all difficulties that present themselves. Being of the essence and substance of the Great Whole, there should be a distinct realization that the Great Indivisibility is personalized in you. You are a vivid factor of Its expression, but you can never be divided or separated from It. Therefore, these other individuals that you say you love must of necessity love you. Keep on loving people, but more than anything else, keep 0n loving that great fundamental principle of life which makes us all One. There need never be a sense of loneliness, of apartness, of being unloved. Your very exercise of the love-urge—in giving to others the affection you would like to experience yourself from others—will eventually bring you the particular personal satisfaction you crave. (page 121)

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