People respect those who are zealous. For a person who is moving forward with enthusiasm, no matter how great the hazards before him he can conquer them all. However, attempts without zeal easily come to a halt.

For this reason, the most important thing for us who wish for advancement is to be well supplied with the zeal that can maintain our progress. Without zeal, you cannot be stimulated. Moreover, we do not need stimulus devoid of enthusiasm. As we consider the fact that strong stimulus comes in connection with intense zeal, we must seek for an environment full of zeal, individual beings full of zeal, and companions bubbling with enthusiasm.

We humans who are seeking after perfect character and unlimited personality cannot be devoid of limitless zeal. An important question for us as we are cultivating unlimited character is whether or not we are ready to pursue that type of zeal forever, and if not, whether or not we are prepared to strive toward certain goals by possessing such enthusiasm. If you do not possess one of these two mind-sets, then you cannot seek after perfect character. (36-98)

Then, what do we need in order to receive God's ardor? Since God is pure and sincere, we must also be earnest. We must feel it to the bottom of our hearts that as we pursue a third purpose here, the purpose will be linked to us eternally. In other words this is a triangular relationship, but it can exist inside ourselves or exist together with us.

You should become a fuse through which the degree of your own awareness about the perspective of purpose within you will transform into the same extent of zeal and attract God, the origin of ardor. However, if you are unable to find a way to become this fuse of zeal, then you cannot become one with God. In other words, if there is one artery, then you must become one vein, and if it is given in one place then you must receive it in one place, and if one hundred is given then you must be able to receive one hundred.

Then, what is the motivating force that can generate such enthusiasm? You have to be pure and sincere. You must have no selfish motive. If one hundred enters you, then you must be able to sincerely reflect it as one hundred. This is the problem. Where is zeal generated? It is produced centering on sincerity as the basis. It will be produced according to how much is needed and how much you seek for zeal centering on that foundation of sincerity. In other words, the heart of the issue is how much you yearn for and adore the subject of limitless ardor as you appear before it. In doing this, you must first put longing and sincere heart in front of anything else. When there is sincere longing, then zeal will accompany it as the flip side of it. You should reflect on this truth.

How much did you adore and yearn for God? What is at stake is the question of whether or not you are prepared to completely forget about your own situation and offer everything for God; in other words, whether or not you can become the perfect minus before the perfect plus. When you can stand before the absolute plus as the absolute minus, then the perfect plus will head straight toward you. Through the straight path of sincerity, the complete plus will rush toward the complete minus. There the minus will give rise to an opposite reaction in which the background will push it forward in a fresh manner. (36-99)