05-09

Very few today realize that doing good deeds without
seeking repayment contains heavenly happiness. They do
not know there is any other kind of happiness than rising
to high position, being waited on by others, abounding in
riches, and living a life of sensual pleasure. That there is
a higher happiness than those, a happiness that touches a
person’s inner depths, they are profoundly unaware. Nor
do they see, therefore, that such happiness is heavenly
happiness and that it is the happiness of genuine neighborly
love. This characteristic is embedded in a new will
that the Lord gives as a gift to people who are being reborn,
because the new will is the Lord’s in us.
—Secrets of Heaven 6392:2