Reincarnation and Making Amends
"Making amends can also be described from the viewpoint of the eternal soul. The driving force to make amends comes from our soul. As a personality [our current level of consciousness], we do indeed feel that driving force, and we act on the basis of that driving force, but usually we do not understand why we do that.
After all, as a human being, we do not know our past lives and we do not remember the circumstances in which we once brought that other person misery. That past is safely hidden in our subconscious.
In the present life, we no longer see that misery from then, we only see the present human being for whom we wish to be good. ‘Making amends to another person’ is human thinking that belongs to the personality.
The human being who does wrong will make amends for that for himself one day. People who now still do wrong still have to begin with their battle to discard that wrong. And that is a battle, because then the own character must be changed, then the own personality must be dealt with in order to remove from it what is wrong.
We can also call ‘for themselves’ ‘for the own soul’. Because when we cause another person's misery, we bring our own soul into disharmony. We then temporarily stop the harmony that our soul naturally has with all the other life. From that time, our soul will give the driving force in order to restore that harmony.
When we absorb and give form to that driving force as a personality, then we start ‘to serve’. (...) Because then the spark of serving lives under your heart. And then you have a little bit of love for what lives. Is that true? If that begins, well, then you have a different position [perception] in the world and then you are busy awakening.
As a personality we are then busy awakening, because we become more and more aware of the characteristics of our soul, of its natural harmony with all the life. Then we start to love all that life, because we consciously feel that in this way we create harmony for the other person and for ourselves."