Saturday, October 13, 2007
Use it or Lose it
The degree to which your mind can control circumstances and dominate matter is far greater than you have ever believed. Our impressions about matter are quite literally illusory. No form of matter is permanent. Change goes on everywhere all the time, first by physical laws in the physical body and second by astral and mental laws in our invisible bodies. We are not the same being, physically, mentally or spiritually, any two days in a row.
Your very soul itself is subject to this law of change. It may expand and shine out through the physical becoming an organism resplendent or it may only faintly glimmer. So what is this law of soul growth? There are certain well established facts about the laws of growth that we should not overlook when seeking the way forward.
Nothing can grow without use, without activity. As Einstein said “Nothing happens until something moves;” in other words, inaction causes atrophy. Doctors tell us that if you were to tie your arm to the body so that it cannot be used, it will in time become so enfeebled, that it is of no further service. It will wither away. That is nature’s law of economy. She never gives life where it is useless, where it cannot, or will not, be utilized. On the other hand, exercise increases power. To increase the size and strength of muscles we must use them.
This is just as true of mental and moral faculties as it is of the physical body. The only way to make the brain keen and powerful is to exercise it by original thinking. One way to gain soul powers is to give free play to the loftiest aspirations of which we are capable, and to do it systematically instead of at random.
We grow to be like the things we think about. Now, the reverse of all this must be equally true. To give no thought to higher things, to become completely absorbed in material affairs, is to stifle the soul, to invite spiritual atrophy, this is the certain result of all shirking of responsibility. There may be an apparent temporary gain, but it always means greater loss, either immediate or remote.
So nature punishes inaction with atrophy. Whatever is not used finally ceases to be. In plain language, apathy, inaction, idleness, uselessness, is the road to degeneration. On the other hand, aspiration and activity mean growth, development, and power. So we grow, physically, mentally and morally, by activity, by exercise of the organs or the faculties we desire to possess. It is only by the constant exercise of these things that we can grow at all.
When this great law of nature is understood we see at once how it is that life is full of trouble; why it is that the whole visible world seems to be designed to keep us constantly at work physically and mentally, to challenge our resourcefulness in improving our physical, social and political conditions, to continually try our patience and to forever test our courage. It is the way of development.
So if you want to develop your abilities and powers then you must learn them. It is simple, use them and they will grow, practice and you will become better. Remain active, and you will continue to grow and change, never slipping into a state of degeneration and uselessness.
Be Blessed
Your very soul itself is subject to this law of change. It may expand and shine out through the physical becoming an organism resplendent or it may only faintly glimmer. So what is this law of soul growth? There are certain well established facts about the laws of growth that we should not overlook when seeking the way forward.
Nothing can grow without use, without activity. As Einstein said “Nothing happens until something moves;” in other words, inaction causes atrophy. Doctors tell us that if you were to tie your arm to the body so that it cannot be used, it will in time become so enfeebled, that it is of no further service. It will wither away. That is nature’s law of economy. She never gives life where it is useless, where it cannot, or will not, be utilized. On the other hand, exercise increases power. To increase the size and strength of muscles we must use them.
This is just as true of mental and moral faculties as it is of the physical body. The only way to make the brain keen and powerful is to exercise it by original thinking. One way to gain soul powers is to give free play to the loftiest aspirations of which we are capable, and to do it systematically instead of at random.
We grow to be like the things we think about. Now, the reverse of all this must be equally true. To give no thought to higher things, to become completely absorbed in material affairs, is to stifle the soul, to invite spiritual atrophy, this is the certain result of all shirking of responsibility. There may be an apparent temporary gain, but it always means greater loss, either immediate or remote.
So nature punishes inaction with atrophy. Whatever is not used finally ceases to be. In plain language, apathy, inaction, idleness, uselessness, is the road to degeneration. On the other hand, aspiration and activity mean growth, development, and power. So we grow, physically, mentally and morally, by activity, by exercise of the organs or the faculties we desire to possess. It is only by the constant exercise of these things that we can grow at all.
When this great law of nature is understood we see at once how it is that life is full of trouble; why it is that the whole visible world seems to be designed to keep us constantly at work physically and mentally, to challenge our resourcefulness in improving our physical, social and political conditions, to continually try our patience and to forever test our courage. It is the way of development.
So if you want to develop your abilities and powers then you must learn them. It is simple, use them and they will grow, practice and you will become better. Remain active, and you will continue to grow and change, never slipping into a state of degeneration and uselessness.
Be Blessed
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