Friday, November 02, 2007
The Real Life
We all live busy lives, we spend our days doing the things we have been told to do, and have been made to do. We spend so much time on the activities of daily life that we do not take the required time to form in the inner, spiritual, thought life of the ideals and conditions that we would rather have.
In this modern world we live in, we are caught up in the rush and activity of our daily life, we are running hither and thither, with no center, no foundation upon which to stand, nothing to which we can anchor our lives, because we do not take sufficient time to come into the realization of what the center, of what the reality of our lives is.
The result is that we end up living life in a haphazard way, taking it as it comes, not thinking very much about it, only doing what we think is required of us. Then one day we realize, perhaps, pushed by bitter experiences, that we have spent our lives instead of molding them. We come to see that through the agency of our inner forces, we could have had our life exactly as we would have dreamed it. It is our dreams, our aspirations that will give us our ideal life; and it is this ideal life that is the only thoroughly satisfactory life.
If we would take more time from the rush and activity of life, and use it for contemplation, for meditation, for idealization, for becoming acquainted with our real selves, and then go about our work manifesting the powers of our real selves, we would be far better off, because we would be living a more natural, a more normal life. To find one's center, to become centered in the Infinite, is the first great essential of every satisfactory life; and then to go out, thinking, speaking, working, loving, and living, from this center.
There are those who feel they are handicapped by what we term heredity, that because your parents did such and such that you have to do such and such too. You have been falsely led that you will also be the same in character as your parents, that you will have this quirk or that flaw because they did. In a sense you are right; in another sense you are totally wrong. It is the same as the thought which many before us had imbedded in them through the education and training we received as children. Our forbearers often raised us with the information they had, often times not even understanding the why of things, just passing on the do and don’t things they had been taught themselves.
We must now awaken our selves and realize there is no absolute truth of the do and don’t things we were taught. We must now be dealing with the real and essential self, understand that the truth is internal and what we can think, we can do.
This means you; it means me; it means every human currently walking upon this planet. When we realize this fact we see that heredity is a like reed that is easily broken. The life of every person is in their own hands and they can make it exactly what they will to make it. All things that you most fondly dream of are yours, or may become so if you are truly earnest.
So as one rises more and more to their ideal, and grows in inner strength, one becomes an example and an inspiration to all with whom you come in contact; so that through you the weak are encouraged and strengthened; so that those of low ideals and of a low type of life instinctively and inevitably have their ideals raised, and the ideals of no one can be raised without its showing forth in their outer life. As you advance in your grasp upon and understanding of the power and potency of thought forces, you will find that many times through the process of mental suggestion you can be of tremendous aid to one who is weak and struggling, by sending to them now and then, and by continually holding them in, the highest thought, in the thought of the highest strength, that is wisdom and love. The power of thought force is one that has tremendous possibilities for good if we will but study it carefully, understand it fully, and use it rightly.
When the transition we call death takes place, character and self realization are in truth the only things that the soul takes with it. If you develop and nurture these things you will have an abundant life. For when the time of the transition to another form of life comes, you will never be afraid, never fearful, because you know and realize that behind, within, and beyond, are the Infinite wisdom and love; and in this you are eternally centered, and from it you can never be separated.
Be Blessed
In this modern world we live in, we are caught up in the rush and activity of our daily life, we are running hither and thither, with no center, no foundation upon which to stand, nothing to which we can anchor our lives, because we do not take sufficient time to come into the realization of what the center, of what the reality of our lives is.
The result is that we end up living life in a haphazard way, taking it as it comes, not thinking very much about it, only doing what we think is required of us. Then one day we realize, perhaps, pushed by bitter experiences, that we have spent our lives instead of molding them. We come to see that through the agency of our inner forces, we could have had our life exactly as we would have dreamed it. It is our dreams, our aspirations that will give us our ideal life; and it is this ideal life that is the only thoroughly satisfactory life.
If we would take more time from the rush and activity of life, and use it for contemplation, for meditation, for idealization, for becoming acquainted with our real selves, and then go about our work manifesting the powers of our real selves, we would be far better off, because we would be living a more natural, a more normal life. To find one's center, to become centered in the Infinite, is the first great essential of every satisfactory life; and then to go out, thinking, speaking, working, loving, and living, from this center.
There are those who feel they are handicapped by what we term heredity, that because your parents did such and such that you have to do such and such too. You have been falsely led that you will also be the same in character as your parents, that you will have this quirk or that flaw because they did. In a sense you are right; in another sense you are totally wrong. It is the same as the thought which many before us had imbedded in them through the education and training we received as children. Our forbearers often raised us with the information they had, often times not even understanding the why of things, just passing on the do and don’t things they had been taught themselves.
We must now awaken our selves and realize there is no absolute truth of the do and don’t things we were taught. We must now be dealing with the real and essential self, understand that the truth is internal and what we can think, we can do.
This means you; it means me; it means every human currently walking upon this planet. When we realize this fact we see that heredity is a like reed that is easily broken. The life of every person is in their own hands and they can make it exactly what they will to make it. All things that you most fondly dream of are yours, or may become so if you are truly earnest.
So as one rises more and more to their ideal, and grows in inner strength, one becomes an example and an inspiration to all with whom you come in contact; so that through you the weak are encouraged and strengthened; so that those of low ideals and of a low type of life instinctively and inevitably have their ideals raised, and the ideals of no one can be raised without its showing forth in their outer life. As you advance in your grasp upon and understanding of the power and potency of thought forces, you will find that many times through the process of mental suggestion you can be of tremendous aid to one who is weak and struggling, by sending to them now and then, and by continually holding them in, the highest thought, in the thought of the highest strength, that is wisdom and love. The power of thought force is one that has tremendous possibilities for good if we will but study it carefully, understand it fully, and use it rightly.
When the transition we call death takes place, character and self realization are in truth the only things that the soul takes with it. If you develop and nurture these things you will have an abundant life. For when the time of the transition to another form of life comes, you will never be afraid, never fearful, because you know and realize that behind, within, and beyond, are the Infinite wisdom and love; and in this you are eternally centered, and from it you can never be separated.
Be Blessed
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