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To truly know a thing one must experience it and contemplate inwardly its meaning. To understand other people one must come into contact with their lives and see their deepest needs. Learn this way to be sympathetic to their point of view. Then one can teach with true sympathy and what one has to give is well received. All depends on gaining the right view of life. |
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Hold fast to that ideal. And in thy dealings with thy brother, meet rather that as would be if conditions were reversed; being patient, being understanding; not as preachments but rather as following of precepts and living the ideal that is manifest in the word of the entity. And let thy prayer ever be, in this direction: Father, God! Speak Thou to me in word that I may understand. But let me, O God, speak ever to my brother in deeds, rather than words. 2524-4 That the soul—a portion, an expression of God’s desire for companionship—might find expression, the souls of men and women came into being; that there might be that which would make each soul, then, as a fit companion for that realm. There is the necessity of fitting itself through the experiences of all phases and realms of existence, then; that it, the soul, may not cause disruption in the realm of beauty, harmony, strength of divinity in its companionships with that Creative Force. Hence the experiences, if we will gain that deeper comprehension of same, are but opportunities; for in whatsoever state of consciousness one finds self, the awakening is from the desire of the Father that each soul shall continue to have its thread of gold that runs through each conscious force for its companionship with Him. So the use or application of that in hand makes for the awareness within self of its, the soul’s, relationships to the Creative Force. 805-4 For ye live, ye move in an environ of dimensions according to the awareness and application of thyself to these influences in thy activity. It is not then what ye think or what ye say that counts, but what thy soul desires, what thy soul hopes for, what thy soul manifests in thy relationships to these environs; that are opportunities for the application of that understanding ye may have at any given period of manifestation. 2608-1 . . . as you each become conscious in your own experience of the movement of the influences through the body upon the various stages of awareness, there comes a determination, a desire, a longing for the greater light. To him, to her that is faithful, there shall be given a crown of light. And His name shall be above every name; for ye that have seen the light know in whom thou hast believed, and know that in thine own body, thine own mind, there is set the temple of the living God, and that it may function in thy dealings with thy fellow man in such measures that ye become as rivers of light, as fountains of knowledge, as mountains of strength, as the pastures for the hungry, as the rest for the weary, as the strength for the weak. Keep the faith. 281-28 | |
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