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One’s fundamental responsibility is to care for the body with right nourishment. True nourishment is that which furthers one’s progress on the path. That which brings growth is what one should seek. What one ingests, be it food or thought, should not influence you to deviate from your goal. |
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Be oft in prayer, oft in meditation, seeing self gaining the proper nourishment, proper resuscitating forces from those elements being given to the system for its resuscitation. 2097-1 Then, as ye purpose in thy heart to do, let these first be thy considerations. What is the ideal life? Let it be answered from each phase of thy experience. Ye find ye have a body, physical—with all its appetites, with all its desires, with its needs for food, with its needs for that with which it shall be clothed. Ye find a mind—ye think, ye act—this also is in need of food and of clothing. As ye clothe thy thoughts in words, are they in keeping with that as would bring thee blessings or a curse upon others? Know that ye sow, that ye use as thy ideal, that alone may ye reap in thy experience. 1977-1 Life in its manifestation in an individual activity of an entity in the material world finds itself able, because of its very nature, to take from the food values, the emotions that arise in the mental body and its environment, that which—combined with the proper activity of that assimilated in the body—produces the sufficient elements for not only the resuscitation but the reconstruction of itself. 1068-1 (Q) How should the Lord’s Prayer be used in this connection [verses keyed to spiritual centers in the body]? (A) As in feeling, as it were, the flow of the meanings of each portion of same throughout the body-physical. For as there is the response to the mental representations of all of these in the mental body, it may build into the physical body in the manner as He, thy Lord, thy Brother, so well expressed in, "I have bread ye know not of." 281-29 Meditation is emptying self of all that hinders the creative forces from rising along the natural channels of the physical man to be disseminated through those centers and sources that create the activities of the physical, the mental, the spiritual man; properly done must make one stronger mentally, physically, for has it not been given? He went in the strength of that meat received for many days? Was it not given by Him who has shown us the Way, "I have had meat that ye know not of"? As we give out, so does the whole of man—physically and mentally become depleted, yet in entering into the silence, entering into the silence in meditation, with a clean hand, a clean body, a clean mind, we may receive that strength and power that fits each individual, each soul, for a greater activity in this material world. 281-13 | |
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