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Any dramatic progress is ill-advised here because your situation is weak and afflicted. It is time for one to reaffirm contact with his spiritual source and to eschew any distant goals. The sage refuses to overreach and instead sets little goals that are within reach. Progress can be made, even if it is limping movements hampered by restraints. |
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Then follow rather in the footsteps of the Messenger, or the Prince of Peace, that met each circumstance, or took those steps by steps as were necessary for the advancement to that position that all came to be in the active forces of the body. So, as with this body, step by step, meet those conditions as arise, either in the physical, the mental or the spiritual plane, in their order. 294-136 For each cell is as a representative of a universe in itself. Then what would ye do with thy abilities? As ye give to others, not hating them, to know more of the Universal Forces, so may ye have the more, for, God is love. Do that, and ye will bring bettered conditions for yourself. Work where you are. As was given to those who were called, "The ground upon which ye stand is holy." Begin where you are. 4021-1 (Q) How can I use my energy to get the most out of life? (A) In understanding or listening to those voices that speak from within and about self. Not material; but those unseen sources are opening to the abilities. Apply; do not abuse. Rather harken to that still small voice; for know that while the storms may—in all their picturesque beauty—bring fears or joy in the hearts of many, and that the ravages of war and the boldness as created by the spirit of patriotic influences are aroused, these are outward signs—and that which builds is the still small voice from within. Seek not "Who shall ascend into the heavens to bring him down, or go to the ends of the earth that ye may know!" Rather that that is within thine own self only needs the line upon line, the line upon line, to bring the understanding that He lives—and all is well! 2741-1 This, then, is as a lesson to the entity, that in the taking on of that experience that the entity sees, knows, understands, grasps a portion of, in the various phases of its earthly or physical or material existence, the lessons are then as stepping-stones, and wade in, rather than dive in head first. For little by little, line upon line, line upon line, must one gain the full concept of the conditions in which one lives, moves, and has its being. Not that life and its phases are a mystery, or something to be afraid of, but rather that the glory of the knowing of the existence and its meaning is the worthwhile condition in the material and the spiritual spheres and planes. 137-84 | |
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