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You have been ensnared and limited by a mistaken perspective on life. Misplaced trust creates restriction and distress. Although the cycle has swung away from outward progress, the sage waits quietly and keeps firm in the face of repression or confinement. |
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(Q) Was the experience that I have gone through necessary? (A) Unless the entity, unless the body looks upon the experiences day by day as necessary influences and forces, and uses them as a stepping-stone, soon does life become a pessimistic outlook. If each and every disappointment, each and every condition that arises, is used as a stepping-stone for better things and looking for it and expecting it, then there will still be continued the optimism. Or the looking for and expecting of. If an individual doesn’t expect great things of God, he has a very poor God, hasn’t he? 462-10 (Q) In regard to the entity’s life reading [295-1], just what is it that is innate in the entity that would lead to unhappiness in marriage? (A) Mistrust of men! (Q) Does this mean the entity should never consider marriage in this life, but go through life never expecting to have a home of her own, for which she has yearned since a child? (A) Be well to choose, or to take that one—if she so desires—and bear the consequences! Make her a bigger and a better woman! but those conditions as we have outlined are as we have seen them! (Q) How can the entity best overcome the loneliness that so often besets her? (A) Fill the life with the interests of others, and not so much of self—or belittle self, or condemn self for the conditions. Fill the life in the interests of others. 295-2 But leave out of thy thought those things which have too often become as barriers in thy gaining thy proper understandings. Do not complain as to the "bad luck" that has come, or that appears to be. Do not blame others, or any influence. Rather meet such in Him. 1816-1 (Q) Any message for the group as a whole? (A) Be ye joyous in thy service to thy fellow man, in the name of Him who is able to keep thy ways. Count thy hardships, thy troubles, even thy disappointments, rather as stepping-stones to know His way better. Be ye joyous; be ye happy in His love. For He hath loved us, even when afar. How much more when we try, though we may stumble and fail! For the trial, the test, the determination creates that which will rise as faithful, true, and as righteousness before the throne of grace. For thou art under a dispensation of mercy. Be ye merciful. Be ye unhurt by hard words. 262-83 | |
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