The spiritual life is not a theory, we have
to live it.
If we are painstaking about this phase of
our development, we will be amazed before we are half way through. We will
know a new freedom and a new happiness. We will not regret the past, nor wish
to shut the door on it. We will comprehend the word serenity and we will know
peace. No matter how far down the scale we have gone, we will see how our
experience can benefit others. That feeling of uselessness and self-pity will
disappear. We will lose interest in selfish things and gain interest in our
fellows. Self-seeking will slip away. Our whole attitude and outlook upon life
will change. Fear of people and of economic insecurity will leave us. We will
intuitively know how to handle situations which used to baffle us. We will
suddenly realize that God is doing for us what we could not do for ourselves.Are these extravagant promises? We think
not. They are being fulfilled among us–sometimes quickly, sometimes slowly.
They will always materialize if we work for them.
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