What is the way to God?

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What spirit-lives know to be the most important advice there is to give for the conduct of life.

The Way to God

You have to recognise the fact that God has not left you in darkness all these ages―nor has He given you misleading light. 

Progress―eternal progress―ever forgetting the things that are behind―ever reaching forward to those, which are before it―is the universal law.

For the identification of love, wherever it is found as God―as a ray from God, pure and bright―the authentic emanation from God―in proportion, as it is unselfish and sacrificial in its nature, that is the Gospel, which will save the world. 

And when men ask you where God is, then you can answer, where Love is. 

Resume the habit of contemplation. 

You are too hurried. 

You are getting to be too busy. 

How do you think that you are to keep the door open between you and him who is Love unless you have at least some moments in the day when you can be alone with him? 

What the world needs is an arrest of this fretful fever about trivial things, which perish with the using.

What the age needs is time to think―time to meditate―time to pray―time for the divine and eternal. 

Peace―be still! 

Rest!

You must have time to think of God and of his manifestation as Love, otherwise you will crowd God out of your life, and a life without Love is a life without God. 

What you need is a halting place now and then―a resting place in which the angels of God can commune with the soul. 

What chance do you have of realising the truths of the Other World if you are perpetually racing to catch trains in this? 

I know you must catch trains, but what I plead for is that you should make time, at least for a few minutes a day, in which to catch eternity―or a glimpse of it, and eternal things.

It is a mistake to say that there is no longer time in which to think. 

With the increased rush there are many oases. 

But with the continued rush, there disappears the capacity to utilise them. 

Where Love is, God is. 

There is no formula so true as that. 

What am I making of myself? 

For love begins at home. 

And if a man is cruel to his own soul—? 

No―you must care for your higher self―the God within. 

What are you doing with that? 

Giving it exercise? 

And what? 

Since when has it had an opportunity of doing anything worth doing? 

And are you stunting―or starving―or killing it? 

Soul murder—are you guilty of it? 

For it is possible to murder your own soul.

Evil is the want of thought. 

A loving thought is a prayer.

In short, evil is the want of thought. 

Think—a loving thought is a prayer. 

You do not have time to pray? 

Then make time to think of those you love. 

Without thinking about people,  you lose a vital connection with them. 

To all men and women you know you owe some duty, however slight. 

It may be a smile―it may be a word―it may be a letter―it may be praise―it may be to blame, and there is more love needed to blame rightly than to praise. 

But whatever it is, it is due from you to each of these. 

Have you paid your dues? 

Not in the lump, but to each his due?

What is the excuse for half the unkindness in the world? 

What is the cause of most of the sadness? 

Not poverty of this world's wealth, but the poverty of loving thought. 

You do not think―you forget. 

You neglect for want of thought. 

You allow the love that is in you to grow cold. 

For love dies when you never think of the person loved.

Therefore, think of them all. 

If you can do nothing else, think of them lovingly, for the loving thought of a friend is an angel of God sent to carry a benediction to the soul.

In this way, you fulfil―or help to fulfil your own prayers. 

When you think with real feeling and earnestness of another's welfare and long to help him, you do help him. 

Here is the secret source whereby the fire is fed, which would else have flickered out and died. 

Oh, my dearest friend, if you only knew the power of thought, and if you would but think, think, think!

 

If you would but think, think, think!

The supreme need of your soul is time to think, which means time to love, that is, time to live.