How do you sanctify your spirit?

Happiness would soon be your portion if you would seek it in the right way. 

First―

In making others happy―

This is a sovereign receipt―

 

Next―

In so individualising yourself as to be able to stand unmoved amidst the ruin of worldly prospects―or the censures of friends so-called. 

If you have done what you thought right to the best of your ability and have not succeeded, why should you blame yourself―or allow the censures of others to have any weight with you? 

If no one can reproach you for unjust, hard―or not strictly upright dealings, then your soul is right before God and His angels, and what are the judgments of (wo)man in comparison? 

They may depress and throw a dark cloud over you for a time, but they cannot destroy your inward peace. 

Those who have not yet found this true happiness, let me urge on you the importance of trying to obtain it as soon as you can. 

Cast aside all selfishness―all pride in the gauds of your earth-life and strive to harmonise and sanctify your spirit that the true light from above may penetrate you. 

You do not know what a dark wall you raise around you by your contentions and strivings for earthly distinctions. 

The bad influences that you stir up prevent good spirits approaching, as they would gladly do to help you.

―N. In Spirit