Why are ideals important in life?

That is what you so often forget—

In talking to yourself, and others against this principle, you say—

Ideals are not practical in a practical world!

 

But when the physical life is ended, you will see that the most practical thing in your life was your idealism, for that stands, while the things of the earth pass away. 

Not as the world giveth, give I unto you (John 14:27), but those priceless gifts—

The knowledge and the understanding of the mind of God. 

To the prepared mind, the vision glorious comes—to the disciplined heart, the love, which is of God. There you have the thing complete—

Unity with the Spirit within—

That Spirit, linking itself, forged to the divine Father Spirit whose love is everywhere in your life, whatever state or sphere or condition you may be in—that all-pervading love, that holiness, that sweetness, that inexpressible peace, linked to the Father, as a son and daughter, linked to the Most High. 

That is the gift—that is the free offering made to you, and to all. 

Then arise in heart and mind, and take that which is your own.

The true mother reflects more nearly the mind of God than anything else in the physical or spiritual worlds—

The true, unselfish, far-seeing, spiritualised mother, spiritualised by her love, is very close to the ideal—that ideal, which interprets to you something of the heart and mind of God. 

The sins of commission are not the only ones, which make their mark in the Spirit.

There are those sins of non-commission—those things, which you might have done, and did not.

 

Of the two, the things left undone are more destructive to your spiritual progress than those, which you did and repented afterwards, whether out of expediency—or through a sense of having outraged God's laws. 

The things of God satisfy every thought and aspiration of which you are capable. 

I hand over the future to you!

 

Of course, the physical mind, being very much like a little child, does not give up the reins of government for long. 

Yet, as all mothers know, even that brief space of time when their little child can say to them—

You do it! is a relief, and the remembrance brings a sense of comfort when the position is reversed.

—Zodiac, the Christ Messenger