Fix your desires on attaining something, which reflects God.
The only thing worth having, the only thing, which brings peace and sweet content is to do the Master's work in the Master's way. Starting from the highest, from the One who is All-purity, All-holiness, All-love, right down to the weakest, to the frailest, the Christ Mind can be reflected, even if it be in miniature by that simple thought, that half-formed desire—
Help me to help others, not help me to help myself because Christ does not work in that way.
Do not pray for yourself so much as pray for those others. In healing them of their infirmities, you will find that your own cease to exist.
See the underlying meaning of that beautiful phrase that It is more blessed to give than to receive.
It is the short, straight road to spiritual attainment, to the throwing off of the lesser self, to the healing of those wounds whether they be of the mind or of the soul, that helping others, that thought of sympathy, that little prayer, that giving and hoping and wishing that another's lot might be lightened. It is of the utmost importance that all should realise this, which is an immutable spiritual law—
You cannot cleanse yourself except by helping to cleanse others—you cannot bring to yourself one atom of faith unless you are able to give faith to another who was faithless—you cannot climb that further ridge towards the brightness, which calls you on without stooping down and lifting another one step on.
This is a spiritual law, working absolutely untouched by anything else, and until the world can grasp it, so it blunders along in the valley, and when the earth life is over, still the valley claims its own.
The only beauty, which is real beauty is the obedient and humble and loving heart, and these you lay at the feet of Christ for Him to use at His will.
This is a sublime fact—I say emphatically that every truly honest work or act of charity that cheers a saddened heart has an effect on the indwelling spirit, modifying its texture, just the same as the impressions made on the mind of the mother affect her embryonic child.
—Spirit Lucretus
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