Thursday 15 April 2010
\Past Glories Foster a Happy Present/
When the chips are down, the traditions someone taught you---either your parents or a pastor or priest or rabbi or spiritual guide or mentor---are what you need. The notion of Holiness seems alien to the 21st century, but is not dead, for if it were our planet would be dissolved in nuclear chaos. "Holiness . . . is awareness of invisible fellowship, consciousness of immortality or cosmic consciousness. To be conscious at all times of God's presence is to be truly and effectively holy." ---Marc Edmund Jones, lessons on Leviticus (The Legalistic Message) p. 26.
Mourning a missing friend or relative may be appropriate but needs to be held in bounds, for to honor him or her is to keep on living in a worthy manner. Thereby something new is discovered about both of you---and lived.
It is amazing that when great teachers come to the earth, to humanity, they are ignored by all but a few hundred (rarely a few thousand) faithful. Such was the lot of Socrates as well as Jesus. It is the lot of some at the present day. If you are aware of one of these, you need to link to that guiding star faithfully.
Disappointment with oneself or one's life does not lead to suicide and ought not to. There is always a chance to re-harmonize what has become discord. A flash of light may dawn on you concerning a friend and your relation to her or him, which shows how any self-destructive impulses in either may be mitigated or abolished.
Attaining a higher level either materially or spiritually requires assistance from one (or more) at that higher level. This could be happening for you in a large way.
Some choose a weak or easy path of flowers. This may be inoffensive and pleasing, yet fails to manifest the soul's nascent powers. Today that easy path is there for you, and you need not deny yourself its pleasures, yet spending some time also on more manly/womanly pursuits will make you feel better about everything. When you feel you deserve the easy pleasures, they will be enhanced multiply.
Talents are wonderful, whether yours or someone else's; and a friend's talents are not to be overlooked because little can certify friendship more surely than appreciation of the friend's talents and abilities.
You have so much now! It is well to be thankful for gifts with which you have been equipped. Then you will use and share them in a way which multiplies happiness.
A bit of turmoil is inescapable when new potentials are being excavated. This is not disturbing when you remain conscious of the good things trying to come into being through the seeming chaos. If you note what has happened at the end of the day, you will see that the past is merging into a glorious present in ways of which you can be beamingly glad.
{Thursday} /Past Glories Foster a Happy Present\
Cosmic Piper
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