In stark contrast to my earlier philosophy for living upon this world, the Papers delivered to me the most unique perspective of these very human feelings I’ve ever encountered.
26:5.3 (291.3) That, then, is the primary or elementary course which confronts the faith-tested and much-traveled pilgrims of space. But long before reaching Havona, these ascendant children of time have learned to feast upon uncertainty, to fatten upon disappointment, to enthuse over apparent defeat, to invigorate in the presence of difficulties, to exhibit indomitable courage in the face of immensity, and to exercise unconquerable faith when confronted with the challenge of the inexplicable. Long since, the battle cry of these pilgrims became: “In liaison with God, nothing — absolutely nothing — is impossible.”
Say what???!!!
This is the art of perfecting ascendence….the courage and will to remain calm and joyful and confident and trusting and loyal in the midst of all the great uncertainties at the intersections of choice by our knowledge of the true quest…experiential wisdom gained by the experiences of uncertainty, disappointment, defeat, great difficulty, immensity, and the challenge of the inexplicable!
How is this accomplished? Only by faith is it possible I think. An abiding unshakable faith in God and the friendly universe.
But who in this world could ever claim it to be friendly? Only those who understand the power of free will and the love of a paternal Creator…as illuminated so well by the Son of Man and the Son of God. We choose what we see and believe and we choose what we will do and why and how….and all such choices by all people moves our world closer to our destiny…or retards that inevitability.
When we become motivated by love and guided by the Spirit within, the grip and power of uncertainty, disappointment, and defeat fade over time and by experiential wisdom gained, while purifying our minds from the poisons of fear, anger, indolence, and all anxieties.
100:2.6 (1096.3) The goal of human self-realization should be spiritual, not material. The only realities worth striving for are divine, spiritual, and eternal. Mortal man is entitled to the enjoyment of physical pleasures and to the satisfaction of human affections; he is benefited by loyalty to human associations and temporal institutions; but these are not the eternal foundations upon which to build the immortal personality which must transcend space, vanquish time, and achieve the eternal destiny of divine perfection and finaliter service.
100:2.7 (1096.4) Jesus portrayed the profound surety of the God-knowing mortal when he said: “To a God-knowing kingdom believer, what does it matter if all things earthly crash?” Temporal securities are vulnerable, but spiritual sureties are impregnable. When the flood tides of human adversity, selfishness, cruelty, hate, malice, and jealousy beat about the mortal soul, you may rest in the assurance that there is one inner bastion, the citadel of the spirit, which is absolutely unassailable; at least this is true of every human being who has dedicated the keeping of his soul to the indwelling spirit of the eternal God.
100:2.8 (1096.5) After such spiritual attainment, whether secured by gradual growth or specific crisis, there occurs a new orientation of personality as well as the development of a new standard of values. Such spirit-born individuals are so remotivated in life that they can calmly stand by while their fondest ambitions perish and their keenest hopes crash; they positively know that such catastrophes are but the redirecting cataclysms which wreck one’s temporal creations preliminary to the rearing of the more noble and enduring realities of a new and more sublime level of universe attainment.
The Master taught us to Fear Not and Be of Good Cheer!!
What an adventure! 
"Live loyally today—grow—and tomorrow will attend to itself. The quickest way for a tadpole to become a frog is to live loyally each moment as a tadpole."
