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Today's Thought Gem—October
62 posts · 1 participants · started Sep 30, 2014, 4:33 AM
make not the mistake of estimating
the soul’s worth by the imperfections
of the mind or the appetites of the body
Judge not the soul nor evaluate
its destiny by the standard of a
single unfortunate human episode
Your spiritual destiny is
conditioned only by your
spiritual longings and purposes
You are destined to live a
narrow and mean life
if you
learn to love only
those who love you
Human love
may indeed be reciprocal,
but divine love
is outgoing in all
its satisfaction-seeking
The less of love
in any creature’s nature
the greater the love need,
and the more does divine love
seek to satisfy such need
Spiritual living mightily
increases true self-respect.
But self-respect is not self-admiration.
Self-respect is always co-ordinate
with love and service of one’s fellows.
It is not possible to
respect yourself more than
you love your neighbour;
the one is the measure of the
capacity for the other
Are your ideals sufficiently high
to ensure your eternal salvation
while your ideas are so practical
as to render you a useful citizen
to function on earth in association
with your fellow mortals?
The measure of the spiritual capacity of
the evolving soul is your faith in truth
and your love for man
Defeat is the true mirror
in which you may honestly
view your real self
As you grow older in years
and more experienced in the
affairs of the kingdom, are you
becoming more tactful in dealing
with troublesome mortals and
more tolerant in living with
stubborn associates?
Tact is the fulcrum of
social leverage, and
tolerance is the earmark
of a great soul
Seek no
unearned recognition
and crave no
undeserved sympathy
If your brother sins against you,
go to him with tact and patience
show him his fault. And do all this
between you and him alone
A loving father does not frighten
his children into yielding obedience
to his just requirements
The world is filled with
hungry souls who famish
in the very presence of
the bread of life, men die
searching for the very God
who lives within them
Faith is to religion
what sails are to a ship,
it is an addition of power,
not an added burden of life
Mature men view immature folks
with the love and consideration
that parents bear their children
