Today's Thought Gem—October

62 posts · 1 participants · started Sep 30, 2014, 4:33 AM

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   VernParticipant
   Oct 20, 2014, 9:54 PM

   Only a brave person

   is willing honestly to admit,

   and fearlessly to face,

   what a sincere and logical

   mind discovers

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   VernParticipant
   Oct 21, 2014, 8:23 PM

   The solution of life problems requires courage

   and sincerity. Only honest and brave individuals

   are able to follow valiantly through the perplexing

   and confusing maze of living to where the logic

   of a fearless mind may lead

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   VernParticipant
   Oct 23, 2014, 6:05 AM

   Marriage, with its manifold relations,

   is best designed to draw forth those

   precious impulses and those higher

   motives which are indispensable to the

   development of a strong character

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   VernParticipant
   Oct 24, 2014, 7:57 AM

   Fear, envy, and conceit

   can be prevented

   only by

   intimate contact

   with other minds

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   VernParticipant
   Oct 25, 2014, 12:06 AM

   Isolation

   tends to

   exhaust

   the energy charge

   of the soul

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   VernParticipant
   Oct 26, 2014, 7:09 AM

   Association with one’s fellows

   is essential to the renewal of

   the zeal for life and is indispensable

   to the maintenance of courage to

   fight those battles consequent upon

   the ascent to the higher levels

   of human living

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   VernParticipant
   Oct 26, 2014, 10:10 PM

   Friendship

   enhances the joys

   and glorifies the

   triumphs of life

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   VernParticipant
   Oct 28, 2014, 12:37 AM

   Loving and intimate

   human associations

   tend to rob suffering

   of its sorrow and

   hardship much of its

   bitterness

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   VernParticipant
   Oct 28, 2014, 9:54 AM

   The presence

   of a friend

   enhances 

   all beauty

   and exalts

   every

   goodness

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    VernParticipant
    Oct 30, 2014, 1:02 AM

    The present

    when divorced

    from the past

    and the future

    becomes

    exasperatingly

    trivial

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    VernParticipant
    Oct 30, 2014, 11:30 PM

    Excitement

    does not

    augment energy;

    it rather exhausts

    the powers of both

    mind and body

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    VernParticipant
    Sep 30, 2015, 10:28 AM

    Today, 1 October is “Do not become discouraged by the discovery you are human. Human nature may tend toward evil but it is not inherently sinful” a suggested match would be:

    Be not downcast by your failure

    wholly to forget some of your

    regrettable experiences
    

     

    ^{[Paper 156:5.8, page 1739:3]}

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    VernParticipant
    Oct 1, 2015, 12:16 PM

    Vern wrote:  Today, 2 October is “make not the mistake of estimating the soul’s worth by the imperfections of the mind or the appetites of the body” a suggested match would be:

    Religion is the exclusively spiritual

    experience of the evolving immortal soul

    of the God-knowing man, but moral power

    and spiritual energy are mighty forces

    which may be utilized in dealing

    with difficult social situations

    and in solving intricate economic problems
    

     

    ^{[Paper 156:5.10, page 1739:5]}

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    VernParticipant
    Oct 2, 2015, 3:23 AM

    Vern wrote:  Today, 3 October is “Judge not the soul nor evaluate its destiny by the standard of a single unfortunate human episode” a suggested match would be:

    God-knowing individuals

    are not discouraged by misfortune

    or downcast by disappointment.

    Believers are immune to the

    depression consequent upon purely

    material upheavals; spirit livers are

    not perturbed by the episodes of the material world
    

     

    ^{[Paper 156:5.13, page 1739:8]}

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    VernParticipant
    Oct 2, 2015, 3:28 AM

    Vern wrote:  Today, 4 October is “Your spiritual destiny is conditioned only by your spiritual longings and purposes” a suggested match would be:

    Kingdom builders must be

    undoubting of the truth of

    the gospel of eternal salvation
    

     

    ^{[Paper 156:5.12, page 1739:7]}

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    VernParticipant
    Oct 5, 2015, 12:39 PM

    Vern wrote:  Today, 5 October is “You are destined to live a narrow and mean life if you learn to love only those who love you” a suggested match would be:

    Love is never self-seeking,

    and it cannot be self-bestowed
    

     

    ^{[Paper 156:5.11, page 1739:6]}

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    VernParticipant
    Oct 6, 2015, 1:43 AM

    Vern wrote:  Today, 6 October is “Human love may indeed be reciprocal, but divine love is outgoing in all its satisfaction-seeking” a suggested match would be:

    Divine love cannot be self-contained;

    it must be unselfishly bestowed
    

     

    ^{[Paper 156:5.11, page 1739:6]}

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    VernParticipant
    Oct 6, 2015, 12:10 PM

    Vern wrote:  Today, 7 October is “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” a suggested match would be:

    In the spirit,

    your citizenship is in heaven;

    in the flesh,

    you are still citizens of the earth kingdoms.

    Render to the Caesars the things which are material

    and to God those which are spiritual
    

     

    ^{[Paper 156:5.16, page 1740:3]}

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    VernParticipant
    Oct 7, 2015, 1:57 AM

    Vern wrote:  Today, 8 October is “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.” a suggested match would be:

    Love, freely

    receive from both divine

    and human sources regardless of your deserts,

    and love freely in return
    

     

    ^{[Paper 156:5.19, page 1740:6]}

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    VernParticipant
    Oct 13, 2015, 3:34 AM

    Vern wrote:  Today, 9 October is “It is not possible to respect yourself more than you love your neighbour; the one is the measure of the capacity for the other” a suggested match would be:

    Are you becoming increasingly artistic

    in your technique of

    leading hungry souls

    into the spiritual kingdom?
    

     

    ^{[Paper 156:5.15, page 1740:2]}

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