"Reflect often on the
interesting idea of getting out of your own way."~ Vernon Linwood Howard
Happiness is an attribute of love. It cannot be apart from it. Nor can it be experienced where love is not. Love has no limits, being everywhere. And therefore joy is everywhere as well. God, being Love, must be joy. This basic error is the false belief that God is fear. Happiness belongs to you, because of what He is. ~ACIM
Man's happiness is
not an element but is the reaction of his own belief or acts. If you throw up a
stone into the air it must come down, so the reaction returns
with the same power that it receives. So if I do you an evil, the evil will
return on me, but God is not in the good or evil. He is in that wisdom that measures out to every one just according to his acts. PPQ 1862
What is your position in regard to the
world or the errors of the world? You cannot embrace both. If you embrace
the world you embrace its errors and become a servant to its
laws, and the spirit or truth departs to the God that gave it.
But if you hold on to the truth, the
world is in subjection to you and instead of becoming a
servant, you become a teacher of truth to the world and lead other minds to the
truth.
Here is your true position and this is
the struggle you will have to go through.
Shall the world lead you, or shall you lead
the world? This is
the point that is to be settled in your mind.
Now I will give you
the signs of the times. Many shall come in the name of the truth and say, do
this, or do that-music, dancing, and all sorts of amusements. But
truth says, Beware, be not deceived; seek first the truth and all the above
will be a pleasure to you. To know whether you are born of the truth, the truth
shall show just your position in the world. Then you can take
the lead and the world will listen to you. Then the kingdom of this world has
become subject to the kingdom of heaven, for error has become
the subject of truth.
This is a trying scene to go through. It seems as though you
must leave all the world's pleasure and seclude yourself from
society. But this is not the case; you will like society all the better. For
where the carcass is there will all the eagles be gathered; so
where error is, truth will go to lead the captive free. This will make you love
amusement for the sake of doing good. Then you will rejoice with those that rejoice and weep with those that weep and your happiness is
their happiness. Then you will be loved and respected for your love or
knowledge and you will draw around you those minds that are in
harmony with yours. Then will the old ideas come and knock at your door for
admittance, but the truth will say, Depart from me, ye cursed,
for when I wanted truth you gave me no answer; when ignorant or naked, you gave
me no truth or clothes; therefore depart ye cursed, into
everlasting darkness where ignorance and error dwell. PPQ December 1859
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