Soul Progress Through Understanding
one. Thus he continues to nurture the weed of pride and ego instead of cultivating the virtue of humility. Such is the Eternal viewpoint of God the Creator toward us as His children on a path of self-willed experience. We are here to learn His Way of seeing and thinking. And our lives become happy lives when we continue to make the effort despite occasional failures. The results are all in His Hands, but it is up to us to make the effort with the proper attitude of mind.
From the Inner and Eternal viewpoint of Energy Emanation, God does all things:
"Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? and one of them shall not fall on the ground without your Father." (Mat. 10:29)
On the circumference of the outer life and its viewpoint, we as individuals create our own immediate conditions and atmosphere by impressing our thoughts in the negative mind substance, the soil of the mind.
For this planting or process of thinking, each person is definitely responsible. "For as a man thinketh, so he is."[1] "As a man soweth, so shall he reap."[2] That is the inevitable law of Life. There is no exception or deviation from it. It is called 'Karma' in India, and 'Kismet' in the world of Islam. Only the names are different. They describe the same laws and living processes. There is no difference, no matter by what name an energy circuit is called in any part of the world of experience. But if we have learned to control the mind and rely on Divine Guidance, we are able to rise above difficult situations when it is our turn to reap them. We go through them just the same, but learn by experience instead of trying to justify the mind's actions. And so we become humble until we have reached the point where our debt has been paid in full.
It takes LOVE, PATIENCE and GREAT TOLERANCE to see this picture as a Whole and rise above the little petty viewpoints of our mind and its self-appointed reactions of revenge and tit for tat.
"Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord." (Romans 13:19)
Nearly all religions in the world agree on these fundamental laws of Life and Nature which no one can change. We either live by them and grow in God-like Wisdom of the larger view of
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1 Proverbs 23:7
2 Galatians 6:7
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