* No matter how hard you try, you can’t baptize cats.
* When your mom is mad at your dad, don’t let her brush your hair.
* If your sister hits you, don’t hit her back. They always catch the second person.
* Never ask your 3-year old brother to hold a tomato.
* You can’t trust dogs to watch your food.
* Reading what people write on desks can teach you a lot.
* Don’t sneeze when someone is cutting your hair.
* Puppies still have bad breath even after eating a tic tac.
* Never hold a dustbuster and a cat at the same time.
* School lunches stick to the wall.
* You can’t hide a piece of broccoli in a glass of milk.
* Don’t wear polka-dot underwear under white shorts.
* The best place to be when you are sad is in Grandma’s lap.
]]>No one will deny that if you are to be great, the greatness must be a manifestation of something within and that greatness does not come from the mind, or the intellect, or the reason.
Reason knows neither principle nor morality. Your reason is like a lawyer in that it will argue for either side.
Intellect helps us to see the best means and manner of doing the right thing, but intellect never shows us the right thing.
Use intellect and reason without regard to principle, and you may become known as a very able person, but you will never become known as a person whose life shows the power of real greatness.
But By going back to your own center you can always find the pure idea of right for every relationship. To be great and to have power it is only necessary to conform your life to the pure idea as you find it in the GREAT WITHIN. Every compromise on this point is made at the expense of a loss of power. This you must remember.
We know there are many ideas in our minds that we have outgrown, and which, from force of habit we still permit to dictate the actions of our lives.
Cease all this; abandon everything you have outgrown.
There are many ignoble customs, social and other, which we still follow, although we know they tend to dwarf and belittle us and keep us acting in a small way. Rise above all this.
I’m not saying that you should absolutely disregard conventionalities, or the commonly accepted standards of right and wrong. You cannot do this; but you can deliver your soul from most of the narrow restrictions that bind the majority of your fellow people. Do not give your time and strength to the support of obsolete institutions, religious or otherwise; do not be bound by creeds in which you do not believe.
Be free.
You have perhaps formed some sensual habits of mind or body; abandon them. You still indulge in distrustful fears that things will go wrong, or that people will betray you, or mistreat you; get above all of them. You still act selfishly in many ways and on many occasions; cease to do so. Abandon all these, and in place of them put the best actions you can form a conception of in your mind. If you desire to advance, and you are not doing so, remember that it can be only because your thought is better than your practice. You must do as well as you think.
Let your thoughts be ruled by principle, and then live up to your thoughts.
Let your attitude in business, in politics, in neighborhood affairs, and in your own home be the expression of the best thoughts you can think.
Let your manner toward all men and women, great and small, and especially to your own family circle, always be the most kindly, gracious, and courteous you can picture in your imagination.
Remember your viewpoint; you are a god in the company of gods and must conduct yourself accordingly. The steps to complete consecration are few and simple. You cannot be ruled from below if you are to be great; you must rule from above. Therefore you cannot be governed by physical impulses; you must bring your body into subjection to the mind; but your mind, without principle, may lead you into selfishness and immoral ways; you must put the mind into subjection to the soul, and your soul is limited by the boundaries of your knowledge; you must put it into subjection to that Our soul which needs no searching of the understanding but before whose eye all things are spread.
That constitutes consecration.
Say: “I surrender my body to be ruled by my mind; I surrender my mind to be governed by my soul, and I surrender my soul to the guidance of God.” Make this consecration complete and thorough, and you have taken a great step in the way of greatness and power.
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Without faith it is impossible for you to become great.
The distinguishing characteristic of all really great men and women is an unwavering faith. We see this in every man and woman who has attained a place on the muster roll of the great ones of the world. Faith-not a faith in one’s self or in one s own powers but faith in principle; in the Something Great which upholds right, and which may be relied upon to give us the victory in due time.
Without this faith it is not possible for anyone to rise to real greatness. The person who has no faith in principle will always be a small person. Whether you have this faith or not depends upon your point of view. You must learn to see the world as being produced by evolution, as a something that is evolving and becoming, not as a finished work.
Millions of years ago God worked with very low and crude forms of life, low and crude, yet each perfect after its kind. Higher and more complex organisms, animal and vegetable, appeared through the successive ages; the earth passed through stage after stage in its unfolding, each stage perfect in itself, and to be succeeded by a higher one.
Pease note that the so-called “lower organisms” are as perfect after their kind as the higher ones; that the world in the Eocene period was perfect for that period; it was perfect, but God’s work was not finished.
This is true of the world today. Physically, socially, and industrially it is all good, and it is all perfect. It is not complete anywhere or in any part, but so far as the handiwork of God (The Source) has gone it is perfect.
THIS MUST BE YOUR POINT OF VIEW:
THAT THE WORLD AND ALL IT CONTAINS IS PERFECT, THOUGH NOT COMPLETED.
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