Saturday, March 21, 2015

Providential Guideposts ... p. 77



BE   LIKE   ME
God hears
My heartfelt longing,
It’s plain for all to see
For when I seek His comfort
He tells me, “Be like Me.”

B.L. Woodard & G.D. Kilbourn

Learn to be like God. Begin in all humility and selflessness to quiet the mind. Look within and ask:”Am I being true to myself?” “Am I fulfilled?” “what is my purpose?”  Common sense and reason will give the answers. Thence comes the uncertainty of knowing, what next? What is next is an awareness of the fact we are not the person we see and touch. There is another – our true being – within: We are at once both physically mortal and spiritually immortal. God is our soul, ever present within us, and we in Him: Truly, we are one.

Think as you will, do as you will, unless you acknowledge your own true inner spiritual being, you will forever be alone. Only when you come to terms with the fact that you are not one, but two distinct, yet interdependent, beings will you come to love your neighbour as yourself and do unto others as you would have them do to you. Recognizing the goodness in others is an exercise in spiritual intuition, the use of one’s sixth and seventh senses which override the body’s five mortal senses. Figuratively speaking, it means stepping back and quieting the mind to hear the voice of our true inner being – the voice of the soul – which in turn allows an understanding of the other.

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