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KNOW THYSELF

In life, this above all else is a certainty: We are to live by the tenets of our God-given soul. The tools to do so are an imbued birthright, forever lying within our grasp. The tenets, instinctively known to all, are those of Truth, Goodness and Love. We honour these inborn human traits by first paying homage to that age-old aphorism: “know thyself.”

The business of coming to know oneself, as all who venture down this path well know, is a time of ongoing self-absorption and personal honesty. Bit by bit we rid ourself of worldly demons, real and imagined, to reveal the Purity of the life-giving soul. Here there is no hiding from the Truth of our Being; neither is there any turning back from this blissful state of inner harmony.

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DIVINE ROCK OF CERTAINTY 

When, with God’s help, we find ourself and come to know peace within, the enlightened soul reveals all else in life to be as an empty vessel.

Truth and Love become life’s cornerstone as we rebuild a life lost to presumed expectations of others and our own immersion in the wasteland of consumerism.

Shifting sands, once an insecure foothold, instead become our divine rock of certainty. We learn to give freely of ourself in selfless Love, at once uplifting our soul and bestirring all that is good in others. — Garry D. Kilbourn

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SPIRITUAL ENLIGHTENMENT … p. 44

Like most things, life is made easier if we but keep it simple. Let Truth and Love be our providential guideposts: Truth of Being and Love of God.

Neither thoughts of the mind nor exercise of will, in themselves, provide an awareness of God’s Love. Freeing the mind of mundane thoughts allows thoughts of God to awaken our spiritual Being: a selfless plea for God becoming one with us, that we may be and do as He is.

Truth of Being is none other than acknowledgment of our spiritual self; our inner Being; our divinely immortal soul.

Truth of Being and Love of God are harmonious inseparables, making us whole. 

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CHASM EPHEMERA

The chasm is wide which separates those in the fullness of God’s Love from those in life who “… labour and are heavy laden …” (Matthew 11:18). 

It is a chasm which blinds the poor in spirit from knowledge of God; one not of His making but of man’s alone, and man’s alone to heal.

He of heavy yoke must look within for God’s presence, the life-giving Truth of Being. Thus may he bear witness to the inner Light of the soul radiating God’s Goodness and Love.

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BIRTHRIGHT RECLAIMED

Experience affirms that life’s ofttimes difficult path is made easier with a friend at our side; one that we instinctively know will be there for us through good and the not so good: So it is with true friends.

And so it is as well in our relationship with God. As our faith in Him deepens we sense His presence in all that we think and do, taking comfort in knowing that God lives in us and we in Him. Thus do we reclaim our birthright: again made whole.

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HE WHO HATH EARS TO HEAR …

The true inner self is revealed not by what is said but by that left unsaid. Witness the oft-repeated Scriptural metaphor which bears directly on this human character trait: “If any man hath ears to hear, let him hear.”

If we are to hear the unspoken, not to say the withheld, word - that which reveals one’s true Being - we must consciously engage our spiritually enlightened sixth and seventh senses: that which “hears” emanations of the soul, and that which understands. We achieve this by being still within while giving equal attention to both forces, the audible and the divinely inaudible.

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THY WILL BE DONE

We ask of God in the Lord’s Prayer that “His will be done in earth as it is in heaven,” seemingly forgetting that such a plea may sometimes be at odds with our personal will.

Our own spiritual well-being demands that we at all times honour our undertaking to God, manifesting our love for both Him and our fellow-man, and doing unto others as we would like done to us. Meanwhile, and no less so, the mind is asserting its role in shaping our day-to-day conduct. How to reconcile what at first blush appears to be a contradiction of opposing forces, becomes the nagging question.

Were we to reflect, even for a moment, on this conundrum we would find the answer within the Lord’s Prayer itself. In exercising our will as a child of God thoughts of the mind become transcendent, reflecting His presence. By its very nature, our will becomes one with that of God’s: Our entire Being is given over to doing as God does and is.