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RIGHT and WRONG … p. 104

Fundamental to our well-being, nay, to our very humanity, is our intuitive sense of right and wrong. Awareness and self-discipline help in honouring these distinctions and in keeping us on the right path. Other ennobling traits contributing to our humanity; traits all too often lying obscured within us, are those of Selflessness and Humility. These alone ensure a place on the path and are, as well, key to an enlightened soul. Thus is our God-given Goodness made real and thus too are we enabled to love both ourself and our fellow-man. 

— Garry D. Kilbourn

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CHANGING 

OUR MIND … p. 103

Changing our mind is easy: we do it all the time with thoughts of little or of lasting consequence. Changing our mind to effect a new way of living, of becoming a better person, is another matter, however, requiring more than good intentions and ephemeral thought.

The change we long for, that which endures and brings joy to the soul, is nothing less than a metamorphosis of the self, whereby our true spiritual Being is set free to enlighten the mind and engender a sense of peace within.

Transformation of this magnitude is made possible only when we freely acknowledge our plight and surrender in all humility to God: He who lives in us, and we in Him.

— Garry D. Kilbourn

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REASON and INTUITION  … p.102

Call it what you will, but the “… still small voice …” that speaks to us from the very depth of our soul is, without question, the voice of Truth. To ignore it is to live a life devoid of purpose. To honour it is to enter into fabled Elysium made real — a state of perfect happiness.

In choosing Truth as our moral standard, we call upon those two basic human faculties, Reason and Intuition, each buttressing the other, to show us the Way. Thus do we have the best of all worlds wherein our physical, or mortal, Being is working in harmony with our divinely immortal Being: Reason, a product of the mind, and Intuition, that spiritual voice which speaks from the soul. Invoking Intuition at once ennobles the soul and subsumes Reason, taking it to a higher, spiritual, plane. We become aware of God’s calming presence, knowing we have found the Way. 

— Garry D. Kilbourn

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NEVER ALONE … p. 101

Even though we may welcome the sentiment, we need not be told we are special. We know we are special; even more, we are unique, for we intuitively sense that we are unlike anyone else. In some strange and wonderful way, we rightfully take comfort in knowing this.

What we either don’t know, or give little thought to, is that we are also unavoidably a part of the whole: the whole of mankind; the whole of the cosmos; the whole of God’s all-enveloping Love: we are never alone.

The key to this lies in the fact that all mankind are an emanation of the one primal source of Life each, in effect, a ray of Light from that wondrously mystical source which gives Life to the soul; which is the soul, in truth, God within.

Would that we thus honour our Birthright and do unto others as we would have them do unto us.

— Garry D. Kilbourn

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DIVINE INNER PEACE … p. 100

The lingering disquiet and unhappiness that forever hold us down are but a problem of mortal mind; one we are all susceptible to. We alone must face up to the problem and deal with it. An unwavering belief in our own divine Goodness is, more than all else, essential to the solution.

Stop looking to others, to different circumstances or to a change of place. All are but temporary palliatives which, when revealed in their true colours, serve only to deepen our despair and affirm the futility of ever finding our true Being.

All too often, our goodness which, by its very nature, cannot be taken from us, is obscured from our own sensibilities when mired in mental turmoil of our own making. To reveal, and to reclaim as our own, this wondrous gift of Goodness, we begin by going within. Thoughts of the mind to no purpose are instead given over to thoughts of God’s Love. In so doing, we intuitively become one with our immortal self: our true spiritual inner Being. Not only have we thus become quit of those inner demons which gave rise to our unease, we have as well achieved a state of selfless humility subsumed in an aura of divine Peace.

— Garry D. Kilbourn

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KNOW THYSELF … p. 99

The night of disquiet

That troubles the soul

Is but illusion of mind,

Our bondage but 

Fetters of myth.

“Be free of these demons,”

Cries a voice that rings true,

For it speaks from the

Depths of our Being.

Thrice we are told

“Go within, Go within;

Surrender to God’s 

Sovereign Power.”

The O so long night,

The illusory mind

But fantasies

Wrest from within

Awakened at last,

Veils stripped from the soul

“Know Thyself,” all along,

Was His goal.

— Garry D. Kilbourn

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GOD and NATURE … p. 98

Save for those indigenous peoples who, culturally, honour and revere the environment; they who are spiritually at one with nature’s bountiful gifts, mankind in general consistently ignore, or fail to recognize, nature’s significance relative to human well-being, no less our very survival. The whole of mankind, the world around us and all that’s in it, the entire universe: all are subject to the laws of nature, the First Cause, that Primal Force we know to be God.

Knowing God includes honouring and embracing nature in its entirety, availing ourself of its Goodness, while at once respecting its natural harmonies. We begin, quite properly, by establishing a relationship with God.

We know God to be a living, ever-present disinterested force within us. Our role, even more, our responsibility is to be awakened to that divine energy force and to become one with it. In silent prayer, in meditation or in contemplation we learn to commune with God that we may forever share in His wisdom, His Goodness and His Love. — Garry D. Kilbourn