This is a share coming from my very close friend Prentice Mulford. Soul touching words written:
"The Infinite as we demand will give us wisdom and light to know what we owe to ourselves. People have been over-ridden with the idea of the "duties" they owed to parent, relative, or friend. The road to heaven has been marked out as one full of sacrifice and self-denial for the sake of others, and with little good or pleasure for self.
If Christ should be taken as an example in this respect, we find a very different course inferred. When charged with lack of attention for his mother he asks, "Who is my mother?" When the young man pleads as an excuse for not immediately following Christ, that filial duty demanded he should go and bury his father, the Messenger of a new and higher law said, "Let the dead bury their dead." In other words, "if father or mother or sister brother are steeped in a life-long course of trespass and sin---if their lives have been one continual violation of spiritual law, bringing the inevitable penalty of disease and pain---if they are hardened and fossilized in their false beliefs, and regard your opinions as visionary and impractical, you cannot without injury have fellowship with them." If you pretend for sake of peace to agree with them you, are living a lie, and when you act or live a lie you materialize it and put it into your body, where it is a breeder of pain and unrest. If others cannot see the law of life as clearly as you, and in their blindness go stumbling on and filling themselves with decay and disease, it is not in the line of the highest justice that you should be called on to nurse them every time they are sick, to absorb their sick and unhealthy thought, to give them your life and vitality (for this you do when you think much of anyone), and to be dragged down with them. You are not responsible for their blindness. Nor can you open their eyes and make them see what is proven to you to be truth. Only the Infinite can do that. You do those who are in this lower and material current of thought no real good in ministering to them physically or spiritually. You may, having the stronger mind, bolster them up for a time, and throwing your mind in theirs give them your strength, but you cannot do this always, and when your influence is removed, as some time it must be, they will fall back to their old condition. What then have you accomplished? You have taken so much of your force out of yourself that you owed to yourself, and have taught them to depend on you and not on what every one must learn to depend---the Supreme Power. Let the dead then who are still above ground bury their dead. Give them a thought and wish for their highest welfare whenever you do think of them and leave them in God's care.
But when you put the Higher Love into yourself---when you reserve your forces to raise yourself higher in the scale of being---when it is your aim and unceasing silent prayer to be raised out of the current of the lower and material thought of physical disease---when you aspire to have every sense and faculty refined and strengthened beyond the present lot of mortals---when you begin to realize through the proofs coming to you that these are possibilities, then you are a real benefit to everyone. You are then proving a law. You are showing that there is a road out of the ills which afflict humanity, and when others, seeing these things evidenced in your life, ask how you obtain them, you can reply:
"I have grown, and am ever growing into a higher and happier condition of mind and body through knowledge of a law, and that law is as much for you to live by as for me."
Kindest Regards
No comments:
Post a Comment