“When you want to master conditions in this world, whether they be financial or that of health or success, if you would only realize that everything begins with the Heart Flame of the Sacred Fire Love's Indestructible Purity and Indestructible Peace that holds Balanced Control of outer conditions, you would never know failure. You would [...]
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understanding the “i am”… that is you…
“Now Beloved Ones, selfishness in the feeling, or selfishness that holds the attention of the intellect, produces discord. Selfishness will always throw something out of balance. Selfishness will always produce discord. Selfishness will always produce impurity. And these but bind the individual to greater and greater distress, until it destroys the body. The Peace of [...]
understanding the “i am”… that is you…
“Blessed Ones, if you'll understand this deeply, and enter right into the Command and Desire and Determination to fill the outer self with the Heart Flame's Perfection of your “Mighty I AM Presence” and Higher Mental Body, fill the outer self with Its Sacred Fire Indestructible Purity and Purifying Love, you will soon become so [...]
understanding the “i am”… that is you…
“Thank you, Beloved Ones, for your energy in your Decrees and your Calls to Us. We shall come back to you with all that Love can give; and We want you to know that when you think of Us, in Love, and send to Us your Calls for Love, Love will answer you. And Our [...]
the imitation of Christ, the 1st book: chapter xx (the love of solitude and silence)
OF THE LOVE OF SOLITUDE AND SILENCE “In silence and quiet the devout soul goes forward and learns the hidden things of the Scriptures. Therein finds she a fountain of tears, wherein to wash and cleanse herself each night, that she may grow the more dear to her Maker as she dwells the further from [...]
the imitation of Christ, the 1st book: chapter xx (the love of solitude and silence)
OF THE LOVE OF SOLITUDE AND SILENCE “Seek a suitable time for your meditation and think frequently of the mercies of God to you. Leave curious questions. Study such matters as bring you sorrow for sin, rather than amusement. If you withdraw yourself from trifling conversation and idle goings about, as well as from novelties [...]
the imitation of Christ, the 1st book: chapter xiv and xv (avoiding rash judgment; works of charity)
ON AVOIDING RASH JUDGMENT “Look well unto yourself and beware that you judge not the doings of others. In judging others, a man labours in vain; he often errs and easily falls into sin; but in judging and examining himself, he always labours to good purpose. According as a matter touches our fancy, so oftentimes [...]
the imitation of christ, the 1st book: chapter xii (the uses of adversity)
OF THE USES OF ADVERSITY “It is good for us that we sometimes have sorrows and adversities, for they often make a man lay to heart that he is only a stranger and sojourner, and may not put his trust in any worldly thing. It is good that we sometimes endure contradictions, and are hardly [...]
the imitation of christ, the 1st book: chapter xi (seeking peace of mind and spiritual progress)
OF SEEKING PEACE OF MIND AND OF SPIRITUAL PROGRESS “We may enjoy abundance of peace if we refrain from busying ourselves with the sayings and doings of others, and things which concern not ourselves. How can he abide long time in peace who occupies himself with other men's matters, and with things outside himself, and [...]
the imitation of christ, the 1st book: chapters vii and viii (fleeing from vain hope and pride; the danger of too much familiarity)
OF FLEEING FROM VAIN HOPE AND PRIDE: “Vain is the life of that man who puts his trust in men or in any created thing. Be not ashamed to be the servant of others for the love of Jesus Christ, and to be reckoned poor in this life. Rest not upon thyself but build thy [...]
The Mark Of God: Understanding Your "I AM Presence" 