Dear Friends,
This week's quote is from spiritual awareness class CC 111, which was published in Volume 5 of The Living Light Dialogue.
“It is interesting—the human mind and how it works. And for centuries we’ve spent much time with it, because it is such, because man has made it an obstruction to the soul’s free expression. If you want to help your mind, then learn the principle of discipline, for the mind responds to what is known as give and take. Learn what it is you value most. And if you want discipline, which is the happiness of life, and you tell your mind what it is to do and your mind does not do it as you tell it, then take away the things that it desires the most. You will soon find that your mind will begin to bow, for the mind does not enjoy being deprived of its desires.
And it is most interesting for the minds of men are trained in the same way, in truth, and the same principle as the minds of dogs. When they do what they’re told, they get something they enjoy. And when they do not do what they are told, that is taken from them. And if they continue to do what they are told not to do, yea, even that is taken from them. Now, that’s the way the mind works—so-called human and so-called animal. Learn the Law of Balance. That is known as reason.
“And when you don’t do what you know you should do, then deprive yourself accordingly of the things you desire the most. And soon, if you are firm and strict with yourselves, you will be transformed, for it is known as keeping faith with reason, for she will transfigure thee. Reason is known as balance. And balancing the mind is freedom of the soul.”
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Sincerely yours,
Russell Fitzgerald
Vice President
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