Dear Friends,
This week's quote is from spiritual awareness class CQA 8, which will be published in Volume 10 of The Living Light Dialogue.
"You know, it is so interesting to note: there is a simple way of seeing for ourselves whether or not we have had a similar experience as another. All we have to do is to become aware of whether or not we have tolerance towards that person that is having that experience. You see, my friends, the experiences that we have had reveal to us whether or not we’ve learned our lesson. If we have learned our lesson, our soul faculty of tolerance is expanded, and we enter the soul faculty of reason, where the light of God shines eternally. But when our eyes look around and about us and we find we have no tolerance, but much judgment—you see, my friends, you cannot be intolerant unless you be a judge. You must judge to experience intolerance.
And I am so grateful to this understanding of the Living Light that reveals so clearly that God is not a judge, but an infinite, intelligent, neutral Divine Power. And let us pause and think. If God, the very Intelligence sustaining our life, does not judge us, what do we do when we judge us? You see, we are the ones who judge our self. And because the law clearly reveals that we cannot grant to another what we have not first granted unto our self and because we judge ourselves all the time, we have no problem in judging others all the time. And because we do that to our self, we guarantee the intolerance to those around and about us, for we have already guaranteed the intolerance to ourselves.
Make friends with your adversities. Be kind and good to yourself.”
Along with this quote is another saying in the philosophy that says what we are intolerant of in another, we have yet to educate within ourselves.
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Sincerely yours,
Russell Fitzgerald
Vice President
Serenity Association
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