Mind Power

Kindness

 

 [Kindness] comes because of a greater understanding, a larger sympathy with life ...

 

Kindness comes with evolvement, with growth. It comes because of a greater understanding, a larger sympathy with life and all the peoples involved in the stress and strain of living.  

Whenever we find people who show kindness, gentleness to one another, we know we are with one who has arrived at this state of evolvement, that he or she has more light, or wisdom, as it also can be called. He sees himself in the problems involving others and realizes his kinship with those with whom he feels this sympathetic vibration, which is a form of love. 

Love is life, love is God, and all who in some way show these attributes have arrived.

Peace for Mankind

People do not ... grasp the fact that they alone are responsible for their fate, that they are the only ones who can bring about a just and lasting peace ...  instead of the profits of war.

 

Peace is one of the most important elements in the world today and one that all mankind should seek and truly are seeking. The reason it is not in evidence many places in the world is also quite apparent. It is due to the greed, selfishness, self-centeredness and kindred emotions held by the people of the world; yes, held onto in spite of all the knowledge that it is the salvation of the world.

People do not and will not grasp the fact that they alone are responsible for their fate, that they are the only ones who can bring about a just and lasting peace if they truly and unselfishly desire it instead of the profits of war. 

It is a deplorable fact that men can and do profit from the agony of others who become involved in war because of the greed and power desired by the men who are empowered to run some of the countries of the world.

Peace commences first in the minds and hearts of all mankind, and we must become more tolerant, more kindly towards those who have less of the world’s goods, who are perhaps also of another race or creed and who do not think or act as we do for their backgrounds differ tremendously.  

Can we not then overcome these negative conditions and through our better selves learn and negotiate with those who so desperately need assistance?  All must do so eventually, but suffering will come unless they [the greedy, the selfish] change their ways.

Unfolding Life’s Possibilities

 

 Whatever way we help others along life’s road we help ourselves for it is a law.

 

Each one unfolds his possibilities in life as he aspires and, in turn, is inspired by the good thoughts and efforts towards benefits for others as well as for himself.  One, you see, is not possible without the other for if you seek to help those around and about you who are in need, you help yourself.  

The need may not be in a material way, it may be entirely physical or spiritual -- maybe only a smile or a kind word. Whatever way we help others along life’s road we help ourselves for it is a law. God’s laws are not mocked. They are continually in operation, and justice is always being meted out in some form or another.  

We are often given trials in order that we may unfold more. There is always purpose behind all that happens to us.  

Life is not a hit-or-miss proposition; it is never a matter of sheer luck or good fortune that one prospers over another. No, it is whatever is needed for the individual in order that he may unfold spiritually to a greater degree and be a step higher on the spiritual ladder of life. This cannot be unless we desire it. To desire this means greater growth and ways will open whereby we can receive to a greater degree that which we need for unfoldment.

Friendship

Friends, true friends, are rare and if we are fortunate in having even one, we can count ourselves rich indeed.

 

Friendship, in its true meaning, is a form of love. Not love of self and all that implies, but love for the friend regardless of what comes. To be a friend is to be willing to do what, within reason, friendship requires -- to forgive faults, to overlook slights and to help when there is need for assistance on life’s path. 

We all need friends, but there are many kinds of friends. There are the friends who are always there when needed and, regardless of self, will do all they can to help you. 

Then there are the fair-weather friends who, when it is to their advantage, will do all they can for you, but if things do not go according to the way that they would wish, become bitter, resentful and oftentimes jealous of the good fortune of their friends.  

These people are selfish and not worthy of the name friend. It is wise to write them off and let them go their own way for they have much to learn and they do not change until life’s bitter lessons have been assimilated in another lifetime. 

Friends, true friends, are rare and if we are fortunate in having even one, we can count ourselves rich indeed. Then too we must be a true friend ourselves; understanding, loving, kind and thoughtful and in every way blessing the friend we have found.