Obligations are too often made casually and regretted later.
We obligate ourselves in many ways every day of our lives and are obliged to follow through and carry out our obligations even though sometimes they are both unnecessary and unwise. This is all a part of our lessons of life and if we did not have these lessons, we would learn nothing and there would be no progress.
Sometimes we bite off more than we can chew and in cases like that we must either rid ourselves of what we have bitten off wholesale or continue to chew and, by this method, get rid of what we have obligated ourselves for. No one else can assume our burdens for us or assume our guilt for what we do in life. It is all a matter of action [and] reaction. Thought brings action for if continually in the mind, it must eventually become manifest in the life in some way.
Cause and effect are constantly at work, like the tides of the ocean working, changing all the time. Perhaps this seems a bit abstract to you, but it is as graphic as it can be made. In other words, we want something and our desire for some change or some material object is so great as to cause us either to contract in money or in time or perhaps both to obtain this object.
Then the cold light of clear thought comes in and fear also enters for it may obligate us more than we find we care to pay when we think it all out. But the obligation has been entered into and there is no going back, no change. We find we must carry it out and the lesson has to be learned.
The next time there is occasion for such a deal, greater care, greater thought will go into it. Before an obligation of any nature is entered into, we will be sure as it is possible to be that we really want to do it or to have it, as the case may be.
Obligations are too often made casually and regretted later. We must learn to use greater caution.
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