The Builder Within

Loneliness, a Common Ill

 

Look within, seek the peace of God within, and realize it will pass.

 

There are many who are lonely in life, who hunger for friends, for family gone on or away, and who can find in life no adequate substitute. What suggestions do we make for these people? Look within, seek the peace of God within, and realize it will pass. 

All people experience loneliness at times, many even when surrounded with people. It is often because they are misunderstood and their vibrations of life differ from ours, their needs are unlike ours and therefore there is no common ground on which they can meet. It is often too an experience to be met and to go though [so] that one can best realize the problems of others; that all have similar feelings, only not always about the same conditions that cause loneliness in themselves.  

Some need friends, some need excitement, some need peace and some cannot really analyze just what their particular need may be, but all are subject to the same laws of life and all must experience growing pains. The cure must come, just as the antidote must be found for a poison, and so we grow and seek in life what we need.  

Sometimes we need to be reminded that all need love, and to receive love, we also must give love.

Using All our Senses

 

You cannot now imagine the extreme clarity of the various senses when they are free of earth conditions and become fully unfolded.

 

Our eyes are given to us that we may see and to use so that we may be enriched thereby. Our ears are to hear the rhythms and harmonies, the sounds of life; our sense of touch, that we may be aware of danger or of the delight of softness and a greater perception. Our sense of smell too is to alert us to dangers or to give happiness as when we become aware of the subtle smell of flowers, new mown hay, perfume and other delights of the earth plane. But there are other senses we are not aware of that are working for us at all times.  

We have an intuition which helps to alert us and to sense something that has happened or is about to happen; an intuitive sense. We also have an imagination which brings to us mental pictures which can either help or hinder us according to the way it is used. Then there is the clairvoyant faculty which in many is as yet undeveloped, but which has great power to help us in our daily life, if we but let it and believe in it.   

You cannot now imagine the extreme clarity of the various senses when they are free of earth conditions and become fully unfolded. It is like coming out of a dark room into the light and you will wonder why you were not before aware of all that goes on around and about you. Yet these faculties cannot become so unfolded while you inhabit the flesh.  

Work well with what you have and you will become more perceptive of the inner life, the spiritual life that is the true life of the indwelling entity and is outwardly expressed by unfoldment of the faculties we have and exercise.

Caring for Self

 

 Remember, everyone is given all he and she require ...and you are not the responsible agent of their good, but God is.

 

We all must, of necessity, look out for self. Of course we must help others too when we can for in doing so one helps oneself also, but first and foremost we must take care that our own future is well organized. Each one is responsible to self alone and each one follows his or her bent. And although altruistic tendencies are fine and noble, unless one’s own future is secure in all ways, we must be careful in expending all our resources either on others or on luxuries not really essential to the life.

Remember, everyone is given all he and she require to live, move and have their being in God, and you are not the responsible agent of their good, but God is. It is wonderful, of course, to be able to play Santa Claus in all seasons, but is it really right for you to do so? Watch the home front first, keep the fires aglow and bank them well for future use. Then, and only then, when you have extra wherewithal to expend, should you go forth and do so much, even for those you love the most.

When sickness comes, remember it has been earned in some way of transgression, and though you can and should do all you can to help the afflicted ease the way, it does not necessarily have to be in expenditures money wise. 

Watch out for the rainy days ahead that all encounter in life and keep in the bank sufficient funds to cover all contingencies. Never mind the others; watch out for self, for no one else will. Remember that and profit by its wisdom. 

All, being children of God, need experiences that vary in life, and if hardship comes, a way will come to help them recover, but you are not the answer. “God helps those who help themselves.” [is] a truth that all must sooner or later realize. Go your own way rejoicing and be happy, but do save for money in the bank is great security for all future needs.

Friends

Tried and true friends are truly rare and when we do find them, we should cherish them and feel we are rich indeed.

 

There are friends and so-called friends for some are that in name only. They see only a way to be entertained or to further their way in life, or, in some cases, just add you to their list that they may have more prestige or [feel] some of the glitter may rub off on them. 

Tried and true friends are truly rare and when we do find them, we should cherish them and feel we are rich indeed. Some have been with us perhaps many years, but have they been really true friends who do stick through thick and thin and not just through habit of long association? Sometimes it seems difficult to tell, but always there comes a test and you will find the true friend is there in time of need. 

There is a saying that to have friends we must also be one, and this is true, of course, but there are exceptions to every rule. Sometimes we find a true friend in one we least suspect and one with whom we have not always been friendly.  

It is useless to try to hold on to those who have no real value as friends, whose companionship, though nice, is perhaps, beneath it all, insincere.  

There are some who demand much of their friends, but give little in return. Shun these as you do the plague and cultivate those who, like yourself, are willing to be friends in the true sense of the word, not just because they have something to gain.

Truth

 

We can never know all of truth, but all can and do have glimpses, and so continue throughout our life span to search out truth as we conceive it to be.

 

Truth is often stranger than fiction. Each has his own conception of truth and to him it is sufficient and yet, in fact, truth may well elude him. Each is daily and hourly growing in a greater conception of truth and as time passes we come into a more adult idea of what truth represents. 

It is very hard to analyze truth for what it is is so elusive, so hard to grasp that all we can say is that to fully conceive truth is to be able to contemplate God or Universal Spirit. We can never know all of truth, but all can and do have glimpses, and so continue throughout our life span to search out truth as we conceive it to be. 

All the laws of life in its myriad form and expression is truth, but still greater is the truth of being, and the manifested world is but an expression of truth and is limited by man alone. Always we search for something in life and though we recognize it not, it is divine truth [we seek to find]. 

The unfolding evolvement of the indwelling spirit, or ego, is the manifestation of truth in form and is continually growing from the conception held by the spirit with the captive body. “Seek and ye will find.”