The Builder Within

The Tides of Life

 

There are tides in life just as there are tides in the ocean, and we are affected by them.  

 

There are tides in life just as there are tides in the ocean, and we are affected by them. The tide of life comes and goes and many times we feel, when the tide is out, that all is lost and it never can again be the same. Then the incoming tide arrives and we find we are carried along with the waves, and success in whatever achievement we enter upon is assured. 

This incoming and outgoing tide in our affairs is seldom noticed by mankind; in fact, few would believe that such a law of life exists, but it is true and it is working at all times.

When we find ourselves working at great odds against success, we should know that the tide, or vibrations of life’s good, are temporarily fluctuating at a low ebb. If we have the patience to wait out this difficulty, the tide will turn and we will be carried along on the crest of the wave to greater achievement.

This is not to say that we must sit back idly and wait to be pushed onward by vibrations outside ourselves, but merely to bide our time until we feel within us the surge of action that will free us from the darkness of negative vibrations and pull us up and out toward the greater light of love and its positive vibratory forces.

Hurt Feelings

 

We should not expect others to conform to our way of thinking and doing ...

 

We can be hurt, if we so desire, at every turn of the road and I mean by being hurt, not physical but mental hurt. We must guard ourselves zealously against this very thing for no matter what happens we must know that there is a reason for it -- nothing happens by chance.  

Perhaps it is true we are not thought of as we could wish, but we may as well face the fact, it is seldom that we are, so it behooves us to put a wall of steel or iron around our precious feelings so that they are not crushed by someone else who does not think as we do. 

Not everyone is a sentimentalist and one day is as good as another to such a person. However, to the one who never forgets another or who is always looking for a reason for the things that occur, it is a crushing blow when someone, especially one who is held dear, forgets or overlooks something important to the one whose feelings in these matters are keenly alive. 

If all persons on this plane of life thought exactly alike, it would be a most uninteresting and dull existence for there would be no variety or spice to life. We should not expect others to conform to our way of thinking and doing, but cover our feelings and go on knowing that, according to their light, they are doing the best they can under the circumstances in which they find themselves.

The World Within

We are constantly attracting experiences and things to us by our thought life ...

 

Our world is carried about within us wherever and whenever we move about and no matter where or in what circumstances we find ourselves. 

Our material possessions are merely loans and, of course, we cannot take them with us when we journey on into the next plane of existence.  

Whatever we need is called forth for us in whatever condition we are, by the law of attraction. We are constantly attracting experiences and things to us by our thought life; in other words, our true life, for we live only within ourselves and all outward experiences, no matter what their nature may be, are brought forth for us by this mighty law that is always working.  

Sometimes we feel we are ill used, that we do not deserve the fate that we receive, but usually we have somehow attracted to us just that very experience by our need for it and perhaps the lack of faith that has allowed some negative experience to come to us.

We speak often of accidental occurrences, but, by and large, there is nothing that really occurs accidentally. Either we become careless or not as mentally alert as we should be, or some other person with whom, for the time being, we may be associated becomes careless and we are confronted with a so-called accident. We are never really the playthings of fate, however, and accidents are not really what they seem. When it seems that no cause can be found for the person involved being a hapless victim, remember we do not see, or cannot become aware of the true inner life of the so-called innocent victim. 

Our guardians know also what is needed for they can reach aright the minds of their charges and know what measures to take to bring about necessary changes in their people to bring them into a greater light of love and understanding truth.

Laws of Truth and Light

 

God is within each and every one and is ready to help and to give whenever we give the opportunity.

 

We receive that to which we are attuned spiritually through the laws of vibration, and this works through the law of attraction. By this means alone our good is attracted to us and, by the same token of course, also the negative or the less good we’ll say for want of a better term.

If, for instance, you are attuned to resentment and frustration, somewhere along the line static will occur. In other words, your body will undoubtedly respond by a form of illness showing that you are blocking your good by wrong attunement, by dwelling upon things that cause distress if they are continually present in the thought life. 

Yes, the same is very true in whatever the spirit entity holds continuously in the mind. Guard against this malady by attuning yourself only to that which you wish to have manifested in your life.  

Joy, happiness, all the radiant, positive vibrating forces bring their own kith and kin to you and they are all desirable. Always think well of yourself and expect and receive only the best. 

God is within each and every one and is ready to help and to give whenever we give the opportunity. It is our choice and ours alone.

Outlooks of Life

 

We do receive that which we expect, but that does not mean that we want what we receive.

 

With the ending, or nearing the end, of the old calendar year, we must try to put aside all our old prejudices, our long-held resentments and start afresh with positive contacts of thought that will bring about a better world in which to live, move and have our being.

Our world, as you well know, is within, and no matter in what clime we may find ourselves, our outlook remains the same unless our inner, or thought life is changed. The outward manifestations are always a challenge and the way our minds accept or reject them or work with them causes our stress and strain or the happy state which can and should be cultivated by all no matter what outlook we are faced with.   

Each thought entertained over and over tends to perpetuate itself and bring about more of the same kind until, with the outward manifestations of life ever-changing, as all lives must and do, we become gradually that which we think or hold in our minds to be truth.  

We do receive that which we expect, but that does not mean that we want what we receive. We must work and work hard to weed out negative thought and replace it with strong, vibrant positiveness and keep love foremost. Then results will be most gratifying for it cannot be otherwise.

Like attracts like and negativeness repels the light and surrounds all who keep in their minds this way of life with dark clouds of despair and turmoil of unrest. Root out this evil within and watch the bright sun of cheerful happiness rise within you.

 

Controlling Thought

We are what we think, and we must constantly stand guard that our thoughts are always  what we wish our lives to become.

 

Outwardly we may show the world a very different face from that which we really have. In time, however, the inward state takes over and shows itself in its true colors. Not for long can one conceal the thought life that he or she habitually holds and lives with. 

It is not a pretty picture when one loses his temper and, in so doing, loses his stature with those he would most like to impress. It is a form of childishness, of weakness of will, and a showing of dissatisfaction with his world and his inability to cope with it and with the situations that come up in the life.   

Our reactions to these displays are to be disgusted and to avoid the person who so conducts himself. That, in itself, is a form of punishment that the one afflicted must be willing to bear, though, strangely enough, it is quite the opposite of the desire which first motivated the action. 

Could we but see the dark, disagreeable colors that come into the aura of the person who shows plainly the grave errors of his thought life in such fashion, we would shun this display and this controlling thought as we shun poison for, in truth, that is what it really is. 

We are what we think, and we must constantly stand guard that our thoughts are always what we wish our lives to become.

The Wages of Sin

It has been said that, “The wages of sin is death,” and this is true.

 

It has been said that, “The wages of sin is death,” and this is true. We often find among us those who will learn no other way than to go through life abusing the body with strong drink, anesthetizing himself against reality because it is less than what he wants. He is unwilling to live with himself as he really is so he seeks escape. The events in that person’s life have not come up to what he thinks they should, and again he seeks escape wherein he can bolster his ego and feel he is somebody.  

The emotions of envy, jealousy and other base emotions have been held and have exerted their poisons throughout the body structure, injuring the cell life and causing irritations and inflammations to come about. This, aided and abetted by strong drink, has brought about chaos and the final days of reckoning. 

Surgery can take away the diseased cells, but what about the bloodstream, the life force, which is vitally affected in conditions of this kind? Relief is all that can be granted and a temporary surcease from the creeping disease which is, after all, just what the indwelling entity has decreed for himself.   

That the family of such a person must suffer is self-evident. He does not think of that until too late, and even then does not realize the widespread wake of disaster he leaves of their lives. The law of attraction comes into play here and those who have in any way affiliated themselves with this life have also to pay the wages of sin. For in so living and breaking the laws of life, they too are responsible for the life and must bear the consequences.   

Death, of course, is not meant as a cessation of life for that cannot happen, but it does mean that life here on the earth plane will no longer be possible for the body abased by the spirit cannot long continue under this reign. 

Those involved have to pick up the reins and learn to live differently perhaps than before, but certainly they too feel the effects of the life of dissipation that has encircled their lives and set into motion the law of retribution.

We give and we receive just what we have earned, no more, no less. The cause will always produce a given result and is merciless when we break the laws of God and live in such a manner.