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Spirit Motivation 

Spirit-motivated beings "never thirst, for this spiritual water shall be in them a well of satisfaction springing up into life everlasting." 

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Mercy 

Mercy requires that every wrongdoer have sufficient time in which to formulate a deliberate and fully chosen attitude regarding his evil thoughts and sinful acts. 

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Fruits of New Life 

P555:4, 48:6.25 Sometimes the planting of a seed necessitates its death, the death of your fondest hopes, before it can be reborn to bear the fruits of new life and new opportunity. 

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The Power of an Idea 

In influencing the expanding evolutionary mind, the power of an idea lies not in its reality or reasonableness but rather in its vividness and the universality of its ready and simple application. 

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Spiritual Progress 

The Spirit never drives, only leads. If you are a willing learner, if you want to attain spirit levels and reach divine heights, if you sincerely desire to reach the eternal goal, then the divine Spirit will gently and lovingly lead you along the pathway of sonship and spiritual progress 

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Adventure 

Never forget there is only one adventure which is more satisfying and thrilling than the attempt to discover the will of the living God, and that is the supreme experience of honestly trying to do that divine will. 

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Goodness, Beauty, and Truth 

The sincere pursuit of goodness, beauty, and truth leads to God. 

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Service 

Service -- more service, increased service, difficult service, adventurous service, and at last divine and perfect service -- is the goal of time and the destination of space. 

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Our Gift to God 

The affectionate dedication of the human will to the doing of the Father's will is man's choicest gift to God; in fact, such a consecration of creature will constitutes man's only possible gift of true value to the Paradise Father. 

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Religious Experience 

When mind chooses a right moral judgment by an act of the free will, such a decision constitutes a religious experience. 

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Mission of Religion 

When certain vacillating and timid mortals attempt to escape from the incessant pressure of evolutionary life, religion, as they conceive it, seems to present the nearest refuge, the best avenue of escape. But it is the mission of religion to prepare man for bravely, even heroically, facing the vicissitudes of life. 

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Perfection: Our Eternal Goal 

We are a part of a gigantic creation, and it is not strange that everything does not work in perfection; our universe was not created in perfection. Perfection is our eternal goal, not our origin. 

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Greatness 

Greatness lies not so much in possessing strength as in making a wise and divine use of such strength. 

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The Privilege of Service 

The privilege of service immediately follows the discovery of trustworthiness. Nothing can stand between you and opportunity for increased service except your own untrustworthiness, your lack of capacity for appreciation of the solemnity of trust. 

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Mind 

If your own mind does not serve you well, you can exchange it for the mind of Jesus of Nazareth, who always serves you well. 

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Achievement 

Your actual achievement is not so important as the fact that the direction of your progress is Godward. 

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Trustworthiness

Trust is the crucial test of will creatures. Trustworthiness is the true measure of self-mastery, character. 

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A Heart Dominated by Love 

Let your hearts be so dominated by love that your spirit guide will have little trouble in delivering you from the tendency to give vent to those outbursts of animal anger which are inconsistent with the status of divine sonship. 

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Time 

You all have time in which to insure your survival; and time is fatally squandered only when it is buried in neglect... Failure to improve one's time to the fullest extent possible does not impose fatal penalties; it merely retards the pilgrim of time in his journey of ascent. 

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Mercy requires... 

Mercy requires that every wrongdoer have sufficient time in which to formulate a deliberate and fully chosen attitude regarding his evil thoughts and sinful acts. 

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 Finding God 

And when a human being does find God, there is experienced within the soul of that being such an indescribable restlessness of triumph in discovery that he is impelled to seek loving service-contact with his less illuminated fellows, not to disclose that he has found God, but rather to allow the overflow of the welling-up of eternal goodness within his own soul to refresh and ennoble his fellows. 

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The Religion of Jesus 

The religion of Jesus does, indeed, dominate and transform its believers, demanding that men dedicate their lives to seeking for a knowledge of the will of the Father in heaven and requiring that the energies of living be consecrated to the unselfish service of the brotherhood of man. 

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Your Spiritual Destiny 

Your spiritual destiny is conditioned only by your spiritual longings and purposes. 

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Spiritual Insight 

To see God -- by faith -- means to acquire true spiritual insight. 

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The Educated Person 

Truly educated persons are not satisfied with remaining in ignorance of the lives and doings of their fellows. 

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Regrettable Experiences 

Be not downcast by your failure wholly to forget some of your regrettable experiences. The mistakes which you fail to forget in time will be forgotten in eternity. 

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Opportunity 

What you begin in time you will assuredly finish in eternity -- if it is worth finishing. 

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Ambition 

Ambition is dangerous until it is fully socialized. You have not truly acquired any virtue until your acts make you worthy of it. 

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Love your Enemies 

Love your enemies -- remember the moral claims of human brotherhood. 

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Heroism 

Mind bravery is a higher type of human courage, but the highest and supreme is uncompromising loyalty to the enlightened convictions of profound spiritual realities. And such courage constitutes the heroism of the God-knowing man. 

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Change without Growth 

Change without growth, expansion of meaning and exaltation of value, is valueless -- is potential evil. 

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Acts of Goodness 

No act of good is ever wholly lost; it may be long thwarted but never wholly annulled, and it is eternally potent in proportion to the divinity of its motivation. 

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Hardships of Life 

When thinking men and women look upon Jesus as he offers up his life on the cross, they will hardly again permit themselves to complain at even the severest hardships of life, much less at petty harassments and their many purely fictitious grievances. 

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Divine Love 

The beauty of divine love, once fully admitted to the human heart, forever destroys the charm of sin and the power of evil. 

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Life's Opportunities 

Ability is the practical measure of life's opportunities. You will never be held responsible for the accomplishment of that which is beyond your abilities. 

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Graciousness 

You can cultivate gracefulness, but graciousness is the aroma of friendliness which emanates from a love-saturated soul. 

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Exhibiting Mercy 

You should realize that there is a great reward of personal satisfaction in being first just, next fair, then patient, then kind. And then, on that foundation, if you choose and have it in your heart, you can take the next step and really show mercy; but you cannot exhibit mercy in and of itself. 

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Love Others 

If you love people, they will draw near you -- you will have no difficulty in winning them. 

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Love 

Love is the desire to do good to others. 

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Evil 

The possibility of evil is necessary to moral choosing, but not the actuality thereof....Evil becomes a reality of personal experience only when a moral mind makes evil its choice. 

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Living Truth 

Truth is living; the Spirit of Truth is ever leading the children of light into new realms of spiritual reality and divine service. 

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Faith and Fear 

Few persons live up to the faith which they really have. Unreasoned fear is a master intellectual fraud practiced upon the evolving mortal soul. 

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Triumphant Faith 

Belief may not be able to resist doubt and withstand fear, but faith is always triumphant over doubting, for faith is both positive and living. 

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Fatherly Love 

Fatherly love has singleness of purpose, and it always looks for the best in man; that is the attitude of a true parent. 

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Hope 

Sometimes the planting of a seed necessitates its death, the death of your fondest hopes, before it can be reborn to bear the fruits of new life and new opportunity. 

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Prejudice Blinds the Soul 

Prejudice blinds the soul to the recognition of truth, and prejudice can be removed only by the sincere devotion of the soul to the adoration of a cause that is all-embracing and all-inclusive of one's fellow men. 

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A Philosophy of Living 

An effective philosophy of living is formed by a combination of cosmic insight and the total of one’s emotional reactions to the social and economic environment. 

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