Spiritual Progress Is The Changing Of The

People Who Have Never Had An Ideal May Hope To Find One; They Are In A Better State Than The People Who Allow The Circumstances Of Life To Break Their Ideal. To Fall Beneath One's Ideal Is To Lose One's Track In Life; Then Confusion Rises In The Mind, And That Light Which One Should Hold High Becomes Covered And Obscured, So That It Cannot Shine Out To Light One's Path.

If A Person Is Cold And Rigid, He Feels Within Himself As If He Were In A Grave. He Is Not Living, He Cannot Enjoy This Life For He Cannot Express Himself And He Cannot See The Light And Life Outside. What Keeps Man From Developing The Heart Quality? His Exacting Attitude. He Wants To Make A Business Of Love. He Says, 'if You Will Love Me, I Will Love You.' As Soon As A Man Measures And Weighs His Favors And His Services And All That He Does For One Whom He Loves, He Ceases To Know What Love Is. Love Sees The Beloved And Nothing Else.

Each Individual Composes The Music Of His Own Life. If He Injures Another, He Brings Disharmony. When His Sphere Is Disturbed, He Is Disturbed Himself, And There Is A Discord In The Melody Of His Life. If He Can Quicken The Feeling Of Another To Joy Or To Gratitude, By That Much He Adds To His Own Life; He Becomes Himself By That Much More Alive. Whether Conscious Of It Or Not, His Thought Is Affected For The Better By The Joy Or Gratitude Of Another, And His Power And Vitality Increase Thereby, And The Music Of His Life Grows More In Harmony.

Very Often In Everyday Life One Sees That By Losing One's Temper With Someone Who Has Already Lost His, One Does Not Gain Anything But Only Sets Out Upon The Path Of Stupidity. He Who Has Enough Self-control To Stand Firm At The Moment When The Other Person Is In A Temper, Wins In The End. It Is Not He Who Has Spoken A Hundred Words Aloud Who Has Won; It Is He Who Has Perhaps Spoken Only One Word.

When One Bell Is Rung, By The Sound Of That One Bell Other Bells Will Also Vibrate. So It Is With The Dancing Of The Soul...it Produces Its Reaction, And That Again, Will Make Other Souls Dance.