If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Let us lay hold of faith. What profit is it to us to gain a firm hold on life, if we hold it blindly, without any light on the meaning of our present condition, or the character of our future [...]
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Let us lay hold of sorrow. Do not be afraid of it, for when grasped firmly, like the nettle, it never stings. The life that has not known and accepted sorrow is strangely crude and untaught. It can neither help nor teach, for it has never learned. The life that has spurned the lesson [...]
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Let us lay hold of friendship. In the eternal life shall we not have friends forevermore? I used to think that friendship meant happiness. I have learned that it means discipline. No matter how hard we look, we shall never find a friend without faults, imperfections, traits, and ways that vex, grieve, annoy us. [...]
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Let us lay hold of the happiness of today. Don’t we go through life blindly, thinking that some fair tomorrow will bring us the gift we missed today? Poor mortal, when do you think then, to be happy? Tomorrow? When is tomorrow? Is it different from today? Isn’t it just another today? Know if you are not happy today, you [...]
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Let us lay hold of work. There can be no happy life without strenuous unremitting work in it–work which occupies mind, body, heart, and soul. But what work shall we set ourselves to do? This is one of the questions that we encounter when we leave school, and that reappears from time to time as [...]
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Pretence, worry, discontent, and self-seeking–these are the things that we may let go. Now, what are the things in life that are worthwhile–that we should lay hold of, guard and use? It is worthwhile to be wise in the use of time. It is with time that we purchase everything life has that is [...]
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We may let go of self-seeking. In the eternal life there is no greed. One hears of neither “mine” nor “yours.” All things are for all. As sand falls through the fingers, so do the good things of life flee from the grasping and selfish spirit. The richest experiences of life never come to [...]
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We may let go discontent. In all eternity, there is no murmur from any restless heart. In its vast silences how trivial the complaining of our harassed days would sound! In life, I find two things that make for discontent. One is lack of harmony with one’s environment. The other is dissatisfaction with one’s present [...]
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We may drop worry. The eternal life is serene. It is not careworn, nor does it know any foreboding of the future. Can’t we embrace this spirit of serenity and cheer? For only the serene soul is strong. Every moment of worry weakens the soul for its daily combat. Worry is an infirmity. There is no [...]
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It is this: We may let go all things which we cannot carry into the eternal life. To me this is a deep truth, and a positive one. Surely it is not worth while for us to cumber our lives with the things which we can grasp at best for but a little [...]
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