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oice will
always speak, where it will never fail us, if we follow it, and as a
consequence where we will always have the divine illumination and
guidance. To know this and to live in this realization is not to live in
heaven hereafter, but to live in heaven here and now, _today and every
day_.
No human soul need be without it. When we turn our face in the right
direction it comes as simply and as naturally as the flower blooms and
the winds blow. It is not to be bought with money or with price. It is
a condition waiting simply to be realized, by rich and by poor, by king
and by peasant, by master and by servant the world over. All are equal
heirs to it. And so the peasant, if he find it first, lives a life far
transcending in beauty and in real power the life of his king. The
servant, if he find it first, lives a life surpassing the life of his
master.
If you would find the highest, the fullest, and the richest life that not
only this world but that any world can know, then do away with the sense
of the separateness of your life from the life of God. Hold to the
thought of your oneness. In the degree that you do this you will find
yourself realizing it more and more, and as this life of realization is
lived, you will find that no good thing will be withheld, for all things
are included in this. Then it will be yours, without fears or
forebodings, simply to do today what your hands find to do, and so be
ready for tomorrow, _when it comes_, knowing that tomorrow will bring
tomorrow's supplies for the mental, the spiritual, and the physical life.
Remember, however, that tomorrow's supplies are not needed until tomorrow
comes.
If one is willing to trust himself _fully_ to the Law, the Law will never
fail him. It is the half-hearted trusting to it that brings uncertain,
and so, unsatisfactory results. Nothing is firmer and surer than Deity.
It will never fail the one who throws himself wholly upon it. The secret
of life then, is to live continually in this realization, whatever one
may be doing, wherever one may be, by day and by night, both waking and
sleeping. It can be lived in while we are sleeping no less than when we
are awake. And here shall we consider a few facts in connection with
sleep, in connection with receiving instruction and illumination while
asleep?
During the process of sleep it is merely the physical body that is at
rest and in quiet; the soul life with all its activities goes r
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