Living the Best Life Possible
. . . if a man begins to act from the Good of what he does and the love of Good itself, he will serve Good and be a servant of Good, and all ideas of authority, place and position, and all ideas of being superior to others, all rivalry, all personal envy and jealousy, and all human ideas of justice and injustice will become non-existent for him.
For good is not a person, and to act from seeing the Good of what one does and taking pleasure in it is to act beyond anything personal.
From, The New Man, Chapter four, by Maurice Nicoll
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Hope, Always
Never lose hope of God, however terrible and confusing the circumstances you find yourself in. Hope is the head of the road to confidence. If you do not walk along that road, at least guard with all your powers its entryway. Do not go on saying, "I have done twisted things"; choose the truthful way and no twistedness will remain.
Truth is like Moses' rod, and all twisted thoughts and actions are like the tricks of Pharaoh's magicians; when Truth arrives it swallows up all those games. If you have done evil, it is to yourself that you have done it; nothing in that evil could ever touch of darken the Eternal Face of God. Just commit yourself unwaveringly to truth and, slowly, all your twistedness will be burned away. Hope is the source and spring of all the alchemies of transformation, the greatest treasure of the heart and mind, the philosopher's stone that transmutes agony and tragedy into new life. Never abandon hope, or you abandon your closest and most helpful guide, the Friend who will be at the door of paradise smiling as he lets you in.
Light upon Light, Inspirations from Rumi,
Andrew Harvey, 1996.
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