RosicRucian - AMORC

we achieve greater peace of mind, a deeper senseof contentment, and the ability to be inspired withlofty thoughts, creative ideas and a greater help insolving our daily problems.We can bring real prosperity to ourselveswhen we eliminate from our thoughts and feelingsany envy, worry, hatred, bitterness, anxiety orother destructive attitudes. Negative conditionsstrongly influence our inner selves and separateus from a harmonious relationship with theCosmic, which is the source of all good andthe provider of the prosperity we seek. TheseNegative conditions strongly influenceour inner selves and separate us froma harmonious relationship with theCosmic.negative thoughts and emotions weaken the innerself and lower its resistance. These thoughts beginto attract negative conditions, and our situationwill continue to get worse.The ChallengeLife is a great challenge for us to do the best wecan under all of the different conditions we comeacross each day. Each experience is an opportunityto develop our powers of right judgment andright action, so that we come to rely upon theguidance of the inner self. Everything we do in lifecontributes to our growth, and we strengthen thatgrowth process as we come to accept the helpfulinfluences of the inner self with its wisdom andexperience in right thought and action.When we elevate our thoughts to newlevels, we’ll feel the love, joy and happiness ofthe inner self. When we express our gratitudeto it, we’ll become aware of a powerful spiritualcompanion in our life who’ll always seek to guideand help us at all times. It’ll bring us comfortwhen it’s most needed and an infallible directionwhen we are in doubt. By placing our confidencewith our inner Master, by giving it our trustand our blessing, a new life will begin thatwill create a new prosperity for us.Every day will become an opportunityto give something of ourselves in thoughtand service to others. We should ask that theabundance of the Cosmic be ours, and that wemay share our good fortune with others who arein need. This is the attitude we must take, becauseGod and nature will give freely all that they have.From today on, let’s begin to express theriches of good thought and the wealth of rightaction wherever we may be. Let’s spare a thoughtfor the underprivileged, the sick and those lessfortunate than we are. We’ll become instrumentsto uplift mankind to a better way of life and we’llreally be counted as people who are living theprosperous life.Seek not to see yourselfin running water,but in still water.For only what is itself stillcan impart stillness into others.(Zhuāng Zī 3 rd century BCE)The Rosicrucian Beacon -- June 200935