A TOTAL FAILURE
Question—If there is a life hereafter, what is there to be looked forward to if this life has seemed a total failure?

ANSWER—For a man to feel that his life is a failure is to feel himself apart from God. Whether he knows it or not, man is in a law which evolves him to higher planes. Even the lowest and most hopeless savage will some time attain to Christ consciousness.
Life IS God. Ignorance of this truth does not make Life a failure. The man going through the experience may be a failure in his own estimation and in that of his neighbors, but Life is unscathed. God does no futile thing, creates no lost motion. Everything has its purpose. The great mistake lies in man's looking outside himself for his future. He is his own future. His experiences are radiations of himself, set in motion by his thinking.
If the best a man can do through his earth experience is to embody the idea that Life is a failure, this will APPEAR to be true to him. However, the appearance but covers the truth, that Life is God, indwelling the very soul of man. There is nothing to fear about the future. "Look well to today." An open mind, a willingness to learn from Within, a faith that God is good and that He is the essence and substance of our lives forever, these are enough for any man to realize that Life could not fail. (page 156)

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