OUR ONE REAL DESIRE

Turn that rich desire nature of yours toward the realization that there is nothing for you really to pursue. All that you have sought, all that is worth having, you already have, you already are. Awake! Arise! Come to yourself in realizing the great truth of the ages that the one desire of our heart is God, and always has been. And God we have, and God we are. For there is nought else to have or to be.

Perceiving this, for very joy’s sake you fulfill the injunction of old, “Diligently harken to the voice of Jehovah,” wherever uttered, by the lips of fools or in the oracles of masters, in the songs of birds or of poets, in the roar of the earthquake or in the still small voice within. And ever hearing and obeying the prophecy, you find it is fulfilled in your life:

And all these blessings shall come upon thee, and overtake thee . . . Blessed shalt thou be in the city, and blessed shalt thou be in the field . . . Blessed shall be thy basket and thy kneading-trough. Blessed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and blessed shalt thou be when thou goest out. . . . And Jehovah will make thee plen­ teous for good, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit

of thy cattle, and in the fruit of will open unto thee his good treasure the heavens, to give the rain of thy land in its season, and to bless all the work of thy hand.

SECOND EXERCISE

In conjunction with the meditation, given at the close of the last lesson, meditate daily upon the

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