THE GOD IN YOURSELF
As a spirit,
you are a part of God or the Infinite
Force or Spirit of good. As such part,
you are an ever-growing power which can
never lessen, and must always increase,
even as it has in the past through many
ages always increased, and built you up,
as to intelligence, to your present mental
stature. The power of your mind has been
growing to its present quality and clearness
through many more physical lives than
the one you are now living. Through each
past life you have unconsciously added
to its power. Every struggle of the mind--be
it struggle against pain, struggle against
appetite, struggle for more skill in the
doing of anything, struggle for greater
advance in any art or calling, struggle
and dissatisfaction at your failings and
defects--is an actual pushing of the spirit
to greater power, and a greater relative
completion of yourself,--and with such
completion, happiness. For the aim of
living is happiness.
There is
today more of you, and more of every desirable
mental quality belonging to you, than
ever before. The very dissatisfaction
and discontent you may feel concerning
your failings is a proof of this. If your
mind was not as clear as it is, it could
not see those failings. You are not now
where you may have been in a mood of self-complacency,
when you thought yourself about right
in every respect. Only you may, now, in
looking at yourself, have swung too far
in the opposite direction; and, because
your
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