The Impersonal Life

by Joseph Sieber Benner

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 Death’s sting; Death’s sting;
-Self proves a poison and a snare +\\ Self proves a poison and a snare 
-To stifle Love, +\\ To stifle Love, 
-The Only Thing.+\\ The Only Thing.
  
 O wondrous stream O wondrous stream
-deep in my heart, +\\ deep in my heart, 
-The source +\\ The source 
-from whence all others spring; +\\ from whence all others spring; 
-The grace +\\ The grace 
-supreme to me thou art, +\\ supreme to me thou art, 
-For life and death +\\ For life and death 
-THE ONLY THING.+\\ THE ONLY THING.
  
-+<WRAP centeralign> 
 +———o———— 
 +==== THE CLASSROOM ==== 
 +</WRAP>
  
-=== THE CLASSROOM ===+<WRAP justify>
 I AM the Teacher and lovingly and tenderly I call My Class to order. I AM the Teacher and lovingly and tenderly I call My Class to order.
  
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 My students (my mind) have learned to love Me and now always listen when I speak, but often still I have to speak sternly and commandingly, even after all their years of training. They never find negative, harmful or untrue forces in the classroom unless they bring them in from the outside, which they sometimes do recklessly, sometimes with a sincere desire to place them before Me that I may use them as examples and show their true meaning and use. My students (my mind) have learned to love Me and now always listen when I speak, but often still I have to speak sternly and commandingly, even after all their years of training. They never find negative, harmful or untrue forces in the classroom unless they bring them in from the outside, which they sometimes do recklessly, sometimes with a sincere desire to place them before Me that I may use them as examples and show their true meaning and use.
  
-More and more, however, My students are trusting Me to supply all needed lessons, and at the threshold of the Classroom they pause and drop everything unworthy they gathered from outside, coming into My Presence free and unencumbered of any desires or claims of self, intent only upon pleasing Me, of waiting upon Me, knowing that I alone AM. +More and more, however, My students are trusting Me to supply all needed lessons, and at the threshold of the Classroom they pause and drop everything unworthy they gathered from outside, coming into My Presence free and unencumbered of any desires or claims of self, intent only upon pleasing Me, of waiting upon Me, knowing that I alone AM. —E. C. 
-—E. C.+</WRAP>
  
  
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