====== The Inner Life ====== == THE HERALD OF THE NEW AGE | APRIL 1933 == ---- First, remember who I am, I Who am in all men, Who am That which speaks through all men, Who am the Self of you who read, dwelling deep within the heart—the innermost of you, and Who seek to come forth as the Christ and to show Myself—your Highest Self—to all men. Remember that I always speak from out the heart, and not from the head, the intellect being but My servant, My interpreter. But when the servant acknowledges not his Master, having grown proud, and deems himself above his station and tries to impress others with his knowledge and importance, then you may know why it is so hard to hear My Voice and to know when it is I speaking, and why you become so often confused and so uncertain what to do. Therefore it is most necessary that you determine whence comes the voice or voices that so confuse and disturb you. But, you say, suppose you have not yet reached the stage where you are able actually to hear a voice speaking within and to know it as one capable of teaching and leading you? Know that it is not an actual voice such as your physical ears hear that speaks; for are not every desire, every urge, every hope, longing, fear, discouragement, anxiety, regret, voices heard just as surely and effectively as audible voices? And while all such are voices I use to teach you the right from the wrong way, yet My Voice, that you long so to hear and to be always sure is Mine, you will never truly hear and know until you let Love abide and rule in your heart. For Love alone can clear away that in your heart and consciousness which causes you to listen to the voice of self, thus preventing your hearing Me when I speak. {{ :4-15.jpg? |}} ---- //⥳ [[the_voice|previous page]] // | // [[the_voice_3|next page]] ⥴ //