The Impersonal Life

by Joseph Sieber Benner

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The Inner Life 1933

THE INNER ROOM

CONTAINING quotations from our replies to those writing us for help in their Spiritual problems.

Each day at 12 o’clock noon, we take the names of those asking for such help in the Silence of the Spirit, and “Speak the Word” for them. Many hundreds have testified to receiving the blessings of such ministry.

KEEP THE CHANNEL OPEN

WE TRULY want to help in the problem confronting you, but the only way to prepare your mind for the truth is to insist upon making it study carefully and prayerfully the law that is stated so clearly in The Way Out. If you only know it, all that you need to know is in The Way Out. But of what use is it if you do not make yourself do what you are shown there you must do, if you desire the blessings promised on the cover page.

Also how do you expect to get anywhere when you deliberately clog the channel through which good flows into your life by filling it full of fears, worries and discouragement, and all such negative and harmful thoughts. You might as well expect water to flow from a pipe that is all plugged up with mud.

The only way you can start the inspiration and guidance flowing from the Source of all Truth—the One Consciousness, of which your mind is a channel—is (1) to know yourself as a channel; (2) to know that your mind is a part of and is always connected with the One Con- sciousness; (3) to know that whenever there is a need in your life, by turning to the Source within you and mentally connecting yourself with It in a perfect faith and trust that by thinking and seeing yourself con- nected you ARE connected, when the inspiration and guidance needed will pour through into your mind just as surely as air rushes into a vacuum or as the water will flow forth when the faucet is turned on.

The above tells the whole secret and all you need to do. But you must make yourself do it. No one else can do it for you.

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TEMPERING THE SOUL

YES, YOU are being put through the fires for a very special purpose. Think what this means. The fire burns out all impurities and brings the steel to just the right temper. Is that not what you in your soul really desire to take place with your human personality? We know how hard it is to see your family seemingly suffer because of your inability to provide what is needed or what they think they should have; but just so long as you allow yourself to be unnerved and affected by what your family says, and allow the picture they paint to remain in your mind and discourage you, it cannot help but prevent your good and theirs from manifesting in your outer lives.

We urge you to read carefully the article “As a Man Thinketh” that appears in the January issue of this Magazine. It shows you clearly how to handle your present situation.


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