Читать книгу Edgar Cayce's Twelve Lessons in Personal Spirituality - Kevin J. Todeschi - Страница 17

Regardless of what kind of cooperation we seek, physical, mental, or spiritual, action is necessary on our part to bring it about. In order to come together for a common cause, we must attempt to be united in our activity. We must begin to realize that another’s need is at least as important as our own. In the physical or material world, cooperation is concurring with others in any action or effort. In the mental and spiritual worlds, it is setting aside our personal interests and becoming an aid to those around us. By being of assistance to someone else, by placing their needs before our own, we can experience cooperation in action. Whenever we help one another, we find ourselves functioning as “a channel of blessings.” By so doing, we will bring joy and happiness to those around us, and will be manifesting God’s love for His children in the earth.

Q. Is not cooperation a natural result when self is lost in the ideal?

A. This is a natural consequence of self-service, self-sacrifice, self-bewilderment, in Him. Being the channel is cooperation. Being a blessing is it in action. In whatever state of being, meet that upon the basis of their position—and lift up, look up—and this is cooperation. 262-3

Cooperation is the offering of self to be a channel of activity as well as of thought. In our daily lives we can take stock of our thoughts and our acts and begin to see whether our life is in alignment with the soul’s desire for cooperation. This is not attained at once, but rather comes step by step, here a little, there a little, line upon line, precept upon precept. As we put into action all that we know of cooperation, through our thoughts and our deeds, by just being kind, by just being patient, by just being humble there will come to us an inner peace. Ultimately, we will gain the realization that true cooperation is simply being a channel of His blessings in the earth.