If the first rule is to obey your genius, in the second place the good mind is known by the choice of what is positive, of what is advancing. We must embrace the affirmative. But the affirmative of affirmatives is love.
If the first rule is to obey your genius, in the second place the good mind is known by the choice of what is positive, of what is advancing. We must embrace the affirmative. But the affirmative of affirmatives is love.
These two rules are not separate. To follow your genius is to choose the positive. This is one way you can know we are on the right track: do your choices advance the power of love? To know the answer to this question, first find where you have been wounded. If it has been with you for much of your life, it is possible that you define yourself by this wound: I am he or she who suffers because . . . . Find this place, and watch what happens to it as you make life’s choices. When your choices affirm love, you will feel its spiritual presence draw near to you. It will not happen all at once, but healing will continue as you learn to embrace the affirmative. You can learn to say “yes” to everything, even to those events that would previously have been considered hurtful. What you previously considered the greatest ill may bring the deepest blessing. Embracing the affirmative requires that you give up the labels good and bad and allow things to be what they are. When they are revealed in their true nature, you will find that this nature is love.
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