Being your own place as opposed to finding it!

Thy lot or portion of life is seeking after thee; therefore be at rest from seeking after it.
Ali Ibn-Ali-Talib

In reply to your need I must say what I have already said so often, that simplicity of approach is what you require at the moment; if you could only see, if you could only hear, if you could only know how simple, how tender, how radiant is the feeling of oneness with your indwelling Spirit!!

I shall try to compare it to a very human experience. When you were in love your imagination was held captive by the one you loved and your whole tone was uplifted to that object. Often the image of your beloved was more real than the actual person, who was as unreal and as unseen as I am at this moment as I write to you. I can only repeat that to receive the sense of the love of the Spirit, to receive the divine wisdom and knowledge, you must truly ponder and meditate and hold the high image steady and true, as you so involuntarily held that human image of your beloved.

It is true that you are at the place of your desire, that you want this infinite peace and comfort in a troubled world, and it is difficult with the interests and alarms of the day to return to a quiet moment of communion like the one of this moment, as you read; it is hard to conjure up in your mind the quality of feeling your mind is now touching. But if you were really in love you would not have to search for this feeling; that involuntary emotion would tone your whole day, the trees would take on a richer hue, the skies clear, and even the people in the street would seem endowed with nobility because that emotion would of itself clasp and hold high the very jewel of your heart's desire.

The materialist knows this and he would say that it is impossible to live in the tempo of youth's first love, and yet I say to you that this is the way and the truth and the life.

You will grow to love the beauty and the clarification of the revelations that will come to you and you will learn gradually that this peace, calm knowledge and inspiration are part of the rebirth that has been the prophecy through the ages for all those who walk this path, the prophecy fulfilled through love.

Is not this peace, is not this powerful knowledge, is not this love worth all that you can give? And remember that the more tender, the more open, the gentler you can be in your quiet time of acceptance, of stillness, the greater will be the power pressed through your silences.

From 'Letters of the Scattered Brotherhood'