"The essential things in life are the enduring elements in character - integrity, faith, righteousness, selflessness, compassion, love; and out of these all good things proceed. ... Food, clothing, money, and things are dead effects; there is in them no life, no power except that which we invest with them.  They are without vice and virtue, and can neither bless nor harm.  Even the body which men believe to be themselves, to which they pander, and which they long to keep, must very shortly be yielded up to the dust.  But the higher elements of character are life itself; and to practice these, to trust them, and to live entirely in them, constitutes a preview of the Kingdom of Heaven. The man who says, 'I will first of all earn a competency and secure a good position in life, and will then give my mind to those higher things,' does not understand them to be higher, for if he did, it would not be possible for him to neglect them.  He believes the material outgrowth of life to be the higher, and therefore he seeks them first.  He believes money, clothing, and position to be of vast and essential importance, righteousness and truth to be at best secondary; for a man always sacrifices that which he believes to be lesser to that which he believes to be greater. Immediately after a man realizes that righteousness is of more importance than the getting of food and clothing, he ceases to strive after the latter, and begins to live for the former.  It is here where we find the dividing line between the two kingdoms - Hell and Heaven." -- James Allen

I have had numerous conversations lately with people who have expressed that they will be ready to take on their important personal growth work, or character development, or spiritual development (take your pick of terms) once they have their financial security in place, using Maslow's "Hierarchy of Needs" as a rationalization, and then - much to their surprise when their "spiritual integrity meter" starts going off as they struggle with the compromises they find themselves making to accomplish this - they wonder why they're feeling such extreme levels of anxiety.  Well, as I've learned in very painful fashion, the truth doesn't wait for us to get it.  It just is.  And we get it when we do, and the lesson plan goes on, and the tests keep coming, whether we're ready or not.  One thing Ralph Waldo Emerson reminded us, and this is so easy to forget in the everyday stress of life as we choose our "survival strategies," is that, "You cannot do wrong (and this includes turning a blind eye to what you know) without suffering wrong."  I offer this up in loving contribution to my dear friend, A.P., who has been studying these humbling lessons on the "pathway to Heaven" at home, and who is now searching for the courage to apply this same understanding at work, where we often feel that our "manhood" is at stake.  Fact is, it is, but not in the way we might initially think. - Jim Spivey

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