I love this little gem.
A few good quotes:
How, then, shall we lay hold that that Life and Power,
and live the life of prayer without ceasing? By quiet, persistent practice in
turning of all our being, day and night, in prayer and inward worship and
surrender, toward Him who calls in the deeps of our souls. Mental habits of
inward orientation must be established (p. 15).
Deep within us all there is an amazing inner sanctuary
of the soul, a holy place, a Divine Center, a speaking Voice, to which we may
continuously return. Eternity is at our hearts, pressing upon our time-torn
lives, warming us with intimations of an astounding destiny, calling us home
unto Itself. Yielding to these persuasions, gladly committing ourselves in body
and soul, utterly and completely, to the Light Within, is the beginning of true
life.
We are not integrated. We are distraught. We feel
honestly the pull of many obligations and try to fulfill them all. And we are
unhappy, uneasy, strained, oppressed and fearful we shall be shallow. For over
the margins of life comes a whisper, a faint call, a premonition of richer
living which we know we are passing by. Strained by the mad pace of our daily
outer burdens, we are further strained by an inward uneasiness, because we have
hints that there is a way of life vastly richer and deeper than all this
hurried existence, a life of unhurried serenity and peace and power. If only we
could slip over into that Center!
Gladly committing ourselves in body and soul, utterly
and completely, to the Light Within, is the beginning of true life. It is a
dynamic center, a creative life that presses to birth within us. It is a Light
Within which illumines the face of God and casts new shadows and new glories
upon the face of humans. It is a seed stirring to life if we do not choke it.
Here is the Slumbering Christ, stirring to be awakened, to become the soul we
clothe in earthly form and action.
In this humanistic age we suppose we are the initiator
and God is the responder. But the Living Christ within us is the initiator and
we are the responders. God the Lover, the accuser, the revealer of light and
darkness presses within us. “Behold I stand at the door and knock.” And all our
apparent initiative is already a response, a testimonial to God’s secret
presence and working within us.-
Do you want to live in such an amazing divine
Presence that life is transformed and transfigured and transmuted into peace
and power and glory and miracle? If you do, then you can. But if you say you
haven’t the time to go down into the recreating silences, I can only say to
you, you don’t really want to; you don’t yet love God above all else in
the world, with all your heart and soul and mind and strength. For…we find time
for what we really want to do.
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