Selfishness is the Reason We Suffer

Suffering is not necessary for one's own self development; it is the result of violation of spiritual laws, but few people seem to be able to rouse themselves from their "soul sleep" without it.

When people have things they are happy, it is then that they usually become selfish, and automatically the law of Karma is set in action. This selfishness is what causes a lot of suffering. The reverse of selfishness is appreciation and people often suffer loss through lack of appreciation.

No person can attract money if they despise it. Many people are kept in poverty by saying: "Money means nothing to me, and I have contempt for people who have it." This is the reason so many people are poor. Their contempt for money separates them from it. Money is the universe in manifestation, as freedom from want and limitation, but it must be always kept in circulation and put
to right uses. Hoarding causes the universe to react with grim vengeance.

This does not mean that one should not have houses and lots, stocks and bonds; It means one should not hoard even the principal, if an occasion arises, when money is necessary. In letting it go out fearlessly and cheerfully he opens the way for more to come in, for the universal is one's unfailing and inexhaustible supply. This is the spiritual attitude towards money and the great Bank of the Universal never fails!

This is an example of where "love of money is the root of all evil." Money in itself, is good and beneficial, but used for destructive purposes, hoarded and hidden, or considered more important than love, brings disease and disaster, and the loss of the money itself. Follow the path of love, and all things are added, follow the path of selfishness and greed, and the supply vanishes.

So a person, who acts in ignorance of the law, brings about their own destruction. All disease, all unhappiness, come from the violation of the law of love. One's boomerangs of hate, resentment and criticism, come back laden with sickness and sorrow. Love seems almost a lost art, but the one with the knowledge of spiritual law, knows it must be regained, for without it, you are suffering.

People are sometimes filled with remorse for having done someone unkindness, perhaps years ago. If the wrong cannot be righted, its effect can be neutralized by doing some one a kindness in the present. "This one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forth unto things where are before." Sorrow, regret and remorse tear down the cells of the body, and poison the atmosphere of the individual.

The old idea was if a woman did not worry about her children, she was not a good mother. Now, we know that mother-fear is responsible for many of the diseases and accidents which come into the lives of children. For fear pictures vividly the disease or situation feared, and these pictures objectify, and become reality, if not neutralized.

So mankind is indeed "his brother's keeper" (in thought) and every person should know that. The thing a person loves dwells in the secret place of the heart, and there it should be shared so that love may grow. Perfect love cancels out fear. If it comes from fear it is not made in love, fear can be corrected with love because "Love is the fulfilling of the Law."

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