A
most important part of any undertaking is a positive and trustworthy
foundation. This is extremely important in spiritual efforts if you desire to
reach the lofty heights. Gratitude, Patience, Humility, and Aspiration are the
building blocks of this foundation.
Gratitude
is indispensable since all we have and experience are these precious gifts of
learning that can be utilized for our ascent. To be grateful for the pleasant
and enjoyable things is rather easy, but there is the danger of forgetting the
ultimate giver of a gift and that can be distracting.
Most
people forget that the trials and tests of life are there to round out the
personality, or polish the facets of the beautiful diamond that you are, and
then prepare you for the soul merge. Gratitude for every trial and test, for
all sufferings and disappointments, is most important in the school of life. Do
not bemoan “Why did this happen to me?” At some level of your multi-dimensional
being, you set up the test to try yourself and bring your weaknesses to light
so they could be eradicated.
These
experiences force you very definitely to find the Powers that Be to support and
guide you at difficult times. They make you search earnestly for the knowledge
about how to get through the test or trial as quickly as possible, and then
point you safely to the goal.
The
second building block is Patience. It re-enforces Gratitude and minimizes
trials by proving them to be important steppingstones in the ascent. Since you
are under no time-limit, patience can do its perfect work and awaits serenely
for the developing results. Hand in hand with Gratitude, a firm foundation is
started and reaches toward the third important point.
This
point is Humility. It can be trusted to eliminate weakness and danger through
attack because it cannot be deceived or hurt since it is immune to negative
influences. It stands firm under pressure and has naught in common with
destructive elements. Humility is the natural result of true Gratitude for everything
that happens in your lifetime experiences. When it combines with Patience, it
knows that right thought and right action always may be trusted to achieve its
purpose.
The
stimulating and exhilarating fourth building block is Aspiration, with its constant
deep desire and earnest effort to support and strengthen the base of spiritual
building, so that it may rise securely to those heights where all four points
draw closer together in Divine Unity and form the final point of achievement as
One with the All That is.
Seemingly
slow progress need not concern you if you have laid the right foundation.
This foundation is your security. Eventually, the all-satisfying pinnacle
is within reach and Aspiration will inspire you to reach towards enlightenment
or Cosmic Consciousness.
