To be near unto God - pagina 126

entrance of the Holy One into our life, not merely to live forever, but to have a life which in its own nature is eternal. When something stirs in a secret place and something proceeds therefrom, there is life. The pregnant mother feels life when she is aware of motion within, and then knows that presently life will be born from her. So it is with us. Wlien everything is still within, when no voice is heard from the soul, and nothing stirs in our inmost parts, who can know whether the soul lives? We may live along with the life of the world and be affected by it, even as the motion of the sea leaves no single drop at rest, but communicates This, however, is not its own restlessness to it. a life of one's own. It is no inner impulse the momentum of which springs from oneself. Moving along with the rise and fall of the world's life may develop warmth within, may enrich one intellectually, may deepen the affections and widen experience, but it has no root of its own, no individual impulse and therefore it can not convey permanent possession. And when at length death removes us from this restless life of the world, this purely impersonal life that has been lived with others, is shaken off and nothing remains. Real personal life, on the other hand, springs from a Divinely implanted seed, which inwardly germinates and unfolds. But, for its proper growth, it continually asks for food after its own kind. If it fails of this, it languishes and Abundance of provisions, which are not withers. meet, do not help it. It can not assimilate nor Insofar as they enter into it they digest them. only pervert it. Getting food after its own kind 122

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