Despondency, disappointment, grief: these are the reflex aspects of pleasurable excitement, self-seeking, and desire. Give up the latter, and the former will always disappear; there remains the perfect Bliss of Heaven.
Abounding and unalloyed Happiness is man’s true life; perfect Blessedness is his rightful portion; and when he loses his false life and finds the true he enters into the full possession of his Kingdom. The Kingdom of Heaven is man’s Home; it is here and now, it is in his own heart, and he is not left without Guides, if he wills to find it. All man’s sorrows and suffering are the result of his own self-elected estrangement from the Divine Source, the All-Good, the Father, the Heart of Love. Let him return to his Home; his peace awaits him.
The Heavenly-minded are without sorrow and suffering because they are without sin. What the worldly-minded call troubles they regard as pleasant tasks of Love and Wisdom. Troubles belong to hell; they
