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HEAVEN IN THE HEART
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heritage the Kingdom of Heaven! Drug your soul no longer with the poisons of false beliefs. You are not a worm of the dust unless you choose to make yourself You are a divine, immortal, God-born being, and this you may know if you will to seek and find. Cling no longer to your impure and grovelling thoughts, and you shall know that you are a radiant and celestial spirit, filled with all pure and lovable thoughts. Wretchedness and sin and sorrow are not your portion here unless you accept them as such; and if you do this, they shall be your portion hereafter, for these things are not apart from your soul-condition; they will go wherever you go; they are only within you.

Heaven, not hell, is your portion here and always. It only requires you to take what belongs to you. You are the master, and you choose whom you will serve. You are the maker of your state, and your choice determines your condition. What you pray and ask for—with your mind and heart, not with your lips merely, this you