Love of the Inspired Soul
THE GOOD THAT IS INHERENT IN OTHERS is infinitely greater than all their faults, shortcomings or imperfections; therefore we can readily forgive them for all these. There is more in man than the undeveloped surface, and it is this more that we will recognize, love and admire. When anyone goes wrong we will not criticize or complain; we cannot criticize anyone without harming everybody concerned, ourselves included; nor can we think well of anyone without helping everybody concerned, ourselves included.
And everybody wants the best to happen to everybody. To live in constant recognition of the weaker side of human nature is to open the mind to weakness, discord, failure and unhappiness. We steadily grow into the likeness of that which we think of the most. But to live in constant spiritual touch with the great good that exists in everybody, is to open the mind to strength and happiness that cannot be measured. And these moments may become eternal.
Then give me such a love in boundless measure. Give me the love of some inspired soul whose living presence, fair and strong, can spur me on and on to greater heights than human life has ever reached before — some pure and tender heart who knows the sacred longings of that life supreme within that must ascend and evermore ascend — some fair illumined soul whose spirit dwells within the vision of transcendent realms on high and knows that I am made for such a place. Then life shall be a life indeed to me; my sacred longings all shall be fulfilled, and every good that I can wish for shall be mine, for all the joys of earth and all of heaven’s ecstasies sublime abide for evermore in such a love.
Christian D. Larson - from The Pathway of Roses
