our
use, just as Eddison does with electricity.
Law is but we must use it.
The
substance that we deal with, in itself,
is never limited, but we often are, because
we draw only what we believe.
Because
we are limited is no reason why the Universe
should have limitation. Our limitation
is only our unbelief; life can give us
a big thing or a little thing. When it
guves us a little thing, it is not limited,
any more that life is limited when it
makes a grain of sand, because it could
just as well have made a planet. But in
the great scheme of things all kinds of
forms, small and large, are necessary,
which, combined, make the complete whole.
The power and substance behind every-thing
remain Infinite.
Now
this life can become to us only through
us, and that becoming is the passing of
Spirit into expression in our lives through
the form of the thought that we give to
it. In itself life is never limited; an
ant has just as much life as an elephant
though smaller in size. The question is
not one of size but of consciousness.
We
are not limited by actual boundaries,
but by false ideas about life and by a
failure to recognize that we are dealing
with the Infinite.
Limitation
is an experience of the race, but it is
not the fault of God, it is the fault
of man's perception. And to prove that
this is so, let any man break the bonds
of the false sense of life and he at once
begins to express less and less limitation.
It is a matter of the growth of the inner
idea.
People
often say that when they are told this,
"Do you think that I decided to be
poor and miserable; do you take me for
a fool?" No, you are not a fool,
but it is quite possible
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