A SIMPLIFIED LIFE

  

 A SIMPLIFIED LIFE

 

Around the Year with Emmet Fox

 

May 22

 

It is unquestionable that the spiritualization of thought

does undoubtedly lead the student to simplify his mode of life,

for so many things that previously seemed important

are now found to be unimportant and uninteresting.

It is unquestionable too,

that he gradually finds himself meeting different people,

reading different books, spending his time differently;

and that his conversation naturally changes its quality.

These things follow upon the change of heart;

never can they precede it.

 

“old things are passed away,

behold, all things are become new”

2 Corinthians 5:17

 

Now we see how vain the foolish attempt is

to cultivate the good opinion of other people

under the impression that such a thing

can be of any real advantage to us.

Jesus has exposed that kind of fallacy once and for all.

He says that the applause that follows upon outer acts

is the only reward they ever bring,

and that results worthwhile are only to be obtained

in the Secret Place of consciousness.

 

“. . . pray to thy Father which is in secret;

and thy Father which seeth in secret

shall reward thee openly”

Matthew 6:6