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naturally inclined to direct our energies and resources to meaningful ends.
     
    The mental impressions of superconscious perceptions are also eventually dissolved when full illumination of mind and consciousness is experienced. One is then no longer influenced by mental conditionings. Instead, intuitive guidance directed by innate intelligence determines actions.
     
    The ideal approach to spiritual growth is to aspire to it with dedicated devotion, remaining inwardly centered and patient while growth occurs in time. Regardless of what your present degree of spiritual understanding might be, whether clouded or more clear, inwardly hold fast to the knowledge that you are a spiritual being endowed with all of the attributes and capacities common to every other soul in the universe. This is the absolute truth.
     
    God is the only Being in existence. You are an individualized ray or unit of God’s consciousness. This fact cannot be changed. Therefore, you are endowed with innate knowledge which has but to be awakened and actualized. Never say, or think, that you are anything less than what you are as an immortal, spiritual being. The habits, viewpoints, feelings, desires—and all else that might be presently influential that comprises your self-conscious condition—are temporary. They are superimposed upon your awareness but they are not the real you. They are not the final, determining circumstances of your life. They are impermanent, therefore, temporary, and you are superior to them. Everything that needs to be changed will be transformed as you awaken steadily through progressive stages of spiritual growth.
     
    While on the awakening path, remember that the path is not the destination: it is only the way. Do not tarry when it is unnecessary. Look forward to the ultimate outcome, to what will be true for you when your awakening is complete. Remember, too, that though spiritual growth is usually progressive, there is always the possibility of sudden awakening—unanticipated breakthroughs, occasions when clear perception and knowledge blossoms and vast regions of mind and consciousness are revealed. Your dedicated practices and adherence to right living routines are but preparation. When the moment is right, when you are prepared and are responsive to grace, its redemptive actions will remove the cloud of unknowing from your mind and the light of understanding will brilliantly shine.
     
    Grace is the enlivening life (spirit) of God supporting and transforming creation. It expresses throughout the field of nature and from within every soul. It directs the course of evolution and awakens souls from their “sleep” of mortality. When we are less self-centered and more soul-centered, less grasping and more giving, less contractive and more expansive, grace more obviously expresses to order our lives and our circumstances.
     
     
     
    CHAPTER FIVE
    Lifestyle Guidelines Supportive
    of Our Primary Aims and Purposes
     
     
    Although it is true that regular, right practice of meditation does beneficially influence our lives and contribute to useful changes and helpful improvements, we can assist ourselves to complete wellness and more skillful function by intentionally implementing constructive lifestyle routines. The guiding principle for doing this is that everything we do should fully support our primary purposes for which we are in this world. We have four primary purposes to fulfill. They are easy to remember and essential to actualize:
    • To Live Right – We are living in the right way when we are self-responsible, successfully fulfilling our duties and obligations, and using our talents and abilities to make useful contributions to society and the planet. We know we are “in our right place in life” when we are soul-content and so in accord with circumstances that all aspects of our lives are balanced and harmonious.
     
    • To Learn to Have Our Life-Enhancing Desires Easily Fulfilled – By learning how to use