By Lowell Fillmore
Remember to be calm.
There is constructive power in calmness. The raging tempest shows only destructive power; the quiet sunshine and the gentle rain are evidences of a wonderful constructive force that covers the earth with millions of living plants and trees, in spite of all destroying elements.
Remember that God works best through you when you are calm. God speaks to you in the silence.
Remember that you can be calm if you train yourself to consider God as the source of all good, that He is all-important to you, and that the things of sense are but secondary. This state of understanding will raise your heart above material things into the realm of unchanging substance.
Where your heart is, there will be also your very life. The changes that occur in the outer world will no longer fill your mind with consternation or worry, because your mind will be fixed upon the unchanging substance of Spirit. You will remain calm, and outer conditions will become your servants, arranging themselves according to your wise plans. You will have complete mastery because you will be able to use sane judgment, unbiased by fear, anxiety, greed, jealousy, anger, or like emotions. You will be powerful in your calmness and poise. Such a state of mind will free your body from tenseness and permit the life and wholeness of God to flow through it unhindered. Keep your mind on the highest, the unchanging God, and nothing can disturb you or interfere with the manifestation of God's perfection in your mind, body, and affairs.
Remember that your most valuable thoughts and inspirations will come to you when you are calm and quiet. You can be calm at any time you choose to enter into your inner self, no matter if there be turmoil on the outside. When you have learned to find the peace within your own soul, you will not hear the outer din. You will have gone into the secret place of the Most High—the kingdom of heaven and shut the door against the discord of the outer world.
"But seek ye first his kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you."
The inner voice says to you: "Be still, and know that I am God."
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