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Gentleness

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Harm is impossible for God's teachers. They can neither harm nor be harmed.

Harm is the outcome or judgment.

It is the dishonest act that follows the dishonest thought.

It is a verdict of guilt upon a brother and therefore on one's self.

It is the end of peace and the denial of learning.

No teacher of God but must learn, and fairly early in his training, that harmfulness completely obliterates his function from his awareness. It will make him

• confused,
• fearful,
• angry and
• suspicious.

It will make the Holy Spirit's lessons impossible to learn. Nor can God's Teacher (Holy Spirit) be heard at all except by those who realize that harm can actually achieve nothing. No gain can come of it.

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Therefore God's teachers are wholly gentle.

They need the strength of gentleness, for it is in this that the function of salvation becomes easy.

What choice but this has meaning to the sane?

Who chooses hell when he perceives a way to Heaven?

And who would choose the weakness that must come from harm in place of the unfailing, all-encompassing and limitless strength of gentleness?

The might of God's teachers lies in their gentleness, for they have understood their evil thoughts came neither from God's Son nor his Creator. Thus did they join their thoughts with Him Who is their Source. And so their will, which always was His Own, is free to be Itself.

 

 

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