03-31-2011, 12:00 AM
"You will learn that you increase your burdens and decrease the
likelihood of success by taking yourself too seriously.
Nothing can take
precedence over the work of your status sphere — this world or the
next. Very important is the work of preparation for the next higher
sphere, but nothing equals the importance of the work of the world in
which you are actually living.
But though the work is
important, the self is not.
When you feel important, you lose
energy to the wear and tear of ego dignity so that there is little
energy left to do the work.
Self-importance, not work-importance,
exhausts immature creatures; it is the self element that exhausts, not
the effort to achieve.
You can do important work if you do not become
self-important; you can do several things as easily as one if you leave
yourself out. Variety is restful; monotony is what wears and exhausts.
Day after day is alike — just life or the alternative of death."
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likelihood of success by taking yourself too seriously.
Nothing can take
precedence over the work of your status sphere — this world or the
next. Very important is the work of preparation for the next higher
sphere, but nothing equals the importance of the work of the world in
which you are actually living.
But though the work is
important, the self is not.
When you feel important, you lose
energy to the wear and tear of ego dignity so that there is little
energy left to do the work.
Self-importance, not work-importance,
exhausts immature creatures; it is the self element that exhausts, not
the effort to achieve.
You can do important work if you do not become
self-important; you can do several things as easily as one if you leave
yourself out. Variety is restful; monotony is what wears and exhausts.
Day after day is alike — just life or the alternative of death."
UB