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To be the best Mother, Friend and Woman possible, sympathy and charity and understanding of the
everyday life of your kind must be cultivated. You
must be human and wholesome and natural and
loving. You must not attempt to stand upon a pedestal and pose for the admiration of those below you.
Instead of trying to call people up to a chilly height,
you must go along with them, and if you stumble and
fall now and then, show them how quickly a human
being can rise and brush off the dust and go on higher.
This will do the world tenfold more good than all
your fastings and soarings and all the crucifyings of
your normal nature.
When God is ready to take you out of the body
it will then be time for you to practise wholly spiritual
methods of life.
While He indicates His desire that you remain in
the body, live like a good, sensible human being and
make every one about you happy and comfortable.
Of course humanity needs high ideals to lead it away
from self-indulgence.
But it is a poor way to try and cure a man of gourmandizing by starving him to death. The wiser way
is to make him understand the delight of self-control,
and the purpose for which the appetite was bestowed
by the Creator. To remove his digestive organs and
sustain his life by hypodermic injections of food
might relieve him of hunger's pangs, but it would not
develop his character like helping him to conserve his
appetite for the sustaining of life and the normal pleasures of the table. Every time we control an abnormal
or unwise appetite of any kind we grow in mental and
spiritual power and in the development of character.
But that does not mean that we are to deny the body
