of life to live, nor yet all of death to die, but that the expression of life is a creative thing, a creative influence or force in the experience, and that there must be an ideal; ideal spiritually, ideal mentally.
Thus there are the needs for the constructive thinking, rather than that as may be a hit or miss, or a haphazard study of conditions.
Reading 3343-1
In analyzing the urges, there is the great tendency for the entity to judge according to material standards, and to depend mentally upon physical manifestations. These are well, but—with such standards and with such a measuring stick—one may easily deceive self. For we are warned that there is a way that seemeth right to a man but the end thereof is death. Death is separation, lost opportunity—in some sphere of activity in which there is a consciousness, either spiritual or material. Mind is ever the builder, for it is the companion of soul and body, and is the way that is demonstrated and manifested in the earth in the Christ.
Reading 2630-1
Thus the outcome of any development, any retardment, is according to the use the entity makes of opportunities, and the ideal with which the entity entertains those opportunities.
It is not all of life, then, to live, nor all of death to die; but what the entity does with the opportunities as they present themselves.
Reading 136-70
Life is real, life is earnest! yet it is not all of life to live, nor all of death to die—for with the thoughts and the deeds done in the mind and the body, these are that builded by the entity, or body, and must be met, and an account given of those things rendered in the body and the mind. For the soul liveth, and is a portion of the Creative Energy, and it returns to the Whole, yet reserving in itself that oneness in the ability to know itself individual, yet a portion of the Whole. What manner of man would one be that would make of that Whole its own concept, other than one with the Whole?
Reading 2438-1
In analyzing self, learn that it is not all of life to merely live, or to supply the needs of the body—in materiality. For, life is a continuous thing, an expression of Divine; and the stamp of mind upon the self is the expression of love of that Divine for the companionship of the soul as an individual, as an entity.
Reading 1759-1
Each entrance of an entity into a material experience is that it may better fit itself, through the application of an ideal in its experience, for a sojourn with that which is Creative—that influence or force in which all move and have their consciousness, their being.
Then, unless the ideal as set as the standard of an entity in any given experience is of a creative force or nature, and takes hold upon that which is constructive and creative, what must the experience be when the soul has shed material consciousness, and as it stands before its own conscience, its God, bare!
There is in the material experience that which is ever as a manifestation of that excuse of old [Genesis?], “I was aware that I was naked and hence I covered myself with leaves.” What are Thy excuses? What are thy conditions in thy activity, wherewith ye may stand as one that has sown the seed of righteousness? What is thy ideal of righteousness? Know that these can only be answered within thine own self. For thy body-physical is indeed the temple, the tabernacle of the living God; and there He hath promised to meet thee. For as the Teacher of teachers gave, the kingdom of heaven is within thee! and as ye make within thine own consciousness, through thy dwelling upon the thoughts of Him who is the Way, who is the Truth, who is the Light. And as He was asked in days just passed, “Speak to my brother, that he divide the inheritance with me.” His answer came, “Who made me to be a judge between thee and thy brother?
Reading 2080-1
These then are chosen—these urges that are indicated good and bad—that there may be an analyzing of self; that the entity may realize that it is not all of life just to live, and to enjoy the good things of material experience.
For thou art indeed thy brother’s keeper. There are those opportunities ever being presented for the real abilities which are within the experience and the consciousness of the entity. In taking advantage of, or using, such opportunities in the proper direction, the entity may make his paths straight, and know the purposes for which each soul enters a material experience; that these are not just that ye may have to hold, other than as a keeper of opportunities in hope, in love, in faith, in patience, as unto thy Maker.
It is not sufficient, then, to merely live that ye may outwardly appear as a successful individual—not too bad nor too good but to be one who, irrespective of others, chooses the better place.
Reading 3436-2
This information should be, then, as a .helpful influence if the entity will but analyze self, self’s abilities and the desires and hopes for the entity. Do not, then, allow self to become so material-minded that the judgments are measured only by the material yardstick of material accomplishments. For what profiteth a man who does gain the whole world and loseth his own soul? Or what would ye gain in exchange for the awareness of thy soul, that ye may know life is indeed eternal; and it isn’t then all of life to live, nor all of death to die.
Reading 4400-1
There is also that necessity for the individual to so attune self from the spiritual effect that must be instilled in the individual to whom such applications may be made, as would come under the supervision of the individual; for it is not all of life to live, nor yet all of death to die—for in the midst of death one is in the midst of life, and it behooves one, then, that their own individual life be such that it—their life—is compatible to those tenets, those teachings, those principles, as would be set up by the application of self’s efforts toward the individuals whom one would attend.
Reading 5005-1
Do spiritualize thy purposes, thy ideals. For it is not all of life to live nor yet all of separation of the body to die. For to be absent from the body is to be present with thy God. What is thy God? Place, position in the earth? These are naught when things of the earth may not be used. For man enters the earth with a body prepared by others before him. He leaves the earth with the body-soul he has prepared for that realm of the inter-between, and can only depend, then, upon self according to that done with Creative Forces or God’s laws. For they are perfect and are unchangeable.
Reading 2573-1
While it is not all of life to live, each soul enters for a purpose. And it is not merely to gain fame or fortune, nor to be thought well of in the material plane only; but it is a real spiritual and mental experience also.
Reading 2142-1
One that may be trusted in its relationships with others, and to its own sorrow has often found another’s word is not as their bond; while for self that promised is to self as binding as were it a bond; though these must be often dissuaded in self. Well that self keep this same attitude; for as to those relationships, these make for that that will make life more worthwhile in business, social, political, economical, regions or sources of one’s experience; for it is not all of life to live, nor yet all of death to die; for, as is builded in the experience of self, whether in the marital, the
