Enthusiasm

I want! I am! I must have," and I, me and mine is the trinity of their consciousness. On the path of life, in the association with men, we easily recognize this great army of egotists by their slogan, "what's in it for me?" This is their first and last word and unless there is something "in it" for them, they don't move. Great wonderful things may be waiting everywhere, calling for a strong hand and a true heart to push them into form for the universal good, but their ears are deaf and their strength unattainable unless they can rise on these things of their own desires. The personal egotist, separate, self-seeking often secures their own for a while, because they feed upon everything in their environment. They use everything as legitimate material to pave their way. They will rise to their immediate desire even if they step upon the heart of their best friend, and they often drag to slaughter the fondest love which has laid itself at their feet. It has been written in other words by those who knew, "The wicked flourish like the green bay tree," but it is also written, "Leave them alone, they be blind leaders of the blind, and if the blind lead the blind, they shall both fall into the ditch." And life, everywhere, proves that this is true. They may have and hold till the want grows cold whatever is their desire, and may squeeze out of it all that is in it for them, but they are one with the law of their own relationship, and this is change. The universal law of life is on their trail, and it is the law of God that the consciousness and things of "I, me and mine," must pass on, and through the experiences that come to them through these desires they can and will go on with the higher law of "ours," and still farther into the true selfness, and universality of thine. 27 The failures come to the personal life because in its own conceited selfhood it links itself with the method that brings failure. One must eventually lose their opportunities when everyone knows that he or she operates every action of their life by what they will get out of it. Employees will leave a firm some day where only the employers' interests are served; the hour may be long delayed because of the lack of true selfness of the employees but the handwriting is on the wall and he must meet his own method. An employee who shows that their whole interest is personal and who works only for what there is in it for them is a failure. There are thousands of such failures, why? because