Personality

om our desires, for we cannot see the end from the beginning, but once we have made the consecration, if we find the path rough and winding, we cannot choose but go on. Compensation is eternal in the universe. We get what we ask for. If we mourn over our supply it is because we do not understand the causes which we have set in motion and are expecting perfect returns from imperfectly formulated plans. Those lives which seem so destitute of compensation are not really so; they have only made a mistake in interpreting it. In order to understand compensation, we must understand cause and effect, and know that we only reap what we sow. The life which sows for service reaps service; for knowledge gets knowledge; love gets love; there is no escaping the harvest, but we do not always recognize the compensation for it does not come to us invariably in the guise we expect. I know of a life that sowed love, kindness and gratitude to another life for fifteen years and at the end of that time was robbed of honor, name, place, position and everything that heart holds dear, by the hand of the one whom it has served so well. Compensation! No, indeed, but do you think those years of faithful loving service were lost? Never; they could not be; they were charged to the Universal supply and had to be cashed in by that life somewhere. In the later years a stranger another life brought back to this life the harvest of loving kindness and crowned it with joy, peace and power. Compensation made perfect, only in another form. Compensation is always near us, but often we do not recognize it as our own; it may meet us in a 69 new garb at any turn in the lane of life, but while our eyes are blinded with hot tears of loss we cannot see it. We sow our seeds of desire and the purple flowers of pain blossom around us while we look in pained surprise for the white rose of our expectations. We have not learned that "like attracts like" and that on the path the law is made perfect. We limit our compensation by our habit of renunciation; we have not yet dared grasp the full splendor of what we may possess. We allow ourselves to think that in order to grow we must renounce; that one thing is sacrificed for another to be gained, when if we only knew, it is the all will that we can take every desire of our hearts with us on to the path, make them one in the one life, and reap our harvests from them all. Some will say, "I cannot have money and education, so I gave up the hope of eve