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THE
OLD, OLD STORY. This is the
springtime, when fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love and everybody
wants to go a-soul-mating. Consequently my mail is leavened with letters
from those who are unhappily married but who are sure they have got their
eye on the One who from the foundation of the ion was intended for
them. They all want to leave the old mis-mate and go to the new found soul
mate, and they all want my advice and encouragement - to do it! Some of
these writers have already left their husbands (?) and want to know
whether or not they should go back, or go on. To one such I wrote the
following letter, which I publish in the hope that it will help others to
find and follow themselves. Here is the letter: One thing at a
time! Get off with the old love before you go fretting about a new
one! Don't you think you are a silly girl to ask anybody's advice as to
whether or not you are to go back to your so-called husband? If I
know what you ought to do I don't see what you are worth to
yourself or the universe. The truth is that YOU are the only person in
creation who can make that decision. If you don't yet know that you have
a right to make your own life as you see fit; if you don't yet know
whether or not you could go back to him; then be still until you do
know. You know
things today that you did not know yesterday, and tomorrow you will know
things you "can't decide about" today. So attend strictly to business and
keep still, and stiller yet, until you KNOW what is best to do. Then DO it. So much for
the old love. As to the new one, not even you can know for certain
whether that other man would pan out the soul mate you now imagine him.
But the Law of Love, or Attraction, will prove whether or not he is what
you think. Your Own will come to you, and all creation can't hinder
it - IF you keep that man was NOT what I longed for, a real comrade; sweet
and cool, and free in your own mind, and make the best of THIS day as it
comes along. Ages ago I had
a similar experience to yours. I found the only and original one
intended for me. But I was tied to another man - NOT by a ceremony, for
that ties nobody, but by my own conscience, which compelled me
to "stand by" the man I thought "needed" me. So I stood, though I
thought my heart was broken. In a few years I found that my soul mate was
no mate at all! - I wouldn't have had him as a gracious
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