Q.45

Why do people suffer so grievously?

You suffer because you do not understand how you have been created, and the true purposes for which you were born. (L3)

When man is begotten, when LIFE takes on form within the seed, IT takes on the humanhood which separates IT from every other individual in the world. (L2)

To make IT single, a lone figure, joined to none other, solitary, private, ITS own person, IT becomes subject to ⎯ is controlled by two mightily strong impulses in his earthly nature ⎯ to hold fast to all those things he greatly desires and to reject and push away all that he does not want. (L2)

These two most basic impulses in man underlie every single thing he ever does throughout his life, and are entirely responsible for the trouble man brings upon himself. Although the ‘Father’ is active within man, IT has nothing of humanhood in IT. (L2)

Your thoughts are electromagnetic blueprints which eventually externalize as events and things you have either longed for ⎯ or greatly feared ⎯ OR, as those things which, good and bad, you have done to others. (A8)

When you live with anger, resentment, and dislike in your hearts, you are actively creating negative forces which gradually undermine your health and destroy your bodies and your lives. (A8)

All that man does which man calls ‘sin’ is only of this world and is only punished within this world ⎯ for it is a Law of Earthly Existence, as you know, that whatever you sow you will reap as a like harvest. (L2)

Because he draws LIFE and MIND from the ‘Father’, man himself is creative in thought, words and deeds. Whatever he thinks, says, does, and believes, returns to him in like form, some time later. (L2)

There is no punishment from the ‘Father’ ⎯ whatever ills come to mankind is of their own making entirely.’ (L2)

You cannot pick figs from brambles, or grapes from thorn trees, or harvest wheat from weeds. Think about this and understand this parable because it is very important to you ⎯ not only today ⎯ but also throughout all your days and years to come, even into eternity. (L2)

So, if you want to change your lives ⎯ change your thoughts, (L2)

Change your words arising from those thoughts, (L2)

Change your actions arising from the thoughts. (L2)

What is in your minds will create all your experiences, your sickness, poverty, unhappiness and despair. (L2)