Balance
Benjamin Teixeira de Aguiar
by the Spirit Eugênia-Aspásia.
If you want to grow materially do not seek having too much fortune. The full safe favors a mind troubled by worries and anxieties.
If you seek to rise in the hierarchy of social prestige, do not focus on excessive prominence. Visibility requires psychological ability and spiritual maturity that dismay and slash less prepared spirits.
If you intend to acquire power to accomplish great things, do not think of power for yourself and your personal interests. Power is a dreadful toxic of the soul; maddening it in a short period of time.
If your aim is to obtain culture and intelligence, do not seek the letters to keep them as pearls to yourself. Knowledge and reasoning gathered with selfishness, with the intention of self promotion, can only introduce the individual into the raving of varied obsessions.
If you seek the forefront of ideas and values as a life goal, beware of the extravagance on the speed of growth and public exposure of your personal experiences. One who is too far ahead of his time is considered crazy, insane or a bad character, suffering excruciating pain, from general persecution and mockery, frequently without even making oneself heard, to promote collective progress, no matter how good are the intentions of the idealist.
In everything seek first balance and common sense. It does not help to want everything, just to lose it all. It’s better to wish the possible few, and grow slowly, but always, than focus on the impossible many and be left with nothing, but terrible consciousness torments.
Do now what is within your reach. And, as for the rest, trust in God, that, in order for others to win and see what you intend to show to them, will send missionaries at a proper time – let’s say it clearly: in a future time – because not everything can be said to everyone, not everything can be conquered by everyone, nor everything can be lived by everybody at the time called now.
Therefore, respect your own limits and the psychological, spiritual and evolutionary (in a word) limits of others, since that, without respect to the evolutional rhythms of oneself and of our brothers and sisters in humanity, nothing is done or edified truly and permanently.
(Text received on December 8th, 2004.)