***GERMAIN: KNOWLEDGE MAKES YOU MASTER***
Violinio Germain
TO CONTROL MATTER--FIRST CONTROL SELF
God said, "Behold, I am in all things, centering them, and I am without all things, controlling them."
The nearer you can come to feeling your Self to be that center of stillness from which all things extend UNDER YOUR CONTROL, the more you can control your own body to its perfection of health, strength and beauty.
No matter what you must do in life, do it joyously. Whatever work it is, put love into it. If you do put love into it, you will find love regiven to you by it.
Love given out from YOU vitalizes YOU as well as it vitalizes the one you give it to.
If you do not like your work, it does not like you. It gives back to you what you give to it. You become fatigued and devitalized. Whatever situation in which you find yourself, master it by giving love out of yourself to it, for that is the only way to master it. If you give aught but love, it will regive aught but love.
There is no task which manifests God which is not beautiful if you make it so, for beauty is not in any task--it is in YOU.
If you have to sweep the floor, do it gloriously. The floor must be swept. If it falls to you to sweep it, do it perfectly, with love, and it will bless you.
A joyous attitude of Mind from love given out will prolong your date of maturing, lengthen your life and make your thinking more brilliant and keen to the day of your passing. Joyousness is the great insulator from the toxins which arise from unbalanced thinking.
Source: PHOENIX JOURNAL EXPRESS, August 1991, Volume 15, Number 11, Pages 6-11.
http://www.phoenixarchives.com/express/1991/0891/15-11.pdf