Precept and Practice – DECEMBER 22 – Spiritual Fellowship

Granted that time will heal most wounds, it still remains true that the deeper the nature the more there is to heal, and that there is something holy in the sorrow of wounded love.

…..I do wish with all my heart that every mourner in the world who is capable of a genuine and unselfish affection could come to see that there is a better and less cruel panacea for an aching heart than the slow learning to forget.   It is the realisation that already ‘our conversation is in heaven.’   Already that in you which makes you desire God, and which is also the soul of human love, dwells on the plane of eternal spirit.   In this dream-world of ours we are at the best separated from one another;  on the plane of eternal reality we are not.

At the best our communion with kindred souls in the flesh is but partial and incomplete there is much of which we are ignorant, much in which we fail each other because of our limitations;  on the plane of unhindered spiritual fellowship that can never be so;  in communion with God we are in communion with all the love that ever has been, or ever shall be to all eternity…..   That mysterious somewhat which we love in our dearest friend is God;  we do not know it or may not realise it, but so it is.

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From the Introduction to Precept and Practice

The kindly welcome given to my other little books, ‘Being and Doing’ and ‘Character and Conduct,’ must be my excuse for adding another collection of extracts to the number now in circulation.

The quotations are gathered from the books of many earnest thinkers, and deal with Life in all its length and breadth, with ourselves, our characters, our plain unvarnished faults and weaknesses, our often untoward circumstances, and with all that drags us down;-  with our purposes, our religion, our love and friendships, and with all that uplifts us;-  with our relation to others, our influence and responsibilities, and finally with those stages of our journey which bring us to the Road’s Last Turn and to the Silent Land.

CONSTANCE  M. WHISHAW