TAKE YOUR TIME

Vivekananda, in the book Pathways to Joy, said:  “I am walking in the street thinking that God is in everyone, and a strong man comes along and gives me a push and I fall flat on the footpath.  Then I rise up quickly with clenched fist; the blood has rushed to my head, and my discrimination goes.  Immediately I have become mad.  Everything is forgotten; instead of encountering God, I see the devil.

“We have been taught to see God in everything and everywhere, but it is when we come to the practical side that the difficulty begins.  But then, if such is the case, what is the use of teaching all these things?  There is the greatest use.  The use is this:  that perseverance will finally conquer.  Nothing can be done in a day.

“It is thought that is the propelling force in us.  Fill the mind with the highest thoughts; hear them day after day, and think them month after month.  Never mind failures; they are quite natural.  Hold to the ideal a thousand times, and if you fail a thousand times, make the attempt once more.
 
“The ideal is to see God in everything.  But if you cannot see him in everything, see him in one thing, in that thing that you like best, and then see him in another.  And on you will go.  There is infinite life before the soul.  Take your time and you will achieve your end.”