Life never runs with perfect smoothness, so…
We have great need of forgetting ourselves, Otherwise the world consciousness will grind in to us.
When you find yourselves brooding over self, turn your thought elsewhere. How much we need the Divine blessing! How much we need to think on the Ideal! We need to safeguard ourselves. Life never runs with perfect smoothness, so we need to place ourselves under higher protection. The whole spiritual life is based on unselfishness, in being and becoming something other than the little self. Living devotion to an ideal alone will make us selfless. Contact with a spiritual ideal always fortifies us and brings us a saving sense of consecration.
~ Swami Paramananda
