we ask that you begin with yourself

  All that you give would never balance that which has been given; all that you give would be but a drop in a cup as balanced against an ocean of grace....We ask that you recognize that you are you and that you begin with yourself as you are....
  Remember this.  You may prick yourselves or others upon the thorns or blunt them and convey to the hands of men the roses of your healing love, the perfume of your wondrous sincere attention.  This is all we do.     -Archeia Mary:  10-12-1963 at Washington, D.C. via Messenger Mark Prophet

                                        by Ruth Hawkins

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  Will you then recognize that as you seek in hierarchical cooperation to implement the will of God and the essence of the Teachings, as you absorb the love that we are and seek to be that love in action so the kingdom of the Son of God will manifest more quickly in your being and in the world you influence?        -Archeia Mary:  9-13-1970 at La Tourelle, Colorado Springs

                                                in Prayer & Meditation, 1978
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  Never let your ideals destroy, but let them implement within you the aspects of your being that will keep alive in the world the potential of the Christed man for God-realization--that of the soul that can go forth and inflame itself with the love of his star, with his love of life, with his zest for truth, always with his awakening dawning in the memory.  And thus the appointed time of the day of his appearing shall be shortened, and many shall see him as he is.  And because they see him they will believe more in themselves and in the purposes of life.            -Archeia Mary:  12-13-1970 at La Tourelle, Colorado Springs