[Music] I suppose that time is the most remarkable dimension within which we live throughout our daily experiences in this world. Time vanishes into eternity and beyond the life we live now, there will only be occasional embodiments within time dimensions, but these can become very

important and necessary to the part of the universal plan to which we belong. The human being has responsibility. Time measures opportunity. All opportunities that come to us in this life come within time patterns, but every opportunity has its own responsibility. The complete picture of

an embodiment is an opportunity with responsibility. We are here for a purpose. We are not born simply to wander around in a chaos for a few years and disappear. There's a reason we are here. Most persons are not aware of this reason and are therefore constantly in

conflict with the plan to which they belong and of which they are a part. Therefore, it is proper and important for us to recognize that this life is an opportunity with a price on it. We are here to grow now. To most persons, growth sounds

rather unpleasant. We have, we are inclined to think of growth as a problem of burdens, the duties and of frustrations. To many persons, this entire mortal life is a frustration. They see no reason for their own existence and no justice in what

happens to them. These folks make life very hard for themselves and contribute to the misfortunes of others. It is wiser to realize that every time we come into this world, we come in to learn. We come to grow and to

understand and most of all to unfold the internal potentials of our own Natures. We have no real idea of what is locked inside of ourselves. We know that occasionally a genius arises and is remembered by others as a person of superb talents or

abilities, but if you look at the whole world with 4 and a half billion people, you finally come to the realization that the human potential is limitless. We not only have a special power within ourselves but we share the power of all other living

things. Therefore, there is no limit to the unfoldment of ourselves if we wish to make a project of growing. More likely, we make a project of complaining and born into this world under the present conditions, there seems to be a just reason for complaint. The powers administering our

material society are not aware either of their own destiny or the purpose for anything else. They live within a very narrow concept of material existence. The world as it is today measures people in terms of time allotments at $5 an hour or $50 an hour

or $1,000 an hour. We work according to time patterns. When we can no longer fulfill those labors, we retire and then for a time enjoy or suffer from Social Security. Actually, the individual sort of drifts through this world. He works as much as he has

to, he creates debts which he has to pay, he raises a family which he has to educate, and he is bound to a pattern of specialized abilities which he will remain with as long as he lives. He will work so many hours every day. He will complain largely of the fact

that his abilities are not recognized, that he is not appreciated, and very often in the family circle that he is not understood. All of these situations constitute the pressures of living. To escape from these pressures he developed certain side aptitudes, probably the most important one at the

present time is the ability to sit for hours in front of a television set. Anyone who can do this really has a tremendous amount of something, but it is not intelligence. Actually, we have escapes. We escape from the problems of life by viewing imitation replicas of

them on the entertainment level. We follow the sports, we try to keep up with the news, but are rather baffled, and at the end of the day we fall into bed and wait for time to fast so that we can start another day just the same. Now, if this was the real reason for

life, there would be abundant reason to suspect that the materialist is right, there is no purpose in anything. But actually, the materialist is unable to prove his point because he is talking about something that is alive. He is talking about a being that has within

itself a vast diversity of abilities, of attitudes, a being capable of education, capable of achievement in many fields, perhaps a potential musician or artist. We do not know what is in this being, but we know that it has come here, that it is partly developed, that it has

some abilities and many debilities, that it seems to be going nowhere, but it is moving forever along the road of time. Time is the measure of its duration in this dimension of existence. Some people are suspecting that there is a real purpose for life and that by one cause or another, this

purpose is being frustrated every day. Also, it becomes obvious that many persons who might have had a valid purpose have been frustrated by circumstances and forced to join the others in a comparatively meaningless existence. Realizing these things, it seems that those who really wish to

prove that life is significant must take hold of their own abilities, take hold of their own natures, and try to release or develop talents and capacities and dimensions of consciousness which will enrich their lives. Problems come, apparently, one primary reason they must be solved, and the solving of a problem is one

way in which the internal of the human being is released into manifestation. If there were no problems, we would probably sit back in a condition of perpetual inertia. We are forced to meet circumstances, we are forced to devise ways of achieving a certain measure of

comfort or security. We are constantly challenged to grow, and the rewards of life are largely reserved for those who have grown in one way or another. Sometimes only economic growth or skills, but they have their rewards, and a well-lived life has a large reward. If we can achieve this level of

insight, let us assume for a moment that the human being really has four levels of achievement open to him. He is not just one creature, he is a compound. He has within himself a number of unidentified, but identifiable elements of potentials. The human being is first of

all, in our understanding, a physical creature. He has a body. Now, the body itself is a mystery that has never been solved. We we work with it continuously, we study it constantly, but we still do not understand it. But we are gradually coming to realize something that's

important and that is that this body, this physical body, has laws and rules of its own and if we break the rules of the physical necessities of life, we are chastised appropriately. The body has laws, it has demands and requirements, and it also has a certain

tendency to regard itself as the younger child of something else. The body is a small child in a family of which the mind and the heart are the parents. Each body looks to its own leaders for safety, for help, and for the maintenance of the various functions and

faculties and powers which manifest through it. Therefore, our first consideration therefore is the responsibility of the body, a responsibility that is given to us when we are born. This responsibility tells us one very simple truth: take good care of the body and it will carry you. Abuse it

and you will lose it. Now, many people do not think true cause and effect that far. The result is we have great numbers of persons every day who are committing an involuntary suicide. They are constantly and not knowingly and intentionally violating the laws of the

body. Among these, of course, are the alcoholics, the narcotics addicts, and those who do variously dissipate away the health with which they have been naturally endowed. So, the individual with a body for which he is responsible has to learn to discipline his relationships with that body. He can

view it as a child growing up under his care. Most children require a certain amount of discipline, and it is necessary for him to discipline the body. Normally, the body would probably rather well discipline itself, but placed in a false environment and surrounded by temptations with which it is not

familiar the body gets into difficulties so we have to develop nutritional factors we have to constitute our bodies according to the rules of health we have to therefore put a certain control over the fulfillment of bodily appetites we have to take care of the

rugged side of its physical efficiency we have to nourish it adequately we have to protect it in all ways that we can from emergencies accidents and disasters one of the problems that we have with the body of course today is nutrition the nutritional factor with

the body of course is almost entirely chemical nutrition has to do with getting the proper food to the body this in itself is a rather complicated procedure because opinions on the subject of nutrition are numerous and diversified probably in the long run most persons have to work it out by

trial and error until they find what is good for them but one thing is obvious namely that there are junk foods and these junk foods are for the most part the kinds we like the best we've had long experience and enjoying the uh pleasures of the dinner

table and we do not like to be frustrated into some kind of a diet that tastes as though we were living on new moon hay most of the time this requires control but obviously junk food is a problem with the body and we have to gradually wake up to

the importance of keeping it nourished properly this is one of the uses that we have to make of our time allotments if we wish to be as healthy as possible through the years of life we must discipline ourselves in the controlling of physical

appetites now the next level Above This which we consider constantly is the emotional life of the individual the emotional life is a life of art music affection friendship and the more intimate and kindly relationships of Life the emotional life is fulfilled through the expression of various high moral and

emotional qualities it is expressed through love love it is expressed through service and compassion but the emotional nature must be trained just as surely as the physical those for stimulations to emotion which create only tension and stress are like the junk Foods in relation to the physical body the

emotions must be nourished upon a proper type of nutrition the individual's emotions should be given adequate expression under discipline they should these emotions should be centered upon creativity understanding sympathy compassion and service every individual should have some emotional expression of the beautiful every once in a while we find

someone who succeeds in living the entire lifespan with practically no emotional reactions they have met very few friends and they lose the ones they have they live alone even if they are in the houses with others they have no no reaction to the simple Joys or Beauties

or insights of Life they have very little fun for humor and Joy are emotional factors and the individual who considers that the good life is the life that is for lawn miserable introverted and separated from society is making a serious mistake the the actual suppression of

man's appreciation for beauty is desperately detrimental the individual who has not a warmth within himself a natural kindliness who does not realize the importance of curbing the unkind word because it hurts the individual with proper normal

Emotions do not want to hurt any living thing. There is sympathy there, there is compassion, there is self-forgetfulness, and there is freedom from this tremendous egocentricity in which the individual thinks only of himself. So the emotions call upon our attention and demand

recognition. Now, to use these emotions in daily life takes very little more time than denying them expression. The simple emotions of human relationships are proper and appropriate to the need of the individual. But where too much criticism comes in, there is too much personal ambition, whether there is envy or

jealousy, or where the individual is simply unable to forgive wrongs or get over slights, difficulties, where this arises, the emotional nature is in trouble. This trouble can extend all the way along the road of life. It can begin in early childhood and continue till we

drop into the grave. The appearance, therefore, of these tendencies should be recognized as one of the things we are here to overcome, transmute, and change. If we want to know why we are here, the first thing we may learn is to be able to control properly the very

body we inhabit. The second thing we are here to do is to control and direct and rationalize the emotional life, to make it beautiful. It costs no more to be kindly than it costs to be critical. In fact, far less. Kindliness has many rewards. Criticism has numerous

penalties. So we have to go to work and realize that one of the things we're here to do is to clarify, purify, and redirect our emotional resources so that in every instance the emotion is handled in a constructive and helpful manner. Now, a danger to that

of course, is modern entertainment. Modern entertainment seems to be based upon whipping up the emotional life. It causes us to develop all kinds of fears and anxieties. The individual reading the newspaper can have a complete breakdown over the difficulties and disasters of society. He also develops hates for

people he knows nothing about or accepts joyously someone who is a born scoundrel. He does not know the difference, but one thing is certain, he is punishing himself whenever he caters to the tendency to morbidity which is developing in so many

people today. If if he turns on the television, he should turn on something that is constructive, and if there's nothing constructive, turn it off and read a good book. The problem of trying to entertain your way along the path of life so that thousands of hours of opportunity are

wasted in front of a box. This is not the Fulfillment of the life for which we were created, nor is it the proper use of the time allotment which we have. So the emotions search for the beautiful. They try to create Artistry in every

field of life: in clothing, in Furnishing of a home, in selection of ornamentations, in the building of public structures. Everywhere beauty is an important Dimension and a tremendously powerful, if intangible, ingredient in the compound. So everywhere we can and in every way we can, we should live

beautifully. Simply the most beautiful of all things are simple, but we with dignity, with internal gentility of life, so that our entire relationship has a certain politeness, as Emerson would say, a condition in which we do everything graciously and try in every way possible

to avoid voiding the brusque or the critical or that which is asymmetrical if we can make a diagram of our emotional lives in some cases those diagrams would be remarkable in every sense of the word they would be every shape you can think of every color you

can imagine and with every disproportion that can possibly be combined but gradually these things can be straightened out until the unfoldment of the natural love of the beautiful becomes a major part of our living in this world we are here to unfold not only the skills of life but the

"You Are Here For A Purpose" - Manly P. Hall's Last Words To Humanity

"You Are Here For A Purpose" - Manly P. Hall's Last Words To Humanity