Excerpts from Cecil A. Poole’s book titled “Cares That Infest - Between Man and Happiness”—
Worry: We must take into consideration that as long as we live as human beings there will be problems. No individual reaches a state or condition where the basic questions of life and their relationship to environment cease to raise some problems. It is natural for these problems to exist. Furthermore, it is natural for each human being to strive toward their solution.
Health and Suffering: We are not going to solve another person’s problems or relieve his suffering or give him perfect health even if we could assume his pain. But we are able to make the other person realize that there is unity in all life. All mankind is encouraged and helped if each of us knows that the burden we bear is not ours alone. Therefore, while we cannot always ease the suffering of another, even though we may wish to take away the pain that is his burden, we can practice true compassion.
Fear: If each one of us knew that the future would be free from pain and trouble, there would be no fear. However, we cannot know what the future will be except in terms of the present and the past. Therefore the best way to assure ourselves against fear is to so live in the present that the future will produce a minimum of trouble.
Loneliness: is produced to a certain extent by the viewpoint or mental attitude of the individual experiencing the sensation of loneliness. It may be the result of many contributing factors. Often it is the result of being out of the range of physical contact with those whom we know as friends and conditions with which we are usually familiar. The loss in one way or another of the immediate contact we have usually had with certain people and places is frequently the first step toward loneliness, but not necessarily the final analysis of the cause.
This book and many others concerning Rosicrucian topics are available for free download at https://www.rosicrucian.org/rosicrucian-books-cares-that-infest-between-man-and-happiness.
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