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Today's reading was edited and adapted from

Growth in Silence, the undertone of life by Susanna Cochroft, published in 1917.

What is education? What is knowledge? What is spiritual development? What is gladness and joy?

But so much capital to spend, but an exhaustless storehouse from which we may draw.

Give to the world generously. Your hands were made to open, as well as to close.

It is more blessed to give than to receive, because in giving we are growing.

As the parable of the ten talents teaches, in proportion as you give, shall your store

be multiplied a hundredfold. This giving does not refer to money, but of yourself, for, quote,

he have greater gifts than gold. We can never expand the real inner self, never gain soul growth, never feel ourselves

really worthwhile unless we give of the self.

The gift of money or goods means little unless accompanied by the heart.

Then, giving helps the giver more than the receiver.

Our lives are renewed and grow with each awakened thought.

For how can we grow? Expand when our minds are dead, close to new impressions.

And remember that without growth, no life can exist.

You are a temple of the most high, through which the divine power in life is expressed. The divine radiates its light,

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