Your duty to yourself is to keep free and flowing, to accept what comes your way, to work with it, to learn from it, and to progress continually upward.
– John-Roger (From: The Journey of a Soul, p. 82-83)
As you learn to accept responsibility for small things and to fulfill them well, you will be given greater things. It is a similar process at your job. As you demonstrate to your boss that you can be trusted, that you can handle the job he gives you, he gives you a better job with more responsibility in a position of greater trust. As you demonstrate you can handle that job, he gives you another promotion. Life is like
this. As you demonstrate your ability to handle your responsibilities, you are given greater responsibilities and opportunities.
Those people who are going to break free of their karma this time, those people who are going to release themselves from their karmic debts and from the lower realms of negativity, must indeed demonstrate that they are ready to handle their responsibilities, their duty, their dharma. It is a
twenty-four-hour-a-day, seven-day-a-week job. There are no vacations either, but the rewards are certainly worth it. The job requires total commitment to honesty, truth, duty, and love, a continual demonstration of those qualities, and eternal vigilance so that you don’t miss anything. It is not
easy, at least not at first. After awhile, the rewards start coming in, and you will find that you wouldn’t have it any other way. As you create love, harmony, happiness, joy, and peace, these qualities will be returned to you. Then the world will become an easier, happier place in which to live.
As you give, it is returned to you on this level and on other levels. Don’t be too concerned about this level. It has many illusions; things here are not permanent. They fall apart, decay, and change. Place your concern and your values in the spiritual realms. The things of this world come and go. Property deteriorates and falls apart. Bodies get old and fat, or old and skinny. Hair falls out. Machines break down. The Bible says, “Seek ye first the kingdom of heaven and all things will be added unto you.” This is real and true. The truly religious or spiritual person who performs his dharma responsibly, who follows spiritual laws of acceptance, understanding, empathy, perseverance, love, joy, creativity and manifestation, will do very well on this physical realm, as well as gaining spiritual freedom.
