All sorts of spiritual gifts come through privations, if they are accepted.
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Only when your consciousness is totally focused on the moment you are in can you receive whatever gift, lesson, or delight that moment has to offer.
However, all gifts seem now to be absorbed in one and a man must be either a Preacher or nothing.
The gifts given to us by God must not be relinquished to those who speak ill of them and who are moved by envy or ignorance.
More and more, unsolicited gifts from without are likely to be received with unconscious resentment.
Certain gifts God makes to the human soul without its asking or desiring; but there are other gifts which the grown-up soul, with the use of reason, can only have by its desire.
Gifts fall from heaven only in fairy tales.
The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body.
Giving gifts to others is a fundamental activity, as old as humanity itself. Yet in the modern, complex world, the particulars of gift-giving can be extraordinarily challenging.
There are slavish souls who carry their appreciation for favors done them so far that they strangle themselves with the rope of gratitude.
Indeed, it is as important to learn how to receive a blessing as it is to be willing to give one.
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