TIME
Written on my birthday:—
"We know nothing about birthdays
here. You will forget them when you come. We never think of the passing
of time, for it means nothing to us. You have no idea what a sense of
freedom this gives. The feeling that one must do certain things at a
certain time is gone, and yet it brings no sense of laziness. We have
more ambition in every way. There is pleasure and interest in every
moment. And then too, you can scarcely realize what it means to
have no physical pain or weariness, no disappointment, no sorrow. Can
you guess what it means?"
'You say you have no
disappointments?'
"We have no disappointments that
grieve. If either of you were to turn away from us, we would be deeply
grieved, our love would have a shock. Yet we would know that it would pass and that you would
return to us. Love here is not disappointed. Those who are meant for
each other always come into loving companionship.
Even circles are drawn together by
mutual sympathy and love. Our
circle is large, for many, many, wish to hear from loved ones on earth.
Yet not an alien thought, not an unwise criticism, not a word, question
or look, which is not in accordance and sympathy with the rest."
'How do you get any interest from
opposing opinions?'
"We have plenty of those, but always
in friendliness. So it is that
we help each other; so it is that our
plans grow more perfect; so it is that in varying suggestions, in the
varieties of study and knowledge, in helping each other…."
The pencil stopped, but of course the
intention was to show the way that harmony was attained.
The way the closing sentence was
broken off shows the effort on
their part to prevent errors in our
writing. It will be noted that the last phrase was a repetition of the
first one in the sentence. This was evidently noticed by them. Such a
cessation in the writing often causes a long pause before the proper adjustment of power to
continue can be attained, In this instance, it was near the close of the
evening's writing, and it was not resumed.
