Your heart's desire is God's will.  God wants you to do what you were made for.  And that is your heart's desire.  It comes from the spark of divinity in every man.  By doing the right thing for yourself is doing your heart's desire, you change your consciousness by following God's law which is built into you heart.  It is just waiting to get out.  Pursue it and you live your wildest dreams as you've imagined how good it could be.

You can change your outlook on life by practicing a spiritual principle.  That principal is called The Yoga of Love which means to me the teachings of love.  Once again, the author focuses on our consciousnesses.  That is the playground that determines our spiritual condition.  It determines our character.  Through practice it is not hard to change your consciousness.  You just must be willing to work at it.  Say one principle each day, I would say the same principle everday until it becomes a working part of your mind.  Read, say aloud, becomes a memory, becomes a working part of your mind.  Knowledge is power, but knowledge itself is not enough.  Action is a key to changing character.  Watch your consciousness.  See the nature of it.  Try Emmet Fox's methods.  Look at your thoughts and feelings on paper.  This will be evidence to yourself that your consciousness is changing.  This method, when used for ill, it is called propaganda.  When used for good it is enlightenment which helps you to live a happier and more productive light.  Keep an open mind.  By that I mean listen, listen without judgement.  Discern the good from bad.  Then, your life will be in your own hands and you will choose to live a good life or a miserable one.

I cannot run from my problems.  Find out what can be done instead.

Emmet Fox looks upon the idea of being born again.  Being born again is a fresh start.  It is a chance for a human being to begin a new life.  It is a life that God meant for men and women to live as it was to some extent in the Garden of Eden.  Words create.  And with a new vocabulary you and I have a chance to get a bit of taste of heaven.  To experience this we need to start over as a baby then a child.  Our consciouness is one of innocence.  What we develop in our minds are a result of what we allow to enter.  A clean slate is made.  We can begin to establish change in our minds.  Today, our minds have been polluted with all kinds of rubbish.  Being born again is a chance to write a new consciousness with healthy, happy, loving thoughts as opposed to what exists in the mind.  Fear is there.  Anger is there.  A host of life killing "old ideas" which make life something to dread.  You can start your journey today.  Change your consciousness to a state of goodness which can make life delightful.  Laughter, a job well done, saving a person's life.  There are so many wonderful things in life to enjoy.  The journey is the reward.  Living in the presence of light, of love, of truth, and a path to citizenship in the Divine Kingdom.

The adventure referred to in this chapter an experience in the power of consciousness.  Consciousness is what is to be changed if we want to renew our minds.  Of course, the mind is the battle ground between good and evil. Okay, so to renew the mind to "the quality of goodness" by using a variety of tools.  One such tool is the scriptures as a proclamation.  The proclamation is a statement of faith that you believe or choose to believe is a true promise.  That a proclamation of healing or over-coming a bad habit by proclaiming God's promises over and over until they become a working part of the mind.  As I have practiced this, I have noticed that the good in the proclamation begins to crowd out negativity such as fear.  Another tool is listening for the Holy Spirit.  Check with your spiritual advisor on this one.  Another such tool is that of recognition.  That understanding is along these lines, "God has not given us a spirit of fear."  In other words, "God is good and righteous.  He is not going to place evil things in our consciousness.  That evil or negativity comes from some other source, but not from God who is love clear through.  Finally another thought.  Wait on the Lord.  Those that wait on the Lord shall renew their strength; they will mount up on wings like eagles.  Develop patience.  Hallelujah!

There is a gem or two in this chapter.  It is a short one.  Making my day go easier.

I would like each listener to know that "The Golden Key" may be one of Emmet Fox's better Chapters.  It is easy to understand.  You have the knowledge.  Then, you put the spiritual principle into practice.  It takes a step of faith.  Then action comes.  Faith without works is dead.  It is action that makes this principle effective.  It is simple.  Anyone can do it.  It works.

Emmet Fox studies Isaiah 25 to find spiritual truths which when practiced can change your conscious and subconscious mind to improve your mental and moral state.  That is to say that  a healthier mind will develope, evil will be crowded out and good grows and problems of all kinds are decreased or eliminated all together.  I still do not understand why the author calls the chapter, the Garden of Allah.

Not sure what to say about this chapter yet.

The value of courage and perseverance is shown in this episode.  The view of fear and resentment as wrong thinking in our conscious mind is expanded so that I can see that through the practice of the principles of proclamation, I can crowd out negative thing with right thinking.  It is in a way a renewing or reprogramming one's mind from the old nature we are born with which produces automatic negative thinking.  It has taken me some time to get a glimpse of my mind when it has been cleansed or reprogrammed let's say and realize the crowding out of negative lies with precious truth.  Righteous is living life with spiritual principles based on truth.