“A merry heart doeth good like a medicine, but a broken spirit drieth the bones." —PROVERBS 17:22     "All of us are rooted in the Mind of God. We did not plan it this way; this is the way it is. God is still the Supreme Power, and the Divine Spirit is still present with us no matter where we are. We must learn to tune in to the Mind of God, for when we do, we are turning in to the most dynamic Reality in the Universe.

Do not be afraid to talk to God, always remembering that God speaks a certain kind of language and there is nothing negative in it. We believe in prayerful, affirmative meditation above everything else. We believe in actually talking to God and then letting God answer. But perhaps in our confusion we talked at God rather than to Him. We have told God how terrible everything is, how unhappy we are.

Try this: Sit in complete repose, and then tell God how wonderful He is and how glad you are and how grateful. It is at times like these that we are really tuning in to the Divine, and the Divine will always respond to us. We will always receive the comfort and consolation we need, the inward sense of security and well-being that everyone must have to be happy and whole.”

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“Before they call I will answer; and while they are still speaking, I will hear." —ISAIAH 65:24     "There is an inner meaning to everything, an inside to every fact, a hidden Cause within every visible effect. This Cause is Spirit. If we spiritually discern this hidden Cause, if we inwardly know that It is operating for us, then we are thinking from the recognition of the Allness of Good. We all have direct access to the Parent Mind, but we do not all use this direct access because we are so used to judging from external facts. It is difficult for us to get away from the apparent long enough to judge the real. When we know that there is but One Spirit in the entire Universe, we shall know that there is but one Source for all forms. We shall know that every form is some manifestation of this Source.

When we have found that this Source is also centered in us, we will know that we can come directly to It, and discerning that Its Spiritual Nature is Love and Truth and Beauty, we will make known our requests with thanksgiving, with complete mental abandonment.”

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“We are the clay, and thou our potter; and we are all the work of thy hand." —ISAIAH 64:8     "How can we expect to realize God in the emptiness of space if we have refused to see God in those we meet? And how can we find God in those we meet and in the events that transpire around us unless we have first discovered God at the center of our own being? We cannot. The starting point is at the center of our own being. When we awaken to the Divine within us, It will reach out and embrace everything around us, and It will discover the same Presence in people and in events and in all nature. For God is not separate from what He is doing. The Divine Life is in everyone and in everything. This is the secret that Jesus discovered. This is why he was able to speak as no other person ever spoke. This is why he was able to perform the miracles of love and healing, and in so doing prove a fact so simple, so fundamental, but so powerful that people stand in awe before it—the simple fact that God is right where you are.”

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“For my yoke is easy and my burden is light." —MATTHEW 11:30     If we make every day a day of praise and thanksgiving, a day in which we recognize the Divine Bounty and the Eternal Goodness, and if we live today as though God were the only Presence and the only Power there is, we would not have to worry about tomorrow. We are all human, and we have all made mistakes. The starting point for creating a better future for ourselves is to deliberately free our minds from the mistakes of yesterday and feel that they need no longer be held against us; they need no longer be a liability. Too often our minds are so burdened because of the mistakes we have made that we do not take time to forgive ourselves and others and to start over again. And so it is wise to occasionally review the past and try to find out just what we have been thinking and doing to create this burden in our minds.”

“We cannot go back over the past and relive it. We cannot make adjustments in the past. We have to make them in the present. It is not going to do us any good to sit around and cry over the past and bemoan our fate, because in the very day in which we are living, we are creating our tomorrows, which will become monotonous repetitions of our  yesterdays."

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“Create in me a pure heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me." —PSALM 51:10     Life is an adventure in which we never know what is going to happen just beyond the turn of the road. But too often our today is filled with regrets over the past. If we could convince ourselves that the limitations of the past need not be carried into the future, what a happy outlook we would have. One of the outstanding things that Jesus taught was that the mistakes of yesterday can be canceled, that God’s creation is always taking place, and, no matter what the experiences of yesterday may have been, they can be changed. Jesus did not seem to think that this change required months and years of strenuous effort. Unlike those around him, he knew that God, or the Divine Spirit, wishes only Good for everyone. He knew that we are all rooted in Pure Spirit, in Perfect Life, and that at any moment we can so unify ourselves with the Power of Good that evil will disappear from our experience.”

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"I come that they might have life." —JOHN 10:10     "Let us turn toward the sun of eternal Life, the spiritual sun that cannot set and forever rises on the horizon of our own experience. Definitely and deliberately, we let go of every lost hope, every fear of want, every sense of lack, every hurt, because today we leave the tomb of doubt and enter the sanctuary of certainty. We roll away the stone of uncertainty from our consciousness; we find the resurrected, the Divine, and God-intended perfection and wholeness. We let go of every belief that we are lost or forlorn, because we know that the doorway from that tomb leads us away from all morbid thought. We are standing forevermore in the glory of an everlasting protection of the One Presence. We let go of all disease and disharmony. They slip back into the tomb of oblivion, for the spiritual body now rises trimphant in every cell; we are instantly renewed by the creative principle of eternal Life that is within us. We are alive and aware, and we know that the kingdom of God is here and is within us this moment.”

Thou art the center and circumference of my life, the beginningless and endless part of me, the eternal Reality of me, the everlasting Power within me. Thou art my whole being.”

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Living Without Fear

"Fear robs memory of happiness because it dwells upon the limitations and morbidities of the past. It robs the future of pleasurable and enthusiastic anticipation because it casts a shadow of its past into the future. It robs today of the possibility of fulfillment because it denies the good we might experience in the moment in which we live.

How much better it would be if we could think as a child thinks, abandoning ourselves to the integrity of the miracle-working universe in which we live. If the warmth of the sun can melt an iceberg, why should it not follow that there must be something in us or operating through us that can dissolve any difficulty, remove any obstruction, or renew any human relationship that has been impaired. We should consciously practice having faith just as we would practice to become a musician. We should do mental exercises to build up our acceptance of Good. The process is simple enough since it finally resolves itself into very simple affirmations of conviction, but there must be a persistency until finally old thought patterns melt and give way to new ones.

Today I cultivate the art of having faith. I affirm the reality of the Divine Presence in my life and deny everything that refutes it. As a child turns to its parents, so do I turn to that infinite Presence whose creative Law can do all things, and I accept the influx of all that makes for richer living. Because nothing is impossible to God, I believe that nothing is impossible to me through God’s Power in me. I am daring to believe in the greater good. I am forsaking all that has held me in bondage, and, uniting myself with faith, with expectation, and with the joy, I now live without fear."   "Be not overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good." —ROMANS 12:21

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Physical Perfection

"When we speak of physical perfection we are not saying that no one is sick or no one has pain. We are merely implying that of necessity there is an essence of Perfection at the center of everything, including the physical body. If that which is whole within itself were not already here, neither medicine, psychology, nor affirmative prayer could in any way benefit us physically. For whatever the medication or manipulation or emotional adjustment or prayer or affirmation may do, it does not and cannot create life, it may only reveal it. This is what we mean when we say that every organ, action, and function of our physical body is rooted in a Divine Life and that in this Divine Life there is no congestion, no wrong action; there is always perfect circulation, assimilation, and elimination. Through such statements we are trying to sense the greater Reality. Believing as we do in all of the healing arts that help humanity, we definitely affirm that toward which they and we all reach—the spiritual center of things.

Therefore, I affirm that my body is the body of right ideas. It now is the Body of God. Every organ, action, and function of it is in harmony. Whatever does not belong to this body is eliminated. Whatever does not belong is removed. All the energy and all the action and power and vitality there is in the universe is flowing through this Divine Creation now. My word does actually eliminate that which does not belong. It does establish the action of that harmony that already exists. There is One Life—perfect, harmonious, whole, complete. That Life is my life now—not yesterday, not tomorrow, but today."   "According to your faith be it unto you." —MATTHEW 9:29

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Simplicity

“In the complete simplicity of Jesus we find thoughts more profound than those of the world’s greatest philosophers, yet so simply stated: “As thou hast believed, so be it done unto thee.” What is this but saying there is a Power greater than we are and we can use It? All the art, all the science, and all the wit of humankind can neither add to nor take from Life Itself. We are obliged to assume that there is a Presence or Principle, a creative Power and Intelligence that responds to our word.

“But let us not try to be profound about this or put on a long and sober face as though we were carrying around some mystery too great to bear. Rather, let us accept the simple fact with utmost simplicity, and let us believe, and believe in our hearts, that which the intellect cannot and need not explain—the mystery of Life. For all the rational analysis and all the apparent synthesis of every analysis known to the mind of man has not, and cannot, and never will explain Life. The Divine Gift is made, and as we awake to the realization of It, It is ours. This is the only secret of any power we may possess, though in reality we do not possess the power at all. We merely use it.

Today I accept that Life desires me to have everything that is good merely because It could not desire anything else. I accept everything that is good and I rejoice in the simple realization that I am one with Life, one with God, one with people, one with human events and the passing show of life. I have nothing to explain, nothing to be profound about, nothing to become lost in. Life is and I live it. Peace and joy exist and they are mine. I love and am loved. In joy, then, greet each day and rest at night with a calm confidence in Spirit."   "When I sit in darkness, the Lord shall be a light unto me." —MICAH 7:8”

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Subjectivity "The Mind of God is the only Mind there is and we all use this Mind. But in the use of It we create a mental atmosphere that surrounds us and that is often thought of as the unconscious or the subconscious. This is not a separate mind, it is merely a reaction of the One Mind-Principle to the use we have made of It. You and I could no more have an individual mind than we could have an individual ownership of the principle of mathematics or of harmony or of beauty. Each of us is creating in an individual way; we are individualizations in this One Mind and no two of us are exactly alike. But we all are immersed in the collective thought of the whole human race. Jung has called this the collective unconscious.

Just as we have an individual subconscious reaction to life, we also have a collective subconscious reaction to life. And just as we are more or less automatically influenced and perhaps too much controlled by our individual subconscious reactions, we also are influenced by the subconscious reactions of the ages. Tradition too largely governs us. But we should never forget that back of all this is the Divine Mind or Intelligence Itself in which there is no bondage, no fear, and no evil. It is toward this greater center within us that we must travel if we wish to become emancipated from the unconscious reactions of our own being.

Today I affirm freedom from the limitation of my own thought. I am no longer hypnotized by the mind of history. The Divine Intelligence within me is transcendent of all previous experience; free in Its own right, existing in Its own being, and creating and manifesting from the center of Its own perfection. This radiant center in me is making everything new in my life and in the lives of those around me."

“His compassions fail not. They are new every morning." —LAMENTATIONS 3:22-23

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