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Human Relations "There is One Spirit incarnated in everyone, an immortal Presence forever expanding everything, causing everything to grow. What a difference it would make in our human relations if we tried to sense the meaning of this Divine incarnation in all people and adjust our viewpoint to the truth that all are bound together in the unity of God. While it is true, as the Scripture says, tha...

Acceptance "Spiritual mind treatment, or affirmative prayer, really is something we do to ourselves. The only direction we give to this treatment, this prayer, this affirmation of acceptance, is that we identify it with the person we are working for or the condition we wish to help. This is neither willing, concentrating, coercing, nor compelling anything or anyone. It is, rather, a quiet inward a...

Affirmative Prayer "Today thousands of people are coming to believe in, and use, the power of affirmative prayer. We are entering into a new era of spiritual acceptance. Something definite is happening in the field of spiritual thought and endeavor. From all sources we are coming to realize that affirmative prayer is dynamic. It should be easier today than ever before for people to accept the simp...

I Form a New Concept of God We shall be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye. —I CORINTHIANS 15:51-52   "The Power of Life within you is a spiritual power, able to bring to you permanent peace, increasing happiness and joy, and greater material abundance. These things that have made man miserable can be eliminated through the conscious use of this Power. God could not visit fear or hat...

I Make Intelligent Use of Universal Laws I have given thee a wise and an understanding heart. —I KINGS 3:12 "The Universe is impersonal. It gives alike to all. It is no respecter of persons. It values each alike. The philosopher, the priest, and the professor, the humanitarian and the empire builder, all have caught some gleam of the Eternal God. The world of knowledge needs to be knit together an...

I Open Myself to Greater Love Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. —I CORINTHIANS 13:1   "Love is more than a sentiment. It is a need, a hunger, a thirst that is perfectly natural. Anyone who thinks he can live and be happy without it does not know what he is talking about—psychologically, emotionally, or s...

Deep Within Me Dwells Infinite Love A good man out of the good treasure of the heart bringeth forth good things. —MATTHEW 12:55 "God is the giver of all things—by means of love. The Spirit is always at peace. There is no argument in Divine Mind. The Spirit has never doubted Itself, opposed Itself, or disagreed with Itself. This is the Oneness that is God. Deep within me is that which never gets an...

I Let My Light Shine A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you. —EZEKIEL 36:26 "People who spend a great deal of time in prayer, meditation, or communion with the Spirit gradually take on a new atmosphere, a new sweetness, a love and light that all others sense. The Old Testament often refers to a light always shining over the altar in the temple. This light, of cour...

I Recognize the Indwelling Spirit Be still, and know that I am God. —PSALM 46:10  A belief in the Invisible is the very essence of faith. Prayer, or spiritual communion, demands a complete surrender to the Invisible. It knows that because the Creative Power of God is at hand, all things are possible. Whatever our idea of God may be, the perception of Reality is always an inner perception. As Moses...

The Divine Presence Within Me Is My Authority Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee. —ISAIAH 26:3   "The Divine Presence within each of us is both the center and circumference of our real being. It is the Infinite Presence that inhabits eternity and finds a dwelling place in our own consciousness. We recognize It as the only authority there is. We know we are one with I...

The Fullness of Life Flows Through Me The water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life. —JOHN 4:14 " Your place in Life is to become an outlet for Its wisdom, intelligence, love, beauty, and creativity. Your relationship to Life is that you are of like nature to It. You are in it and It is in you. Some part of you exists as pure, unmanifest Spirit....

I See the Divine Presence in All Others Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity! —PSALM 133:1 "The best way to make friends is to realize that we meet Life in everyone. The God in us meets the God in others. Proclaiming the Divine Presence, believing in It, we shall meet It. Love will find a perfect way. Our faith in the Divine Presence in others will overco...

I Contemplate the Presence Pray without ceasing. —I THESSALONIANS 2:17 "It doesn't matter what we call it, so long as we remember that there is a "secret place of the most High" within us and that we may consciously enter it by merely knowing that we are already there. This is the place where the universe meets us in its wholeness without any restriction whatsoever. This is the place where the All...

I Am One with My Source Neither shall they say, Lo here! Or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you. —LUKE 17:21   "The good things we seek from life are but echoes of the true self knocking at the door of consciousness. Everyone seeks an inward sense of certainty. We all seek an inner awareness of something greater than we are; something so complete that we can find completion in...

I Use the Power of God The God of love and peace shall be with you. —II CORINTHIANS 13:11 "Have we really tried God? Since all the other methods have failed, a divine compulsion is laid upon everyone to find the power of God and make use of it. It is not merely a new theory about God that we are looking for; rather, it is the actual power of God that we must harness. Our trouble is that we have no...

God's Presence in Me Is Love He hath made everything beautiful in his time. —ECCLESIASTES 3:11 "The Divine Presence within me is everlasting Love. The action of love is expressed in my world. God's Wisdom holds me steady, and the Peace of God fills me. I am His creation, understood, wanted, and cared for. From this Infinite Source I give and receive love in my world. If petty emotions seem to trou...

My Thought Establishes New Beginnings For behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind. —ISAIAH 65:17 "Nothing is ever twice alike. It is said that the physical body is never more than a year old, that we discard many bodies through this life. Everything is continuously being re-created, and it literally is true that the creative Spirit i...

The Spirit Lives Within Me Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thine health shall spring forth speedily: and thy righteousness shall go before thee. —ISAIAH 58:8 "Spiritual mind healing has long since passed the experimental stage. We now know that we cannot tell where the body begins and the mind leaves off, and many of us believe that the actions, organs, and functions of the ph...

I Acquaint Myself with Peace Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee. —ISAIAH 26:3   "When we give a spiritual mind treatment, or affirmative prayer, we are recognizing the Presence of God in, around, and through us. It is this closeness of the Divine Presence that gives us the feeling of peace that is accompanied by a consciousness of power. A...

My Affairs Are in the Hands of Divine Action Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done on earth, as it is in heaven. —MATTHEW 6:10 "When Jesus said, "Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done on earth, as it is in heaven," he was again affirming that there is a Perfection at the center of everything. He was telling us that when we reach toward this inward Perfection, It will be revealed to us and that It must f...

I Walk in the Joy of Increasing Good He shall call upon me, and I will answer him: I will be with him in trouble; I will deliver him and honour him. —PSALM 91:15 "This passage contains a great promise. It is not of something that is to transpire in the future, but of a good that is transpiring in the present moment in which we live—right here and right now. We are the center of the divine activity...

I Accept the Heritage of Happiness Thou wilt shew me the path of life: in thy presence is fulness of joy; at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore. —PSALM 16:11  "We should daily feel a deeper union with Life, a greater sense of that indwelling God, the God of the everywhere, within us. When we speak into this Mind we have sown the seed of thought in the Absolute and may rest in peace. N...

I Am Filled with Confidence and a Sense of Security For he shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways. —PSALM 91:11     "Deep within the consciousness of each of us there is a center of peace and security where trouble and accidents do not occur, where truth and love reign supreme, where good is the only power. It is to this center that we go in the silence of our own min...

My Thought Is Inspired by the Most High And the Lord, he it is that doth go before thee; he will be with thee, he will not fail thee, neither forsake thee: fear not, neither be dismayed. —DEUTERONOMY 31:8     "We should believe that God is the invisible Partner in our lives and affirm that Divine Love goes before us and prepares the way. We should permit ourselves to be guided for there is Somethi...

From Prayer to Performance Yea, the darkness hideth not from thee . . . the darkness and the light are both alike to thee. —PSALM 139:12     "To be effective, prayer must be affirmative, but it is not enough merely to affirm the Presence of God. We must add to this realization the thought that Divine Intelligence is acting in and through us now. Prayer is not a wishful or wistful longing, nor is i...