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I Enter into the Gladness of Living Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down . . . and running over, shall men give into your bosom. —LUKE 6:38 "Who would not be a child again? Who would not again have the simple faith and childlike trust that somehow or other we seem to lose on the pathway of human experience? Things crowd in on us until we lose some of the greatest of all...

I Know That I Understand How to Speak the Word of Truth "It is the spirit that quickeneth: the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life. —JOHN 6:63   "And where do name and form both cease, and turn to utter nothingness? And the answer is, "In consciousness invisible and infinite, of radiance bright." —BUDDHIST TEXT   "This lesson tells us that t...

Intuition Before they call I will answer; and while they are yet speaking I will hear. —ISAIAH 65:24     "Dr. Alexis Carrel tells us that intuition is not a product of the intellect, nor is it something that is developed in the process of our evolution. It is, then, a thing in itself. That which is instinct in the animal, blindly, unerringly leading it to food, water, and shelter, becomes intuitio...

Receiving Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you. —MATTHEW 7:7     "How can we receive that which the mind refuses to entertain? Should we not, then, consciously develop the ability to receive more? We make life little and mean, and limit our own possibilities when we refuse to accept the whole gift of God. We should open our consciousness t...

Joy Sorrow is turned into joy before him. . . . Thou hast put gladness in my heart. . . . Thou hast turned for me my mourning into dancing; thou hast put off my sackcloth, and girded me with gladness. —JOB 4 1 : 2 2 ; PSALMS 4:7, 30:11     "We cannot conceive of the Spirit as being sad or depressed. There is ever a song at the center of everything. This song is reflected in all nature, turning "mo...

Identity Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect. —MATTHEW 5 : 4 8   "There is a pattern of perfection at the center of everything. This, the saints and sages of the ages have told us. There is, as the Platonists taught, a prototype of perfection at the center of every form. It is this spiritual prototype with which the mind should identify itself, for this is th...

Body Know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you? —I CORINTHIANS 6:19     "Emerson said that "God builds His temple in the heart," and Seneca said that "God is to be consecrated in the breast of each." St. Augustine said that "the pure mind is a holy temple for God." To realize that God is in us, with us, and for us, is the first step toward understanding that we are...

Spirit Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit. . . . It is the Spirit that quickeneth. —I CORINTHIANS 12:4 AND JOHN 6:63     "Out of unity comes variety. All things are made from one formless Substance. The invisible essence of everything is pure Spirit. It is a realization of this Spirit at the center of everything that enables us to see God in everyone. "It is the Spirit that qu...

Mind Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus. —PHILIPPIANS 2 : 5     "This scriptural passage means that we should recognize the Divine Incarnation, universal in essence, but individualized in personal experience. The spiritual genius of Jesus enabled him to see that each is a unique representation, an individualized expression of One Mind. The Mind of God in us is the Mind of Chri...

Love There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear . . . [for] God is love. —I JOHN 4:18, 16     "There is no fear in love, and there is no liberation from fear without love. Fear is always based on the supposition that we are unprotected, rejected, friendless. If the fearful mind would entertain love, and the harmony and peace that go with it, it must turn from everything that denie...

Attraction What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them. —MARK 11:24   "How simply Jesus tells us that whatever we need we shall receive, if we believe that we have it! Is it so hard, then, for us to believe that the divine gift is forever made? Prayer is a sincere desire of the intellect to enter into conscious union with the Divine Presence and...

Forgiveness I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy transgressions. . . . For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind. —ISAIAH 44:22     "Whatever the mistakes of yesterday may have been, today is a new creation. Turning from the errors of the past, and no longer carrying with us the sorrows and mistakes of yesterday, today we may...

Protection He that dwelleth in the secret place of the Most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. —PSALM 91:1     "This is a song of hope, a psalm of praise, the acknowledgment of an overshadowing Presence—the Most High Good, to which Jesus gave the name "Our Father which art in heaven." We have a right to know that, in so far as we live in accord with the Divine, we are protected by...

Right Action Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. —JOHN 8:32     "Jesus implies that there is a truth, which known, automatically will demonstrate itself in our experience. What could this truth be other than a consciousness of our union with life? It is wonderful to contemplate this spiritual and exalted idea of truth—that truth which frees us from the tyranny of fear and t...

Peace Peace be both to thee, and peace be to thine house, and peace be unto all that thou hast. —I SAMUEL 2 5 : 6     "Phillips Brooks said that "peace is the entire harmony between the nature of anything and its circumference." House is a symbol of the physical body and of "that house not made with hands eternal in the heavens." House is a symbol of any of the "vehicles, bodies, or habitations of...

Humanity Have we not all one Father? Hath not one God created us? —MALACHI 2:10   "Arthur Compton, in The Freedom of Man, tells us that science has discovered nothing that contradicts the idea of a Universal Mind, or Spirit, of which all people are offspring or emanations. It would be impossible to converse with each other unless there were a common medium or, as Emerson said, "one mind common to...

  Divinity "We all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory . . . by the Spirit of the Lord. —IICORINTHIANS3 : 1 8     "Beholding the image of Perfection in everything, to dominion we add glory. This refers to the continual progression of the Soul. Since God is infinite, our expansion is progressive and eternal. No matter ho...

Mind Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus. —PHILIPPIANS 2 : 5     "This scriptural passage means that we should recognize the Divine Incarnation, universal in essence, but individualized in personal experience. The spiritual genius of Jesus enabled him to see that each is a unique representation, an individualized expression of One Mind. The Mind of God in us is the Mind of Chri...

  Thanksgiving O Lord, thou art my God; I will exalt thee, I will praise thy name; thy kingdom is an everlasting kingdom . . . . Hallowed be thy name. —ISAIAH 25:1   "The attitudes of praise and thanksgiving are salutary. They not only lighten the consciousness, lifting it out of sadness and depression, they elevate consciousness to a point of acceptance. Praise and thanksgiving are really attitud...

  Today I Rejoice in All Nature "Since happiness is the reason for my being, and since the Kingdom of Heaven is a joyous state of consciousness, and since the Kingdom of Heaven is here and now, today I consciously open my whole thought to the influx of the Divine Harmony. Today I realize that I am not a stranger on the shores of time, but am an honored guest in the Kingdom of Good. Today I enter w...

I Am Renewed Daily "I am an individualized center in the Consciousness of God. I am an individualized activity in the Action of God. I am eternal. Therefore, I do not have to wait for immortality. The resurrection of life is today. Living today as though I were an immortal being, I allow all thought of death, all fear of change to slip from me. I step out of the tomb of uncertainty and into the li...

I Enter the Port of Attainment "I enter into my Divine Inheritance and know that all that my inward vision perceives will be mine. Like Moses, I stand on the mountaintop of spiritual perception. Now, free from all obstruction, the vista is perfect, the vision is sublime. There are no clouds in the sky. I look out across innumerable other mountain peaks and in each I recognize another Divine subjec...

I Glorify in the Power of the Word   "I have faith in the invisible because everything that is visible proclaims the invisible source of its being. I feel as though all things, even though they are temporary, are rooted in a changeless Reality. Today I enter into this divine play of Life upon Itself. Today I attend and witness the eternal birth of divine ideas. I recognize these ideas as supplying...

For so many years when I thought about my relationship with God, it was something I felt I needed to earn. Before I could receive God's love and approval, I would have to make myself perfect. In order to receive God's love I would have to make all the crooked places within me straight. I would have to kick all of my bad habits, meditate every day, never get angry or frustrated, give up all resentm...

My Soul Is at Peace "When a problem confronts me, I take it into the silence of my consciousness. Instead of thinking of the problem, I think of the answer. The Divine Presence guides, guards, and protects me. It counsels me with wisdom. It sustains and upholds me in everything I do. Having recognized the Divine Presence as my guiding star of hope, assurance, and certainty, I also recognize the Un...