Just see neither good nor evil, be a beholder, and then let something take place within you—let the Father present the picture to you. You just bear witness, you just behold! But not with any idea of healing anyone, not with the idea of improving or enriching anyone—merely with the idea of beholding the picture as God made it and as God sees it. Continue reading Contemplation Develops the Beholder (4/5)
You never enter into the picture, you never seek to change it, improve it, heal it, remove it, destroy it, or make it better. Always, you are at the absolute center of your own being as a beholder. And as a beholder you can truthfully say, “what a beautiful sunset, what a beautiful sunrise God is bringing about, or nature is bringing about.”
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There is another of the Master’s statements that helps us to discipline ourselves: “MY Kingdom is not of this world.” And therefore, everything that we see or hear we can instantly close out by realizing: that’s this world, but it’s not MY Kingdom—the Christ Kingdom, the spiritual Kingdom. Continue reading Contemplation Develops the Beholder (2/5)
Many times we, especially the younger student, is apt to believe that the spiritual way of life, the contemplative way of life—is one without discipline. And the very opposite of this is truth, because there is no life that requires more disciplining than the spiritual life.
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All prayer or communion with God is for only one purpose—to achieve this sense of peace within; to achieve the realization that “…lo, I am with you always.” Let us have that sense of Divine Presence now and we will have answered prayer. Let us fail to achieve this sense of peace and the prayer is not a prayer. The feeling of the Presence is in itself a prayer. Continue reading The Importance of Meditation (4/4)
Each day it is our privilege and duty to retire into our secret chamber of consciousness, and pray this prayer of realization for those of our household, our business, our community, our nation, and this giving of our understanding, of our time and our devotion will be rewarded in His Grace literally appearing as our sufficiency in all things. Continue reading The Importance of Meditation (3/4)
My Peace
“Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.” (John 14:27) Continue reading The Importance of Meditation (2/4)
God is the all-knowing Mind, so take the attitude that He knows our needs better than we do, and turn within only for the impartation of His Word. Continue reading The Importance of Meditation (1/4)
God constitutes individual being; God is the very nature of man; and therefore, man’s nature is godly and good, and these qualities of evil – ambition, lust, greed, stupidity, ignorance and fear – are the carnal mind. But there is no carnal mind, for there is no mind but the One. Continue reading Spiritual Principles in World Affairs
The mystic does not sit around worrying about what is going to happen to the world: the mystic beholds life and watches God at work. If he wants to see the sun rise, he gets up early, but then realizes that he is watching an activity of the Principle that governs this universe. Continue reading Beyond Space And Time
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