Contemplation Develops the Beholder (4/5)

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)

The Importance of Meditation (4/4)

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)

The Importance of Meditation (3/4)

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)

Prayer (2/3)

The nature of God is fulfillment. It is the function of God to fulfill and to express Itself. However, there is that which will prevent us from coming into the experience of that fulfillment. Just as there may be brilliant sunshine, there are also shades, and we may use those shades to keep out the sun. As long as we entertain a sense of separation from God, this serves as the shade, which keeps away from us the benefits, the joys, the affluence of God. Our sense of separation from God is the barrier to our enjoyment of the blessings of God. Continue reading Prayer (2/3)