We have only to open the inner eye of the understanding in order to perceive.

A noted Hindoo teach er, visiting this country, once said that if he announced a lecture on “How to Get Rich,” the hall would be packed, but if he advertised one on “Self-Surrender,” he would not attract a baker’s dozen. He felt that the paramount object of the West, particularly of the United States, was to accumulate this world’s goods, irrespective of methods employed, or the uses to which these were to be put.

The belief has become almost universal, and while there may be some truth in it, there is another side which critics ought to consider in order that their criticism be just, even if it is not generous. When it is understood that this country is peopled largely with those who come here in order to escape from the limiting and crippling influence of poverty in all its phases, for it is very doubtful if any one ever came here save to improve his condition, it will be seen that what seems to be feverish haste to amass wealth is nothing more or less than urgency to escape the bondage of lack and limitation. That some do not know what to do with their riches after they acquire them does not change the fact that prosperity is a universal necessity, as much as is health. That some men do not take care of their health does not change the fact that health is good, or the fact that the more we have of it the better.

"Now, just as the picture on the canvas is a poor representation to the senses of the natural landscape, so the natural landscape is a poor reflection on a higher plane of that 'better country' of the mind whose 'maker and builder is God.' And lest we delude ourselves into thinking that this better country is something we can see only after we die, it might be well to state that it is that Realm of Reality, or Kingdom of Heaven within, of which Jesus spoke, and to which we have only to open the inner eye of the understanding in order to perceive."
--W. John Murray

Rev William John Murray

The Realm of Reality

Divine Science Publishing Assoc.

1922

January 12

You will learn your mission in life by saying con­tinually: ``God is my Judge." ECH