Be Here Now

A friend is a gift you give yourself. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

Do you past or future trip often?  The moment you notice you are past or future tripping:

1. Breathe

2. See what is in front of you.

3. Feel the sensations in your body.

4. Say, ‘I’m back!” Josh Pais

You have no personal responsibility at all. You have but to be a faithful witness, a faithful Awareness, and not the enslaved Awareness of Bill or John or Mary. In fact, you are this already, without effort, because Awareness is God's activity, God's own knowledge of Itself, Reality's Awareness of being what It is. 2+2=Reality By William Samuel

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... a still greater teacher has said " All things whatsoever ye pray and ask for, believe that ye have received them, and ye shall receive them." (Mark xi. 24, R.V.) The difference of the tenses in this passage is remarkable. The speaker bids us first to believe that our desire has already been fulfilled, that it is a thing already accomplished, and then its accomplishment will follow as a thing in the future. This is nothing else than a concise direction for making use of the creative power of thought by impressing upon the universal subjective mind the particular thing which we desire as an already existing fact. The Edinburgh Lectures on Mental Science, by Thomas Troward 1904

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The faith healer, he who professes to believe only in what he terms "divine healing" (as though there could be any other healing than divine), differs from the so-called spiritual scientist only in believing that he must ask, seek, knock, importune, before he can receive; while he of the Truth teaching knows that he has already received God's free gift of life and health and all things, and that by speaking the word of Truth the gifts are made manifest. Both get like results (God made visible) through faith in the invisible. The mind of the one is lifted to a place of faith by asking or praying; the mind of the other is lifted to a place of faith by speaking words of Truth.
Is there any real difference?
Beloved, as surely as you and I live, it is all one and the same Truth. There may be a distinction, but it is without difference.
The happy person who will from his heart exclaim, "Praise the Lord!" no matter what occurs to him, and who thereby finds that "to them that love God all things work together for good" (Rom. 8:28), is in reality saying the "all is good" of the metaphysician. Each one does simply "in all thy ways acknowledge him [or God, good]" (Prov.3:6), which is indeed a magical wand, bringing sure deliverance out of any trouble to all who faithfully use it.
The moment that any man really comes to recognize that which is absolute Truth--namely, that one Spirit, even the Father, being made manifest in the Son, ever lives at the center of all human beings--he will know that he can cease forever from any undue anxiety about bringing others into the same external fold that he is in. If your friend, or your son, or your husband, or your brother does not see Truth as you see it, do not try by repeated external arguments to convert him.  "Lessons in Truth" by H. Emilie Cady

Another principle is that our very first impression of feeling on any subject is generally correct.
The Edinburgh Lectures on Mental Science,
by Thomas Troward
1904

JACHIN AND BOAZ  Thomas Troward

HEPHZIBAH Thomas Troward

 

When we employ the formula "I am, therefore I can, therefore I will," the "I AM" with which the series starts is a being who, so to speak, has his head in heaven and his feet upon the earth, a perfect unity, and with a range of ideas far transcending the little ideas which are limited by the requirements of a day or an hour. On the other hand, the requirements of the day and the hour are real while they last, and since the manifested life can be lived only in the moment that now is, whether it be to-day or ten thousand years hence, our need is to harmonize the life of expression with the life of purpose, and by realizing in ourselves the source of the highest purposes to realize also the life of the fullest expression.

This sequence of the three affirmations: I am therefore I can therefore I will; and this last affirmation results in the projection of our powers, whether interior or external, to the accomplishment of the desired object.

It stands as a declaration of its own Being without any statement of what that Being consists in, and therefore it says of itself, not "I am this or that," but simply I am. No predicate can be added, because the only commensurate predicate would be the enumeration of Infinity. Therefore, both logically and grammatically, the only possible statement of a fully liberated being is made in the words I am. Thomas Troward

Learn a great principle and trust it constantly, then your thoughts will never be changed by the thoughts of those with whom you associate. This is the principle that will keep you: “I am folded round with Divine Truth.” ECH