“Accept the holy instant as this year is born”

This is the time in which a new year will soon be born from the time of Christ. I have perfect faith in you to do all that you would accomplish [in this new year]. Nothing will be lacking, and you will make complete and not destroy. Say, then, to your brother:

CHRISTMAS DAY IN THE SOUL.

At Christmas we celebrate the birth of the infant child Jesus. This happy event has its mystical counterpart in the birth of Christ in our own soul. This again is a mystical way of

TRUE PROSPERITY .

'And whatsoever he does shall prosper', both in his spiritual life and in his outward life. One who waits upon the Lord, and meditates daily upon His word, especially those parts that are strong affirmations of Truth (God's precious promises), becomes strong and mighty in soul and spirit.

He becomes conscious of a new power that thrills him, of an expansion of consciousness in which he knows that all is well.

VIBRATION

Words appear to possess a power and vibration of their own, a power that differs according to their quality or character. Thus positive words have the ability to awaken in us feelings and powers akin to themselves. We can easily prove this for ourselves.

God Realization Is Pure Demonstration.

There’s no excuse in the world for anyone on the spiritual path to think in terms of competition. There isn’t an excuse for anyone in the world, for anyone here to think in terms of what some other movement is doing, or what some other teacher or practitioner is doing, because it has no concern for you or me. There is nothing that anyone on earth has that we want. Our only desire is

WHO ARE YOU?

This is what you have to determine. Your task is to learn who you are and what your relationship to God is. You have the power to make or mar your life, to choose the direction in which you move.

George Nugent Merle Tyrrell

was a British mathematician, physicist, radio engineer and parapsychologist.

Retrospection is of greater value than any other method in advancing the aspirant upon the path of attainment.

Max Heindel (born Carl Louis von Grasshoff, 1865 – 1919) was a Danish-American Christian occultist, Theosophist, astrologer, and mystic.

Edyth Armstrong Hoyt

(1888-1965) was a well-known Bible lecturer who made her home in Kensington, CA. Some of her outstanding writing contributions were various series on the Bible such as: Studies in the Bible, Studies in the Apocalypse of John of Patmos*, and Studies in the Psalms. Mrs. Hoyt emphasized the spiritual revelations in scripture and taught how to distinguish them from the cultural and historical parts of the Bible.

Living Daily By Meditation

If you jump out of bed in the morning, and make your physical preparations for the day, and then run out of the house to get to your office, or marketing, or shopping, you virtually are saying, “I guess I can live this day all right. I can take care of this day for myself.” And, you neglect the opportunity of admitting a divine Influence into your experience. Whereas, if you were to pause,

A most Christ like man.

Rev Prof Henry Drummond FRSE LLD FGS (1851 –1897) was a Scottish evangelist, biologist, writer and lecturer.
Many of his writings were too nicely adapted to the needs of his own day to justify the expectation that they would long survive it, but few men exercised more religious influence in their own generation, especially on young men. His sermon "The Greatest Thing in the World" remains popular in Christian circles. 

You are working with effects. The cause is in the mind.

At this time of year we all have a tendency to get all caught up in the presents – the shopping, wrapping, giving and getting. Christmas is not about the presents. It's about the Presence. http://www.divinescience.org/newsletters/Dec-Jan%2011.pdf

During World War I, young Grace Lightfoot was a student nurse in the University of Colorado Hospital at Boulder. Climbing a stairway while on night duty near the end of her training, Grace felt a touch on her shoulder and a voice spoke to her: Grace, you are working with effects. The cause is in the mind. Soon after, a series of events in young Graces life led her to study the Truth as taught by the Divine Science Church and College of Denver, whose Founder-minister, Dr. Nona L. Brooks, became her teacher and mentor. https://www.amazon.com/Grace-Truth-Lightfoot-Ordained-Minister/dp/0875165419

Are you determined to see things differently?

12 Rules for Life

Quiet the mind.

The greatest thing, and the most difficult thing, we have to do, is to drop the mind. It’s a junkyard full of refuse from ages past; refuse of thoughts of limitations: I am a limited body; I have troubles. All thoughts contain limitation. We pile them up in the thing we call mind. Mind is nothing but the total accumulation of all these thoughts. So mind is nothing but a junkyard of limitation.

Into the light

“There was a faith healer from Deal,

who said although pain isn’t real,

when I sit on a pin
and it punctures my skin,
I dislike what I fancy I feel.”

"The Lord's Prayer"

by Emma Curtis Hopkins

Take responsibility for everything that happens to you.

How to regain our control?

Atonement cannot come to those who think that they must first atone,

but only to those who offer it nothing more than simple willingness to make way for it. Purification is of God alone, and therefore for you. Rather than seek to prepare yourself for Him, try to think thus:

Meditation Molds Your Future

You are what you meditate on all day long. The late Dr. David Seabury, who specialized in Quimby’s techniques, told me that while he was practicing in New York City, a man had asked him to come and see his wife, who was paralyzed due to an emotional shock. Dr. Seabury called it psychological paralysis. He gave her a technique to practice. She was to vividly imagine herself doing all the things she would do were she whole and perfect, such as driving her car, riding a horse, golfing and working around the house.
 

The Spiritual Meaning of Freedom

Ever since the dawn of civilization, ever since the first humans began to grasp the significant fact that they were individual beings in a universe that seemed to be more or less hostile to them, the entire search of the human mind, its whole endeavor, has been to get free from evil, from bondage and the shackles of lack, want, fear, superstition, uncertainty, pain, disease, poverty and fear of the hereafter.

“God, whose love and joy are present everywhere, can’t come to visit you unless you aren’t there.”

can’t come to visit you unless you aren’t there.”

— Angelus Silesius

I am nothing

Standing on the bare ground,

Let us not desert our own work, our own God within us, to gaze or pattern after our neighbor.

Let us not seek to make his gift ours; let us not criticize his failure to manifest any specific gift. Whenever he "fails," give thanks to God that He is leading him up into a higher place, where there can be a fuller and more complete manifestation of the divine presence through him. Emilie Cady Lessons In Truth: Spiritual Gifts CH 11.36.

 Distrust nobody.

'THOU ART WITH ME.'

"If you would just take that one statement and realize . . . what difference does it make WHAT the present valley of the shadow of death is . . .

"See the Big Picture..."

He that is within me is greater than he that is in the world. I can of my own self do nothing. The Father within me, He doeth the works. Therefore, I’ve got to sit here now until the Father within me becomes a reality, not just a quotation, not an affirmation but a reality, a realized consciousness.” Joel Goldsmith

Guy Finley explains that we have no space in our lives at all because there is no space between our thoughts and actions. But what makes us aware of that rushing nature is the essence of timelessness and space itself. The Real Meaning of Stop and Smell the Roses

It has nothing to do with the form. The form may have been epidemic, or the form may have been a depression, or the form may have been a threatened volcano, or a threatened tidal wave. The form has nothing to do with it. Once you’ve come to see that it isn’t God ordained, that it has nothing of reality to uphold it or support it, now you can sit back and wait for the Lord God to be upon you. So, sit still. Be still and know, and then when you feel this Presence upon you, your work is done. Joel Goldsmith

It is the Foundation’s underlying philosophy that A Course in Miracles has been given to the world by Jesus as a profoundly radical correction of the thought system of guilt that made the material universe, and which continues to sustain it. We therefore believe that it defeats the Course’s ultimate purpose to change his message or distort it in any way, compromising the purity of the teaching. Nonetheless, it is clear that A Course in Miracles has been written on many different levels, to assist students spiritual growth at whatever state of correction their minds can accept without fear. As the Course itself says, in the context of the use of magic in place of miracles:

This is the message of the Resurrection.

Was there a Physical Resurrection?

October 2, 1976

Open a child’s mind to the power within!

The sight of Christ is all there is to see.
The song of Christ is all there is to hear.
The hand of Christ is all there is to hold.
There is no journey but to walk with Him. (T-24.V.7:7)

Inner peace can be reached only when we practice forgiveness. Forgiveness is letting go of the past, and is therefore the means for correcting our misperceptions. Gerald G. Jampolsky

Dr. Roxanne Daleo is Creator of MindWorks for Children

Dear God, Spirit, Divine Mother,

Give Your Best To The World

To abide in the Christ is to actually live in the Christ consciousness, and every part of mind and soul is permeated, through and through, with the life and the power of the Christ. Your entire being is in the hands of higher power; you are in a world where things are absolutely mastered by the spiritual will, and your mind is so spiritualized that it responds perfectly to the power of divine will. The Pathway of Roses by Christian D. Larson

 Ernest Simplifies Troward

Turn on the light.

“ Theological considerations as such are necessarily controversial, since they depend on belief and can therefore be accepted or rejected. A universal theology is impossible, but a universal experience is not only possible but necessary. It is this experience toward which the course is directed. Here alone consistency becomes possible because here alone uncertainty ends” (C.in.2:4,5,6,7).

Taming the Tongue

Not many of you should become teachers, my fellow believers, because you know that we who teach will be judged more strictly. We all stumble in many ways. Anyone who is never at fault in what they say is perfect, able to keep their whole body in check.