Happy New Year

This year invest in truth,
and let it work in peace.
Have faith in Him Who has faith in you. 

God Moves in a Mysterious Way

Is a Christian hymn, written in 1773. First verse:

You are loved, far more than you think.

How does the mystic see humanity? In an entirely different way from ordinary men and women. It is profitable for us also to see people from a mystical viewpoint. It provides power.

"The Shepherd"

The year is 1957. An RAF pilot is heading home from Germany for Christmas. Fog sets in, and all radio communication is lost.  Climb into the cockpit with "Fireside Al" Maitland as he once again heads out over the North Sea, in CBC’s annual reading of

This world is not your home.

The point of your life is to get to the point of your life, so let’s get busy.
If you were meant for this world, the world would have made you happy,
but it hasn’t done so,
so see what that indicates,
it indicates that you were meant for something different
from this human inhabited planet that wobbles so badly.

So consider yourself a visitor,
consider yourself as someone who has an opportunity to understand this world,
really, very serious now,
this world is not your home,
this world is not a permanent thing.
Vernon Linwood Howard

In this season (Christmas) which celebrates the birth of holiness into this world, join with me who decided for holiness for you. It is our task together to restore the awareness of magnitude to the host whom God appointed for Himself. It is beyond all your littleness to give the gift of God, but not beyond you. For God would give Himself through you. He reaches from you to everyone and beyond everyone to His Son's creations, but without leaving you. Far beyond your little world but still in you, He extends forever. Yet He brings all His extensions to you, as host to Him.

Wouldn't it be tremendous …

 “The Tao never does anything, yet through it all things are done. If powerful men and women could center themselves in it, the whole world would be transformed by itself, in its natural rhythms. People would be content with their simple, everyday lives, in harmony, and free of desire. When there is no desire, all things are at peace.” ~ Tao Te Ching

"I am as God created me.

Christmas Bible lesson from 1894

LESSON XII

Luke 7:24-35 Isaiah 9:3-7

Unto Us A Child Is Born

I will forgive, and this will disappear.

This is the lesson God would have you learn: There is a way to look on everything that lets it be to you another step to Him, and to salvation of the world. To all that speaks of terror, answer thus:  I will forgive, and this will disappear. ACIM Lesson 193.13

The entire secret for an authentically successful life can be stated very simply.

I want the peace of God

Be fervent in God, and let nothing grieve you, whatever you encounter. Hadewijch

Silver Screen Artists

“You are not a happy learner yet because you still remain uncertain that vision gives you more than judgment does, and you have learned that both you cannot have.”

IT WAS (IS) ONLY A DREAM!

Control means to not be carried away from oneself by unexpected events or by one's own rising thoughts. Vernon Linwood Howard

“The Garden of Eden

What the ego perceives with fear,

the right mind perceives with love.

“The body is a limit on love. The belief in limited love was its origin, and it was made to limit the unlimited. . . . it was made to limit you ” (T.18.VIII.1:2,3,4)

HE WHO follows Me, walks not in darkness,”

A Prayer for Enlightening the Mind

Enlighten me, good Jesus, with the brightness of internal light, and take away all darkness from the habitation of my heart. Restrain my wandering thoughts and suppress the temptations which attack me so violently. Fight strongly for me, and vanquish these evil beasts—the alluring desires of the flesh—so that peace may come through Your power and the fullness of Your praise resound in the holy courts, which is a pure conscience. Command the winds and the tempests; say to the sea: “Be still,” and to the north wind, “Do not blow,” and there will be a great calm.

The Basis of Firm Peace of Heart and True Progress

The Voice of Christ

MY CHILD, I have said: “Peace I leave with you, My peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, do I give unto you.”

The Imitation of Christ - Amazing Grace

"Amazing Grace" is a Christian hymn published in 1779, with words written by the English poet and clergyman John Newton (1725–1807).

Decide for me.

"Around you angels hover lovingly,
to keep away all darkened thoughts of sin,
and keep the light where it has entered in.
Your footprints lighten up the world,
for where you walk
forgiveness gladly goes with you."

ACIM Ch.26.IX.7 Excerpts

They fulfill their role well.

"Tell yourself,

ThePeaceOfGod

"Truth will correct all the errors in my mind, and I will rest in Him Who is my Self."

What's New Pussycat ...

Do not wait for a leader to direct you. Ask the Divine Guidance and push ahead with your convictions. Emma Curtis Hopkins

"Whenever you question your value, say: God Himself is incomplete without me.

Find a school!

There is no will but Gods. To join with His is but to find our own. And since our will is His, it is to Him that we must go to recognize our will. Lesson 328 I choose the second place to gain the first.

"A teacher wished to impress a first lesson upon a new group of seekers. Calling them together, he declared,
'You are unhappy, but you don't have to remain unhappy. You are a slave to anger, but you need not remain a slave. You are in a constant state of nervousness, but it is not necessary to remain nervous.'
 He concluded,

Enjoy The Feast Of Plenty

“Only you can deprive yourself of anything. Do not oppose this realization, for it is truly the beginning of the dawn of light… This is a crucial step in the reawakening. ” ACIM Ch.11.IV.4.1-2, 4

When a situation has been dedicated wholly to truth, peace is inevitable.

"All experiences are simply a passing event. Something that arises, you know about it and you can remember about it, and it fades away. And everyone makes the mistake of adding an “I” to experience and there is your sorrow. There is your lack of intelligence. There is the intense confusion of always asking “What should I do with this event?”

God is your safety in every circumstance.

Even though some people learn and evolve, spiritually, way faster than others, the truth of the matter is that we’re all heading in the same direction. No matter if we’re walking, stumbling, jogging or marathoning through life, we’re all heading home. 15 Signs You’re a Highly Spiritual Person

Wholeness Process trailer with Connirae Andreas

Christmas Ideas from

Morty Lefkoe passed away on November 11, 2015 at 2:10pm.

If you'd like to leave his family a note, you can do so here.

Chicken Soup For The Soul Author Jack Canfield had worked with Morty and said

God is your safety in every circumstance.

"The only thing that separates you from truth is the thought that you are separate from truth." Vernon Linwood Howard

Lindsay Wagner, the Bionic Woman, now passes on the approaches to wellbeing she learned as a teenager through her contact with Co-founder of the Center for Spiritual Healing, Dr William Hornaday, and holistic health practitioner Dr Omar Fereed, with Quiet the Mind & Open the Heart experiential workshops and retreats.

How can you become increasingly aware of the Holy Spirit in you except by his effects?

Father, there is a vision which beholds all things as sinless, so that fear has gone, and where it was is love invited in. And love will come wherever it is asked. This vision is Your gift. The eyes of Christ look on a world forgiven. In His sight are all its sins forgiven, for He sees no sin in anything He looks upon. Now let His true perception come to me, that I may waken from the dream of sin and look within upon my sinlessness, which You have kept completely undefiled upon the altar to Your holy Son, the Self with which I would identify. Lesson 313-  Now let a new perception come to me.

Have you ever taken a happiness quiz before?

The Unhealed Healer

Let us consider the unhealed healer more carefully now. By definition, he is trying to give what he has not received. If an unhealed healer is a theologian, for example, he may begin with the premise,

To Have, Give All to All

"It is still up to you to choose to join

What’s your Convincer Strategy?

http://www.5lovelanguages.com/

Stop praying for what you think you need. Pray instead for guidance.

God's Teacher is as like to His Creator as is His Son, and through His Teacher does God proclaim His Oneness AND His Son's. Listen in silence, and do NOT raise your voice against Him. For He teaches the miracle of Oneness, and before HIS lesson, division disappears. Teach LIKE Him here, and you WILL remember that you have ALWAYS created like your Father. ACIM

It was F. B. Meyer,

Is there a greatness that is hiding within you?

His promise is always, "Seek and you will find,"
and under His guidance you cannot be defeated.

His is the journey to accomplishment,
and the goal He sets before you He will give you.
For He will never deceive God's Son
whom He loves with the Love of the Father.

You will undertake a journey because
you are not at home in this world.
And you will search for your home
whether you realize where it is or not.
If you believe it is outside you the search will be futile,
for you will be seeking it where it is not.
You do not remember how to look within
for you do not believe your home is there.
Yet the Holy Spirit remembers it for you,
and He will guide you to your home
because that is His mission.
As He fulfills His mission He will teach you yours,
for your mission is the same as His.
By guiding your brothers home
you are but following Him."

ACIM TM.12.IV.4.5-7, 5.

workwithgrace: I should be exactly as I am, no more, no less. I should not be good. (You might even have fun laughing with the turnaround that you should be really bad). 

I am simply this....

USE IT!

If you will regard the healing power you possess as being of Divine origin and office, you will never lose it. Keep your thoughts on Spiritual themes. Emma Curtis Hopkins

"See no one, then, as guilty, and you will
affirm the truth of guiltlessness unto yourself.

It’s the realness of life that allows us to live freely and love deeply.

Deep within your soul is the God light of reason. Heed it. So you will be good and do good. Emma Curtis Hopkins

Learn what it means to leave those who would punish you with word or deed to the bitter fruit of their own designs. Let go of the judge in you by recognizing we cannot hold someone's feet to the fire without suffering getting burned ourselves. Guy Finley

“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,
And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.”
― William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream

"In time, with practice, you will never cease to think of Him,
and hear His loving Voice guiding your footsteps into quiet ways,
where you will walk in true defenselessness.

What’s YOUR “Power Word”?

You are capable of managing large affairs. Those whom you serve can trust you. You will always be sure of competence in all things if you repeat this text daily: “The Almighty shall be thy defense, and thou shalt have plenty of silver.” ~ Emma Curtis Hopkins

GabrielleBernstein: God Laughs When You Make Plans

Remember: “There is One Spirit - One Only. I am Spirit.” Emma Curtis Hopkins

Carlagaye Olson : “It’s not about here or there, or this or that, or them and me, where everything is pivotal about making right choice. All of that went away. It’s . . .” From:

Parachuting beavers?

"I can and I will."

"Lives of great men” and of great women as well, "all remind us, we can make our lives sublime." No truth in words impresses us so strongly as the truth in a life. Helen Wilmans' life story is a Bible of Revelations for the age in which we live full of the new thought, the new theology and the divinest inspiration.

The Way to Drive out Worry, Fear, Etc...

In place of centering our thought upon the Worry, Fears, Doubts and Irresolution, which constitute man's mental poison, the proper method is to forget that these have controlled us, and put all our mental effort into the cultivation of their antidotes : Peace, Trust, Faith, Resolution, Courage. B.F. Austin - How To Make Money - 1918

Benjamin Fish Austin (1850 – 1933) was a nineteenth-century Canadian educator, Methodist Minister, and Spiritualist.

B. F. Austin was born in Brighton, Ontario. He served as the principal of Alma College girl school from 1881 to 1897 during which time that institution was regarded as one of the most prestigious centres of female education in Canada.

“I want to ____, so that____”.

You are inventive. You can make original designs. If you become very spiritually minded your externalization of your ideals will be wonderful. These words are sent for your daily food: "Thou shalt be in league with the stones of the field; and the beasts of the field shall be at peace with thee." Emma Curtis Hopkins

As a very young man, eighteen or twenty, I just sensed that there was something wrong with two things. First with me, and second with society as a whole. You know kids can be very perceptive. Young people can look around and they see how older people lie — how they say one thing and do another and you get the sense, there’s a connection between their inner division and their unhappiness and their compulsive behavior.

Reframe Your Story

"A healed mind does not plan.
 It carries out the plans that it receives
 through listening to wisdom that is not its own...
 It does not depend upon itself for anything except
 its adequacy to fulfill the plans assigned to it."

ACIM Lesson 135.11.1-2, 4

You use yourself rightly by not using yourself wrongly. Vernon Linwood Howard

“I praise the Lord.”

"It is our task together to restore the
awareness of magnitude to the host (you)
 whom God appointed for Himself."

ACIM Ch.15.III.7.2

You must hold firm rein over your temper. Stop often in the midst of your tasks to say:

In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.

 John of the Cross (1542 –1591), born Juan de Yepes Álvarez, was a major figure of the Counter-Reformation, a Spanish mystic, Catholic saint, Carmelite friar and priest. He was also a reformer of the Carmelite Order and is considered, along with Saint Teresa of Ávila, as a founder of the Discalced (barefoot) Carmelites.

Silence is your greatest weapon of defense.

"Steady our feet...
Let our doubts be quiet and our
holy minds be still, and speak to us.
We have no words to give to You.
 We would but listen to Your Word,
and make it ours."

ACIM WB Review V.2 Excerpts

How About this….

Fine abilities came into being with your being. Your true judgments are unbiased ones. Use your own intuitions. Let nothing tempt you to be either unjust or sensual: “I am upright in heart.” Emma Curtis Hopkins

You who have sought and found littleness, remember this:

You are a child of God,

a priceless part of His Kingdom, which He created as part of Him.

You can and should deny any belief that error can hurt you. This kind of denial is not a concealment but a correction. Your right mind depends on it. Ch2.II.2.2-4

It is obvious, then, that when you are afraid, you have placed yourself in a position where you need Atonement. Ch2.VI.8.3

When you are afraid of anything, you are acknowledging its power to hurt you. Remember that where your heart is, there is your treasure also. You believe in what you value. If you are afraid you will inevitably value wrongly, and by endowing all thoughts with equal power will inevitably destroy peace. Ch2.II.1.4-8

Is Reincarnation So?

In the ultimate sense, reincarnation is impossible. There is no past or future, and the idea of birth into a body has no meaning either once or many times. Reincarnation cannot, then, be true in any real sense. Our only question should be, "Is the concept helpful?" And that depends, of course, on what it is used for. If it is used to strengthen the recognition of the eternal nature of life, it is helpful indeed. Is any other question about it really useful in lighting up the way? Like many other beliefs, it can be bitterly misused. At least, such misuse offers preoccupation and perhaps pride in the past. At worst, it induces inertia in the present. In between, many kinds of folly are possible.

Reincarnation would not, under any circumstances, be the problem to be dealt with now. … A teacher of God should be as helpful to those who believe in it as to those who do not.

From

Be not afraid, my child,

but let your world be gently lit by miracles. ACIM Ch.28.III.8

You must learn not to be influenced by the mental conditions of other people.

The Thoughts of God …

The Thoughts of God are far beyond all change, and shine forever. They await not birth. They wait for welcome and remembering. The Thought God holds of you is like a star, unchangeable in an eternal sky. So high in Heaven is it set that those outside of Heaven know not it is there. Yet still and white and lovely will it shine through all eternity. There was no time it was not there; no instant when its light grew dimmer or less perfect ever was. Ch30 III.8.1-7

The Power of Words

You are a child of God,

a priceless part of His Kingdom, which He created as part of Him.

“To be chosen as the Beloved of God is something radically different. Instead of excluding others, it includes others. Instead of rejecting others as less valuable, it accepts others in their own uniqueness. It is not a competitive, but a compassionate choice. Our minds have great difficulty in coming to grips with such a reality. Maybe our minds will never understand it. Perhaps it is only our hearts that can accomplish this. Every time we hear about 'chosen people', 'chosen talents', or 'chosen friends', we almost automatically start thinking about elites and find ourselves not far from feelings of jealousy, anger, or resentment. Not seldom has the perception of others as being chosen led to aggression, violence, and war.” ― Henri J.M. Nouwen,

Holy child of God,

when will you learn that only holiness can content you and give you peace?

Every child of God is one in Christ, for his being is in Christ as Christ's is in God.

Little child of God,

you do not understand your Father. You believe in a world that takes, because you believe that you can get by taking. And by that perception you have lost sight of the real world.

Child of God,

you were created to create the good, the beautiful and the holy. Do not forget this.

If a light is suddenly turned on while someone is dreaming a fearful dream, he may initially interpret the light itself as part of his dream and be afraid of it. However, when he awakens, the light is correctly perceived as the release from the dream, which is then no longer accorded reality. This release does not depend on illusions. The knowledge that illuminates not only sets you free, but also shows you clearly that you are free. ACiM - Text Chapter Two - The Separation and the Atonement - Section 1 - The Origins of Separation

It is not so necessary as you imagine that you have somebody to love.

Speaking ill of others is not conscious.

"Your hand opens and closes, opens and closes. If it were always a fist or always stretched open, you would be paralyzed. Your deepest presence is in every small contracting and expanding, the two as beautifully balanced and coordinated as birds' wings." Jelaluddin Rumi

When we judge others, the meaning we’re usually giving their behavior is that their behavior is wrong and that they are wrong for acting that way, which almost always diminishes the other person. It keeps us from making the contribution we really to want to make to others.

It’s time to stop judging yourself as incomplete or unworthy.

Whether that someone is an ex, someone you are currently obsessed with, or the fantasy of a future someone; your belief that when he or she comes along then your life will be better is what is torturing you. If you want to change your experience of being single, you have to change how you perceive it. Christine Hassler (http://www.christinehassler...)

It’s time to stop living in limbo.

It’s time to stop judging yourself as incomplete or unworthy.

It’s time to stop draining your energy by constantly looking around for someone else.

Your relationship status does not define you and it absolutely should not impact the amount of love you feel.
www.positivelypositive.com/2015/09/17/the-only-reason-you-are-suffering-over-being-single/
Be Who You Are • Do What You Love • Have What You Want.

 “I complete me” should be the phrase every single person recites daily. We are our own love, light and source of inspiration. Loving yourself is vital, a process to creating a life of abundance. There is so much peace that comes from knowing yourself and crafting a life of your dreams!! http://www.purposefairy.com/77798/the-quest-for-love/

Robert Scheinfeld: Do You Really Know What's Best For You And What Would Make You Happy?

What you condemn you continue.

God is a frequency.

You are a child of God.

“What you want also wants you. If you seek the celestial, the celestial also seeks you. There are no unanswered requests in the universe. If we do not like what we are receiving, we can learn to ask for something different.” Vernon Linwood Howard

Appreciation is the highest form of prayer, for it acknowledges the presence of good wherever you shine the light of your thankful thoughts.  Alan Cohen

Journey through the cloud cover to the LIGHT.

Socrates, Byron Katie, and Rowing Your Boat

Anxiety breeds anxiety. You have seen this many times. Someone in the family gets nervous and everyone else starts to vibrate. Someone makes a sad remark and all faces turn gloomy. There IS a way to permanently stop such automatic reactions and remain with your own natural calm. Just reply,

Seriousness is a killjoy.

Forgiveness is the only means whereby Christ's vision comes to me. Let me accept what His sight shows me as the simple truth, and I am healed completely. Lesson 247

In most self-help, personal development, manifestation, even spiritual development systems, you’re told to start by getting crystal clear on what you want — to get crystal clear on what your goals and intentions are.

You then think, analyze, consider, meditate, in an attempt to get crystal clear.

Then you add change, fix and improve “wishes” to your list of wants , desires, goals and intentions.

Finally, you then use some sort of technique to manifest or attract what’s on your list.

Seldom, if ever, do you question where your list of wants, desires, intentions and goals came from.

Seldom, if ever, do you question whether your list of wants, desires, intentions and goals is “valid” and “truthful.”

Seldom, if ever, do you question whether your list represents what you REALLY want, meaning, asking yourself if getting those things would REALLY make you feel happy, fulfilled and satisfied, and create a true and permanent improvement to your quality of life.

“God works with me and through me and by me and for me.”

A true answer changes the way you think, the way you react to the world. True answers change the way you are. Vernon Linwood Howard

Clairvoyance

God's Love never takes away. It simply loves.

See the world always giving us the opportunity to choose again.

When you perform a miracle, I will arrange both time and space to adjust to it.

Proper Preparation Promotes Polished Performance