Saturday, October 24, 2015

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Question. A man with an eight-quart pail full of milk and empty five-and-three-quart pails was requested by a friend to sell four quarts. How did he give exact measure with only the help of his three pails. Answer at bottom.


"The wise man does not seek to _add_ his rights, but to _be_his rights." Vernon Linwood Howard


"When you have learned how to think with God,
all decisions become as easy and as right as breathing.
There is no effort, and you will be led as gently as if
 you were being carried down a quiet path in summer."

ACIM Ch.14.IV.6.1-2

Read the following: — bed.
If you do it correctly you will say, "A little dark e in bed."


"If you bend a strip of metal back and forth long enough it will get tired and break. Similarly, mental miseries have a breaking point at which they get tired and break away from us. Our task is to continue the esoteric exploration until this point is reached. It will surely come, whether the problem is that of indecision, of feelings of futility, or of an inability to understand yourself." Vernon Linwood Howard

Guy Finley: We can either learn to use anger, rage, and anxiety for our spiritual growth, or they will be misused and squandered through rejection and resistance
A sign that someone with low-self-esteem is growing in their spiritual awareness is that they are ready to start putting up boundaries with dysfunctional others. A side-effect of growing spiritual awareness is a healthier self.



How noble is your quick judgment when unbiased by associations. This is your law of life: “Blessed are they that keep my ways.” Emma Curtis Hopkins

Behavior is the effect of beliefs, thoughts, feelings, and perceptions. So when you change your mind the self’s behavior automatically changes.

My body is a wholly neutral thing. Its neutrality protects it while it has a use. And afterwards, without a purpose, it is laid aside. It is not sick nor old nor hurt. It is but functionless, unneeded and cast off. Lesson 294

Never let any personality control your judgment or your consciousness. Rise on the wings of your own spiritual convictions. Keep this text in mind: “I will not fear though there be a host encamped against me.” Emma Curtis Hopkins


Love is, above all, the gift of oneself. Jean Anouilh

Never be jealous. Never be pretentious or proud. Be meek and lowly of heart. Bear this your natal verse in mind every minute: “Hear, for I will speak of excellent things, and the opening of my lips shall be right things.” Emma Curtis Hopkins


I could see peace in this situation instead of what I now see in it.
If the inroads on your peace of mind take the form of more generalized adverse emotions, such as depression, anxiety or worry, use the idea in its original form. If you find you need more than one application of today's idea to help you change your mind in any specific context, try to take several minutes and devote them to repeating the idea until you feel some sense of relief. It will help you if you tell yourself specifically:
I can replace my feelings of depression, anxiety or worry [or my thoughts about this situation, personality or event] with peace.
ACIM Lesson 34.5.4, 6


Answer. He filled the three-quart pail and emptied it into the five. Then he poured out another three-quart pail full and filled the five-quart pail from it. That left one quart in the small pail. Then he emptied the five-quart pail into the big pail and the one-quart into the five-quart pail. Next he filled the three-quart pail, and that left four quarts in the large pail.

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