Living Now

LIVE EVERY minute as it comes, just as though it were the only minute you had on earth. Let it be filled with love, joy, harmony, courage, faith, all that you hope to enjoy sometime in the future. Too many of us are putting off our good from day to day, from month to month, and from year to year so that we never quite catch up with it. Live now. Forget your troubles of the past and stop dreading the future.

The expression of your powers and abilities is governed by your thoughts. If your thoughts are dwelling in the past or in the future, your powers and abilities will be lessened in the present, because they will be trying to follow your thoughts to realms that do not exist. We need all our abilities here in the present moment. We cannot afford to dissipate them by letting our mind dwell in the past or by worrying about the future. A certain amount of sound planning for the future is all right, but negative dreams and worries concerning the future are not desirable, because they put off the coming of our good. Such dreams are wasteful; they sap the substance of the present moment.

Now is the acceptable time; now is the time to bring the kingdom of heaven into the earth; now is the time to be happy. "Let the dead past bury its dead." live now in the knowledge that you are a perfect child of God.

Remember that you are what you think. Therefore resolve to think only good, pure, loving thoughts, and you will manifest more of the good, the pure, and the true. If you persist in thinking over the error thoughts of the past you will become entangled in them. If you would become free from past sins, stop thinking about past mistakes.

If you live every present moment aright, you will have no occasion to mourn over the past. Begin to live now in earnest and to help others to live now through your good example.

Resolve to know the truth now. The truth is that you are in reality a child of God. You are Spirit, and Spirit is not subject to sickness, poverty, or any negative condition. Spirit is not affected by time, place, or events. As a child of the living God you are good, wise, loving, truthful, pure, happy, kind, and true.
NEW VIEWS OF AN OLD WORLD

New Ways to Solve Old Problems 1938

The way to bring out happiness is to begin to be happy, begin to spread happiness to others.