Write it on your heart?

 "Write it on your heart
that every day is the best day in the year.
He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the day
who allows it to be invaded with fret and anxiety.

Rev. Glenn Edward Chaffin

 has studied and taught New Thought principles for well over forty-five years. An avid student and proponent of

The light of understanding.

 

“There is one mind common to all individual men.  Every man is an inlet to the same and to all of the same.  He that is once admitted to  the  right  of  reason  is  made  a  freeman  of  the  whole  estate.    What  Plato  has  thought,  he  may  think;  what  a  saint  has  felt,  he  may  feel;  what  at  any  time  has  befallen any man, he can understand.  Who hath access to this Universal Mind, is a party to all that is or can be done, for this is the only and sovereign agent.” ~Emerson

Eventually everyone begins to recognize, however dimly, that there must be a better way. (ACIM, T-2.III.3:6)

 

To be fatigued is to be dis-spirited, but to be inspired

I am nothing

Standing on the bare ground,

“Okay, I have forgotten what I am and I accept the truth of my identity and I’m not a body. I can’t be sick.”

“Let us not look east and west for materials of conversation, but rest in presence and unity. A just feeling will fast enough supply fuel for discourse, if speaking be more grateful than silence. When people come to see us, we foolishly prattle, lest we be inhospitable. But things said for conversation are chalk eggs. Don’t say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary. A lady of my acquaintance said, “I don’t care so much for what they say as I do for what makes them say it.”. -Ralph Waldo Emerson, from his essay “Letters and Social Aims” 1875

"How is it possible to get angry at yourself: who, exactly, is angry at whom?"

Bringing Fantasy to Truth (A hologram of the whole)

 

“That which we are, we shall teach, not voluntarily, but involuntarily. Thoughts come into our minds by avenues which we never left open, and thoughts go out of our minds through avenues which we never voluntarily opened. Character teaches over our head.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson, from his essay “The Over-Soul”, 1841

“To teach is to demonstrate. There are only two thought systems, and you demonstrate that you believe one or the other is true all the time. From your demonstration others learn, and so do you. The question is not whether you will teach, for in that there is no choice. The purpose of the course might be said to provide you with a means of choosing what you want to teach on the basis of what you want to learn. You cannot give to someone else, but only to yourself, and this you learn through teaching. Teaching is but a call to witnesses to attest to what you believe. It is a method of conversion. This is not done by words alone. Any situation must be to you a chance to teach others what you are, and what they are to you. No more than that, but also never less.” -A Course in Miracles

Most of us have blocked ourselves from receiving the genuine healing Light.

“Courage is not the absence of fear, but the mastery of it” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

It's not that there isn't plenty to be had; the Light of conscious revelation pours down unendingly.

Love makes all things easy.

“Don’t be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.”

I’m Nobody! Who are you?

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

There is but One Physician that never fails when we trust Him completely. We place all our trust in the unlimited Healer, and the result to us is unlimited Health.

The question rises, why did Jesus once use the clay and spittle (John 9:6), and Elisha tell the leper to bathe in Jordan (2 Kings 5 :10) ?

Perception is an effect (of a belief), not a cause.

Dimension, being an ego construct, has no inherent meaning in terms of ACIM, as the world is an illusion but this reference helps clarify in terms of the ego: “Eternity is ONE time, its ONLY dimension being "always."”

T-1.I.25:1-2 Miracles are part of an interlocking chain of forgiveness which, when completed, is the Atonement. Atonement works all the time and in all the dimensions of time.

"All that I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen." - Ralph Waldo Emerson.

“With your loving all people because God is Love, you will heal, and feed and comfort by your presence.” ECH

Seeing your natural gifts and true desires clearly is a powerful filter that leaves behind what is not important to you and shines the light on the purity of what you are and what you are here to do.

We live in a society where a tremendous amount of information comes at us daily. If we don't know what we are and what we value, we could easily become overwhelmed and exhausted, not knowing which way to turn.

Pay it forward

is asking the beneficiary of a good deed to repay it to others instead of to the original benefactor.

 The concept is old, but the phrase may have been coined by Lily Hardy Hammond: "You don't pay love back; you pay it forward.", in her 1916 book In the Garden of Delight.

The New Thought of Man, the Larger Thought of God.

Disease is due to false reasoning, so health is due to knowledge of the truth. To remove disease permanently, it is necessary to know the cause, the error which led to it. “The explanation is the cure.” To know the truth about life is therefore the sovereign remedy for all ills. The truth Jesus came to declare. PPQ

“All ice is water, but not all water is ice. The life in you is God - life, the wisdom in you is God - intelligence, the love in you is God - love. You are a child of God, an expression of God – so there can be nothing of you that is not innately of God.” Butterworth Unity A Quest For Truth

Internal Garden

An inspiring story of healing : Internal Garden touched me at an emotional and personal level. The phrase “holding people away from her” reminded me of when my mom died of cancer back in 1995. Towards the end I think she did that. She needed to for her sake. When she was diagnosed with breast cancer I remember she made the statement “I don’t want to be a burden”. She never was and how could she be ever.

Remember YOUR castle.

A king was out hunting with his princes in a forest many miles from the castle. A sudden snowstorm fell on the party. In the confusion, the king was separated from the others. When he failed to return to the castle after four days he was given up as lost. But on the fifth day, he appeared in the warm dining room.

'How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.'

Walden Pond is a 102 foot- (31 metre)-deep lake in Concord, Massachusetts in the United States. A famous example of a kettle hole*, it was formed by retreating glaciers 10,000–12,000 years ago. *A kettle (kettle hole, pothole) is a shallow, sediment-filled body of water formed by retreating glaciers or draining floodwaters.

The writer, transcendentalist, and philosopher Henry David Thoreau lived on the northern shore of the pond for two years starting in the summer of 1845. His account of the experience was recorded in Walden; or, Life in the Woods, and made the pond famous. The land at that end was owned by Thoreau's friend and mentor, Ralph Waldo Emerson, who let Thoreau use it for his experiment.

Henry David Thoreau ( 1817 – 1862 ) was an American author, poet, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, historian, and leading transcendentalist. He is best known for his book Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay Civil Disobedience, an argument for individual resistance to civil government in moral opposition to an unjust state.
Walden - an annotated edition by Henry David Thoreau – 1854 @ http://thoreau.eserver.org/walden00.html

I will lift up mine eyes to the hills from whence cometh my help.

Is any among you suffering? let him pray.

Is any cheerful? let him sing praise.

Is any among you sick? let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord: and the prayer of faith shall save him that is sick, and the Lord shall raise him up. -- James 5:13-18

"Prayer that craves a particular commodity,—any thing less than all good,—is vicious. Prayer is the contemplation of the facts of life from the highest point of view. It is the soliloquy of a beholding and jubilant soul. It is the spirit of God pronouncing his works good. But prayer as a means to effect a private end, is meanness and theft. It supposes dualism and not unity in nature and consciousness. As soon as the man is at one with God, he will not beg. He will then see prayer in all action. The prayer of the farmer kneeling in his field to weed it, the prayer of the rower kneeling with the stroke of his oar, are true prayers heard throughout nature, though for cheap ends." Emerson

Suspension of disbelief

Suspension of disbelief or willing suspension of disbelief is a term coined in 1817 by the poet and aesthetic philosopher Samuel Taylor Coleridge, who suggested that if a writer could infuse a "human interest and a semblance of truth" into a fantastic tale, the reader would suspend judgment concerning the implausibility of the narrative. Suspension of disbelief often applies to fictional works of the action, comedy, fantasy, and horror genres. Cognitive estrangement in fiction involves using a person's ignorance or lack of knowledge to promote suspension of disbelief.

1865 ~ The year a new thought of God and man and the universe was born.

In 1849 Dr.Chalmers, one of the most noted divines of the Anglican Church, gave it as his opinion, based upon mathematical observation of spiritual truth in the Bible, that in the year 1865, or thereabouts, Jesus would again manifest himself to the earth in person. So careful had Dr.Chalmers been in spiritual investigations and observations, as well as mathematical calculations, that when Jesus did not appear in person in the year 1865, 1866 or 1867, he became discouraged and said on his deathbed that it was one of the  greatest disappointments of his life, because everything in the Holy Scriptures pointed to the second advent at that time.

Of the body, not in the body.

 “Prayer that craves a particular commodity, -- anything less than all good, -- is vicious. Prayer is the contemplation of the facts of life from the highest point of view. It is the soliloquy of a beholding and jubilant soul. It is the spirit of God pronouncing his works good. But prayer as a means to effect a private end is meanness and theft. It supposes dualism and not unity in nature and consciousness. As soon as the man is at one with God, he will not beg. He will then see prayer in all action. The prayer of the farmer kneeling in his field to weed it, the prayer of the rower kneeling with the stroke of his oar, are true prayers heard throughout nature, though for cheap ends.”  ― Ralph Waldo Emerson

YOU are in Heaven right now as you read this.

Wherever the Life, which is your True Being takes you, all will be well. And then there will come a time when you realize it is not I going anywhere. It is not I doing anything, but I am fixed in the Moment, fixed in the Now, watching my form as on a movie screen as it goes and comes and I direct the whole thing from my extreme vantage point. There is a peace and harmony that comes as part and parcel of the joining. This harmony will come in all things and bring everything together into Oneness. This is trusting God! This total and complete surrender is a forgetting in regard to separation, because in Truth, there is none!

You will think less in theory, more in Reality, until the balance tips and you will realize that you are speaking from a place of knowing and confidence, that there is ONE living out through a body/form, and you are IT, and IT is You.

“God in a Box” ~ Jane Woodward

It occurred to me this week that chi, prana,  grids, strings and strands, primordial substance, subtle energy, ectoplasm are merely ego terms to relate how everyone in the world is connected. We a re spirit, all is mind. We can’t conceptualize being without the body so we relate it to what ever makes sense in our personal experience. Our own personal rules of engagement, so to speak. Did Hopkins, Cramer, Brooks and Fillmore even know what Chi was I wonder?

Of the body, not in the body: I’ve talked to people and suddenly been aware I was of the body, not in the body. No judgement, no emotion, just being. If it wears off it’s a lesson in judgement, trust or faith. Actually I don’t know for sure. There’s no guide book on God so it’s highly individualized.

Accepting people where they are: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcdodajwm6I This I liked. Would I change anything of my past? No. And I wouldn’t necessarily recommend some of the experiences. If friends don’t like what you read, well like the song says:

Lost the friends that I needed loosing
Found others on the way.

And as always, “Be still, and know I am God”.

"Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen." - Hebrews 11:1

You don’t have to rescue anyone, change anyone or heal anyone!

John 7:33/34

"Yet a little while am I with you and then I go unto him that sent me. Ye shall seek me and shall not find me and where I am, thither ye cannot come."

"Yet a little while I am with you, and then I go unto him that sent me."
"Ye shall seek me, and shall not find me,"
means that others may wonder what you are doing and be unable to follow you in understanding or belief.
"And where I am, thither ye cannot come."
Other members of your family, or the patient himself, may be unable to rise in consciousness and enter into the feeling of perfect health, because they are wrapped up in worldly beliefs.
JOSEPH MURPHY ~ New Thought Magazine~ 1959

To gain clarity in thinking, which guides action to be congruent with the desired outcome.

Religious Science, also known as Science of Mind, was established in 1927 by Ernest Holmes (1887–1960) and is a spiritual, philosophical and metaphysical religious movement within the New Thought movement. In general, the term "Science of Mind" applies to the teachings, while the term "Religious Science" applies to the organizations. However, the terms are interchangeable.
In his book, The Science of Mind, Ernest Holmes stated

"Religious Science is a correlation of laws of science, opinions of philosophy, and revelations of religion applied to human needs and the aspirations of man."

He also stated that Religious Science/Science of Mind (RS/SOM) is not based on any "authority" of established beliefs, but rather on "what it can accomplish" for the people who practice it.
Ernest Holmes did not originally intend for RS/SOM to be a "church", but rather a teaching institution. In that spirit, many member "churches" have traditionally referred to themselves as "centers." Ernest Holmes was especially strongly influenced by Emma Curtis Hopkins, the writings of Judge Thomas Troward and Ralph Waldo Emerson, as he developed his own synthesis, which became known as Religious Science or Science of Mind.
In 1926 Holmes published The Science of Mind, which references the teachings of Jesus Christ and the Bible and Buddha. Holmes established the Institute for Religious Science and School of Philosophy in Los Angeles which later become the Church of Religious Science.
Religious Science credo.
1. We believe in God, the living Spirit Almighty; one, indestructible, absolute, and self-existent Cause. This One manifests Itself in and through all creation, but is not absorbed by Its creation. The manifest universe is the body of God; it is the logical and necessary outcome of the infinite self-knowingness of God.
2. We believe in the individualization of the Spirit in Us, and that all people are individualizations of the One Spirit.
3. We believe in the eternality, the immortality, and the continuity of the individual soul, forever and ever expanding.
4. We believe that heaven is within us, and that we experience it to the degree that we become conscious of it.
5. We believe the ultimate goal of life to be a complete freedom from all discord of every nature, and that this goal is sure to be attained by all.
6. We believe in the unity of all life, and that the highest God and the innermost God is one God. We believe that God is personal to all who feel this indwelling presence.
7. We believe in the direct revelation of truth through our intuitive and spiritual nature, and that anyone may become a revealer of truth who lives in close contact with the indwelling God.
8. We believe that the Universal Spirit, which is God, operates through a Universal Mind, which is the Law of God; and that we are surrounded by this Creative Mind which receives the direct impress of our thought and acts upon it.
9. We believe in the healing of the sick through the power of this Mind.
10. We believe in the control of conditions through the power of this Mind.
11. We believe in the eternal Goodness, the eternal Loving-kindness, and the eternal Givingness of Life to all.
12. We believe in our own soul, our own spirit, and our own destiny; for we understand that the life of all is God.