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