May 21

Science of Mind Magazine Daily Guide for 5/21/08

By Rev. Margaret Stortz

PRACTICING ONENESS

All a Sane man can ever care about Is giving Love!

Hafiz, I Heard God Laughing

It should seem natural to turn to the Great Power back of everything.

Ernest Holmes, The Science of Mind, page 334

OUR delight as metaphysicians is to think, read and talk about oneness.  Truly there is great freedom of the mind whenever we contemplate our unity with the whole and the belief that we cannot, by any actions of our own, be disconnected from the whole.  Good behaviors, bad behaviors, total unawareness does not affect our divine status one bit, and I have come to feel that all believers heave a collective sigh of relief knowing this.  Our destinies are nestled in the wonders of oneness.

Nevertheless, reading and talking about our shared oneness is not enough.  For us to demonstrate our beliefs, we have to practice them, and this begins with seeing others as part of the entire, unified landscape, not just those we love and admire, but those we revile and avoid as well.

In our dealings with others, do we perpetuate negative opinions and look for ways to criticize?  Are we willing to greet the culturally strange and unusual as if we knew we shared a connection at some level?  I believe there is a language of oneness and one of separateness.  When we greet others with scorn and epithets, or put them down, we are simply widening a perceived gap of separation.  When we turn our words to others into the form of an invitation, we are practicing oneness.

affirmation

God is my true life.  It cannot be otherwise.  God leads me; God trails me; God holds me in the arms of spiritual love.  This day I commit to treating others as spiritually precious to me in thought, word and deed.

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365 Science of Mind
Ernest Holmes

I realize that one of the reasons I may not have received a more definite answer to my prayer, more swift and specific manifestation from my spiritual treatment, is because I did not persist in my expectancy—I hoped for rather than had faith I would receive the good I desire. Now I realize that there must be a certain acceptance and expectancy that is built upon or sustained by faith. Because of faith I must accept the fact that my good is and persist in expecting its manifestation.

My faith sustains my expectancy at all times. Faith is an entirely individual and personal attitude. It flourishes within me. I realize that I may have as much faith as I will, regardless of anything and everything else. The only limit to what I may have is the faith I do have.

As is my faith, so is my acceptance, so is my expectancy; and finally, as is my expectancy, so is my demonstration or experience. Through the broad avenues of expectancy created within me by my faith, all good comes to me.

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365 Tao (by Deng Ming-Dao) # 141

Wrinkles

                    Lines on the face, tattoos of aging.
                    Life is proved upon the body
                    Like needle-jabs from a blind machine.

The older one gets, the more one is conscious of aging.  We can barely remember childhood innocence and exuberance.  We are surprised by the youthful vitality and unmarked face when we see earlier photos of ourselves.  When we look in the mirror, we reluctantly acknowledge the aging mask.  It seems that there is no escaping the marks of life.

Every experience that we have, everything that we do and think is registered upon us as surely as the steady embroidery of a tattoo artist.  But to a large degree, the pattern and picture that will emerge is up to us.  If we go to a tattoo artist, it is we who select the picture.  In life, it is we who select what we will become by the actions we perform.  There is no reason to go through life thoughtlessly, to let accident shape us.  That is like allowing oneself to be tattooed by a blind man.  How can you help but turn out old and ugly?

Whether we emerge beautiful or ugly is our sole rsponsibility. 

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From the site Neerja posted about.

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Science of Mind Daily Guide for 5/21/09
By Rev. Jesse Jennings

HIGH-RESOLUTION BELIEVING

The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
Frank Lloyd Wright

…It is a belief in separation from God which binds and limits.  We are bound by nothing but belief.
The Science of Mind, page 128

BELIEF operates somewhat the same as a television set.  When the television is on, we may become all involved in what's showing, caught up in the story even to the point that it seems like our own life.  But switch the set off and it just sits there dark, ready for our next use of it.  Any power is in the performance of the actors and the response of the viewers, and not in the machinery itself, which conducts a transmission without knowing how anybody feels about it.  Just so, the power of belief is in the believer, rather than in any object onto which the believer may project it.  Always on “stand-by,” the power has no deliberate intention of its own—this is what is supplied by the believer.  Delete the believing (thinking, feeling) consciousness from the picture and everything falls dark again.

In world faiths, an object is called sacred or magical because it stimulates a positive spiritual reaction in persons adhering to that faith.  But to anybody who doesn't subscribe to the story of its sacredness, it's only a conversation or museum piece, if that.  It has no power, apart from the One Power.  Nothing has.  In Science of Mind we “believe in belief.”  Wherever we invest our belief, there we are justified, because there is a response.  So then the question is, among all possible options, at what alter exactly do we worship?

Affirmation
Today I examine how and where I place my faith.  If it serves me to change mental channels into a healthier story, I do so.  I remember the One Source with its infinity of re-Sources, each of them furnishing an endless stream of inspiration.

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Daily Word — Thursday, May 21, 2009
Free
I am free to dream and to accomplish my dreams.

My physical freedom is precious to me. I treasure the ability to come and go as I please and never want to take it for granted.

Spiritual freedom is of even more importance to me. My mind is free to plan and dream without limits. And anything that I can dream, I can accomplish. God within is my inspiration to set goals and my wisdom to reach them.

I help others exercise their freedom by encouraging them to succeed and even surpass what they believe to be possible. The freedom of Spirit within each of us gives us the power to be and to do.

As I behold the Christ Spirit within myself and others, I see the unlimited potential within us and the absolute freedom that is inherent in our godlikeness.

“For freedom Christ has set us free. Stand firm, therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery.”–Galatians 5:1

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A Year With Rumi by Coleman Barks

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I was just reading this last night in my Essential Rumi! How's that for synchronicity?

Ruth