Spring 2024 archive.
June 26, 2024 – THE GOD IDEA!
“Human history
in essence
is the history of ideas.”
— H. G. Wells
“But the hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for such the Father seeks to worship him. God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.” John 4:23-24.
“God is without form, for He is Spirit. God is an idea that man has tried to objectify in various forms. He is the universal substance, the life that animates the substance, and the love that binds it together.” Prosperity, Charles Fillmore, 95.
“But the body’s desires, in another way, are like an unpredictable associate, whom you must be patient with. And that companion is helpful, because patience expands your capacity to love and feel peace.” The Essential Rumi, Coleman Barks, et. al., 26.
“You, as an individual soul, took up your expression as a living being to embody in consciousness and experience that which we think of as God’s image-likeness man. In other words, you are a child of God, an offspring, an expression and combination of God Ideas or qualities of being. ” Myrtle Fillmore, How To Let God Help You, 106.
“Students of the Buddha are themselves a continuation of the Buddha. It is possible to manifest mindfulness, understanding, and love through people of our own time, even ourselves. We do not need to believe in the resurrection of Buddhas and bodhisattvas as much as in producing mindfulness, understanding, and love in our selves.” Thich Nhat Hanh, Living Buddha, Living Christ, 57.
“The kingdom of God is established within me. I am living, not only surrounded by air, but surrounded by the life, the love, and the wisdom of God. I am swimming in an ocean of God; I am soaring and flying like the birds in the atmosphere of God. Consciously, I have God dwelling in me, and I can do all things through God that dwells in me and I in Him, for we are one.” Joel Goldsmith, The Altitude of Prayer, 83.
“You are, in a physical sense, a kind of electrochemical machine. You eat. You drink. You breathe… Every cell in your body is a minute furnace. In every one of them a fire is buning. From those fires energy radiates. What you do with this energy determines your life.” James Dillet Freeman, Prayer the Master Key, 85.
“First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.” — Napoleon Hill.
“God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.” 1John 4:16.
June 19, 2024 – A CHAIN OF CAUSES!
“Shallow men
believe in luck.
Strong men
believe in cause and effect.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Thou dost cause the grass to grow for the cattle, and plants for man to cultivate, that he may bring forth food from the earth, and wine to gladden the heart of man,
oil to make his face shine, and bread to strengthen man’s heart.” Psalm 104:14.
“Every time you send out a thought of wholehearted faith in the I AM part of yourself, you set in motion a chain of causes that must bring the results you seek. Ask whatsoever you will in the name of the Christ, the I AM, the divine within, and your demands will be fulfilled…” Prosperity, Charles Fillmore, 93.
“Know that your body nurtures the spirit, helps it grow, and then gives it wrong advice. The body becomes, eventually, like a vest of chainmail in peaceful years, too hot in summer and too cold in winter. ” The Essential Rumi, Coleman Barks, et. al., 25.
“The real man is not of any of these forms; he is the force that causes the forms to exist, and when he knows this, every phase of phenomenal life comes under his dominion.” Myrtle Fillmore, How To Let God Help You, 57.
“A true teaching is not static. It is not mere words but the reality of life… When we understand and practice deeply the life and teachings of Buddha or the life and teachings of Jesus, we penetrate the door and enter the abode of the living Buddha and the living Christ, and life eternal presents itself to us.” Thich Nhat Hanh, Living Buddha, Living Christ, 56.
“Here where I am, God is. I swim in a sea of infinite Wisdom and Love. I soar up into the atmosphere, still surrounded by the everlasting Life and the everlasting Love, which are the nature of God. I cannot escape from His everlasting arms which are underneath and around me. I live, and move, and have my being in Him. I rest in Him.” Joel Goldsmith, The Altitude of Prayer, 82.
“God will not do the work for us, but He will work through us. God will not make the world a better place for us to live in, but He will give us the power to make it a better place.” James Dillet Freeman, Prayer the Master Key, 85.
“The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.” — Bertrand Russell.
“And when the men of that place recognized him, they sent round to all that region and brought to him all that were sick, and besought him that they might only touch the fringe of his garment; and as many as touched it were made well.” Matthew 14:35-36.
June 12, 2024 – RICH IDEAS!
“The best way
to have a good idea
is to have a lot of ideas.”
— Linus Pauling
“How precious to me are thy thoughts, O God! How vast is the sum of them!” Psalm 139:17.
“We advocate the accumulation rather of rich ideas, ideas that are useful, constructive, and of service to the well-being of all mankind. The outer manifestation of riches may follow or it may not, but the supply for every need will be forthcoming because the man of rich ideas has confidence in an all-providing power that never fails.” Prosperity, Charles Fillmore, 89.
“This invisible ocean has given you such abundance, but still you call it ‘death,’ that which provides you sustenance and work.” The Essential Rumi, Coleman Barks, et. al., 24.
“The treatment, then, is to turn one’s attention to God, the indwelling Lord, with the happy assurance that all old, disappointing things are dropping away and the healing, peace-giving, joy-filling, prospering ideas of God’s love, life, and substance are filling the mind and heart, quickening new energies in the body.” Myrtle Fillmore, How To Let God Help You, 51.
“When Jesus said, ‘I am the way,’ He meant that to have a true relationship with God, you must practice His way. In the acts of the Apostles, the early Christians always spoke of their faith as ‘the Way.’” Thich Nhat Hanh, Living Buddha, Living Christ, 55.
“You can change your life in the same way that you change the life of a seed when you plant it in the ground. No matter what the life of the seed may have been while you were carrying it in your pocket, it changes the moment it is planted in the ground. So does you life change the moment you plan yourself in Him.” Joel Goldsmith, The Altitude of Prayer, 82.
“A minister asked the people of a country community to pray for the poor in the community. Several members of the church gathered and were praying when a boy appeared. ‘My father could not come to pray,’ he said, ‘so he sent what he could.’ Outside the church was a wagon loaded with food. Which is the greater prayer for another — words of blessing you may speak for him or acts of love you may do for him?” James Dillet Freeman, Prayer the Master Key, 84-85.
“Men of lofty genius sometimes accomplish the most when they work least, for their minds are occupied with their ideas and the perfection of their conceptions, to which they afterwards give form.” — Leonardo da Vinci.
“Live in harmony with one another; do not be haughty, but associate with the lowly; never be conceited. Repay no one evil for evil, but take thought for what is noble in the sight of all. If possible, so far as it depends upon you, live peaceably with all.” Romans 12:16-18.
June 5, 2024 – INEXHAUSTIBLE STOREHOUSE!
“If a thing loves,
it is infinite.”
— William Blake
“O give thanks to the Lord, for he is good, for his steadfast love endures for ever.” Psalm 136:1.
“…prosperity is not in the possession of things but in the recognition of supply and in the knowledge of free and open access to an inexhaustible storehouse of all that is good or desirable.” Prosperity, Charles Fillmore, 87.
“Dear soul, if you were not friends with the vast nothing inside, why would you always be casting your net into it, and waiting so patiently?” The Essential Rumi, Coleman Barks, et. al., 24.
“The truths that are here spoken are energized by the living Spirit. Your mind and heart are now open and receptive to the ideas that will inspire you with the understanding
of the potency of your own thought and word. You are prospered. Your home has become a magnet, drawing to it all good from the unfailing, inexhaustible reservoir of supply.” Myrtle Fillmore, How To Let God Help You, 155-6.
“It is not words or concepts that are important. What is important is our insight into the nature of reality and our way of responding to reality.” Thich Nhat Hanh, Living Buddha, Living Christ, 55.
“Through practicing the Presence, you have reached into meditation and from meditation into that inner communion with God, an actual living with This that is within you, talking to you much more that you ever talk to It, letting you know by Its presence you have nothing to fear in this world. And this is prayer.” Joel Goldsmith, The Altitude of Prayer, 81-2.
“Climbing the mountain is as much a way of prayer as sitting still and speaking words. Every refusal to turn back in the face of difficulty is a denial of those forces that forever gnaw at the edge of enterprise to thwart and wear away the questing spirit of man. Every dogged step is an affirmation of faith in life and of the value of life.” James Dillet Freeman, Prayer the Master Key, 84.
“The known is finite, the unknown infinite; intellectually we stand on an islet in the midst of an illimitable ocean of inexplicability. Our business in every generation is to reclaim a little more land, to add something to the extent and the solidity of our possessions.” — Thomas Huxley.
“And God is able to provide you with every blessing in abundance, so that you may always have enough of everything and may provide in abundance for every good work. As it is written, ‘He scatters abroad, he gives to the poor; his righteousness endures for ever.’” 2 Corinthians 9:8-9.
May 29, 2024 – WORK WITH GOD!
“What you are
will show in what you do.”
— Thomas A. Edison
“Whatever your task, work heartily, as serving the Lord and not men…” Colossians 3:23.
“We are to work as God works; to work with God, as a son follows the occupation of his father. We are to form what God created.” Prosperity, Charles Fillmore, 86.
“Workers rush toward some hint of emptiness, which they the start to fill. Their hope, though is for emptiness, so don’t think you must avoid it. It contains what you need!” The Essential Rumi, Coleman Barks, et. al., 24.
“Your prosperity comes through you instead of to you. And if it seems not to come, that is because you have thrown up some barrier that prevents its unfoldment through your own consciousness. Only your own changed mental attitude and living habits can cause you to work with God-Mind in bringing about the transformation.” Myrtle Fillmore, How To Let God Help You, 164-5.
“When I read any scripture, Christian or Buddhist, I always keep in mind that whatever Jesus or the Buddha said was to a particular person or group on a particular occasion… without understanding the relationships between the speaker and his listeners, we may miss the point.” Thich Nhat Hanh, Living Buddha, Living Christ, 53.
“There is nothing outside in the world for you to seek or gain. Everything there is, is right now within your own consciousness, and you learn to turn within two or three times every day just for the realization: The allness of God is within me.” Joel Goldsmith, The Altitude of Prayer, 81.
“This is the way a man works… when he works at his highest pitch. He gives himself to what he is doing; he lets himself be used; he becomes a free channel through which ideas and energy flow.” James Dillet Freeman, Prayer the Master Key, 83.
“Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.” — Theodore Roosevelt.
“And on the seventh day God finished his work which he had done, and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had done.” Genesis 2:2.
May 22, 2024 – INCREASE CAPACITY!
“As knowledge increases,
wonder deepens.”
— Charles Morgan
“On the day I called, thou didst answer me, my strength of soul thou didst increase.” Psalm 138:3.
“It is that everything we touch mentally or physically represents substance and that it is limited only by ourselves in our thought capacity. We cannot ask God for more substance, for the universe is full of it. We can and should ask for understanding to lay hold of it with our mind; that is, for an increase in our capacity.” Prosperity, Charles Fillmore, 73.
“The inner soul, that presence of which most know nothing, about which poets are so ambiguous, he married that one to the beloved.” The Essential Rumi, Coleman Barks, et. al., 23.
“As we see Christ in our flesh and realize the oneness of our Spirit, soul, and body in Christ, our bodies will share in the freedom and uplift. New understanding will gradually come, and many wonderful, undiscovered laws will be understood as fast as we develop the capacity to know and use them righteously.” Myrtle Fillmore, How To Let God Help You, 119.
“When a sage is present and you sit near to him or her, you feel peace and light.” Thich Nhat Hanh, Living Buddha, Living Christ, 53.
“There does come an end to the experience of actual communion, however, and then you go back into the world and do your daily tasks, but do them better than before and with much more love, with much less of judgment and criticism, and certainly with a freedom from fear.” Joel Goldsmith, The Altitude of Prayer, 80-81.
“When the inward and the outward man are one, than we pray with our whole being. When our whole being moves in one direction, then all the forces of life are drawn together and rush forward to bring the prayer we make to fruition.” James Dillet Freeman, Prayer the Master Key, 83.
“The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.” — John F. Kennedy.
“And Jesus increased in wisdom and in stature, and in favor with God and man.” Luke 2:52.
May 15, 2024 – LAW OF EVER-PRESENT ABUNDANCE!
“Not what we have
but what we enjoy,
constitutes our abundance.”
— Epicurus
“I came that they may have life, and have it abundantly.” John 10:10.
“Sometimes the strength follows the thought immediately, sometimes the thought must be persistently held for days or weeks. In demonstrating the law of ever-present abundance we should and do expect the same results. If the demonstration seems slow in coming, patience and persistence will win.” Prosperity, Charles Fillmore, 71.
“Inside this new love, die. Your way begins on the other side. Become the sky. Take an axe to the prison wall. Escape. Walk out like someone suddenly born into color. Do it now.” The Essential Rumi, Coleman Barks, et. al., 22.
“All of us must hitch our faith to the divine ideas that make for abundance of manifest good… by finding the all-providing love of God within your own soul, you become a magnet to attract manifest supply to yourself.” Myrtle Fillmore, How To Let God Help You, 71-72.
“One man who wanted to see the Buddha was in such a hurry that he neglected a woman in dire need whom he met along the way. When he arrived at the Buddha’s monastery, he was incapable of seeing him. Whether you can see the Buddha (or Jesus) or not depends on you, on the state of your being.” Thich Nhat Hanh, Living Buddha, Living Christ, 51.
“As prayer and meditation become increasingly a way of life, you discover that something unusual takes place… a moment comes when, instead of talking about the Presence or seeking It, all of a sudden you feel It… Now you experience It.” Joel Goldsmith, The Altitude of Prayer, 80.
“To go beyond our own resources, we first have to come to the end of them.” James Dillet Freeman, Prayer the Master Key, 812
“The key to abundance is meeting limited circumstances with unlimited thoughts.” — Marianne Williamson.
“But the meek shall possess the land, and delight themselves in abundant prosperity.” Psalm 37:11.
May 8, 2024 – FOUR DIMENSIONAL WORLD!
“True time is
four-dimensional.”
—Martin Heidegger
“The first man was from the earth, a man of dust; the second man is from heaven. As was the man of dust, so are those who are of the dust; and as is the man of heaven, so are those who are of heaven. Just as we have borne the image of the man of dust, we shall also bear the image of the man of heaven.” 1 Corinthians 15:47-49.
“Moses could not go into the Promised Land, the four-dimensional state of consciousness… We must begin to see this four-dimensional world within, with its innate capacity for all things. Everything is right here, all that ever was or ever could be, simply waiting to be brought forth into manifestation.” Prosperity, Charles Fillmore, 70-71.
“You must have shadow and light source both. Listen, and lay your head under the tree of awe. When from that tree, feathers and wings sprout on you, be quieter than a dove. Don’t open your mouth for even a cooooooo… The soul lives there in the silent breath.” The Essential Rumi, Coleman Barks, et. al., 20-21.
“The time will come when we can draw forth from the universal mind-stuff just the elements we need, in their right proportion and relation, to maintain the proper balance in our whole organism. The time will come, I am confident, when we shall be able to draw chemical substance from the fourth dimensional realm down into our physical bodies.” Myrtle Fillmore, How To Let God Help You, 104.
“…the Buddha is still alive, continuing to give Dharma talks. If you are attentive enough, you will be able to hear his teachings from the voice of a pebble, a leaf, or a cloud in the sky. The enduring Buddha has become the living Buddha.. the living Christ.” Thich Nhat Hanh, Living Buddha, Living Christ, 51.
“The indwelling Christ is the fulfillment. Where the Christ is, there is peace… I bring to you the grace of God. My peace, the Christ-peace, give I unto you.” Joel Goldsmith, The Altitude of Prayer, 80.
“How can I feed the man if I do not love him, and how can I love the man if I do no feed him?” James Dillet Freeman, Prayer the Master Key, 81.
“When we first broke into that forbidden box in the other dimension, we knew we had discovered something as surprising and powerful as the New World when Columbus came stumbling onto it.” — Ken Kesey.
“I know a man in Christ who fourteen years ago was caught up to the third heaven—whether in the body or out of the body I do not know, God knows. ” 2 Corinthians 12:2.
May 1, 2024 – DIVINE POSSIBILITIES!
“In one word,
this ideal is that
you are divine.”
— Swami Vivekananda
“And Jesus said to him, ‘If you can! All things are possible to him who believes.’” Mark 9:23.
“The law (of life) is one of the most important things we can study, because only as we come to understand it and in proportion as we understand it can we comply with its requirements and demonstrate our divine possibilities through it.” Prosperity, Charles Fillmore, 70.
“No matter how fast you run, your shadow more than keeps up. Sometimes it’s in front. Only full, overhead sun diminishes your shadow. But that shadow has been serving you. What hurts you blesses you. Darkness is your candle. Your boundaries are your quest.” The Essential Rumi, Coleman Barks, et. al., 20.
“Having such knowledge, you will realize that Mind is the great white throne of omnipotence. Good sits enthroned there; Love sits enthroned there; Life sits enthroned there. You may approach the throne boldly. You may claim all of these blessings with your divine thought for they are surely yours. There is no uncertainty.” Myrtle Fillmore, How To Let God Help You, 43.
“The Dharma (teaching) is our island of refuge, the torch lighting our path. If we have the teaching, we needn’t worry.” Thich Nhat Hanh, Living Buddha, Living Christ, 50.
“What have you in your consciousness? You have the peace that passes understanding. You can take it wherever you will, wherever you are because in the Christ-presence there is fulfillment, and the Christ dwells in you.” Joel Goldsmith, The Altitude of Prayer, 80.
“Life is not for praying; prayer is for living. Prayer is part of life — and should be part of life — but life is more than prayer.” James Dillet Freeman, Prayer the Master Key, 81.
“Nothing in the universe is contingent, but all things are conditioned to exist and operate in a particular manner by the necessity of the divine nature.” — Baruch Spinoza.
“His divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us to his own glory and excellence.” 2 Peter 1:3.
THE OPEN DOOR IN ‘24
Our theme for 2024 is: “The Open Door.” It is time to focus on what is true, what is helpful, intuitive, necessary and kind (think). “After this I looked, and lo, in heaven an open door!” (Revelation 4:1)
It is often said that, “When one door closes another door opens.” There is always an open door, yet we tend to focus on the closed door. Banging our head against it, weeping about it, complaining to our friends and those who will listen, will not open the closed door. And, when we raise our vision in a heaven state of consciousness and see the door that is open to us; we see beyond the appearances of lack and limitation to know the truth of the abundant universe that provides for our every needed good.
Our weekly Prayer Circle letters this year will follow the book ‘Prosperity’ by Unity co-founder, Charles Fillmore. “Realize first of all that prosperity is not wholly a matter of capital or environment but a condition brought about by certain ideas that have been allowed to rule in the consciousness. When these ideas are changed the conditions are changed in spite of environment and all appearances, which must also change to conform to the new ideas.”(pg. 80.) Prosperity is not about stuff and things, material objects or bank accounts. It is the consciousness that draws to us all that we need and desire. Its realization requires first a change of mind about our relationship with the universe and its creator (to repent is to ‘think again’) and then to act in accord with this new understanding.
For May we are sharing from Lesson Five: The Law That Governs the Manifestation of Supply.
Thank you for accompanying us on this journey of self-realization and discovery of our Divine potential!
Please affirm with us: “With God as my Source, all I need and desire is readily provided!”
Thank you God, thank you God, thank you God!
For so it is and so it shall be, Amen!
April 24, 2024 – “Deny & Affirm!”
“To give someone a blessing
is the most significant affirmation
we can offer.”
— Henri Nouwen
“For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he:” Proverbs 23:7 (KJV).
“Think prosperity, talk prosperity… Deny every appearance of failure. Stand by your guns and affirm supply, support and success in the very face of question and doubt, then give thanks for plenty in all your affairs, knowing for a certainty that your good is now being fulfilled in Spirit, in mind, and in manifestation.” Prosperity, Charles Fillmore, 69.
“The grief-armies assemble, but I’m not going with them. This is how it always is when I finish a poem. A great silence overcomes me, and I wonder why I ever thought to use language.” The Essential Rumi, Coleman Barks, et. al., 20.
“Thus, the denial erases the false statement we have so long been making and leaves us free to commence anew. Now, we add the active principle of affirmation, and lo, the solution to our problem will demonstrate. We find we can dissolve the earthly house of false beliefs by denial and enter into the “house not made with hands” by affirmation.” Myrtle Fillmore, How To Let God Help You, 39.
“During a retreat, we learn how to maintain awareness of each thing we do, and then we can continue the practice in our daily lives. If we do this, we will see deeply into the nature of our suffering, and we will find a way out.” Thich Nhat Hanh, Living Buddha, Living Christ, 49.
“If you bring peace to this earth it will be there, but if you, like the ‘natural man,’ come looking for peace on earth, you will never find it. It is not here until you bring it.” Joel Goldsmith, The Altitude of Prayer, 79-80.
“There is a prayer that is sitting in the silence. But there is also a prayer that is living and doing and striving and working and walking on. And the prayer that is silence is not complete until it becomes the prayer that is a life fully lived.” James Dillet Freeman, Prayer the Master Key, 80.
“We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the positive affirmation of peace.” — Martin Luther King, Jr..
“Then I turned to see the voice that was speaking to me… his voice was like the sound of many waters; in his right hand he held seven stars, from his mouth issued a sharp two-edged sword, and his face was like the sun shining in full strength.” Revelation 1:12,16.
April 17, 2024: “Universal Law!“
The energy of the mind
is the essence of life.”
— Aristotle
“Blessed is the man… his delight is in the law of the Lord, and on his law he meditates day and night. He is like a tree planted by streams of water, that yields its fruit in its season, and its leaf does not wither. In all that he does, he prospers.” Psalm 1:1-3.
“You have doubtless found that there is a spiritual law that brings into manifestation the thoughts we concentrate our attention on, a divine universal law of mind activity that is unfailing.” Prosperity, Charles Fillmore, 66.
“I don’t get tired of you. Don’t grow weary of being compassionate toward me!” The Essential Rumi, Coleman Barks, et. al., 19.
“Divine order will be expressed in your work when you have faith in God. Your hours will be filled with good, profitable work. You will find opportunity to encourage and help those whom the Father may send, and in this way, you see, you will be keeping your part of the universal law of prosperity and opening the channels through which your greater good will come.” Myrtle Fillmore, How To Let God Help You, 159-160.
“Sitting and looking deeply into your body, your consciousness, and your mental states is like being a mother hen covering her eggs. One day insight will be born like a baby chick.” Thich Nhat Hanh, Living Buddha, Living Christ, 49.
“The spiritual man is not only always receiving, but sharing… Spiritual treasures cannot be laid up. They are always in expression.” Joel Goldsmith, The Altitude of Prayer, 79.
“The world is mine to pray and work and live in. I have hands for handling it. I have feet for traveling through it. I have a mind equipped for looking at it, understanding it, turning thoughts into the stuff of a new and better world.” James Dillet Freeman, Prayer the Master Key, 78.
“You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.” — Marcus Aurelius.
“You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it, You shall love your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments depend all the law and the prophets.” Matthew 22:37-40.
April 10, 2024: “God is Good!)
“There is nothing
either good or bad
but thinking makes it so.”
— William Shakespeare
“And God saw everything that he had made, and behold, it was very good.” Genesis 1:31.
“What are the rules of the law? First God is good and all His creations are good. When you get that firmly fixed in your mind, you are bound to demonstrate good and nothing but good can come into your world.” Prosperity, Charles Fillmore, 59.
“At any gathering I am there, mingling in the laughing and grieving, a friend to each, but few will hear the secrets hidden within the notes. No ears for that.” The Essential Rumi, Coleman Barks, et. al., 18.
“He started out with the axiom that God is all and God is good. Good plus evil is both a logical and mathematical absurdity. Where good is, evil (its opposite) cannot exist.” Myrtle Fillmore, How To Let God Help You, 22.
“As children, Siddhartha and Jesus both realized that life is filled with suffering… We, too, must learn to live in ways that reduce the world’s suffering. Suffering is always there, around us and inside us, and we have to find ways that alleviate the suffering and transform it into well-being and peace.” Thich Nhat Hanh, Living Buddha, Living Christ, 48-49.
“Acknowledge that you have reasoning power, thinking power, intelligence, wisdom, guidance, direction, and that they are yours as the gift of God. Acknowledge that you have an inner substance, an inner life, an inner truth, an inner grace. Notice how this changes the direction of your thought…” Joel Goldsmith, The Altitude of Prayer, 79.
“The world is to grow. What I do is a stage in its growth. For the world shapes me, but also in my turn I shape it. Beautiful as the world is, I come so that it may become yet more beautiful.” James Dillet Freeman, Prayer the Master Key, 77.
“The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.” — Confucius.
“Finally, brethren, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is gracious, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things.” Philippians 4:8.
April 4, 2024: Cause & Effect!
“Shallow men
believe in luck.
Strong men believe in
cause and effect.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
“He who loves his brother abides in the light, and in it there is no cause for stumbling.” 1 John 2:10.
“All true action is governed by law. Nothing just happens… All happenings are the result of cause and can be explained under the law of cause and effect.” Prosperity, Charles Fillmore, 58.
“There is a light seed grain inside. You fill it with yourself or it dies. I’m caught in this curling energy! Your hair!! Whoever’s calm and sensible is insane!” The Essential Rumi, Coleman Barks, et. al., 16.
“The real man is not of any of these forms; he is the force that causes the forms to exist, and when he knows this, every phase of phenomenal life comes under his dominion.” Myrtle Fillmore, How To Let God Help You, 57.
“Our spiritual ancestors have also given birth to us, and they, too, continue to give birth to us… If you have enough spiritual strength, you will give birth to a spiritual child, and through your life and practice, you continue giving birth, even after you die.” Thich Nhat Hanh, Living Buddha, Living Christ, 47-48.
“As food and drink are essential to ‘the natural man,’ so the conscious awareness of the presence of God is essential to the spiritual man.” Joel Goldsmith, The Altitude of Prayer, 78.
“I am not intended to do as little as I can. I am intended to do as much as I can. The world is here to be accepted. To be lived in. To be worked with. The world is not expected to be the same when I go out of it as it was when I came into it — and, of course, it never is.” James Dillet Freeman, Prayer the Master Key, 77.
“The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.” — Bertrand Russell.
“A slack hand causes poverty, but the hand of the diligent makes rich.” Proverbs 10:4.
THE OPEN DOOR IN ‘24
Our theme for 2024 is: “The Open Door.” It is time to focus on what is true, what is helpful, intuitive, necessary and kind (think). “After this I looked, and lo, in heaven an open door!” (Revelation 4:1)
It is often said that, “When one door closes another door opens.” There is always an open door, yet we tend to focus on the closed door. Banging our head against it, weeping about it, complaining to our friends and those who will listen, will not open the closed door. And, when we raise our vision in a heaven state of consciousness and see the door that is open to us; we see beyond the appearances of lack and limitation to know the truth of the abundant universe that provides for our every needed good.
Our weekly Prayer Circle letters this year will follow the book ‘Prosperity’ by Unity co-founder, Charles Fillmore. “Realize first of all that prosperity is not wholly a matter of capital or environment but a condition brought about by certain ideas that have been allowed to rule in the consciousness. When these ideas are changed the conditions are changed in spite of environment and all appearances, which must also change to conform to the new ideas.”(pg. 80.) Prosperity is not about stuff and things, material objects or bank accounts. It is the consciousness that draws to us all that we need and desire. Its realization requires first a change of mind about our relationship with the universe and its creator (to repent is to ‘think again’) and then to act in accord with this new understanding.
For April we are sharing from Lesson Four: Man, the Inlet and Outlet of Divine Mind.
Thank you for accompanying us on this journey of self-realization and discovery of our Divine potential!
Please affirm with us: “The all-providing Mind is my resource, and I am secure in my prosperity!”
Thank you God, thank you God, thank you God!
For so it is and so it shall be, Amen!