April 30, 2025 – “HEAVEN!”
“Sincerity is the way to heaven.” — Mencius.
“The Lord by wisdom founded the earth; by understanding he established the heavens; by his knowledge the deeps broke forth, and the clouds drop down the dew.” Proverbs 3:19-20.
“If you want these obedient little cells of your soul and your body to reflect pictures of health and vigor undying, hold before them, in the heaven of your mind, clear images of these perfect states.” Talks on Truth, Charles Fillmore, 49-50.
“If you cause injury to someone, you draw that same injury toward yourself. My treachery made my friend a traitor to me. This repetition must stop somewhere. Here, in an act of mercy.” The Essential Rumi, Coleman Barks, et. al., 61.
“When you realize that Spirit is All, that Truth shall set you free from negative conditions, they all go just where darkness and cold are when driven away by the energies of light and heat: nowhere.” Myrtle Fillmore, How To Let God Help You, 36.
“According to the Buddha, the mind is the base of all actions. When you believe, for example, that yours is the only way for humankind, millions of people might be killed because of that idea. We have to look deeply every day to practice this precept well. Every time we buy or consume something, we may be condoning some form of killing,” Thich Nhat Hanh, Living Buddha, Living Christ, 91-2.
“You have to live in a constant attitude of no condemnation, leaving it to every person whether or not he wants to sin and be punished. What he does is not your affair. Your concern is to live always in an attitude of forgiveness.” Joel Goldsmith, The Altitude of Prayer, 102.
“Life gives itself to me without holding back and I give myself to life without holding back. Through me the life force expresses itself, and I express myself through the life force.” James Dillet Freeman, Prayer the Master Key, 103.
“Ah, but a man’s reach should exceed his grasp, Or what’s a heaven for?” ― Robert Browning.
“The God who made the world and everything in it, being Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in shrines made by man,… for ‘In him we live and move and have our being’; as even some of your poets have said, ‘For we are indeed his offspring.’” Acts 17:24,28.
April 23, 2025 – “RESURRECTION!”
“Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.”
— Arth”ur Schopenhauer.
“So is it with the resurrection of the dead. What is sown is perishable, what is raised is imperishable.” 1 Corinthians 15:42.
“We know that this law of life is based on mind action and that through the mind we may resurrect ourselves from the dead.” Talks on Truth, Charles Fillmore, 48.
“No origin is like where it leads to. We can’t know where our pain is from. We don’t know all that we’ve done. Perhaps it’s best that we don’t.” The Essential Rumi, Coleman Barks, et. al., 60.
“We must cease to condemn anything in ourselves, or in the earth. Then, we must recognize life as one Life, and substance as one Substance, and glorify the Father who is the Source of all, in thought and in the very flesh. This we think of as the resurrection and transfiguration. This process goes on day by day, as man awakes and recognizes himself as God’s child and seeks to live by his highest Light.” Myrtle Fillmore, How To Let God Help You, 69.
“We see the suffering caused by the destruction of life, and we vow to cultivate compassion and use it as a source of energy for the protection of people, animals, plants and minerals.” Thich Nhat Hanh, Living Buddha, Living Christ, 91.
“Your consciousness is the temple of God, but it can be soiled by selfishness and self-interest, unless it is maintained pure in the light of truth.” Joel Goldsmith, The Altitude of Prayer, 102.
“When I am right with myself and in order, there is perfect movement from my inner world to my outer world and from the outer world to the inner world.” James Dillet Freeman, Prayer the Master Key, 103.
“Nations, like stars, are entitled to eclipse. All is well, provided the light returns and the eclipse does not become endless night. Dawn and resurrection are synonymous. The reappearance of the light is the same as the survival of the soul.” ― Victor Hugo.
“Jesus said to her, ‘I am the resurrection and the life; he who believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live, and whoever lives and believes in me shall never die.’” John 11:25-26.
April 16, 2025 – “THE IDEA OF LIFE!”
“What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.”
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
“I came that they may have life, and have it abundantly.” John 10:10.
“Life in the body is governed by the hold that the I AM has on the idea off life.” Talks on Truth, Charles Fillmore, 42.
“Hidden things always come to light. Do not sow bad seed. Be sure, they’ll come up. Rain and the sun’s heat make them rise into the air.” The Essential Rumi, Coleman Barks, et. al., 60.
“We bring it forth according to our thoughts, making of it different forms and shapes, making our worlds according to our ideas. But the great pattern which God gave is unchanged; it is revealed to us through Jesus Christ. We are to work by that pattern, to bring forth the life idea that Jesus Christ brought forth. ” Myrtle Fillmore, How To Let God Help You, 91.
“When we respect our blood ancestors and our spiritual ancestors, we feel rooted. If we can find ways to cherish and develop our spiritual heritage, we will avoid the kind of alienation that is destroying society, and we will become whole again.” Thich Nhat Hanh, Living Buddha, Living Christ, 90.
“As you maintain your consciousness on the level of spiritual unselfedness, living your life in a constant prayerful attitude off being a blessing and a benediction, not permitting any selfishness or any evil to enter it, your consciousness will be as pure as what we call heaven, and anyone reaching to your consciousness will receive healing, blessing, and benediction.” Joel Goldsmith, The Altitude of Prayer, 102.
“Prayer puts me in order so that the life force may be used by me more effectively, so that the life force can flow through me without hindrance, freely, exuberantly. Then I breathe in living thoughts and breathe out happy acts.” James Dillet Freeman, Prayer the Master Key, 103.
“Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them – that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.” ― Lao Tzu.
“Happy is the man who finds wisdom, and the man who gets understanding… She is a tree of life to those who lay hold of her; those who hold her fast are called happy.” Proverbs 3:13,18.
April 9. 2025 – “INTELLIGENCE!”
“An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.” — Albert Camus.
“An intelligent mind acquires knowledge, and the ear of the wise seeks knowledge.” Proverbs 18:15.
“We perceive that the character of life is determined by the intelligence that it exercises.” Talks on Truth, Charles Fillmore, 40.
“Because a child doesn’t understand a chain of reasoning, should adults give up being rational? If reasonable people don’t feel the presence of love within the universe, that doesn’t mean it’s not there.” The Essential Rumi, Coleman Barks, et. al., 58.
“This is how I made what I call my discovery: I was thinking about life. Life is everywhere — in man and in worm. ‘Then why does not the life in the worm make a body like man’s?’ I asked. Then I thought, ‘The worm has not as much sense as man.’ Ah! intelligence, as well as life, is needed to make a body. Here is the key to my discovery. Life has to be guided by intelligence in making all forms.” Myrtle Fillmore, How To Let God Help You, 127.
“When you are mindful, you can see the many causes that led the other person to make you suffer, and when you see this, forgiveness and release arise naturally.” Thich Nhat Hanh, Living Buddha, Living Christ, 86.
“There is no peace when a person seeks to get something. The peace deepens if we are all conscious of being in a place to give and to share of this spiritual Grace, that each may contribute to one to another the spiritual peace and comfort that God has given us in our period of meditation.” Joel Goldsmith, The Altitude of Prayer, 101.
“I grow from within out. Up from depths deeper than I understand a stream of life force wells. Down from heights higher than I comprehend a rain of life force falls. Prayer is a way of reach up — to forces higher than my own. Prayer is a way of reaching down — to forces deeper than my own.” James Dillet Freeman, Prayer the Master Key, 102–3.
“The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald.
“O the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and how inscrutable his ways!” Romans 11:33.
April 2, 2025 – “MENTAL HARMONY!”
“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.”
— Mahatma Gandhi.
“And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony.” Colossians 3:14.
“The study of health as a real principle involved in the being of man, leads to the discovery of its foundation — mental harmony.” Talks on Truth, Charles Fillmore, 39.
“A certain man asks an eloquent teacher, ‘What is true and what false?’ ‘ This is false: a bat hides from the sun, not from the idea of the sun. it’s the idea that puts fear in the bat and leads it deeper into the cave. You have an idea of an enemy that attaches you to certain companions… Having the idea is not living the reality of anything.” The Essential Rumi, Coleman Barks, et. al., 57-58.
“It is the habitation of the perfected souls that have come into a consciousness of their unity with the one Mind, and as we go within ourselves in the silence we come into a certain degree of harmony with it. It is what Jesus spoke of as the heaven that is within you.” Myrtle Fillmore, How To Let God Help You, 81.
“If we are mindful, we see that some of our actions in the past have caused others to suffer and some actions of others have made us suffer, We want to be forgiving. We want to begin anew. Only when you understand what has happened can you have compassion for the other person and forgive him or her.” Thich Nhat Hanh, Living Buddha, Living Christ, 85-6.
“What you bring or what you find in your home or in our business, what you find in the world is what you bring to it. What have you in your consciousness?” Joel Goldsmith, The Altitude of Prayer, 101.
“For your purpose in praying is to quicken into activity the creative processes that lie at the root of being and out of which the world takes shape.” James Dillet Freeman, Prayer the Master Key, 102.
“So what is discord at one level of your being is harmony at another level.’” ― Alan Watts.
“Live in harmony with one another; do not be haughty, but associate with the lowly; never be conceited.” Romans 12:16.
THRIVE IN ’25!
For 2025 our theme is: “Thrive!” According to Webster; to thrive is “1: to grow vigorously : flourish 2: to gain in wealth or possessions : prosper 3: to progress toward or realize a goal despite or because of circumstances —often used with on, “thrives on conflict.”
As the wholly perfect sinless child of God (Christ) that we are, we are meant not merely to survive, but to thrive. The only things holding us back are our own limiting thoughts and feelings of inadequacy and separation. To which, the Apostle Paul said, “I die every day!” 1 Corinthians 15:31. Each day we have the opportunity to release what was for what can be; we open the door to a new level of understanding and expression of the divine potential within. We are reborn as we are renewed in mind. “Do not be conformed to this world but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that you may prove what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.” Romans 12:2.
Our weekly Prayer Circle letters this year will follow the book ‘Talks on Truth’ by Unity co-founder, Charles Fillmore. “Mind is the only causative power. By the power of the Word, it makes and unmakes all laws governing in personal life. The I AM floats in mind and formulates the words that set mind in motion.” (pg. 82.) When we change our minds, we change our lives. When our consciousness opens up to new awareness’s of being we are ‘born anew’: we begin again to realize peace, wholeness and abundance through greater and more fulfilling channels of expression.
For April we are sharing from Lesson 4: How Shall the Dead Be Raised?
Thank you for accompanying us on this journey of self-realization and discovery of our Divine potential!
Please affirm with us: I Am Risen; as I feel the life of God vibrating within me, I am healed and made whole. I Am Risen!”
Thank you God, thank you God, thank you God!
For so it is and so it shall be, Amen!