May 28, 2025 – “REAL FORCES OF BEING!”
“You owe it to yourself to be yourself.” — Yogi Bhajan.
“Yet he is not far from each one of us, 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 17:27-28.
“When, through purification of his ideas and acceleration of his mental energies, man comes into sight of the real forces of Being, his whole boy is quickened into new life, and the body of flesh responds to its vibrations.” Talks on Truth, Charles Fillmore, 63.
“Someone who goes with half a loaf of bread to a small place that fits like a nest around him, someone who wants no more, who’s not himself longed for by anyone else, He is a letter to everyone. You open it. It says, Live.” The Essential Rumi, Coleman Barks, et. al., 64.
“The germ of God-likeness slumbers in us, and it should be our true aim in being to make manifest this perfect Self, or Christ of God, in our lives.” Myrtle Fillmore, How To Let God Help You, 11.
“When we appreciate and honor the beauty of life, we will make every effort to dwell deeply in the present moment and protect all life.” Thich Nhat Hanh, Living Buddha, Living Christ, 93.
“You are a child of God only as your life is an expression of good without a single trace of desire for a return.” Joel Goldsmith, The Altitude of Prayer, 104.
“Hold up your light, Life. Let it shine on my path that I may know what way to go. For when I go by your light I can only go toward more life.” James Dillet Freeman, Prayer the Master Key, 106.
“This is what our society needs — not new ideas and inventions; important as these are, and not geniuses and supermen, but persons who can “be”, that is, persons who have a center of strength within themselves.” ― Rollo May, Man’s Search for Himself.
“How long, O simple ones, will you love being simple? How long will scoffers delight in their scoffing and fools hate knowledge?” Proverbs 1:22.
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May 21, 2025 – “PEACE & HARMONY!”
“He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.” — Marcus Aurelius.
“For my brethren and companions’ sake I will say, ‘Peace be within you!’ For the sake of the house of the Lord our God, I will seek your good.” Psalm 122:8-9.
“Peace and harmony are the focalizing ideas that chord with the divine nature of love, and when they are associated in the mind there is no limit to man’s power.” Talks on Truth, Charles Fillmore, 59.
“What is it to know something of God? Burn inside that presence. Burn up. Copper melts in the healing elixir. So melt your self in the mixture that sustains existence.” The Essential Rumi, Coleman Barks, et. al., 62.
“Make up your mind and heart to put your spirit and soul into inside interests, and get real satisfaction out of life. The state we call heaven is awaiting those who are ready for it: the peace and harmony and order that come from living in tune with infinite good.” Myrtle Fillmore, How To Let God Help You, 64.
“If we want to head north, we can use the North Star to guide us, but it is impossible to arrive at the North Star. Our effort is only to proceed in that direction. If we created true harmony within ourselves, we will know how to deal with family, friends and society.” Thich Nhat Hanh, Living Buddha, Living Christ, 92.
“On the spiritual path you must ‘die’ to mortality. Once you have learned that there is no far-off God to whom you must sacrifice, to whom you must tithe, to whom you must give, you will know that your tithing, your giving, or your sharing is not for God. It is your mode of expressing gratitude for God’s gift and God’s grace to you.” Joel Goldsmith, The Altitude of Prayer, 104.
“There is a Will that seeks to express itself. It sends down roots and sends up stems and leaves. It turns dust and gas into stars, and stars into living creatures. It is life growing always more alive. It is love becoming ever more loving. It is intelligence thinking ever larger thoughts. It is power raising its productive capacity to a higher power. It is joy finding new levels of joy.” James Dillet Freeman, Prayer the Master Key, 106.
“But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?” ― Albert Camus.
“Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse them. Rejoice with those who rejoice, weep with those who weep. 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.” Romans 12:14-17.
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May 14, 2025 – “THE DIVINE MAGNET!”
“I am in you and you in me, mutual in divine love.” — William Blake.
“So we know and believe the love God has for us. God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.” 1 John 4:16.
“Love is the drawing power of mind. It is the magnet of the universe, and about it may be clustered all the attributes of Being, by one who thinks in divine order.” Talks on Truth, Charles Fillmore, 55.
“Learn to light the candle. Rise with the sun. Turn away from the cave of our sleeping, That way a thorn expands to a rose. A particular glows with the universal.” The Essential Rumi, Coleman Barks, et. al., 62.
“So, by finding the all-providing love of God within your own soul, you become a magnet to attract manifest supply to yourself. You become a magnet to attract divine ideas, and your innate wisdom reveals to you how to use these ideas to the best advantage. ” Myrtle Fillmore, How To Let God Help You, 72.
“With mindfulness — the practice of peace — we can begin by working to transform the wars in ourselves. Conscious breathing helps us to this.” Thich Nhat Hanh, Living Buddha, Living Christ, 92.
“Purity is an absence of self. The purity which is spiritual is an absence of personal desire and personal ambition.” Joel Goldsmith, The Altitude of Prayer, 104.
“Then I saw that in order for the greater to become more, the smaller must be made to be less. The way to become the master is to become the servant. The way to govern is to be governed.” James Dillet Freeman, Prayer the Master Key, 105.
“You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.” ― Anatole France.
“I love those who love me, and those who seek me diligently find me.” Proverbs 8:17.
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May 7, 2025 – “THE HEART CENTER!”
“Wherever you go, go with all your heart.” — Confucius.
“Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.” Matthew 5:8.
“Man has a faculty through which he receives love from Being; this faculty is commonly called the heart. The heart, however, is but the visible expression of an invisible center of consciousness.” Talks on Truth, Charles Fillmore, 52.
“Brother, stand the pain. Escape the poison of your impulses. The sky will bow to your beauty, if you do” The Essential Rumi, Coleman Barks, et. al., 62.
“So, the first thing to do is to bring every desire of the heart into the light of wisdom, to see that what we desire is practical and conducive to our highest good. Thus we are able to go straight to our goal.” Myrtle Fillmore, How To Let God Help You, 72.
“To practice nonviolence, first of all we must learn to deal peacefully with ourselves.” Thich Nhat Hanh, Living Buddha, Living Christ, 92.
“My consciousness now is the temple of God. All self-interest and self-desire are absent from this temple. I am here only as a transparency for the Spirit of God; I am here only that all in the world who are seeking light may find entrance to my consciousness and be illumined.” Joel Goldsmith, The Altitude of Prayer, 103.
“I said to the Master, ‘To get God to do what I want Him to do, what do I have to do?’ ‘It is very simple,’ said the Master. ‘You follow the law of reciprocity, You do what God wants you to do; then, you find that God is doing what you want Him to do.’” James Dillet Freeman, Prayer the Master Key, 105.
“It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.” ― Antoine de Saint-Exupery.
“Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in thy sight, O Lord, my rock and my redeemer.” Psalm 19:14.
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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 awarenesses of being we are ‘born anew’: we begin again to realize peace, wholeness and abundance through greater and more fulfilling channels of expression.
For May we are sharing from Lesson 5: The Development of Divine Love.
Thank you for accompanying us on this journey of self-realization and discovery of our Divine potential!
Please affirm with us: “God is Love; Divine Love draws to me all I need & desire; I Am Loved & Loving!”
Thank you God, thank you God, thank you God!
For so it is and so it shall be, Amen!
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.
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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!