There is only one way to make spiritual progress, and that is to practice the Presence of God. Mankind is continually seeking to discover a shortcut but as usual the lazy man takes the most pains in the long run, and having wasted his time in wandering up bypaths, he is ultimately driven by failure [...]
Archive for April, 2009
No Results without Prayer
Posted in Good Morning, tagged Faith, Spiritual on April 30, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Dealing with the Negative
Posted in Good Morning, tagged Faith, Spiritual on April 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
What is meant by negative thinking? A negative thought is any thought of failure, disappointment, or trouble; any thought of criticism, or spite, or jealousy, or condemnation of others, or self-condemnation; any thought of sickness or accident; or, in short, any kind of limitation. In practice you will never have any trouble in knowing whether [...]
Watch and Work
Posted in Good Morning, tagged Faith, Spiritual on April 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
To train yourself in the habit of thought selection will be difficult for the first few days, but it is the most interesting experiment that you could possibly make. You will be amazed at the things that you will learn about yourself. This week may be the most significant week in your whole life; not [...]
Training Your Thoughts
Posted in Good Morning, tagged Faith, Spiritual on April 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Thought is the real causative force in life, and there is no other. You cannot have one kind of mind and another kind of environment. You cannot change your environment while leaving your mind unchanged. This is the real key to life; if you change your mind your conditions must change too—your [...]
The Seven Day Mental Diet
Posted in Good Morning, tagged Faith, Spiritual on April 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The subject of diet is one of the foremost topics of the present day public interest. Newspaper and magazines teem with articles and bookshops are filled with volumes unfolding the mysteries of proteins and vitamins. Experts are saying that you become the thing you eat. This is perfectly true, as far as it goes, but [...]
Blessing and Cursing
Posted in Good Morning, tagged Faith, Spiritual on April 23, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Life is a reflex of mental states. As far as you are concerned, the character that things will bear will be the character that you first impress upon them. Bless a thing and it will bless you. Curse it and it will curse you. If you put your condemnation upon anything in life, it will [...]
Let God Have Your Burden
Posted in Good Morning, tagged Faith, Spiritual on April 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Once you have contacted the Power within, and have allowed it to take over your responsibilities for you, it will direct and govern all your affairs from the greatest to the least without mistakes. The government shall be upon his shoulder. You are tired, and driven, and worried, and weak, and ill, and depressed, because [...]
The Lost Corot
Posted in Good Morning, tagged Faith, Spiritual on April 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
There is a quaint old legend that is firmly believed in the artists’ colony in Paris. It appears that many years ago a poor struggling artist was so hard up that he did not have even enough money to buy a piece of canvas upon which to paint what he did felt sure would be [...]
The Law of Growth
Posted in Good Morning, tagged Faith, Spiritual on April 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
What you think upon grows. This is an Eastern maxim, and it sums up neatly the greatest and most fundamental of all the laws of mind.
What you think upon grows. Whatever you allow to occupy your mind you magnify in your own life. Whether the subject of your thought be good or bad, the [...]
The Dual Law of Thought
Posted in Good Morning, tagged Faith, Spiritual on April 13, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Every thought is made up of two factors, knowledge and feeling. A thought consists of a piece of knowledge with a charge of feeling, and it is the feeling alone that gives power to the thought. No matter how important or magnificent the knowledge content may be, if there is no feeling attached to [...]
