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dayName = new Array ("Sunday", "Monday", "Tuesday", "Wednesday", "Thursday", "Friday", "Saturday")
monName = new Array ("January", "February", "March", "April", "May", "June", "July", "August", "September", "October", "November", "December")
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Jan = new Array
Jan[1] = "<b><em>&quot;The power of the word is not merely an idle phrase or form of expression. It is a real mental, spiritual, scientific fact, and can beome vital and powerful in your hands and in mine in just the degree that we understand the omnipotence of the thought forces and raise all to the higher planes.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;'Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me!' So we once shouted, in our youth, usually when someone had just called us a name. How little we knew then, just how much words could hurt us! As we grow in the spiritual life, we know the fallacy of those words, and we know the power of our words. And with spiritual maturity comes the realization that we create with our words, just as a master craftsman creates with his hands. And even that needed words in the form of thoughts as an origin&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;And so as I begin a new day, a new year, a new decade, I set the intention to be a good steward of my words - to use them creatively, in Love. And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://newthoughtlibrary.com/trineRalphWaldo/thisMysticalLife/thisMysticalLife.htm#2' target='_blank'>read the source"
Jan[2] = "<b><em>&quot;Thought is the great builder in human life: it is the determining factor. Continually think thoughts that are good, and your life will show forth in goodness, and your body in health and beauty. Continually think evil and your life will show forth in evil, and your body in weakness and repulsiveness. Think thoughts of love, and you will love and will be loved. Think thoughts of hatred, and you will hate and will be hated. Each follows its kind.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;Evil is a symbol for the illusion of separation from our Divinity. With my mind, I create evil - the illusion of separation - or I create good. Jesus said, centuries ago, 'Whatsoever things are pure, are good, think on these things.' When I allow my thoughts to dwell on things that are stressful, hateful, ugly, these I will see in my life. Like a crack in the windshield that weakens the glass so that it breaks, so, too, thoughts can keep growing until the windshield of my mind is shattered, and my life takes on a form I did not intend.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;I intend to focus on those things that make me feel joyful. Joy is my Standard! And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://newthoughtlibrary.com/trineRalphWaldo/thisMysticalLife/thisMysticalLife.htm#2' target='_blank'>read the source"
Jan[3] = "<b><em>&quot;The aggregate of your habits is your character. Whatever, then, you would have your acts, you must look well to the character of the thought you entertain. Whatever act you would not do, --habit you would not acquire you must look well to it that you do not entertain the type of thought that will give birth to this act, this habit . &quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;My habits make up my character. On this third day of a new year, a new decade, what habits that I have do I want to define me? As I set intentions for this new year, what do I want to release; what do I want to keep? One thing I know for sure, it is the habits that keep me centered in God, that feed my soul, that enable me to live at the level of my soul, that I intend to cultivate. All others I intend to release.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;Deep calls to deep. God calls, I answer, Yes, Beloved, I am here! And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://newthoughtlibrary.com/trineRalphWaldo/thisMysticalLife/thisMysticalLife.htm#8TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Jan[4] = "<b><em>&quot;There is nothing more true in connection with human life than that we grow into the likeness of those things we contemplate.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;'As a man thinks in his heart, he becomes.' So said the Master, Jesus. What we think about, contemplate, day after day, we become. There is freedom in these words, because, knowing that I become what I contemplate helps me realize that I have a choice. I get to choose if I'm happy or sad. If I'm sad, I can choose to be happy. It truly is that simple, I just make it difficult. I can continue to dwell on something that hits my sad button, or I can turn to the happy button.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;Whatever I want to be, it's up to me. Today I choose joy! And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://newthoughtlibrary.com/trineRalphWaldo/thisMysticalLife/thisMysticalLife.htm#8' target='_blank'>read the source"
Jan[5] = "<b><em>&quot;...for faith is an invisible and invincible magnet, and attracts to itself whatever it fervently desires and calmly and persistently expects .&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;I know, without doubt, in the invincibility of the soul. I know, without doubt, that God is my source and is always supporting and sustaining me. That's easy for me - I have a warm home, an income, enough food. Would I have that same faith without these? I have been in a position when I didn't have these. There was a time when I walked away from my home, my job. I still had a safety net: friends, family, a small retirement fund. Would I have still had faith that God supports and sustains me? I can't second-guess, but I know for sure my faith has brought me to where I am now.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;For me, it always comes back to God - in me, through me, as me. I Am That! I Am!  And so it is.&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://newthoughtlibrary.com/trineRalphWaldo/thisMysticalLife/thisMysticalLife.htm#8TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Jan[6] =  "<b><em>&quot;This conscious realization of oneness with the Infinite Life is of all things the one thing to be desired; for, when this oneness is realized and lived in, all other things follow in its train, there are no desires that shall not be realized, for God has planted in the human breast no desire without its corresponding means of realization.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;For years I chased one thing and then another, trying to fill what I called a 'hole in my soul'. Nothing filled it; I just felt emptier. One day I discovered God - a God in which I could believe - and that hole filled up. Oneness with Infinite Life is that which completes me.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;I am one with God. I have everything I need. I Am That! I Am! And so it is.&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://newthoughtlibrary.com/trineRalphWaldo/thisMysticalLife/thisMysticalLife.htm#8' target='_blank'>read the source"
Jan[7] =  "<b><em>&quot;And why should we have any fear whatever...God is behind His world, in love and with infinite care and watchfulness working out His great and almighty plans...&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;There are times I go immediately to fear. Even though I know it is not the Truth, my subconscious mind is so programmed that when something happens that threatens my life - no matter what form the threat takes - I go to fear. Not always, but sometimes. And what I know is, that fear teaches me I still have work to do. So I bring myself back to center and declare the Truth.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;I Am That! This is the Truth. God and I are One. There is nothing to fear. I am safe and secure in God. And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://newthoughtlibrary.com/trineRalphWaldo/thisMysticalLife/thisMysticalLife.htm#8' target='_blank'>read the source"
Jan[8] =  "<b><em>&quot;<em>The Master said, 'What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them and ye shall have them.' . </em>&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;A few days ago a young man came to me with what he thought was an insurmountable problem. I told him, 'I believe in the power of prayer. I believe everything will turn out alright.' As I spoke the words, a voice said, 'Really?  Do you really think so? What if it isn't alright?  What then?' I kicked the voice aside and reaffirmed, verbally and in writing, my belief. Less than twenty-four hours later, my prayer was answered. My belief was honored.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;Believing is seeing. I believe in God, I believe that when I pray, in total confidence, my prayers are answered. I believe in God! And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://newthoughtlibrary.com/trineRalphWaldo/thisMysticalLife/thisMysticalLife.htm#8' target='_blank'>read the source"
Jan[9] =  "<b><em>&quot;When the step from the personal to the impersonal, from the personal, the individual, to the universal, is once made, the great solution of life has come; and by this same step one enters at once into the realm of all power.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;Within each of us is an inner guidance, an intuition, that, when we heed it, will guide us to everything we want. If we want health, prosperity, a safe journey, we have an inner GPS. Often, however, we fail to listen. I have a GPS, but, not trusting it completely, I also use a map, just to make sure!  My inner GPS is totally trustworthy, but even so, for many years, I didn't trust it. Oh, that's just me, I'd think. Well, yes, it was - the highest and best part of myself.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;I know my Inner Guide is trustworthy. I pay attention, and heed, and know I am safely guided in the best direction. I Am That! I Am! And so it is.&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://newthoughtlibrary.com/trineRalphWaldo/thisMysticalLife/thisMysticalLife.htm#8TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Jan[10] = "<b><em>&quot;To live undisturbed by passing occurrences you must first find your own centre. You must then be firm in your own centre, and so rule the world from within.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;Find my own center. How easy it is to forget this; how quickly my ego takes over and I go straight to defensiveness or anger. Oh, to parapharse St. Paul, 'I would that I do that which I want to do, and not do what I do'. Oh, I would that I'd stay in that place where I am strong and in Love. How I long for that feeling of being centered. Sometimes it seems so difficult, and yet I know, all I have to do is turn inward and focus on my Inner Being.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;This I know:  God and I are One. And when I am in that place, when I am centered, I rule the world! And so it is.&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://newthoughtlibrary.com/trineRalphWaldo/thisMysticalLife/thisMysticalLife.htm#8' target='_blank'>read the source"
Jan[11] = "<b><em>&quot;As we become aware of the truth that we are God's children and that God is the very intelligence within us, we discover that health also is our inheritance from the Father. We learn, too, that there is divine law in life, with established rules that make for health, happiness, and prosperity if we live by them.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;Knowing that there is a divine law, I know that to be healthy, I must not only live by the law, i.e., that it responds to my thought patterns, but also that I can expect to be healthy, if I take care of my body. And that means getting enough sleep, exercise, and feeding my body nutritious food. I wouldn't expect my car to run well on an inferior fuel, why do I expect my body to?&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;Knowing my body is my soul's vehicle, I treat it with respect. I feed it good food, get enough exercise and enough sleep. I Am the temple of God! And so it is. &quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://newthoughtlibrary.com/fillmoreMyrtle/how2letGod/#c02' target='_blank'>read the source"
Jan[12] = "<b><em>&quot;Fear and lack of faith go hand in hand. The one is born of the other. Tell me how much one is given to fear, and I will tell you how much he lacks in faith.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;One thing that takes me to fear quickly, is my bank account. And then one thing that brings me back to Center quickly is my bank account. When it's low, I go to fear, but almost as quickly, I go back to Center. I know tht God is my Source, but still, I can go into fear so quickly! That's the dance I do, but Spirit and I are getter better at dancing together. I know that I am always supported and sustained by my Source, but sometimes, I forget.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;Today my intention is to stay Centered, regardless of the numbers in my bank account, regardless of what comes my way. God and I are One! God is my Source! And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://newthoughtlibrary.com/trineRalphWaldo/thisMysticalLife/thisMysticalLife.htm#8fText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Jan[13] = "<b><em>&quot;Not only do we attract to ourselves the things we fear, but we also aid in attracting to others the conditions we in our own minds hold them in fear of.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;I understand how my fears attract the very thing I fear; I've seen the effects of my fears many times in my life. Like Job in the Bible, 'That which I feared has come upon me!' But I didn't realize that my fears about someone else could bring about conditions they don't want! But then I remember that, in The Science of Mind, Ernest Holmes wrote that we should not say, 'Oh, the poor thing...', because in doing so, we help to bring about the condition even more greatly. How powerful are our words!&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;Oh, to guard my thoughts and my words and speak only what I want to see! This is my intention:  to speak only Love. And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://newthoughtlibrary.com/trineRalphWaldo/thisMysticalLife/thisMysticalLife.htm#8.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Jan[14] = "<b><em>&quot;Thouh personal to each one of us, God is IT, neither male nor female, but Principle. God is not a cold, senseless principle like that of mathematics, but the Principle of life, love, and Intel igence.. &quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;God, the Principle of Love, life and intelligence, is also very personal to me. I have come to rely on God as my comforter, my Beloved, That One to Whom I can always turn, in joy or in sorrow. How I wish that every person knew this God! It keeps me steady when all around me I feel the quaking of fear. That Love keeps me from feeling lonely when I am alone. A long time ago I heard a song that rings true for me today: 'Father, I adore thee; bow my head before Thee...'.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;Ernest Holmes said an evolved soul is always a worshiper of God because God is all. Father, I adore Thee! And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://newthoughtlibrary.com/fillmoreMyrtle/how2letGod/#c0creative_01.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Jan[15] = "<b><em>&quot;The great secret of the highly successful life is, however, to infuse the mental and the physical with the spiritual; in other words, to spiritualize all, and so raise all to the highest possibilities and powers.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;Rumi (thirteenth century mystic) said, 'Out beyond all right doing and wrong doing, there is a field; I will meet you there.' There is a field, even scientists say this now, that connects everything, every person. It is this field to which we all belong, from which we all have come. When we realize that we are not just this physical body, having this physical experience, when we realize that at the core of our being there is a spirit, and when we live from that level, consistedly, then we can say our lives are successful.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;Rumi's field - that is where peace, joy and success are to be found. I go there when I stop, listen, and connect. The Field, the Father, and I are One! And so it is.&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://newthoughtlibrary.com/trineRalphWaldo/thisMysticalLife/thisMysticalLife.htm#8' target='_blank'>read the source"
Jan[16] = "<b><em>&quot;Thought is at the bottom of all progress or retrogression, of all success or failure, of all that is desirable or undesirable in human life. &quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;My soul knows this Truth: the healing of anything is simple - surrender to God. My ego asks, 'how can that be, a headache is not the same as a cancer!'  And yet,  my soul knows is, yes, a headache and a cancer are the same to God. Actually, they are nothing to God; God sees only Wholeness. It is my ego-self that differeniates, that makes a mountain out of a molehill.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;My soul knows its Wholeness. I Am That! I Am! And so it is.&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://newthoughtlibrary.com/trineRalphWaldo/thisMysticalLife/thisMysticalLife.htm#8' target='_blank'>read the source"
Jan[17] = "<b><em>&quot;Thought is at the bottom of all progress or retrogression, of all success or failure, of all that is desirable or undesirable in human life.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;Today I read about a woman who knew she was going to win the lottery and she knew exactly how much she would win - $112 million dollars. For years she struggled to make ends meet, all the while knowing in her heart that she was going to win. She kept that thought - and that amount - uppermost in her mind, every day. One day she won - $112 million dollars. When asked - as she was spending lavishly - what if she spent or lost it all? She replied, 'I'd just visualize and win another!' Do I have that kind of knowing - that my every thought has such power?&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;My life is in my thoughts.  I Am That! I Am! And so it is.&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://newthoughtlibrary.com/trineRalphWaldo/thisMysticalLife/thisMysticalLife.htm#8' target='_blank'>read the source"
Jan[18] = "<b><em>&quot;Power grows by using, or, in other words, using brings a continually increasing power.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;There is power in my word, my thoughts, my actions. When I pay attention to the words I speak, my thoughts, I am aware of this power. And the more I am aware, the greater my power. As with everything, being aware of how I use my power takes practice, using the Power. As a muscle atrophies without use, so does my power. &quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;I practice daily, turning my attention to that which I desire. I know this is Power, and mine increases daily. And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://newthoughtlibrary.com/trineRalphWaldo/thisMysticalLife/thisMysticalLife.htm#8' target='_blank'>read the source"
Jan[19] = "<b><em>&quot;The kingdom of heaven is to be found only within, and is done once for all, and in a manner in which it cannot otherwise be done, when we come into the conscious, living realization of the fact that in our real selves we are essentially one with the Divine life.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;Jesus admonished us to '...seek ye first the kingdom of heaven and all else will be added to you...' amd ever since we have been trying to live in such a way that we could '...go to heaven when we die...'. For two centuries we have thought heaven is a place outside ourselves, only obtainable upon death. Jesus came to tell us that heaven is a state of mind and is obtainable when we recognize the Father within.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;Jesus taught - and I believe - '...the Father and I are One!' And so it is.&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://newthoughtlibrary.com/trineRalphWaldo/thisMysticalLife/thisMysticalLife.htm#8' target='_blank'>read the source"
Jan[20] = "<b><em>&quot;In the highest character-building...there are those who feel they are handicapped by what we term heredity .&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;My family - brothers, sisters, children - is plagued with fat bellies. Too often we say to each other, every time I gain weight, it goes right to my stomach; it's a family trait! To look at us, anyone would agree. However, what I know is that heredity and genetics are 'old' science - scientists, especially biologists, now say that heredity and genetics don't have to be our story. Rather, it is our belief in the power of genes and heredity that create. Our consciousness. Everything comes back to consciousness.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;I know in What I believe, therefore I know I can create or change anything I want. I and the Father are One, and it is the Father Who does the work! And so it is.&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://newthoughtlibrary.com/trineRalphWaldo/thisMysticalLife/thisMysticalLife.htm#8_01.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Jan[21] = "<b><em>&quot;The one who takes sufficient time in the quiet mentally to form his ideals, sufficient time to make and to keep continually his conscious connection with the Infinite, with the Divine life and forces, is the one who is best adapted to the strenuous life.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;'...sufficient time in the quiet...' - how difficult it is to find quiet!  Walk into a store and music blares; in restaurants music and tvs scream at me. At home, music or tv is snapped on as quickly as eyelids are open. Even in the yard, neighbors' music can blast two or three houses away. Even email is nosy, with all the programs being sent over the internet. We live in a society that seems to crave noise - or we are afraid of silence. One of my favorite singers sings about the silence of his soul. My soul craves silence. In the early morning, before the sun is up, not even birds are awake. That is the silence my soul craves. &quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;In the silence I hear my Beloved's voice. In the silence It whispers to me - I and Thee are One! And so it is.</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://newthoughtlibrary.com/trineRalphWaldo/thisMysticalLife/thisMysticalLife.htm#8' target='_blank'>read the source"
Jan[22] = "<b><em>&quot;Everything exists in the unseen before it is manifested or realized in the seen, and in this sense it is true that the unseen things are the real, while the things that are seen are the unreal.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;In the movie, Avatar, Jason, the paraplegic Marine,visits the moon, Pandora and begins to feel his life as an Avatar, and his relationship with the native woman, Neytiri, is the reality, while life as the Marine is not real. As everything is manifest by consciousness, I know that the things I see are the result of my consciousness; I have manifested what I see with my perceptions, my consciousness.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;As Jason dreamt a new life for himself, so too, I dream my life. As I dream, it unfolds. And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://newthoughtlibrary.com/trineRalphWaldo/thisMysticalLife/thisMysticalLife.htm#8' target='_blank'>read the source"
Jan[23] = "<b><em>&quot;The real, vital forces at work in our own lives and in the world about us are not seen by the ordinary physical eye.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;There is a part of my mind that collects all my thoughts, beliefs, feelings and memories and stores them, like an attic in which I put all the things with which I can't part, or the things with which I don't want to think about. But storage isn't the only function of that part of my mind. Affecting my life, consciously or not - is another function, one that is the great driver of my life, until I am aware of it. It hides from my conscious mind, pretending that I am in control, when it is the driver. Until I wake up to it; then I take charge. When I wake up and realize I am being driven by past memories, beliefs, thoughts, I can choose whether I want to continue to be driven, or take the reins.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;I am awake and I take charge! I am the driver of my life. And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://newthoughtlibrary.com/trineRalphWaldo/thisMysticalLife/thisMysticalLife.htm#8' target='_blank'>read the source"
Jan[24] = "<b><em>&quot;When we fully realize the great fact of the oneness of all life, -- that all are partakers from this one Infinite Source, and so that the same life is the life in each individual, then prejudices go and hatreds cease.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;I'm reading a book about an American whose life's work is building schools in Pakistan and Afganistan, because he realizes that education - especially for females - is the best defense against terriorism. Little girls who are educated grow up to raise children, both male and female, who understand that beneath our prejudices, there are people with similar desires and needs. His is not a religious or political ideology, or even a spiritual one, in the usual sense of the word. But it is spiritual in that he sees past the superficial to the spirit - the soul - of the people he meets and is, in his way, trying to make the world a better place - for all.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;Do I see beyond my prejudices and see the Infinite in every person with whom I interact? Can I let go my defenses and see with the eyes of the Infinite? To see with the eyes of the Infinite; to love with the Love that is God - this is my intention. And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://newthoughtlibrary.com/trineRalphWaldo/thisMysticalLife/thisMysticalLife.htm#8' target='_blank'>read the source"
Jan[25] = "<b><em>&quot;If our hearts go out in love to all with whom we come in contact, we inspire love, and the same ennobling and warming influences of love always return to us from those in whom we inspire them.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;I know that whatever emotion I am feeling goes out - it is like a web that I throw out - and if my emotion is love, that is the web I throw out. If it is anger, that, too, is the web that goes out, encircling, embracing...and coming back to me. Like a boomerang, whatever emotion goes out from me, is the emotion that I attract.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;It is my intention to attract only Love, therefore, I must make sure that Love is the emotion that I feel - and thus, send out. I stay centered in Love, and Love comes back to me. And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://newthoughtlibrary.com/trineRalphWaldo/thisMysticalLife/thisMysticalLife.htm#8' target='_blank'>read the source"
Jan[26] = "<b><em>&quot;And when we thus recognize the God in everyone, we by this recognition help to call it forth ever more and more.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;Ernest Holmes calls this recognition of God in everyone, deep calling to deep. God calling to God. It's sometimes difficult to remember that God is all, in all, in people whom we label evil - or even just bad. What we need to remember is that we label. God sees only God. We judge. God sees nothing to judge. I just watched a movie with a lead character who is evil by society's standard, but when the entire story is told, we understand - a little. Old conditioning - judging - is not easy to overcome. But I know from experience, when I recognize God in him, that recognition calls forth the God I know - Love and Compassion.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;My intention is to look deep - for God, for Compassion, for Love. To recognize God wherever I look, thereby calling It forth more and more. And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://newthoughtlibrary.com/trineRalphWaldo/thisMysticalLife/thisMysticalLife.htm#8' target='_blank'>read the source"
Jan[27] = "<b><em>&quot;And in a sense love is everything. It is the key to life, and its influences are those that move the world.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;What won't we do for love? Sadly, however, most of us are or have looked for love everywhere but where the greatest love is found - hidden within ourselves. Looking for love in all the wrong places, in the wrong people, we fail to see love is right where we are. I've learned the hard way, that until I found the greatest Love, I never had love. Love for my self has been hard won, and having won it, I realize I never really loved at all. I've found that Great Love, and through It, I found my self. And now I can love others, freely and completely.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;How blessed I am to know this Love - the fire of the Universe - God! And to know I am safe and secure in that Love, and from that place of security, I can love boldly, without fear! And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://newthoughtlibrary.com/trineRalphWaldo/thisMysticalLife/thisMysticalLife.htm#8t' target='_blank'>read the source"
Jan[28] = "<b><em>&quot;Love and its kindred emotions are the normal and the natural, those in accordance with the eternal order of the universe, for 'God is love.'&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;For someone who grew up wanting to be loved and never quite feeling it, this is a revelation! Love is normal and natural.  I know this, now, for I know God, but I wonder if the people who live on the streets know it. I wonder if they ever feel love? And, knowing Love the way I do, can I walk down a street lined with people who live in cardboard boxes and feel love for them? Would they feel love coming from me? There are more than 90,000 people who live on the street in Los Angeles. I wonder if they feel love.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;My heart opens to Love and, I hope, I send out a vibration of love to anyone I meet, no matter who they are, where they live.  They and I are One! And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://newthoughtlibrary.com/trineRalphWaldo/thisMysticalLife/thisMysticalLife.htm#8' target='_blank'>read the source"
Jan[29] = "<b><em>&quot;You can never put into permanent form inspirations higher than those that come through your own soul.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;My physical ego-mind may want something it thinks will make me happy, but my soul knows better. I may yearn for material things, but if my soul doesn't, they'll never materialize. Jesus said, so many years ago, 'Seek ye first the kingdom of heaven and all these things will be added to you...'. does that mean that if I turn to God, I'll automatically get the little red convertible I think will make me happy? No, it means I've got to be happy first - because true happiness comes from being aligned with my soul. The kingdom of heaven is a state of mind and being attuned with God brings on that state. That is True happiness.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;My soul knows where happiness lies. Turning my thoughts to God, I feel this happiness flood through me. And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='hhttp://newthoughtlibrary.com/trineRalphWaldo/thisMysticalLife/thisMysticalLife.htm#8' target='_blank'>read the source"
Jan[30] = "<b><em>&quot;In order for the highest wisdom and insight we must have absolute confidence in the Divine guiding us, but not through the channel of someone else. &quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;This is the greatest gift of the New Thought Movement: 'the Divine guiding us...'; we don't need someone else to guide us, to tell us what to do. We don't need priests or pastors, or channels or descended masters or angels. We need only to get quiet and spend time in silence, listening. Everything we need is within. So easy, so difficult. &quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;Today I intend to listen to the Voice within, knowing That is the only guidance I need. God and I are One! And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://newthoughtlibrary.com/trineRalphWaldo/thisMysticalLife/thisMysticalLife.htm#8' target='_blank'>read the source"
Jan[31] = "<b><em>&quot;be true to your own soul, for it is through your own soul that the voice of God speaks to you. This is the interior guide. &quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;What does it mean to be true to my own soul? Shakespeare admonished, '...to thine own self be true..'. When am I being true to myself? Am I being true to my self, my soul, when I'm watching something on tv that I don't really enjoy, to keep my husband company? Am I being true to my self when I'm folding clothes or shopping for groceries - or cooking; all things I don't really enjoy. Yes, I am, because these are the things that make a life; these are things that are necessary in life. Perhaps I'd rather be cycling or reading, or painting, or writing, but the day-to-day activities are part of my soul's journey as well. So, I '...chop wood...' and know that I am listening to my interior guide, as It teaches me the way of Love.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;Today, I practice the Presence, with everything I do or say. God in all, as all. And so it is!</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://newthoughtlibrary.com/trineRalphWaldo/thisMysticalLife/thisMysticalLife.htm#8' target='_blank'>read the source"

Feb = new Array
Feb[1] = "<b><em>&quot;NOT ONLY our Bible but the scriptures of all the nations of the world testify to the existence of an invisible force moving men and nature in their various activities.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;The ancient mystics knew what science is now telling us: there is a force - some call it the Field, some the Matrix, some Energy - that animates this universe. Every person, every object, is this force made manifest, made into form. All activity is the result of movement of this force. Science and spirituality are merging, a testimony to the unity of the universe.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;Universe - One Verse. One Song. My song. And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://newthoughtlibrary.com/fillmoreCharles/AtomSmashingPowerOfMind/atom_018.htm' target='_blank'>read the source" 
Feb[2] = "<b><em>&quot;<em>Different nations ostensibly believe in the same scriptures, but they have various concepts of the universal Spirit; some conceive it to be nature and others God. Robert Browning says, 'What I call God . . . fools call Nature.'.</em>&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;Shakespeare said, 'A rose by any other name would smell as sweetly...&quot;. What I call God, some people prefer the Universe, or Spirit. It matters not to me, and less to God. What matters is that we awaken to that Universal spirit within, to know It intimately as the Power that flows in our bodies. &quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;This I know for sure: God and I are One, and nothing else matters. And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://newthoughtlibrary.com/fillmoreCharles/AtomSmashingPowerOfMind/atom_018.htm' target='_blank'>read the source"
Feb[3] = "<b><em>&quot;When man arrives at a certain point in spiritual understanding it is his office to co-operate with the God principle in creation.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;I am by nature an introvert. I naturally prefer the world - my world - of books, thinking, reading, dreaming, painting, to that of large gatherings. But as Charles Fillmore said, and as did Ernest Holmes, once a person has heard this teaching, she can't stay in her cave. She has to go out into the world and share what she has learned. I am a co-creator with God. As one of my mentors said, &quot;God has me now and won't let me go!' No going back to the safety of my mind. I'm out there on the edge of Eternity, sharing what I learn daily. &quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;Today I learn, and I share, God is. And so It is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://newthoughtlibrary.com/fillmoreCharles/AtomSmashingPowerOfMind/atom_018.htm' target='_blank'>read the source"
Feb[4] = "<b><em>&quot;It is possible for man to form states of consciousness that are out of harmony with the God principle, but these do not endure, and through experience man learns to adjust his thought to that of God.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;The word 'good', which we usually think of in terms of something valued or enjoyed, has another, perhaps little known, meaning: 'that at which all things aim.' Plato and Aristotle used the word with this meaning. Contemplating my good in the light of this meaning, then, adjusting my thoughts to those of God, would mean that my life is aimed toward my ultimate good - or God. I strive to aim toward being centered in God, whatever may be going on in my life, with the innermost knowledge that I am supported and sustained by life, by God.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;Good draws me close, draws me forward. I surrender to my Good. And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://newthoughtlibrary.com/fillmoreCharles/AtomSmashingPowerOfMind/atom_018.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Feb[5] = "<b><em>&quot;People in this atomic age civilization ask why God does not reveal Himself now as He did in Bible days. The fact is that God is talking to people everywhere, but they do not understand the message and brush it aside as an idle dream.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot; I'm guilty.  For years I'd hear a whisper or have a feeling, and ignore it, thinking it wouldn't be anything but silly me.  Even when I had three major accidents because I didn't listen.  God finally got my attention.  I listen, because I know that whisper or that feeling is not silly me.  God, my Inner Guide, never lets me down, always gives me good advice - I just need to pay attention! &quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot; I listen and I heed. God leads me to quiet pastures. I am safe and secure. And so it is! &quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://www.newthoughtlibrary.com/fillmoreCharles/AtomSmashingPowerOfMind/atom_020.htm#TopOfText ' target='_blank'>read the source"
Feb[6] = "<b><em>&quot;The body is the instrument of the mind, and the mind looks to the Spirit for its inspiration. A very little observation shows that the purer the mind the greater its capacity to receive and interpret the ideas imparted to it by the Spirit.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;My mind decides what my body is. When it is the guiding light of my life, my body reflects it. When I give in to the cravings and desires of my body, it reflects that, too. This is clearly demonstrated by the old adage, 'you are what you eat; if your diet is primarily soft, doughy foods (oh, those apple fritters!) then your body will be soft and doughy!' If I want a strong body, I have to train my mind, first. Train it to crave tomatoes, instead of potatoes; greens rather than apple fritters. Train my mind and my body will follow.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;I can, if I think I can! Yes, I can!  And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p><a href='http://www.newthoughtlibrary.com/fillmoreCharles/AtomSmashingPowerOfMind/atom_020.htm#TopOfText target='_blank'>read the source"
Feb[7] = "<b><em>&quot;ZEAL is the great universal force that impels man to spring forward in a field of endeavor and accomplish the seemingly miraculous. It is the inward fire that urges man onward, regardless of the intellectual mind of caution and conversation.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;I just watched a game that, though superficially it is a physical game, at its core it is a game that supercedes the intellectual mind. It is a game that can only be played and won when the inward fire of zeal is actualized. The zeal to win. We all have that capibility, that inner fire, but many of us just don't recognize it - or we tamp it down because of fear. We were all born zealots - just watch any child at play. I spent my early years tamping down my zeal. I don't want to do that anymore. For the rest of my life, I want to live with that inner fire blazing. I want to live like the zealot I am! &quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;My zeal has been awakened by my knowledge of who I am! I am a zealot for God! I am That! I Am! And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://www.newthoughtlibrary.com/fillmoreCharles/AtomSmashingPowerOfMind/atom_026.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Feb[8] = "<b><em>&quot;<em>TRULY, 'thoughts are things,' and powerful things at that, when they are mixed with definiteness of purpose, persistence, and a BURNING DESIRE for their translation into riches, or other material objects.</em>&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;If every thought I have manifested, my life would truly be chaotic. Fortunately, the Universe responds to vibrations, so it is my thoughts that have passion behind them, passion, mixed with purpose and persistence, that the Universe manifests. The every day mundane thoughts that clutter up my mind don't have enough pasion to manifest. Thank God! And it is with great thanks that I know that it is my passions - things and ideas that I desire wholeheartedly- that become form.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;I intend to be more selective with my thoughts, turning them only to that for which I am passionate. One thing I know: Thoughts become things! And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://www.newthoughtlibrary.com/hillNapoleon/thinkAndGrowRich/#c1#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Feb[9] = "<b><em>&quot;...kindle anew in your mind the fire of hope, faith, courage, and tolerance. If you have these states of mind, and a working knowledge of the principles described, all else that you need will come to you, when you are READY for it..&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;Of all the words in this sentence, all of which are important for creating the life I want, the most important are: 'When you are READY for it.' I just watched the movie, <em>The Field of Dreams</em>, for at least the third time, but this time it meant more to me, because this is the first time I watched with my metaphysical eyes and knowledge. I saw beyond the superficial. When he was ready, he understood why he needed to build the baseball field in the middle of his cornfield. When I am ready, my dreams are manifest. When I am ready means two things:  1) when I have a mental equivalent of what I say I want, and 2) when my vibration matches my mental equivalent.<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;I know what I want; I have a mental equivalent, and I guard my vibration so that it stays high, matching my mental equivalent. I co-create my life with God!  We are One!  And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://www.newthoughtlibrary.com/hillNapoleon/thinkAndGrowRich/#c1' target='_blank'>read the source"
Feb[10] = "<b><em>&quot;One of the most common causes of failure is the habit of quitting when one is overtaken by temporary defeat. Every person is guilty of this mistake at one time or another.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;Defeat and its cousin, depression, are common causes of quitting anything - giving up on a dream, quitting an exercise or diet program, even a relationship. If we don't have instant results, we think, 'what's the use?' but success isn't like a box of instant potatoes. You can't put success in a box, then take it out, hydrate it, cook it and voila! You have your dream served up on a platter. Success takes perserverance, stick-to-it-ness, and belief. If we give up on our dreams we've admitted defeat, and that flys in the face of an abundant God.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;I know my dream. It's so big it shakes the ground. I know What's dreaming my dream, and I know What and Who sees that it manifests. God and I together, Co-Creating! And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://www.newthoughtlibrary.com/hillNapoleon/thinkAndGrowRich/#c1' target='_blank'>read the source"
Feb[11] = "<b><em>&quot;Success comes to those who become SUCCESS CONSCIOUS. Failure comes to those who indifferently allow themselves to become FAILURE CONSCIOUS.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;I don't think people consciously are failures. Most just don't realize that success or failure is a state of mind - that we have access to a Power that guides us to success, but that same power will make us failures. That Power is our minds. How we use our minds determines whether we are successful or not. And we get to decide what success means - each of us has a different idea of what being successful - or a failure - looks like.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;What a wonderful revelation - to know that my success depends only on me! Knowing this, I declare my intention to focus only on what I know makes me feel successful! I turn inward, to the One Mind, One Power, and use that Mind, that Power, to create the life of my dreams. And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://www.newthoughtlibrary.com/hillNapoleon/thinkAndGrowRich/#c1' target='_blank'>read the source"
Feb[12] = "<b><em>&quot;We refuse to believe that which we do not understand. We foolishly believe that our own limitations are the proper measure of limitations. &quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;My soul knows - I am an unlimited boundless being. My ego cries, &quot;no, no, no! No, you can't do that. No, you can't have that. No, you can't be that! Who do you think you are?!' My soul whispers, 'You know who you are. You are the Divine. When are you going to start acting like it?' &quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;My soul knows. I remember. I am the Divine. From this second on, I intend to act like Who I Am! I Am That! And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://www.newthoughtlibrary.com/hillNapoleon/thinkAndGrowRich/#c1' target='_blank'>read the source"
Feb[13] = "<b><em>&quot;If the thing you wish to do is right, and you believe in it, go ahead and do it! Put your dream across, and never mind what 'they' say if you meet with temporary defeat, for 'they,' perhaps, do not know that EVERY FAILURE BRINGS WITH IT THE SEED OF AN EQUIVALENT SUCCESS.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;Ernest Holmes wrote that if what we want harms no person, there is every reason to believe that our desires will be manifest. Keeping your own counsel, however, is wise for two reasons: 1) if you talk about your dreams often, the Universe, not knowing the difference, may think your dream has manifest, and 2) there may be people who would discourage you, robbing you of the manifestation of your dream. Some people only see failures, not the '...seed of an equivalent success.' &quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;I know my dream. It is so big it shakes the ground. I know Who dreams my dream, and That Which manifests it. God and I - Co-Creators! I Am That! And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://www.newthoughtlibrary.com/hillNapoleon/thinkAndGrowRich/' target='_blank'>read the source"
Feb[14] = "<b><em>&quot;A BURNING DESIRE TO BE, AND TO DO is the starting point from which the dreamer must take off. Dreams are not born of indifference, laziness, or lack of ambition.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;Emotions, thoughts and feelings are the language of the soul. Without a burning desire for something, the soul ignores us. When we are passionate about something - so passionate that we think about it constantly, that we do all we can to see it manifest, then our soul responds. The soul isn't a wimp and doesn't respond to wimpish ways. It wants passion!&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;I know my dreams. They are so big they shake the ground! No wimp, I. And I know What dreams my dreams. God and I - Co-Creators. I Am That! I Am! And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://www.newthoughtlibrary.com/hillNapoleon/thinkAndGrowRich/' target='_blank'>read the source"
Feb[15] = "<b><em>&quot;Awake, arise, and assert yourself, you dreamers of the world. Your star is now in the ascendency. &quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;Though this was written in the early twentieth century, it holds true for today. All around me I hear laments about '...this economy...'. I even catch myself saying it. Wishing, hoping, despairing, even dreaming, can be seductive. It's easier that taking action. In New Thought there is a saying, 'our business is the what; God's is the how,' and often this gives us permission to wail like the Israelites in the wilderness, wondering why they listened to Moses; why they were wandering in a wilderness when they could be back in Egypt. The known discomfort is always better than the unknown. But Napoleon Hill says, '...your star is on the ascendency...' so I know my time of waiting is over. My soul is urging me to take action.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;I listen, I hear, I know...God and I - Co-Creators of my dreams. And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://www.newthoughtlibrary.com/hillNapoleon/thinkAndGrowRich/' target='_blank'>read the source"
Feb[16] = "<b><em>&quot;...all who succeed in life get off to a bad start, and pass through many heartbreaking struggles before they 'arrive.' The turning point in the lives of those who succeed, usually comes at the moment of some crisis, through which they are introduced to their 'other selves.'&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;Many times success isn't attained because people give up too soon; what they want to attain doesn't come quickly enough. The majority of us want instant gratification - I want it now! - and when our success doesn't come as fast as we think it should, we give up. A popular story of motivational speakers is that of the many 'failures' Edison had before he prefected the light bulb. He didn't look at his trials as failures; he considered them experiences in learning. In the many crises I've encountered in my life, I've met my 'other selfs' and I've met my Self. It is my Self that saw me through.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;God and I - Co-Creators of my life. I Am That! And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://www.newthoughtlibrary.com/hillNapoleon/thinkAndGrowRich/#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Feb[17] = "<b><em>&quot;The imagination is literally the workshop wherein are fashioned all plans created by man. The impulse, the DESIRE, is given shape, form, and ACTION through the aid of the imaginative faculty of the mind.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;Goethe said, 'if you can dream it, you can do it...'. Imagination is the place where dreams take form. For many, our imaginations have been stifled - we think we have no imagination. But watch a child at play...listen as she acts out her imagination. We were all born that way; we've just tamped it down through the daily grind. I've discovered, as I've become free, my imagination was just stifled, hidden away in the closet of my mind. I'm letting it out to play and the more we play, the greater it becomes, just waiting for the right time when it and my dreams can dance.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;I know whatever I can imagine - and I can imagine anything! - manifests easily. God and I - Co-Creators. And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://www.newthoughtlibrary.com/hillNapoleon/thinkAndGrowRich/' target='_blank'>read the source"
Feb[18] = "<b><em>&quot;DEFINITENESS OF PURPOSE is the starting point from which one must begin.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;We live in a universe that responds to our vibration. If our vibration is in tune with our purpose - how enthusiastic are we? How intune are we with what we say we want? - then the universe will respond to that vibration, and we will see what we want. If we send mixed messages to the Universal Law, then mixed messages is what we'll receive. To know our purpose, our desire, as the person who knows she is destined for something in particular, and pursues it without waver, to be so definite, is where we begin.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;I know my purpose. I know what I want. I know for what I was born. I know, and it manifests easily. And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://www.newthoughtlibrary.com/hillNapoleon/thinkAndGrowRich/#c6' target='_blank'>read the source"
Feb[19] = "<b><em>&quot;God seems to throw Himself on the side of the man who knows exactly what he wants, if he is determined to get JUST THAT! &quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;If we have a tendency to blame God for bad things and give God the credit when things go well, then it might seem that God is on the side of those who know exactly what they want. However, Science of Mind teaches that God as the Universal Law, obeys every feeling we have. If we're feeling good, the Law magnifies the good; if we're down, the Law magnifies that, as well. This is something every person can test for himself: observe your emotions, how your day is going. If you don't like what you see, know that you are in control. You get to decide to be happy or not. All it takes is the decision to be happy.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;Today I intend to be happy. I rejoice and know that God is on my side - no matter what! And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://www.newthoughtlibrary.com/hillNapoleon/thinkAndGrowRich/#c6#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source" 
Feb[20] = "<b><em>&quot;...an idea is an impulse of thought that impels action, by an appeal to the imagination. All master salesmen know that ideas can be sold where merchandise cannot.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;Renee Descartes wrote, 'I think, therefore, I am', implying that because he could think, he existed. Neuroscientist Antonio Demasio, in his book, <em>Self Comes to Mind</em>, postulates that it was only after language was developed that minds were realized. Before language, thoughts were something floating around in the heads of the thinkers, never realized. And even today, thousands of years after language developed, if we are inert, our ideas stay in our heads, never seeing the light; never realized, they still remain, just ideas, just thought. If I am God in disguise, then it is I who must put my ideas into action.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;I am God in the flesh. Together, God and I co-create my life. And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://www.newthoughtlibrary.com/hillNapoleon/thinkAndGrowRich/' target='_blank'>read the source"
Feb[21] = "<b><em>&quot;Ideas are intangible forces, but they have more power than the physical brains that give birth to them. They have the power to live on, after the brain that creates them has returned to dust.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;There are those who argue that the brain created the mind. There are those who say it is the mind that created the brain. But, as Napoleon Hill stated so many years ago, ideas are more powerful than brains, because brains die, but ideas live on. What if the idea that Edison had for the light bulb died with him? We'd still be reading by candlelight when the sun goes down. What if any of the ideas of all the great philosohers died when they did? We'd be in the dark, philosophically.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;Beyond the physical, there is the One, from which all ideas come. I Am That! I Am. And so it is.&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://www.newthoughtlibrary.com/hillNapoleon/thinkAndGrowRich/#c6TopofText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Feb[22] = "<b><em>&quot;The starting point of all achievement is DESIRE. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;Desire is that which has manifested in everything I see. The desire of the Divine to know Itself created the universe. My desire to express myself in many ways has caused me to put pen to paper, paint to canvas, and plant seeds in the earth. The desire to express my inner being pulls me forth. Everything I am or have is the result of a desire to express inner urges. The desires I have are not weak. My spirit is not weak, though my flesh may be. But my spirit is stronger. It blows on the sparks of my desires and they flare into a mighty flame.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;I feel the flame of my desires and know that I am in tune with the Fire that is God. I Am That! I Am! And so it is.&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://www.newthoughtlibrary.com/hillNapoleon/thinkAndGrowRich/#c6TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source" 
Feb[23] = "<b><em>&quot;...mind everywhere, in all ages, has begun when proclaiming that outside of, and greater than any power exhibited by anything in nature, or in man, is a being called God.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;There is that within that is greater than anything we can conceive. When our minds comprehend this, that which, along with Emma Curtis Hopkins, I call God, we know true Power. All the power that humans want is right here within our very being. The power for which man desires enough to wage war is a false power. War and greed will never completely access this Power. It is the same Power that created butterflies and babies; It is the Power that responds to all, but if used to the detriment of humankind, It will, eventually, boomerang. It is the power of good and evil, but good prevails.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;I know this Power. I know It is my Power and creates what I desire. I use It wisely, to create the life I want. And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://newthoughtlibrary.com/hopkinsEmmaCurtis/scmp/scientificMCP_011.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Feb[24] = "<b><em>&quot;...there is a marvelous power in every word...It contains its own potentiality.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;Quantum physicists teach of potential - everything exists as a potientiality. Nothing is real until we make it so. In the Bible, John wrote, '...the Word became flesh and dwelt among us...'. That which is Pure Potential became flesh. We have within the potential to create whatever we want, and we do so with our word. Our words become our world. What words will I speak today to create only what I want?&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;I intend to speak only words that create what I want.  I intend to speak only Love. And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://newthoughtlibrary.com/hopkinsEmmaCurtis/scmp/scientificMCP_011.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Feb[25] = "<b><em>&quot;God was the beginning of all. God is the presence of all.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;God was; God is. I don't need to know anything else. All I need is right here, right now:  God is the Presence. When I am in the place of knowing this with every cell of my being, I have everything I need. How can that be? Just knowing God is - how does that pay the rent? Buy food? When I know God is, I know that God is my Source and everything comes to me, easily, gracefully.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;God is; I Am. And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://newthoughtlibrary.com/hopkinsEmmaCurtis/scmp/scientificMCP_011.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Feb[26] = "<b><em>&quot;...denials...are the habits of thinking which belong to our manner of believing in the absence of our particular good.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;Two people can look at the same thing and see something entirely different. One may see an opportunity or challenge; the other may see insurmountable problems. When a person constantly sees only a half-empty glass, instead of a glass that could be refilled, he is denying his good. Habitual denial becomes a habit, until the person has a constant flow of negativity in his life. We can only experience what we allow into our lives.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;My good flows to me, easily, gracefully. I look with the eyes of expectancy in every area of my life. I experience all the good that God has to offer. And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://newthoughtlibrary.com/hopkinsEmmaCurtis/scmp/scientificMCP_049.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Feb[27] = "<b><em>&quot;...the claim of being ungrateful for your possessions, or for your education, or for your lot in life as it is, when met by you, melts down and leaves you the master you were when you first came forth from Om, the Divine Mind.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;Everything, for me, fades into God, goes back to God. Being grateful, being ungrateful, feeling prosperous, not feeling prosperous, feeling joy, not feeling joy - nothing matters, when I am in the place of knowing that I dissolve into OM, the Divine Mind. Now, not someday, when my soul leaves my body. Now is the time. God and I are One.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;OM. My life, my Identity. I AM That! And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://newthoughtlibrary.com/hopkinsEmmaCurtis/scmp/scientificMCP_050.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Feb[28] = "<b><em>&quot;Prosperity is the acknowledgment, either consciously or unconsciously, of the presence of God.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;Psychologist Carl Jung said, 'Evoked or not evoked, God is present.' Whether we invite God's presence, It is always present, however when we consciously acknowledge the presence of God, the Power is greater. When we consciously acknowledge God in our lives, we can experience the Power and the prosperity of God in a greater way. &quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;I recognize the Power and the Presence in my life every moment. I know that God is always right where I am!  God is my Center. God and I are One! And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://www.newthoughtlibrary.com/hopkinsEmmaCurtis/scmp/#c3' target='_blank'>read the source"

Mar = new Array
Mar[1] = "<b><em>&quot;Jesus Christ used that Word, evidently, but only to the ears attuned to it was its tone clear enough to be heard by man. &quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;'The Word became flesh and dwelt among us...' - the Word that Jesus used and the Word that became flesh are one and the same - God. The One Great First Cause became flesh, not just in the person of Jesus of Nazareth, but in each of us, in all of creation. Everything I see, feel, touch or hear, is God.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;One God.  One Mind.  One Universe.  That One is my Identity.  God and I are One!  And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://www.newthoughtlibrary.com/hopkinsEmmaCurtis/scmp/#c3' target='_blank'>read the source"
Mar[2] = "<b><em>&quot;To the great Om, which is the pressing intelligence and wisdom of your own mind, you would say, 'Thou knowest that I am not wicked, for thy hands fashioned me.'&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;Evil is the big stumbling block. How could a benevolent God let thus and so happen?  A terrible earthquake, flood, tornadoes, the murder of innocent people, especially children. Diseases that take the lives of so many, again, especially children. I am reminded of the Biblical Job, when God thundered, '...Where were you when I created the universe...?' and of Krishna, when he reveled himself to Arjuna, in the Bahagava Gita. God created, out of Itself, an entire universe. Where was I and who am I to question? And yet, I question <em>because</em> of who I am.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;God fashioned me out of Itself. Anything wicked in me - I fashioned. But I know my Redeemer! God and I are One! And so it is.&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='hhttp://www.newthoughtlibrary.com/hopkinsEmmaCurtis/scmp/#c3#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Mar[3] = "<b><em>&quot;<em>...our soul is an emanation from the Universal Soul, and partakes of the Divine Nature. The soul in man is the self-moving principle...</em>&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;All mystics proclaim that man is an incarnation of the Universal Soul - God - thus having a divine nature. Sometimes my actions seem to belie my divinity, but then I remember, God encompasses all - the good, the bad, the ugly. A tornado or a calm day, both are God. And sometimes both reside in me. But one thing I know: God and I are One.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;One Mind. One Soul. I Am That! And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://www.newthoughtlibrary.com/hopkinsEmmaCurtis/scmp/#c3' target='_blank'>read the source"
Mar[4] = "<b><em>&quot;High resolves made in intense feeling have been like oak trees. &quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;The convergence of science and spirituality make clear that we live in a Universe made of vibration and that It responds to vibrations. When my vibration and my desires and intentions converge, my desires manifest quickly. The Universe just ignores milk toast, wimpy sighs. It responds with a resounding 'Yes!' when I match my vibration to what I say I want.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;My dreams are huge - so huge they shake the ground! And the Universe hears and responds - 'Yes!' And so it is! &quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://www.newthoughtlibrary.com/hopkinsEmmaCurtis/scmp/#c3' target='_blank'>read the source"
Mar[5] = "<b><em>&quot;There is no storm of adversity that can shake your name through the ages, if your affirmations are lofty enough concerning the dealings of your God with you.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;From quantum physics we know that everything is energy - everything. You, me, the chair on which I'm sitting, the pen with which I'm writing. Everything. From metaphysics we know that if everything is energy, anything is possible. If anything is possible, then anything I desire is possible, if, as Emma Curtis Hopkins said, '[my] affirmations are lofty enough...&quot;. Knowing that God - the Universe - responds to vibration, I make certain that my affirmations are lofty enough!&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;My dreams are lofty - my dreams are huge - so huge they shake the ground! And the Universe responds - Yes! And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://www.newthoughtlibrary.com/hopkinsEmmaCurtis/scmp/#c3' target='_blank'>read the source"
Mar[6] = "<b><em>&quot;Whatever draws you toward it, making you think it can satisfy you, governs you, and is your God.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;Oh, this is a hard one! But, I feel the truth in it. And I know it is so. For years I chased one thing and then another, trying to fill my hole. Then I realized, nothing satisfied me. When I reached that place, I could hear What really satisfies. Deep within all, our souls are crying for us to hear, to turn toward the only thing that satisfies, the One. The One True God.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;My search has ended. My flight has ended.  I have found true satisfaction. God - my Redeemer, my Beloved. I rest in Thee, oh, God. And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://www.newthoughtlibrary.com/hopkinsEmmaCurtis/scmp/#c3' target='_blank'>read the source"
Mar[7] = "<b><em>&quot;It is not until the power of the word has come that the word is worth while. The word is a pathway to the power of God.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;Words are important in affirming our good, but it is the power behind the word that attracts the attention of the universe.  It is the feeling tone of our words that reach the universe and manifests our desires.  Only when we put strength and power and conviction into our words will we manifest what we desire.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;I know my dreams.  I know my desires.  My dreams are so great they shake the ground!  And I know Who dreams my dreams.  God and I together co-create my life.  And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://www.newthoughtlibrary.com/hopkinsEmmaCurtis/scmp/#c3' target='_blank'>read the source"
Mar[8] = "<b><em>&quot;Letting forms remain, opposing nothing, but nowise deceived, recognizes Me in all people and in all things. This is another way of saying that Spirit is the only substance.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;How easily the words slip out: 'God is all there is.'  And yet, does my life reflect this?  Do I really believe it? I have no difficulty in recognizing that Spirit is the only Substance in most things, in people, even people whose actions I may think are 'wrong' - actions with which I disagree.  But there are some areas in which I struggle to see God as Substance.  I know that is something with which I need to spend time in prayer.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;This minute, I surrender all to Spirit - the only Substance.  God is my Source, of everything.  And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://www.newthoughtlibrary.com/hopkinsEmmaCurtis/scmp/#c8' target='_blank'>read the source"
Mar[9] = "<b><em>&quot;Thus man is Spirit. If man, or all, is Spirit, then I am Spirit. If Spirit cannot be in poverty, I cannot be in poverty. If Spirit cannot be burdened, I cannot be burdened. If Spirit cannot be sick, I cannot be sick. All these are nothing to Spirit, therefore they are nothing to me. I am not deceived by any of them.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;Every time I Say, 'I am ...', and it is opposite of my good, I separate myself from God.  If God is good, and my good is God; if man is Spirit, and I am, because Spirit is the only substance, then I can know nothing of poverty, disease or unhappiness, because Spirit knows nothing of these.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;My Good is my God, therefore I am whole, happy, and prosperous!  How sweet, to know this Truth!  And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://www.newthoughtlibrary.com/hopkinsEmmaCurtis/scmp/#c8' target='_blank'>read the source"
Mar[10] = "<b><em>&quot;However happily any of us may be circumstanced we can all conceive something still better, or at any rate we should like to make our present good permanent...&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;Most of us thought our present good was permanent a few years ago. The economy was good and growing steadily. Then something happened; the economy collapsed, jobs were lost and it seems as though we will never recover.  We were - and still are - looking for security in the wrong direction.  We think our security is in the government, our jobs, the economy.  And it isn't, as we've witnessed.  The only true security we have is within.  The direction we need to look for security is within.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;I know where my security lies.  It is within me - the Power that created the universe is within me, accessible to me at any moment.  I only have to turn within and I know the greatest security, the greatest good!  And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://www.newthoughtlibrary.com/trowardThomas/creativeProcessInTheIndividual/cpi_003.htm' target='_blank'>read the source"
Mar[11] = "<b><em>&quot;...we shall find as our studies advance that the prospect of increasing possibilities keeps opening out more and more widely before us...&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;Like the horizon that keeps moving away, no matter how far we go, there is always something new, something more, as Troward said, '...the prospect of increasing possibilities...'.  The Infinite opens out before me.  Anything is possible, if I am open to it, if I don't stop the flow with doubt.  If I, standing before a blank canvas, doubted my ability to create a picture with paint, it would never happen.  This applies to anything I want to create - a painting, a million dollars, the house of my dreams, anything.  The possibility is in my mind; the potential is in my mind.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;I banish all doubts.   The Creative Principle and I co-create my desires, right now!  And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://www.newthoughtlibrary.com/trowardThomas/creativeProcessInTheIndividual/cpi_003.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Mar[12] = "<b><em>&quot;IF we ask how the cosmos came into existence we shall find that ultimately we can only attribute it to the Self-Contemplation of Spirit.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;There are scientists who say what ancient mystics have said:  the universe is the thought of God manifested.   The universe is the thought of God set into motion.  As I think about something and then write it down, God thought and set the thought into motion.  As I think about something, and then write it down, God thought and set His thought into action, the universe was created.  I am a thought of God in action.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;The Mind that contemplated, and then formed, the universe, is my mind. The Mind of God is the Mind I use when I think.  I live, move and have my being in this Mind.  And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://www.newthoughtlibrary.com/trowardThomas/creativeProcessInTheIndividual/cpi_014.htm' target='_blank'>read the source"
Mar[13] = "<b><em>&quot;Now the only mode of action not of a material nature is Thought, and therefore to Thought we must look for the origin of Substance.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;Substance is that from which all have come, but from what did Substance come?  Troward posits that Thought is the origin of Substance.  As I am a microcosm of the macrocosm, what I do is a reflection of Divine Action.  My thoughts become the substance of my life, therefore It resonates with me that Thought would be the origin of Substance.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;As the Great Creative Mind thought the universe into being, my thoughts create my individual universe - all the acts and actors in my life.  God and I - Co-creators!  And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://www.newthoughtlibrary.com/trowardThomas/creativeProcessInTheIndividual/cpi_018.htm' target='_blank'>read the source"
Mar[14] = "<b><em>&quot;Can we talk to God?&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;Most of us talk to God too much.  We're so busy talking that we don't hear God talking to us.  I've had friends like that - they're so busy talking about themselves, there's no room in the conversation for me.  If all we do is talk, God and friends, will stop listening.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;I listen for that Voice, because I know it is That Which guides me.  God, my Inner Guidance. I listen, and heed!  And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='www.newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/ebellLectures/ebell_005.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Mar[15] = "<b><em>&quot;There are moments when the individual consciousness feels itself merged with the Universal, then it knows and no longer asks for explanations.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;There is that time of sweet emergence with the Universal Presence; when I am in that place I know no fear, no doubt, no need. When I am in that place of Wholeness, everything falls into place, like tumblers in a lock when all the numbers line up.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;I know that One, and I know It is my identity.  God and I are One!  And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='www.newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/ebellLectures/ebell_005.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Mar[16] = "<b><em>&quot;The heart longs for, the mind comprehends and the intellect needs such a contact–the influx of divine ideas stimulating the will to divine purposefulness.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;However independent we think we are, sooner or later Spirit slips through the cracks of our hearts and reminds us of Who we are.  We may be asleep to this longing for most of our lives, but it is there.  Anything we long for, is just a paltry stand-in for the Divine.  Only God satisfies, only being in alignment with the '...divine purposefulness...' brings happiness.  Jesus said, 'Seek first the kingdom, and all else is added...'.  Being centered in Spirit brings everything we need...and then some.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;My heart has found its resting place in the Divine.  I Am That!  I Am!  And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://www.newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/ebellLectures/ebell_005.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Mar[17] = "<b><em>&quot;It is fundamental to our belief that there is a Presence in the universe with which we may consciously communicate and which will consciously respond to such communication.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;There is a Presence that brings me solace when I am frightened; a Presence that comforts me, brings me joy.  It is that Presence with Which I communicate, and It responds to me. 'And He walks with me and He talks with me and He tells me I am His own.'  The one Presence&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;I take my troubled heart to the Presence and I am healed.  And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://www.newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/ebellLectures/ebell_005.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Mar[18] = "<b><em>&quot;That instinctive sense of the Divine Presence which is inherent in us all is there because it is true, and in the state of each person's intellectual capacity to perceive truth, it comes out, and to each of us becomes our God. &quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;My life has been a spiritual quest and now I know why.  There is within us all an '...instinctive sense of the Divine...'.  What I thought was me in search of answers to my religious questions, was God wanting to be known, God calling me home.  I could feel the yearning, and tried to quelch it, tried to satisfy it with so many things.  Nothing would do until I stopped my search and opened my heart.  And now I know:  God was there all the time, with arms wide open to enfold me into Love.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;My God, my God - how grateful I am!  And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://www.newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/ebellLectures/ebell_007.htm#TopOfTextt' target='_blank'>read the source"
Mar[19] = "<b><em>&quot;...wherever deep cries unto deep, deep answers deep.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;Just as a child - of any age - longs for her mother's arms, so does my soul long for God.  My soul longs to drink the water that always quenches its thirst, satisfies its hunger.  When I have questions, God has the answers.  Deep calls to deep, and deep answers.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;I go to the well that is never dry.  I drink from the water that slakes my thirst.  How sweet It is!  My soul knows, God and I are One!  And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://www.newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/ebellLectures/ebell_016.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Mar[20] = "<b><em>&quot;Science is already deserting its old materialistic basis and indulging in philosophic viewpoints. All branches of knowledge are converging, and a fundamental unity is becoming more and more evident.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;Ernest Holmes wrote this statement more than sixty years ago; it is more true today than ever.  Science is, indeed, '...deserting it's old materialistic basis...' and merging with spiritual beliefs.  What ancient mystics have taught, science is beginning to realize, and speak of.  The greatest of minds, then and now, speak of a unified world - the universe is truly one!&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;What a marvelous time to be alive - to know this Truth - God and I are One!  And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://www.newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/ebellLectures/ebell_016.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Mar[21] = "<b><em>&quot;We all wish to feel that the power behind everything is good as well as creative, an eternal and changeless Intelligence in which we live, move and have our being.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;know that God is all, encompasses all; I know that disease, tsunamis, earthquakes, tornadoes, fires, anything that I name evil - I know that these are part of what I call God.  That is sometimes difficult to get my mind around - and yet, I know it is my mind that names something good or evil.  I know, at some level, that God is - that's all.  Nothing more, nothing less.  God is.  And yet, I believe, I feel, that '...the power behind everything is good...'.  I feel this goodness, this beauty, this creativity, deep in my soul.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;How I love to tell the story - of God in all Its glory!  My God, my God!  How awesome, how marvelous, how magnificent!  This is my Identity!  And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://www.newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/ebellLectures/ebell_017.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Mar[22] = "<b><em>&quot;The only answer to this question is that we are each individuals left alone to discover ourselves, creatures of volition, intelligence and will, fused into personality for the purpose of producing a real entity–an actual, conscious being. &quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;Science of Mind teaches that we are always at choice.  For the first thirty-five years of my life, I didn't know I had a choice.  Until I was married, my mother told me what I could or couldn't do, then my husband told me.  I didn't know until sometimes in my thirty's that I could decide my life.  What a revelation!  I get to choose to be happy or sad.  I get to choose what I'll wear, what I eat, what career path to foolow.  I get to choose what religion - or not - I follow.  What a liberating concept - and how frightening, because if I get to choose - I might make the wrong choice!&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;Today I choose to be happy, no matter the situation.  I choose - how marvelous, what freedom!  And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://www.newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/ebellLectures/ebell_018.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Mar[23] = "<b><em>&quot;The storehouse of nature may be filled with good, but this good is locked to the ignorant.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;There is within each of us a power that, when tapped, brings us all we could ever want, and then some.  But most of us don't know this.  We are ignorant of this power, therefore the storehouse is locked to us.  We have the key, but we either don't know it or know how to use it.  The key is our consciousness, our awareness of that power within.  Once we become aware of that power, we can use it wisely, to create our lives the way we want.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;I know that Power.  I know it as my power.  I know it is Who I Am.  I use it wisely.  And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://www.newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/ebellLectures/ebell_018.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Mar[24] = "<b><em>&quot;As our intelligence increases and our capacity to understand the subtle laws of nature grows, we will gradually be set free.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;Ernest Holmes, through the Science of Mind, teaches that the soul's journey is progressive, always evolving upward.  As we evolve we understand more and more how the laws of the universe work.  We understand and use the Law in a more discriminating way, ever careful of our thoughts, of how the Law responds to our thoughts. &quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;I am aware of the power of my thoughts, and I am careful of those thoughts.  I turn away from that which is negative and focus on what brings me joy.  And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://www.newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/ebellLectures/ebell_018.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Mar[25] = "<b><em>&quot;Evolution is an eternal unfoldment. Life reveals itself to whoever is receptive to it.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;I see examples of this every day.  There are people who, when I say something about God, roll their eyes, or turn their head, or their eyes glaze over.  i can sense when someone is so tuned into the material, the physical, world, that they can't hear, or don't want to hear, anything 'spiritual' or 'religious'.  I am remined that to a mentally ill perosn, a healthy person is an anathema.  Like the vampire that can't exist in the light of day, people who are ignorant of thier true self, who aren't ready to know of the life within, turn away from those who have awakened.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;I know my Bliss; I call it God.  I know my Life; I call It God.  I know:  God and I are One!  And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://www.newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/ebellLectures/ebell_019.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Mar[26] = "<b><em>&quot;The birth of spiritual ideas into the human consciousness meets with three distinct reactions: the orthodox say that God never intended such things to be, else He would have revealed them through His prophets; the materialist laughs at them; the childlike are receptive. &quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;Someone said that it's never too late to have a happy childhood. I heard that about thirty years ago and I've been learning to be a child ever since.  I like the word whimsy - it has a magical sound to me - and I like to think that I have whimsical moments.  Those are too few, I fear, because I've learned late the childlike trust in my spiritual self, in God.  I am learning, and practicing, being a child; I am learning and praticing, that being spiritual means that laughter and fun have their place in life.  I vow to devote the rest of my life to having as much fun as I can!&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;God is in my laughter, as well as in my tears.  We are all That!  and so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='hhttp://www.newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/ebellLectures/ebell_019.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Mar[27] = "<b><em>&quot;We deal with the whole person only when we deal with the mental, spiritual and physical faculties working in unity.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;Often, 'spiritual' people - myself included - disregard the body, or the mind - or both.  The spiritual life - what we think of as the spiritual life - is the most important.  The mind and body are just inconveniences.  However, if we live in a spiritual universe, as Einstein said, then every thing is spiritual.  That means that my body and my mind are just as spiritual as my soul.  As we say, if God is all there is, what does that leave out?&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;My body, mind and spirit are in harmony.  I Am That!  I Am!  And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://www.newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/ebellLectures/ebell_020.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Mar[28] = "<b><em>&quot;All creation, ourselves included, is the result of the contemplation of this First Cause within and upon Itself.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;It's easy for me, as a creative person, to understand that everything in the universe is the result of God contemplating and then creating the universe.  It's even easy for me to understand God contemplating within Itself - God thinking, and having thought, the universe was created.  The entire universe is an effect of the First Cause.  Where I am different is that I often look at what I created and nitpick it - or am outright critical.  Even though I may love something I've created, I can still find flaws.  Imagine God finding a flaw in Its creation.  My understanding of God is that God saw Its creation and called it good.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;I am a creation of God.  I am the imagination of God personified in me.  I Am That!  I Am!  And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://www.newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/ebellLectures/ebell_022.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Mar[29] = "<b><em>&quot;The spontaneity of our inner perceptions which enable us to know truth, either through experiment or by pure intuition, is ample guarantee that humanity is akin to divinity, and that within every person God is concealed, waiting to be revealed through purpose, thought and act.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;Within each of us, no matter whether pauper or king, saint or hardened criminal, there is the Divine.  However, in some the light is so dim it barely can be seen.  God is hiding, waiting for the moment of discovery, when a thought or act reveals the Truth.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;We are all inherently divine.  God, in All, is All.  And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://www.newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/ebellLectures/ebell_022.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Mar[30] = "<b><em>&quot;Within our nature is a reality which knows no difference between itself and the Great Self. It is this indwelling 'I' which Jesus referred to as the Father indwelling him.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;Jesus knew God the Father, the I Am, as Abba - Daddy.  He knew God on such an intimate basis because he spent time with God, alone, just the two of them, until he didn't know where he began, or God began in him. The two became One.  We are all one, but many of us don't know God on such intimate terms.  We still think of God as remote, far away.  We're still waiting for God to come into our hearts, our lives.  We're still waiting for a sign, when all the time, God is right here, in the midst of us, waiting to be recognized.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;I open my heart and my mind, knowing God is right where I am.  We are One!  And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://www.newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/ebellLectures/ebell_023.htm#TopOfTexttive_01.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Mar[31] = "<b><em>&quot;he more completely we become conscious of this Divine union, the more power we have over our own existence...&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;Some days I feel totally powerless; my life seems to be totally out of my control.  Those are the days I haven't spent enough time alone with God. Ive been so busy doing I've forgotten my Being.  So I take the time, I bring my consciousness back from this physical life, to that Greater Life.  As I move, figuratively, to Higher Ground; as I begin to feel the Presence alive within myself, I begin to feel powerful again.  I know where the control button for my life is.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;The power and the Presence within - this is my Truth.  And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://www.newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/ebellLectures/ebell_025.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"

Apr = new Array
Apr[1] = "<b><em>&quot;We should not separate life from living, Spirit from matter, nor Divine Principle from a universal creation. God is 'all in all'; that is, God is, and is in everything. &quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;We separate ourselves from God when we compartmentalize our lives:  this part is 'spiritual'. this part is not.  Einstein said we live in a spiritual universe, therefore everything, every person, every part of life is spiritual.   Everything.  If God is spirit, and God is all, then every thing is spiritual.  There is no part of me or my life that God is not part of, though I once thought so.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;My mind, my body, my brain, my emotions, my life - we are all God.  Halleujah!  And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://www.newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/ebellLectures/ebell_025.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Apr[2] = "<b><em>&quot;...the spiritual genius discloses an intuitive knowledge which can be accounted for only on the theory that we lie in the lap of an Infinite Intelligence.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;I know that within me there is a power that I can use to make my life better, but I also know that same Power is Mother, Father, God, the One First Cause, Creator of the Universe.  The One that I go to when I am lonely or scared, and that I can feel the Everlasting Arms holding me in an embrace, just as a mother holding and soothing her child.  I love this; it gives me comfort.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;Within me, surrounding me, supporting me - God, Mother and Father.  Ah, ow It comforts me!  And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://www.newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/ebellLectures/ebell_025.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Apr[3] = "<b><em>&quot;Emerson tells us that nature is Spirit reduced to Its greatest thinness, and Spinoza says that mind and matter are the same thing, while Jesus boldly proclaimed that the very words which he spoke were Spirit and were life.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;'...Nature is Spirit reduced to Its greatest thinness...' - when I walk out into my garden I am so aware of God.  All around me I feel Its Presence. I love spring for its promise of renewal - new life springing up from the ground; new leaves popping out on the tree limbs. Why is it more difficult to feel the Presence in humanity?  There is chaos and order in all of Nature, the newness of spring in everything, even in humanity.  But we are taught that to be 'spiritual' is to deny the chaos and to be only peaceful and loving.  But my Soul knows:  chaos is part of the journey and It relishes every moment!&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;Spirit and I - One!  And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://www.newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/ebellLectures/ebell_026.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Apr[4] = "<b><em>&quot;Brother Lawrence, a Carmelite lay brother of the 1600s noted for his prayerful life, reached a stage of perception where it was impossible for him to pick up a straw without realizing that it was God acting through him.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;God acting through me - do I realize this, to the degree that every action I make is God acting through me?  Have I reached this high level of perception?  Intellectually, yes.  In my heart - sometimes.  I say sometimes, because I divide myself again: the sometimes is when I act in compassion, in love.  I forget that God is all, therefore, when I am not acting in compassion or love, I make God out to be evil.  Oh, how that hurts my spirit!  I am like Paul:  I do not do what I would do, and do what I would not!&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;It is my intention do let God be the loving Presence in my life, in my actions.  God and I - One!  And so it is.&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://www.newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/ebellLectures/ebell_026.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Apr[5] = "<b><em>&quot;In mental treatment this sense of our union with the Divine Mind constitutes the power of the spoken word.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;It is only after I've spent time in the Silence that I feel any power behind my word.  When I spend time alone with the Divine I feel the Power coursing through me.  I know my unity with God then.  I know my unity with everything in the universe.  I sense a oneness that I lose sometimes if I don't keep my appointment with God.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;I come to the Garden alone and we walk together - my God and I.  And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://www.newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/ebellLectures/ebell_026.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Apr[6] = "<b><em>&quot;'Wilt thou be made whole?' is the question which this inner Principle places before the intellect.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;Though we scurry after material things, thinking the next new toy will bring us happiness, it is the Inner Principle that brings lasting happiness.  Our intellect would scoff at this Inner Principle and would have us turn our sights again to the material, but sooner or later we begin to wake up and realize what's important, what's lasting.  Wholeness comes from aligning our self with that Greater Self.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;I sit.  I listen.  And then I feel the Stillness of the Inner Principle coursing through my subtle body.  I Am whole!  And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://www.newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/ebellLectures/ebell_027.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Apr[7] = "<b><em>&quot;The furtherance of evolution depends upon our ability to sense a unity with nature and her forces.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;This is, according to everything I read, and to what I witness coming from the media, more true than when Ernest Holmes wrote it.  When we know our unity with God, we know our unity with nature, with our fellowman, with the universe.  When we are in that place ofknowing our unity we are at peace.  Peace coems one person at a time, spreading throughout the world.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;I seek my Oneness.  When I am in that place, I am at Peace. And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://www.newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/ebellLectures/ebell_027.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Apr[8] = "<b><em>&quot;When the knowledge of this unity comes alike to all people, the tread of armies will cease and the bugle call will echo the soft notes of brotherly love. &quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;Much ado is being made about 2012 - is it the end of the world, or just the end of the world as we know it?  Will the day, December 21, pass like any other day, just as the year 2000 passed - oh, ho, hum, another day?  One thing I know - without a consciousness of unity of many people, it may be the end of the world.  As with everything, knowing our unity with the Divine, with each other, is the way to peace and harmony.   Without unity with the Divine, there is no peace.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;I am inherently divine.  God and I are One!  And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://www.newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/ebellLectures/ebell_027.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Apr[9] = "<b><em>&quot;Humanity, as we understand ourselves, is the result of our conscious thoughts and acts, plus our subjective reactions to life, plus that indefinable something which is the Spirit in us. &quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;Without Spirit, there is no 'me', there is no humanity.  Whether we are aware of it or not, without Spirit, we have no life.  Our conscious thoughts and actions are a result of the memories and beliefs that are stored in our subconscious minds, but we are microcosms of the One Universal Mind.  There is only God and Its manifestations.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;I am aware of my unity, my oneness with God, the Spirit.  I know that we are One.  And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://www.newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/ebellLectures/ebell_029.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Apr[10] = "<b><em>&quot;It is generally accepted that subjective mind is the silent builder of the body, the seat of memory and the repository of thought and emotion. This inner consciousness is the medium between thought and its manifestation.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;The subjective mind of which Ernest Holmes speaks is called the subconscious mind by psychologists - the id of Freud.  Every thought, memory and emotion is stored there, not just ours, but those of the people with whom we come in contact, images we see on tiv, words we read in the newspaper.  The subconscious mind is no respecter of persons.  It responds to all as it responds to me.  It doesn't know a dime from a dollar, a rich man from a poor.  But it runs our lives; it builds our bodies, or creates illness.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;I am aware of the driving force in my life, therefore I intend to teach it the route I want to go.  I am the captain of my soul, the master of my fate.  And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://www.newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/ebellLectures/ebell_030.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Apr[11] = "<b><em>&quot;The metaphysician proclaim[s] a universal subjectivity of which our individual subjectivities are but personal uses. This greater subjective mind is the universal principle of all thought and action.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;There is a Universal Law - the soul of the Universe, Ernest Holmes called It - that responds to our thoughts, emotions and feelings.  While It is the servant of Spirit, It is also our servant, once we understand and begin to use it intelligently, consciously.  Until then, we are Its servant, simply because of our ignornace of how It works&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;I am aware of how the Law works in my life.  I consciously create today, knowing that the Law and I together create this day.  I am careful of my words, thoughts and feelings.  And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://www.newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/ebellLectures/ebell_031.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Apr[12] = "<b><em>&quot;If we have a true conviction which is in line with the ultimate harmony, we can create an idea which must clothe itself in a form equal to our mental equivalent of such an idea.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;How do we know when our true conviction is in line with the ultimate harmony? When I have a passion for something, and the manifestation of it will harm no one.  Howard Schultz, the ceo of Starbucks, has a passion for excellent coffee - and for discriminating coffee drinkers.  His passion created what he calls the Starbucks Experience - stores world-wide that feature only the best coffee, served in such a way that people are seduced into coming back for more.  Schultz's passion extends to the people who work for Starbucks, extending to employees the same passion and compassion that he had for coffee and coffee drinkers.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;I know my convictions - my dreams, my passions - and I know Who dreams my dreams.  God and I - co-creating my world!  And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://www.newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/ebellLectures/ebell_031.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Apr[13] = "<b><em>&quot;When we wish to demonstrate these principles, we should act as though they were true. We should daily affirm the presence of a Divine Law which obeys our word, insofar as this word is in harmony with the truth.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;Act as though...what word I speak, it is imperative that I act as thought it were already so...because it is!  Everything already exists in the mind of God, it is only my finite eye that doesn't see it, my finite mind that doesn't comprehend.  But if I wait until I do see it, it may never appear.  Quantum physics teaches that we see it when we believe it.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;I speak my word, then I act as though my word has manifest.  And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/ebellLectures/default.htm#Godspeaks' target='_blank'>read the source"
Apr[14] = "<b><em>&quot;What a glorious concept is the idea of an eternal creative Principle! There is no stagnation in Spirit, nor should there be any in our idea of spirituality. To be spiritual is to create.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;I'm happiest when I'm creating, whether it's a Sunday message, writing something, painting, or even creating something new for dinner.  The creative process makes me feel alive!  And, having discovered Science of Mind, I understand why.  When I'm not creating, I am stagnant, dying, even, a little.  I'm not 'being all I can be' and for me, this is a little death.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;Today I intend to create a day full of love and laughter as I live up to my Potential.  And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://www.newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/theBibleInTheLightOfRS/bibleRS_005b.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Apr[15] = "<b><em>&quot;The simplest explanation of his [Jesus] power is the most direct and the truest. Jesus understood spiritual things because he specialized in them. His life was given over to the study of God, man, and the universe and the relationship between the creature and the Creator.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;As the days draw closer to Easter, that day when so many celebrate the resurrection of Jesus, my thoughts go to this man.  The object of worship os so many, and yet he said, 'What I do, you dan do, and even greater.' The power that Jesus had is universal, available to all.  It is the power to heal our lives - every aspect - and yet we deny it.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;There is a Power within me that heals.  I avail myself of it and use it wisely, to heal myself, and in turn, others.  And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://www.newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/theBibleInTheLightOfRS/bibleRS_035.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Apr[16] = "<b><em>&quot;God is One. Man is the product of this One and comes to himself only as he approaches the One.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;The One.  This is my identity.  I may be known as, call myself, Gale, but at the core of my being - my essential Self - God is Who I am.  I don't say this in an arrogant way.  I am not the One Who created the Universe, yet that One is Who I am, because there is only One.  If there is only One, there cannot be God and me; there can only be God, living as me.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;I rest in the knowledge of my Identity, God, knowing that in the resting, all is well.  And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://www.newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/theBibleInTheLightOfRS/bibleRS_036.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Apr[17] = "<b><em>&quot;In the midst of this drama of human existence, Jesus declared that the meek shall inherit the earth...Do we teach our children to follow the steps of a Caesar and a Napoleon? Or do we tell them the story Of Jesus or Buddha.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;From glaring headlines to movies and television, even popular boooks, the evidence is clear:  more is taught about violence - Caesar and Napoleon - than about peace and harmony - Jesus and Buddha.  Our answers are to send in the guns, regardless of who gets hurt.  In 2011, violence seems to still be the answer.  How can the meek inherit the earth when we answer violence with violence, when we can't seem to find another answer?&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;My desire is to answer with peace, joy, harmony and love.  These are the attributes of God that I intend to be my own, regardless of the circumstances.  And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://www.newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/theBibleInTheLightOfRS/bibleRS_037.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Apr[18] = "<b><em>&quot;Is there anyone who does not have a soul hunger? Does not the spirit of man thirst after knowledge and understanding?&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;When I started college I remember thinking, as I completed the application, 'Now I will know the truth.'.  When I finished seven years later, I thought, 'All I've learned is a bunch of theories.'.  In fact, one of my professors said as much:  'What we're teaching is all lies, tomorrow there will be something new.'.  But what I know is, in Science of Mind I've found the Truth:  God is All.  I know it is the Truth because it makes my heart sing.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;God is All.  And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://www.newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/theBibleInTheLightOfRS/bibleRS_038.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Apr[19] = "<b><em>&quot;Jesus saw beyond the veil and estimated life from the great perspective,— the long run of the adventure of the soul.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;How easy it is to get caught up in this life - its triumphs, its failures, its high points and low points - and think this is all there is.  This is my life, for better or worse.  Nothing more, nothing less.  And then my soul nudges - or hits - me and reminds me, yes this is a great adventure, this physical life - sometimes the roller coaster is exhilerating, sometimes terrifying, but it's only part of the adventure of my soul.  There is more to life than the physical, and yet, the physical is important, equally.  The soul yearns for both, for an integration, for wholeness.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;My life is God's life - both the physical and the spiritual - it's all One.  And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://www.newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/theBibleInTheLightOfRS/bibleRS_039.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Apr[20] = "<b><em>&quot;Christ means the Universal Idea of Sonship, of which each is a member. That is why we are spoken of as members of that One Body...&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;Christ isn't the last name of the man, Jesus of Nazareth.  Jesus embodied the perfect idea of God, the perfect man.  He was a wayshower:  he pointed the way to God, to heaven as a state of mind.  Each of us is the Christ, when we step into, embody, our I Am identity - whe we realize our unity with God.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;I Am That!  I Am.  And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://www.newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/scienceOfMind1938/som1938_357.htm#Who%20Is%20Christ?' target='_blank'>read the source"
Apr[21] = "<b><em>&quot;We should turn to that Living Presence within, which is the Father in heaven, recognize It as the One and Only Power in the Universe, unify with It; declare our word to be the presence, power and activity of this One. &quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;Turning to that Living Presence within, I know It is my essence my core. I know It is the One and Only Power.  If God is all, and I believe It is, there can only be One.  Not God and me.  Just God.  And knowing there is only God, I know my word is the Presence, the Power and the Activity of the One, the Absolute.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot; I speak my word, and Thunder rolls.  God and I are One!  And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/creativeMind/creative_01.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Apr[22] = "<b><em>&quot;the Eternal is forever begetting that which is the realization of Its own perfection. It is an eternal process; It is the Son of God, and the Son of God is Christ.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;'...an eternal process...' - how comforting to know that I am an eternal process.  For years I've felt an inner urge to hurry, do this, do that, and always feeling I would never get to what I was 'supposed' to do, or wanted to do.  Now I rest in the knowledge that it'll all get finished, or it won't - and that doesn't matter.  What matters is that I know my place in the 'Son' - I am the Christ, as I know my Oneness.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;I Am That!  I Am!  And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://www.newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/scienceOfMind1938/som1938_357.htm#Who%20Is%20Christ?htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Apr[23] =  "<b><em>&quot;We should turn to that Living Presence within, which is the Father in heaven, recognize It as the One and Only Power in the Universe, unify with It; declare our word to be the presence, power and activity of this One.  &quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;Recognizing the One, the Father in heaven, and knowing that It is the only One, this is the Power that Jesus used to heal the sick, to raise the dead.  Knowing his Oneness with God is how he came to be called the Christ.  And...the same Power is mine; when I recognize that Power within me, I am unified with It.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;I and the Father are One!  And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://www.newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/scienceOfMind1938/som1938_357.htm#Who%20Is%20Christ?TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Apr[24] =  "<b><em>&quot;If we could stand aside and let this One Perfect Life flow through us, we could not help healing people! This is the highest form of healing.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;It is written of Jesus that just his presence changed the consciousness of those nearby; it is written that there was a woman who thought,'If I could just touch the hem of his garment, I would be healed.'  Jesus stood aside and let the One flow through him.  The One Perfect Life - this is that Which heals.  When we - I - am able to get my ego out of the way and let God flow through me, what miracles might occur?  What healing wil happen?&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;Today - Easter Sunday - I intend, I desire - to let God, the One Perfect Life, flow through me.  I desire to be an instrument of God.  And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://www.newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/scienceOfMind1938/som1938_358.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Apr[25] =  "<b><em>&quot;What should we try to heal through spiritual treatment? If we were dealing only with the power of a thought, we should not expect to heal anything; but if we are dealing with a Universal Principle, why should we set any limit to Its power?&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;If I try to heal with my thoughts, I can understand why there might be limits.  My thoughts, mundane as they are, squirrel around so, I feel like I'm chasing the wind.  I try to focus on something I want to heal, and tomorrow's to do list pops up.  My mind feels sometimes like an undisciplined two year old!  Blessedly, Ernest Holmes reminds me I don't rely on my thoughts exclusively to heal.  I put my trust in the Universal Principle - I surrender my thoughts, my concerns, to Universal Principle - and let It do the work.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;Into Thy hands - I surrender.  And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://www.newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/scienceOfMind1938/som1938_215.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Apr[26] =   "<b><em>&quot;'In the beginning, God! In the beginning, Spirit or Intelligence only. No manifest universe! No system of planets! No visible form, nothing but the Life Principle. God, the Spirit, had not yet moved upon the waters. Th&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;I watched a video about the Big Bang - how the universe began.  Out of nothing, came a big explosion and the universe was born.  Mystics tell us that when we go into the Silence deep enough, we experience that Nothingness, that Life Principle.  It is indescribable, yet we try to find words to describe it.  Watching the tv program I felt the indescribable.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;Out of the Nothing, came life.  God broke Itself into millions, billions, of pieces so that there could be life. In the beginning, God!  And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://www.newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/scienceOfMind1938/som1938_063.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Apr[27] = "<b><em>&quot;Being thus conscious, and desiring to manifest in form, He did so manifest through the power of His Word, which is Law.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;'In the beginning was the Word...', so began the Gospel of John.  'The Word became flesh and dwelt among us...', John continued.  Though I grew up thinking the Word was Jesus and applied only to Jesus, I now know the Word as the Power that is God, the Power by which the Universe was created.  And I know that is my Power; the Power by which I create my universe.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;Knowing my Power, I intend to use it wisely.  I create my life with the same Power that called forth the Universe.  And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='hhttp://www.newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/scienceOfMind1938/som1938_064.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Apr[28] =  "<b><em>&quot;He is also perfect and immutable Law. As pure Spirit, He governs the Universe through the power of His word. Hence, when He speaks, His Word becomes Law. The Law must obey.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;Ancient Greek philosopher, Hereclitis, said, 'As above, so below.'  We humans are the manifestation of God, as is all of the universe.  God spoke and the Law obeyed, by creating the universe.  Scientists now say that the universe is a hologram:  every part of the universe contains the whole.  I am a hologram of God, therefore, as above, so below.  God spoke the universe into being; I speak my universe into being.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;God and I are One!  And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://www.newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/scienceOfMind1938/som1938_064.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Apr[29] = "<b><em>&quot;...we state our First Principle as an Absolute Intelligence. It is impossible for thought whether it be philosophic, scientific or religious (and these are the founts from which we gather knowledge) to deny such Intelligence. &quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;I don't believe in a random universe.  I don't believe in an accidental universe.  I believe, because it resonates at the deep level of my being, in an Absolute Intelligence, from which the entire universe was created.  It matters not to me what science or philosophers say.  I know this absolute Intelligence.  It is Who I Am&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;God and I - One! And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://www.newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/scienceOfMind1938/som1938_066.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Apr[30] =  "<b><em>&quot;Spirit is the Limitless within which is all space. Spirit is Timeless, within which is all time. &quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;My life is bound by time.  I have deadlines and schedules to keep, things I must do, want to do..all take time and I have to fit them all into twenty-four hours a day, as everyone does.  And as soon as I finish one thing, my busy mind thinks of something else.  But then I remember:  I don't have to do it all today, or tomorrow.  And I may never get everything done that I want to do.  But it doesn't matter.  These are all things my ego mind dreams up to distract me from the most important thing:  I am a limitless, timeless being, because my beingness is rooted in Spirit.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;I rest in Thee, oh, God, and know that I am complete, now!  And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://www.newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/scienceOfMind1938/som1938_067.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"

May = new Array
May[1] = "<b><em>&quot;What a glorious concept is such an idea of an Eternal Creative Principle. There is no stagnation in Spirit, nor should there be any in our idea of spirituality.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;'...an Eternal Creative Principle...' and '...no stagnation in Spirit...' - these words are music for me, singing my soul's song.  I know I am a creative person, as such my life is often messy as I move from one creative project to another. I know I'm somewhat restless and now I know why:  '...there is no stagnation in spirit...'.  The essence of my being is to be constantly creating, moving to newness, growing, expansion.  If this is true of God, which is my essence, then I accept it as true of me.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;Eternaling creating, always expanding...this is my Truth.  This is Who I Am!  And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://www.newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/scienceOfMind1938/som1938_067.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
May[2] = "<b><em>&quot;...for the many live in the One. This concept of Unity is the mystical secret of the ages, the key to spiritual wisdom and to the teaching of Jesus. &quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;One God, one Life.  This is the foundation of the teaching of Ernest Holmes, as well as the ancients. All else is an illusion, the illusion of separation.  When we believe in separation, we live in fear.  This is the cause of all war, discord, disease.  Fear of being alone.  Healing comes when we learn of and believe in our oneness, our unity, with God, with all.  Brothers and sisters, we are One.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;I know this:  God and I are One!  And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://www.newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/scienceOfMind1938/som1938_069.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
May[3] = "<b><em>&quot;If man is endowed with the attributes of self-choice and free will, he must be allowed to make this great discovery for himself. Even God could not make a mechanical individual.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;Self-choice and free will. For me, those are the answers for the most disturbing question of all: 'How could a loving God allow...?' All I have to do is look at my children - nothing I have done, experienced or said, has kept my children from wanting to live their lives their way.  I would do anything I could to keep them from being hurt, but I can't live their lives for them.  All I can do is be available when they cry.  And that's what God is: available when I cry.  I know all I have to do is turn inward and there is that One, waiting to ffer me solace.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;Into thy arms, oh God, I surrender!  And so it is.&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://www.newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/scienceOfMind1938/som1938_071.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
May[4] = "<b><em>&quot;Consider any of Nature's forces, they must have existed always, but, so far as man is concerned, they exist to be used only after he has discovered them and learned how to make use of them. &quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;The Law has existed always - never were God nor the Law created - but until I learned about the Law, I didn't know it existed, didn't know it was always operating in my life.  Even knowing, I sometimes forget.  I lose my center and wonder why nothing is going the way I want it.  Then I remember, 'something' nudges me and I come face-to-face with the Law.  Ah!  I'm doing this to myself! And in the remembering comes Grace, as I get back to Center.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;God, as the Law, is always operating; knowing this, I set my intention to stay centered.  I am confident - God and I are one!  And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://www.newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/scienceOfMind1938/som1938_071.htm#TopOfTextm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
May[5] = "<b><em>&quot;We do not see Life, we experience living. Causation is invisible.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;This remins me of an old gospel hymn, one of my favorites - He Lives.  'You ask me how I know He lives, He lives within my heart.' I know Life - God - lives, because I experience It in my heart, in my life.  I know Life exists because I experience It as I interact with my spouse, my family, my friends, other people.  I know God exists, because I see It every minute, every day.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;He lives within my heart!  And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://www.newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/scienceOfMind1938/som1938_072.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
May[6] = "<b><em>&quot;The first great discovery man made was that he could think. This was the day when he first said 'I am.' This marked his first day of personal attainment.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;My greatest discovery was the day I realized I could think for myself.  I didn't have to parrot others' thoughts, nor adopt them as my own.  It was a re-birth for me!  That was the day I began to examine all my thoughts, my beliefs, and realized I'd been living a lie - someone else's truth.  That day, my soul, though I did not realize it then, was let loose from a cage.  We - my soul and I - began to explore this thing called Life and discovered for ourselves just what It is.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;My soul and I know our Identity - it is God!  And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://www.newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/scienceOfMind1938/som1938_072.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
May[7] =  "<b><em>&quot;We are using the word 'Soul' in the sense of a Universal Soul, or Medium, through which Spirit operates. It is the Holy Ghost, or Third Person of the Christian Trinity.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;Jesus called the Holy spirit our comforter; with Its presence, his spirit would always be with us.  Spirit speakes and the Holy Ghost, the Comforter, the Soul, the Creative Medium, carries out the Word.  As above, Hereclitus said, so below.  I, as a microcosm of God, speak, and my word goes into my soul, the Law, and manifests.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.  Spirit, Soul and Body.  All One, our Holy Trinity.  And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://www.newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/scienceOfMind1938/som1938_090.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
May[8] =  "<b><em>&quot;Like the creative soil, in which seeds are planted and from which plant life comes, the Soul of the Universe is the Creative Medium into which the Word of Spirit falls and from which Creation arises.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;I'm always eager for spring; I love to pop seeds into the ground and then, a week or so later, see the new seedlings begin to appear.  It's fun to watch them grow, and nothing is better than a salad made from new spring plantings!  But I know that the plants don't appear magically - I have to nurture the ground, water and feed the soil and then the new plants.  The same is true of anything I may want to manifest n my life.  Things don't just pop into form because I think of something I want.  After I plant the seed of desire into my soul, my creative medium - the Law, which is the same Law that Spirit thinks into - I have to water it with my intentions, feed it with my feelings, beliefs and focus.  Then I will see it in form.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;Today I plant,nurture, and see manifest, the desires of my heart!  I know that what I intend and nurture comes forth.  And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://www.newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/scienceOfMind1938/som1938_090.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
May[9] =  "<b><em>&quot;We are using the word 'Soul' in the sense of a Universal Soul, or Medium, through which Spirit operates. It is the Holy Ghost, or Third Person of the Christian Trinity.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;Jesus called the Holy spirit our comforter; with Its presence, his spirit would always be with us.  Spirit speaks and the Holy Ghost, the Comforter, the Soul, the Creative Medium, carries out the Word.  As above, Hereclitus said, so below.  I, as a microcosm of God, speak, and my word goes into my soul, the Law, and manifests.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.  Spirit, Soul and Body.  All One, our Holy Trinity.  And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://www.newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/scienceOfMind1938/som1938_090.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
May[10] = "<b><em>&quot;We should not, however, think of Soul and Spirit as separate from each other. They are really two parts or aspects of the same thing, each being Self-Existent and Co-Eternal with the other.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;God in three persons, blessed Trinity.  The Trinity of Science of Mind is Spirit, Soul, and Body.  All religions and mystics speak of the One, one Supreme Being, but within the One, there are many aspects.  I am one person, but in the one I am a wife, a mother, a grandmother, a great-grandmother.  I am a friend, a counselor, a minister.  Many aspects, one person.  Many aspects, one God, or Spirit.  I find comfort in this..&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;God and I - One!  And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://www.newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/scienceOfMind1938/som1938_090.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"  
May[11] = "<b><em>&quot;...the Creative Medium of Spirit is the great Mental Law of the Universe. It is the Law, obeying the Will of the Spirit; It is the Universal Law of Mind. All law is Mind in action.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;There is that which scientists call the Mind of God; some call it the Thought of God.  Everything I see - even what I can't see - is God - Mind - in action.  Everything I see is the activity of God.  My life revolves around God - It is the centerpiece of my life.  I can't breath without thinking of God.  I can't look at anything without thinking of God.  For me - there is nothing outside God - all my life is the activity of God - even things I would call 'bad' I know that God is there in the midst, because there is nothing outside God.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;God and I - One!  And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://www.newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/scienceOfMind1938/som1938_092.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
May[12] = "<b><em>&quot;...what is called your subjective mind and my subjective mind is merely the place where Universal Subjectivity, the Creative Medium Itself, reacts to our personal use of It.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;If God is all there is, and I believe this to be true, then there is only one mind. Not my mind, not your mind - only one Mind. And this is the premise of what we in Science of Mind call Spiritual Mind Treatment: One Mind - God - into which I think. And it is the One Mind to which the Creative Medium reacts: what is thought into Mind is food for the Creative Medium. It then reacts and creates. It can only create from the material it receives. So I am deliberate about what I feed it. &quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;What I think, my mind creates. I am sure to think only what I wish to see. And so it is! &quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://www.newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/scienceOfMind1938/som1938_093.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
May[13] = "<b><em>&quot;Within us, then, there is a creative field which we call subjective mind, and around us there is a field which we call Universal Subjectivity. One is Universal, the other individual, but in reality they are one.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;In a book called 'The G.O.D. Experiments, the author, a psychologist, performs experiments to determine if there is, indeed, something he calls G.O.D. - Guiding, Organizaing, Designer. He speaks of scientists who, in their own research, have determined there is an All - a Whole - in the universe, that contains everything. And the same is true in the reverse - everything contains the All.  How marvelous to live in a time when scientists are validating what spiritual people have said all along: One God - in all, as all. One guiding, organizing Designer. &quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;This I know for sure: I and the Father are One! And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://www.newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/scienceOfMind1938/som1938_093.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
May[14] = "<b><em>&quot;It is impossible to plumb the depths of the individual mind, because it is not really individual but individualized. Behind or within the individualized point is the Universal, which has no limits. &quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;Back of everything there is the One Mind, the unlimited, unbounded Mind. This is the Mind  which I individualize, every time I think. If that Mind, which is my Mind, is unlimited, then I am unlimited. The only limitation is that which I put on myself. &quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;One Mind, that One in which I live, move, and have my being. I Am That! I Am! And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://www.newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/scienceOfMind1938/som1938_093.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
May[15] = "<b><em>&quot;...the medium is a Universal, simultaneous Presence and in this Presence all live; and that whatever is known at one point in It is known at all points, instantly!&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;From quantum physics we learn about nonlocality: 'an instantaneous influence or communication without any exchange of signals through space-time; an unbroken wholenss or nonseparability that transcends space-time...&quot;. From quantum physics we learn that the Creative Medium of which Ernest Holmes speaks, that Universal Presence, that is everywhere present at all times, instantly, is known at one point and all points. The Presence that dominates my life, according to Ernest Holmes and quantum physicists, is an unbroken Wholeness that is everywhere present. This is why I can pray for you, even when you're far away, and you feel it. Because we are connected, every minute.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;There is only One! And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://www.newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/scienceOfMind1938/som1938_094.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
May[16] = "<b><em>&quot;From the standpoint of the spiritual man, disease, poverty, unhappiness and misery, are neither person, place nor thing.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;It is only in the physical that desease, poverty, and unhappiness occur. In my spiritual being, there is only Perfection. God, Perfect Being, knows nothing of disease and poverty. When I see with the eyes of the Infinite, neither do I see anything but Perfection.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;I turn from the finite to the Infinite and know: God and I - one Perfect Whole! And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://www.newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/scienceOfMind1938/som1938_097.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
May[17] = "<b><em>&quot;THE ENTIRE MANIFESTATION OF SPIRIT, BOTH VISIBLE AND INVISIBLE, IS THE BODY OF GOD. There is One Body of the Universe. Within this One Body is included all lesser bodies.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;Gary Swartz, psychologist and author of The G.O.D. Experiments, wrote: '...the All is in the small...' and conversely, '...the small is in the All...'. Swartz, referring to what I call Spirit as a guiding, organizing, designing principle, in order to determine for himself if there is an intelligent 'something' that guides us, has spent much of his career conducting experiments that he has documented in his book. The results of his experiments have led him to what he calls an 'evidence-based faith'. In my own way, I have done the same, using my life as my laboratory. I've discovered  the same as Gary Swartz discovered: yes, there is a guiding, organizing, designer - One that guides me when I let it, and always loves me. &quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;I Am That! I Am! And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://www.newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/scienceOfMind1938/som1938_098.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
May[18] = "<b><em>&quot;Body means the entire manifestation of Spirit on all planes. 'In my father's house are many mansions,' said Jesus. We do not, of course, see all these mansions. Science has revealed to us that many exist which we do not see, and revelation has shown that the Universe is Infinite. . . . &quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;Science, allopathic medicine, and spirituality are merging.  Science and allopathic medicine are saying what mystics have said for centuries: there is more to this life than we can see with our finite eyes. The finite eye sees only this physical self. The Infinite knows there is so much more: our physical selves are surrounded by many layers of bodies; the Universe is so vast that scientists can't begin to find an end, and barely the beginning. The medical field is beginning to understand our emotions have more to do with illness than they realize. &quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;'In my Father's house there are many mansions.' This physical body, this physical life, are just part of the Infinite. And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://www.newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/scienceOfMind1938/som1938_098.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
May[19] = "<b><em>&quot;Body is always an effect, never a cause.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;We are so caught up in this physical world, so distracted by material things, we lose sight of the fact that body - mine, yours - is an effect, a manifestation of the mind. We think it's real - it looks so solid - but if we could see it under a very powerful microscope, we'd see that what we think we are is mostly space.  We are reminded to look to cause, never at effects, for healing.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;God, First Cause, Maker of all I see and all I don't see. I Am That! I Am! And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://www.newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/scienceOfMind1938/som1938_099.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
May[20] = "<b><em>&quot;The physical body is evolved for the purpose of allowing consciousness to function on this plane. The body is necessary to this plane, since only through a physical body can we properly function here.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;Although I heard that my body is the temple of God when I was younger, I must not have understood. Now I not only understand, I know at a deep level of my soul that my body is, indeed, the temple of God. My body is the vehicle for my soul's expression and experience on this earth plane. Knowing this, it is my responsibility to treat it with respect, to care for it appropriately, to feed it nutritious food, get enough sleep for revilalization, and exercise it to keep it strong and flexible. This isn't vanity. It's commonsense - and my responsibility to my Creator. &quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;My body and I - One with God! And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://www.newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/scienceOfMind1938/som1938_099.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
May[21] = "<b><em>&quot;The simplest way to think of body is to realize that it is the objective manifestation of a subjective mind and consciousness; and if we are to be well and happy, not only the body but the mind also must be peaceful and harmonious.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;Our minds are two-faced: we have a conscious and a subconscious mind. While we think we are in control - we are conscious - research suggests that our lives, including our physical bodies, are ninety-five percent driven by our subconscious minds. The subconscious mind is the storehouse of all our thoughts, emotions, feelings and beliefs, as well as all race thoughts and beliefs. Our lives are the product of memories stored in our subconscious minds. But...if we don't like what we see, we can change, by reprogramming our subconscious minds. Ernest Holmes said it: 'Change your thinking, change your life.'&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;I intend to live a life of joy and beauty, so I train my mind to reflect these. And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://www.newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/scienceOfMind1938/som1938_099.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
May[22] = "<b><em>&quot;If the body is to be permanently well, the soul or subjective life must be in poise, the mind peaceful and happy.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;Ernest Holmes, in seeing the relationship between psychology, spirituality, and health, was before his time. He knew, in the early twentieth century, what allopathic medicine is beginning to declare: there is a connection between the mind and disease. Until the mind is healed, the disease cannot be permanently cured. If there is a disease in the body, look to the mind, the subconscious mind, for the cause.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;Intending to be whole, I keep my thoughts on First Cause. I know that this is God, and I am One with God! And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://www.newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/scienceOfMind1938/som1938_099.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
May[23] = "<b><em>&quot;To suppose that the Creative Intelligence of the Universe would create man in bondage and leave him bound, would be to dishonor the Creative Power which we call God.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;<p>The Science of Mind has been my liberator, my salvation, so to speak. I spent many years believing in heaven as a reward for being 'good' and hell as punishment for being 'bad'. Since I never felt good enough for heaven or bad enough for hell, I left behind that belief and for many years drifted - or perhaps ran is the better word; I felt like I was running away from God. But then I found Science of Mind; I found somehting that resonated with how I felt in my inner self. With Science of Mind, I became liberated because I found the God I believed in - the One who created me and set me free.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;Freedom is knowing - God and I are One! And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://www.newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/scienceOfMind1938/som1938_025.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
May[24] = "<b><em>&quot;To suppose that God could make man as an individual, without leaving him to discover himself, would be to suppose an impossibility. Individuality must be spontaneous; it can never be automatic.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;When I hear people ask, 'How could a loving God allow...?&quot; I always think of this verse. Just as a mother can't stop her child from doing something (even a young child, hell-bent on doing something, will find a way!)  she knows is harmful, she has to let her child learn his own way. So many times I've tried to talk my children out of or into something, and am told to butt out. 'This is my life!' And, just as God made us and then left us to discover our true nature for ourselves, so we parents do, also.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;I learned the hard way, as have my children. But now I know...I have a loving Father/Mother/God, waiting for me to come home! And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://www.newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/scienceOfMind1938/som1938_025.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
May[25] = "<b><em>&quot;But if prophets down the millenniums spake with truth, man is essentially of incorporeal nature. The persistent core of human egoity is only temporarily allied with sense perception.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;While I appreciate and love my body, and this corporeal life, I am so grateful that there is more to me than my ego. It gets in the way so much of the time! It is like a petulant child, demanding, always demanding! I am so thankful to know that my core, my true self, is not this ego; it is more than this ego. Knowing this, I can rest in the knowledge that even at my worst, my true self reigns supreme. At my core there is that Self, poised and serene. All I have to do is remember.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;Ah, how wonderful to know - there is That which settles me, loves me, reminds me: I am loved. And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://www.newthoughtlibrary.com/yogananda/autobioYogi/#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
May[26] = "<b><em>&quot;'What is behind the darkness of closed eyes?'&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;I close my eyes when I pray and meditate to shut out the world. Closing my eyes is symbolic of going into the inner chamber of MYSELF. Closing my eyes sends a signal to my consciousness that I am moving from my outer life to the inner, to commune with my Self. I find in the darkness of my shuttered eyes a sweet communion with the Most High. I celebrate the unity I find there.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;With my eyes shut I enter into such bliss! Nothing can compare with the union of my self with my Self. We are One! And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://www.newthoughtlibrary.com/yogananda/autobioYogi/' target='_blank'>read the source"
May[27] = "<b><em>&quot;...never to use the power of words for doing harm.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;What wisdom in these few words, but so often I hear people speak such foolish words! Even from those who have learned about the power of their word; evidently they hear but do not take to heart what they hear. When I was a child a popular saying was, 'Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can never hurt me!' How wrong we were when we chanted those words! Our word has more power than even sticks and stones!&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;There is power in my word, so I use my words wisely. I speak only words that bring me love, peace and joy. And in doing so, my words bring love, peace and joy to others. And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://www.newthoughtlibrary.com/yogananda/autobioYogi/' target='_blank'>read the source"
May[28] = "<b><em>&quot;I know there is a fuller intelligence than mine; and I know that when my intelligence goes awry from lack of far-seeing, that this fuller intelligence over-rules mine...this fuller intelligence is after all my own intelligence. It is I who am doing it all the time.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;Ernest Holmes said, 'There is a Power in the Universe and we can use it.' That Power is what Elizabeth Towne called her fuller intelligence. Sometimes I remember to tap into that intelligence; sometimes I rush in 'where angels fear to tread.' And when I've rushed in, chaos happens. When I consult my intelligence, peace reigns. As Paul said, 'I do what I would not, and don't do what I would.' My humanness reigns supreme, too often.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;Today I set my intention to listen before I leap, to pay attention to that Voice that I know is much wiser than my ego mind. Ah! God and I - One! And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://www.newthoughtlibrary.com/towneElizabeth/joyPhilosophy/joy_05.htm' target='_blank'>read the source"
May[29] = "<b><em>&quot;Intelligence is not confined in bodies or brains,—no. It fills the universe. All this space between you and me is pure intelligence in which we live and move, and through which we think. &quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;One of the great blessings in living today is that we can see the marriage of science and spirituality. Once the nemesis of the spiritual life, scientists now say that we are not alone in the universe; we are bathed in an Intelligence, we live in an Intelligence, we have access to an Intelligence that not only fills the universe, it <em>is</em> the universe! How blessed we are to know this Intelligence as the Creator - Mother, Father, God - from which all have been created.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;I am so blessed. This Intelligence is my Identity. Intelligence - God - and I are One! And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://www.newthoughtlibrary.com/towneElizabeth/joyPhilosophy/joy_05.htm' target='_blank'>read the source"
May[30] = "<b><em>&quot;I fear to trust ‘the world I AM.' &quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;What sadder words than these! But, so true, for most of us. We get caught up in the material world, thinking this is what matters most, and before we know it, our lives are a video, flashing before our eyes. Life went by while we were chaising things. Not even rainbows, but things. How fortunate we are when we discover the 'thing' that matters most: I AM. How fortunate when we discover that we can trust this I AM in every aspect of our lives. What joy this trust brings!&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;Today I intend to rest in I AM, knowing this is the highest and best part of myself. And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://www.newthoughtlibrary.com/towneElizabeth/joyPhilosophy/joy_08.htm' target='_blank'>read the source"
May[31] = "<b><em>&quot;...it is never too late to consider and express what I AM—the ideal.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;I Am - metaphysically, Jesus is the I AM - the ideal Person - God incarnate. Jesus is that within each of us that is greater than our ego-self. When I contemplate this, I am in awe: I AM - this is my true identity. At the core of my being, I AM God. I Am that which created the universe, hung the moon and the stars. This is Who I am and to quote an old song, 'They can't take that away from me.'&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;I Am That!  I Am! And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://www.newthoughtlibrary.com/towneElizabeth/joyPhilosophy/joy_08.htm' target='_blank'>read the source"

Jun = new Array
Jun[1] = "<b><em>&quot;What are you reaching out after? Do you see in the world I AM something that is worth while? Do you reach after it in the world I DO? Do you keep on reaching, and looking, and reaching again?&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;I had a dream and I accomplished that dream.  I had another dream, and I saw it fulfilled. I had another, and another...Just when I think I'm through dreaming, Spirit shows me another. I've learned not to squelch my dreams with statements like: &quot;Oh, I can't do that!' or, 'How can I do that?!'  or 'I'm too hold to do that!' I know that my dreams are my soul urges - wanting continued expansion, through me, as me. And so I let my dreams take flight, knowing I don't need to know how. That's God's business.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;My dreams are so spectacular, they shake the ground. God and I - co-creating together!  And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://www.newthoughtlibrary.com/towneElizabeth/joyPhilosophy/joy_08.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Jun[2] = "<b><em>&quot;...all [a child's] thoughts are made light and bright by vivid and hope-full imagination.</em></b><br><br>&quot;Jesus admonished those who would keep the children away and told them that we all need to be as little children if we are to enter the kingdom of heaven. Have you ever watched a child who knows she's loved at play? She, safe and secure in the knowledge that she is loved, has a vivid imagination and expresses it freely. Children, especially those secure in love, are not afraid to dream, to imagine, and never doubt their dreams will manifest.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;Safe and secure in my Father's love, I let my imagination roam. I know my dreams, and I know from Whence they came! I and the Father are One! And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://www.newthoughtlibrary.com/towneElizabeth/joyPhilosophy/joy_12.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Jun[3] =  "<b><em>&quot;Because the child's thoughts are alive he is so interested in the Now that it is easy to forget the past and ignore the future.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;Tonight Rod and I were talking about the future, and then our thoughts slid to to the past. How easy it is to get caught up in either and let the present moment slip away. Too much of my life has been like that!  Too many present moments gone unnoticed! Oh, to be like a little child, relishing this precious moment, this precious experience! To be alive as a little child!&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;Forgetting the past, ignoring the future, I set my intention to live fully in each moment. I savor this moment, knowing this is where my life is! And so it is.&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://www.newthoughtlibrary.com/towneElizabeth/joyPhilosophy/joy_13.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Jun[4] = "<b><em>&quot;'Assume a virtue if you have it not,' and thus re-call it.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;All the 'experts' tell us, 'Act as though...'. If you want love, act - be - loving. If you want...whatever you want, act as if you already have it, and before long, you will. This does not mean spending money you don't have; rather, it means, visualize what it would be like to be or to have what you want. I have a dream, so I've written the dream in my journal, I visualize it every day. My next step is to look for pictures and make a collage of my dream. I keep my dream uppermost in my thoughts. It feels real to me.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;Today I picture my dream - I act as though it is real. And I know - God and I co-create my dream. And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://www.newthoughtlibrary.com/towneElizabeth/joyPhilosophy/joy_13.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Jun[5] = "<b><em>&quot;Play with your work. Wipe out the past, forget the future, and play. Live now. Be a child now.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;Ha!  How can I play with my work?! How can I forget the future? How can I play? I have bills to pay. How can I be a child? Isn't it interesting that when we're a child, we can hardly wait to grow up, to be able to do whatever we want, with nobody telling us what to do. And then we grow up and discover why our parents kept telling us that 'these are the best years of our lives'. And when we grow up, we long to be a child again. And now futurists tell us when work becomes play, the world will be transformed. In the meantime, how can I play with my work?  How can I live - be a child - now? As with everything, it's all a state of mind.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;So I turn to the One Mind. I align my thoughts with that One. When It played, the universe was created. So I let It play through me, teaching me how to play, to create. God and I co-create my life. And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://www.newthoughtlibrary.com/towneElizabeth/joyPhilosophy/joy_13.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Jun[6] = "<b><em>&quot;The cure of Age is interest, enthusiasm and their consequent activity of mind and body. &quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;Studies show that, while perhaps not preventing Alzheimer's disease, an active mind and body, i.e., exercise for both brain and body, can stave it off or prevent it from being quite as debilitating. Activity of the mind and body are suggested to prevent or prohibit the intensity of - or even reverse - most diseases. Now we're learning how important play is! And yet, when we look at this magnificent universe we live in, how can we help but play! God must have had a wonderful time creating this marvelous playground - can we do less than return the favor by playing in it?&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;So I set my intention to play more, to live life juicily! God and I - playmates! And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://www.newthoughtlibrary.com/towneElizabeth/joyPhilosophy/joy_13.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Jun[7] = "<b><em>&quot;Real wisdom is in The Limitless.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;When I try to work out a problem on my own, I nearly always boggle it. But when I take the time to tap into the Limitless Wisdom that is the Divine, then solutions come quickly, easily, gracefully. The Divine knows so much better than I what is the highest and best solution! Life is so much better when I just surrender. Why, oh why, don't I do it sooner rather than later?&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;Today I intend to listen first! I intend to let God guide me. My Inner Wisdom knows exactly what to do! And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://servingnewthought.org/resources.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Jun[8] = "<b><em>&quot;Then he [human] begins to withdraw consciousness from the outside and wake up on the inside. He begins to consult himself. He has got hold of one end of the principle of his own being and is acting upon it.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;Since the beginning of the industrial age, since the time that Renee Descartes said, 'I think, therefore I am,', mankind has been caught up in the material universe. Thinking the material, the physical, is the supreme effort, we have lost ourselves. But we are beginning to awaken, to 'withdraw our consciousness from the outside' and return to our Center, to an awareness of our inherent Divinity. We are listening to our Inner Voice and letting it be our guide.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;I intend to listen, to surrender, to heed my Inner Voice. I know that Voice is the Voice of God. How sweet to know - God and I - Co-Creators of my life! And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://servingnewthought.org/resources.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Jun[9] = "<b><em>&quot;In every man's soul is a course mapped out, a chart and compass for his guidance. If he consults his own chart and follows it he finds there are no collisions. His course is a true orbit, where all intruding matter is dissipated before it reaches him.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;I am fascinated by maps! I love to look for destinations, follow the lines from point to point. I suppose it's my old wanderlust - what's over the next hill? I wonder where this road goes? Or maybe it's my love of mystery. Whatever the reason, I am fascinated by maps. And now - GPS! I can type an address into my phone or Ipad, tap a button for directions, and there is my location! What fun! And there is a blue line with a 'stick pin' at either end, to guide me.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;My soul has its own guidance system, a map for my life, and all I need do is ask where I'm going. The direction was mapped out for me before I was born. My soul, my GPS, knows - and so do I, when I ask. And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://servingnewthought.org/resources.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Jun[10] = "<b><em>&quot;The closer you get to your own heart the nearer you will approach the hearts of others.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;Jesus told us to love our neighbor as ourselves. If we can't love ourselves, how can we say we love others? This was both a wonderful revelation and an enigma for me, as I was taught two things: 1) to put everyone else first and 2) that I was unlovable. It has taken my entire life - and Science of Mind - for me to unlearn those two things. When I learned that slandering myself was slandering God, I was dumbfounded! Learning that I am God incarnate and, therefore, inherently Divine, was a rebirth for me!&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;I know my heart - it is the dwelling place of the Most High. My heart bursts with the joy of this revelation! God and I - One! And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://servingnewthought.org/resources.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Jun[11] = "<b><em>&quot;Grow sensitive on the soul-side and know that your course is sure.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;Many years ago, while stopped at a signal light, I was lost in thought. I heard the blare of a horn behind me and realized the light had changed. The man behind me was impatient to be on his way. Emabarrassed at being 'scolded' in public, I made a gesture I had never made before, and immediately felt terrible! That night I related the story to a men's group I facilitated. The men were puzzled; one asked, 'Why does that bother you so much?' Apparently it's normal behavior for many people. I thought about it and then said, 'It hurt my spirit.' The behavior was uncharacteristic for me - not that I'm a saint; I have plenty of other 'unsaintly' behaviors, but not this.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;I have discovered that, the more sensitive I am to my soul, the more 'unsoul-like' behaviors I display disturb me. The behaviors I want to call my own are peace, love and joy. I claim these now as my experience, my identity. And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://servingnewthought.org/resources.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Jun[12] = "<b><em>&quot;...the only difference between [a] loaf of bread and...man...[is]...[a] loaf of bread has to be raised in spite of itself—it has to be kept at just the right temperature from the outside. But a man has in himself the power to make his own temperature. He can work himself up to the rising point.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;Ernest Holmes said, '...there is a Power in the Universe and we can use It...'. It is the same Power that Jesus used to raise Lazarus from the dead. It is the Power he used to heal the sick. It is the Power within each of us - the Power and Presence of the Divine. We use this Power - Dr. Holmes called It the Law - every minute of every day, consciously or unconsciously. To '...make his own temperature...', to '...work himself up to the rising point...', as Elizabeth Towne said, we must use It consciously. We must be aware of how we use the Law&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;I am aware of this Power. I know that with It I create my life. I use It wisely, so that my life is exactly what I want! And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://servingnewthought.org/resources.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Jun[13] = "<b><em>&quot;He can open the door of his heart to Love...&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;The bottom line of anything we want is love. We think we want happiness, but what is happiness if not love? In every book, every movie, every story, when we listen carefully, what we hear is a yearning for love, to be loved. Before we can be loved, however, we have to love ourselves, and how many of us truly love ourselves? Listen carefully and you hear if a person truly loves himself. This is the work: to learn how to love ourselves, and then extend that love outward.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;The deeper I go into myself, the deeper I go into God. The deeper I go, the more I learn about love, for myself, for God, for the world. God is Love. God and I are One. Therefore, I am Love and I am loved. Therefore, I have love, for myself, for all. And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://servingnewthought.org/resources.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Jun[14] = "<b><em>&quot;The only reason a man does not open his heart to Love and Will, and begin straightway to rise again, is because he does not yet understand that the buffetings of “fate” are no more “against” him than are the kneadings of the housewife against the success of her bread. &quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;I love baking bread. I love the smell of the yeast and the dough rising. I love the smell of the bread as it bakes, and especially the smell of a freshly baked loaf as it comes from the oven. And I love kneading bread, rolling and pushing, pulling and punching, feeling the dough in my hands. You know if it's going to be good by the way the dough responds to the touch of your hands. Kneading the dough is how the texture of the bread is formed. Just so, the vagaries of life form the texture of me. I know that 'fate' has nothing against me - it isn't fate - or God - that causes my downfalls - or my delights. It's all me and how I respond to everything.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;Knowing that everything is a state of mind, I am careful to keep guard over my mind, like a jealous watchdog. I want only peace, love and joy to be my thoughts. I declare those as my states of mind! And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://servingnewthought.org/resources.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Jun[15] = "<b><em>&quot;The One Great Intelligence has built in every human heart a ...guide, [which] transcends any human brain that ever existed, or ever will.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;Scientists disagree on whether the mind and the brain are the same and, which came first, mind or brain. Mystics know, the mind gave birth to the brain. Without the mind, there is no brain. Scientists also tell us, the heart has a brain of its own. In fact, every cell has a brain. And every cell has a mind. The Mind that is God permeates every cell in my body. There is wisdom there, if I would just pay attention.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;I pay attention to that great Wisdom that permeates my very being. It is my being. It is the One Great Intelligence. My Intelligence, my Guide. My North Star. I pay attention. And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://servingnewthought.org/resources.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Jun[16] = "<b><em>&quot;You have a light at your center...&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;Light, we now know, thanks to quantum physics, is what everything is made of. Light - photons - are the heart of the universe - the beginning and the end. That's science. Mystics have said - long before quantum physics - that there is a Light that permeates everything, is everything. Science and spirituality merge - as we all do - into the Light.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;In every person, there is the Light. I set my intention to see that Light, in myself, in every person, and let It guide me. And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://servingnewthought.org/resources.htm #TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Jun[17] = "<b><em>&quot;God, or love, is the law of every being. By love every being was created; by love he is held together; by love he grows.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;Love makes the world go 'round. It's the stuff - or lack of - that fills the airwaves as singer after singer laments love gone wrong. It's the thread of the fabric of every book, movie, or story. The Beatles told us, 'All we need is love...', and they were right, but it is the Love that is God that we need. Without that Love guiding us, no other love is lasting. When we are grounded in Love, we then have the ability to love all others.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;'Love all, serve all' is the motto of a well-known business. I take that as my motto, but first I must be grounded in the Love that is God. I Am That! And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://www.newthoughtlibrary.com/towneElizabeth/joyPhilosophy/joy_27.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Jun[18] = "<b><em>&quot;And he will call [for the power that is within] in perfect faith  that the demands will be met with an overflowing abundance.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;My faith is what Gary Swartz, author of <em>The G.O.D. Experiments</em>, calls evidence-based faith. I have experimented and seen results. My faith is well-grounded. I know that when I speak my word, <em>believing</em>, that the Law answers. The Law answers whether I believe or not, but this is why some say, prayers are always answered, but maybe not the way I wanted. It is the belief, the conviction, the <em>feeling</em>, behind the words that make the difference.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;I know my Power and I know It is available to me whenever I speak my word. I speak with faith that the Law is already at work, manifesting my desires. And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://www.newthoughtlibrary.com/towneElizabeth/joyPhilosophy/joy_28.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Jun[19] = "<b><em>&quot;Wherever the individual's ATTENTION goes his power goes too.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;Quantum physics tells us that nothing exists without an observer. We create the universe just by looking at it. Sometimes this is difficult to grasp - everything looks so solid and real. But if it's true that everything - my body, the chair on which I sit, the trees outside my window, my husband, my children - if everything is 99.999 percent space, then nothing is solid. Solidity of form is a learned condition: I learned it at my mother's knees; I learned it in school. We are taught to 'see what we believe'.  The beauty is, if I see something I don't like in my life, I can change it. I change it by re-focusing my attention, giving my power to what I prefer.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;My attention creates what I see. I focus my power on what I'd rather see. By focusing my attention, therefore, my power, on what I prefer, I transform my reality. And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://www.newthoughtlibrary.com/towneElizabeth/joyPhilosophy/joy_29.htm #TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Jun[20] =  "<b><em>&quot;<em>Great power, of mind or body, can never be expressed under a binding corset or binding thoughts. . </em>&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;People under the age of fifty probably don't know what a corset is - or how binding they are! Designed to hold in what you don't want to show, they restrict movement, even of breath. How liberating not to wear one, even if I might need it! Just as a corset binds my body, so, too, do binding thoughts restrict my good from coming to me. My power can never be fully expressed until I set my mind free!&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;I am my own prisoner, as I keep my mind bound up with thoughts that restrict my freedom. I can, if I think I can! My 'I can' depends only on me! I Am, therefore, I can! And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://www.newthoughtlibrary.com/towneElizabeth/joyPhilosophy/joy_29.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Jun[21] = "<b><em>&quot;<em>Fear thoughts are the only binding thoughts there are.The first step toward getting rid of fear is to know that your source of power and wisdom is the same great and limitless source from which all men must draw; and that your point of contact with this boundless supply is within you, not on the outside of you.</em>&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;I watched a movie in which the protagonist watched as his mother and father were shot down. He spent the next thirty years frozen in fear, afraid and unwilling to let himself love again for fear that he'd lose the object of his love once more. Fear can keep us immobile and living on the fringe of life, or we can face our fears and overcome them. We overcome fear by realizing that there is a power <em>within</em> us, not outside, not in something else, or someone else, but within. The power within us is that which is the well of our boundless supply.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;I know this power within and I know It melts my fears. I know that I have the Power to create my life. I create my life <em>exactly</em> as I want it, as I tap into the Power within me. And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://www.newthoughtlibrary.com/towneElizabeth/joyPhilosophy/joy_29.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Jun[22] = "<b><em>&quot;Desire governs what one draws from the uncreate[d].&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;Abraham Lincoln said, 'A house divided against itself cannot stand.' Though he referred to the United States at the beginning of the Civil War, the quote applies to our minds, as well. If we say or think we want something to manifest in our lives, we must be clear about it. If we aren't clear, the Law won't know how to respond. The Law isn't a mind reader. It needs clear and certain directions. If we send mixed messages, our manifestation will not be what we want. Our desires and our thoughts must match!&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;I know my desires and they are crystal clear! I know that my desires and my thoughts are the same. I send a clear and certain message to the uncreated and It responds <em>exactly</em> as I want! And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://www.newthoughtlibrary.com/towneElizabeth/joyPhilosophy/joy_30.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Jun[23] = "<b><em>&quot;When you go about your own work in your own way you rejoice in it all... Ah, then you enjoy what you do; you enjoy yourself...&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;How blessed I am - two fold! I am able to go about my work in my own way, rejoicing in it, and I enjoy myself! I not only enjoy the work that I do, I enjoy myself. I'm never alone because I know my Divine Self is always right where I am. This is the kind of world we want to create - a world where everyone enjoys their own work and themselves, a world where people can work and play and love. This is the Global Heart Vision of the Centers for Spiritual Living: a world that works for everyone, a world where everyone is free to be. Imagine that!&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;I set forth the intention for this world that works for everyone, a world where every person lives and works at what they love, with everything they need, including love. And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://www.newthoughtlibrary.com/towneElizabeth/joyPhilosophy/joy_31.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Jun[24] =  "<b><em>&quot;...love... is God, the only power and the only wisdom. And the chief end of you is to enjoy God, or love, forever.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;'All you need is love...', the Beatles sang so many years ago. Prophetic words, and yet, the theme of poets, writers, singers, sages, from the time we first became aware of ourselves. The bottom line of anything is the need for love, and yet we look for it everywhere but the one place it can be found, consistently, without condition...in God. There is only love, and that love is God. And all we need is Love/God - in Which and for Which we get to enjoy Love.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;Knowing love, I know God. I rest in Love, knowing I have everything I need. And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://www.newthoughtlibrary.com/towneElizabeth/joyPhilosophy/joy_31.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Jun[25] =  "<b><em>&quot;Quit looking at things and being afraid. Look to your ideals and desires, and remember your source and infinite supply.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;It's very easy to be afraid today. The news is full of doomsayers. Even email inboxes are full. Thankfully, we have a choice: we can listen and spiral down to the pit of despair, or we can keep our mind stayed on our desires and our Source. And remember: our Source is infinite. I know this and it is reaffirmed every time I look at my garden at the infinite number of flowers I see. And when one stops blooming, another starts. I know the infinite supply when I look up at the stars at night - so many they cannot be counted. I know the Infinite when I think of the fifty trillion cells in my body.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;I look to God, the Infinite, and know that all is well! I rejoice in the safety of the Infinite. And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://www.newthoughtlibrary.com/towneElizabeth/joyPhilosophy/joy_32.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Jun[26] = "<b><em>&quot;All desirable things are the result of letting out the soul­power which eternally presses for expression through you.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;There days when I have so many ideas that I despair of getting to them all. I realize that these are my soul's urging me on to a greater and greater expression of itself. I also realize that I may not accomplish all of them in this lifetime, so I just relax and do what I can today, this moment. I keep a list, however, a journal of ideas so my soul knows I take it seriously. My soul and I are in this creative act together!&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;I intend to stay open to my soul, to let It express through me, as me. Together, we create my world! And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://www.newthoughtlibrary.com/towneElizabeth/joyPhilosophy/joy_35.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Jun[27] = "<b><em>&quot;If we were a bit wiser life would be a continual playground, where we’d simply grow in wisdom and knowledge and self-use by having a good time at our games.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;I must have been born without a sense of humor - or a sense of play. My kids have said more than once, 'You just don't know how to have a good time; you don't know how to have fun!' Perhaps the reason is that whenever my mother found me playing with my paperdolls or reading, she'd find something for me to do - usually ironing. For the last twenty years, I've tried to find ways to have fun, and was always frustrated. What I thought was fun, most people didn't, and vice versa. I thought something was wrong with me. But now, I've found activities that I find joyful and I don't care what people think - I just keep on, playing and having fun, my way!&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;I've discovered joy, real joy comes from within. As I tap into that Joy, I am fulfilled. My Divine Self - real joy! And so it is! &quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://www.newthoughtlibrary.com/towneElizabeth/joyPhilosophy/joy_64.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Jun[28] = "<b><em>&quot;<em>...all life is one...there is no place...where God is not...hence, activity, Substance expressing as form, is the universe of form and force. Where the Spirit is, and it is in all places at all times, there is freedom, love, health, power, truth, life, joy.</em>&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot; In Science of Mind we are fond of saying, 'There is no spot where God is not...', but as with many quotes, more often than not, it is only lip service. Nona Brooks tells us, 'Where Spirit is, and it is in all places at all times, there is freedom, love, health, power, life, joy.' If Spirit is every where, all the time, where is the power and all the other attributes of which Nona Brooks speaks, in our lives? Do we, in New Thought, in Science of Mind, believe this or are we just glibly speaking it? Do we rattle it off as we once did (those of us who went to traditional Christian churches) John 3:16 (for God so loved the world he gave his only begotten Son...)? What do I believe, deep in my soul? Do I believe that God is everywhere - Omnipresent - at all times? If so, do I live it? Do I live my belief? Do I live as God in the flesh - as truth, beauty, health, peace, freedom, power? &quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;This is my intention: to walk, talk, live, as the great I Am. This is my identity: I Am! And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://www.newthoughtlibrary.com/brooksNona/mysteries/my_027.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Jun[29] = "<b><em>&quot;The Aristolelian philosophy teaches that the universe is a thought in God-Mind...God, the Thinker - His Thought, The Universe!...all form is a thought of God; He that keepth the world as Idea in Mind - Universal is living us now; there is no instant of separation. Substance is Spirit; Spirit in action is Creation; matter or form is Substance or Spirit in action.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;God is living us now. As I contemplate this, I feel my soul jumping in joy. God is living me now! The Universal Mind, the Divine Presence, not only created me, It lives me! When I was a child I thought God was far off, in the heavens, or beyond, looking down and making decisions about me - was I good that day? Did I deserve a reward, or was I 'bad' and needed punishing? As St. Paul said, '...when I was a child I thought as a child...but now I put away childish things...'. Now I know that I am a co-creator with God. God living Its Life through me. This is the Power - God lives through me, as me.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;I rest in that knowledge: God and I are one! And so it is&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://www.newthoughtlibrary.com/brooksNona/mysteries/my_029.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Jun[30] = "<b><em>&quot;...faith in something is necessary. While men are believing in these means of restoration, they are shrouding them in mystery. How we have worked to take life out of the natural and to surround its observances with the supernatural. Now we are coming to see that there is no supernatural, for the natural is God in action&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;The 'miracles' that Jesus performed, the 'miraculous' that happens - occasionally - now, are not really miracles to those who live as one of God. Jesus said, 'I and the Father are one;' he knew God 'as me' - he and God were one. From that belief,  miracles, to  him, were common place. He also said, what he could do, we could do, and even more, if we believed. There is no 'supernatural' in God. Only God, living through me, outpicturing as my beliefs.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;God - in me, through me, as me. We are One! And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://newthoughtlibrary.com/brooksNona/mysteries/my_060.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"

Jul = new Array
Jul[1] = "<b><em>&quot;To suppose that the Creative Intelligence of the Universe would create man in bondage and leave him bound, would...dishonor the Creative Power which we call God...the seed of freedom must be planted in the innermost being of man, but...man must make the great discovery for himself. &quot; </em></b><br><br>&quot;I watched a miracle this morning: a robin and an oriole eating from the feeder at the same time. At first they started to fight - their beaks were wide open and they squawked at each other - but then they settled down and, one on each side of the feeder, began to eat. When birds fight, they're doing what comes naturally - protecting thier territory, their families. Can we say the same of humans? When we fight, either people in a relationship, or as nation against nation, are we doing what comes naturally? Freedom is both an innate desire and our inheritance. We were born free, but have forgotten it. When we remember our inheritance, we will remember there is nothing to fight because we already have what the fight is about: freedom. &quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;I set my intention today to remember Who I am, and that I am free in Spirit, therefore, I have true freedom!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/scienceOfMind1938/som1938_025.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Jul[2] = "<b><em>&quot;The Divine Plan is one of Freedom; bondage is not God-ordained. Freedom is the birthright of every living soul...The Truth points to freedom, under Law.  &quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;I've spent most of my life trying to figure out if there is a purpose for my life. Why was I born? What am I supposed to be doing? Am I doing what I was born to do? Or: what is God's plan for my life? Is this the will of God? With these questions burning in my brain, I was overjoyed to discover these statements of Ernest Holmes! But then you might ask, freedom from what - from having to work for a living? If so, who's going to pay the bills? How will food, shelter, etc., be provided? The freedom of the Divine Plan is the freedom to know that I am the captain of my soul. I have the choice to stay in bondage to poverty and disease, to unhappiness, or to know that God and I co-create my life...through the Law. I get to choose - freedom or bondage. &quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A> :</font><br><em>&quot;Today I choose freedom. I am the captain of my soul, the master of my destiny. And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/scienceOfMind1938/som1938_025.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Jul[3] = "<b><em>&quot;...the inherent nature of man is forever seeking to express itself in terms of freedom...this Inner Voice...tells us of a life wonderful...of a love beyond our fondest dreams; of a freedom which the soul craves.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;In the 60's or 70's there was a popular song called Born Free. Though it was the theme song for a movie about an animal held in captivity, the song applies to humans, as well. Though we don't always realize it, all humans were born free, which is why we seek freedom. Though we were born free, most of us are held captive by the trappings of this physical world. We fear losing our job (or, having lost it, not getting another) because that might mean losing our house, our car, our status, or whatever material thing we hold dear. It is this fear that keeps us in bondage. We weren't born to be held captive by things. We were born to express God, to expand our souls. When we keep focused on God, our Source, then we begin to experience true freedom. &quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;I focus on God; I listen to that Inner Voice and I am free! And so it is! &quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/scienceOfMind1938/som1938_026.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Jul[4] = "<b><em>&quot;Great as the subconscious is, its tendency is set in motion by the conscious thought, and in this possibility lies the path to freedom.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;Today is Independence Day - the day we celebrate freedom. Our forefathers fought long and hard for this day, but for most of us it is a day to barbecue hot dogs and drink beer, to kick back and watch the parade, the fireworks, to party. We hang the bunting and salute the flag and gush about patriotism. We sing our national anthem and God Bless America. Some even say a prayer of thanksgiving to God and the brave soldiers who died so we can be free. But Ernest Holmes reminds us where the path to true freedom lies...in our conscious thoughts. Every thought we have is collected in our subconscious mind, lying dormant, until there is enough consciousness to manifest something in our lives. For our forefathers, it was the desire to be a sovereign nation, free from the rule of England. For any one of us, it could be the desire to be free from the chains of an illness or poverty. When we become aware of this truth, then we set upon the path to true freedom - the path our souls crave. &quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;Today, this day of celebration, I set my intention to live consciously, to be fully awake and alert, for that is where my freedom lies. And so it is! &quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/scienceOfMind1938/som1938_030.htm#TopOfText#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Jul[5] = "<b><em>&quot;The philosophy of spiritual mind healing is based upon the conception that we are living in a universe of Intelligence—a spiritual Universe; that thoughts are things, that definite states of consciousness, as they become subjective, operate through a creative field and tend to reproduce themselves in form.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;Science of Mind is the philosophy that our thoughts operate on that creative field that scientists call the Zero Point Field, some even call it the Mind of God. We think into that Field and It reacts to our thoughts. With enough feeling behind the thought - when our state of consciousness is so passionate about any given thing - the thought is manifest. This is a Universal Law - the Law that always responds.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;Knowing that my subconscious mind always responds to my conscious mind, by retaining what I think and feel, and eventually reproducing those thoughts and feelings in form, I intend to keep close watch on both. My thoughts and my feelings are positive, therefore only what I want is manifest. And so it is! &quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/scienceOfMind1938/som1938_183.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Jul[6] = "<b><em>&quot;Thought which is built upon a realization of the Divine Presence has the power to neutralize negative thought, to erase it, just as light has the power to overcome darkness; not by combating darkness, but by being exactly what it is: LIGHT.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;In his book, From Science to God, Peter Russell explores the parallels of the light of physics and the light of ancient mystics. In his exploration he discovered that both are timeless, spaceless and have no mass - meaning both are immaterial. The light of physics - and of the mystics - underlies everything. The material world is made up of light. What this means to me is that I, being both spiritual and material, am made of the light of both  physics and the mystics. The mystics called the light God. Ernest Holmes stated that we can overcome - neutralize - any negative thought when we realize the Divine Presence within. Because I am the Light there is no need to wage war against my dark thoughts. Just be the Light. This is simutaneously both easy and difficult. It's easy when I stop trying to analyze and just surrender. It's difficult when I want to explain, analyze, hold myself and the material world separate. But, like a light shining on something scary sounding in a dark room, surrendering to the Light within always brings relief. &quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;Today I intend to let my Light shine within and without. I Am that Light; I Am. And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/scienceOfMind1938/som1938_183.htm##TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Jul[7] = "<b><em>&quot;Spirit is Changeless Reality. That which we call personality is the instrument through which Spirit operates, but Spirit can operate for the individual only by operating through him. Spirit is never bound by the form It takes, and is not affected by any apparent cause or condition, but is forever free...God and man exist in an eternal state of Unity... &quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;God and I are One. Jesus and all sages have taught this, but I - in my finite mind - find it incomprehendable and so I divorce myself from my Unity. This, also, is an old teaching, but not from the sages. It is from those who came before me, who in their ignorance taught that God is 'somewhere out there'. Ernest Holmes taught that Spirit must operate through me. If I put up a block, Spirit can't work. Like a water hose that is kinked somewhere, thus stopping the flow of water, if I block Spirit,  the flow of Life is stopped. I block Spirit with doubt and disbelief. Doubting my Unity, I separate myself. Disbelieving my inherent Divinity, I block the flow of Life. Blocking Spirit, I am less than my possibility. &quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;I unblock the flow of Life in my life and my body by adhering to the admonishment: 'Be still and know that I Am God.' Be still and Know and observe how Spirit flows, through me, as me. And so it is! &quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/scienceOfMind1938/som1938_184.htm#TopOfText#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Jul[8] = "<b><em>&quot;ALWAYS EXPECT THE GOOD...above all, have a consciousness of love—a radiant feeling flowing through your consciousness at all times.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;'...have a consciousness of love...at all times.' What would my life be like if I had a consciousness of - an awareness of - love at all times? What would my life be like if I looked at everyone I meet - even people I might otherwise not like - with an awareness of love? Ernest Holmes said that love is the central flame - the very fire of the universe. If I am to experience my good, it is imperative that I have a consciousness of love - I must keep my heart open and loving, regardless. When I am in that place of love, all good flows to me. &quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;I open my heart and mind to Love. I let Love be my guide. To love is my desire. And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/scienceOfMind1938/som1938_184.htm#TopOfText#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Jul[9] = "<b><em>&quot;To daily meditate on the Perfect Life, and to daily embody the Great Ideal, is a royal road to freedom...Let us learn to see as God must, with a Perfect Vision.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;The Perfect Life - most of us have an idea of what we consider the perfect life. It is what gets us up every morning, going to a job we may or may not like, so that we can have 'the American Dream': a nice house, a car, and whatever other things we think will make us happy. But the Perfect Life to which Ernest Holmes refers is not a life style, a house, a car, the perfect job and a partner. No, the Perfect Life of which Ernest Holmes speaks is God, the One Life, from which all have come. Perfect, needing nothing to complete Itself. Perfect, without blemish. When I meditate on this Life, I know that is the only Life necessary. I know that is my Life. I live, move and have my being in that Life.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;Knowing God, the Perfect Life, is my life, I am free! And so it is.&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/scienceOfMind1938/som1938_185.htm#TopOfText#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Jul[10] = "<b><em>&quot;The possibility of life is inherent within the capacity to imagine what life is, backed by the power to produce this imagery, or Divine Imagination. It is not a question of failing or succeeding. It is simply a question of sticking to an idea until it becomes a tangible reality.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;What a wonderful concept: '...it is not a question of failing or succeeding...'! How often we don't do something because we're afraid of failing. Failure is an ego trip. When I am grounded in Spirit, I know that anything I imagine is from the Divine Imagination. I, myself, am an idea in the Divine Imagination. I know that everything I dream or desire to do, is that Divine Imagination within, urging me on to fuller and fuller expression of my Divine Self. &quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;Today I intend to let my Inner Imagination loose. I intend to live from that Imagination and let it take me wherever It will. And so it is! &quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/scienceOfMind1938/som1938_187.htm#TopOfText#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Jul[11] = "<b><em>&quot;We may pass through good fortune and bad, but if we can come to the point where we are not disturbed by 'things' we have found the secret...OUT OF ANY CHAOS WE CAN PRODUCE HARMONY.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;A few years ago a dvd and then a book entitled 'The Secret' became hugely popular. Claiming that if a person adhered to the practices revealed in both, she could have anything she desired. Ernest Holmes said, in his seminal work 'Science of Mind', that this teaching is not a road to riches. He taught that the road to freedom and happiness - which is really what people want, whether they realize it or not, is to find the secret of happiness that lies within. When we come to the place within ourselves where we are not disturbed by downturns in the economy, there will be harmony in our lifes. We will know true harmony, true peace, true prosperity when we find the real secret - that God is our Source. Everything comes from God. &quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;I relax into the knowing: God is my Source - of everything I want or need. Through good fortune or bad, I know that I am safe and secure as I lean into God. And so it is</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/scienceOfMind1938/som1938_187.htm#TopOfText#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Jul[12] = "<b><em>&quot;Know your own mind. Train yourself to think what you wish to think; be what you wish to be; feel what you wish to feel, and place no limit on Principle!  If you have reached a point where the inner consciousness believes, then your word is simply an announcement of Reality!&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;'I just can't help it - I can't control my thoughts!' I hear this lament so often and have said or thought it myself. The truth is, yes, you can. You can train your mind to turn away from negative thoughts; you can train your mind to think only positive thoughts. But there is the problem: train. Athletes know how to train for something - it's a discipline; ask any athlete how he accomplished his goal and he'll tell you - it takes practice. And the practice includes training his mind. If a runner practices running, training for a race, but doesn't know in his mind that he can do it, he might as well hang up his running shoes. His mind as well as his body needs to be trained. When his inner consciousness matches his running ability, he has reached his goal.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;My reality matches my inner consciousness.  Toay I intend to keep my thoughts on my goal - to think only the thoughts that bring me happiness and  joy!  And so it is.&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/scienceOfMind1938/som1938_188.htm#TopOfText#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Jul[13] = "<b><em>&quot;Truth knows no opposites. When we take away the belief in evil—the belief that the outward appearance is the same as the inner reality—evil flees. We must continually remind ourselves of the power of the Word, and of our ability to use it.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;The power of the word. Intellectually - and when it applies to something or someone outside myself - I understand this. But how often do I internalize what this means? How often do I realize the power of my words - the effect my words have in every area of my life? Do I pay attention to the words I use in describing myself, my life situations, my relationships? Do I see how my words play out on the field of my life? It's so easy to see this in the world, in the lives of my family, my friends. Can I see it in myself? &quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;Today I intend to remember the power in my words, to watch over my words, and speak them wisely and beneficially, for myself and for others. And so it is! &quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/scienceOfMind1938/som1938_189.htm#TopOfText#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Jul[14] = "<b><em>&quot;It has taken humanity thousands of years to learn that it has the power to control its own destiny. From the Bible we have the assurance: 'As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.' ... 'What we expect, said Aristotle, that we find'.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;The author of the poem, Invictus, stated, 'I am the captain of my soul, the master of my fate...' and people thought this was the height of arrogance. If man is the master of his fate, where does that leave God? Ernest Holmes, along with all ancient sages, emphatically said that God and man are one, therefore the power of God is located within man. The power is in my thoughts, in my mind. 'I can, if I think I can!' As I was reading these words of Ernest Holmes this morning, it became crystal clear to me, almost as though I was reading them for the first time, I have the power to be and do whatever I want, right here, right now! My life, my present, my future, depends on no one or nothing but me. &quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;I am the captain of my soul, the master of my fate! And so it is! &quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/scienceOfMind1938/som1938_137.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Jul[15] = "<b><em>&quot;Unless we discredit all human testimony, we are forced to the conclusion that bodily healing of all manner of sickness by mental and spiritual means, is a fact. Physicians of highest repute are assiduously betaking themselves to a serious study of mental phenomena and mental processes.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;Ernest Holmes wrote these words in 1926; since then, more and more medical doctors believe in, and practice, mind-body medicine. Though some in the medical field, and lay people as well, may agree that stress is emotionally caused, there are those who accept that the majority, if not all, diseases have a mind-body connection. But if we believe we live in a world created by the One Mind, believing that the One Mind is the container for all minds, how can we dispute the mind-body connection? The movie, Phenomonen tried to show this connection, this partnership. Einstein said that everything is energy. We're in a partnership, my energy, my mental processes, and the energy, the Mind, behind it all. &quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;At the core of my being is that One Mind. As I think into the One Mind, I know that my life is the Life of God and It is Perfect. And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/scienceOfMind1938/som1938_138.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Jul[16] = "<b><em>&quot;The first principle fundamental to the understanding of the operation of thought is, that we are surrounded by an Infinite Intelligence.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;We are surrounded by an Infinite Intelligence. What comfort I draw from those words and that knowledge! Like a fetus, still in its mother's womb, surrounded and supported by amniotic fluid, I am surrounded and supported by God, Infinite Intelligence. From that I can move into the knowledge and understanding that my thoughts go into that Infinite Intelligence. I am reminded of the scene in the movie, Contact, in which Ellie, the astronomer, looking for life forms in outer space, is confronted by the voices, music and noise from the past. Every sound we make, every thought we think, goes into Infinite Intelligence - and stays, until a time when it is played back, as though from a great cosmic stereo.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;Today I set the intention to be as selective with my thoughts and words as I am with the music to which I listen and the movies I watch. In this way, the tv screen that is my body and my mind play back only what I want to experience. And so it is!;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/scienceOfMind1938/som1938_138.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Jul[17] = "<b><em>&quot;...because we are spiritual beings, we do sense the presence of an Intelligence which is beyond human comprehension—an Intelligence which is great enough to encompass the past, to understand the present, and to be Father of the future.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;A wonderful old song called Be Still My Soul, has a verse that gives me such comfort: 'Be still my soul, for God is on your side...'. And it gives me comfort to read these words of Ernest Holmes: '...the presence of an Intelligence which is great enough to encompass the past, understand the present, and be the Father of the future...'. With those words singing in my heart and mind - knowing that God understands why I do something I consider to be stupid or even when I unintentionally (maybe intentionally!) hurt someone, God understands even when I don't. And - doesn't judge. God understands and loves me, unconditionally.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;With God on my side, how can I fail? I surrender into the loving arms of God, all my doubt, confusion and fears. I know I am loved and I am lovely! And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/scienceOfMind1938/som1938_138.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Jul[18] = "<b><em>&quot;At the level of our self-comprehension, we know and understand the nature of God. This self-knowing, which is God-knowing, has the possibility of an eternal expansion.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;Self-comprehension. This word has so many layers. At the simplest layer, I comprehend my self. I understand my self. I understand why I act and re-act. I understand who, what and why I am - at the physical layer. Going deeper, I comprehend my greater Self, that Self that is my true reality, my true nature. The part of myself that I was born to be, but forgot as I grew up. My Magnificent Self. As I begin to peel back the layers and go deeper and deeper into my self, I begin to comprehend that the nature of God is my true nature. Everything the mystics have said about God is true about me, because God and I are One.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;God is Love. God is Beauty. God is Peace. God is Joy. Ah! I Am That! I Am! And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/scienceOfMind1938/som1938_139.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Jul[19] = "<b><em>&quot;In the great Universal Mind, man is a center of intelligence, and every time he thinks he sets Mind in action. Because of the Oneness of Mind, It cannot know anything outside Itself, and therefore cannot contradict any thought given It, but must reflect whatever is cast into It.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;Knowing how many of my thoughts are just rambling-around-in-my-head over things that, in the long run, have little consequence, I cringe when I realize that every thought I have sets Universal Mind into action. No wonder life can seem so chaotic at times! If life is a reflection of all the thoughts of every person in the world - what a soup we are creating!&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;Today I intend that my thoughts are creative and loving, kind and gentle. I think, therefore, I Am! And so it is! &quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/scienceOfMind1938/som1938_140.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Jul[20] = "<b><em>&quot;WE DO NOT CREATE. WE USE THE POWER OF THE ONE MIND, WHICH CREATES FOR US! Our beliefs and our deep-seated convictions inevitably out-picture and reflect themselves in our experience and environment, both in the physical condition of the body, and in the larger world of our affairs.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;When I'm in a creative mode, i.e., writing or painting, it's easy to see how my beliefs out-picture. I write from my heart and personal experiences, and I paint landscapes and seascapes that appeal to me. I use colore to express my feelings when I paint, and those colors have become brighter and bolder. Realizing that my beliefs also out-picture in my body and other areas of my life is more difficult. And I realize it's difficult mainly because I don't want to acknowledge and take ownership. I want to point the finger of blame to something outside myself. It's gentic, or it's the economy...or... &quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;I created my life with my thoughts, my beliefs and my deep-seated convictions. It is up to me to take ownership and start the chapter of the life I want, now. I accept, because I now know, God and I are One and It is Good! And so it is.&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/scienceOfMind1938/som1938_140.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Jul[21] =  "<b><em>&quot;while the Power is limitless, It must become operative through our own thought...what we need is not some greater power, but a greater consciousness...a more intimate concept of an already indwelling God...&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;<p></p><p>Consciousness,some scientists say,is a great problem - and it is the great unknown. In the realm of a spiritual life, it can be a problem as well - what is consciousness? How do I know how conscious I am? It's like a yardstick, a standard, of a person's spirituality. And, for some, it's a metaphysical two-by-four: the unspoken (sometimes!) question raised when a metaphysician has an economic downturn or a physical disease. 'What's in your consciousness [that caused this?]' The answer lies in Ernest Holmes' statement: '...a more intimate concept of an already indwelling God.' what I need is not more power, more of anything, except more intimacy with God.</p>&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;To know God at the level of my soul - God and I are One - this is the power, the limitless power. God and I are One. And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/scienceOfMind1938/som1938_141.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Jul[22] =  "<b><em>&quot;The emphasis on true mental healing is insistently on God, the One Mind, the One Soul, the One Being, ever-present and ever-available; and on man's ability and right to make himself receptive to this healing Presence—a realization of the essential divinity of our own nature... &quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;As so many women of my generation, I grew up with a belief in my inferiority. I was too tall, too fat, for a while, too skinny. Too independent, too dependent. Too outspoken, too quiet. Never right or good enough. Even with counseling and taking psychology in college, I labored wtih a self image of not enough. When I found Science of Mind and learned of '...the essential divinity of our own nature...', I felt like a drowning person must feel when rescued. I had been tossed a life saver. My nature is divine. I am essentially divine! How can a divine person be inadequate? She can't!&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;Naturally, I am perfect! Naturally, I am good. Naturally, I am all I need to be! I Am That! And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/scienceOfMind1938/som1938_142.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Jul[23] = "<b><em>&quot;Metaphysics begins where physics leaves off. Everything is movement; everything we can take hold of and analyze, all things in the physical world or the world of form are in a certain rate of vibration and are an effect.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;If everything is is an effect, that means me - or at least, my body. Though my body is an effect - the manifestation of thought - it seems solid.  But I know that is because I'm looking with my finite eyes. Beyond the solid there is Spirit. In Spirit my body is liquid (haven't I heard that our bodies are mostly water?). I need to look at my body with the eyes of the Infinite and then I truly see - everything is God!&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;I look beyond effects to cause - God the First Cause, thinking everything into being. All is good, because all is God! And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://www.newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/scienceOfMind1938/som1938_086.htm#MetaphysicsandPhysicshtm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Jul[24] = "<b><em>&quot;<em>Modern psychology affirms that all the thoughts and emotions we have experienced since we came into conscious existence are still present in Mind, where ceaselessly active, they manifest themselves as subjective tendencies that mold the body in health or sickness; and determine, as well, our reactions to all life and experience.</em>&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;With the belief that there is only one mind and that Mind is what we call God, and in alignment with the revelations of the science of the day, Ernest Holmes taught that every thought goes into that Mind and is reflected back as our lives- the conditions of our lives. What we believe, we experience. Knowing my beliefs and my thoughts are reflected in my life I check, are the beliefs I'm living mine or those I've accumulated from my family and society? Do my beliefs and thoughts reflect what I truly believe? If so, am I congruent? Do I need to examine and perhaps change a belief? Is my life what I want?&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;I let go any belief what does not serve me. My life is exactly what I want! And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://www.newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/scienceOfMind1938/som1938_145.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Jul[25] = "<b><em>&quot;Until we awake to the fact that we are One in nature with God, we shall not find the way of life. Until we realize that our own word has the power of life, we will not see clearly.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;Jesus said I am the way, and for centuries people have worshipped him, thinking he was referring to himself. As I study not only his words, but the words of Ernest Holmes and other mystics  I feel within my soul the true meaning of his words. I am - the nature of God. I am - the way of life. I am the way. God is the great I Am. Jesus was the wayshower, just as Buddha, Gandhi, Mother Teresa, and Ernest Holmes were.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;What I know, what I believe, what I feel, is: I Am That. God and I are One. God is my Life, my Source, my Comforter. I Am That! And so it is.&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://www.newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/scienceOfMind1938/som1938_145.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Jul[26] = "<b><em>&quot;we have within us a power which is greater than anything we shall ever contact; a power that can overcome every obstacle in our experience and set us safe, satisfied, and at peace, healed and prosperous in a new light and a new life. &quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;The power that Jesus used to heal the sick and raise the dead, the power that the ancient mystics used, of what the Mystery Schools of old spoke - and used - this is the power that Ernest Holmes says we have within. The power that we attribute to special people, that we have been taught that only Jesus had - that is the power that lies within each of us. When we awaken to this power, we can heal ourselves, our bodies and everything in our lives. Peace will flood our souls and ultimately the entire planet.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;I know the Power within. I know It heals me as I let It be my focus. I keep my focus on God, my Power, my Life. And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://www.newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/scienceOfMind1938/som1938_146.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Jul[27] = "<b><em>&quot;God's Creative Power of Mind is right here. We have as much of this power to use as we believe in and embody.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;All the power is available to me - not some, all - but only as much as I believe and embody. This sounds so simple, but it is the stumbling block tht keeps us - me - from doing, being, having the life we want. We pray for peace, but do we embody it in our individual lives? We don't, if there is just one person or one action that disturbs us. We pray for healing, but do we believe it's possible?&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;I know the power of the One Universal Mind is right where I am. I know that as I believe, It is mine to use. I use my Power consciously and wisely, knowing that it is with this Power that I create exactly what it is I want. And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://www.newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/scienceOfMind1938/som1938_146.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Jul[28] = "<b><em>&quot;The storehouse of nature is filled with infinite good, awaiting the touch of our awakened thought to spring forth into manifestation in our lives; but the awakening must be within our thought! &quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;I recently read a book about a young woman who was the spoiled child of a very rich man. The setting was in Chicago, at the time of the great fire. She never combed her own hair or put on her own clothes. A maid buttoned her shoes. When she set down to eat, her plate was filled and set before her. She never knew want or hunger - or desire. She lived intirely protected and groomed to marry a man who would bring her father even greater wealth. The night of the fire, however, she was kidnapped and held hostage - and in the unfolding of the story she had a transformation. She awakened to a new possibility for her life - and in the end became the woman she truly was, in her soul.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;My soul nudges, sometimes pushes, sometimes pulls, awakening me to my Higher Reality. It gives me glimpses of my Infinite Good, with the promise of more - as I come fully awake to who I am. My soul knows: I AM That! I Am! And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://www.newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/scienceOfMind1938/som1938_146.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Jul[29] = "<b><em>&quot;The word that we speak is the law of our lives, and nothing hinders its operation but ourselves.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;Nothing hinders the law but myself. How many times have I - or someone close to me - said, 'You're your worst critic.'? In the same way that I am my worst critic, I know that my past haunts me and keeps me in its grip. As I grow in the Love that is God, I also grow in forgiveness for myself and my mistakes. As I do, the words that I speak become more loving - love for myself and love for all. As I become more loving, my life blooms like my beloved roses.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;Today I intend to speak only words that benefit me - and any one to whom I speak. My word is my life!  And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://www.newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/scienceOfMind1938/som1938_146.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Jul[30] = "<b><em>&quot;Life externalizes at the level of our thought.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;The mystics of old tell us that God thought the universe into existence. God thought, and the universe externalized. As I am a microcosm of the macroscosm - I am a small part of the whole - my life is a mirror of the universe.  My life externalizes - manifests - reflects what I think. But I can only manifest what I can imagine. If all I can imagine is a life of dull repetition that is what I will experience. If i can imagine life as a great adventure, that is what I will experience.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;Life externalizes at the level of my thought. Today I intend to raise my consciousness to a new level. I intend to think on that which is love and beauty and joy. I Am That! I AM! And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://www.newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/scienceOfMind1938/som1938_147.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Jul[31] = "<b><em>&quot;We should daily feel a deeper union with Life, a greater sense of that Indwelling God—the God of the seen and of the unseen— within us.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;As long as I can remember I've wanted to be like Jesus - to do miracles as he did, to heal people. It wasn't until I found Science of Mind that I really understood what Jesus meant when he said, 'When you see me, you've seen the Father' and 'I and the Father are one.' Deepak Chopra says, 'The world is within you.' What I've discoverd is what Ernest Holmes says we should do: '...feel a deeper union with Life...'. As my understanding of God grows, so does my union with Life. God, Life, and I are the same.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;I feel the stirring of Life within me and with the feeling comes the knowledge: God and I are one, inseparable. Always together. I Am That! I Am!  And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://www.newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/scienceOfMind1938/som1938_148.htm#TopOfText target='_blank'>read the source"

Aug = new Array
Aug[1] = "<b><em>&quot;To suppose that the Creative Intelligence of the Universe would create man in bondage and leave him bound, would...dishonor the Creative Power which we call God...The seed of freedom must be planted in the innermost being of man, but...man must make the great discovery for himself. &quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;I watched a miracle this morning: a robin and an oriole eating from the feeder at the same time. At first they started to fight - their beaks were wide open and they squawked at each other - but then they settled down and, one on each side of the feeder, began to eat. When birds fight, they're doing what comes naturally - protecting thier territory, their families. Can we say the same of humans? When we fight, either people in a relationship, or as nation against nation, are we doing what comes naturally? Freedom is both an innate desire and our inheritance. We were born free, but have forgotten it. When we remember our inheritance, we will remember there is nothing to fight because we already have what the fight is about: freedom. &quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;I set my intention today to remember Who I am, and that I am free in Spirit, therefore, I have true freedom!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/scienceOfMind1938/som1938_025.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Aug[2] = "<b><em>&quot;The Divine Plan is one of Freedom; bondage is not God-ordained. Freedom is the birthright of every living soul...The Truth points to freedom, under Law. &quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;I've spent most of my life trying to figure out if there is a purpose for my life. Why was I born? What am I supposed to be doing? Am I doing what I was born to do? Or: what is God's plan for my life? Is this the will of God? With these questions burning in my brain, I was overjoyed to discover these statements of Ernest Holmes! But then you might ask, freedom from what - from having to work for a living? If so, who's going to pay the bills? How will food, shelter, etc., be provided? The freedom of the Divine Plan is the freedom to know that I am the captain of my soul. I have the choice to stay in bondage to poverty and disease, to unhappiness, or to know that God and I co-create my life...through the Law. I get to choose - freedom or bondage.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;Today I choose freedom. I am the captain of my soul, the master of my destiny. And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/scienceOfMind1938/som1938_025.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Aug[3] =  "<b><em>&quot;...the inherent nature of man is forever seeking to express itself in terms of freedom...this Inner Voice...tells us of a life wonderful...of a love beyond our fondest dreams; of a freedom which the soul craves.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;In the 60's or 70's there was a popular song called Born Free. Though it was the theme song for a movie about an animal held in captivity, the song applies to humans, as well. Though we don't always realize it, all humans were born free, which is why we seek freedom. Though we were born free, most of us are held captive by the trappings of this physical world. We fear losing our job or, having lost it, not getting another) because that might mean losing our house, our car, our status, or whatever material thing we hold dear. It is this fear that keeps us in bondage. We weren't born to be held captive by things. We were born to express God, to expand our souls. When we keep focused on God, our Source, then we begin to experience true freedom.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;I focus on God; I listen to that Inner Voice and I am free! And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/scienceOfMind1938/som1938_026.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Aug[4] = "<b><em>&quot;Great as the subconscious is, its tendency is set in motion by the conscious thought, and in this possibility lies the path to freedom. &quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;Ernest Holmes reminds us where the path to true freedom lies...in our conscious thoughts. Every thought we have is collected in our subconscious mind, lying dormant, until there is enough consciousness to manifest something in our lives.  For any one of us, it could be the desire to be free from the chains of an illness or poverty. When we become aware of this truth, then we set upon the path to true freedom - the path our souls crave. &quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;Today I set my intention to live consciously, to be fully awake and alert, for that is where my freedom lies. And so it is! &quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/scienceOfMind1938/som1938_030.htm#TopOfText ' target='_blank'>read the source"
Aug[5] =  "<b><em>&quot;The philosophy of spiritual mind healing is based upon the conception that we are living in a universe of Intelligence—a spiritual Universe; that thoughts are things, that definite states of consciousness, as they become subjective, operate through a creative field and tend to reproduce themselves in form.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;Science of Mind is the philosophy that our thoughts operate on that creative field that scientists call the Zero Point Field, some even call it the Mind of God. We think into that Field and It reacts to our thoughts. With enough feeling behind the thought - when our state of consciousness is so passionate about any given thing - the thought is manifest. This is a Universal Law - the Law that always responds.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;Knowing that my subconscious mind always responds to my conscious mind, by retaining what I think and feel, and eventually reproducing those thoughts and feelings in form, I intend to keep close watch on both. My thoughts and my feelings are positive, therefore only what I want is manifest. And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/scienceOfMind1938/som1938_183.htm#MentalPracticeDealsOnlywithThought' target='_blank'>read the source"
Aug[6] = "<b><em>&quot;Thought which is built upon a realization of the Divine Presence has the power to neutralize negative thought, to erase it, just as light has the power to overcome darkness; not by combating darkness, but by being exactly what it is: LIGHT.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;In his book, From Science to God, Peter Russell explores the parallels of the light of physics and the light of ancient mystics. In his exploration he discovered that both are timeless, spaceless and have no mass - meaning both are immaterial. The light of physics - and of the mystics - underlies everything. The material world is made up of light. What this means to me is that I, being both spiritual and material, am made of the light of both  physics and the mystics. The mystics called the light God. Ernest Holmes stated that we can overcome - neutralize - any negative thought when we realize the Divine Presence within. Because I am the Light there is no need to wage war against my dark thoughts. Just be the Light. This is simutaneously both easy and difficult. It's easy when I stop trying to analyze and just surrender. It's difficult when I want to explain, analyze, hold myself and the material world separate. But, like a light shining on something scary sounding in a dark room, surrendering to the Light within always brings relief. &quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;Today I intend to let my Light shine within and without. I Am that Light; I Am. And so it is! &quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/scienceOfMind1938/som1938_183.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Aug[7] = "<b><em>&quot;Spirit is Changeless Reality. That which we call personality is the instrument through which Spirit operates, but Spirit can operate for the individual only by operating through him. Spirit is never bound by the form It takes, and is not affected by any apparent cause or condition, but is forever free...God and man exist in an eternal state of Unity...&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;God and I are One. Jesus and all sages have taught this, but I - in my finite mind - find it incomprehendable and so I divorce myself from my Unity. This, also, is an old teaching, but not from the sages. It is from those who came before me, who in their ignorance taught that God is 'somewhere out there'. Ernest Holmes taught that Spirit must operate through me. If I put up a block, Spirit can't work. Like a water hose that is kinked somewhere, thus stopping the flow of water, if I block Spirit,  the flow of Life is stopped. I block Spirit with doubt and disbelief. Doubting my Unity, I separate myself. Disbelieving my inherent Divinity, I block the flow of Life. Blocking Spirit, I am less than my possibility. &quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;I unblock the flow of Life in my life and my body by adhering to the admonishment: 'Be still and know that I Am God.' Be still and Know and observe how Spirit flows, through me, as me. And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='I unblock the flow of Life in my life and my body by adhering to the admonishment: 'http://newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/scienceOfMind1938/som1938_184.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Aug[8] = "<b><em>&quot;ALWAYS EXPECT THE GOOD...above all, have a consciousness of love—a radiant feeling flowing through your consciousness at all times.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;'...have a consciousness of love...at all times.' What would my life be like if I had a consciousness of - an awareness of - love at all times? What would my life be like if I looked at everyone I meet - even people I might otherwise not like - with an awareness of love? Ernest Holmes said that love is the central flame - the very fire of the universe. If I am to experience my good, it is imperative that I have a consciousness of love - I must keep my heart open and loving, regardless. When I am in that place of love, all good flows to me.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;I open my heart and mind to Love. I let Love be my guide. To love is my desire. And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/scienceOfMind1938/som1938_184.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Aug[9] = "<b><em>&quot;To daily meditate on the Perfect Life, and to daily embody the Great Ideal, is a royal road to freedom...Let us learn to see as God must, with a Perfect Vision. &quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;The Perfect Life - most of us have an idea of what we consider the perfect life. It is what gets us up every morning, going to a job we may or may not like, so that we can have 'the American Dream': a nice house, a car, and whatever other things we think will make us happy. But the Perfect Life to which Ernest Holmes refers is not a life style, a house, a car, the perfect job and a partner. No, the Perfect Life of which Ernest Holmes speaks is God, the One Life, from which all have come. Perfect, needing nothing to complete Itself. Perfect, without blemish. When I meditate on this Life, I know that is the only Life necessary. I know that is my Life. I live, move and have my being in that Life.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;Knowing God, the Perfect Life, is my life, I am free! And so it is. &quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/scienceOfMind1938/som1938_185.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Aug[10] = "<b><em>&quot;The possibility of life is inherent within the capacity to imagine what life is, backed by the power to produce this imagery, or Divine Imagination. It is not a question of failing or succeeding. It is simply a question of sticking to an idea until it becomes a tangible reality.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;What a wonderful concept: '...it is not a question of failing or succeeding...'! How often we don't do something because we're afraid of failing. Failure is an ego trip. When I am grounded in Spirit, I know that anything I imagine is from the Divine Imagination. I, myself, am an idea in the Divine Imagination. I know that everything I dream or desire to do, is that Divine Imagination within, urging me on to fuller and fuller expression of my Divine Self.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;Today I intend to let my Inner Imagination loose. I intend to live from that Imagination and let it take me wherever It will. And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/scienceOfMind1938/som1938_187.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Aug[11] = "<b><em>&quot;We may pass through good fortune and bad, but if we can come to the point where we are not disturbed by 'things' we have found the secret...OUT OF ANY CHAOS WE CAN PRODUCE HARMONY.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;A few years ago a dvd and then a book entitled 'The Secret' became hugely popular. Claiming that if a person adhered to the practices revealed in both, she could have anything she desired. Ernest Holmes said, in his seminal work 'Science of Mind', that this teaching is not a road to riches. He taught that the road to freedom and happiness - which is really what people want, whether they realize it or not, is to find the secret of happiness that lies within. When we come to the place within ourselves where we are not disturbed by downturns in the economy, there will be harmony in our lifes. We will know true harmony, true peace, true prosperity when we find the real secret - that God is our Source. Everything comes from God.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;<p>I relax into the knowing: God is my Source - of everything I want or need. Through good fortune or bad, I know that I am safe and secure as I lean into God. And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/scienceOfMind1938/som1938_187.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Aug[12] = "<b><em>&quot;Know your own mind. Train yourself to think what you wish to think; be what you wish to be; feel what you wish to feel, and place no limit on Principle!  If you have reached a point where the inner consciousness believes, then your word is simply an announcement of Reality!&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;'I just can't help it - I can't control my thoughts!' I hear this lament so often and have said or thought it myself. The truth is, yes, you can. You can train your mind to turn away from negative thoughts; you can train your mind to think only positive thoughts. But there is the problem: train. Athletes know how to train for something - it's a discipline; ask any athlete how he accomplished his goal and he'll tell you - it takes practice. And the practice includes training his mind. If a runner practices running, training for a race, but doesn't know in his mind that he can do it, he might as well hang up his running shoes. His mind as well as his body needs to be trained. When his inner consciousness matches his running ability, he has reached his goal. &quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;My reality matches my inner consciousness. Today I intend to keep my thoughts on my goal - to think only the thoughts that bring me happiness and joy! And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/scienceOfMind1938/som1938_188.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Aug[13] = "<b><em>&quot;Truth knows no opposites. When we take away the belief in evil—the belief that the outward appearance is the same as the inner reality—evil flees. We must continually remind ourselves of the power of the Word, and of our ability to use it.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;The power of the word. Intellectually - and when it applies to something or someone outside myself - I understand this. But how often do I internalize what this means? How often do I realize the power of my words - the effect my words have in every area of my life? Do I pay attention to the words I use in describing myself, my life situations, my relationships? Do I see how my words play out on the field of my life? It's so easy to see this in the world, in the lives of my family, my friends. Can I see it in myself? &quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;Today I intend to remember the power in my words, to watch over my words, and speak them wisely and beneficially, for myself and for others. And so it is! &quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/scienceOfMind1938/som1938_189.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Aug[14] =  "<b><em>&quot;It has taken humanity thousands of years to learn that it has the power to control its own destiny. From the Bible we have the assurance: 'As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.' ... 'What we expect, said Aristotle, that we find'.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;The author of the poem, Invictus, stated, 'I am the captain of my soul, the master of my fate...' and people thought this was the height of arrogance. If man is the master of his fate, where does that leave God? Ernest Holmes, along with all ancient sages, emphatically said that God and man are one, therefore the power of God is located within man. The power is in my thoughts, in my mind. 'I can, if I think I can!' As I was reading these words of Ernest Holmes this morning, it became crystal clear to me, almost as though I was reading them for the first time, I have the power to be and do whatever I want, right here, right now! My life, my present, my future, depends on no one or nothing but me.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;I am the captain of my soul, the master of my fate! And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/scienceOfMind1938/som1938_137.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Aug[15] =  "<b><em>&quot;Unless we discredit all human testimony, we are forced to the conclusion that bodily healing of all manner of sickness by mental and spiritual means, is a fact. Physicians of highest repute are assiduously betaking themselves to a serious study of mental phenomena and mental processes.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;Ernest Holmes wrote these words in 1926; since then, more and more medical doctors believe in, and practice, mind-body medicine. Though some in the medical field, and lay people as well, may agree that stress is emotionally caused, there are those who accept that the majority, if not all, diseases have a mind-body connection. But if we believe we live in a world created by the One Mind, believing that the One Mind is the container for all minds, how can we dispute the mind-body connection? The movie, Phenomonen tried to show this connection, this partnership. Einstein said that everything is energy. We're in a partnership, my energy, my mental processes, and the energy, the Mind, behind it all. &quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;At the core of my being is that One Mind. As I think into the One Mind, I know that my life is the Life of God and It is Perfect. And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/scienceOfMind1938/som1938_138.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Aug[16] = "<b><em>&quot;The first principle fundamental to the understanding of the operation of thought is, that we are surrounded by an Infinite Intelligence.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;We are surrounded by an Infinite Intelligence. What comfort I draw from those words and that knowledge! Like a fetus, still in its mother's womb, surrounded and supported by amniotic fluid, I am surrounded and supported by God, Infinite Intelligence. From that I can move into the knowledge and understanding that my thoughts go into that Infinite Intelligence. I am reminded of the scene in the movie, Contact, in which Ellie, the astronomer, looking for life forms in outer space, is confronted by the voices, music and noise from the past. Every sound we make, every thought we think, goes into Infinite Intelligence - and stays, until a time when it is played back, as though from a great cosmic stereo.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;Today I set the intention to be as selective with my thoughts and words as I am with the music to which I listen and the movies I watch. In this way, the tv screen that is my body and my mind play back only what I want to experience. And so it is! &quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/scienceOfMind1938/som1938_138.htm#TopOfText<em> </em>' target='_blank'>read the source"
Aug[17] =  "<b><em>&quot;...because we are spiritual beings, we do sense the presence of an Intelligence which is beyond human comprehension—an Intelligence which is great enough to encompass the past, to understand the present, and to be Father of the future.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;A wonderful old song called Be Still My Soul, has a verse that gives me such comfort: 'Be still my soul, for God is on your side...'. And it gives me comfort to read these words of Ernest Holmes: '...the presence of an Intelligence which is great enough to encompass the past, understand the present, and be the Father of the future...'. With those words singing in my heart and mind - knowing that God understands why I do something I consider to be stupid or even when I unintentionally (maybe intentionally!) hurt someone, God understands even when I don't. And - doesn't judge. God understands and loves me, unconditionally.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;With God on my side, how can I fail? I surrender into the loving arms of God, all my doubt, confusion and fears. I know I am loved and I am lovely! And so it is! &quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/scienceOfMind1938/som1938_138.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Aug[18] = "<b><em>&quot;At the level of our self-comprehension, we know and understand the nature of God. This self-knowing, which is God-knowing, has the possibility of an eternal expansion.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;Self-comprehension. This word has so many layers. At the simplest layer, I comprehend my self. I understand my self. I understand why I act and re-act. I understand who, what and why I am - at the physical layer. Going deeper, I comprehend my greater Self, that Self that is my true reality, my true nature. The part of myself that I was born to be, but forgot as I grew up. My Magnificent Self. As I begin to peel back the layers and go deeper and deeper into my self, I begin to comprehend that the nature of God is my true nature. Everything the mystics have said about God is true about me, because God and I are One.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;God is Love. God is Beauty. God is Peace. God is Joy. Ah! I Am That! I Am! And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/scienceOfMind1938/som1938_139.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Aug[19] = "<b><em>&quot;In the great Universal Mind, man is a center of intelligence, and every time he thinks he sets Mind in action. Because of the Oneness of Mind, It cannot know anything outside Itself, and therefore cannot contradict any thought given It, but must reflect whatever is cast into It.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;Knowing how many of my thoughts are just rambling-around-in-my-head over things that, in the long run, have little consequence, I cringe when I realize that every thought I have sets Universal Mind into action. No wonder life can seem so chaotic at times! If life is a reflection of all the thoughts of every person in the world - what a soup we are creating!&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;Today I intend that my thoughts are creative and loving, kind and gentle. I think, therefore, I Am! And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/scienceOfMind1938/som1938_140.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Aug[20] = "<b><em>&quot;WE DO NOT CREATE. WE USE THE POWER OF THE ONE MIND, WHICH CREATES FOR US! Our beliefs and our deep-seated convictions inevitably out-picture and reflect themselves in our experience and environment, both in the physical condition of the body, and in the larger world of our affairs.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;When I'm in a creative mode, i.e., writing or painting, it's easy to see how my beliefs out-picture. I write from my heart and personal experiences, and I paint landscapes and seascapes that appeal to me. I use color to express my feelings when I paint, and those colors have become brighter and bolder. Realizing that my beliefs also out-picture in my body and other areas of my life is more difficult. And I realize it's difficult mainly because I don't want to acknowledge and take ownership. I want to point the finger of blame to something outside myself. It's gentic, or it's the economy...or...&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;I created my life with my thoughts, my beliefs and my deep-seated convictions. It is up to me to take ownership and start the chapter of the life I want, now. I accept, because I now know, God and I are One and It is Good! And so it is.&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/scienceOfMind1938/som1938_140.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Aug[21] = "<b><em>&quot;while the Power is limitless, It must become operative through our own thought...what we need is not some greater power, but a greater consciousness...a more intimate concept of an already indwelling God...&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;Consciousness, some scientists say, is a great problem - and it is the great unknown. In the realm of a spiritual life, it can be a problem as well - what is consciousness? How do I know how conscious I am? It's like a yardstick, a standard, of a person's spirituality. And, for some, it's a metaphysical two-by-four: the unspoken (sometimes!) question raised when a metaphysician has an economic downturn or a physical disease. 'What's in your consciousness [that caused this?]' The answer lies in Ernest Holmes' statement: '...a more intimate concept of an already indwelling God.' what I need is not more power, more of anything, except more intimacy with God.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;To know God at the level of my soul - God and I are One - this is the power, the limitless power. God and I are One. And so it is! &quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/scienceOfMind1938/som1938_141.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Aug[22] = "<b><em>&quot;The emphasis on true mental healing is insistently on God, the One Mind, the One Soul, the One Being, ever-present and ever-available; and on man's ability and right to make himself receptive to this healing Presence—a realization of the essential divinity of our own nature...&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;As so many women of my generation, I grew up with a belief in my inferiority. I was too tall, too fat, for a while, too skinny. Too independent, too dependent. Too outspoken, too quiet. Never right or good enough. Even with counseling and taking psychology in college, I labored wtih a self image of not enough. When I found Science of Mind and learned of '...the essential divinity of our own nature...', I felt like a drowning person must feel when rescued. I had been tossed a life saver. My nature is divine. I am essentially divine! How can a divine person be inadequate? She can't!&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;Naturally, I am perfect! Naturally, I am good. Naturally, I am all I need to be! I Am That! And so it is! &quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/scienceOfMind1938/som1938_142.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Aug[23] = "<b><em>&quot;Modern psychology affirms that all the thoughts and emo­tions we have experienced since we came into conscious existence are still present in Mind, where ceaselessly active,they manifest themselves as subjective tendencies that mold the body in health or sickness; and determine, as well, our reactions to all life and experience.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;New Thought, which had its birth in the early 1900's, and includes Ernest Holmes' Science of Mind, along with psychology, was the forerunner of today's alternative medicine. New Thought, based on Jesus' teachings, began with the desire and belief that we could heal our bodies with the power of the mind. With the belief that there is only one mind and that Mind is what we call God, and, in alignment with the revelations of the science of the day, Ernest Holmes taught that every thought goes into that Mind and is reflected back as our lives - the conditions of our lives. What we believe, we experience. Knowing my beliefs and my thoughts are reflected in my life, I check: are the beliefs I'm living mine or those I've accumulated from my family and society? If so, am I congruent? Do I need to examine and perhaps change a belief? Is my life what I want? &quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;I let go any belief that does not serve me. My life is exactly what I want! And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/scienceOfMind1938/som1938_145.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Aug[24] = "<b><em>&quot;Until we awake to the fact that we are One in nature with God, we shall not find the way of life. Until we realize that our own word has the power of life, we will not see clearly. &quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;Jesus said I am the way, and for centuries people have worshipped him, thinking he was referring to himself. As I study not only his words, but the words of Ernest Holmes and other mystics, I feel within my soul the true meaning of his words. I am - the nature of God. I am - the way of life. I am - the way. God is the great I Am. Jesus was the wayshower, just as Buddha, Gandhi, Mother Teresa, and Ernest Holmes, were. &quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;What I know, what I believe, what I feel is: I Am That. God and I are One. God is my Life, my Source, my Comforter. I Am That! And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/scienceOfMind1938/som1938_145.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Aug[25] = "<b><em>&quot;...we have within us a power which is greater than anything we shall ever contact; a power that can overcome every obstacle...and set us safe, satisfied, and at peace, healed and prosperous in a new light and a new life.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;The same power that Jesus used to heal the sick and raise the dead, the power that the ancient mystics used, of which the Mystery Schools of old spoke - and used - this is the power that Ernest Holmes says we have within. The power that we attribute to special people, that we have taught that only jesus had - that is the power that lives within each of us. When we awaken to this power, we can heal ourselves - our bodies and everything in our lives. Peace will flood our souls and ultimately the entire planet.  &quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;I know the Power within. I know It heals me as I let It be my focus. I keep my focus on God, my Power, my Life. And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/scienceOfMind1938/som1938_146.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Aug[26] = "<b><em>&quot;God's Creative Power of Mind is right here. We have as much of this power to use as we believe in and embody.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;All the power is available to me - not some, all - but only as much as I believe and I embody. This sounds so simple, but it is the stumbling block that keeps us from doing, being, having, the life we want. We pray for peace, but do we embody it in our individual lives? We don't, if there is just one person or one action that disturbs us. We pray for healing, but do we believe it's possible?&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;I know the Power of the One Universal Mind is right where I am. I know that as I believe, It is mine to use. I use my Power consciously and wisely, knowing that it is with this Power that I create exactly what it is I want. And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/scienceOfMind1938/som1938_146.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Aug[27] = "<b><em>&quot;The storehouse of nature is filled with infinite good, awaiting the touch of our awakened thought to spring forth into manifestation in our lives; but the awakening must be within our thought!&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;I recently read a book about a young woman who ws the spoiled child of a very rich man. The setting was in Chicago, at the time of the great fire. Ahe never combed her own hair or put on her own clothes. A maid buttoned her shoes. When she sat down to eat, her plate was filled and set before her. She neve knew want or hunger - or desire. She lived entirely protected and groomed to marry a man who would bring her father even greater fortune. The night of the fire, however, she was kidnapped and held hostage and in the unfolding of the story she had a transformation. She awakened to a new possiblility for her life and in the end became the woman she truly was, in her soul.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;My soul nudges, sometimes pushes, sometimes pulls, to awaken me to my Higher Case Reality. It gives me glimpses of my Infinite Good, with the promise of more, as I come fully awake to whi I am. My soul knows: I Am That! I Am! And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/scienceOfMind1938/som1938_146.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Aug[28] = "<b><em>&quot;The word that we speak is the law of our lives, and nothing hinders its operation but ourselves.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;Nothing hinders the Law but myself. How many times have I - or someone close to me - said, 'You're your worst critic.'? In the same way that I am my worst critic, I know that my past haunts me and keeps me in its grip. As I grow in the Love that is God, I also grow in forgiveness for myself and my mistakes. As I do, the words that I speak become more loving - love for myself and love for all. As I become more loving, my life blooms like my beloved roses.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;Today I intend to speak only words that benefit me, and anyone to whom I speak. My word is my life! And so it is.&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/scienceOfMind1938/som1938_146.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Aug[29] = "<b><em>&quot;Life externalizes at the level of our thought. &quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;The mystics of old tell us that God thought the universe into existence. God thought, and the universe externalized. As I am a microcosm of the macrocosm - I am a small part of the whole - my life is a mirror of the universe. My life externalizes - manifests - reflects, what I think. But I can only manifest what I can imagine. If all I can imagine is a life of dull repetition that is what I will experience. If I can imagine life as a great adventure, that is what I will experience.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;Life externalizes at the level of my thought. Today I intend to raise y consciousness to a new level. I intend to think on that which is love and beauty and joy. I Am That! I Am! And so it is.&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/scienceOfMind1938/som1938_147.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Aug[30] = "<b><em>&quot;We should daily feel a deeper union with Life, a greater sense of that Indwelling God—the God of the seen and of the unseen—within us.</p>&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;As long as I can remember I've wanted to be like Jesus - to do miracles as he did, to heal people. It wasn't until I found Science of Mind that I really understood what Jesus meant when he said, 'When you see me, you've seen the Father' and 'I and the Father are one.' Deepak Chopra says, 'The world is within you.' What I've discovered is what Ernest Holmes says we should do: '...feel a deeper union with Life...'. As my understanding of God grows, so does my union with Life. God, Life, and I are the same.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;I feel the stirring of Life within me and with the feeling comes the knowledge: God and I are One, inseparable. I Am That! I Am! And so it is.&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/scienceOfMind1938_148.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Aug[31] = "<b><em>&quot;We should daily feel a deeper union with Life, a greater sense of that Indwelling God—the God of the seen and of the unseen— within us.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;A deeper union with Life. What does this mean to me? How can I have a greater sense of that indwelling God? For me, it's so simple...I get quiet, go into the silence, listen for that Voice within. I know of no other way to have a clear and certain deeper union with Life. When I start from the Silence, then every where I look, I see God. The sunsets, sunrises, birdsong, are more vibrant. My lover's nearness is sweeter. This deeper union with Life is my very breath.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;I breathe deeply, knowing that my breath is God. I listen for my Beloved's Voice, knowing that it is the Indwelling God that I hear. God and I are One! How sweet to know this. God and I are One. And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/scienceOfMind1938/som1938_148.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"

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Sep[1] = "<b><em>&quot;...each soul must discover for himself, that he stands in the midst of an eternal creative power which presses itself around his own thought, and casts back to him glorified all that he thinks. Ernest Holmes, Creative Mind, p. xx &quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;Just as an eagle must push its baby from the nest so that it will learn to fly, so does God push me from my nest. God created the universe and then watches as I discover my wings and learn to soar. My life is a journey of discovery. Along the way I have discovered that I do, indeed, stand in the midst of an eternal creative process - God in me, through me, as me. I have discovered that what I think or say - my word - has power. I have discovered that I create with this power.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;Today I intend to use my power - my words and my thoughts - creatively, consciously, so that everything I see in life is glorified. And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/creativeMind/creative_001.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Sep[2] = "<b><em>&quot;In the beginning, God only...Spirit was all; there was nothing else but Itself.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;In the beginning, before the Big Bang, before the universe, there was God. How could there be anything before the universe? How not? Something had to create the universe, and though scientists would have us believe that it was the Big Bang, there is something within me that whispers in my heart, that Something is God.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;That Voice within me - God, in me, though me, as me! I Am That! I Am! And so it is.&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/creativeMind/creative_001.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Sep[3] = "<b><em>&quot;The only possible operation of intelligence is thought, or “The Word.” So all things were made by the Word. From the Word, then, comes forth all that appears.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;John of the New Testament wrote:  'In the beginning was the Word and...the Word became flesh and dwelt among us.'  God incarnated into this world, as me, as you, as everything I see.  I am a microcosm of the Whole, so I know that the same Word that created me, is the Word that I speak to create my own universe.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;Knowing this, I guard my thoughts and words jealously, so that my experience is exactly what I want. And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/creativeMind/creative_002.htm#TopOfText ' target='_blank'>read the source"
Sep[4] = "<b><em>&quot;Everything comes into being without effort, and when we exert ourselves we are not in accord with the Creative Spirit in the way in which It works.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;One thing I've learned, when I stress and strain, I know that I am off center - out of alignmnet - with Spirit. Just as I go to a chiropractor to align my spine for physical health, I know that daily - and sometimes more often than daily - I have to check my alignment with Spirit. When I am in ...'accord with the Creative Spirit...' everything I do or want, flows effortlessly.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;And so I set my intention today to check: am I in alignmnet? Am I centered in Spirit? As I am , I know, I Am That! I Am. And so it is.&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/creativeMind/creative_003.htm#TopOfText'target='_blank'>read the source"
Sep[5] = "<b><em>&quot;When we realize that man is like God (and he could not be otherwise, being made out of God), we will realize that his word also has power. &quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;I gave birth to four children, each unique in personality and appearance, but there is within each the characteristics of their father and me. Each of us are like that - unique, individual, but at the core of our being there is an essential nature that is God. When we realize this, when we can take this knowledge into every cell of our body, we begin to realize that our essential nature, being God, is powerful. And when we know how owerful we are, our lives begin to reflect that power. This is true power, healing power. The power to heal the world.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;I am a powerful being - I know this, therefore I use my power wisely, to crete my world - in such a way that not only I flourish, but everyone around me does, as well. And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/creativeMind/creative_004.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Sep[6] = "<b><em>&quot;...we have a principle that is absolute; it is exact; it is going to correspond to our thinking about it.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;The Principle of which Dr. Holmes spoke is the Law that responds to the Presence, the Word, to God. I believe in this Principle, not because Dr. Holmes declares it is Truth, but because his words not only resonate at a deep level within me, and also because I have seen the Priniciple in action over an dover. Like a boomerang, I know that my thoughts come back to me.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;As I think, so I experience. Today I intend to experience only what I want, so I guard my thoughts, making sure they are what I want to experience. And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/creativeMind/creative_004.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Sep[7] = "<b><em>&quot;So plastic is mind, so receptive, that the slightest thought makes an impression upon it.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;I have a good friend who is a neuroscientist. He is teaching me that not only my mind is plastic, but so is my brain. As with my mind, my brain is a receptacle of negativity and positivity. As I think, both my mind and my brain are affected. Both negative and positive create ruts - in the brain these are called neuropathways and each thought, each experience causes the pathway to both deepen and widen. The brain - like the mind - is so plastic, that the neuropathways take on the character of our thoughts. The beauty is, because of its plasticity, the neuropathways can be changed - just as our minds can be changed - therefore, our lives can change.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;Like playdough, my mind takes on the shape of my thoughts. I intend that those thoughts are such that my life is exactly the way I want it! And so it is.&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/creativeMind/creative_005.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Sep[8] = "<b><em>&quot;...the word is not afar off but in our own mouth.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;This is a difficult lesson - not to comprehend, but to live. How often words fall out of my mouth that I immediately want to retract! Knowing that it is my word that creates, how can I be so cavilier with those words? Like brushing my teeth, guarding my words, making sure that what I say is in alignment with what I want to be, is a habit. I want to cultivate the habits that are beneficial, not just for myself, but for everyone.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;I repeat the cliche, 'Today, let my words be sweet, for I may have to eat them!' Today I begin the habit of speaking only Love. I Am Love. I live from Love. And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/creativeMind/creative_005.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Sep[9] = "<b><em>&quot;...all must awake to the facts that they have absolute control over their lives, and that nothing can happen by chance.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;Someone suffering from cancer - or someone whose loved one is suffering - might argue with this: '...nothing can happen by chance.' I didn't plan or think my way into cancer. How could it happen, if not by chance?  I've learned from research that it isn't just my consciousness that affects my life; race consciousness also affects me. In modern life the consciousness of the food industry affects my body. The consciousness of greed, of making a quick profit, runs the food industry, causing it to pump the food available with chemicals to preserve, artificial supplements to make up for those lost in the process. The consciousness of the drug industry invades my consciousness: whatever the diagnosis of the moment is - that's what my consciousness absorbs, if I allow it to. It all comes back to consciousness: what do I allow in?&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;Jesus said, 'Whatsoever things are pure, think on these...'. I intend to focus my attention today only on that which is uplifting, on things that make my heart sing. And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/creativeMind/creative_005.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Sep[10] = "<b><em>&quot;We are now living in Spirit.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;This is a reminder to me that I am a spiritual being right now. I don't have to wait until I die to become a spirit; I don't have to be pious or rigid, follow a certain diet, or even fast. I don't have to wear sack cloth and ashes, or whip myself into goodness. I am living in Spirit, just the way I am, because Spirit is everything, in everything. I can't get away from It, even if I wanted to.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;I live, move and have my being in Spirit, the All, the Everything - in God. And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/creativeMind/creative_006.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Sep[11] = "<b><em>&quot;In the Infinity of mind, which is the principle of all metaphysics and of all life, there is nothing but mind, and that which mind does.&quot;,</em></b><br><br>&quot;The mind of which Ernest Holmes speaks is the One Universal Mind - that which some physicists of today call the Zero Point Field, or simply the Field. It is the Matrix that connects all of life. It is that which I call God. From the Field, or Mind, all have come. Into the Mind, all think. Ernest Holmes wrote there is '...nothing but mind and that mind does...'. There is only God, diversified, doing diversified things, acting in divine ways. There isn't God and me, there is only God, playing as me.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;I try to wrap my brain, my mind around this. What I think of as myself, is really, God in motion, God acting, God playing - through me, as me. This knowledge comforts me. I am not alone. God with me, through me, as me. I Am That! And so it is.&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/creativeMind/creative_011.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Sep[12] = "<b><em>&quot;...we bring out the possibilities of the hidden word when we are allowing our thoughts to run in any direction...&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;I don't have any problem allowing my thoughts to run in any direction. My problem, especially when I sit for meditation, is reigning in my thoughts. Bringing out the possibility of the hidden word - that is a new concept. What I know is that the Word - God - is hidden within my innermost being. The imprisoned splendor that Eric Butterworth spoke of - the Power. But bringing it forth as I allow my thoughts to run - that is something to contemplate.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;And so I let my thoughts run, like squirrels in a maze. And what I've learned is that in time, they settle down and the hidden Word begins to form. The Word - God - I Am. And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/creativeMind/creative_015.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Sep[13] = "<b><em>&quot;The man who has arrived will realize that he has done so in the midst of an outer confusion; he will be the one who has gone into the silence for strength...&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;Ah, so! There have been times in my life that have been so chaotic I didn't think I could make it through. But one day I realized there was a peace at the center of my being. Despite everything, I felt at peace. And I know it was the time spent in silence that brought me through the chaos.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;My life is centered in God. And so it is.&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/creativeMind/creative_017.htm'#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Sep[14] = "<b><em>&quot;We have within us a power that is greater than anything that we shall ever contact in the outer, a power that can overcome every obstacle in our life...&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;A power within. This is the power that Jesus knew and used. Utilizing this power is how 'spontaneous healing' occurs. This power is the source of miracles. The power within...how do I access it? All I have to do is...be still. Turn within, shut out the world and listen for the Voice of God.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;Be still and know. God in me, through me, as me. I am That! And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/creativeMind/creative_017.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Sep[15] = "<b><em>&quot;Since all is mind, and it is done unto us as we mentally think, all life is simply a law of thought — activity of consciousness.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;'...all life is simply a law of thought...'. I understand this as I look around at my garden. Four years ago it was nothing but sand and weeds. When we decided to buy the house, I began collecting pictures of gardens and created a design for our yard. In the same manner, I create my life with my thoughts. It's easy to see how my thoughts created my garden; it's much more difficult to accept that my thoughts create the rest of my life. That is where acceptance and surrender come in.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;Acceptance and surrender. I accept what is and surrender to the knowledge that where I put my attention, that becomes my reality. Today I intend to focus only on Love. And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/creativeMind/creative_063.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Sep[16] = "<b><em>&quot;In our life the power flows through us. If we provide a big receptivity, it will do a big thing; if, on the other hand, we only believe in a small way, the activity must be a small one. &quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;In the mind of God, there is no big or small.  The Law doesn't know the difference between a dollar or a million dollars, a Muslim or a Christian.  I make the distinction.  I provide a container for the Power and it fills it.  Just as the roots of a flower can only grow as large as the pot that holds the plant, so the Power of God can only fill the container that I provide.  If I want a bigger experience, I have to provide a bigger container.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;I let my heart and mind open wider and wider to the Truth of my being. I provide a larger and larger receptacle for Power to flow through me. And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/creativeMind/creative_063.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'read the source"
Sep[17] = "<b><em>&quot;what we need is not some greater power, but that what we really need is a greater conciousness, a deeper realization of life, a grander concept of being.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;The only way I know to have a greater conscioiusness and a deeper realization of life is to be still, to get in touch with that life that is within me. I can - and have - read many books about other people's consciousness of life, but that is second-hand knowledge. The only way I can know for myself is to do what the mystics have done - spend time alone in the silence, listening to the Inner Voice. In this way I have glimpsed that grander concept of being. &quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;Be still and know that I am God. That stillpoint at the center of my being. I am That. I Am! And so it is.&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/creativeMind/creative_063.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Sep[18] = "<b><em>&quot;The soul that knows its own Divinity is the great soul; before it all else must bend; to it all else must gravitate. Enlarge your thought processes. Away with the little personal thoughts of things, and dare to think in universal terms about all things.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;Today, more than ever, it is imperative to think globally. With the internet, we have connection to people and events in seconds, events that can be life-changing. But I think Ernest Holmes was talking about thinking universally at the soul level in this verse. When we begin to know our inherent Divinity, we cannot keep from thinking universally; it is that very divinity that enlarges our thoughts, expands our vision, opens our hearts to let in the world.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;I know at the level of my soul there is something within me that is greater than my limited physical vision. The Heart of the world beats in me; I Am the Heart of the world. And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/creativeMind/creative_064.htm' target='_blank'>read the source"
Sep[19] = "<b><em>&quot;Prosperity is in our own hands to do with as we will, but we will never reach it until we learn to control our thought.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;Economists say that the state of the economy is a result of people's attitude: if people, listening to or reading the media reporting downturns, react in fear, then the economy will reflect that fear. And the obverse is true: if people feel confident about the government, their jobs, etc., the economy will reflect that confidence. hence, the economy is a state of mind. As Ernest Holmes said, in 1916, 'prosperity is in our own hands...' - or minds.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;I turn my thoughts away from what I do not want and keep before me what I do want. As a trained athlete keeps her thought on the goal, so do I keep my thoughts trained on my goals. My prosperity is in my own hands, therefore I know I have only myself to fear or blame. And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/creativeMind/creative_065.htm' target='_blank'>read the source"
Sep[20] = "<b><em>&quot;The thing to do is to unify ourselves with all the biggest ideas that we can compass; and realizing that our ideas govern our power of attraction, we should be constantly enlarging within ourselves.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;Unifying myself with the biggest ideas that I can think of that I want...my task for today is to imagine the biggest, grandest image that I can. What is the grandest thing that I want? When I have that image, then I need to keep that image uppermost in my mind. This grand image should occupy my thoughts - not the thought of impossibility, but what it is that I want.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;The biggest idea that I can compose - first I have to know with a sure and certain knowing, that God and I are One, that God is my Source, therefore I am safe and secure and all that I desire is mine, now. And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href=http://newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/creativeMind/creative_065.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Sep[21] = "<b><em>&quot;We live and move and have our being in what we call an Infinite Mind, an Infinite Creative Mind....&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;Investigative reporter, Lynn McTaggert, interviewed scientists all over the world who have researched and produced evidence that there is an energy field - the Zero Point Field - that connects everything in the universe. And...the evidence suggests that we are part of this vast, dynamic network of energy exchange. This energy force is everything; it is responsible for minds' highest function and memory, intention and creativity. This Field is what Ernest Holmes calls Infinite Mind. I call it God.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;I live, move and have my being in this One. It is my essential self. It is God. I Am That! And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/creativeMind/creative_067.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Sep[22] = "<b><em>&quot;...this mind presses against us on all sides, flows through us, and becomes operative through our thinking.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;There is one energy - the energy that created the universe and all in it - that flows through everything. Called the Tao, or Chi, or Qui, or lifeforce, I call it God. I know it is that Energy that animates my body, that flows through my body, that manifests as my thought, and subsequently as the experiences of my life. As I become aware of this energy, flowing through my body and mind I know that I can use it to heal my body and my mind. I know that whatever I think will manifest as I embody this energy more freely.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;As I think, I am! And so, I think thoughts of love, happiness and joy - and this is my experience! And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/creativeMind/creative_067.htm' target='_blank'>read the source"
Sep[23] = "<b><em>&quot;As metaphysicians...we are not dealing with a material, nor denying a manifest universe, but we are claiming that the manifestation is the result of the inner activity of the mind; and if we wish for a definite manifestation, we must produce a definite inner activity.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;Positive thinking is a learned behavior, just as are all behaviors. Why it is easier to slip into a negative frame of mind seems to be a mystery. Perhaps it dates back to the primitive mind, when acts of nature begot a god - one that was harsh and judgmental and then external control was born. Then there is a scientific explanation and name: entropy. Entropy always increases and available energy diminishes in a closed system, such as a person with a negative viewpoint. But science has also discovered a counterpoint: syntropy: the psychological state of wholesome association with others. Ernest Holmes writes that manifestation is a result of an inner activity of the mind, of thought, and we can direct that inner activity. However, we need to produce the correct inner activity...we need to be aware that our inner activity is always positive.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;Positivity or negativity - entropy or snytropy - these are choices we make every second of the day. I choose joy! Joy unspeakable and full of loving kindness. This is my affirmation for myself today: Joy! And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/creativeMind/creative_068.htm' target='_blank'>read the source"
Sep[24] = "<b><em>&quot;If we could stand aside and let this One Perfect Life flow through us, we could not help healing people! This is the highest form of healing.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;It is written of Jesus that just his presence changed the consciousness of those nearby; it is written that there was a woman who thought,'If I could just touch the hem of his garment, I would be healed.'  Jesus stood aside and let the One flow through him.  The One Perfect Life - this is that Which heals.  When we - I - am able to get my ego out of the way and let God flow through me, what miracles might occur?  What healing wil happen?&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;Today - Easter Sunday - I intend, I desire - to let God, the One Perfect Life, flow through me.  I desire to be an instrument of God.  And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://www.newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/scienceOfMind1938/som1938_358.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Sep[25] = "<b><em>&quot;Every time you say I Am, you are recognizing the eternal infinite presence of omnipotent power within yourself, which is God operating through your thought...&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;Realizing that the omnipotent power of God works through me with every I Am statement gives me pause. No matter what the I Am is, It is working. If I say, 'I am broke', meaning I have no money, I can be sure that the I Am power will affirm that for me. It is no wonder that the headlines scream negativity--all around us people are proclaiming lack. I watched a movie last night that had the potential to herald grief and misery, but instead, it demonstrated how we live in a world of infinite potential and it is up to us to choose the potential we prefer. We can say I Am strong, healthy and prosperous, and watch all that materialize, or we can claim the opposite. It's all up to me.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;Today I intend to watch my I Am statements and speak only those that project exactly what I want to experience. I am strong and powerful! I Am That! And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/creativeMind/creative_068.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Sep[26] = "<b><em>&quot;When fifty-one per cent of your thinking is health and life and power, that day the fifty-one per cent, will swallow up, erase, kill out the rest. &quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;The experts say that each of us thinks 60,000 or more thoughts every day and most of those are the same ones we had yesterday. I find hope in Ernest Holmes' words that I need only change fifty-one percent of those 60,000 plus thoughts to have a life of health and power! Positivity, I've discovered, is a habit, one I intend to continue to cultivate!&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;Today I choose to be positive - happy, joyous! I choose to think thoughts of good health, abundance and joy! I intend to make at least fifty-one percent of my thoughts positive and happy. If it's going to be, it's up to me! And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/creativeMind/creative_068.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Sep[27] = "<b><em>&quot;Wake up! Your word is all-powerful, your consciousness is one with Omnipotence. Your thought is infinite.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;Goethe wrote, 'If you want to reach the infinite...explore every aspect of the finite.' For a person (me) who has spent most of her life looking for the Infinite outside herself, both Ernest Holmes and Goethe's quotes give me pause. I know that my thought is infinite (the definition of infinite is unmeasurable, unlimited, unbounded) in the physical sense- they bounce all over the place-but Ernest Holmes was speaking in the larger sense- of Infinite as the unmeasurable ground of being. As a microcosm of God, the ultimate Infinite, my thoughts are as infinite as God, as unbounded as I let them be. But Goethe's quote describes a new way of being for me: finding the Infinite in the finite.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;Finding God in my every day life, as I move through my day, no matter what I'm doing. If I can see God in the dirty dishes then I am a little closer to seeing my own divinity. And so it is! &quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/creativeMind/creative_069.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Sep[28] = "<b><em>&quot;All the power of the Spirit is working through our thought as we believe and receive.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;Jesus said, 'Your faith has made you whole'. Current thinking tells us that beliefs are a result of several things: our thoughts, emotions, feelings and conditioning. Most of us grew up believing what we have been taught to believe - by our parents, teachers and society. Some of us, as we mature, question those beliefs and begin to ask if something is really what we believe. Believing - and receiving - the Power of Spirit, letting It work through me, is like that. Do I really believe there is a Power within me that works through my thought? Believing - and receiving - that Power - is like a habit: I can re-train my mind. I can learn to trust this Power, and in the learning I will experience more and more of it.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;I know there is a Power within me, that works through me. I intend to let it flow, unrestrained, to bring my good. And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/creativeMind/creative_069.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Sep[29] = "<b><em>&quot;...this is one of the teachings of Ancient Wisdom, that while reality never changes, the form that it takes is ever changing.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;God, Reality, the same, yesterday, today and tomorrow, always the same. The one factor in my life upon which I know I can depend. God never changes. But the forms that God takes are as various and numerous as the snowflakes. Just as no two snowflakes are alike, neither are any of the other faces of God, and those change minute by minute. And how wonderful, because, like my garden that changes with the seasons, offering new delights for my senses, if form stayed the same, we wouldn't know the delights of anything new, or relish in the known.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;I find comfort in knowing that God is always the same; no matter if I change, God never does. And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/creativeMind/creative_073.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Sep[30] = "<b><em>&quot;...man [is seemingly limited]...Because he has thought limitation, and thoughts are things and will always make the thing thought of. In reality the very fact that man's thought can limit him also proves that it could free him from all limitation by simply changing his thought.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;So simple and yet so difficult. Change my life by changing my thoughts. Is it really possible? I know it is so, because I see the results in my life, in ways I have changed already. Changing my thoughts means when I catch myself dwelling on a problem, I switch to a possible solution or to what I'd prefer, rather than continuing to dwell on the problem. The new science of neuroplasticity has studies that show that switching from a negative thought to a positive thought affects the neural pathways, and though it takes both time and discipline, not just your brain but also your life is affected. Changing my thoughts, then, changes my brain as well as my life!&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;I turn my thoughts to things that make me feel good. The better I feel, the happier I am, the better my life is. And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/creativeMind/creative_074.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"

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Oct[1] = "<b><em>&quot;Walt Whitman [once said],'I am not all contained between my hat and my boots'&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;'I am not all contained between my hat and my boots! For an appearance-oriented society - even in the days of Walt Whitman - this statement is such a liberating one! In a society that feeds on appearances, Walt Whitman must have been an enigma. Even more so today, when there is still the standard of: how much a person makes declares his worth, when we look askance at someone who dresses or acts outside what we consider appropriate. Who can forget the look on the judges' faces when Susan Boyle walked on stage? And, again, when she began to sing. Susan could certainly say, with Walt Whitman, 'I am not all contained between my hat and my boots.' She, and all of us, are so much more than we appear to be.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;I Am That! I Am God expressing! And so it is.&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://newthoughtlibrary.com/trowardThomas/hiddenPower/hidden-power_059.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Oct[2] = "<b><em>&quot;By losing sight of this truth [the two-fold nature of the 'I AM,' that it is at once both the manifested and the unmanifested, the universal and the individual] we surround ourselves with limitations...&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;St. Paul said, 'I put on Christ daily'; Paul knew that if he failed to spend time daily with God, recognizing the Christ Consciousness within, the day was lost - he lost sight of the Truth, his I Am identity. How easy it is to let go my alone time with God, to let my to-do list take priority. But I know with Paul, I must put on Christ daily - I must spend time alone with God, or I lose sight of the Truth and limit myself. I see limitation wherever I look.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;I intend to stay in sight of my I Am identity, knowing that God is both the manifest and unmanifest, that I, being an expression of God, am truly unlimited in anything. My wants and desires manifest easily as I stay within sight of I Am. And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://newthoughtlibrary.com/trowardThomas/hiddenPower/hidden-power_059.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Oct[3] = "<b><em>&quot;...this grand intelligence and livingness of Universal Spirit continually pressing forward to manifestation of itself in a glorious humanity...must be effected by each individual's recognition of his power...&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;So often in my life I've felt powerless - trapped, even - in a life I hadn't realized I had made myself. Discovering this power within was like having a life preserver thrown to me. Like a drowning person I gratefully latched on to the truth. I know it is Truth because it resonates deep in my soul. Recognizing my power - for me this means knowing deep within that Power is what I call God and keeping my thought stayed on God. It means surrendering to that Power, not trying to push the river, as a friend calls it. Staying in the flow.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;I surrender to the Power and the Presence of the Divine within me. I let God be God within me. And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://newthoughtlibrary.com/trowardThomas/hiddenPower/hidden-power_001.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Oct[4] = "<b><em>&quot;...[the individual]...is none other than the same Universal Principle in particular manifestation.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;Almost daily I meet people I automatically put in the 'I don't like' category of my mind. People I prefer not to have as a friend, or even as an acquaintance. My ego quickly responds, but my soul knows better: even people I, in my physical persona dismiss, they, too, are the manifestation of the same Universal Principle. The same Principle that manifested as me, manifested as every person. How humbling! If I can see God in every person, perhaps I can get past the physical manifestations. Even in my garden, the goat heads are, at their core, the same as my beloved roses.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;To embrace every person as a manifestation of God - how easy to say. With the grace of God I intend to do so. And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://newthoughtlibrary.com/trowardThomas/hiddenPower/hidden-power_001.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Oct[5] = "<b><em>&quot;To do any work successfully you must believe yourself to be a whole man...The completed work is the outward image of a corresponding completeness in yourself.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;I've met very few people in my life who haven't had some experience with brokenness. If we enter into life at all, experiencing heartbreak is almost a given. Experiencing wholeness is a rarefied experience unless we actively work at it. Experiencing wholeness is the result of knowing at the soul level that there is a Power and Presence within that is whole, and that is my true Self. Recognizing and acknowledging that the Father and I are One, this is the wholeness. From that recognition my experience of wholeness flows.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;Recognizing and believing in my wholeness, I am successful in all that I do.  And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://newthoughtlibrary.com/trowardThomas/hiddenPower/hidden-power_001.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Oct[6] = "<b><em>&quot;Now if we really grasp the two fundamental truths that Spirit is Life pure and simple, and that external things are the result of interior forces...&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;Two fundamental truths that rule my life: Spirit is Life and my external world reflects my internal. Oh, I don't like that second part! I want any chaos in my life to be the fault of someone else! And yet, I know it's true. My life is a reflection of my inner turmoil. When I am centered in Spirit, I see that reflected in calmness all around me. When I am off center, doubts pour into my mind and I see that reflected as well.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;I know the Truth - at the center of my being is a calmness - the eye of the storm. I intend to stay in the center, minute by minute. I am calm. I am peace. I am That! And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://newthoughtlibrary.com/trowardThomas/hiddenPower/hidden-power_059.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Oct[7] = "<b><em>&quot;We are complete in ourselves; and the reason why we fail to realise this is that we do not understand how far the 'self' of ourselves extends.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;Until the age of twenty-five, a child's brain and her mother's brain are so attuned, the child's brain literally grows toward the mother. Mother and child are attuned to each other. Through activity in the right frontal cortex; the mother shows the child how to navigate through life. Their brains grow toward each other. Biologically, we reach out beyond our physical selves, farther than we realize, reaching toward our mother, our child. Spiritually, as well, our 'Self', that greater part, has no limit to its extension. This is non-locality of the Self - we are greater than we think we are.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;As I get in touch with my Self at the soul level, I know my unbounded, unlimited Self.  I Am That!  And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://newthoughtlibrary.com/trowardThomas/hiddenPower/hidden-power_059.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Oct[8] = "<b><em>&quot;...there can be no inside without an outside, and no outside without an inside; and the great secret in life is in learning to see things in their wholeness, and to realize the inside and the outside simultaneously.</em>&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;A few years ago a dvd and then a book entitled 'The Secret' was so popular both were flying off the booksellers' shelves. 'The Secret' purported a way to realize all your desires, whether that be a house, a job, financial security, or the person of your dreams. The secret was the Law of Attraction - you attract to you what you focus upon. What the Secret didn't explain is that a sense of wholeness is also necessary. If I feel separate from God, then no amount of focusing is going to bring my desires to me. The inside is my thoughts, the outside is the manifestation, but the wholeness is God. I am complete and whole in God, as God, but only when I am aligned...when I know in my heart that God and I are one.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;This moment, I know my wholeness. This moment I know I am whole, because I know there is only God and I am a part of that Wholeness. I Am That! And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://newthoughtlibrary.com/trowardThomas/hiddenPower/hidden-power_059.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Oct[9] = "<b><em>&quot;...without the knowledge of [the principles of Being] truth must always remain wrapped in mystery...&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;I love a mystery. I love to discover the clues and try to discipher them. I love the Mystery that is God. Each clue I discipher about this Great Mystery thrills me and make me feel a little closer to It. The knowledge about which Thomas Troward wrote is knowledge gained from spending time in the Silence, with the Principle of Being. Time I spend in the Silence helps me to discover another clue to the Mystery that I call God.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;In the Silence I know: I Am That! I Am! And so it is.&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://newthoughtlibrary.com/trowardThomas/hiddenPower/hidden-power_059.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Oct[10] = "<b><em>&quot;...the lesson...is guarding vigilantly the mental equilibrium which alone will enable us to develop those boundless powers whose infinite unfolding is the fulness of Life<em>.</em></p>&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;I have a dream and most of the time I know that my dream will manifest. But there are times when I let down my guard and I begin to doubt. Though I know that is my ego, my limited sense of self derived from past conditioning, nevertheless, those times my doubts rise up and overpower my knowing. Those are the times I go into the Silence even more, back to Center, because it is the slipping off-center that causes the doubts. When I am centered I know that my dreams, like my true Self, are boundless, limitless and need only for me to get out of the way for my dreams to manifest.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;I am centered in God, knowing God and I are One. From that knowingness, from that Center, from that Source, my dreams manifest easily. And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://newthoughtlibrary.com/trowardThomas/hiddenPower/hidden-power_059.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Oct[11] = "<b><em>&quot;<em>...we must remember above all that the soul of life is Love...</em>&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;Ernest Holmes, in what I call the Love chapter of Science of Mind, wrote: 'Love is the fire of the Universe; nay, the very flame itself...'. Love - unconditional love, the love that is blind to faults, that would lay down its life; nonjudgmental - this is the love that a mother has for her child. This is the Love that is God. Not the love of God - but God Itself. The fire, the Power, the Ecstasy - the very soul of life.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;My search for love begins and ends in God. And from that Love, by that Love, I love myself. And loving myself, I can love all others. I Am Love! I Am! And so it is.&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://newthoughtlibrary.com/trowardThomas/hiddenPower/hidden-power_059.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Oct[12] = "<b><em>&quot;In contemplating the relations between body, soul, and spirit, between Universal Mind and individual mind, the methodised study of which constitutes Mental Science, we must never forget that these relations indicate, not the separateness, but the unity of these principles.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;We live in a world ruled by our physical senses. We are lulled into the belief that this life is the only life, therefore we've got to live it to the fullest, and that usually means pursuing whatever the media convinces us will make us happy. As for our spiritual life, more often than not, it is segregated from 'real life'. The spiritual life is relegated to an hour on Sunday morning, if that, and the rest of the week, it's business as usual. But Thomas Troward is calling us into Unity - to knowing that the Reality is God, and there is no separation. There is only the One and each of us in mind, spirit and body are part of that One. When we wake up to this Reality, we are healed.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;At the center of my being, I know the One True Reality is my reality. I know that God and I are One. I Am That! And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://newthoughtlibrary.com/trowardThomas/hiddenPower/hidden-power_129.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Oct[13] = "<b><em>&quot;...in any perfect organism there cannot be more than one centre of control.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;My oldest daughter had renal failure. My granddaughter, Lizzie, had liver cancer. My son has Crohn's disease. What I've learned from all these is that, when one organ in our body becomes diseased, the entire body suffers. I've also learned that the entire organism - body, mind and spirit - must be healed or there is no healing. In a world where the medical model rules, this is a difficult concept. It's so much easier to pop a pill than to acknowledge that there may be a deeper issue. In a world where the word psychosomatic still, in 2010, has an uneasy connotation (you're a mental case!) we prefer to look for a physical explanation and cure. However, even the medical field is beginning to understand that most medical issues are 'all in the patient's head' - disease begins in the mind - or soul - and eventually manifests in the body.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;Today I intend that all my actions, thoughts and feelings are filtered through my center of control - God. I surrender to the Presence of God within. And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://newthoughtlibrary.com/trowardThomas/hiddenPower/hidden-power_129.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Oct[14] = "<b><em>&quot;<em>...if we are to continue to exist , it can only be by retaining our hold upon the central controlling principle in ourselves...all our future developent depends upon our recognizing and accepting this central controlling principle - the Will.</em>&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;Thomas Troward calls the central controlling principle the Will and Ernest Holmes says that the will of God is ever toward life. As I contemplate this thing called Will/Life, I feel the quickening of my own spirit. I know that God can only will life, otherwise there is no growth. Life means moving forward to a greater and greater sense and way of being.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;I align with Life. I know that One Life is my life. I surrender to that Life within. And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://newthoughtlibrary.com/trowardThomas/hiddenPower/hidden-power_129.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Oct[15] = "<b><em>&quot;<em>When the enlightened Will shall have learnt to identify itself perfectly with the limitless power of knowledge, judgment, and creative thought which are at its disposal, then the individual will have attained to perfect wholeness, and all limitations will have passed away for ever.</em>&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;Most of us think of will as will power - I will... Or perhaps we say, 'I just don't have any will power!' Thomas Troward is talking about a greater Will, a will that must be in alignment with the Will that is God - when we know that there is only God and nothing else. When we are so attuned with God that we know nothing outside of It, then we know our boundless Self, our perfect Wholeness.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;I know this One is my true Identity. I Am That! I Am. And so it is.&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://newthoughtlibrary.com/trowardThomas/hiddenPower/hidden-power_129.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Oct[16] = "<b><em>&quot;<em>And nothing short of this consciousness of Perfect Wholeness can satisfy us.</em>&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;The new science of the brain states that we are hard-wired for happiness, for wholeness. This wholeness of which Thomas Troward speaks is not just metaphysical 'speak'; it is actually being supported by neuroscientists. Neural pathways once ruled by our reptillian and limbic brains - the parts of our brains that respond to the material world, to fear and distrust - now have a newer, more evolved 'higher' brain in control: the prefrontal cortex, which responds to and seeks joy and enlightenment. We are hard-wired for joy and enlightenment because of the evolution of our species. Evolution has created the possibility for us to become aware of the perfect Wholeness and nothing else will ever satisfy.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;I know my Perfect Wholeness! I know the Wholeness is my identity. I Am That! I Am. And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://newthoughtlibrary.com/trowardThomas/hiddenPower/hidden-power_129.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Oct[17] = "<b><em>&quot;<em>There can be no compromise. Either we are affirming Life as a principle, or we are denying it, no matter how great or small a scale; and the criterion by which to determine our attitude is our realization of our own Wholeness.</em>&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;The Principle, the Law, is always working, whether I realize it or not. Whatever I affirm, my life affirms it as well. My realization of my identity with God determines how great or how small my affirmation is. The Law knows no difference between a dime or a million dollars. Only I determine the difference. As I am aligned in Spirit, my manifestations reflect that alignment.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;I know this Principle to be true. I know as I affirm Life, It is reflected in me. My life is the Life that is God. I Am That! I Am! And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://newthoughtlibrary.com/trowardThomas/hiddenPower/hidden-power_129.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Oct[18] = "<b><em>&quot;<em>...whenever we admit the power of any portion of our organism, whether spiritual or bodily, to induce any condition independently of the intention of the Will, we admit that the force of disintegration is superior to the controlling centre in ourselves...</em>&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;As the intention of the Will is toward life, Thomas Troward is saying in this passage that any time we talk about anything other than wellness we are admitting to another power, to dualism, to separation. Contrary to what religion teaches, original sin is the illusion of separation - denying our Unity.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;The Power to Which I admit is the One Power, the One that created this Universe, and all in it, including me. I Am That! And in that knowing, I Am Whole. And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://newthoughtlibrary.com/trowardThomas/hiddenPower/hidden-power_129.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Oct[19] = "<b><em>&quot;<em>...either through ignorance or carelessness, we have surrendered our position of control over the system as a whole [when we admit to a sense of separation]..</em>&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;We admit to a sense of separation when we affirm illness, lack, loneliness, or any other malady. It is through ignorance before we know our Unity, carelessness once we have waked up. We become lazy and, like the virgins in the Bible, we fall asleep. In our sleepy state we grow careless, forgetting our Source, our Identity. We give up control of our thoughts, forgetting the importance of standing watch.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;I intend to stay awake and alert, guarding my thoughts, words and feelings. I intend to stay centered in God, in my Wholeness. And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://newthoughtlibrary.com/trowardThomas/hiddenPower/hidden-power_129.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Oct[20] = "<b><em>&quot;<em>...since the grandest of all purposes is the strengthening and ennobling of Life, in proportion as we make this our aim we shall find our selves in union with the Supreme Universal Mind...</em>&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;The Supreme Universal Mind - some call it the Field, some the Matrix. Some call It the organizing principle that created this universe. I call It God, Father, Mother, the Divine, the Beloved. Whatever name we give It, we find our lives miraculous when we are attuned to It. When we feel lonely or poor, sick or bereaved, we have moved off center; the union is broken. Thomas Troward reminds us that in proportion as we make it our aim to strengthen and ennoble that Life within, we are centered - in union with - the Supreme Universal Mind.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;My God never forsakes me. My Beloved is always right where I am, supporting and sustaining me, whispering words of love in my ear. I Am That! I Am! And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://newthoughtlibrary.com/trowardThomas/hiddenPower/hidden-power_129.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Oct[21] = "<b><em>&quot;<em>...the Self in us will be found to be the realization of a grand ideal being, at once individual and universal, consciously free in its individual wholeness and in its joyous participation in the Life of the Universal Whole. </em>&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;When I am awake, I know this to be true: my Self is that grand ideal being. When I am centered in God, I know my true Self, and I know that I am free and unlimited. There are no limits to what I can do, be or have. The only limits are those I put on myself.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;I intend to keep my mind stayed on God. I am an incarnation of the One Divine Mind. That Mind is my Mind. I Am That! I Am! And so it is.&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://newthoughtlibrary.com/trowardThomas/hiddenPower/hidden-power_129.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Oct[22] = "<b><em>&quot;Most people consider life a battle, but it is not a battle, it is a game.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;In his book, Busting Loose From the Money Game, Robert Scheinfield takes his readers through a story that explains how life is a game. For most of us, the idea that life is a game is too much to grasp. For those of us who have lost loved ones to disease, it doesn't feel like a game. For those of us who just eke out a living - and barely that! - it doesn't feel like a game. But Shinn reminds us that all games have rules, and so does life. The rules in the game of life are the Principles that Science of Mind teaches: There is a Divine Presence and a Universal Law that responds to that Presence and, as I am an individuation of the Divine, the Universal Law responds to me: to my words, thoughts, feelings. This is the rule that I need to remember to play this game successfully.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;Today I intend to play by the rules: to guard my thoughts, my feelings and my words - so that my life is exactly what I want! And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://newthoughtlibrary.com/shinnFlorenceScovel/game/game.htm#c1TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Oct[23] = "<b><em>&quot;There are three departments of the mind, the subconscious, conscious and superconscious. The subconscious, is simply power, without direction.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;From psychology I know that the subconscous mind is the deeply hidden part of the mind that is the storehouse of every thought, feeling and words I have ever had or spoken. It is the storehouse of all my memories. It is also that which drives my every action, whether I realize it or not. All my old beliefs are stored there, waiting to pounce when I least expect them. It's difficult to accept that I am a product of my subconscious mind, but the good news is, I can reprogram my subconscious mind, because now I am aware of it. I know that I can change my beliefs, therefore I can direct my subconscious where I want to go!&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;I set my mind on a new path, a new way of thinking. I go in the direction of my dreams, intentionally, on purpose! My subconscious mind no longer directs the traffic. Ah, how sweet! To know that I can, indeed, change my thinking, therefore my life! And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://newthoughtlibrary.com/shinnFlorenceScovel/game/game.htm#c1TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Oct[24] = "<b><em>&quot;<em>The conscious mind...is the human mind and sees life as it appears to be. It sees death, disorder, sickness, poverty and limitation of every kind, and it impresses the subconscious.</em>&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;When I look with my finite eyes, I see duality: the wholeness, oneness of the universe, of God, vanish and all I see is the result of years of a conditioned conscious mind: fear, which results in dis-ease, dis-harmony, lack, suspicion. It is only when I turn inward and begin to see with the eyes of the Infinite that everything comes into focus and I see the Whole.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;I look at life with the Eyes of God, the Whole, the Infinite, therefore I see only the Perfection, the Allness, of Life. And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://newthoughtlibrary.com/shinnFlorenceScovel/game/game.htm#c1TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Oct[25] = "<b><em>&quot;The superconscious mind is the God Mind within each man, and is the realm of perfect ideas. In it, is the 'perfect pattern' spoken of by Plato, The Divine Design; for there is a Divine Design for each person.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;As long as I can remember, even as a pre-teenager, I've wondered about God's plan for my life. I couldn't seem to get a handle on what it might be. But when I found Science of Mind, I found the answer. God's plan, the Divine Design, is so simple: to know that I am Love, I am loved, and to let that Love shine though my life. So simple, and yet so difficult to grasp, as I, like most people, have known very little unconditional love. How blessed I am to know this now!&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;I simply relax into the knowing: the Divine Design for my life outpictures as I am centered in God. And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://newthoughtlibrary.com/shinnFlorenceScovel/game/game.htm#c1TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Oct[26] = "<b><em>&quot;<em>Jesus...taught that man's words played a leading part in the game of life. 'By your words ye are justified and by your words ye are condemned.'</em>&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;Growing up traditionally, I took these words in the literal sense and even though New Thought/Science of Mind takes them literally as well, it is in the metaphysical that we know our words justify or condemn. By justify, metaphysically we know that as we use our words, and thus, the Law, wisely, we manifest health and happiness. Likewise we condemn ourselves when we use our words unconsciously - we affirm disease, poverty and unhappiness when we declare anything but their opposites.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;Today I intend to justify myself - to declare and claim only what I want to see in my life. By my words I am set free! And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://newthoughtlibrary.com/shinnFlorenceScovel/game/game.htm#c1TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Oct[27] = "<b><em>&quot;<em>The object of the game of life is to see clearly one's goals and to obliterate all mental pictures of evil.</em>&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;Emma Curtis Hopkins taught that good is God, therefore when I see my good, I see God, and vice versa. And when I keep my eyes on God, I see only good. God contains both, but knows only good. I am the one who makes the distinction.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;Today I intend to see only my good. I keep my eyes on God, therefore I manifest only good. And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://newthoughtlibrary.com/shinnFlorenceScovel/game/game.htm#c1TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Oct[28] = "<b><em>&quot;<em>One of the greatest messages given to the races through the scriptures is that God is man's supply and than man can release, through his spoken word, all that belongs to him by divine right. He must, however, have perfect faith in his spoken word.</em>&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;Even in New Thought, it isn't easy to grasp the concept that God is our supply. what does this really mean? Jesus reminded us to look at the lilies in the field: they toil not nor do they reap, yet they are dressed more beautifully than the richest woman in the world. Everything is ours by divine right; Adam and Even lived in paradise, but didn't believe. They chose, instead, to believe the lie. Too often, we believe the lie as well: that we are separate from God and He turned His back on us. We have put our faith in separation, rather than in Oneness, in God.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;My intention is to stay in the knowledge of my Truth: God and I are One and my divine birthright is health, wealth, and happiness. I Am That! I Am! And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://newthoughtlibrary.com/shinnFlorenceScovel/game/game.htm#c1TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Oct[29] = "<b><em>&quot;<em>We now know that words and thoughts are a tremendous vibratory force, ever moulding man's body and affairs.</em>&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;Science tells us that the universe is made of vibration; the ancient mystics have told us that the universe is made of vibration. Everything is vibration. What we forget is that the Universal Law, the Great Soul of the Universe, only responds to vibration, and our individual vibration tells it what to manifest in our lives. If we are tuned in to the highest vibration - Love - our lives will reflect that vibration.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;As I live in the vibration of God, of Love, my life is magical. I live, move and have my being in Love. And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://newthoughtlibrary.com/shinnFlorenceScovel/game/game.htm#c1TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Oct[30] = "<b><em>&quot;<em>A person knowing the power of the word becomes very careful of his conversation. He has only to watch the reaction of his words to know that they do not return void. Through his spoken word, man is continually making laws for himself.</em>&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;We are too careless with our words, with our lives. We toss out words with abandon, not realizing that we create with our word. Everything in our lives is created with our word. All we have to do is listen to our self-talk and then we understand.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;Today I intend to watch my words; I intend to be alert to what I create with the words I speak. My words have power and I intend to use them wisely. And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://newthoughtlibrary.com/shinnFlorenceScovel/game/game.htm#c1TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Oct[31] = "<b><em>&quot;<em>Owing to the vibratory power of words, whatever a man voices, he begins to attract.</em>&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;We've all seen the cliche of a singer hitting a high note and breaking a crystal glass. The singer's vibration was higher that the vibration of the glass, thus the breakage. It isn't the same, we think, and yet it is. Scientists  declare that vibration is the fabric of the universe. We respond positively or negatively to the vibration of music (how often do we feel the booming sound of a bass, even coming from another car?); why is it so difficult to accept that our words have power through their vibration?&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;I know the power of my word, and the power of the vibration of my words. I watch over my words, making sure they are the vibration I desire. And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://newthoughtlibrary.com/shinnFlorenceScovel/game/game.htm#c1TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"

Nov = new Array
Nov[1] = "<b><em>&quot;Science of Mind is not a 'get-rich-quick' scheme, neither does it promise something for nothing. It does, however, promise the one who will comply with its teachings that he shall be able to bring greater possibilities and happier conditions into his experience.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;Many people in crisis come into Science of Mind, thinking that Science of Mind is a quick fix. But Ernest Holmes admonishes that we must comply with the teachings in order to bring about the conditions which we want. And those teachings to which he refers are so simple, they are difficult - and often a stumbling block: align your thoughts with the thought of God; know that your word has power and by your words your life is healed - or not. The Law of our teaching - the Law of the Universe - responds in kind with our thoughts, words, feelings and beliefs. So simple.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;I intend to align my every thought, my feelings, with Spirit. I intend to manifest the life I want. I keep my eyes, my words, stayed on God, therefore all my manifestations are Good! And so it is.&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/scienceOfMind1938/som1938_266.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Nov[2] = "<b><em>&quot;NO PERSON WHOSE ENTIRE TIME IS SPENT IN THE CONTEMPLATION OF LIMITATION CAN DEMONSTRATE FREEDOM FROM SUCH LIMITATION! The Law Itself must be willing to give, because in so giving Life is Self-Expressed.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;Jesus said to, '...to the person who has much, more will be given and he who has little, even that will be taken away.' Harsh words and, until a person understands Universal Law, difficult to understand. However, knowing that the Law reflects back to me exactly what It feels - because the Law responds to feelings/vibrations - I understand what Jesus meant. The more I contemplate what I don't have, the more of what I don't have, I won't. In other words, if there is something in my life I don't want, I need to turn away from it and keep my focus on what I want.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;Today I keep my thoughts and feelings focused on Love - on God. And as I do, I know all I want is mine. And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/scienceOfMind1938/som1938_267.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Nov[3] = "<b><em>&quot;<em>...the Eternal Heart is one of love, and ...God forgives from the foundation of the universe...the Divine Mind is too pure to behold evil and knows nothing of sin.</em>&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;<p><em></em>We, in our finite mind, attribute to God our thoughts and feelings. What we declare as unforgiveable and attribute the same to God, is our perception. But God, being beyond human emotions and frailties, knows nothing but love for Its creation. Just as a mother loves her child  unconditionally, so God, the Eternal Heart, loves. To understand this takes looking at life with the Eyes of the Infinite, turning within to the silence of our own souls.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;This moment I seek the silence of my soul, turning to that Infinite Wisdom within. As I listen to my Inner Wisdom, I know the Love of God; I know then I need no forgiveness, and I can forgive myself and any others I might hold in unforgiveness. And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/scienceOfMind1938/som1938_438.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Nov[4] = "<b><em>&quot;<em>The practitioner...gives thanks as he makes his demand on the Infinite, knowing that the supply and demand are one, and that his request is instantly manifest on the invisible plane. 'Before they call, will I answer,' is the divine promise.</em>&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;'The supply and demand are one...' - this is a concept with which we often have difficulty. Sometimes we beg; sometimes we affirm; more often we don't understand that the prayer is the answer - when we pray correctly, meaning, when we speak our word in the vibration of knowing that the demand and the supply are one and the same. And when we are in that high vibration, the supply often comes before the demand, because God knows our hearts.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;Today I speak my word from the vibration of Love. I am Love and I am loved. All I desire is mine now! And so it is! &quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/scienceOfMind1938/som1938_174.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Nov[5] = "<b><em>&quot;'In everything gives thanks.' An attitude of gratitude is most salutary, and bespeaks the realization that we are now in heaven.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;It's easy to be thankful when life is going smoothly. Of course, I'm thankful for my beautiful home, my wonderful husband, my family; I'm thankful for having plenty to eat, money to pay the bills. But in the dark night of the soul - the times of critical illness, in either myself or a loved one, or perhaps a financial slump - how can I be thankful for those? Recently my husband had surgery; he admits he isn't a good patient. One particularly trying day I said, 'Well, Rod, thank you for being my greatest teacher!' What I meant was, his impatience with being an invalid kept me figuratively on my knees, seeking peace within, trying to be patient, understanding and loving with him. I don't know that I succeeded, but I do know I sought wisdom from my Inner Guidance a lot!&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;In everything I give thanks for I know everything is good, because everything is God! And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/scienceOfMind1938/som1938_497.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Nov[6] = "<b><em>&quot;If we wish to come to the Spirit for the healing of our wounds, let us come in peace and with spontaneous joy, for the Spirit is joy; let us come with thanksgiving also, for a thankful heart is in harmony with life.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;I've been reading about the new science of neuroplascity - the plastic brain. Neuroscientists are discovering that the brain is moldable, the brain takes the shape of our thoughts and feelings. The brain, like our minds, is susceptible to our feelings. Neuroscientists, like Jesus, advocate that we think only on pure, happy things. As we focus on happiness, joy, beauty, love, gratitude and peace, the more of each we become.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;I turn my mind to thoughts that make me feel good. I focus on joy and love and I become joyful and loving. I am happiness! And so it is.&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/scienceOfMind1938/som1938_447.htm#TopOfTextTopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Nov[7] = "<b><em>&quot;We often think what we require is money, friends and physical healing. After these things, do those, who are outside a knowledge of the Law, seek; and they do well, for we need all these things. But they are the effects of right relationships to life.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;'...a right relationship to life...'. when I was in traditional church I heard that I needed to '...get right with God...', meaning I needed to accept Jesus as my Savior. A right relationship with life means knowing that there is a Divine Presence and Universal Law that always responds to that Presence and that I am a microcosm of That. Within me is the Divine Presence and the Universal Law, which responds to my feelings. If I'm in a state of despair, the Law will reflect that. If I'm in a state of jubilation, It will reflect that. Knowing this, I am in a right relationship with God - with Life.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;The Father and I are one! And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/scienceOfMind1938/som1938_447.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Nov[8] = "<b><em>&quot;All people need some form of healing. Most people are unhappy, few have any realization of permanent peace. We seek fragments, when the whole is at hand.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;Many people are looking for the one person who will 'complete' them, or who think the latest gadget will bring them lasting happiness. Or their body is filled with disease. Every one of these people are looking for the fragment, not realizing that it is the Wholeness we need, and It is as close as our breath. It <em>is</em> our breath! The Wholeness that is God is what we seek, but settle instead for a sop.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;I don't settle. I want the Whole. I seek God, the Wholeness, and find It - right where I am. And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/scienceOfMind1938/som1938_447.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Nov[9] = "<b><em>&quot;How illogical to think that anything can rise higher than its source. The Universe is a perfect, undivided whole, and healing can take place only when one is unified with It.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;I hear about people's wants, needs, affirmations constantly, and can always tell if they'll manifest. We have to have a mental equivelent - a picture - in our mind of what we want, and WE HAVE TO KNOW IN OUR HEARTS THAT IS OURS NOW - not tomorrow, but NOW. When we pray in the future, our wants stay in the future, because there is no such thing as the future. It's all in our minds. We must, to manifest, align ourselves, know in our hearts, that the Universe is Whole, One, and we are part of it.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;One God, One Universe, One Mind. My Mind. I Am That! And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/scienceOfMind1938/som1938_447.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Nov[10] = "<b><em>&quot;<em>We cannot demonstrate beyond our ability to mentally embody an idea. The argument is between our experience, what the world believes, and what we are convinced is the Truth.</em>&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;The problem is we believe the world and the world has gone astray. Race consciousness - the thoughts, words and feelings of every person, living now and long gone, influence us. We have shut down our Inner Guidance and listened to the lie. The Truth is too easy, too simple, so we believe the lie. What is the lie? That we are inherently evil and powerless. The Truth is we are inherently Divine and more powerful than we can imagine! The imagination, the power, that created the Universe, is the Power that is available to each of us, as we learn to tune in and listen!&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;Today I tune in. I turn within to that Power that is mine to use. I turn away from the lie and embrace my Truth. I <em>Am</em> That! I Am! And so it is.&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/scienceOfMind1938/som1938_174.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Nov[11] = "<b><em>&quot;<em>I give thanks that I am Divine and that I know my Divinity.</em>&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;Oh, to know this; to abide in it! I am Divine! The same Power that created the Universe courses through me, energizing me, strengthening me! How I rely on this Power, this Love, my Divine Self!&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;Turning within, I know Who I Am. I know my own Divinity. What joy! And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/scienceOfMind1938/som1938_251.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Nov[12] = "<b><em>&quot;<em>Practice is a definite statement in mind, a positive affirmation. It is an active, conscious, aggressive mental movement and in such degree as it embodies an idea—and there is no longer anything in our minds which denies the idea—it will take form, because it now becomes a part of the law and order of the Universe in which we live. . </em>&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;The old cliche, '...how do you get to Carnegie Hall - practice, practice, practice!', is true of attaining a positive mental attitude. All around I near negativity. I wonder what the world would be like if we all practiced being positive - always looking for the good, in people, in situations. When my kids were young and would come home complaining about their teachers, I would tell them, there's got to be something good about her; why don't you look for it? They either couldn't find anything good, or they didn't want to complain to me again, for fear of a lecture!&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;Today I intend to look for the good in everything and everyone I meet. I know everything is good, because everything is God! And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/scienceOfMind1938/som1938_277.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Nov[13] = "<b><em>&quot;The conscious knowledge that in Divine Mind we are known only as perfection so uplifts the thought that every mental and emotional reaction to circumstances and conditions is improved.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;When each of my children were born I immediately checked every part of their bodies, making sure they had all their fingers, all their toes, everything was perfect. Of course, even if there had been a part missing I'd have thought they were perfect, because they were my children. I carried each in my body, beneath my heart, for nine months. We communicated with touch, loving eath other. I'd rub my belly, they'd respond with a kick. And because I, in my finiteness, love my children unconditionally, knowing how fantastic they are, I know the Divine Mind loves even more - beyond words.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;The Divine Mind sees me only as perfect - how wonderful it is to know this! How my heart sings with this knowledge! I and the Father are one! And so it is.&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/scienceOfMind1938/som1938_253.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Nov[14] = "<b><em>&quot;Nothing is more apparent than that man, as he now appears, is the result of evolution. But in order to evolve, he had to have a Principle from which to unfold. Since man is intelligent, he must have evolved from an Intelligent Cause.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;Sometimes, watching the news, I wonder how man could have evolved from an Intelligent Cause. We don't seem to be very intelligent. But, as Dr. Holmes says elsewhere, God created man and then left him to discover his intelligence for himself. God, being God, couldn't interfere. I understand this, because I've watched my children over the years and wish I could prevent them from making mistakes. I wish they'd learn from my mistakes. But I can't live their lives for them, and they want to experience life their way. So I watch - and know that, regardless, everything is all right; everything eventually turns out all right.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;God made me so that I can experience all of life: the good, the bad, and the ugly. Whatever name I choose to give my experiences. And what I know is: God is right there in the middle of it with me. How blessed  I am to know: God and I are One! And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/scienceOfMind1938/som1938_071.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Nov[15] = "<b><em>&quot;The principle of any science is invisible, theoretical, as is our idea of Spirit. No one has seen God; no one has seen Life; what we have seen is the manifestation of Life. No one has seen Intelligence; we experience It. No one has ever seen Causation; we see what It does, we deal with Its effects.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;Science of Mind teaches cause and effect. God is Cause, all else is effect. I am an effect. My life is an effect. Therefore, if I look at my life, or anything in the world, for a solution, for an answer, for a reason, I will only get more, see more, effect. If I want a solution, I look to Cause. I keep my thoughts on Cause. Sometimes that's difficult, because I can't see Cause, I can only see effect. But I know what Cause is, because I have experienced It.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;Today I turn from all the effects - even the good things in my life - and keep my eyes on Cause - on God - and know that I am safe and supported. And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/scienceOfMind1938/som1938_072.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Nov[16] = "<b><em>&quot;The first great discovery man made was that he could think. This was the day when he first said 'I am.' This marked his first day of personal attainment. From that day, man became an individual and had to make all further progress himself. From that day, there was no compulsory evolution; he had to work in conscious union with Life.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;Scientists say that when language was discovered, evolution leapt forward swiftly, faster than it had before. Mystics say that when man became aware of himself, when he began to think, separation, therefore, pain and suffering, good and evil, began. The discovery of mind and thought was at the same time the greatest discovery and the greatest loss - the downfall began. The road back to Unity began.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;I give thanks that, though the road has been long and frought with peril, I know that all along, I have never been alone. Even when I didn't know, God was with me. The Father and I are One! And so it is.&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/scienceOfMind1938/som1938_072.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Nov[17] = "<b><em>&quot;...man came to the conclusion that memory was an active thing, and he reasoned after this fashion: 'Memory must be the storehouse of all ideas that have passed through my mind. Memory is active, for my thoughts come back to me...'&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;Psychologists discovered, about the time that Ernest Holmes wrote his seminal work, The Science of Mind, that our minds have three dimensions: the superconscious, the ego, and the subconscious (the id). They theorized that the subconscious is the storehouse of our memories. Every thought, word, feeling and dream are stored as memory in our subconscious. And it is those memories that drive us, whether we realize it or not. When we become aware that our subconscious is the driver, then we can take over - take the reins of our lives and direct our subconscious in the direction we choose.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;I am aware - I am the driver of my life. I consciously direct my life in the direction <em>I</em> choose. And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/scienceOfMind1938/som1938_073.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Nov[18] = "<b><em>&quot;The Science of Mind, then, is the study of Life and the nature of the laws of thought; the conception that we live in a spiritual Universe; that God is in, through, around and for us&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;'...we live in a spiritual Universe...', a universe that is beyond physical, material. This the great teaching of Science of Mind, that we - because we are made of God - are spiritual <em>now</em>. This physical world is just a part of that greater world - the One. This is what Science of Mind teaches, Life is God, and we are made of God. <em>Now </em>is the hour, not someday, but now.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;God, in me, through me, as me! God and I are One! And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/scienceOfMind1938/som1938_075.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Nov[19] = "<b><em>&quot;That which is apparently outside can become known to the individual through intuition, because the perception and the perceiver must be in one and the same Mind.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;Some call it intuition, some the Voice of God; for some it is the Inner Guide. As Shakespeare said, 'A rose by any other name would smell as sweet!' No matter what we call it, we don't pay enough attention to it. We don't heed it. Our egos tell us it's nothing, it's unreliable. Every time I've ignored my intuition, I've regretted it. Hindsight, of course, is twenty-twenty.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;Today I intend to pay attention, knowing my intuition and God are the same. That still, small Voice wants to guide me, so I let It. I surrender to the Power and the Presence of the Divine within. And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/scienceOfMind1938/som1938_076.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Nov[20] = "<b><em>&quot;In order that Nature may be coherent and come into self-expression, there must be an objective, a manifest world; but that which is physically outside of us still exists in the same medium in which we have our being, and the intelligence by which we perceive it is the SAME INTELLIGENCE THAT CREATED IT.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;God created the universe - the Intelligence which created the universe - that which I choose to call God - is the same Intelligence that perceives it. Without an object, there is no subject. Without the manifest world, there is nothing for Intelligence to perceive. God expresses through Its creation.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;God, in me, through me, as me. And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/scienceOfMind1938/som1938_076.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Nov[21] = "<b><em>&quot;There is a Universal Presence that acts as though It were intelligent, and we may assume that It is. There is a Universal Intelligence acting as Law—we may also assume this to be true. There is a formless Stuff in the Universe, forever taking form, and forever changing its form—this we may accept as being self-evident. &quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;Scientists and Ernest Holmes are in agreement: there is an Intelligence; scientists say it is an intelligence from which everything has evolved. Ernest Holmes says there is a Presence that acts as though It is intelligent. My soul resonates with both. There must be something intelligent supporting this entire universe - the stars, the planets, and life - all life forms. I saw a detailed picture of the heart today. The heart, and every part of our bodies, are much too complex for life to be accidental. There <em>has</em> to be an intelligence back of creation.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;A Universal, Intelligent Presence - and a Law that responds. This is my belief. And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/scienceOfMind1938/som1938_129.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Nov[22] = "<b><em>&quot;The law of cause and effect is immutable, and every man's action produces an effect in his life, which he must ultimately experience...Such a concept supposes that we are surrounded by a Universal Law, which is entirely impartial, and which returns to the thinker the logical effect of his actions.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;Universal laws cannot be changed. What goes up, must come down. Everything has an opposite. Just as surely as there is night and day, summer and winter, every act, every thought, every feeling that I have, produces an effect in my life. If I want a happy life, I need to keep my focus on the things that make me happy.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;I intend to have a happy life. I intend that this day is full of joy. As I focus on those things that bring me joy, my life is a reflection of that joy. And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/scienceOfMind1938/som1938_433.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Nov[23] = "<b><em>&quot;An evolved soul judges no one, condemns no one, but realizes that all are on the road of experience, seeking the same goal, and that each must ultimately find his home in Heaven.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;This is simultaneously liberating and a condemnation! Liberating, because though I know how much the Science of Mind principles have helped me and I think every person would benefit from them (and...I have been a Science of Mind evangel!), I know that everyone is on his own path and must find her own way home. It's a condemnation of me, because I am guilty of judging people when they don't behave in a manner that I find acceptable. What I know is if I just mind my own business, life is so much easier!&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;Ah, well, turning my mind to my own business, I know that Life is wonderful, just the way It is, and so I let It - and every person - be. I live my life as close to Center as I can, and don't worry about any one else. And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/scienceOfMind1938/som1938_434.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Nov[24] = "<b><em>&quot;We now come to a definite teaching regarding prayer. We shall receive that for which we ask...This teaching implies the definiteness of spiritual and mental work. God is Intelligent Mind and Spirit, and there is a direct response from this Universal Intelligence to our intelligence. If we ask for bread, we shall not receive a stone. But we are told we must ask believing, if we are to receive.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;Quantum physicists tell us that nothing exits until observed, and what is observed is the result of beliefs. Thus, what we believe, we'll see. We won't see anything that we don't believe. If I pray for something, but there is even just the tiniest doubt in my mind, my prayer won't be answered. Ernest Holmes said, '...the answer is in the prayer...'. Ask, believe, receive. This is the way to manifesting my desires.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;Whatever I ask, believing it is mine, I receive. I believe that God is my Source and all that is, comes from the One Source. And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/scienceOfMind1938/som1938_435.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Nov[25] = "<b><em>&quot;What should we try to heal through spiritual treatment? If we were dealing only with the power of a thought, we should not expect to heal anything; but if we are dealing with a Universal Principle, why should we set any limit to Its power?&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;It is the Universal Principle - the Law - that brings about the healing - or the disease. When we put healing in the category of miracles, we limit the Principle. There is nothing so great or so small that cannot be healed - or prevented. It is only our understanding of Principle and how it works. The only limitations are those which I put on the Principle.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;I know this Power. It is the Power that I use every moment, with my thoughts, words and feelings. So I set my intention to let loose the Law in my life. I remove any limited thinking from my mind and let the Law go to work. And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/scienceOfMind1938/som1938_215.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Nov[26] = "<b><em>&quot;Sickness is not a spiritual Reality; it is an experience—an effect and not a cause. The body, devoid of mentality, could neither know nor experience sensation—it is entirely an effect.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;When my body hurts, it's difficult to think that the pain isn't real. Science of Mind does not teach that physical pain isn't real. In this physical realm, sickness happens, pain happens. But when I remember that the physical, i.e., my body, is an effect, and I turn from the effect to Cause, then I move back into Truth. The Truth is that my essence, my soul, is whole and knows only perfect health.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;My spirit knows only perfect health. I keep my mind turned to Cause and know my Perfection. And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/scienceOfMind1938/som1938_177.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Nov[27] = "<b><em>&quot;God (meaning the Supreme Spirit or Intelligence of the Universe) was conscious of Himself, prior to the creation of any special world system. Being thus conscious, and desiring to manifest in form, He did so manifest through the power of His Word, which is Law. God is not only pure Spirit or Intelligence, He is also perfect and immutable Law.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;As above, so below.  I am a creator.  I write and paint.  I have a desire, an inner urge to create pictures of places I love with paint.  I have an inner urge to create pictures of my inner thoughts with words. Being conscious of my inner urges, I manifest through the power of my thoughts.  Spirit manifests through the power of His word, the Law.   I speak my thoughts, my word into Law, which can only manifest.  Spirit, Soul (Law) and Body.  God, in Trinity.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;Through the power of my word, my reality, my world, manifests. As above, so below. And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/scienceOfMind1938/som1938_064.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Nov[28] = "<b><em>&quot;And my heart walked toward Knowledge, the daughter of Love and Beauty, and said, 'Bestow upon me wisdom, that I might share it with the people.' And she responded, 'Say not wisdom, but rather fortune, for real fortune comes not from outside, but begins in the Holy of Holies of life. Share of thyself with the people.'&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;By nature I am almost one hundred percent introvert - by nature I prefer my world of books and ideas, of solitude and reflection. But once I learned of Science of Mind, I could no longer keep to myself. Ernest Holmes, himself, said, that once we learn the Truth, we cannot, in good conscience, stay a hermit. Though, by nature, I prefer solitude, by my calling of God, to God, I must '...share [myself] with the people.'&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;God called. I said yes, to Life, to Love, to All. I Am That! I Am. And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://leb.net/gibran/htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Nov[29] = "<b><em>&quot;We know the background of human thought is, to a great extent, one of negation, a denial of an harmonious and spiritual Universe; consequently, our outlook on life must be transformed by the renewing of the mind, and even when the results are not immediately forthcoming, we must still maintain a calm serenity of thought.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;I've often wondered why it's easier to get down in the mud of negativity than to pull someone up to a positive frame of mind, or even to stay positive in the presence of negativity. Ernest Holmes reminds me that it's the old tug of war between the soul and the ego - the ego denies a '...harmonious and spiritual universe...'. Dr. Holmes, like Paul of the Bible, says that our minds must be transformed, must be renewed, by constantly and consistently bringing our minds back to Source, to God. As we keep focused on God, our minds are renewed. Neuroscientists validate this with research that shows that our brains' neuropathways are influenced by positive and negative thoughts. If we want a happy life, we have to have happy thoughts.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;Today I intend to renew my mind and my brain by focusing on what gives me joy. As I do, my life reflects that joy. And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/scienceOfMind1938/som1938_025.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Nov[30] = "<b><em>&quot;To suppose that the Creative Intelligence of the Universe would create man in bondage and leave him bound, would be to dishonor the Creative Power which we call God.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;When I contemplate nature, I see the Creative urge manifest. As I look at beautiful sunsets, my heart soars.  When I see new growth poking through the ground in the spring, I am reminded of the grandeur of the Creator.  I cannot believe that such a Creator would create man - the highest rung of the evolutionary ladder - and condemn him to bondage.   What I know in my heart is that any sense of bondage man has, is his own creation.  We have created our own limited way of being through ignorance of the Law, the way the Universe works.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;I know this Creative Power - It is the Power, the Life Force, that animates my body and my mind. It is my ticket to freedom. I use it wisely, knowing how powerful I am. And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/creativeMind/creative_01.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"

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Dec[1] = "<b><em>&quot;We see abundance in the Universe. We cannot count the grains of sand on a single beach. The earth contains untold riches, and the very air is vibrant with power. Why, then, is man weak, poor and afraid?&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;We are abundant - richer - greater, than we can imagine. Even those among us who are poor, by society's standards, are rich. But we don't know it, because we are asleep. We believe the media when it tells us the economy is bad. We believe everything, everybody, who tells us anything other than our Truth. Why is it so much easier to believe that I am a limited being? Because if I knew how powerful I truly am, if I believed I could do, be, have, whatever I say I want, I'd then be responsible. It's easier to blame the economy - or whatever current favorite I choose to blame today - than to take responsibility for my thoughts, feelings, beliefs.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;My thoughts are things. Today I choose the ones that make me happy. And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/scienceOfMind1938/som1938_025.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Dec[2] = "<b><em>&quot;Riches cannot always be measured in money! Money and material things are essential for freedom of body and mind, but there are some who will feel that the greatest of all riches can be evaluated only in terms of lasting friendships, harmonious family relationships, sympathy and understanding between business associates, and introspective harmony which brings one peace of mind measurable only in spiritual values!&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;Jesus said, 'Seek ye first the kingdom of heaven and all these things will be added to you.' What I know is, if I seek the kingdom of heaven just to get rich, my wealth is built on a foundation of sand. I've learned over the years that true happiness lies beyond the physical. I can manifest things, but as I've matured spiritually, I realize the things are like dust blowing in the wind.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;Today I seek the kingdom of heaven, knowing it is within, in the silence of my soul. I know that Silence, that One. It is my true wealth. And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://newthoughtlibrary.com/hillNapoleon/thinkAndGrowRich/#Foreword' target='_blank'>read the source"
Dec[3] = "<b><em>&quot;Who is Christ? The Son, begotten of the only Father—not the 'only begotten Son of God.' The mystical conception of Christ means the Universality of Sonship, embodied in any individual who recognizes this Sonship.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;From Thanksgiving to December 26, I have to check my attitude daily. I've been like this - bah, humbug! - since my last child grew up and left home. I remember Christmas that year well, and if I'd known it would be the last Christmas we'd have together as mother and child, I'd have cherished it even more, if that's possible. For me, Thanksgiving and Christmas are about my children. All the rest are things I did to make beautiful memories for them. However, since I discovered Science of Mind, I've discovered a new meaning for this season: it is a time of remembering the birth of the Christ Consciousness within all of us. Anything I do about the season - decking the halls, trimming the tree, buying and wrapping presents - are all part of that reminder.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;Tis the season - and I remember the reason - the birth of Christ within me, within all. I remember and I rejoice! And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/scienceOfMind1938/som1938_357.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Dec[4] = "<b><em>&quot;...the Eternal is forever begetting that which is the realization of Its own perfection. It is an eternal process; It is the Son of God, and the Son of God is Christ.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;The lights of the season are slowly appearing in our neighborhood. I love the lights; always have, since I was a child. I feel like such an oxymoron at this time of year - I love the lights, the trees, the hustle and bustle of crowds of people shopping. I love Christmas shows on tv - the streets and houses are lit, people hurrying along the streets, looking for the perfect gift for their loved ones. But I resist doing all that in my own home. It feels like too much for just Rod and me. I want it done, but I don't want to do it. But Rod loves it all, so I do it for him and in the doing, the reason for the season - the birth of Christ Consciousness - begins to bloom in my heart. The Eternal is begetting its own Perfection - Love - in my heart, as I put aside my selfishness and let myself be transformed by Love.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;I am that Perfection, eternalling being born. And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/scienceOfMind1938/som1938_357.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Dec[5] = "<b><em>&quot;We are guided daily by Divine Intelligence into paths of peace, wherein the soul recognizes its Source and meets It in joyful union, in complete At-One-ment.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;To be united in joy, with my Source. This is True Joy! Many years ago, I heard a teacher say, 'If growth is your standard, you'll always have opportunities to grow. But if joy is your standard, you'll still grow, but your life will be filled with joy, with happiness, with abundance.' Since that day, joy has been my standard, my desire. And what I discovered is - joy didn't come naturally to me. My childhood wasn't happy. My mother was an unhappy woman, so I didn't have a role model for joy. I've spent my life, since that day, seeking ways to be joyful, to make being joyful not just my standard, but my norm.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;The joy of the Lord is my strength. I rejoice in Spirit and am happy. Joy, joy, joy, is my mantra. And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/scienceOfMind1938/som1938_331.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Dec[6] = "<b><em>&quot;The Unity of Good is a revelation of the greatest importance, for it teaches us that we are One with the Whole and One with each other.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;The greatest teaching of Ernest Holmes is that of Unity, of our Wholeness, and that as we are each part of that One, we are part of each other. When I remember that the person with whom I'm interacting is part of myself, perhaps I'll treat him better. That presumes, of course, that I treat myself well. So, the teaching goes even deeper - if  I am One with the Whole (and in another place, Dr. Holmes goes further - I am not just one with, I <em>am</em> the Whole), and the Whole is God, wouldn't I feel that I deserve to be treated well? Do unto others as you'd want to be treated: shouldn't that apply to myself: do unto myself as I'd want others to treat me? The Unity of Good is circuituos.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;God and I are One! You and I are One! That colors my day a bright shade of pink! And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/scienceOfMind1938/som1938_332.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Dec[7] = "<b><em>&quot;All of the great mystics have taught practically the same thing. They have all agreed that the soul is on the pathway of experience, that is, of self-discovery; that it is on its way back to its Father's House; and that every soul will ultimately reach its heavenly home.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;Spirit involved Itself with Its creation - the universe - so that It can evolve - expand, grow, learn, experience. Learning has been a lifelong addiction of mine. Whatever piques my interest, I have to learn all I can about it. The abiding interest in my life is the Mystery that I call God. And though I know I'll never know everything about God, I know my life is all about Self/self-discovery. I know that even as I am now in my heavenly home, I know there are more and more rooms to explore in my Father's House.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;What fun my life is, as I let myself open to the discoveries of each day. My adventure in God unfolds easily, gracefully, naturally, as I surrender to the Divine within. And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/scienceOfMind1938/som1938_333.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Dec[8] = "<b><em>&quot;They have told us that man's destiny is Divine and sure; and that creation is complete and perfect now. The great mystics have all agreed that man's life is his to do with as he chooses, but that when he turns to the One, he will always receive inspiration from on High.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;To the question, '...but what about evil?'...what I know is that good and evil are a continuum - how close and how far I have moved away from the knowledge that I listened to my ego-mind and am not living at the level of my soul. I listen to the serpent and become afraid of God. Isn't that the way we are as children - we do something our parents might not like and then we try to hide from them. We project our guilt onto God and so we go blindly on our way, running from the One that always, only, loves us, unconditionally. We turn away from That which has inspired us with Its very Self.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;I remember Who I am. I and the Father are One! And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/scienceOfMind1938/som1938_333.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Dec[9] = "<b><em>&quot;<em>Christ means the Universal Idea of Sonship, of which each is a member...Each partakes of the Christ nature, to the degree that the Christ is revealed through him, and to that degree he becomes the Christ.</em>&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;As the Christmas lights go up, as the days fly ever closer to the twenty-fifth, the day celebrated world-wide as the birth of Jesus, I celebrate the birth of Christ again in my own heart.  I open my heart ever wider to the knowledge that God didn't beget just one son, as Meister Eckhart said, but all of us are begotten of God. Each of us has the opportunity to beget the Christ within, as we open our hearts to It. This holy season between Thanksgiving and New Year's is a special time; it is a time when the whole world waits with hushed breath, the birth of the Christ.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;Today, and every day, as I prepare for the birth of the Christ within my consciousness, I know - the Father and I are One. I Am the Christ! And so it is.&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/scienceOfMind1938/som1938_357.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Dec[10] = "<b><em>&quot;There is a place in the mentality—in the heights of its greatest realizations—where it throws itself with complete abandonment into the very center of the Universe.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;Seldom in my life have I thrown myself with complete abandonment into anything. I am too well-defended. Too fearful of being thought a fool. But when it comes to God, to my throwing myself with complete abandonment '...into the very center of the Universe...' Ah, yes, I do that. The Center of the Universe - my Center - is the One Which I know loves me unconditionally, so I know I can be a complete fool without fear.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;I know that One - my essence. My Life! And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/scienceOfMind1938/som1938_358.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Dec[11] = "<b><em>&quot;Jesus tells us that the child-like mind is more receptive to Truth than the over-intellectual who demand too rational an explanation of those truths which must be accepted on faith alone...[likewise] we [should] find a child-like faith in the universe and an implicit trust in the goodness of God.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;One of my favorite holiday movies is about a little girl whose mother taught her that Santa Claus is a myth. She meets a man who says he's Santa Claus and though she'd like to believe him, because of her mother, she can't. However, her mother tells her to ask the man for something for Christmas that he couldn't possibly give her, if he wasn't Santa. So she does. And when her Christmas wish is granted, not only does she, but her mother, as well, experience a renewal of hope - the child-like hope in something that adults have forgotten.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;Each day I marvel anew at the Mystery. I see the effect, and know the Cause. My mind is renewed with child-like faith as I contemplate Santa Claus, my God, my Source. The One Who loves. And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/scienceOfMind1938/som1938_443.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Dec[12] = "<b><em>&quot;God alone knows the real Son, forever hidden in the bosom of the Father. To God, this idea of sonship must be pure, complete and perfect; divine, holy and indestructible. With our present limited vision, we neither see nor know the real Son, but the Father within knows and understands.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;It's so easy to judge.  I am so guilty of judging by appearances, and so I bow my head and whisper, 'Please for give me' as I read these words of Dr. Holmes.  I don't know the circumstances, or the heart, of that one I judge, but God does.  Only God knows His real Son.  Today, during this holy season, I am reminded again of the Love that is God, and that It is not love for me alone, but for all the Sons of God, those who know their Sonship, and those who unaware.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;I intend to stay in Love, and let that Love shine out to all I greet. Joy to the world, the Lord has come! And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/scienceOfMind1938/som1938_443.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Dec[13] = "<b><em>&quot;To God, this idea of sonship must be pure, complete and perfect; divine, holy and indestructible.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;Whatever I call good, bad or ugly, comes from my finite view. When I look with the eyes of the Infinite, I see only good. Actually, if I really saw with Infinite eyes, I would see nothing at all, except creation - the Universe. Any judgments come from my limited view. Regardless of what I learned growing up, God does not judge. God is pure, complete, perfect, divine and holy, and as God is all there is, everything I see is pure, complete, perfect, divine and holy.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;With every day that moves closer to the day celebrated world-wide as the birth of the Christ, I am more and more aware of the Christ consciousness within me. I know that when I am aligned with God, my awareness of the Christ within is strong. I keep my eyes on God and know that all is well. And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/scienceOfMind1938/som1938_443.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Dec[14] = "<b><em>&quot;With our present limited vision, we neither see nor know the real Son, but the Father within knows and understands.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;With my finite eye, I can't see my Sonship; I judge by appearances and so I am limited. But when I look in the right direction, when I turn inward and align myself with the Father, then I realize that every person, not just Jesus, is the real Son. We are all born of God. We are all inherently Divine, but most of us are asleep and don't know our inheritance.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;Turning inward, I know the Truth - the Father and I are One. And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/scienceOfMind1938/som1938_443.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Dec[15] = "<b><em>&quot;We cannot see Reality until our eyes are open; until the light of eternal Truth has struck deeply into our own souls.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;Just when I think I have 'arrived'; when I think, ah, I'm so at-one-ment with my God, something happens. My ego rears its ugly head and I am struck dumb with how far I have yet to go. I think the '...light of eternal Truth...' has penetrated my crusty mind and then I realize it has only got through a small crack. And so, back I go to my meditation cave, to my practice. I guess that's why it's called practice. And I guess the day my ego no longer has a hold on me is the day I transcend.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;Ah, God! How sweet the moments of total union! I remember. I surrender to the Power and the Presence of God within. And so it is.&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/scienceOfMind1938/som1938_435.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Dec[16] = "<b><em>&quot;Spirituality is natural goodness. God is not a person; God is a Presence personified in us. Spirituality is not a thing; It is the atmosphere of God's Presence, goodness, truth and beauty.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;To be alive is to be spiritual - each of us is God inspired - God breathed us into existence. We are naturally good, because we are born of God. However, being spiritual and being aware of it are different things. Many of us are asleep to our spirituality. We think it's something that happens to us: we 'get religion' or 'get saved'. Ernest Holmes said, 'saved from what?'. I'd say, from my self. My lower case self that is blinded by ego. When I take the blinders off, I see my True Self - the Presence of God that is my spirituality.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;God in me, through, as me. How wonderful to know, to be awake, to this Truth! And so it is.&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/scienceOfMind1938/som1938_308.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Dec[17] = "<b><em>&quot;'Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.' Jesus is referring to the heavenly birth which means being born into the knowledge of Truth. He refers to this as being born of water and Spirit.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;I have been baptized by immersion twice in my life, not fully comprehending the meaning. Both times were rote and expected. I have been baptized by Spirit many times, knowing full well the meaning - I was being born again, into the knowledge that God and I are One, that heaven is here, now, in my heart, in my life, as I align myself with my Truth.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;God walks with me and talks with me - as me, through me. God and I are One! And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/theBibleInTheLightOfRS/bibleRS_124.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Dec[18] = "<b><em>&quot;Man partakes of the Divine Nature and the Divine Nature is man. The recognition of this is being born of the Spirit. But we cannot be born of the Spirit unless we do the will of the Spirit and the will of the Spirit is goodness, peace, mercy, justice and truth. It is conscious union with God.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;When I realize that there is more to me than this physical body and life, I recognize my divine Nature. The Father and I are one. Jesus said that so many years ago, but it has been taught that he spoke of himself, only. Being born of the Spirit, we all are One and the same. And...being born of the Spirit means we practice the fruits of the Spirit: goodness, peace, mercy, justice and truth. This time of the year we are constantly reminded of this, but do I?&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;My intention is to practice the fruits of being born of Spirit. My intention is to speak, do and be - love, goodness, peace, mercy, justice and truth. And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/theBibleInTheLightOfRS/bibleRS_124.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Dec[19] = "<b><em>&quot;If we could stand aside and let this One Perfect Life flow through us, we could not help healing people! This is the high­est form of healing.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;Jesus said, 'It is the Father within who does the work'. He was talking about the One Perfect Life of which Ernest Holmes spoke - God. When I surrender to that Power, It flows through me, unimpeded, healing me, healing anyone for whom I pray. How blessed I am, when I am in alignment with that Power.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;Today, as Christmas week begins, I set my intention to surrender, minute by minute, my ego-self to my Higher Self. To God, the Presence and the Power. And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/scienceOfMind1938/som1938_358.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Dec[20] = "<b><em>&quot;The highest faculty in man is intuition and it comes to a point sometimes where, with no process of reasoning at all, he instantly knows.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;It is said that Rumi, beloved Sufi poet, as he was leaving a library with his arms loaded with books, was told to throw his books down a well, come and follow his master. And so he did, and we are left with a wealth of poetic musings - songs of love to and for the Beloved. If Rumi had not listened to his intuition, we would be poorer for the lack. There comes a time in every person's life when he must listen to that Inner Voice - and heed. I have not heeded so many times and suffered.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;My intention is to be quiet and listen to - and heed - the Voice of God that whispers to my soul. I Am That! I Am! And so it is.&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/scienceOfMind1938/som1938_359.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Dec[21] = "<b><em>&quot;Asleep in the heart of Cosmic Love, Unborn . . . Universal . . . Potential, The Christ Child lay. And the great Mother Soul,Brooding over her unborn child,Conceived it in the stillness Of her Universal Nature,Imparting to it her own being.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;The Hope of the world, the freedom from bondage - of poverty, of disease, of anything that keeps us from our wholeness - is in this verse..the Christ child, asleep in the heart...the potential within each of us and all we have to do is wake up! Within each of us is the Presence and the Power - God, Emmanuel, with us! In me, the Universal Nature.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;God in me, as me.  The Christ child.  I wait with hushed breath, with hushed mind, as this knowledge blooms in my heart.  I Am That!  I Am!  And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/scienceOfMind1938/som1938_360.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Dec[22] = "<b><em>&quot;Born into time and experience,Unnoticed, unseen, yet alive and aware,The Christ Child incarnated in human form,Taking the likeness of men and women, Yet giving no sign of Its presence, Waiting with utmost patience and love The revelation that should disclose Itself And proclaim the reign of peace.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;The earth feels hushed, even with the hubbub of traffic, of sirens blaring as police and emergency vehicles rush to an accident, as people are rushing, rushing, for last minute gifts and groceries.  I feel a hush.  The sky is silver gray, with a hint of blue.  Winter has arrived, quietly, as the Christ child was born, and continues to be born, quietly, in every heart.  The Christ Consciousness, impregnated in every heart, awaits our acknowledgement before It can be born.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;The Christ, like the earth, is hushed, waiting for me to birth It. On this cold winter's day, I turn within, so that I might see the Christ as It is born in me. And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/scienceOfMind1938/som1938_360.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Dec[23] = "<b><em>&quot;Many ages passed and vanished In the long yesterdays of time,And still the Christ Child waited. Nations appeared and disappeared; Toil—famine—pestilence and want,Hunger—cold—heat—and thirst,War—hatred—blood—and ruin, And still the seed of Perfection—unrevealed.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;Jesus asked his disciples, '...have you been with me so long and still don't understand?' They wanted a warrior king, someone to take back their freedom from the Romans. He came to show them true freedom - that which comes from knowing the Power within: I and the Father are One. Jesus and all other avatars - Buddha, Krishna, Gandhi - know the Power within is the only true power and It can't be taken away. When we know that Power, we know who we are.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;The seed of Perfection, waiting, even now, to be fertilized and watered. That which is in me, is that Seed, that Perfection. And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/scienceOfMind1938/som1938_360.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Dec[24] = "<b><em>&quot;But the Universal Wholeness Cannot be forever subjected,Nor Cosmic Love be kept from human form, That which was given must be revealed.The seed of Perfection must burst. &quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;The Divine must manifest. The Creator must create. There is within me an urge to create, always. It may manifest as a poem or a painting, or a garden, but it must manifest. Just as seeds in soil must burst forth as a seedling, then a plant, the seed of Perfection must burst forth in every person's heart. The consciousness of Oneness - this the the meaning, the reason, for the season.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;The long night of ignorance is ending; the seed of Perfection is bursting forth. And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/scienceOfMind1938/som1938_360.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Dec[25] = "<b><em>&quot;<em>And so the long appointed day arrived, A voice from out the stillness Spoke: 'This is my Beloved Son—Let the earth be still in his presence,Let the beasts of the field . . . the birds of the air And all living creatures, be still. Let the hosts of heaven sing praises, And let deep cry unto deep.'.</em>&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;Man or child, no one is immune to this season. No matter how bitter a heart may be, there is the tiniest flutter of hope. Can it be so? Is there hope for me? God shouts back, &quot;Yes!&quot;, in the form of Jesus, the hope of the world. No matter what our religion, there is always a hope of hope, and that hope takes the form of Jesus. No matter who we are, we become still this day, and listen to the whisper in our hearts.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;The hope of the ages is born again today. Christ, the Son of God, in me. And so it is! Merry Christmas!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/scienceOfMind1938/som1938_361.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"  
Dec[26] = "<b><em>&quot;Then spoke the child: 'I am come to bring peace. I am the child of joy, and To all who will, I give life.I am formed of happiness.I am come from the eternal stillness.Quietness and confidence are mine. In the heart of the Father I have lived forever.' &quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;The Great I Am - God. When I am aligned - centered - I know that I Am is my identity. I know that peace, joy, and life. And I know that joy, peace and life depend on no one or nothing outside of me. When I am in that place of knowing, everything else is added to me, and it is all window dressing.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;I and the Father are One. I Am That! I Am. And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/scienceOfMind1938/som1938_361.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Dec[27] = "<b><em>&quot;Christ . . . the Idea of Universal Sonship ...the entire creation, both visible and invisible. There is One Father of all. This One Father, conceiving within Himself, gives birth to all the Divine ideas. The sum-total of all these ideas constitutes the Mystic Christ.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;Christ...the entire creation. Every day of December gives me an opportunity to remember this. No matter what religion, every day is an opportunity to remember again, who we are. My family and I just watched The Lion King again. The symbolic messages are so strong: I am the daughter of the King, and it is time to take my rightful place, time to claim my inheritance. Too long I have played around in ignorance. Now I remember the Truth!&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;I am the incarnation of the One - my inheritance waits for me to claim it. I Am That! I Am! And so it is.&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/scienceOfMind1938/som1938_361.htm#TopOfTextest/creativeMind/creative_01.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Dec[28] = "<b><em>&quot;The definition of Spirit is: 'Life or intelligence conceived of entirely apart from physical embodiment. It is vital essence, force, energy, as distinct from matter.'&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;Jesus said that those who would worship God must worship Him in Spirit, for God is Spirit. Beyond this physical existence that we call life, there is a greater Life - It is Spirit, God; it is the vital essence of everything, beyond the physical, beyond matter. When I look with my finite eyes, all I see is the physical. I must look with the eyes of the Infinite to see Spirit, to know God. I must close my eyes to the physical and go to that place deep inside where I know what Spirit is.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;I look into the eyes of Spirit, with my Infinite eyes. Spirit and I are One. And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/scienceOfMind1938/som1938_081.htm#TheDefinitionofSpirit' target='_blank'>read the source"
Dec[29] = "<b><em>&quot;Jesus understood his own nature. He knew that as the human embodies the Divine, it manifests the Christ Nature. Jesus never thought of himself as different from others. His whole teaching was that what he did, others could do.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;Jesus has become the finger pointing to the moon - we worship the finger, disregarding the moon. And that's human - it's easier to worship an icon, something we can see, rather than the Creator of the icon, which can't be seen. I have many icons, but they are talismans - touchstones - that remind me of certain attributes of God, just as I've let the artifacts of Christmas be reminders of the birth of the Christ consciousness within me.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;As Jesus knew his true nature, I know my true nature - my Divine Self. The Christ nature manifests through me, as me. God and I are One! And so it is.&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://newthoughtlibrary.com/holmesErnest/scienceOfMind1938/som1938_361.htm#TopOfTextmesErnest/creativeMind/creative_01.htm#TopOfText' target='_blank'>read the source"
Dec[30] = "<b><em>&quot;Each morning is a fresh beginning. We are...just beginning life...We have it entirely in our own hands.This brings such a life within the possibilities of all, for there is no one, if really in earnest and if he really desires it, who cannot live to his highest for a single hour...In this way one becomes in love and in league with the highest and best in the universe, and as a consequence, the highest and best in the universe becomes in love and in league with him. They aid him at every turn; they seem literally to move all things his way, because...he has first moved their way.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;Some days it seems as though I'm living my highest and best. Then I come crashing down; ego takes over and I think I have yet so far to go. And then I realize - I don't have so far, after all. I need only make a turn - that turn-within - and I'm back to the place I want to be. Centered in Love. Cradled in Love. Ego tells me I have a long way to go; my Soul says, 'not so, you only have to go inward.' When I listen to my soul, I know that all is well.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;And so, I turn inward. I go to my Love. I let It comfort me, whispering words of wisdom. God and I are One! And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://newthoughtlibrary.com/trineRalphWaldo/thisMysticalLife/thisMysticalLife.htm#1' target='_blank'>read the source"
Dec[31] = "<b><em>&quot;The great central fact in human life is the coming into a conscious, vital realization of our oneness with the Infinite Life, and the opening of ourselves fully to this divine inflow. 'I and the Father are one,' said the Master. In this we see how He recognized His oneness with the Father's life.&quot;</em></b><br><br>&quot;I just finished a book about four brothers. While leading their own, unique, lives, they were totally tuned in to each other. They knew each others' moods, when to charge in with advice, when to back off. In my own life, my children know me well - they know what delights my heart, what causes me pain. Love is like that: It insinuates Itself in our hearts, and, once we open to It, we feel the Oneness. We delight in It; It delights in us. It knows us; we know It.&quot;<p align=center><b><font color=#7F0D0A>Affirmation:</font><br><em>&quot;I and the Father are One. What better way to end a year and a decade? I and the Father are One! And so it is!&quot;</em></b></p>Click below to: <a href='http://newthoughtlibrary.com/trineRalphWaldo/thisMysticalLife/thisMysticalLife.htm#1' target='_blank'>read the source"
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