Some points about Self-Love The most important being that it is an inside affair In other words it is, in my opinion, something that grows as a result of your Choices and actions and decisions about yourself Although people can help and contribute, you and I have to give it to ourselves. The shift is internal It has to do with The way you think about yourself The way you treat yourself And also the way you talk about yourself, (to others, and to yourself.) And you may have noticed that... Read Full Story
St. Francis of Assis’s famous prayer has inspired me and countless others With its lines = “It is in giving that we receive… It is in loving that we are loved…” Is a beautiful and TRUE that When we give our attention Our hearts Our time Just the act alone of giving is such a blessing. (Especially if... Read Full Story
Prayers aren't sent out at all! Sometimes that is our trouble. Where would we send our prayers? We should direct them to our minds and hearts and affairs. We commune with God-Mind within our own consciousness. Prayer is an exercise to change our thought habits and our living habits, that we may set up a new and better activity, in accord with the divine law rather than with the suggestions we have received from various sources. Myrtle Filmore Read Full Story
It is not enough to pray. Prayer is one step that you take, but you need other steps. You need to think of God, the all-powerful Healer, as being already within you, in every part of your mind, heart, and body. To keep one's attention and prayers in the spiritual realm of mind, without letting them work out into the soul's expression and into the actual physical doing of that which corresponds with what the mind and heart has thought and spoken and prayed, is to court trouble. Myrtle... Read Full Story
• I will give thanks to my Inner life for all It’s marvelous wonders, and for all its wonderful works. SOM pp. 526 • Prayer is friendship with God. Friendship is not merely generalized in mood: every event is its occasion. George Arthur Buttrick “Prayer is to be simple, direct and receiving”. Prayer is to consciously enter into communion with the Divine in an inner language which is sincere, to the point and completely devoid of any desire to persuade, impress or control. Spirit within... Read Full Story
Wisdom is your perspective on life, your sense of balance, your understanding of how the various parts and principles apply and relate to each other. It embraces judgment, discernment, comprehension. It is a gestalt or oneness, an integrated wholness. Read Full Story
When love beckons to you, follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you yield to him, Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you. And when he speaks to you believe in him, Though his voice may shatter your dreams as the north wind lays waste the garden. For even as love crowns you so shall he crucify you. Even as he is for your growth so is he for your pruning. Even as he ascends to your height and caresses your tenderest branches that quiver in... Read Full Story
