Wednesday, April 18, 2007

The Cause of Human Troubles

The integrity of the Universe cannot be questioned nor doubted. The Spirit must be, and is, perfect. That which is back of everything must be good, must be complete, must be love and harmony. When we are out of harmony with the special good, it is because we are off the track along that particular line of the activity of Spirit.

But how are we to regain the lost Paradise? Only though soul culture and by careful self-analysis. What is my viewpoint of life? This is the question each should ask himself. What do I feel my relationship to the great whole to be? What do I believe about the Cause back of all? From whence come discouragement, fear, doubt and calamity? They cannot proceed from the eternal Source – that perfect fount of life – the inexhaustible One. Therefore, they must come from my own consciousness. They cannot be born of the Truth. The Truth is God, and God is free, happy, peaceful and ever poised in His own Being. I must set myself right with the universe. I must find the way back to the central fire, if I am to be warmed. I must find the Source, if I am to be supplied. I must be like God, if I wish to realize His Spirit in my Life!

A change of consciousness does not come by simply willing or wishing. It is not easy to hold the mental attention to an ideal, while the human experience is discordant, but – it is possible. Knowing the Truth, is not a process of self-hypnosis, but one of a gradual unfoldment of the inner self.
Science of Mind

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