Daily Meditations

Your Identity

I am an idea in the Mind of God. I let God’s idea express in me.

I am the Mind of God. I let the Mind of God inform me of my identity.

My body is the substance of God, manifesting in correspondence with his idea.

All thought is Power; better thoughts than you have been using will make for you better conditions than you have been experiencing.

Power is ability to produce change… Mind is passive power; thought is active power. After you have identified yourself as the Mind of God to let God’s mind manifest in you, to the exclusion of ignorance.

Intentionally or unintentionally on your part, your thoughts change your affairs, your body, your relationships to the world.

You have as much power as anyone that ever has been on this planet or that ever will be. 

When you become willing that your human designs may fail in order that the divine designs may prosper, you are prepared to receive from the Mind of God.

Until you have cleansed your mind of human desire your one prayer should be that human desire may wash out of your soul. If human desire had made you happy and wise all these generations, I would not tell you to cleanse yourself.

Pray that you may no longer desire to desire your own will, that prayer will erase from your consciousness the wish to control yourself in your relation to God.

Harness your moods. Make them work for you. Your moods embody great power. Uncontrolled, they are undependable, weakening. The right use of moods will make you strong.

Inspiration is continuous. Work by the rule of ever-readiness, and you will become able to command ideas that remind you of your identity. You always will be in a mood to do your best.

Do not habitually make excuses for your shortcomings.  Face them; learn where you are remiss; then do make those mistakes again. Do not try to stand better with people than you do with your own conscience.

Training your mind, there are three facts for you to accept. These facts must be dwelt on until the one needed becomes your instant  response to any unfavorable appearance for which it is the corrective.  The facts are in amendment and elucidation of teachings that you may have already accepted. The facts, broadly stated:

  1. You have been taught that God lives in you. The teaching is true; but it does not tell you why you live. You live because of the facts named here:  God is life. Life lives it . It lives itself. The life of God lives itself as you: it loves you.
  • You have been taught that the Mind of God is the only Mind there is. The teaching is true, but it has not been given the expansion that would make it comprehensible to you. The expansion that makes the statement comprehensible is God is mind. The Mind of God thinks; it thinks itself. The Mind of God thinks itself as you; it thinks you.
  • You have been taught that your thoughts make your life. The teaching is but a partial truth, and it does not explain the truth that it asserts. It does trace the unseen to the seen. The primal facts regarding manifestation are: Thought is an action of mind; it is the genetic entity of form.  In its beginning it is incorporeal; by continuation it becomes corporeal. It gathers substance into the shape that is called matter. Your thought is your mind and it is the physical entity that thinking assembles . You are what you think. 

Face life and its situations with courage. You can unform and reform; you can bring new shapes of good from the treasury of your mind. The world is yours. Heaven is yours. All power is yours.

You are your own thoughts made manifest

I am what I think, I think life, the life of God is released in me, and I am alive forevermore

I am what I think. I think the Mind of God.  I think the Mind of God. The Mind of God is released in me, and I am wise with his wisdom.

I am what I think. I think power. The power of God is released in me, and I am daily changed into a likeness truer to Him

Consciousness – What is it?

Consciousness is direct knowledge or perception of an object, state, or sensation.

Group of related thoughts form about every topic that your mind considers. There are two distinctive groups with which you have to deal when you take up the work of governing your life. One of these groups is called the material consciousness; the other group is called the spiritual consciousness.

The material consciousness consists of a group of thoughts associated in a way that keeps the material aspects of life foremost in your thinking. Your material aspect of life is your total of knowledge concerning body, earth, human endeavor. If you rely on this aspect of life your consciousness is material. The spiritual consciousness is a group of thoughts that presents the spiritual nature of life. Your spiritual aspect of life is your total of knowledge concerning God, Christ, and spiritual endeavor.  If you rely on this aspect of life your consciousness is spiritual.

Your consciousness is your life.

Your knowledge or perception of objects, states or sensations is the world in which you live. You live in  a small mean world, if your perceptions are small, mean.

You live in a large generous world, if your perceptions are large, generous

Your mental realm is as definite as your physical realm .You live in your consciousness.

The things of which you most commonly and most ardently think become your consciousness. Because this is true, your are responsible for what you have about you.

Do you know the character of your consciousness? If your group of material thoughts and your group of spiritual thoughts should instantly take on three-dimensional form and stand before you, which group would be the stronger? In which group would your thoughts of life be found?

You are either disintegrating or fortifying your present consciousness. You are developing the consciousness which your trend of thought indicates. You can develop any consciousness that you think is for your greatest advantage. Mind always is the maker. 

Your mind stands between the spiritual you and physical you. Through your mind pours the Mind of God, which you modify by your feeling. Your consciousness, even when highly spiritualized, is not to be regarded as your leader. It is meant to sustain you, not to prompt you. It aids and comforts you, but it never creates.  It is your realization of the presence of God, buts voice is the voice of God.

If you wish to establish a spiritual consciousness you perhaps will do less perusing of books and will give more attention to mediation. More of the spirit of will characterize your application. But you must train your thought power to act steadily and you must consistently adhere to your theme. Results are as sue in the case as in the other.

Thinking clarifies ideas. Make yourself think. You are not really thinking when you are repeating the thoughts of others; you are parroting. To receive ideas you must keep open passage between your mind and the Mind of God.

The thoughts of the spiritual consciousness acknowledge God. Acknowledgement of Him brings you assurance of his attending power and safety.