What is physical sense?

I want you to understand that absence in the physical sense does not mean absence in any other sense at all.

—Spirit Archdeacon Basil Wilberforce

What is the impact of negative thoughts?

How far are you going to allow those negative thoughts to take the lead?

A negative attitude is no use, it does not exist in any sense whatever—nothing is stationary when we are character-building. Wilful and rebellious as your physical mind may be, the victory is always on the side of right and that is why you cannot be sad.

Is there any suffering there?

Yes—there is suffering in judging yourself, and sometimes great pain is felt in seeing one as one is in the sight of purer spirits.

Is there such a place as purgatory?

The spiritual world is a heaven to some, a purgatory to others, but this same is true of our earthly state.

Heaven is both a state and a place?

Is heaven a state or a place?

It is both a state and a place, the state makes the place, as it often does in your natural life.

—Insight in Spirit

Is heaven a state or a place?

It is both a state and a place—the state makes the place as it often does in your natural state.

Is heaven a state or a place?

Are we right in thinking that heaven is more a state or condition of heart than a locality?

Heaven is a place, but if the heart of (hu)man is good, he does attain to that place. It is beyond the place I am now in.

Hafed, Prince of Persia—His Experiences in Earth Life and Spirit Life

Where do the little children go when they die?

Do little children go straight to heaven when they die? 

Little children whose angels are always in the Father's presence are taken at once into a nursery for such tender plants, and are supremely happy.

—Insight in Spirit

Do little children go straight to heaven when they die?

Little children, whose angels are always in the Father's presence, are taken at once into a nursery for such tender plants and are supremely happy.

What do you take with you to heaven?

You carry nothing, but truth into heaven. You carry all of yourself. In the world of spirits, all your false thoughts are taken from you—your soul is unclothed.

What is the best way to understand Christ?

The way is to accept Christ historically and spiritually—to live his life and to be one with him in spirit—accept His Teachings by following His Commands—and you must do this as you would learn and acquire a science, little by little—do not think you can accept Christ as you would a belief in an ordinary person—you must come to him gradually.

What is the best way to understand Christ?

The way is to accept Christ historically and spiritually, to live his life and be one with his spirit—accept his teachings by following his commands. 

What is the only test you require?

Live a better life and hold yourself up to higher spiritual aims. That is the only test you require.

Nothing helps unless you give it recognition?

Remember—nothing helps from without unless it receives recognition from within.

Awake or asleep, I am still with Thee?

So much is done during the hours of sleep and darkness. 

Rest—do not allow the senses to suggest weakness or weariness—instead, allow your spiritual atmosphere within and without to enfold and invigorate you until you are conscious of spiritual conquest before you sleep. Your whole body will be renewed by this Holy Baptism, and your awakening in the morning will be a triumph and a joy. The effect of this is a sweet cleansing of mind and body.  

Awake or asleep, I am still with Thee.

Cease from worry?

Cease from worry.

What is the unfailing law that builds the flower?

By the same unfailing law that builds the marvellous architecture of snow crystal and flower, and provides for the progress of each soul as surely as for the sweep of the planets on their mighty course. 

Which shall be your chosen guests?

Presences, good and evil, are ever watching near you—it is for you to determine, which shall be the chosen guests of your inner sanctuary?

Let those good angels come?

Keep your mind clear and your heart pure, so those good angels may come in and help you to battle out every struggle for right.

Do you have the power to seek the light?

You have the power to seek the light which purifies, invigorates and strengthens.

Is the indwelling spirit the source of all true living and high service?

When you have learned through your soul's deep experience, that the indwelling spirit is the source of all true living and high service, the inner chambers of your soul will fill with its unclouded peace.

Are spiritual things spiritually discerned?

Spiritual things are spiritually discerned and can never be demonstrated to your satisfaction except through an act of faith.

—Katherine B. Caine, Light on the Hidden Way, 1886, Ticknor and Company, Boston, 36

Is there such a place as purgatory?

The spiritual world is a heaven to some, a purgatory to others, but this same is true of your earthly state.

A face that could stop a clock?

Godly Humor

the funny side of life

Volume 24

What an unimaginative notion that which is embodied in the prayer Eternal rest give unto him, O Lord. How thankful we all are here that this prayer is never answered! Eternal rest! I could really preach a most eloquent sermon upon those two words if my days for sermons were not forever ended!

—Robert Hugh Benson in Spirit

Rest! On earth you know not the meaning of the word.

—The Judge

How do you spend your days?

Reading and nursing.

Do you sleep well?

When I want to. We can do without.

When you passed over, whom did you first see?

I slept for a year. When I awoke, I was in a crowd. I did not know any of them. I was not lonesome, and did not know I had passed over until I had had a few lessons.

Do you know Frank? [A young friend lately deceased].

No―I am upstairs, as it were.

—Father

The man who could only walk in two dimensions?