Rely upon the law of your own being

The lily of the field looks up in loving faith and all its wants are intelligently supplied. Truly it rests in the Lord  — relies upon the law of its own being.

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Let go

Ah! yes, the most difficult thing for struggling humanity to learn is the simplest thing in the world. Let go. Stop being anxiety and be peace and strength for a while instead.

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To know is to have eternal life

It is you yourself, and you must become the spirit and the life by knowing and raising the vibration of self. You do not believe anything unless you live it. There is the knowledge of the intellect and the knowledge of the soul, and it is the soul knowledge that is meant when the Master says that To know is to have eternal life.

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Watch and pray

Watch and Pray. Student of Truth, you must watch your thoughts diligently, always striving to raise the vibrations and create purer atmospheres of love and tenderness for all things. The Kingdom within yields to prayer and concentration.

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Your treasure is within yourself

It is said that to labour is to pray, to ask is to receive, and to knock is to have opened, but not without

the effort and action of the seeker. Your treasure is within yourself. When the recognition of self comes to the soul the Divine Spirit enlightens and instructs, illuminating and revealing the treasure within.

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All growth is in the silence

Be serene. The calm, quiet work is the most effectual. All growth is in the silence.

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Permeated with Divine Inspiration

Nothing exists on this planet without a cause in the spiritual world. What a beautiful thought it is that we are so permeated with the Divine Inspiration!

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You are master of your own being

Remember that you are master of your own being. It is well to say the words I am master of myself, and will be supreme in my own domain.

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There is always a way

There is always a way when you really desire to do anything.

Truly the law of the Lord is perfect

Truly the law of the Lord is perfect.

Marvel at your greatness

MADE in his image, moulded in the form of the Infinite perfection, the microcosm of this glorious macrocosm, a human being with the potentialities of the Divine Being — that is man.

Just think of it, and marvel at your greatness. Contemplate your responsibility, for you are this wonderful creature, this embodiment of every law in the universe which you represent.

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Magnificent Mind

Just contemplate the wonderful power and scope of the human mind when it comes in touch with the Universal Mind; it doesn't know the limitations of time and space. It can go into the depths of the earth and into the immensity of the Heavens in an instant of time. Back, mingling with past ages — onward, penetrating future mysteries, it can go, with marvellous rapidity. Isn't it surprising that we find it difficult to control this wonderful thing or even to comprehend it?

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We manifest from within out

The tree can only bring forth and attract from the soul of the universe what is within itself; it must manifest from within out — as is the case with all life.

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Mind is the creative force

Man creates himself, or call it evolution, if you like — the word is nothing, and the instrument he uses in creating himself is the mind, for the mind's action, which is thought, is the dominant force of his life — and he creates himself and his conditions by the quality of his thought.

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We create our own lives

Seemingly, in a degree, we are creatures of circumstances, but in reality we create our own lives, for there are no circumstances that cannot be overcome by conforming to the law in thought, word, and deed, and using common sense and reason in so doing.

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Thought Force

The word is greater than the deed, and the thought is greater than the word, because the thought must come before, and must control the word and the deed. There is no phase of charity so great as thinking charity, because, if you think kindly and lovingly of everyone, the word and the deed must follow.

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Conscious Concentration

What a wonderful realisation it is and what a consciousness of the oneness of all humanity it gives us, to know that the mind of each human being has an influence upon every other human being, and what a responsibility it is when we see that the influence is in proportion to the connection one has with the Universal Mind! When the objective Mind has no connection with the Subjective mind, as in the case of an idiot; or very slightly connected, as in the case of an insane person, that mind makes no impression on the surrounding minds. But look at the man whose life has been one of conscious concentration, and who has consequently strengthened not only his magnetic force, but his connection with the Universal Mind; that man's mind will sway audiences as his spoken words never could. If he is a writer, his readers will feel the vibrations of his thought force as he impresses through

his pen his great power upon their minds.

It is through the subjective mind that we really meet each other, not only our friends on this planet, but those in other realms and spheres. Every normal human being is connected with the subjective mind in a degree, or his objective mind would be unable to comprehend the meaning of anything the physical senses report to it, and it is to unite still more closely with the subjective mind that all this mental training is necessary. Therefore teach your truth-student to concentrate and you will do more for him than anything else you can do. One person is not any brighter than another; it is only that one has greater concentration developed than another.

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Free the mind from fear

Free the mind from fear and the gates of Heaven will open to you. 

Cast fear out of your mind

Fear is the one thing to be afraid of and must be cast out of the mind.

Fear is the one and only evil

Haven't you seen people who were seemingly what the world calls stupid, and who suddenly developed a certain genius and brilliancy that was remarkable? Those people simply became conscious of themselves. The keynote of their being is touched and they recognise themselves. Again, you see people who as children give promise of such wonderful things and who are quite commonplace as they grow older. They have raised a barrier between themselves and the universal source of all knowledge, it may be by selfishness, or it may be by intellectual pride, or pride of wealth, but the light of true understanding has been obscured for a time.

Thus we see that all men are equal, and each one has just the opportunity he needs for his unfoldment if he will only make use of it. Some people, however, consider their stepping stones as very great misfortunes. They resist instead of overcoming and mastering conditions, and after a lifetime of resistance and misunderstanding wonder why life is a failure.

A mind that is free from fear soon becomes one with the Universal and manifests its all powerful qualities. Fear is the embodiment of every other evil, or so-called evil, under the sun. Fear is the greatest hindrance to spiritual unfoldment that there is; not only that, but it is the barrier between ourselves and success on all planes.

In fact, fear is the one and only evil, the cause of all sickness and all sorrow. Free the mind from fear and the gates of Heaven will open to you. Sum it all up in these words: Fear is the one thing to be afraid of and must be cast out of the mind.

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