How do you connect with your soul?

How do you connect with your soul?

Choose your focus to be your soul—focus upon that desire and that deeper connection will manifest within you.

Dulcie Deamer, c. 1920s / Leighton Studios | State Library of New South Wales

All is One—All is linked, all is connected.

All is One—All is linked, all is connected.

Suffrage Group, c. 1902 / Freeman Studio, Sydney | State Library of New South Wales

You are a cherished member of the family of God.

You are a valued and cherished member of the family of God.

What feeds an enlightened soul?

What feeds an enlightened soul?

Remember, an enlightened soul is without fear and is fed by the positive energy of the Universe, by the love of God. 

Paul Petrov in L'Oiseau de feu [The Firebird], Ballets Russes, Sydney, 1936-1937 | Max Dupain | State Library of New South Wales

What happens when you resist that which is undesirable?

What happens when you resist that which is undesirable?

Remember, when you resist and fight that which is undesirable (those things that are undesirable), your focus draws it into your experience. The flow of positive energy is broken and the Universe cannot deliver that which is positive in any great quantity.

State Library of New South Wales | The Carandini ladies, one of Australia's first opera performing families, ca 1875 / Charles Hewitt (attributed)

Never imprison yourself.

Never imprison yourself behind the walls of dark thoughts and hopelessness.

Helen Twelvetrees and her son Jack Woody, Sydney, 1936 | Sam Hood | State Library of New South Wales 

Never trap yourself.

Never trap yourself in a belief system that is not to the overall benefit of your soul. 

Ziegfeld costume, Sydney, between 1915-1930 | Sam Hood | State Library of New South Wales

You take with you all that you have experienced.

Know that you take with you all that you have experienced here—in the physical—and it will create your experience there—in the non-physical.

Child performers, Sydney, c. 1930s | Sam Hood | State Library of New South Wales

Do all that you do with awareness.

Do all that you do with awareness.

Ingenues arrive, Central Station, Sydney, 1928-1929 | Sam Hood | State Library of New South Wales

Always ask what is valid, what serves you, and what does not.

Always ask what is valid, what serves you, and what does not.

Dog with a backpack, 1939 | Sam Hood | State Library of New South Wales

Always hold a far greater vision of who you are.

Always hold a far greater vision of who you are.

Sam Hood | State Library of New South Wales

There is no death; you cannot die.

There is no death; you cannot die. All life—all life—is eternal. It cannot be any other way.

Baby elephant, Taronga Zoo| Sam Hood | State Library of New South Wales

Are you squandering your life by not living it fully?

Are you squandering your life by not living it fully?

Enjoy life! Celebrate life! God is in his heaven and all is well with you and your world. Truly, it is.

Kangaroo and girls, ca 1925 | Sam Hood | State Library of New South Wales

Your thoughts create a world that reflects your feelings.

Just as all creation arises from thought, your problems have arisen out of thought. Your thoughts create a world that reflects your feelings. Remember that.

Soldier's goodbye and Bobbie the cat, Sydney, ca 1939 | Sam Hood | State Library of New South Wales

You are the highest authority in your life.

You see—you are the highest authority in your life—no other—and it is for you to decide what is joyful and what is not.

Jocelyn Howarth and Nancy Bird, ca 1930-33 | State Library of New South Wales

Discover and live your life's purpose.

Discover and live your life's purpose by listening to your Inner Self.

Chorus girls in Rhonrad wheels roll across Bondi Beach, ca 1935 | Sam Hood | State Library of New South Wales

Feel anything that there is to feel.

Feel, feel anything that there is to feel—your feelings are valid and construe the impulses of your soul. 

North Bondi team march past, 1930s | Sam Hood | State Library of New South Wales

How does your soul communicate with you?

How does your soul communicate with you?

Your soul communicates with you through the thoughts that come into your head, through feelings, inspiration, or simply through a deeper sense of peace and tranquillity.

Theatre Royal chorus, Tamarama Beach, ca 1938 | Sam Hood | State Library of New South Wales

Your thoughts sculpt who you believe yourself to be.

Just as energy moulds and forms thought, your thoughts sculpt who you believe yourself to be.

Valerie Hays from the cast of Over she goes being leapfrogged, 1937 | Sam Hood | State Library of New South Wales

You are who you believe yourself to be.

You are who you believe yourself to be, and the Universe will create within your experience an image that fits with your beliefs.

Turner Twins, acrobats, 1937 | Sam Hood | State Library of New South Wales

Examine your beliefs and values.

Examine your beliefs and values. Life is supposed to be joyful, not a struggle.

Indians of Santa Clara Pueblo, New Mexico, making pottery | National Archives at College Park

You cannot leave anything until you love it.

You cannot leave anything until you love it.

Pueblo Indian | National Archives at College Park

How do you end up with more of something?

How do you end up with more of something?

Remember, when you focus on something, it increases, gets bigger, and you end up with more of it.

Pueblo Indians in front of a three-storey Pueblo housing reproduction in the Department of Anthropology at the 1904 World's Fair | Missouri History Museum

What is the ultimate truth?

 What is the ultimate truth?

Love is the ultimate truth. Love is the nature of God. Love is the nature of who you are.

Woman with white parasol | Constant Puyo (1857–1933)

Do your beliefs reflect the reality of the situation?

Examine your beliefs. Do your beliefs reflect the reality of the situation?

Young women in traditional costumes decorating a house | National Digital Archives (Narodowe Archiwum Cyfrowe)

You create each event in your life.

In the Universe, all is vibration. You draw things to you according to your vibrations, for all like things are drawn to one. 

YOU CREATE EACH EVENT IN YOUR LIFE.

Señora Maria Vial de Prieto petting huaso's horse Prique, in a wheat field in Chile | Toni Frissell (1907–1988) | Library of Congress

So how do you want to think of yourself today?

So how do you want to think of yourself today?

Think of love, and it is yours; think of fear, and it is yours. 

YOU ARE WHAT YOU THINK YOU ARE.

Marilyn Monroe while filming The Seven Year Itch on the streets of New York | Corpus Christi Caller-Times-photo from Associated Press

What is generosity?

What is generosity?

Generosity is a quality of love that gives of itself without any expectation of reward—the giving that grants true freedom.

Civil Rights March on Washington, D.C. [food service crew], 28 August 1963 | National Archives at College Park

What is the true meaning of faith?

What is the true meaning of faith?

Faith is an abiding trust that your life is governed to promote your highest well-being. Remember that.

A man praying at a Japanese Shintō shrine | Kalandrakas (カランドラカス) from Kanagawa, Japan | Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic

What is truth?

What is truth?

Truth has many names, but it is best known as Love.

Abraham Lincoln showing Sojourner Truth the Bible, Executive Mansion, Washington, D.C., 29 October 1864 | Library of Congress

What has preserved man from utter desolation?

What has preserved man from utter desolation?

The fact that love has never been quite lost to the soul has preserved man from utter desolation.

What is left of the south tower of the World Trade Centre in New York City | Journalist 1st Class Preston Keres | U.S. Navy

What are the laws governing fear?

What are the laws governing fear?

Learn to rid yourself of needless fears and free yourself from the dominating influence of fear.

Eliminate your negative thought patterns; strive to develop patience with people or things that irritate and you will enjoy greater health and happiness.

Antelope Canyon, Arizona | Lucas Löffler

What is the fount of action, life and manifestation?

What is the fount of action, life and manifestation?

Thought is the fount of action, life and manifestation; make the fountain pure and all will be pure. 

Space shuttle Columbia | NASA/KSC

Clean thoughts make clean habits.

 Clean thoughts make clean habits. 

Night in Luna Park, Coney Island, N.Y. (circa 1905) | Detroit Publishing Co. | Library of Congress

How do you disperse the shadows of grief and sorrow?

There is no physician like cheerful thought for dissipating the ills of the body; there is no comforter to compare with goodwill for dispersing the shadows of grief and sorrow. To live continually in thoughts of ill-will, cynicism, suspicion and envy is to be confined in a self-made prison-hole. But to think well of all, to be cheerful with all, to patiently learn to find the good in all—such unselfish thoughts are the very portals of heaven, and to dwell day by day in thoughts of peace toward every creature will bring abounding peace to their possessor.

James Allen, As a Man Thinketh, Thomas Y. Crowell Company, New York, Effect of Thought on Health and the Body, 28-9

User Kallerna from Wikimedia Commons | Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported

What is the great purpose of life in matter?

What is the great purpose of life in matter?

The great purpose of life in matter is to illumine matter with spirit. 

Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station | Chris Danals | National Science Foundation

So what is the secret of all secrets?

The Law

Remember, as you think, so you are—in environment, appearance and in company! 

You are what you think all day long.

Until you accept the fact that all negative thinking must always end in tears, you continue to create your own suffering. 

Mindfulness

The mind is a creative instrument. 

Thoughts are things—just as much as clouds or houses. 

What you think, you create.

Watch your thoughts. Your thought is action.

Imagination

Imagination has great power. 

Your imagination is one of the most efficient powers in nature.

You can create almost anything if you imagine it strongly enough—even joy and courage.

Think it.

Imagine it.

Create it.

Believe it.

Know—

 

It Is.

Change your thoughts, and you change your destiny. 

Remember Benjamin Disraeli's words that you must nurture great thoughts, for you will never go higher than your thoughts.

So what is the secret of all secrets?

Begin with mind control, and control all else.

Are we creatures of fate?

Are we creatures of fate?

We are not creatures of fate. 

We are free to live our own lives.

Louis Daniel Armstrong (1901–1971) | Library of Congress' Prints and Photographs Division, New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection

What does the Bible mean by redemption?

Change your angle of belief—

Do away with the dread and fear of death. 

Teach the eternal Oneness of Life—

That is redemption—

Both of humanity and of the earth.

A winter view from Untere Stuhllochscharte (2182 m) in Gosaukamm, Dachstein, Upper Austria | Tadeáš Gregor | Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International

Why is it important to pray?

Pray! Prayer is the affirmation by the soul of its unity with the One.

The Baker explosion, part of Operation Crossroads, a U. S. Army nuclear test at Bikini Atoll, Micronesia, on 25 July 25 1946

How do you contribute to the creation of a beautiful world?

How do you contribute to the creation of a beautiful world?

If you send out words and images of creativity, then you will be contributing to the creation of a beautiful world.

Detail of the Ruetz River near the Grawa Waterfall. Stubai Valley, Innsbruck-Land, Tyrol, Austria Author Basotxerri from Wikimedia Commons | Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International

Change your thinking.

Make serious changes in the way that you think. Change your thinking. The life you live, and the world you live, are up to you entirely.

Dali Atomicus | Philippe Halsman (1906–1979) | Library of Congress