Very soon I became so absorbed in the book that I forgot all about my ankle; it went entirely out of my thought, for I had a glimpse of all God's creation as spiritual, and for the time being lost sight of my material selfhood.
Showing posts with label Thought. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Thought. Show all posts
Monday, October 31, 2011
Day 299: Out of my Thought
Sunday, October 30, 2011
Day 298: Every Good Work
That ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God.—Paul.
As the truth was unfolded to me, I realized that the mental condition was what needed correcting, and that the Spirit of truth which inspired this book was my physician. My healing is complete, and the liberation in thought is manifest in a life of active usefulness rather than the bondage of helpless invalidism and suffering.
Friday, October 21, 2011
Day 290: Glossary Gems
God, who made all that was made and could not create an atom or an element the opposite of Himself
Mind measures time according to the good that is unfolded
Monday, October 17, 2011
Day 286: Transform through spiritually
The very circumstance, which your suffering sense deems wrathful and afflictive, Love can make an angel entertained unawares.
Wednesday, August 17, 2011
Day 228: Mental Malpractice
All mental malpractice arises from ignorance or malice aforethought. It is the injurious action of one mortal mind controlling another from wrong motives, and it is practised either with a mistaken or a wicked purpose.
Show your student that mental malpractice tends to blast moral sense, health, and the human life. Instruct him how to bar the door of his thought against this seeming power,--a task not difficult, when one understands that evil has in reality no power.
Saturday, July 16, 2011
Day 197: Defend Yourself
We cannot deny that Life is self-sustained, and we should never deny the everlasting harmony of Soul, simply because, to the mortal senses, there is seeming discord. It is our ignorance of God, the divine Principle, which produces apparent discord, and the right understanding of Him restores harmony. Truth will at length compel us all to exchange the pleasures and pains of sense for the joys of Soul.
Suffer no claim of sin or of sickness to grow upon the thought. Dismiss it with an abiding conviction that it is illegitimate, because you know that God is no more the author of sickness than He is of sin. You have no law of His to support the necessity either of sin or sickness, but you have divine authority for denying that necessity and healing the sick.
Meet the incipient stages of disease with as powerful mental opposition as a legislator would employ to defeat the passage of an inhuman law. Rise in the conscious strength of the spirit of Truth to overthrow the plea of mortal mind, alias matter, arrayed against the supremacy of Spirit.
Wednesday, July 13, 2011
Day 194: Clean body & Clean mind
the Christian Scientist takes the best care of his body when he leaves it most out of his thought
God never punishes man for doing right, for honest labor, or for deeds of kindness, though they expose him to fatigue, cold, heat, contagion. If man seems to incur the penalty through matter, this is but a belief of mortal mind, not an enactment of wisdom, and man has only to enter his protest against this belief in order to annul it.
Let us remember that the eternal law of right, though it can never annul the law which makes sin its own executioner, exempts man from all penalties but those due for wrong-doing.
Sunday, July 10, 2011
Day 191: Remove the Error
Because a belief originates unseen, the mental state should be continually watched that it may not produce blindly its bad effects.
Remove the leading error or governing fear of this lower so-called mind, and you remove the cause of all disease as well as the morbid or excited action of any organ.
Remove the error, and you destroy its effects.
God never endowed matter with power to disable Life or to chill harmony with a long and cold night of discord. Such a power, without the divine permission, is inconceivable; and if such a power could be divinely directed, it would manifest less wisdom than we usually find displayed in human governments.
Wednesday, June 15, 2011
Day 166: Lost & Found
Today’s reading uses the ideas of lost and found. In Christian Science, I think reveal and conceal might be truer to the meaning because we haven’t lost Love or Life. We definitely haven’t lost God.
I’m thankful we don’t have to perform some religious ritual or other material benchmark in order to change our path. Changing our thought hourly, and daily, is the key. And yet, it is so hard.
Thursday, May 26, 2011
Day 140: Truth & Matter
The spiritual sense of truth must be gained before Truth can be understood. This sense is assimilated only as we are honest, unselfish, loving, and meek.
Divine Science reverses the false testimony of the material senses, and thus tears away the foundations of error.
There is no material truth. The physical senses can take no cognizance of God and spiritual Truth.
It is the spiritualization of thought and Christianization of daily life, in contrast with the results of the ghastly farce of material existence; it is chastity and purity, in contrast with the downward tendencies and earthward gravitation of sensualism and impurity, which really attest the divine origin and operation of Christian Science.
Man is harmonious when governed by Soul. Hence the importance of understanding the truth of being, which reveals the laws of spiritual existence.
Monday, May 23, 2011
Day 135: Work as God Works
The crude creations of mortal thought must finally give place to the glorious forms which we sometimes behold in the camera of divine Mind, when the mental picture is spiritual and eternal. Mortals must look beyond fading, finite forms, if they would gain the true sense of things.
As mortals gain more correct views of God and man, multitudinous objects of creation, which before were invisible, will become visible.
There can be but one creator, who has created all.
Sunday, May 22, 2011
Day 133: Spiritual Ideas & Mortal Models
In divine Science, man is the true image of God.
The Christlike understanding of scientific being and divine healing includes a perfect Principle and idea,--perfect God and perfect man,—as the basis of thought and demonstration.
Immortal ideas, pure, perfect, and enduring, are transmitted by the divine Mind through divine Science, which corrects error with truth and demands spiritual thoughts, divine concepts, to the end that they may produce harmonious results.
Science reveals the possibility of achieving all good, and sets mortals at work to discover what God has already done
Mortals must change their ideals in order to improve their models.
Friday, May 20, 2011
Day 128: Happiness
Mortal thoughts chase one another like snowflakes, and drift to the ground.
happiness is never the sport of circumstance.
Organization and time have nothing to do with Life.
Note: I took liberty of rewriting the second quote to be more to the point that I read from it.
Thursday, May 19, 2011
Day 127: Thought Sculptor
We are all sculptors, working at various forms, [molding] and chiseling thought.
give up imperfect models and illusive ideals
We must form perfect models in thought and look at them continually
Friday, April 22, 2011
Day 103: Influence on the Body
Mortals develop their own bodies or make them sick, according as they influence them through mortal mind. To know whether this development is produced consciously or unconsciously, is of less importance than a knowledge of the fact.
Thursday, April 21, 2011
Day 102: Careful what you think
The less that is said of physical structure and laws, and the more that is thought and said about moral and spiritual law, the higher will be the standard of living and the farther mortals will be removed from imbecility or disease.
Wednesday, April 20, 2011
Day 101: A case for Invention
Observation, invention, study, and original thought are expansive and should promote the growth of mortal mind out of itself, out of all that is mortal.
Friday, April 8, 2011
Day 90: The footsteps of Thought
The footsteps of thought, rising above material standpoints, are slow, and portend a long night to the traveller; but the angels of His presence--the spiritual intuitions that tell us when "the night is far spent, the day is at hand"--are our guardians in the gloom. Whoever opens the way in Christian Science is a pilgrim and stranger, marking out the path for generations yet unborn.
Monday, March 14, 2011
Day 67: Thought
All Science is divine. Human thought never projected the least portion of true being. Human belief has sought and interpreted in its own way the echo of Spirit, and so seems to have reversed it and repeated it materially; but the human mind never produced a real tone nor sent forth a positive sound.
Thursday, February 24, 2011
Day 49: Movements & Transitions
Something to think about today:
Divest yourself of the thought that there can be substance in matter, and the movements and transitions now possible for mortal mind will be found to be equally possible for the body.
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