Rev. Patrick teaches us how to use the power of our mind and union with the God-spirit. Our minds can get trapped in the paralysis of analysis---of what our problem is, how it happened, how victimized we are---and we pour our energy into that. So what we focus on is what we are going to see.
Our job here is not to deal with the stuff in our lives; our job is to look at what's going on around us and see the gift in it. We are the outlet for the Infinite to express itself through, and every day we plant seeds of thought. We plant new seeds with our words, and our words have power.