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Ernest Holmes 365365 April 29The Lord is my light and my salvation. —PSALM 27:1 "Of course, we all wish for salvation. We all want to be happy; we should like to be well. We want people to like us. We desire to love and be loved. And above everything else, we want and need an inward sense of security and peace of mind. It is true that we all long for the Kingdom of God on Earth, and the great struggle of man is toward freedom, emancipation from want and fear and disease, and from everything that can hurt. We...2024-04-2901 min
Ernest Holmes 365365 April 17If ye have faith, and doubt not, ye shall not only do this which is done to the fig tree, but also if ye shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be cast into the sea; it shall be done. —MATTHEW 21:21 "Our activity of thought is actually a Divine compulsion of the One Mind in us seeking an ever-increasing achievement and expression through us. The forms and outlets for this self-conscious process of thought, which appear as a unique creation of life in man, may manifest in many ways. We each in...2024-04-1701 min
Ernest Holmes 365365 April 14The Lord will perfect that which concerneth thee. —PSALM 138:8 "The natural order of evolution has brought us to a place where there is a quickening of the spirit, a keener perception of the mind, a deeper introspection of the soul; the veil between Spirit and matter is thinning. We are emerging into a spiritual universe, proclaimed alike by the philosopher, the religionist, the scientist, and the idealist, and yet the nature of Reality or ultimate Truth cannot have changed. Two and two were four a million years ago. The awakening is to the Mind and...2024-04-1401 min
Ernest Holmes 365365 April 12All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. —JOHN 1:3 "Every human being thrills at the thought of having dreams come true. The idea means different things to different people. To one it may mean physical health: the ability to walk, run, play, and engage in activity. To another, it may mean abundance: a home, a car, opulence. To yet another, dreams may mean education, the ability to get along with people, or to have a loving mate. Whatever your personal desires may be—as long as th...2024-04-1201 min
Ernest Holmes 365365 April 11In the way of righteousness is life; and in the pathway thereof there is no death. —PROVERBS 12:28 "You and I should look across the new horizon of the greater possibility that resides within us and meet the living God and feel the embrace of His Presence and come at last to know the infallibility of His Power. From out of the great Mind that is God, the way of life is made perfect and straight and immediate. It is made happy and whole and prosperous. We should awake to the living Presence of the Et...2024-04-1101 min
Ernest Holmes 365365 April 10In God we live, and move, and have our being. —ACTS 17:28 "Life is activity, and when we stop being active we turn away from the newness of life. And the person who grows old in years without an inward expectation and assurance that he is going to live forever, somewhere, will find the last part of his life burdened with the thoughts of yesterday. Let us make up our minds that yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet arrived. But today can be filled with wonder if we know that we stand on the threshold of that which is...2024-04-1001 min
Ernest Holmes 365365 April 8And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea. —REVELATION 21:1 "Fear is the great enemy of man. It is impossible for a person to do his best if he is filled with anxiety. Unless we live without fear today, we will dread tomorrow. Those who live in the dread of tomorrow generally harbor memories of things that were unpleasant in their previous experience and expect that more of this unpleasantness will transpire in the future. The present da...2024-04-0801 min
Ernest Holmes 365365 April 7If the tree fall toward the south, or toward the north, in the place where the tree falleth, there it shall be. —ECCLESIASTES 11:3 "We are all spiritual and mental broadcasting stations. There is a Silent Force flowing from us in every direction at all times. How necessary it is that we assume the role of the announcer and the broadcaster. How necessary it is that we write our own program and deliver it ourselves. When a person speaks into a microphone in a broadcasting station, his words are carried to the far corners of the Ea...2024-04-0701 min
Ernest Holmes 365365 April 6A merry heart doeth good like a medicine, but a broken spirit drieth the bones. —PROVERBS 17:22 "All of us are rooted in the Mind of God. We did not plan it this way; this is the way it is. God is still the Supreme Power, and the Divine Spirit is still present with us no matter where we are. We must learn to tune in to the Mind of God, for when we do, we are turning in to the most dynamic Reality in the Universe. Do not be afraid to talk to Go...2024-04-0601 min
Ernest Holmes 365365 April 2"Create in me a pure heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me." —PSALM 51:10 "Life is an adventure in which we never know what is going to happen just beyond the turn of the road. But too often our today is filled with regrets over the past. If we could convince ourselves that the limitations of the past need not be carried into the future, what a happy outlook we would have. One of the outstanding things that Jesus taught was that the mistakes of yesterday can be canceled, that God’s creat...2024-04-0201 min
Ernest Holmes 365365 April 1“I come that they might have life." —JOHN 10:10 "Let us turn toward the sun of eternal Life, the spiritual sun that cannot set and forever rises on the horizon of our own experience. Definitely and deliberately, we let go of every lost hope, every fear of want, every sense of lack, every hurt, because today we leave the tomb of doubt and enter the sanctuary of certainty. We roll away the stone of uncertainty from our consciousness; we find the resurrected, the Divine, and God-intended perfection and wholeness. We let go of every belief that we a...2024-04-0101 min
Ernest Holmes 365365 March 31 - Substance and SupplySubstance and Supply "Spiritual mind science cannot promise something for nothing. It does not teach that you can have anything you want, no matter what it is, or that your thought can precipitate a million dollars. It does, however, teach, and it can demonstrate, that a betterment of circumstances and conditions and relationships can be brought about through spiritual mind treatment. We believe that the great Intelligence of the Universe cannot lack for anything or that It can plan for Its creation to lack what expresses Its own Being. We may be certain that...2024-03-3102 min
Ernest Holmes 365365 March 30Living Without Fear "Fear robs memory of happiness because it dwells upon the limitations and morbidities of the past. It robs the future of pleasurable and enthusiastic anticipation because it casts a shadow of its past into the future. It robs today of the possibility of fulfillment because it denies the good we might experience in the moment in which we live. How much better it would be if we could think as a child thinks, abandoning ourselves to the integrity of the miracle-working universe in which we live. If the warmth of the...2024-03-3002 min
Ernest Holmes 365365 March 26Dominion "Each one of us has access, immediately, in our own consciousness, to that absolute, unconditioned Presence that molds and makes things out of Itself by Itself directly becoming the thing It makes. The secret of effective prayer lies in the realization that there is a Power for Good in the universe and that we can use It. That subtle Presence we call Mind or Spirit is the Giver and we are the receiver. But how can it make the gift unless we accept it? One of the first things to do is to learn to...2024-03-2602 min
Ernest Holmes 365365 March 25Treating for Others "People frequently ask how they can help others and how their prayer or treatment reaches the other person. The method, the technique, and the approach are no different from that of helping oneself. For when you treat for yourself you affirm the spiritual Truth about yourself, recognizing the activity of Spirit in your life and affairs; when you treat for another, you affirm that same Truth about that person. The same procedure is followed concerning a group of people or a specific situation. After having made this identification of the...2024-03-2501 min
Ernest Holmes 365365 March 23Nonresistance "Gandhi built his whole philosophy of life around the theory of nonviolence. An ancient Chinese sage said that all things are possible to the person who can perfectly practice inaction. And the Bible exclaims: “Be still, and know that I am God.” Surely some great truth must be contained in these simple thoughts. There is a spiritual consciousness that, through the power of nonresistance, can change a condition that appears solid. By way of illustration let us think of an iceberg. When the sun’s rays daily fall on it, it will dissolve; that which was an...2024-03-2301 min
Ernest Holmes 365365 March 22Omnipresence "The Universe is a spiritual system of complete consciousness, entire wholeness, the sum total of which is present everywhere. We are both scientifically and inspirationally, spiritually and philosophically in accord with the great intuitions, the spiritual revelations of all the ages, that have always announced that God is over all, in all, through all, and is all. There is not God and something else. There is only God, and God is in everything, constituting the only Reality to anything that is, proclaiming Itself as all things; therefore, God knows things only as Itself. ...2024-03-2202 min
Ernest Holmes 365365 March 20Divine Guidance "We believe that the Mind of God governs all things. We believe that God’s Intelligence in the midst of us is governing and guiding, counseling and advising, causing us to know what to do under every circumstance and at all times, if we will but trust It. Therefore, every seeming problem has a right solution, and we may turn to the infinite Knower for the answer. In our human ignorance, we often make unwise decisions, but there is nothing that God cannot set right, if we permit Him to do so. If...2024-03-2002 min
Ernest Holmes 365365 March 19Personality Personality is the use or misuse we make of a unique something back of us that is expressing through us. Within each of us there must be a Divine pattern of individualization that we but dimly perceive and even more inaccurately interpret. Personality has a possibility far beyond anything that is merely physiological or psychological, for it has the possibility, not of becoming a mask to hide Reality, but rather an open countenance through which Reality becomes expressed. We have many personalities if we understand that each is but some reflected form of...2024-03-1902 min
Ernest Holmes 365365 March 15Love "Love is the lodestone of life, the great and supreme Reality. Love is the highest gift of heaven, the greatest good on earth, and the treasure of all our search. It is the end and aim of everything. We cannot doubt that God is Love, because love renews and reinvigorates while hate kills. People who love animals and understand them are not afraid of them, for love transmits some subtle essence of life to everything it touches, awakening within all things an equal awareness and response. This is true also of human relationships. Love is...2024-03-1502 min
Ernest Holmes 365365 March 13Forgivingness "It is only when we have completely forgiven others that we can get a clearance in our own minds, for we are judged by the judgment with which we judge. If we criticize, condemn, and censure, these are the attitudes that occupy our thinking. They will not only reflect themselves outwardly, they will also reflect themselves inwardly. They must, for the without is but an extension of the within, and the within is the determinor of that extension. If we want a complete clearance of our attitudes, we must forgive everything and everyone. Whether we like...2024-03-1302 min
Ernest Holmes 365365 March 12Identification "Spiritual mind treatment is an affirmation of the Divine Presence in and through all things, all people, and all events. There is one intelligent Law governing all things. We live in this Divine Presence and may consciously use this Universal Law. But someone might ask, How does our prayer, our treatment, or our affirmation reach the person, place, or the thing we wish to help? This question is answered when we come to realize that we are individualized expressions of the One Life. Whenever we identify our thinking with some person or thing...2024-03-1202 min
Ernest Holmes 365365 March 11Givingness "There can be no real gift unless the giver goes with it. Giving includes more than the giving of money or things, it includes the giving of service or whatever we have to others, but always the gift and the giver must go hand in hand. The surrender of everything we have and everything we are into the joy of its own self-expression—this is the way that God gives. This is the way we should give. Real giving is the art of transmitting ourselves to others and to the conditions and situations th...2024-03-1102 min
Ernest Holmes 365365 March 10Divine Patterns "There is a Divine pattern for humanity, and within this pattern there is a variation that individualizes each one of us. This is why the Bible says that we should act in accordance with the pattern shown us on the mount, a symbol of high consciousness. When we lift our thought above the confusion of the material world, we become aware of the spiritual Cause behind all things. It is no idle statement to affirm the Perfection of God as the center of all things, manifesting in and through each and every...2024-03-1001 min
Ernest Holmes 365365 March 7Living Today "It is not the particular negative experiences we have gone through in the past that destroy our happiness, but rather our emotional reaction to those experiences carried in the reservoir of memory. Many people suffer complete defeat without having really been defeated; others succumb the first time anything goes wrong. It is one of the aims of psychosomatic medicine, analytical psychology, and psychiatry to drain out the negative and emotional reactions to previous experiences. There is just as real an infection of the mind as there is of any part of our physical body.2024-03-0602 min
Ernest Holmes 365365 March 5Human Relations "There is One Spirit incarnated in everyone, an immortal Presence forever expanding everything, causing everything to grow. What a difference it would make in our human relations if we tried to sense the meaning of this Divine incarnation in all people and adjust our viewpoint to the truth that all are bound together in the unity of God. While it is true, as the Scripture says, that now we see through a glass darkly, there still is hidden within each one the Cause of all life, all aspiration, and all faith. We are...2024-03-0502 min
Ernest Holmes 365365 March 4Acceptance "Spiritual mind treatment, or affirmative prayer, really is something we do to ourselves. The only direction we give to this treatment, this prayer, this affirmation of acceptance, is that we identify it with the person we are working for or the condition we wish to help. This is neither willing, concentrating, coercing, nor compelling anything or anyone. It is, rather, a quiet inward acceptance, an affirmation of our conviction, based on the theory that there is a spiritual Perfection at the center of all things in the universe and that there is a fundamental Good...2024-03-0402 min
Ernest Holmes 365365 March 3Affirmative Prayer "Today thousands of people are coming to believe in, and use, the power of affirmative prayer. We are entering into a new era of spiritual acceptance. Something definite is happening in the field of spiritual thought and endeavor. From all sources we are coming to realize that affirmative prayer is dynamic. It should be easier today than ever before for people to accept the simple teaching that there is a Power greater than ourselves that desires our good, and a Law of Mind that we may consciously use for definite purposes. We shall be...2024-03-0402 min
Ernest Holmes 365365 February 28/29 Leap Year!I Form a New Concept of God We shall be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye. —I CORINTHIANS 15:51-52 "The Power of Life within you is a spiritual power, able to bring to you permanent peace, increasing happiness and joy, and greater material abundance. These things that have made man miserable can be eliminated through the conscious use of this Power. God could not visit fear or hate or impoverishment upon us, because God transcends these things. The world needs a new concept of God; a new idea must be...2024-02-2901 min
Ernest Holmes 365365 February 26I Make Intelligent Use of Universal Laws I have given thee a wise and an understanding heart. —I KINGS 3:12 "The Universe is impersonal. It gives alike to all. It is no respecter of persons. It values each alike. The philosopher, the priest, and the professor, the humanitarian and the empire builder, all have caught some gleam of the Eternal God. The world of knowledge needs to be knit together and not pulled apart. The road to freedom lies, not through mysteries, but through the intelligent use of natural forces and laws. We do no...2024-02-2601 min
Ernest Holmes 365365 February 24I Open Myself to Greater Love Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. —I CORINTHIANS 13:1 "Love is more than a sentiment. It is a need, a hunger, a thirst that is perfectly natural. Anyone who thinks he can live and be happy without it does not know what he is talking about—psychologically, emotionally, or spiritually. Love is the beginning and end, the impulse in nature that will not be denied. Let us think...2024-02-2401 min
Ernest Holmes 365365 February 22Deep Within Me Dwells Infinite Love A good man out of the good treasure of the heart bringeth forth good things. —MATTHEW 12:55 "God is the giver of all things—by means of love. The Spirit is always at peace. There is no argument in Divine Mind. The Spirit has never doubted Itself, opposed Itself, or disagreed with Itself. This is the Oneness that is God. Deep within me is that which never gets angry, troubled, or afraid. When I seem to be in conflict, I become still so that I may listen. All...2024-02-2201 min
Ernest Holmes 365365 February 21I Let My Light Shine A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you. —EZEKIEL 36:26 "People who spend a great deal of time in prayer, meditation, or communion with the Spirit gradually take on a new atmosphere, a new sweetness, a love and light that all others sense. The Old Testament often refers to a light always shining over the altar in the temple. This light, of course, is a symbol of the Life that is never extinguished. The light of Jesus has been sensed by ar...2024-02-2101 min
Ernest Holmes 365365 February 20I Recognize the Indwelling Spirit Be still, and know that I am God. —PSALM 46:10 A belief in the Invisible is the very essence of faith. Prayer, or spiritual communion, demands a complete surrender to the Invisible. It knows that because the Creative Power of God is at hand, all things are possible. Whatever our idea of God may be, the perception of Reality is always an inner perception. As Moses tells us, the word is not afar off but in our own mouths, and Jesus taught that the Kingdom of Heaven is within us...2024-02-2001 min
Ernest Holmes 365February 19The Divine Presence Within Me Is My Authority Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee. —ISAIAH 26:3 "The Divine Presence within each of us is both the center and circumference of our real being. It is the Infinite Presence that inhabits eternity and finds a dwelling place in our own consciousness. We recognize It as the only authority there is. We know we are one with It and in It, for there is no separation from It. Our own consciousness is the very depth and height of Its Bei...2024-02-1902 min
Ernest Holmes 365365 February 12The Fullness of Life Flows Through Me The water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life. —JOHN 4:14 "Your place in Life is to become an outlet for Its wisdom, intelligence, love, beauty, and creativity. Your relationship to Life is that you are of like nature to It. You are in it and It is in you. Some part of you exists as pure, unmanifest Spirit. This side of your nature has never been troubled. Since you are fashioned from the stuff of the In...2024-02-1202 min
Ernest Holmes 365365 February 8I See the Divine Presence in All OthersBehold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity! —PSALM 133:1 "The best way to make friends is to realize that we meet Life in everyone. The God in us meets the God in others. Proclaiming the Divine Presence, believing in It, we shall meet It. Love will find a perfect way. Our faith in the Divine Presence in others will overcome the fear of being misunderstood or hurt. If the mind is calm and serene, there will be less liability to...2024-02-0801 min
Ernest Holmes 365365 February 7I Contemplate the Presence Pray without ceasing. —I THESSALONIANS 2:17 "It doesn’t matter what we call it, so long as we remember that there is a “secret place of the most High” within us and that we may consciously enter it by merely knowing that we are already there. This is the place where the universe meets us in its wholeness without any restriction whatsoever. This is the place where the All delivers everything that It is to us. Anything that helps you to enter here is good. If you say prayers, make aff...2024-02-0701 min
Ernest Holmes 365365 February 6I Am One with My Source Neither shall they say, Lo here! Or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you. —LUKE 17:21 "The good things we seek from life are but echoes of the true self knocking at the door of consciousness. Everyone seeks an inward sense of certainty. We all seek an inner awareness of something greater than we are; something so complete that we can find completion in it; something so vast that we may anticipate exploring its nature through endless eternities. Someone has said that the...2024-02-0601 min
Ernest Holmes 365365 January 4I Use the Power of God The God of love and peace shall be with you. —II CORINTHIANS 13:11 "Have we really tried God? Since all the other methods have failed, a divine compulsion is laid upon everyone to find the power of God and make use of it. It is not merely a new theory about God that we are looking for; rather, it is the actual power of God that we must harness. Our trouble is that we have not really believed that this Presence exists and operates in human affairs. We have no...2024-02-0401 min
Ernest Holmes 365365 February 1God’s Presence in Me Is Love He hath made everything beautiful in his time. —ECCLESIASTES 3:11 "The Divine Presence within me is everlasting Love. The action of love is expressed in my world. God’s Wisdom holds me steady, and the Peace of God fills me. I am His creation, understood, wanted, and cared for. From this Infinite Source I give and receive love in my world. If petty emotions seem to trouble me, I immediately turn to the Source within me of strength and peace. God in me does the loving, and I have no fea...2024-02-0101 min
Ernest Holmes 365365 January 31My Thought Establishes New Beginnings For behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind. —ISAIAH 65:17 "Nothing is ever twice alike. It is said that the physical body is never more than a year old, that we discard many bodies through this life. Everything is continuously being re-created, and it literally is true that the creative Spirit is forever making a new heaven and a new earth. We must permit It to make them new for us. I empty my mind of...2024-02-0101 min
Ernest Holmes 365365 January 27The Spirit Lives Within Me Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thine health shall spring forth speedily: and thy righteousness shall go before thee. —ISAIAH 58:8 "Spiritual mind healing has long since passed the experimental stage. We now know that we cannot tell where the body begins and the mind leaves off, and many of us believe that the actions, organs, and functions of the physical body really are activities of the infinite Intelligence within us. To come to realize, then, that there is One Body, which is the Body of Go...2024-01-2702 min
Ernest Holmes 365365 January 25I Acquaint Myself with Peace Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee. —ISAIAH 26:3 "When we give a spiritual mind treatment, or affirmative prayer, we are recognizing the Presence of God in, around, and through us. It is this closeness of the Divine Presence that gives us the feeling of peace that is accompanied by a consciousness of power. And it is because we do believe that we can have this feeling, this inner conviction, this sense of certainty that all spiritual teachers have tol...2024-01-2502 min
Ernest Holmes 365365 January 24My Affairs Are in the Hands of Divine Action Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done on earth, as it is in heaven. —MATTHEW 6:10 "When Jesus said, “Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done on earth, as it is in heaven,” he was again affirming that there is a Perfection at the center of everything. He was telling us that when we reach toward this inward Perfection, It will be revealed to us and that It must finally establish the kingdom of God on earth, as It most certainly will. Realizing that the kingdo...2024-01-2301 min
Ernest Holmes 365365 January 21I Walk in the Joy of Increasing Good He shall call upon me, and I will answer him: I will be with him in trouble; I will deliver him and honour him. —PSALM 91:15 "This passage contains a great promise. It is not of something that is to transpire in the future, but of a good that is transpiring in the present moment in which we live—right here and right now. We are the center of the divine activity. All things are made of Spirit, and we must know that the Spirit not only can...2024-01-2102 min
Ernest Holmes 365365 January 20I Accept the Heritage of Happiness Thou wilt shew me the path of life: in thy presence is fulness of joy; at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore. —PSALM 16:11 "We should daily feel a deeper union with Life, a greater sense of that indwelling God, the God of the everywhere, within us. When we speak into this Mind we have sown the seed of thought in the Absolute and may rest in peace. Nothing in our thought about God should produce sadness or depression; rather, it should be quite the reverse, because our...2024-01-2001 min
Ernest Holmes 365365 January 9I Am Filled with Confidence and a Sense of Security For he shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways. —PSALM 91:11 "Deep within the consciousness of each of us there is a center of peace and security where trouble and accidents do not occur, where truth and love reign supreme, where good is the only power. It is to this center that we go in the silence of our own minds to commune daily with the Spirit that is both around us and within us. Truly this is the...2024-01-0902 min
Ernest Holmes 365365 January 8My Thought Is Inspired by the Most High And the Lord, he it is that doth go before thee; he will be with thee, he will not fail thee, neither forsake thee: fear not, neither be dismayed. —DEUTERONOMY 31:8 "We should believe that God is the invisible Partner in our lives and affirm that Divine Love goes before us and prepares the way. We should permit ourselves to be guided for there is Something within us, deep at the center of our being, which knows what we ought to do and how we ought to do i...2024-01-0802 min
Ernest Holmes 365365 January 4From Prayer to Performance Yea, the darkness hideth not from thee . . . the darkness and the light are both alike to thee. —PSALM 139:12 "To be effective, prayer must be affirmative, but it is not enough merely to affirm the Presence of God. We must add to this realization the thought that Divine Intelligence is acting in and through us now. Prayer is not a wishful or wistful longing, nor is it an escape from objective reality. To become lost in our prayers might give us an unconscious desire to escape the activities of life. Therefore, we a...2024-01-0401 min
Ernest Holmes 365365 January 3I Enter into the Gladness of Living Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down . . . and running over, shall men give into your bosom. —LUKE 6:38 "Who would not be a child again? Who would not again have the simple faith and childlike trust that somehow or other we seem to lose on the pathway of human experience? Things crowd in on us until we lose some of the greatest of all gifts—the simple, spontaneous joy of living and a trust in the Power of good, which alone is able, ready, and...2024-01-0302 min
Ernest Holmes 365365 December 21I Know That I Understand How to Speak the Word of Truth "It is the spirit that quickeneth: the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life. —JOHN 6:63 "And where do name and form both cease, and turn to utter nothingness? And the answer is, “In consciousness invisible and infinite, of radiance bright." —BUDDHIST TEXT “This lesson tells us that the objective world is quickened by the indwelling Spirit. The words of Truth are life unto every form they animate. All words that are s...2023-12-2102 min
Ernest Holmes 365365 November 24Intuition Before they call I will answer; and while they are yet speaking I will hear. —ISAIAH 65:24 "Dr. Alexis Carrel tells us that intuition is not a product of the intellect, nor is it something that is developed in the process of our evolution. It is, then, a thing in itself. That which is instinct in the animal, blindly, unerringly leading it to food, water, and shelter, becomes intuition in man, consciously perceived. Instinct is intuition acting unconsciously; intuition is instinct elevated to the point of self-awareness. They are identical. Intuition is Omniscience acting omni...2023-11-2401 min
Ernest Holmes 365365 November 23Receiving Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you. —MATTHEW 7:7 "How can we receive that which the mind refuses to entertain? Should we not, then, consciously develop the ability to receive more? We make life little and mean, and limit our own possibilities when we refuse to accept the whole gift of God. We should open our consciousness to a receptivity of the Divine. There will never be any point of saturation, because God is infinite. We cannot contract the Infinite, but we c...2023-11-2301 min
Ernest Holmes 365365 November 22Joy Sorrow is turned into joy before him. . . . Thou hast put gladness in my heart. . . . Thou hast turned for me my mourning into dancing; thou hast put off my sackcloth, and girded me with gladness. —JOB 4 1 : 2 2 ; PSALMS 4:7, 30:11 "We cannot conceive of the Spirit as being sad or depressed. There is ever a song at the center of everything. This song is reflected in all nature, turning “mourning into dancing.” To put off sackcloth means the turning of the personality to a complete reliance upon the Divine. To be girded with gladness means to cover ourselve...2023-11-2201 min
Ernest Holmes 365365 November 21Identity Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect. —MATTHEW 5 : 4 8 "There is a pattern of perfection at the center of everything. This, the saints and sages of the ages have told us. There is, as the Platonists taught, a prototype of perfection at the center of every form. It is this spiritual prototype with which the mind should identify itself, for this is the Father in heaven within us. Nothing has ever violated the integrity of this inner kingdom. It exists forever in the bosom of God, and we are...2023-11-2101 min
Ernest Holmes 365365 November 12Body Know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you? —I CORINTHIANS 6:19 "Emerson said that “God builds His temple in the heart,” and Seneca said that “God is to be consecrated in the breast of each.” St. Augustine said that “the pure mind is a holy temple for God.” To realize that God is in us, with us, and for us, is the first step toward understanding that we are the temple of the Holy Ghost. Bishop Wilberforce tells us that “the conscious mind . . . is the temple of the Chri...2023-11-1201 min
Ernest Holmes 365365 November 11Spirit Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit. . . . It is the Spirit that quickeneth. —I CORINTHIANS 12:4 AND JOHN 6:63 "Out of unity comes variety. All things are made from one formless Substance. The invisible essence of everything is pure Spirit. It is a realization of this Spirit at the center of everything that enables us to see God in everyone. “It is the Spirit that quickeneth.” When we recognize the Spirit in anything or anyone, there is an equal reaction from the Spirit back to us, and we are made more alive through...2023-11-1101 minErnest Holmes 365365 November 10Mind Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus. —PHILIPPIANS 2 : 5 "This scriptural passage means that we should recognize the Divine Incarnation, universal in essence, but individualized in personal experience. The spiritual genius of Jesus enabled him to see that each is a unique representation, an individualized expression of One Mind. The Mind of God in us is the Mind of Christ. At the center of every man’s being the Eternal Christ waits, knocking at the door of his intellect for admission. This is not a far-away Presence, nor a future...2023-11-1001 min
Ernest Holmes 365365 November 9Love There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear . . . [for] God is love. —I JOHN 4:18, 16 "There is no fear in love, and there is no liberation from fear without love. Fear is always based on the supposition that we are unprotected, rejected, friendless. If the fearful mind would entertain love, and the harmony and peace that go with it, it must turn from everything that denies this love and, trusting in Divine Guidance, open its being to the influx of love—not just love of God, but love of everyt...2023-11-0901 min
Ernest Holmes 365365 November 8Attraction What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them. —MARK 11:24 "How simply Jesus tells us that whatever we need we shall receive, if we believe that we have it! Is it so hard, then, for us to believe that the divine gift is forever made? Prayer is a sincere desire of the intellect to enter into conscious union with the Divine Presence and to receive direct from It every good thing that makes life worthwhile. My prayer today is one of affirmation. It inc...2023-11-0801 min
Ernest Holmes 365365 November 7ForgivenessI have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy transgressions. . . . For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind. —ISAIAH 44:22 "Whatever the mistakes of yesterday may have been, today is a new creation. Turning from the errors of the past, and no longer carrying with us the sorrows and mistakes of yesterday, today we may enter into a new experience. But it is only when we forgive everyone that we may feel certain that the weight of condemnation is lifted from our...2023-11-0701 min
Ernest Holmes 365365 November 6Protection He that dwelleth in the secret place of the Most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. —PSALM 91:1 "This is a song of hope, a psalm of praise, the acknowledgment of an overshadowing Presence—the Most High Good, to which Jesus gave the name “Our Father which art in heaven.” We have a right to know that, in so far as we live in accord with the Divine, we are protected by Its omnipotent Law. “His truth shall be thy shield and buckler.” The knowledge of truth will ward off the darts of evil...2023-11-0601 min
Ernest Holmes 365365 November 5Right Action Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. —JOHN 8:32 "Jesus implies that there is a truth, which known, automatically will demonstrate itself in our experience. What could this truth be other than a consciousness of our union with life? It is wonderful to contemplate this spiritual and exalted idea of truth—that truth which frees us from the tyranny of fear and the thraldom of fate. It is neither in our stars nor in our environment that we should look to discover this pattern of truth. The tr...2023-11-0501 min
Ernest Holmes 365365 November 4Peace Peace be both to thee, and peace be to thine house, and peace be unto all that thou hast. —I SAMUEL 2 5 : 6 "Phillips Brooks said that “peace is the entire harmony between the nature of anything and its circumference.” House is a symbol of the physical body and of “that house not made with hands eternal in the heavens.” House is a symbol of any of the “vehicles, bodies, or habitations of the soul” on any or all planes. The Bible speaks of the House of Bondage and the House of Freedom. Symbolically, it tells us that we...2023-11-0401 min
Ernest Holmes 365365 November 3Humanity Have we not all one Father? Hath not one God created us? —MALACHI 2:10 "Arthur Compton, in The Freedom of Man, tells us that science has discovered nothing that contradicts the idea of a Universal Mind, or Spirit, of which all people are offspring or emanations. It would be impossible to converse with each other unless there were a common medium or, as Emerson said, “one mind common to all people.” It is impossible to depart from this Divine Presence, to be separated from this heavenly Father, which is the Parent Mind. Since God is ever...2023-11-0301 minErnest Holmes 365365 November 2 Divinity“We all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory . . . by the Spirit of the Lord. —IICORINTHIANS3 : 1 8 "Beholding the image of Perfection in everything, to dominion we add glory. This refers to the continual progression of the Soul. Since God is infinite, our expansion is progressive and eternal. No matter how much good we experience today, the Infinite has more in store for us tomorrow. We should joyfully look forward to this expansion with enthusiastic anticipation. The mar...2023-11-0201 min
Ernest Holmes 365365 November 10Mind Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus. —PHILIPPIANS 2 : 5 "This scriptural passage means that we should recognize the Divine Incarnation, universal in essence, but individualized in personal experience. The spiritual genius of Jesus enabled him to see that each is a unique representation, an individualized expression of One Mind. The Mind of God in us is the Mind of Christ. At the center of every man’s being the Eternal Christ waits, knocking at the door of his intellect for admission. This is not a far-away Presence, nor a future...2023-11-0201 min
Ernest Holmes 365365 November 1 Thanksgiving O Lord, thou art my God; I will exalt thee, I will praise thy name; thy kingdom is an everlasting kingdom . . . . Hallowed be thy name. —ISAIAH 25:1 "The attitudes of praise and thanksgiving are salutary. They not only lighten the consciousness, lifting it out of sadness and depression, they elevate consciousness to a point of acceptance. Praise and thanksgiving are really attitudes of recognition. They are affirmations of the Divine Presence, the Divine abundance, and the Divine givingness. It is only when we live affirmatively that we are happy. It is only when we r...2023-11-0101 min
Ernest Holmes 365365 October 31 Today I Rejoice in All Nature "Since happiness is the reason for my being, and since the Kingdom of Heaven is a joyous state of consciousness, and since the Kingdom of Heaven is here and now, today I consciously open my whole thought to the influx of the Divine Harmony. Today I realize that I am not a stranger on the shores of time, but am an honored guest in the Kingdom of Good. Today I enter with joy into my kingdom, into the warmth and color of living. Today I enter into t...2023-10-3101 min
Ernest Holmes 365365 October 30I Am Renewed Daily "I am an individualized center in the Consciousness of God. I am an individualized activity in the Action of God. I am eternal. Therefore, I do not have to wait for immortality. The resurrection of life is today. Living today as though I were an immortal being, I allow all thought of death, all fear of change to slip from me. I step out of the tomb of uncertainty and into the light of eternal day. The nighttime of my soul has passed and the eternal light of everlasting day dawns as...2023-10-3001 min
Ernest Holmes 365365 October 30I Enter the Port of Attainment “I enter into my Divine Inheritance and know that all that my inward vision perceives will be mine. Like Moses, I stand on the mountaintop of spiritual perception. Now, free from all obstruction, the vista is perfect, the vision is sublime. There are no clouds in the sky. I look out across innumerable other mountain peaks and in each I recognize another Divine subject of the Heavenly Presence. The gates of my soul are lifted up and a flood tide of intuition flows through. Confronted with discord, I will se...2023-10-3002 min
Ernest Holmes 365365 October 29I Glorify in the Power of the Word "I have faith in the invisible because everything that is visible proclaims the invisible source of its being. I feel as though all things, even though they are temporary, are rooted in a changeless Reality. Today I enter into this divine play of Life upon Itself. Today I attend and witness the eternal birth of divine ideas. I recognize these ideas as supplying me with everything I need. Today I have implicit faith that Substance is taking form in my affairs. This Substance takes the form of j...2023-10-2901 min
Ernest Holmes 365God is Responding - written and read by Adam KlugmanFor so many years when I thought about my relationship with God, it was something I felt I needed to earn. Before I could receive God’s love and approval, I would have to make myself perfect. In order to receive God’s love I would have to make all the crooked places within me straight. I would have to kick all of my bad habits, meditate every day, never get angry or frustrated, give up all resentments, feel deep compassion for everyone I meet, and love myself perfectly and completely in every way, even when I made bad choi...2023-10-2606 min
Ernest Holmes 365365 October 26My Soul Is at Peace "When a problem confronts me, I take it into the silence of my consciousness. Instead of thinking of the problem, I think of the answer. The Divine Presence guides, guards, and protects me. It counsels me with wisdom. It sustains and upholds me in everything I do. Having recognized the Divine Presence as my guiding star of hope, assurance, and certainty, I also recognize the Universal Law of Mind as my servant. My faith in this Law causes It to act upon my faith, bringing into my experience those things I accept.2023-10-2601 min
Ernest Holmes 365365 October 25 I Realize the Presence of God "Expectancy speeds progress. Therefore, I live in a continual state of expectancy. No matter how much I am experiencing today, I expect greater good tomorrow. I expect to meet new friends. I expect to meet new and wonderful experiences. I know that when I live in harmony with the Divine Presence in and around me, I will be protected by Its power. No harm can come to me when I know that God is at the center of everything. There is an inexhaustible reservoir of life, of imagination, e...2023-10-2501 min
Ernest Holmes 365365 October 24My Faith Causes the Unseen to Become Visible "I know that the Spirit, which is Life, is present everywhere. Like the air I breathe, It presses against me, on the mountaintop, in the valley, in the desert, and on the ocean, It is ever present. There is peace at the center of my being, a peace that can be felt throughout the day and in the cool of the evening. I dwell on the unity that underlies everything. As I consciously poise myself in the realization that I live in pure Spirit, new power is...2023-10-2401 min
Ernest Holmes 365365 October 23 I Am Held in the Goodness of God “I know that there is no influence, either visible or invisible, other than the influence of pure Spirit, acting perfectly upon all people. I know that there is no presence but Love, and no power but the Creative Spirit, which has neither enemy nor opposite. Goodness, joy, and peace abide with me today. I believe that every affirmation I make will immediately take effect in my life. I fill every statement with joy; therefore, I expect joyful happenings. I fill every statement with love; therefore, I a...2023-10-2301 min
Ernest Holmes 365365 October 22I Rejoice in the Good of All "There is a Divine awareness within me that leads me upward and onward. I prepare myself for this ascent, filling my mental life with spiritual realization. My bread is manna from heaven, my meat the living word, my fruit the inspiration of hope, my wine the essence of joy. Laying aside all fear and uncertainty, I enter into my Good today. Aware of my unity with Life, I loose all thoughts of discord and lack. I permit the true pattern of Wholeness to come to the surface. T...2023-10-2201 min
Ernest Holmes 365365 October 21I Feast on the Idea of Abundance "The One Spirit manifests itself in and through all, including me. I accept with positive certainty that the Spirit within me goes before me and prepares my way, making perfect, plain, straight, easy, and happy the pathway of my experience. There is nothing in me that can obstruct the Divine circuits of Life, of Love, of Beauty and Truth. My word dissolves every negative thought or impulse that would throw a shadow of unbelief across the threshold of my expectation. Today I have faith that my word...2023-10-2101 min
Ernest Holmes 365365 October 20I Have Limitless Faith "My knowledge that the great I Am is ever available gives me an increasing capacity to draw upon It and to become inwardly aware of the presence of Spirit. There is something at the center of my being that is absolutely certain of itself. It gives me complete assurance that all is well. I Am a Divine Being here and now. I know that in this consciousness of Reality is the supply for my every need—physical, mental, or spiritual—and I accept that supply in deepest gratitude. I am than...2023-10-2001 min
Ernest Holmes 365365 October 19Today I Take Constructive Action "It is only as I let go of the lesser than I can take hold of the greater, only as I drop confusion that I can entertain peace, only as I transcend doubt and fear that I can be lifted up to the hilltops of the inner Life. I identify myself with the greatness of Spirit and breathe in Its Almighty Power. I allow my consciousness to rise to a broader and fuller realization of that Divine Presence that is always delivering Itself to me. Believing that the Divine...2023-10-1901 min
Ernest Holmes 365365 October 18I Accept the Fullness of Life "Today I cease weeping over the mistakes of yesterday and steadfastly behold the face of the great and divine Reality. I know that every negative condition of the past is swept aside. Yesterday is no longer here; tomorrow has not yet arrived. Today is God’s day. Today is my day. Today, bright with hope and filled with promise, is mine. Today my heart is without fear. I have implicit confidence in the good, the enduring, and the true. Today I keep my consciousness steadfast with the realization that th...2023-10-1801 min
Ernest Holmes 365365 October 17I Abide in the Realization of Divine Union "I always have been, and forever will remain, a complete and perfect expression of the Eternal Mind, which is God, the living Spirit Almighty. Today I enter into the limitless variations of self-expression that the Divine Spirit projects into my experience. Knowing that all experience is a play of Life upon itself, the blossoming of love into self-expression, the coming forth of good into the joy of its own being, I enter into life with joyful anticipation and with enthusiasm. I know that God must be present...2023-10-1701 min
Ernest Holmes 365365 October 16 I Am a Manifestation of Spirit “I commune with the invisible Presence within me until there comes a certainty that is beyond hope, something that enables me to see the future as clear-eyed as I see the past. I have the joy of knowing I will live forever. I am aware of the Divine within me. Peace, quiet, and confidence flow through my thought. I know that inspiration and guidance are mine. I permit myself to be moved upon by Divine Intelligence. Laying aside every sense of burden or false responsibility, loosing all fear and...2023-10-1601 min
Ernest Holmes 365365 October 15I Am Rich with the Richness of God "The Divine will never fail me so long as I have implicit faith in It. If I feel myself getting caught in fear and doubt, I take time to reaffirm my union with the great outflowing givingness of Life. I take time for prayer and meditation. In this way I am always receptive to the gift of abundance that God has already made. Today I accept the gift of God’s abundance. Everything that I am and that I have is increased by it. I identify eve...2023-10-1501 min
Ernest Holmes 365365 October 14I Rejoice That My Spirit Is Free "I now allow the Living Presence of Spirit to flow through me in expanding circles of activity. Every past sense of limitation melts away and every good I have experienced is increased. Every joy that has come into my life is multiplied and there is a new influx of inspiration into my thought. I see more clearly than ever that my Divine birthright is freedom, joy, and good. Spirit is not limited, so neither am I. I let go of all restricting ideas. Knowing that Life gives according t...2023-10-1501 min
Ernest Holmes 365365 October 13I Am on the Pathway of Endless Unfoldment "A universal and infinite Intelligence governs everything, holds everything in its place, and directs the course of everything. The Intelligence that governs the planets in their courses is the same Intelligence that is manifesting in me. The use I make of It to direct and govern my activities depends upon my personal choice. Today I am governed by the Wisdom of God in everything I think, say, or do. Since there is nothing large or small to the Infinite, there is nothing in my experience beyond...2023-10-1301 min
Ernest Holmes 365365 October 12Spirit Flows Through My Consciousness into Action "There is an eternal springtime in my soul. Always rising but never setting is the sun of my destiny. I refuse to worry about anything. I have complete confidence that the God who is always with me is able and willing to direct everything I do, to control my affairs, to lead me into the pathway of peace and happiness. I release every sense of condemnation, either against myself or others. I loose every feeling of animosity. I now understand that there is a Principle and a...2023-10-1201 min
Ernest Holmes 365365 October 11The Light of Spirit Shines Forth from Me Today, I joyously proclaim a greater good. My thoughts are radiant with the Light of Spirit. There is no darkness in my mind. I am directed by the Spirit of Wisdom; I am guided into right action, into happiness and success, because the Light of Spirit shines from the very center of my being. This Light illuminates my path and makes straight the way before me. This Light is God, the living Spirit Almighty. Gently I lay my burden and woes at the altar of...2023-10-1101 min
Ernest Holmes 365365 September 23I Am Sustained by the Truth Tell me nothing but that which is true in the name of the Lord. —I KINGS 22:16 "Everyone believes that Truth alone can make us free. We all know that ignorance is the great mistake of the ages and that enlightenment alone can save us from the thraldom of our own errors. Jesus, the wise, boldly proclaimed that the knowledge of Truth would automatically produce freedom. He also said that a knowledge of the Truth includes a realization of the Presence of the Creative Spirit of life. This...2023-09-2302 min
Ernest Holmes 365365 September 22I Am Sustained by the Truth Tell me nothing but that which is true in the name of the Lord. —I KINGS 22:16 "Everyone believes that Truth alone can make us free. We all know that ignorance is the great mistake of the ages and that enlightenment alone can save us from the thraldom of our own errors. Jesus, the wise, boldly proclaimed that the knowledge of Truth would automatically produce freedom. He also said that a knowledge of the Truth includes a realization of the Presence of the Creative Spirit of life. This...2023-09-2202 min
Ernest Holmes 365365 September 21I Live As an Immortal Being For I am the Lord, I change not. —MALACHI 3:6 "The stamp of individuality is eternal. Emerson said that nothing is dead; human beings feign themselves dead, and endure mock funerals and mournful obituaries, and there they stand looking out of a window, sound and well, in some new and strange disguise. There exists in every person this hope, this belief in the immortality of his own being, and there is something about every living soul that knows he is made of immortal stuff, that there is no d...2023-09-2102 min
Ernest Holmes 365365 September 20I Recognize That My Unity with All Humankind Is of Divine Origin I am the vine, ye are the branches. —JOHN 15:5 "I believe there is but one Spirit in which everyone lives, moves, and has his being. In this Spirit I am directly unified with all people. I recognize this Spirit as individualized in everyone; therefore, I am learning to see every person I meet in the light of this divine and changeless truth. There is one Spirit diffused through all humanity. With this Spirit in everyone I hold communion. In a hand...2023-09-2001 min
Ernest Holmes 365365 September 19Divine Mind Pervades Every Atom of My Body "Spiritual Substance is my physical perfection. No one knows exactly what the mind is, but we certainly know that it is something within us that enables us to be conscious and aware. We are told to let the Mind be in us that was in Christ. What can this mean other than that each should recognize the Divine Incarnation in himself? It was this realization of His union with good, with life, with God, that endowed Jesus with his miraculous power. There is One Mind, which all people...2023-09-1902 min
Ernest Holmes 365365 September 18All Things Are Made Out of Life It is the Spirit that quickeneth. —JOHN 6:63 "How wonderful to realize that from one formless and invisible Substance everything that is visible comes. This invisible essence of things is the spirit of Life Itself. Realizing this spirit at the center of people and things is silent communion with the Divine Presence. There is but one Life. When we recognize life in others it is the life in us that is responding to them. As we unify with this life through people, it automatically unifies with us. As w...2023-09-1801 min
Ernest Holmes 365365 September 17Inspiration, Guidance, and Wisdom Belong to Me Be ye doers of the word. —JAMES 1:22 "Through Divine Intelligence I become an outstanding individual. The fullness of experience is mine. I have no fear of taking the initiative. I do not limit the possibility of my future to anything that has happened in the past. I realize that I exist at the standpoint of limitless opportunity for self-expression. I am a center of consciousness in life. I am myself, an individual, a person, a reality. I am one with life, one with people, and one with...2023-09-1701 min
Ernest Holmes 365365 September 14I Recognize Physical Perfection as My Divine Birthright Wither shall I flee from thy presence? —PSALM 139:7 "There is One Life, that Life is God, that Life is my life now. It is only when we live affirmatively that we can be happy. It is only as we seek the good that we can find it. It is only as we mentally align our consciousness with abundance that it can seek us out. We have been told to behold the face of God forevermore in everything. Now we know that we do not really see God...2023-09-1401 min
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