Insights & Inspiration

A few lines of text, a poem, a phrase– when we’re on the path of spiritual awakening, sometimes that’s all it takes to spark a realization that broadens our perspective, and illuminates our journey.

The wisdom-keepers who have contributed to our collective awakening come from various spiritual traditions, all walks of life, and every era in history.

What they have in common is the transformative ability to get to the heart of topics such as love, forgiveness, growth, grace, surrender, and healing. These are a few insights from Ernest Holmes about the power of our thoughts, and affirmative prayer:

-The mind is a magnet and we attract that with which we identify the self. In order to get the most out of life we must learn consciously to change many of our habitual thought patterns. This is not easy, for our old thought patterns cling to us with great tenacity, but, being thought patterns, they can be reversed. If you are filled with fear, refill yourself with faith, for faith always overcomes fear.

-There is a Power around you that knows and that understands all things. This Power works like the soil; it receives the seed of your thought and at once begins to operate upon it. It will receive whatever you give to it and will create for you and throw back at you whatever you think into it.

-Drop all negative thoughts from the mind. Do not dwell on adversity but think plenty into everything, for there is power in the word. Meditate on the things you are doing as being already done – complete and perfect.

-I cleanse the windows of my mind, that it may become a mirror reflecting inspiration from the most High. I do this, not with strenuous effort, but through quiet contemplation, through gently reaching and affirming an inward recognition.

(Affirmative Prayer) I KNOW there is a Power for good which is responding to me and bringing into my experience everything that is necessary to my unfoldment, to my happiness, to my peace, to my health, and to my success. I know there is a Power for good that enables me to help others and to bless the whole world.

So I say quietly to myself: There is one life, that life is God, that life is perfect, that life is my life now. It is flowing through me, circulating in me. I am one with Its rhythm. My heart beats with the pulsation of the Universe, in serenity, in peace, and in joy. My whole physical being is animated by the Divine Spirit, and if there is anything in it that does not belong, it is cast out because there is One Perfect Life in me now.

And I say to myself: I am daily guided so that I shall know what to do under every circumstance, in every situation. Divine Intelligence guides me in love, in joy, and in complete self-expression. Desiring that the Law of Good alone shall control me, I bless and prosper everything I am doing; I multiply every activity; I accept and expect happiness and complete success.

Realizing that I am one with all people, I affirm that there is a silent Power flowing through me and them, which blesses and heals and prospers, makes happy and glad their pathway.

And realizing that the world is made up of people like myself, I bless the world and affirm that it shall come under the Divine government of Good, under the Divine providence of Love, and under the Divine leadership of the Supreme Intelligence. For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever.”

-True philosophy and true science will someday meet on a common basis; and, working together, will give to the world a theology of reality. Then, indeed, will “God go forth anew into Creation.”