THE WISDOM OF SCIENCE OF MIND
My mind contains some part of the Mind of God; therefore I can expand it and express it with unlimited possibilities.
To understand my true relationship to God, I must have a greater understanding OF God. I have volition; I have will; I have choice and I can accept the ideas that come to me or I can reject them.
When I enter into peace of mind, which this Spirit is, I become peaceful. There is no beginning of Spirit and there is no end to It. Spirit is Eternal.
Ernest Holmes states, "The Spirit is the only Conscious Intelligence in the Universe. Therefore It is the only Directive Intelligence in the Universe." I can accept these two statements or I can reject them. The more I reject them the more stagnation it causes, but the more I accept and seek to understand these two statements, it is like opening the door to a mansion and finding a home that is so big that it will take months for me to enter each room and live my life there.
I will then come to realize that my mind and the Mind of God is the same Mind. Therefore, the Thoughts of God and my thoughts are the same Thoughts. Whatever I think, God thought it first through me according to my understanding. This makes me an individual unit through which God, or Spirit can express Itself.
No one else can express God the way I express God and no one else can express God the way you express God. That is what makes each of us an individual. It is futile and useless to try to imitate another! It is actually, suicide. This is the same for a city, a town, a metropolis, a country or a nation. Each has its own individual expression.
If you do not know who you are, try this statement for a few days, weeks or months: Show me how to be the best individual I can be. Listen to the answers and allow them to come forth, for surely they will not be like anything you are thinking they ought to be.
Have you ever seen a chair try to be a table? We try to make chairs out of tables by sitting on them, but eventually we come to understand that it is a table and not a chair. Some of us try to make footstools out of sofa arms, but soon we realize that too cannot be. Each thing, each person, each city has its own individual expression. It is only the conscious mind that we have to give great thought and understanding. The rest is what it is.
We dwell upon things that are of little importance, such as, how old we are, or we look old, how to change our body, controlling another-none of these things are important. I heard an old cowboy express my feelings so succinctly when they wanted to celebrate his birthday. He thinks the way I think. He gives no recognition to his age, so he does not tell anyone how old he is because he does not want them to give recognition to his age either. How beautiful!
There are those, however, who will try to make you realize the number of years you have accumulated. Age is nothing! But if you think so, that is tragic!
I thought, perhaps, I was a little nutty, but I see that I am perfectly normal. You see the world has ideas about what you are to do at a certain given accumulated year, how you are to wear your hair, what kind of clothes you should wear, what you are supposed to look like and a whole lot of other ideas. The world gives no thought to what you may want to do, how you want to look and what God has in store for you. How sad!
We come to this plane of existence for a certain "soul" experience, but none of us know exactly what that experience is supposed to be. If we try and interfere and tell or control another, then we may cause the soul of that individual to miss out on what it wants to experience. If an individual gives himself/herself to God, do you not understand that God will keep the intelligence He has given that individual and the individual poised? Do you not understand that God will guide that individual? This is power possessed.
Control says something is not right with me in the way I think or operate in the world or I do not have the courage and strength to make changes. Therefore, I must get as many people as I can to look the way I think they should look, be what I think that should be and act the way I think they should act. Know that we cannot be God to another individual. We must leave that job to our Heavenly Father. He is so wise, so intelligent and so knowledgeable. There is no way to out think God.