“Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.”
~ Napoleon Hill, Think and Grow Rich ~
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“When we speak of “the Whole,” we are speaking of God. Man’s self-knowing mind is his perception of Reality. It is his Unity with the Whole, or God, on the conscious side of life, and is an absolute guarantee that he is a Center of God-Consciousness in the Vast Whole.”
~ Ernest Holmes, The Science of Mind, p. 645.5 ~
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“But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control.”
~ The Apostle Paul, Galatians 5:22-23 ~
The state of wholeness in the spiritual sense that Ernest Holmes is referencing in the above quote is a complete realization of what it means to be the image and likeness of God. In this state of mind, the eternal nature of The Divine is reflected in the character of human experience as described by the Apostle Paul in the above scripture quote. When our faith is based on that which we have deduced must be true, there is a tendency to align ourselves with what we say, and in turn, bear witness to the perfect law that Napoleon Hill references in the above quote.
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When we recognize that the nature of Life is pure potential with unlimited possibilities stretched before us, we may begin to affirm, “I am whole, complete, and perfect.” This is an awesome practice that ignites the Law of Good that always responds by corresponding with what we actually believe and accept about the words of truth we speak.
Therefore, unless one is grounded and anchored in the far-reaching implication of the statement, the words may soon become rote; and while beautiful, nonetheless a thoughtless saying, much like Thurman’s analogy of a seed upon the wind.
On the one hand Thurman says, “Man (and woman) without a consciousness of his oneness with God is like a seed upon the wind. He is without faith in the power of his word. He is a victim of the currents of life that carry him where they will with a bland un-mindfulness of purposes and ends which belong to him as a living, thinking, feeling creature. On the other hand, “. . . there is a sense in which a man ‘with’ God is a seed upon the wind, i.e., the man who has made the primary surrender, the commitment, the yielding to God at the core of his being. He is one who has relaxed his will to exercise and hold firm the initiative over his own life.”
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It behooves each one of us to become still and ask ourselves the meaning of the words we speak and affirm. We must continue to affirm the truth until there is an inner conviction that transcends our intellectual understanding and reveals to us that the Presence and Power of God is the wholeness that I AM. It is in this consciousness we become amenable to the Perfect Health that I AM; the Perfect Supply that I AM; the Perfect Relationships that I AM; the Perfect Wisdom that I AM. Yes, the Great I AM that I AM lacks nothing. I AM Whole, Complete, and Perfect!
We can each claim our divine inheritance right now by aligning ourselves with what we believe is the nature of God and accepting the particular good we seek to experience.
“I am endowed with the perfection of God.”
~ 365 Science of Mind, p. 211 ~
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