The Daily Guides have always been a beloved section of this publication. Each month, new spiritual guidance is imparted by members of the Centers for Spiritual Living communities. It’s lifelong insight you can’t find anywhere but Guide for Spiritual Living: Science of Mind magazine.

Each day brings two quotes from various wisdom teachers, a personal guide from the author’s life and a powerful affirmation. This daily inspiration has impacted generations of readers.

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The Gift of Receiving

Affirmation: There is a sacred light that shines within me, and this light enables me to illuminate the world.

It appeared in the distance, like a small light, faintly shining in the outskirts of my mind. This small light flickered but never extinguished. In the outer recesses of my consciousness, it remained, at times burning brighter, seeking to get my attention. In prayer it would become more obvious. In meditations, it seemed as if it were seeking to share something with me.

As I began to shift my focus and mental attention toward it, this light that was once in the distance slowly started to grow. Eventually, that once small light became part of my awareness and started to guide me on my journey.

What was that metaphorical light that once was but a minute glimmer dwelling in the outer realms of my mind? It was the light of spiritual truth that has been with me always, awaiting my discovery and uncovering of it. What truth am I speaking of? The truth that I am the I Am; the truth that we are connected to the sacred sun, the holy planet and the universal energy that enables all things to be.

When we focus our awareness on it, this light helps everything shine brighter. Today, let’s rise in consciousness.

Quotes

The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness.
— Lao Tzu
Cosmic consciousness is not a mystery; it is the Self-knowingness of God through the individual.
— Ernest Holmes, “The Science of Mind,” page 343

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What About Alzheimer’s Disease From a Religious Science Perspective?

For decades, our readers have turned to Jesse Jennings for answers to the tough questions about Religious Science.
Here is an example of how Jennings meets readers with compassion, wisdom and Truth:

QUESTION:

Some spiritual teachers assign specific mental causes to physical conditions. Two close family members have been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease. What might be the cause?

ANSWER:

I am knowing for you strength and peace as you care for your relatives while they are experiencing this, and I’m sure anyone reading this is also sending you a silent blessing.

You are never alone. I’m sure you know about support groups for families and similar resources, but I also mean you are invisibly, intangibly supported by Spirit (as are they).

Assigning specific causes to conditions is not a practice I recommend. No matter how much experience we have in metaphysical service, none of us knows why anybody else’s reality appears the way it does.

It’s a life’s work just to know why we ourselves manifest particular outcomes. Arriving at how another person caused — or worse, invited — some disease is not comforting to us and can be truly shaming to them.

It is human to speculate, provided our speculations are kindly, but seldom if ever do we get to know.

I wish I could tell you how to cure your loved ones, but instead I’ll offer this about holding the situation in light. Both are expressing life unconventionally, perhaps now forgetful and uncommunicative, but they have not vanished, nor will they.

They are still conscious beings, still at the center of the universe. Where exactly their attention now is, we cannot fathom. Perhaps it has wandered off into the realm it will next inhabit — that after spending a while in space and time, these souls are being drawn into their place of origin, which is beyond both space and time.

Mind, being infinite, cannot withdraw from any part of Itself. Yet our personality, always at choice deep inside, can lead us to process information and express ourselves differently than we ever did.

Again, may I say that you are not alone. Prayer works. Some corner is always turned by going into prayer and realizing that a power greater than any condition is at work.

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Happiness Cards: Little Works of Art to Share »

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In her 80s, photographer Connie Fledderjohann decided that C.S. Lewis was on to something when he wrote, “You are never too old to set a new goal or dream a new dream.” Using her passion and talent for photography, she launched a new business to spread happiness like rose petals across the world.

Her love of flowers started the vision. Fledderjohann had captured floral magnificence over the years and wanted to share it in some meaningful way to bring more light and love to the planet.

Happiness Cards were invented when she decided to make tiny cards showcasing her photos and perfectly pair them with inspirational quotes. Those at food banks and in hospital waiting rooms were her first audiences. She gave them one at a time to store clerks and tucked them into bills she was paying with gratitude. Then her friends started catching on, got excited and encouraged her to sell them.

Now anyone can uplift and inspire with these tiny works of art. You receive 30 different 2″ by 3″ masterpieces in a little box.

With a beautiful floral photo on one side and a carefully selected quote on the other, Happiness Cards are the perfect size to keep on hand and give away spontaneously.

QUOTE ON REVERSE: We can complain because rose bushes have thorns or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses. — Abraham Lincoln

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Release Your Delusions of Control »

Each month, we bring you a prayer rooted in the Truth of all beings. We call it affirmative prayer or affirmative mind treatment.
Feel the deep power of such treatment in this example from Tracy Brown, RScP (Religious Science Practitioner). Brown serves on the Leadership Council for Centers for Spiritual Living.

Joyful Surrender: Release the Delusion of Control

There is an Infinite Intelligence that creates and expands all of Life. This Infinite Intelligence is the Source of all Good and the example of Perfect Wisdom.

It knows exactly what to do, when to do it and who to include in the never-ending expansion of Love and Life.

My life is a product of this Infinite Intelligence and I have been created in Its image. Therefore, immeasurable Intelligence and the deepest Wisdom are already and always within me.

I know that I am fully equipped to handle any and every situation I experience. I refuse to be distracted by doubt, fear, anger or confusion.

I know there is no experience, no person and no action that can block me from the Intelligence within.

I choose, right now, to turn away from old stories and false beliefs. I choose, right now, to drop all illusions and false pretense. I choose to step into the unknown knowing I am guided, guarded and protected by Spirit. I surrender willingly.

I surrender completely.

I know that surrender is not giving up in hopeless despair. Surrender is simply releasing the delusion that I am in control and allowing the Divine to guide my every thought and action.

Surrender is a joyful release knowing I am fully supported and every need is being met.

I surrender to Love that has no boundaries. I surrender to the Wisdom of a Higher Power than never makes mistakes. I surrender into the Life that has no limits.

And with the deepest gratitude for all that is, I take a breath.

I completely release.

And so it is.

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Linda Carroll, Published by New World Library |

In “Love Cycles,” Linda Carroll maps out five stages of love, starting with Merge and, if couples make good choices, ending with Wholehearted Loving. In between are stages of Doubt and Denial, Disillusionment and Decision.

The author offers a quiz to help identify the stage the reader is currently in. For each stage, Carroll offers stories of couples with familiar archetypes and insights about causes of dysfunction and suggests helpful skills for dealing with conflict.

Carroll, however, overstates the nature of these cycles. “[T]hese stages are inevitable rather than a sign that we are with the wrong person.” Viewed through the lens of Religious Science, the idea that any particular life experience is “inevitable” is dubious. Rather, any experience is inescapable only if we believe it is inescapable. Carroll acknowledges that we don’t all move through the steps in one steady line.

She asserts over and over again that developing and nurturing a relationship is hard work and that learning to love another person is difficult. These assertions begin to jump off the page and beg the question, “Exactly what would I manifest in my life if I were to accept these ideas as truth?” Her overarching attitude is that every couple is predestined to this five-step journey through a minefield fraught with insecurity, misunderstandings and repressed emotions.

Although Carroll has undoubtedly counseled those who have gone through the stages she describes, generalizing these cases as an inevitable process underestimates the effect of individual choice and the power of Mind.

 — Nancy Anderson

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Obvious Power: Getting to Know-How »

Harry Morgan Moses (Published by DeVorss & Co.) |

In “Obvious Power,” Harry Morgan Moses offers 25 habitudes — practical advice for applying Religious Science principles to everyday living. He contemplates the full range of human experience from finding the perfect mate to creating abundance to embracing oneness.

Regarding the habitude, “My every success is born from ideas,” Moses writes, “The currency of the invisible is ideas. Each of us becomes the instrument through which the currency of the invisible (ideas) becomes tangible in the world as form. The moment we proclaim, ‘I am,’ we are automatically cocreators in our universe.”

In one chapter, Moses describes spelunking in the Rocky Mountains at age 15 with his father as a metaphor for venturing into the dark, deep, vast unknown of our own consciousness.

“The challenge with exploring the caves of our own consciousness is that there is no one who can tell us what it will look like, what our discoveries might bring or even how our experience might change as the result of any particular new awareness.”

He goes on to ponder how this spiritual exploration changes us. “Isn’t it interesting how … Albert Einstein found his physics becoming philosophy because his continual quest for knowledge not only changed his thinking, but changed the way he thought?”

He concludes, “Exploring the unknown is perhaps the highest level of our soul’s evolution. For when you get to the edge and jump, you will discover that you will either land on your feet or you will fly.” Practicing these habitudes presents steps in a journey of right action.

— Nancy Anderson

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Think Up Tees: Be the Change and Wear It »

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Think Up Tees, an ecommerce division of Think Up branding/marketing consulting, was created by owner Ty Andrews to provide accessible apparel to conscious communities who value awareness and creative self-expression.

Featuring the top-seller “And So It Is” T-shirt (at right), Think Up Tees has over 80 products available in a variety of sizes and styles for women, men, youth and even pets! Express your creativity and spirituality in a different way every day.

 

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