Seeking and Finding

“Prayer is our patient rediscovery of whatever we thought went missing in our lives.” Robin Hoagland

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Mystical Traveler

The work of the Mystical Traveler is Soul Transcendence.

The experience the Mystical Traveler brings to you has to do with Spirit, with God, with pure love that transcends all lower levels and lifts you into Soul -- and then beyond. The experience the Traveler brings to you is Soul Transcendence.

- John-Roger
(From: Timeless Wisdoms, Vol. One, p. 41)

God AND

The entire basis of The Infinite Way teaching is that there is not God AND. There is not God AND health, or God AND strength, or God AND immortality or God AND supply. There is only God manifesting AS. You can take a block of mahogany and out of it make a chair, a table, a bench, but you do not have mahogany AND a chair AND a table AND a bench; you have mahogany - manifested, or expressed AS those pieces of furniture.

Joel Goldsmith

Only One Power

There is only one power and that one is “God, the good, omnipotent”. There is not a power struggle going on between Spirit and matter, Truth and error, good and evil, or God and the devil. There is no tug-or-war. There are no compromises being made, no adjustments in the works, no delegation of responsibilities or authority. God, Truth, holds all the cards, calls all the shots, and makes all the rules.

Real Consciousness

Real consciousness is aware only of the things of God. If God is infinite, He is All-in-all, and if so, what else is there to be aware of? You can only be aware of what is. Everything else is a dream.

“What is prayer but the expansion of yourself into the living ether? Therefore let your visit to that temple invisible be for naught but ecstasy and sweet communion. For if you should enter into that temple for no other reason than asking, you shall not receive. It is enough that you enter into the temple invisible.” Kahlil Gibran

Quote of the Day

“All the parables were intended to illustrate the two principles, truth and error. Truth is the wisdom of God; error is the god of opinions, and the two have no dealing with each other.” Phineas Parkhurst Quimby

You are divine

The power of God is eternally present within you. You are divine, not because the Traveler or anyone else says so but because that is the way God created you.

Don't take my word for it. Discover it for yourself. Enlighten yourself. No one else can do it for you.

- John-Roger

The Way to Happiness and Peace By Jonathan Mathews

The Way to Happiness and Peace
By Jonathan Mathews

I make no decisions by myself. I call on Holy Spirit first. I surrender my will to His, knowing that His will is mine.

I see another’s interest as my own. I see his suffering as my own. I ask for guidance as to how I can be truly helpful.

I do not judge because I’m unable to. I can choose again. I can love everything and everyone the way it is. I cannot be against anything because I haven’t judged it.

When I am seemingly attacked, I ask Holy Spirit to help me see it differently. I instead ask how I can serve the seeming perpetrator. I let go of anger and condemnation.

I stay in integrity. My thoughts, words, and deeds are aligned. What I think and what I say and what I do are not in conflict. I always speak the truth, as I know it. This gives me self respect and self love. In other words, I can always trust myself.

I give over my fears to Holy Spirit. I am not a body. There is nothing to fear. I give up not being good enough. I surrender the fear of death, suffering, lack, and loss. There is no greater illusion than fear. I trust God.

I am kind and generous to everyone and all living things. If I see a need, it is mine to fill.

I am devoted to doing my spiritual work regularly. My life is a prayer and God is always in my mind.

I give selfless service whenever appropriate. I give of my time, talents, and money. I do not ask or expect anything in return, not even recognition. I practice giving anonymously. I give knowing that I give to myself. I cannot out give God.

I give up defensiveness, knowing that I am innocent and a perfect child of God. I choose to join with my brother instead. I listen carefully to the criticisms of others and ask Holy Spirit for the truth. I don’t make him wrong, even in my mind. I would rather be happy than “right”.

I pay attention to my thoughts and beliefs, for they create my reality. I take full responsibility (not blame) for what I have created, knowing that I can choose different beliefs and thoughts. I think only about what I like and want, not what I don’t want, so that I can manifest appropriately. I give up beliefs that no longer serve me.
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I give up my stories that keep me imprisoned. I am not my stories of the past. I can live in the now, where God is. I accept God’s grace instead of suffering. Without my stories I can move effortlessly through life. I no longer think my stories are who I am!

I replace illusions (the world) for love (God). I give up chasing people, pleasure, power, and things. I surrender any need for respect, approval, and support. I choose instead to focus on the joy of who I am. I am what I have been looking for!

I let go of control, desires, attachments, and outcomes. This is big! I can choose what is instead. I give up thinking that I can change circumstances or change another so I can be happy. It has nothing to do with my happiness. I can allow my body be as it is, knowing that it is perfect for my path through life. I accept its size, shape, and state of health. I am happy because I am aware of, and extending, the love that I am. I give all outcomes to God.

I can forgive myself and my perceived perpetrators. I can know and see our innocence. I forgive my beliefs and projections that wrong thinking created. There are no perpetrators and no victims. In truth there is only love. I can see attacks for what they are, a call for love and nothing more.

I am in a constant state of gratitude because gratitude will undue the ego. I cannot be in gratitude and simultaneously suffer. When conflicted with another, I can use appreciation to replace judgment. I find more and more to be thankful for. I am grateful even when circumstances are difficult because I can never know the whole picture. I trust God impeccably.

I give up duality. There is only good and that is God who is in everything and everyone. Anything else is in my mind and is not true. I have given everything its meaning; otherwise it is neutral, not good or bad. I can live in this world, but not be of it.

I let go of the world’s views concerning security. I truly know that there is no security in this world! No kind of money, insurance, medicine, doctors, or any other kind of protection is of value to me. I am not attached to keeping this body alive. I only trust and rely on God, my source. I am free.

I can die to the ego. This is what it means to be born again. I can let go of the ego that thinks it needs something and instead rely on Holy Spirit, that part of me that is complete, wise, and loving. I am not the ego, I am free and I open my mind to all possibilities.
Do any one of these exercises for 30 days and your life will change, guaranteed!

Divine Love

It is a saving Principle that we look to, to save us—not a person. Just as the principle of mathematics, when followed, brings a correct result, so will the principle of metaphysics—reliably, consistently, always. That principle is Love. It is always healing, always correcting, always renewing. It is always establishing and unfolding good. We can count on it to meet our every need.

Love is free of personal sense. It neither has a personal, selfish point of view, nor does it identify a personal problem with God’s children.

Love never brings us discouragement and expression, but leads us through the door of Truth into It’s arms. Love is our true Mother—tending, cherishing, protecting and loving us. Love holds nothing back from us—It is not withholding healing or comfort from us. It is not withholding hope and encouragement. It is not withholding faith and understanding. Love is setting our table and that table is full. Love is filling our cup and that cup is running over.

Divine Love continually supplies us with all good—with beautiful images of thought, encouraging and uplifting feelings, the perfect idea of all things. Love promises that our every human need will be met. Love is always giving us everything we need to bring us closer to God, closer to our healing, closer to our good.

My Thought For the Day

I am awesome and wonderful—God’s image and likeness, and all that I am is what God thinks of me!

New Song: I’m Open!

I possess an open, enquiring state of thought and I am open to admit the light! This song was an early morning gift.

I’m open, open to the light of God, open to the light of God
I’m open to the light, open to the light of God
Let Your light shine down
Let it shine all around
Let Your light shine down on me

I’m open, open to the Truth of God, open to the Truth of God
I’m open to the Truth, open to the Truth of God
Let Your Truth be found
Be found all around
Let Your Truth be found in me

I’m open, open to the Life of God…

I’m open, open to the Love of God…

I’m open, open to the Mind of God…

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Free Metaphysical Lecture

What is Christian Science? Why do people practice it today? How does it work? There's a free lecture at the Christian Science Church this Saturday (February 6th) at 11am. If you have an interest in the Truth teachings of Unity, I'm sure you will enjoy discovering a "new thought" on how to practice metaphysics. Child care will be provided. The church is located at 3622 Kingston Pike in Knoxville.

Because God Is Love

• I am loving and my life is filled with loveliness
• I am kind and receive kindness
• I am considerate of others, and others are considerate of me
• I can trust life to bring me nothing but good
• There is a purpose and plan for my life
• My good is inexhaustible
• All my needs are being met
• Every situation can be redeemed

A gift to ourselves

All we have is a gift to ourselves from our own observer.
We are one with all through our connection to our God (Good). Being aware of the one mind as it moves through Now! As we are asked to be here now and watch. We experience now and our reaction to that experience is what creates our tomorrow. So today is the gift we give ourselves through knowing our God ( Good). Paul tells us Think on those things which are good.
All disease and pain is part of that gift, we have given ourselves, surprise, to help us to learn what not to do, in order to live in Peace and happiness. Forgive (to change our thinking, to go back to before the cause of the pain) ourself all things and the disease will dissolve.

What Gets Sick?

Your body does not get sick and tell your mind about it. Your mind gets sick through wrong thinking and tells your body about it. "Everything in the manifest realm has its beginning in thought."

I never say, "Oh, God, take this away from me." My prayer is always, "Oh, God, give me the strength and the wisdom to utilize this." And He always has. I do not look for a way out. I look for a way over, around, through, under. It also came to me to ask myself about each situation in my life, "How do I use this? What is it for?" As I looked back at my trials and tribulations, I saw that each one had strengthened me for the next one. They strengthened me in the personality -- not spiritually, but the Spirit came through the personality stronger and stronger and stronger as I gave it up to a higher and higher force.

One day I just said, "You do it, God. I don't know how." That was not copping out; it was going to the source of all things and utilizing it instead of going to the source of my own ignorance and trying to utilize that. I suffered in my own ignorance, so I went to God and became blissful. I never lost one thing. If I had to do it all over again, I would go there faster.
- John-Roger

I found this also to be so very true in my case as well. Hope this is an inspiration to all others and a good tool for use in tough times for you as well.

A Mental Universe

This is a mental universe made by mind through thought. The objective universe is completely mental. Without mind there would be no ability to think or reason. Without it there would be no consciousness or life. Mind then must be Spirit and substance, for everything is made from it. Without it was not anything made that was made. All is mind and mind’s manifestation.

There is no mortal mind—i.e., no non-creative mind, and there are no idle, unimportant thoughts. Every thought is a seed dropped into fertile soil, and if nurtured, it will bear fruit for good or ill, whether ease or dis-ease, love or fear, peace or inharmony.

In this world

In this world, we all know how difficult it can be to just be ourselves, to own our experience, to be relaxed in who we are, and to not be fearful about our life.

 Spiritually, when we behold who we are, we realize that there is nothing that can happen to us, bodily or elsewhere in the world. Then we will release our fear.

The Truth Will Set You Free

What if you sincerely believe that 2+2=5? You will not make progress until you correct your error, and will continue to make mistakes until you do. Every time you come to 2+2 in a problem, your mind will automatically go to 5 without even thinking, and believing your wrong thought, you will not associate your mistake with the cause of it. You will develop an attitude which says, "Into each life some rain must fall" or "Stuff happens". You will begin to see life as a crap-shoot where things happen arbitrarily. You will develop a sense of vulnerability and begin to say things like—"Disease happens", or "I can lose everything I’ve got if the economy goes bad", or "It can happen to anybody." Does that sound familiar?

The Truth of God will set you free from your predicament. Right thinking will correct your mistakes. Understanding will heal you, life will begin to make sense again, and harmony will be established in your world.

highest level of creativity

The highest level of creativity consists in being, not doing.
When the being is intense enough, when the words are
spoken enough, when the thoughts are thought enough,
the doing will automatically follow.

—Marianne Williamson

The journey to the true self

The journey to the true self will take you through your body, imagination, emotions, mind, and unconscious because these are the conditions of the human experience. Take a moment now to observe yourself. You may feel out of balance, your mind may be jumping around, but you can still observe yourself. Your inner observer will not be waving a flag to get your attention, but if you are still and aware and present, you will sense its presence.

What if that which is aware -- your inner observer -- is God? How ironic to think that we are running around looking for Spirit, for God, and all the while God is inside us, looking at us looking for Him. A lot of us think that if God were present, there would be more going on, golden chariots or a choir of angels. We look for something phenomenal, something that will make us feel special. But maybe God is present in the ordinary act of observing.

- John-Roger

Be kind to all of yourself

The Soul, the Spirit part of you, does not care about what goes on because what happens is just experience, and the Soul sees it in all of its perfection. The part that you need to be kind to is your ego, which comes out of the mind and the emotions. Because the ego is tied to your mind and emotions, if you beat it up, you will feel mentally and emotionally beaten up. So be kind to that part of you, too. 

Then when you go back inside, you will feel the kindness in your emotions and your mind. 

- John-Roger
(From: Fulfilling Your Spiritual Promise, p. 1211)

My new years mantra

It is not necessary to delve into everything in your life and try to figure out where it came from, why it is present, and so on. You do not have to ferret out each example of ego, doubt, lack, fear, or any other expression you see as negative. Instead, in the moment of realizing it, you can accept it, forgive yourself for judging yourself for that expression, and move to loving. When you do that, you flood yourself with the Light and love of your own beingness, and in that loving, all is forgiven.

A Dialog

by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

MORTAL
The world is full of selfishness and greed.
Lord, I would lave its sin.

SPIRIT
Yea, mortal, earth of thy good help has need.
Go cleanse THYSELF within.

MORTAL
Mine ear is hurt by harsh and evil speech.
I would reform men's ways.

SPIRIT
There is but one convincing way to teach.
Speak THOU but words of praise.

MORTAL
On every hand is wretchedness and grief,
Despondency and fear.
Lord, I would give my fellow men relief.

SPIRIT
Be, then, all hope, all cheer.

MORTAL
Lord, I look outward and grow sick at heart,
Such need of change I see.

SPIRIT
Mortal, look IN. Do thy allotted part,
And leave the rest to ME.