Friday, September 25, 2015


“ Lift up thine eyes round about, and see …”
— Isaiah 60:4
King James Version of the Bible

from GOD THINGS
God — Our Life-Force … p. 29

Be still for a moment, quiet your mind and visualize the small bright light within you. What you are seeing is life itself, that which Jesus, in the Gospel of Mary(1), calls the Good. We have come to know this spiritual life-force as God.

Goodness, which is the human manifestation of the Good, is the defining characteristic of life. It is our own misfortune and that of others, midst the vagaries of life, that we sometimes lose sight of our own goodness. Thus do we cause a disconnect from the Good, giving rise to personal unhappiness, mental disquiet and ofttimes a desperate search for life’s meaning.

Despite having lost our sense of the Good, we can reclaim control of our life by focusing our thoughts on our own goodness and that of others. Thought, in turn, becomes deed. Egotism, the bane of life, gives way to unselfishness and humility. Our whole being is stilled and suffused with love. We come to know and to live a wondrously spiritual reawakening: one that is never to leave us.
— Garry D. Kilbourn
(1)Papyrus fragments of the Gospel of Mary were found in Egypt in 1896, having been lost for some fifteen hundred years.

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