The brain is regarded as the most complex anatomical structure in the human body that executes various functions. The concept of wholeness or oneness refers to not only humans, but also all of creation. Similarly, consciousness may not wholly exist inside the human brain. One consciousness could permeate the whole Universe as limitless energy; thus, … Continue reading
Whatever He Did, He Did So People Would Love Him
Some people are so easily tempted to lie a little, to cheat a little, to steal a little, or to bear false witness—just a little. You cannot commit a little sin without being subject to the consequences. If you tolerate a little sin today, you tolerate a little more tomorrow, and before long, a cord … Continue reading
Set Goals and Work to Achieve them!
The purpose of this lesson here on Earth is to inspire of to set goals and work to achieve them. A goal is a standard, a skill, an ideal, or a destination that is to be achieved. When we decide to accomplish a particular thing, we set a goal. Some goals, such as cleaning the … Continue reading
Movement is Unsafe at Any Speed
The Saviour will not tolerate abuse, and as His disciples, neither can we. However, tragically, there are some communities determined to abuse others. If a man becomes cold, pitiless, impenetrable, if he sets himself altogether apart from the life and feelings of other men, if he is dead to the claims of music and the … Continue reading
Foreign Policy is Totally Foreign to the American Myth
Open debate is our strongest tool in standing up to extremism. The far more dangerous avenue is to force extremist ideas underground, where they can fester without competition. All extremists, whether in politics or theology, are found of propounding either false or artificial dilemmas. Either you are an X-ist or a Y-ist, they assert. That … Continue reading
Its Weapon is Easily Recognized
Times have changed. Uninformed assumptions, illogical accusations, and outright lies are passed around as truth. Being blames in a hostile spirit is not the same as being criticized in a friendly constructive one. Yet over-sensitive egocentric persons usually act as if it were! What are we to do? As disciples who strive to “stand as … Continue reading
The Evil You Have Done Me is Too Great
The true American Christian harbours only goodwill towards one who chooses to be his enemy, together with good wishes for the other’s well-being, and for his coming closer to the higher self, hence closer to the truth. To serve humanity is in the end to serve yourself. This follows from the working of God’s law. … Continue reading
The Poet Chooses the Apocalypse and Destruction
One of the most cunning aspects of the adversary’s efforts to thwart our Father in Heaven’s plan of happiness is his deceitful teaching that there s no evil influence or devil and this attempt to redefine evil as good and good as evil, darkness as light and light as darkness, and bitter as sweet and … Continue reading
The Largest Activity in the World is Criticism
So many are so quick to think ill of others, to spread calumny and give out malicious gossip, that the man who reverses this debased trend minds his own business is coming closer to spirituality than he perhaps knows himself. What historian has complete and true information on any past event or obscure personage when … Continue reading
Western Fever!
Some well-meaning moralists who say that the disciple should no longer look for the evil in others swing to the other extreme and say that he should look only for the good. Philosophy, however, does not endorse either point of view, except to remark that we have no business to judge those who are weaker … Continue reading