The Secret Place

Ernest Holmes

The Science of Mind teaches us to look for good instead of evil, to praise and not condemn, to bless and curse not, to live each day as though Spirit were guiding us, and to have a firm conviction that we are counseled by divine wisdom and protected by infinite love. We should at all times sense this overshadowing presence and have implicit confidence in its direction.

No matter what the doubts and fears of yesterday were, the affirmations of today may rise triumphant over them. If we persist in seeing beauty, beauty will appear. Let us no longer weep over the mistakes of yesterday. This is futile. We must learn to forgive ourselves even as we forgive others. Let us remember that "each day is a fresh beginning, each day is the world made new." It makes no difference how unhappy or fearful we may have been in the past; today presents itself with a new opportunity, today we may start life afresh. Thus hope overcomes despair, faith vanquishes fear, and defeat is swallowed up in victory.

Let us dare to plunge into this invisible stream of life-to bathe in its waters. Let us resolve to put aside the cares and worries that have fretted us. Let us seek the solace, comfort, and peace of communion with the Over-Soul-the conscious union of our mind with the mind of the universe. Peace, poise, and consciousness of power in right action come only through a conscious use of partnership with the Eternal. The secret place of the most high is not a location, but a state of thought, an interior awareness, a spiritual faith.

Is it so difficult to believe in good instead of evil, to have faith in victory rather than fear of defeat? What if our problems are great, individually and collectively-is there not One greater than all these difficulties? Truly the secret place of the Most High is wherever our faith rivets its attention with assurance, wherever our conviction sees through that which denies the reign of right. Let us open up an ever-widening channel for this divine influx, and remaining calm in the midst of the storm, let us go forward to the greater good.

Ernest Holmes is known worldwide as the founder of Religious Science and is the author of This Thing Called Life, from which this is taken.

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