How Unity Got a Transcendent God

 Hi Friends,

This is a great post on the Truth Unity Website:

That metaphysical Christians experience God as immanent (the God within which we refer to as the Christ) is well understood. What is not so obvious is our experience of the transcendent God (a God in which we live and move and have our being). Does such a God exist? If so, is the transcendent God comprehensible to us? If a transcendent God exists and is comprehensible, is such a God personally involved in my life? Does He or She care? Or is It impersonal Principle?

This 90 minute talk given in 1984 by Phil White explains why we have his ambiguity in Unity today. Phil explains and compares the basic belief of Phineas Quimby, “change your thoughts and you change your life” and the basic belief of Mary Baker Eddy, “Divine Mind and its ideas lead to expression”.Read More>>>>>

May every word you speak float down like a rose petal.

May every step you take tinkle like a silver bell. May every thought in your mind become a star in heaven. May everything you touch become flowers and fruits. May you be Infinity's infant and suckle on Her sun-breast. May sunbeam and moonbeam be the twin ropes for your soul's swing. May every word you speak float down like a rose petal. (Blessings, pages 26) by Swami Veda Bharati

Blessings

 

May He cast you in His own image. May you know your scriptures by heart, not by mind alone. May your capacities continue to grow. May the Sun be your own honeycomb. May you give, never needing to ask. May your life be your immortal work of art. May you not pick up the desires of others as your own. (Blessings, page 64)

Aspirations

 

"Aspiration #7" by Swami Veda Bharati

Would you rather be little or would you choose to be large? Would you rather have only the twinkle of your eye or would you rather have the sun? Would you rather only dwell in that sound which the limited space of your ear can grasp or would you choose to be the entire space in which all sounds become one OM? -- -- that one OM from which all the other sounds then diversify and become many. (From Bindu.org, Offerings:Inspirations, circa 2000/2001)

Set aside time each day for prayer.

 Begin your quiet time by relaxing your body

opening your mind to an awareness of God.

Breathe Deeply, 

knowing that you are in the presence of God and 

The presence of God is within you.

Let go of your concerns and

know that all is well.

Love The highest of all....

 When one's whole being is saturated with the idea of love from head to foot, then every pore of the body becomes alive to cosmic consciousness...

The highest of all religions and all practices is love.

-H.H.S. Swami Rama-

(The Ancient Traveler Writings on Love, pages 70-71)

 

“The prime means to end the dysfunctional dynamics of the human family is to introduce a change in all minds through an education that instills a sense of peace, so that the basic urge and peace may find its fullest expression and satisfaction.”

 Swami Veda Bharati, (The Human Urge for Peace), P. 121

I Pray for Your Healing

A large number of the letters that come to Silent Unity include requests for prayers for others. Often the one requesting prayers says:  "Help me to pray for my dear one. Tell me how to pray for him, how to help him." We in  Silent  Unity  feel that  the following  meditations  will  be   helpful   to you  if  you  are  praying for someone else. They  will  help you to  lift  up your thoughts  about  the  one   for  whom you pray;  they will help you   to  realize the Truth about him.

When you   pray for another you  give him the greatest gift you have to give; and the wonderful thing about praying for someone else is that you cannot pray for another without feeling the blessing and   the good   effect of your prayers for   him  in  your own  heart, mind, and life.

I pray for your healing.

You are created in the image and likeness of God.  His life and health flow through every part of   your being. His vital energy is in every cell. His order blesses every function of your body. His breath is the breath of your life.

Whenever I think about you,   I see you as whole and   perfect. I give thanks that appearances are   not the Truth in God's sight. I give thanks that all things are possible with God. I give thanks that you are a spiritual being, that your life is "hid with Christ in God," that in Him you live and love and have your being.

As I pray for  you in  faith  and  in Truth,  I  feel a  great surge  of   healing life through my  own  being. I know that this life in which we live is omnipresent. I know that you are healed. Praise God!

Prosperity is a State of Mind

Fr John Main OSB, “Religious Love,”

Fr John Main OSB, “Religious Love,” THE WAY OF UNKNOWING (New York: Crossroad, 1990), pp. 115-116.

By opening our hearts to love at the deepest and most silent level of our being, we are not repressing human knowledge or rejecting human values or relationships. On the contrary, all of these are enlightened; that is, we see them in a new light, in a transcendent light. We see a new light in them. The extraordinary thing about the Christian message is that this light is not less than the light of Christ, the light who is Christ. The call to us to enter this light is for each of us to know from our own experience. . . .that Christ’s light shines in our hearts and that the first task of our life is to be open to it, to be bathed in it, to be made whole in it and so see with it. [. . . .] Meditation is our journey to that light. 

Merger

Below is a beautiful poem written by Swami Veda Bharati, with a story from Paul Emerson:

When my father died in 2006 Swami Veda gifted me with the following poem. With my mother's recent passing on Friday and Swami Veda's own passing this Monday it seems an especially appropriate sentiment.

 

Merger

 

The breath becomes one

With all the fragrant breezes,
One's little earth joins the vast expanse.
Prana merges into lightning,
The eyes now dwell in the core of the sun.
Boundaries have been demolished
And the soul is no longer held fast, fettered.
The being now takes a walk in open cosmic fields,
A flight through obstacle-free skies.

Those who are left behind
Yet confined within the boundaries of tangibles;
Not knowing the pleasure of subtle intangibles,
Irrigate the fields of the past with liquid pearls.
But the one who has flown
Is now planting fresh crops into the fields of his future.

Do not bind him to your fetters now.
Rejoice if you cannot in his freedom,
Cherish the paths traversed through the flourishing greens,
Claim no more his future harvest.
He paid all his debts before leaving,
Now claim him no more.

May the flowers of his wisdom
Remain a treasure in your mind vase.
May your wisdom guide your ever flowing sentiment
Into an ocean-ward channel,
Into a God-ward flowing stream.

I remain centered in the peace of God. 25th Day of Lent

Are you willing to give up your enemies?

25th Day of Lent
Wednesday, March 18, 2015
Nonresistance
By Elise Cowan

Regardless of outer circumstances,

I remain centered in the peace of God.

Sometimes things don’t go the way we would like them to
go. We may feel we have been treated rudely, unkindly, or
unfairly. Yet despite outer conditions, we can choose to stay
centered in the love of God. When we do, peace permeates
our very being.

In Matthew 5:43-45, Jesus taught we are not to question
someone’s motive but to love them without judgment. “You
have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and
hate your enemy.’ But I say to you, Love your enemies and
pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be children
of your Father in heaven.” What happens when we love our
enemies? We no longer have enemies! When we practice
nonresistance, we allow the kingdom

A Christmas Blessing

We hope to see you at our Christmas Eve Candlelight Service 7:30 pm @ 38 Old Country Road Garden City NY 11530.

A Unity Christmas Blessing

We bless you at Christmas with a merry heart, a heart that sings its own songs of gladness, a heart that catches the rhythm of life, a heart that is lifted, a heart that lifts up all other hearts.

We bless you at Christmas with perfect health. God is your life; in Him you live. His strength flows in you renewing, restoring, and making whole every part of you. God bless you at Christmas with perfect health. God heals you now.

We bless you at Christmas with supply. What are your needs? God is the answer. God is your supply at Christmas time. He enriches your thoughts; he prospers your affairs… Christmas is a rich season, a giving season, a receiving season. God bless you at Christmas with supply; God fill your life full to overflowing with all good things.

We bless you at Christmas with a loving spirit. With every gift you give, with everything you do to make Christmas a happy time, give the greatest gift of all you can give love.

You have a wealth of love from which to give, a view of God's own love within your heart. God's love cannot be depleted. It increases with use, God bless you at Christmas with the loving spirit that reaches out and blesses all family, friends, salespersons, bus drivers, everyone along your way.

We bless you at Christmas with fulfillment of your heart’s desire. What is the desire of your heart? Your true heart's desire is to be completely whole, a completely happy person. Your true heart's desire is to be free, to be wise, to be loving, to be understanding.

Your true heart's desire is to have a feeling of belonging, of being needed, of being worthy, of being loved. Your true heart's desire is to be as God created you a perfect spiritual being.

God bless you with the courage and the faith to be the radiant being God revealed to you as his beloved child.

We bless you at Christmas.

 We behold the Christ in you!

John, Suzanne, 

and your Friends at Unity Long Island

Don't Believe Every Stupid thought you have.

Do you believe everything you tell yourself?

Well you don't have to.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving! enjoy th music https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aGTDvmNB-4&sns=em

Happy Halloween! Let your light shine!

Happy Halloween!

Let your light Shine!

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Connecting with Spirituality, Karen Berg

 I received this from Karen Berg of the Kabballah Center and thought it was a good thing for all of us to remember.

In Unity

John

Connecting with Spirituality

Friday August 15, 2014

In this world, people are judged by race, money, status, religion, and a thousand other criteria that society imposes on us. As spiritual human beings, however, we need to push ourselves to have a different consciousness.

Spirituality is believing that everyone has the right to draw spiritual energy and to bring that energy into their lives and the lives of others. Spirituality is understanding that the Light force of the Creator transcends the physical world. Spirituality is realizing that the Light exists in each and every one of us. Spirituality is about caring for the welfare of others and not just looking out for ourselves. 

When this is our consciousness, we can arrive at a place where we have a sense of unity with our neighbor and the blessing of Light in our lives and in the world.

The Wonderful Spirit That Is In You.

"Something in you knows that you are greater than anything you have yet experienced or expressed. This inner knowing, this feeling of potential greatness, is the spirit of God in you trying to break through. It is like sunlight that may be temporarily hidden behind clouds; but the clouds cannot take away the light. Nothing can erase or lessen the bright, glorious, wonderful spirit that is in you."

Martha Smock

Jesus The Craftsman..

From the series "Ten Things to Know about Jesus," from CatholicTV: Jesus worked. Important to remember since it's so often forgotten. Video Here

Stories of Freedom...Celebrate and appreciate your Freedom!