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Reply To: Pray in Spirit

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August 4, 2018 at 9:28 am #7018

Gary

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“For to allow mortal self to express itself is to smudge or besmear the transparency that God created me to be.”

As we realize that we are nothing more nor less than God expressing Himself, we can and will discipline our thought to listen carefully to what He is telling us, and then follow that “commandment.” There is nothing human in this way of life, for the highest expression of Love and Principle to our brethren is a divine impulsion, not human will. This is the discipline of thought that we all must work for if we are to worship God in spirit and in truth. This is where a good practitioner can help us, by spotting pride, or animosity, or “mere personal attachment” in our thought, all of which “smudge or besmear the transparency that God created me to be.”

Thank you for this post.