The human mind needs, and must have, a direct approach to Spirit. It is natural for us to reach out from our ignorance to Its enlightenment, from our weakness to Its strength, from our darkness to Its light. Somewhere along the line we shall have to surrender our weakness to Its strength, our fear to Its faith, our lack to Its abundance.

Unlimited faith in life

Faith not only lays hold of a power which actually exists, it causes this power to respond as though it were a laws of good operating for you. Why shouldn’t we have an unlimited faith in life? It had intelligence enough to make everything, including ourselves.

And now, because we need it so much, and because we feel we can no longer live without it, we are going to act as though it were right here, responding to us, loving us in spite of our mistakes.

Spirit is the creative cause back of and within everything. God is not a spirit, but the Spirit. This one Spirit is the spirit of all people. A philosophy of unity permits many mentalities, but only one Mind, innumerable individualized points in the creative consciousness of an Absolute which always remains one, undivided and indivisible unity.

Use your spiritual power to create

Humans are an individualized center of Divine Thought and through us the Original Thinker is finding a fresh starting point for Its creative power. Humans, then are given power over their own lives. We cannot alter the laws of nature, but we can alter our relationship to them, that that which has bound us may free us. We have been given the prerogative of spontaneous thinking. We have been given the ability to initiate a new chain of causation. We announce our own activity. This activity is the activity of the Divine Mind operating through us. It is the original creative Cause doing something new through us.

The conscious use of spiritual power is the finest of arts because it has deep feeling. It is the greatest of all intellectual perceptions because it is the most penetrating. It is religious in that its whole thought is based on the intimate relationship of the Spirit with everything that is. It is scientific in that it deals with law and order. 

The effective practitioner in this science has the will to try, the courage to make the attempt, the faith to believe in one’s self because she has confidence in the Law of Good. The simplicity of this conviction is enhanced when one realizes that one has nothing to change outside of one’s self.

“How to Use the Science of Mind” Ernest Holmes