October 2026 Daily Guides by Rev. Dr. Jesse Jennings and Ernest Holmes
The Daily Guides have always been a beloved section of this publication. Each month, new spiritual guidance is imparted by members of the Centers for Spiritual Living communities. It’s lifelong insight you can’t find anywhere but Guide for Spiritual Living: Science of Mind magazine.
Each day brings two quotes from various wisdom teachers, a personal guide from the author’s life and a powerful affirmation. This daily inspiration has impacted generations of readers.
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The Seed of Freedom
Affirmation: Only those thoughts that are helpful and life-giving can find entrance to my house.
To suppose that the creative intelligence of the world would create us in bondage and leave us bound would be to dishonor the creative power we call God. On the other hand, to suppose that God could make each of us as an individual without leaving us to discover ourselves would be to suppose an impossibility. Individuality must be spontaneous and can never be automatic. The seed of freedom must be hid within the shell of the self. But like the prodigal of old, we must make the great discovery for ourselves. Although the journey may at times seem hard and the burden too great to bear, we still feel within a subtle sense, a mystical presence, a divine reality. Thus, our inherent nature is forever seeking to express itself in terms of freedom. We will do well to listen to this inner voice, for it tells us of a life wonderful in its scope, of a love beyond our fondest dreams, of a freedom the soul craves.
-Foreword to The Science of Mind
Commentary by Jesse Jennings:
This passage appears at the start of both textbook editions and in many other writings by Holmes, indicating its intensity as a question for reflection: Why are things as they are and how best do we change them? We know we have individuality, but that does not entail separateness from the source of all life.
Instead, it’s God’s creative power we look both at and with. Something calls us forward into the fullness of our selfhood to become all we might.
Quote
The night of sense consciousness is past, and I wake to the spiritual day — the eternal now.
— Ursula Gestefeld
