November 2026 Daily Guides by Rev. Ryan Alexander
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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My Perspective Isn’t the Only One?
Affirmation: I honor every unique perspective as a doorway to empathy, wholeness and belonging.
Simple answer to the question above (my perspective isn’t the only one?): Nope. I could leave it at that, but as we know, life is often simpler in word than in deed.
One of the first tenets of empathy is perspective-taking. And the foundational unit of perspective-taking is being aware that our own experience of life isn’t the only one. Sounds straightforward, right? So why is this sometimes a hard thing to grasp?
The understanding that each of us is a unique expression with our own thoughts, fears, life experiences, strengths, gifts, traumas and ways of interacting with the world is what Holmes expressed to anyone who would listen. This awareness is the pinnacle of oneness and wholeness. It allows us to step outside of our own experiences and imagine what it might be like to be someone else. This opens the door to understanding how our actions, words and beliefs impact others beyond ourselves.
Any adventure into empathy starts here. And let me tell you, empathy is an adventure. It calls us into a deeper understanding of not only ourselves but also of the world around us. It is love in action. It breaks the mold of the idea that we create in a vacuum.
When we begin to see the world through the eyes of another, we activate both the power and the responsibility to create a world of justice and belonging, a world where we constantly remember that our perspective isn’t the only one. And we are all better for it.
Quote
A self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living.
— Virginia Woolf
Our whole theory is that every person individualizes God.
— Ernest Holmes, “Beverly Hills Lectures,” page 16.4
