Compassion Is Love in Deed
Ernest Holmes

Humanity and Divinity will be identical when we recognize Divinity in Humanity.  We must learn to see through the apparent, to judge not according to appearances, to realize that at the center of every person’s soul God is enthroned. Compassion and caring are the ties that bind us together in mutual understanding and in the unified attempt to uncover the Divinity in each other. Compassion is the most gentle of all human virtues, for it is the outpouring of the Divine givingness through all.

When the members of a community love one another, that community is solid, prosperous, and happy.  Nations are bound together by common interests and common affections. When the whole world realizes this truth, it will unite in thought and in action. Love alone can solve the world’s problems and bring about the day of universal peace.

You and I have certain people upon whom we lavish a great deal of affection. This is both natural and desirable. But would we like these few any less if we increased our love to include all humanity? Too often, we are afraid of letting go of the little good we think we hold in our hand lest we lose it, not realizing that only as we release this good can we expect its increase.

Suppose we make a daily habit of feeling that we like people and they like us; we belong to them and they belong to us. In a very real sense, everyone we meet is part of our own family, to love and to enjoy. Let’s, then, meditate daily on this thought: “My desire is that everyone I meet will feel the warmth and color of my affection. My purpose is that a feeling of goodwill shall pass from me to others. Today I embrace the world in this affection and desire so that good shall come to everyone.”

Excerpted from A Holmes Reader on Practical Wisdom by Ernest Holmes, Science of Mind Publishing.

Gifts of Love and Compassion:
The Music of Lisa Ferraro and Erika Luckett

Members of our Science of Mind and Spirit communities have grown to love the inspiring music of Lisa Ferraro and Erika Luckett. Many are familiar with their CD On the Way of Love, inspired by Rumi, the thirteenth-century mystic, which offers eleven tracks that turn wisdom into song. Others will remember that Ferraro and Luckett wrote the song “There Is Only One Life” for The Gathering in 2009. It was also performed at Asilomar in 2012, where it rocked the house. Ferraro and Luckett frequently receive stories from fans attesting to the healing power associated with this song. The song is Ferraro and Luckett’s gift to the CSL community, and they have a choral arrangement available for any center that would like to perform it. 

Click here to learn more about Lisa Ferraro and Erika Luckett.

Click here to listen to the music of Lisa Ferraro and Erika Luckett.

The Compassionate Heart Leads the Way for the
Sixteenth Season for Nonviolence

The Season for Nonviolence remains true to the driving impulse of spiritually-guided action. To this end, the Association for Global New Thought (AGNT) has completed the first round of communications inviting Tenzin Gyatso, the fourteenth Dalai Lama of Tibet, to add his name to the project this year as a living example of nonviolence. This partnership with the Dalai Lama Foundation is expected to expand the Season for Nonviolence into deeper relationships with His Holiness and other organizations aligned with the mission of nonviolence at a global level.

With the dawn of 2013, our global family has entered a new frontier of individual and global transformation. The founders and leaders of the Season for Nonviolence offer a fifteen year legacy promoting a collective voice for world peace, affecting the way millions of individuals practice the principles of peace in their daily lives. Because peace-building depends upon those of us who are willing to go to the edge of the possible, to pave the way into a new evolutionary era, I urge you—my worldwide brothers and sisters—to consider how your individual contribution can seed the evolution of a global culture of peace through your participation in the Season for Nonviolence this year. ~ Rev. Dr. Michael Bernard Beckwith

Click here to learn how you can become involved in this year’s program and curriculum, including the “Ethics for a New Millennium Study Course,” based on the book by His Holiness the Dali Lama, “The Bond: Build a Community of Oneness,” based on the work of Lynne McTaggert, and “Beyond Forgiveness: The Wisdom of Atonement,” based on the work of Phil Cousineau.

Lama Surya Das: “Buddhism 101”

In the February 2013 issue of Science of Mind, David Goldberg shared the wisdom of Lama Surya Das, “The American Lama.”  Click here to hear a concise and insightful introduction to the Buddhist way of enlightenment by Lama Surya Das, one of the foremost American meditation teachers.