The Law of Attraction
Ernest Holmes

Love is more than a sentiment...the cause of all creation, of everything, and as you let that love flow through you, love cannot help but be attracted to you. Practically all love is personal; if you do not love me, I cannot be happy. That is “tommyrot.” If you cannot be happy because some particular person does not love you, you cannot be happy. That is truth.

Most people who think they are in love are just attracted physically. When people who are attracted on a physical plane are married and the fire and passion is burned out, there is nothing in common but a common, ordinary physical attraction and when that is gone, the love is gone with it. What we need to realize is that love personifies itself. I would not discourage it. Let us do more than feel in love with that one person; it is all right, but feel everyone. Probably one at a time is better. Let us feel in love with the world. Why not extend our consciousness? Let it reach from the few and particular ones we love because we are attracted to them; that is all right, but let it go away out and beyond and over them to everybody. You cannot love until you do that, and you cannot do that while you limit love to a personal thing, and you cannot do that while you see anything unlovely in anybody....When we realize that we have not very much to say against anybody, we will realize that life is universal; it is infinite.

We must take our life, our love, our thought of happiness, our thought of friendship and make it all become universal. You stand manifested a friend to every living soul, in love with life, surrounded by a boundless, limitless infinite activity whose sole impulse is dynamic power of irresistible love backed up by an Infinite Life, an Omnipotent Power. Nothing can limit it, and you stand in the midst of it. The whole universe is flooded with such life and intelligence, and it is all manifested by perfect peace. It is all yours. Reach out, or right within, and it is all yours.

Excerpted from Love and Law by Ernest Holmes, edited by Marilyn Leo, Tarcher/Penguin Publisher.

The Fifteenth Annual Ghandi-King Season for Nonviolence
Creating “A World of Enlightened Action”

A Season for Nonviolence, January 30 - April 4, is a national 64-day educational, media, and grassroots campaign dedicated to demonstrating that nonviolence is a powerful way to heal, transform, and empower our lives and our communities. Inspired by the fiftieth and thirtieth memorial anniversaries of Mahatma Gandhi and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., this international event honors their vision for an empowered, nonviolent world.

Program: 64 WAYS IN 64 DAYS

We learn to practice nonviolence one step at a time, one choice at a time, one day at a time. Through our daily nonviolent choices and action, the noble and courageous spirit within each of us expresses itself as the skills, wisdom, and character of a nonviolent human being. This is how we each, in our own way, move the world in a direction of peace.

For affirmations, quotations, and practices to support your awareness, visit www.agnt.org/64-days.

The Real Legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
—Tod Ewing

Movies can be great teachers. Particular phrases or scenes often stay with us long after hearing or seeing them, providing meaning or application beyond what was intended. An early scene in the light-hearted classic Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid is a case in point. In that scene, the Sundance Kid is portrayed as a stoic gunfighter, sitting at a table, dealing a game of blackjack with a few other men. It quickly becomes apparent that he is winning every hand he deals. Frustrated, one of the gamblers chides him, suggesting he is cheating. He accusingly asks Sundance, “What’s the secret of your success?” Stone-faced, Sundance looks the gambler in the eye and without missing a beat says, “Prayer.” His deadpan delivery made me laugh, but that scene and his one-word answer came back to me recently, in a completely different context.

At the end of August 2011, a memorial on the National Mall in Washington, DC, was dedicated to a man who lived just thirty-nine short years. As we examine the life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.—whether objectively or subjectively—it becomes clear that he was one of the most effective leaders of our time, and that through pain, sacrifice, conflict, and struggle, he found a way to lead “the movement” to victory after victory. Surely he had help, and surely he experienced defeat, but ultimately his leadership was triumphant in a most profound sense. In my recent reflections about his life, it occurred to me that if someone had asked Dr. King the same question that the gambler asked the Sundance Kid, he would have given the same answer: “Prayer.”

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UNITED NATIONS: For immediate release

Rev. Michael Bernard Beckwith, President of the Association for Global New Thought and Founder of the Agape International Spiritual Center, will be speaking today, Tuesday, February 7th, at the United Nations General Assembly.  Rev. Michael joins speakers from the world's great religious and spiritual traditions called together by General Assembly President, H.E. Mr. Nassir Abdulaziz Al-Nasser, to celebrate the importance of World Interfaith Harmony Week, taking place during the 15th Annual Season for Nonviolence.

Everyone is invited to view the LIVE UN Webcast (free). Click here to link to the webcast.

What Is Your Love Quotient?

Wabi Sabi is the ancient Japanese art of finding beauty in imperfect things—such as your spouse and your relationship! In her new book, Wabi Sabi Love, best-selling author and master teacher Arielle Ford introduces the fine art discovering your partner’s inherent perfection—as well as your own—along with a flourishing relationship. Take this fun quiz to determine where you are on the Wabi Sabi scale. Ford’s truly love-ly book is reviewed in our May issue.

Wabi Sabi Love Quiz page click here.

See Iyanla Vanzant LIVE at the 2012 Spiritual Living Convention!

You may have seen her most recently on Oprah’s Lifeclasses on the OWN Network, or read one of her best-selling books, Peace from Broken Pieces, One Day My Soul Just Opened, or In the Meantime—but now you can see Iyanla Vanzant LIVE at the 2012 Spiritual Living Convention in New Orleans!

The 2012 Spiritual Living Convention is for anyone looking to grow spiritually, or wanting to join in the movement of taking New Thought out into the world!

The Convention will feature daily workshops including Spiritual Growth and Unfoldment, Center Growth and Financial Well-Being, and Taking the Teaching to the World, evening general sessions with a keynote presentation from Iyanla Vanzant, morning meditations, a service excursion in the city of New Orleans, daily yoga, and spiritual practices. It will be a spirit-filled week with our New Thought family!

Accommodations can be made at the host hotel, the Sheraton New Orleans, for a reduced rate of $179/night by clicking here.

Register now by clicking here!

For more information: spiritualconvention.csl.org