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Going Within 2010 Series: “The Spiritual View” January 24, 2010
Rev. David Alexander
Seeing those people and things we don’t like or resonate with us as whole and one with us is the spiritual view. Ernest Holmes’ perspective of the spiritual view was that there are spiritual principles that are universal and work for all people at all times.
We are raised with the “human view”, which is that we are separate from others and we have to protect what we have and get ours before others get theirs. War is a human view.
What we want is to live from the spiritual view that says God is all, the Infinite energy. Spiritual discipline is knowing that all good—love, peace, power, happiness, beauty, joy, harmony and enthusiasm is already ours—that God is all there is.
According the Ernest Holmes, spirituality is the constant and consistent attempt to feel the presence of God in everyone and everything—to see the Spirit in everything.
In the Religious Science movement, there has never been a question that everyone is included. There is not a God that would exclude anyone or anything, indeed, nothing can be excluded because it is all ONE! We are each a child of the one God. We are each a significant entity and we are to be proud that we are a divine entity in the mind of God.
Questions to contemplate:
1. In what ways have you “bought into” the “human view” of life?
2. Who in your life wears a “mask” so that you have trouble seeing them from the spiritual view?
3. How could you apply spiritual discipline so that you can see everyone from the spiritual view?
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