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THE POWER OF REPOSE
Let us unite in silence, taking the words found in Psalms.
“Be still and know that I am God.”
Be still in every way, relaxing yourself and letting the I AM be your stilling power. Rest in the Divine Mind that knows itself (which is yourself), the great I AM that dwells in the midst of you.
We remember that “God” is the name of our good, and whatever your desire may be—for peace, for health, for happiness, for freedom, it is the very desire of your heart that speaks and says, “Be still and know that I am God”—be still and know that I am. This is our silence.
The Effortless Way
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TWO great principles are at the root of the power of concentration. One of them is Knowing and the other is Loving. |
Knowing might be considered the active principle and loving the passive, or still principle, in this that knowing is associated with activity, pursuing, seeking, grasping, and so on, while loving is associated with being. Love comes without effort. It is the effortless way to love, and if you are in love with truth, you concentrate without effort. And this effortless way is the happy way of concentration.
By loving truth, you enter true wisdom’s ways, which are pleasantness, and you find the path which is peace. So you must love truth with your whole being, seeking it, not for what it will bring you, not for ‘its reward, its healing, its peace, even for its
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