CONCENTRATON THROUGH DEVOTION

Now let us join in silence, taking the first words of the Psalm 103:

“Bless the Lord, 0 my soul; and all that is within me, bless his holy name.”

Most excellent words to remember, whenever you have occasion to drop into the Silence. When, perhaps, no other words can come to your mind, these will center you quickly, not by merely wording them, but through realizing their meaning.

We know that the Lord of all needs no blessing from us. Nothing can be added to, nor taken from, the great divine One. But it is everything to your soul to express itself towards this One in the form of blessing, for when you begin to praise the divine One you center yourself and get into the poise, the peace and the power that belong to right concentration. We are remembering that the Lord is the Good in all and working through all, and to remind yourself of this Good and to be devoted to it is the way of the happiest concentraton.

"Bless the Lord, 0 my soul; and all that is within me"—the demand is not only upon the soul, but upon every faculty that is within you your mentality, your feeling nature, as well as your soul consciousness. All that is within me, bless his holy name— his holy nature—his whole, pure, true being.

With this understanding let us repeat these words in the silence and rest in the spirit of the

The Power of Blessing

One of the easiest ways to concentrate in your daily life is mentally to bless everything and everybody. And it is not merely a matter of the lips, for when you speak these words, especially from the heart, silently radiating them, you are

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