Ernest Holmes
Founder, Science of Mind

Ernest Holmes
January 21, 1887 - April 7, 1960

Since his writings speak so eloquently of him, we thought you might enjoy here a few selections:

The Only Reality

Love is a language which is universal, interpreted through every living soul and understood by all. Love will find the solution to every problem, will answer every question, and will ultimately vanquish every foe. Love begets tolerance; tolerance begets understanding, and understanding which is able to put itself in the other person's place. 

Love is unity, understanding, harmony. It is as necessary to the well-being of the soul as food is for the strength of the body. A life which is starved of love, which knows no affection, is unnatural and abnormal. Love would sit within every person, flowing through and permeating one's entire being. We truly live in its atmosphere when we meet people through whom love radiates. A unity is formed, harmony is created, and we desire to be in their presence.

Love is a synonym for God; and God is love, the universal outpouring of the Spirit through law, wisdom, life and action. God knows us in love: we know God only through love. When we love humanity we are loving God, in and through others. 

It is impossible to enter a state of peace without love. Love is the only reality there is.

One Healing Agency

Spiritual mind healing has long since passed the experimental stage. There are now millions of people all over the world who bear witness to this fact. But in dealing with the Power greater than we are, and the Law of Good which we can use, we do not deny that people are sick or that they often need medical attention. Spiritual mind healing should in no way seek either to criticize, obstruct, or deny the benefits of medicine, surgery, proper diet, or sanitation.

There is but one final healing agency in the universe. The medical doctor employs this healing power through surgery to remove an infected area or medications to heal conditions which prevent the patient from being healthy. The psychoanalyst delves into the subconscious mind of the patient in order to align the patient's mental condition in such a way that a universal healing power can do its work without interruption.

The physician and the psychotherapist know they do not heal people; they simply assist, and nature does the healing. This healing power exists at the center of everyone's being and therefore is always available. Just as the physician and the psychotherapist have developed certain techniques for using this healing agency effectively, so there are definite techniques for using the healing power of Spirit.

There are spiritual techniques of healing that can be added to every known system of therapy. These techniques are simple, easy to understand, and anyone can apply them for oneself or others.

Oneness

There is One Spirit incarnated in everyone, an immortal Presence forever expanding everything, causing everything to grow. What a difference it would make in our human relations if we tried to sense the meaning of this Divine incarnation in all people and adjust our viewpoint to the truth that all are bound together in the unity of God! While we may think otherwise, behind all this vast array of life there can be but one common Cause, one Universal Mind, one Infinite Spirit flowing into, through, and becoming everything.

We are so used to seeing ourselves as separate from each other that we suspect the very feeling and emotion that causes us to embrace everything in love. But the person who loves the most will live the most. We meet each other only in fragments, only partially, when we refuse to open the whole avenue of our consciousness to the realization that there is but one living Spirit in, over, and through all. If our human relations are to mean the most to us we must sense that there is within everyone a Divine Presence manifesting Itself in infinite variations--the same impulse, the same love and life, but never quite alike in any two persons.

Compassion is Love in Deed

"My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and truth." - 1 John 3:18

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 a 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 passs from me to others. Today I embrace the world in this affection and desire so that good shall come to everyone."

A PRAYER FOR WORLD PEACE

I know there is but One Mind, which is the Mind of God, in which all people live and move and have their being.

I know there is a Divine pattern for humanity and within this pattern there is Infinite harmony and peace, cooperation, unity and mutual helpfulness.

I know that the mind of each person, being one with the Mind of God, shall discover the method, the way and the means best fitted to permit the flow of Divine Love between individuals and nations.

I know there shall be a free interchange of ideas, of cultures, of spiritual concepts, of ethics, of educational systems and scientific discoveries - for all good belongs to all alike.

I know that, because the Divine Mind has created us all, we are bound together in one Infinite and perfect unity.

In bringing about World Peace, I know that all people and all nations will remain individual, but unified for the common purpose of promoting peace, happiness, harmony, and prosperity.

I know that deep within every person the Divine Pattern of perfect peace is already implanted.

I now declare that in each person and in leaders of thought everywhere this Divine Pattern moves into action and form, to the end that all nations and all people shall live together in peace, harmony, and prosperity forever. So it is now.

If you would like IMMEDIATE PRAYER, you may reach the Science of Mind practitioners at World Ministry of Prayer by calling 800 421-9600 ( From within the United States or Canada ) or 818 556-2298 ( From all other countries ) any time of the day or night.

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