THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK

     I have people coming to me all of the time, asking me to pray for them. And their prayers all have to do with change: a change in jobs, in where they live, in who their spouse is, in their relationship with their parents or their children or their boss, in their health, or in their financial situation.

     But the funny thing is, that for all of the people believing that prayer can help to bring about change in their lives, the one thing that nobody ever asks me to pray to have change for them is the only thing that we can change: our minds.

Charles Fillmore

Co-Founder of Unity

     When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all your thoughts break their bonds: Your mind transcends limitations, your consciousness expands in every direction, and you find yourself in a new, great, and wonderful world. Dormant forces, faculties and talents become alive, and you discover yourself to be a greater person by far than you ever dreamed yourself to be.

—Patanjali
The Yoga Sutras

“A human being is part of a whole, called by us the Universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty. The true value of a human being is determined by the measure and the sense in which they have obtained liberation from the self. We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if humanity is to survive."

Albert Einstein