ERNEST HOLMES
Ernest Holmes founded the International Religious Science movement, wrote “The Science of Mind” and numerous other books on metaphysics, and originated the international periodical Science of Mind magazine, which has been in continuous publication since 1927. Holmes’ Science of Mind teaching, is a spiritual philosophy that has brought to people around the world a working cosmology – a sense of their relationship to God and their place in the Universe – and a positive, supportive approach to daily living. Holmes was deeply influenced by Ralph Waldo Emerson.
“It is only when the individual mind ceases combating itself that it will stop combating others.”
“Peace comes from the absence of fear, from a consciousness of trust, from a deep, underlying faith in the absolute goodness and mercy, the final integrity of the universe in which we live, and of every cause to which we give our thought, our time and our attention.”
You belong to the universe in which you live, you are one with the Creative Genius back of this vast array of ceaseless motion, this original flow of life. You are as much a part of it as the sun, the earth and the air. There is something in you telling you this—like a voice echoing from some mountain top of inward vision, like a light whose origin no man has seen, like an impulse welling up from an invisible source.
Your soul belongs to the universe. Your mind is an outlet through which the Creative Intelligence of the universe seeks fulfillment.
The universe must exist for the self-expression of God and the delight of God.
But you are an individual, like all other individuals gradually awakening to the greater possibility. If Life made you out of Itself, which It most certainly did, and if you are an individual just a little different from all other individuals who ever lived, then Life not only created you as an independent being, It also implanted a unique something within you. It will never be duplicated. The spirit that accompanies you through your life is just a little different from the spirit of any other person—not different in that it is isolated, because all are rooted in one being, but different in that it is individual.
We can no more do without spirituality than we can do without food, shelter, or clothing.
We live on three planes: we are spirit, soul, and body. We meet people on all three planes: spiritual, mental, and physical.
‘Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it.”
“If we would have peace outwardly, we must first realize peace inwardly.”
