365 March 5

365 A Year of Daily Wisdom from Ernest Holmes

Human Relations

"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 it is true, as the Scripture says, that now we see through a glass darkly, there still is hidden within each one the Cause of all life, all aspiration, and all faith.

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

Today I am going to meet each experience as I feel it really is. I will endeavor to see the Divine Presence in everything. I am demanding of myself that I see and sense and feel the One Life that flows through all things. I affirm this Presence and accept Its beneficent action because It already is. As I go forth today and embark on the wonderful experience of living, I am on a journey of self-discovery and also of the discovery of the self hidden in everyone and the Power in back of everything."

That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us. —JOHN 17:21

Excerpt From 365 Science of Mind Ernest Holmes