The vanity of opinion

May 24, 2013 | 7 comments

How important is your opinion? How important do you think your opinion is? Do you think your opinion is more important than it really is? The answers to these questions tell a lot about how much humility you demonstrate, and

The obsolescence of matter

May 23, 2013 | 14 comments

Astrophysicist Sir James Jeans wrote in the 1930s, “…the universe begins to look more like a great thought than like a great machine.” In the May issue of WIRED magazine, a reporter asked lead pioneers in the software industry what

Say no to ill-motivated criticism

May 22, 2013 | 5 comments

Criticism is crippling. Criticism, of the harmful kind, is debilitating. It brings thinking to a low level, often alienates friends, creates enemies, causes discord and strife in families, and contributes to an unhappy mental environment. It would stop the flow

Your halo

May 21, 2013 | 6 comments

Are you aware of God’s halo hovering over your head? Love never loses sight of loveliness. Its halo rests upon its object. ~ Mary Baker Eddy*   You are an “object,” or watched-over child of God, divine Love. Divine Love never

God is with you

May 20, 2013 | 7 comments

I was watching part of the series titled, “The Bible,” aired this spring on The History Channel, and was struck by the producer’s rendition of the three Hebrew boys cast into the fiery furnace. The Israelites had been held in