The pearl of great price is the realization that all life is eternal. If I could give to mankind one gift of my own choosing, I should give each man a vivid realization of the hereness of immortality and the nowness of eternity. If all men could feel immortal, (not merely believe or hope that they are), how many of the things we call evil would fall away from the world scene! The hurry would go out of our daily activities, the "grab" would go out of our social relationships, the fear would go out of our passing from one plane to another.

-- Gayle King Keables

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The sun shines; God is. The movement of the human spirit toward God is a movement of consciousness rather than of time or place. It is an opening of the mind and the heart, an act of recognition and realization; it is as though we were to open the blinds in some dark room and exclaim, "Why, the sun is shining!"

Today I open mind and heart to the radiance of God's presence. I rejoice and bask in His love. The light of that love penetrates and transfigures every aspect of my life. -- R. H. Grenville

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Prayer is not something we do to God, but to ourselves. It is the wing by which we lift ourselves above conditions and contemplate the divine and perfect pattern of things. It takes energy to get anything off the ground. This is as true of prayer as of anything else. Energy is to be found in feeling, based on purpose.
-- R. H. Grenville