Practical Advice to Students

Renunciation and regeneration mean work. Without work you cannot turn away from old habits of belief and conform to truth.

Since all that truth is, is good, there is no evil.

You will hasten your growth in understanding this truth, if you study these lessons quietly, and without debating about that which you do not understand. The science of the silence can only be realized from passive, tranquil Mind, which is God.

Do not at first attempt to account for special appearances of so-called sickness, sin and sorrow; but stand firm and unwavering to the truth, that all is good; that God, Spirit, is truly in every place, at all times.

Refuse to compromise the Statement of Being with intellectual reasoning; and you will soon begin to realize the unreality of the appearances of sickness, inharmony and death. As you become conscious of eternal life and truth, you will know that there is no death. You will know that life is ever life and cannot die; and suffering will flee away.

Put away each day the trifling things that would annoy. Begin your days’ labor with a thought of omnipresent good; and as you meet the usual cares and vexations of every-day life, which all have, say to each one as it comes - "it is nothing, it is of no importance whether it be this way or otherwise." Then say to yourself, "I will perform daily duties without being annoyed or troubled with them."

Think of yourselves, your children and all persons - not as they seem, but as they are, as that which is, was, and always will be; as that which thinks and knows; both the knowing and the knowable; that which manifests, and which stands back of manifestation. Think of yourselves as "hid with Christ in God;" be where He is and what He is, with attributes of the Eternal. From this standpoint you can deny sickness intelligently, and master all the cares of life. From this standpoint it is right for you to deny from you all thoughts and feelings that are the opposite of Divine Love, Truth, Knowledge, Power, Strength, Health and Happiness, or Perfect Harmony.