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"Never think of failure for what we think will come about.” - Maharishi Mahesh Yogi (1917-2008): Founder of the Transcendental Meditation Movement, or TM. The Beatles were among his students.

There is no doubt in my mind that everyone who seeks to experience success, can be successful. There is only One Mind. We all use It. Bill Gates, Warren Buffet, Carl Ichan ... use this same Mind ... all 1,062 of the richest people on the planet on the Forbes List, all Billionaires ... use this same Mind. There is only ONE ... One God, One Life, One Mind ... and we are each living to our understanding and acceptance of this Truth.

I firmly believe that the only difference between the rest of us in the world and the 1,062 Billionaires on the Forbes List, is that they have discovered the connection between their mind and the One Mind and have benefited from it. After all, it is available to all of us. The Master Mind Jesus spoke of this when He said, "it rains on the good and the bad alike."

"The Law of God is Perfect" ... but we don't "think" we are perfect and that is the "doubt" that creeps into our thinking whenever we seek success. And it is this "doubt" that keeps us from realizing the success we seek. This "doubt" is no different than fear or a belief in failure ... it is one and the same. Most of us will deny that we hold this "fear" in our sub-conscious. But, for many of us our life experience clearly reveals it to us. It is this "fear" that holds us in jobs that do not bring us any real feeling of accomplishment and for many, little compensation. It is this "fear" that causes us to believe that we are powerless against our circumstances. It is this "fear" that causes us to stop dreaming and to stop hoping for a better life experience. This "fear" is subtle ... but we can eliminate it from our consciousness by entering into "Conscious Union with the Spirit."

Dr. Holmes wrote a short affirmative-prayer that will get us started on eliminating fear from our mind: "I release all thought of fear from my mind. I lay down the burden of carrying the load of responsibility for life for myself or for others. I lay all trouble aside, seeking to look through it, beyond it, above it; to detach it from the realm of Reality, to separate it from any consciousness that it belongs to me or to anyone else, regardless of what any problem of the moment seems to be."

These words from Dr. Holmes will help us to set the stage in our mind to move forward, to take the next step towards our goals ... to think about our success and to see ourselves as successful. To be in "Conscious Union with the Spirit" is to know that our mind is One with the One Mind ... to know that we are in unity with this "All-Knowing Intelligence." It knows what to do and how to do it. It knows everything that is necessary for our success; people, places and things that need to come together in cooperation with our plan for success. It is God and It is Principle ... It is the Law of God and It works "perfectly" through us, as us and for us. We do not need to use "will power" to make this connection to this One Mind. All we need do is "think into It" what it is that we want to accomplish; to do, to be or to have. And we must "think our success into It" no matter what may appear along the way.

And so we must choose how we spend our time. And for many of us this means we must change our life-style. We must turn-off the television, the music player, put down the book ... and go within our mind and "think" about what our success looks like. We must take our mind away from other people's success and focus on our own. We must spend more time thinking about our success than we do anything else. We must mentally get a sense of being successful in our mind. We must see it so vividly in our mind that we begin to live it mentally ... lifting our spirit up to our highest idea of success. And we must do this as we live in our present circumstances. Our success must become the most important "thoughts" we think.

"The kingdom of Heaven is within you," the bold Jesus declared. And we must find this "Great Reality" within our self ... within our mind. And we must be determined to do it and willing to "give to It" that which we must "give to It" ... and that is our thoughts of success and our thoughts of ourselves as being successful, prosperous and happy! We can realize "guaranteed success" ... as we know that our success is guaranteed! ... just like the 1,062 Billionaires on the Forbes List of the Richest People in the World!

AND SO IT IS!

Keep the faith!
Rev. Dr. Henry Lee Bates