Category Archives: Perfection

SIMPLE GIFTS

Posted on June 28, 2019 by thoughtsmjdisler

Christ’s thinking and teaching … dwelt when He pleased in the loftiest region of truths. … Words fell from Him the infinite depth of whose thought we have not fathomed yet. And yet, dwelling in this inner light and breathing … Continue reading →

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SUPREME BLESSEDNESS

Posted on June 18, 2019 by thoughtsmjdisler

There is no inner life that is not also an outer life There is an outer way and an inner way and both are one. He who asks, with the ground swell of his whole inner being, for the things … Continue reading →

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GOD’S TRUTH

Posted on March 21, 2019 by thoughtsmjdisler

“God’s truth” is not a final attainment, but an ever-increasing illumination; it is the secret inward reality; the cause, the meaning, the relation of everything; it is that spiritual realization of conscious life in God towards which the human soul … Continue reading →

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EVOLUTION

Posted on January 1, 2019 by thoughtsmjdisler

“Remember God must win us. We are his vehicles. He cannot lose us. He must overcome creaturely defect and obstinacy. He must reign till he hath put all enemies under his feet. Divine love is the spirit of evolution effecting … Continue reading →

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HEART of REALITY

Posted on September 5, 2018 by thoughtsmjdisler

We are familiar with two ways of dealing with the nature of things: (1) the method of observation and exact description from the outside, the spectator method, and (2) the method of vital experience–discovery of reality by living your way … Continue reading →

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PERFECT CREATION – PERFECT PSALM

Posted on August 28, 2018 by thoughtsmjdisler

There is a short simple Psalm–the twenty-third, written by an ancient Palestine shepherd in shepherd’s pictorial language, which through the centuries has impressed almost all types of minds as a picture of life that belongs in the list of perfect … Continue reading →

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CONTINUOUS CREATION

Posted on August 9, 2018 by thoughtsmjdisler

A note from this writer: Most passages in this blog are from times long past, when the term “man” was an abbreviation for “mankind,” meaning all of humankind, men and women alike. In my early years, this was always the … Continue reading →

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INNER – OUTER LIFE

Posted on April 12, 2018 by thoughtsmjdisler

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MESSENGER of JOY

Posted on March 14, 2018 by thoughtsmjdisler

“…hope is a silent, truthful messenger of joy from [one’s] real self.” “The purpose of being is to unfold all its latent energies. He who approaches most nearly to this has solved the great problem of life. Not that his … Continue reading →

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CONTAGIOUS PEACE

Posted on February 6, 2018 by thoughtsmjdisler

“Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on thee.” [Isaiah 26:3a] What is this Peace which is promised to us, if we indeed ‘stay our minds’ on God? It is first, the result of a unity … Continue reading →

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