Page 232 - THE SILENT HEALING POWER By DR. MURDO MACDONALD-BAYNE

FEBRUARY 1951

It is the general conception that the cause of disease lies in the body,
but Jesus shows that this is not true. We have set up standards of right and
wrong with regard to health, with regard to other things in the world in general.

When our belief embraces these things we ignorantly sustain them because we
fail to understand ourselves.
Happiness is not dependent on the external but lies within us. We fail
to see that the effects which bring about our unhappiness is from a wrong

direction given to the mind. We have opinions, thoughts and beliefs but all
these can be changed. But that which is eternal can never be changed.
What we really “know” we have no opinion about. This knowing can

only come when we thoroughly understand ourselves. If we do not understand
ourselves we shall not understand anything else, for the root of understanding
lies within ourselves.

In understanding myself I must understand my relationship with others,
with the world, for in me as in everyone else is the “Whole.” I am the result of
the Whole. “I praise Thee for the awful wonder of my birth. Thou knowest all

about my soul, my body is no mystery to Thee.”
This is the Reality that we have no opinion about, no doubts about. The
recognition and understanding of this fact will bring about the necessary and
vital change in the individual first and then the world, for the world is what

we are.
Is not the state and society what we are in thought-feeling? The world is
but the projection of ourselves, without us the world is not. What we are, the world

is, the State is, society is. When we are brutal, perverse, exclusive, greedy,
envious, we live in separation so we create in body and circumstances just
what we are. There is no denying this fact.
The study of oneself is by no means easy, it requires alertness and keen

observation of every thought-feeling and an understanding of our motives and
what our feelings are towards others.
Our subjective self has taken years to build, and most of our motives are

hidden behind a series of misconceptions. There is a whirl of activity and
inward confusion torn by conflicting desires. We deny, we assert, we praise, we
condemn.

We must slow down our thought-feeling like a slow motion picture
to see what is happening on the surface, then we can study the movements
of our minds.

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