Page 391 - THE SILENT HEALING POWER By DR. MURDO MACDONALD-BAYNE

THE SANCTUARY OF THE SILENT HEALING POWER

THY KINGDOM IS WITHIN*

“Honouring me with their lips, while their hearts are far

remote; since their religion is a mockery, a mere tradition
learned by rote;. . . .” Isaiah 29: 13.

We are not aware of the fact that by our conceptions, ideas, opinions,

beliefs we build a wall around ourselves, which prevents the expression of
Reality.
It is easy to see how one is conditioned by listening to what another

says. By their condemning, their blaming, their convictions, their wants, their
cravings people reveal the self-created prison in which they live. We will also
realize how we are trapped by habit, by environment.

But to be free from habit and environment surely all we have to do is to
understand the trap of habit and environment, by discerning the superficiality
and futility of one’s thought-feeling-reaction.

Most people make an image of Reality and at the same time condition
themselves by their habits and environment, so they are still trapped in spite of
their belief.
Is it not so that most of us talk about God as if He were separate

from ourselves, we look for God away in the distance?
It is the recognition of the Divine in man’s own consciousness that
makes God a living Reality now. But before this realization comes we must

give up following another, we must be aware moment to moment of our own
conscious thinking and the influence of the unconscious with all its accumulations.
When this is understood we will know how we are conditioned. Through this
self-knowledge, this conditioning ceases and when our conditioning ceases

there is Reality.
When our conditioning ceases, God begins to work in us and that work
never ceases but goes on expanding into more and more radiant forms of

beauty. The unhindered expression of Reality is Love, Wisdom and Power,
and is beyond time and space—the deathless and birthless being a never-
ending expansion from within.

This is the glorious truth which is not an imaginary thing but an actual
Living of Life Itself. It is the Father who ever remaineth within me is performing
His own deeds.

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