Page 469 - THE SILENT HEALING POWER By DR. MURDO MACDONALD-BAYNE

THE SANCTUARY OF THE SILENT HEALING POWER

the mind is quiet. You do not have to make it quiet. You are the mind, you
are the thinker as well as the thought. When you try to separate yourself
from your thought, you then try to control your thought, it is this that leads

to illusion and fear.
We think we understand people by giving them a name, a German,
a Jew, a Russian, an Englishman, a Hindu and so on. But if I do not call
you by a name I am not prejudiced, then I can look more closely, and by

doing so can understand you. Is it not so that you are already prejudiced
when you hear the words Russian, German, Jew, English, Afrikaans and
so on? When you understand your prejudice then it drops away and true

relationship comes into being.
If you have a belief, are you not prejudiced against another belief no
matter how you try to hide the fact? But when you begin to read your

mind with all its influences you will see what lies behind your belief. Then
you will begin to understand, not only yourself but you will also begin to
understand the other.

So to help another I must see the other not belonging to this nationality
or belief or to this or that, but to see him as he is, free. For if I am myself
caught-up in my own petty narrowness, in my nationality, my belief, my
society and ridiculous superstitions, my own nonsense, I see him only through

my own conditioning.
To understand one another we must look at each other free from all
this stupid nonsense. Then we will have relationship with the other, then only

can we help one another. And this requires an awakened consciousness.
An awakened consciousness is a consciousness, that is aware of the
false, aware of that which is hiding the Real. We do not create the Real, the
Real is experienced only when we understand that which is not real, and

how it comes into being. Not until we have a true recognition of this can
we expect to have the Power, Wisdom and Love of Reality. When this is
reached we realize that there is no limitation, only an expanding in Infinity

in which we exist.
A God that is separate from yourself is no God at all. Yet the majority of
people, including your religious teachers, are merely at this stage. This is the

thing that eludes the intellectuals. Their God is a God they want to comprehend
intellectually. So it is just an image, an idol, a creation of the mind. So the
Reality of the teaching of Jesus is submerged in a sea of sanctimonious

formalities that hide the Real. That is why many churches today are but semi-

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