In a sense there is nothing in all the great universe but law. If this is true there must of necessity be a force behind it all that is maker of these laws, and a force greater than the laws that are made. This Spirit of Infinite Life and Power that is behind all is what I call God. I care not what term you may use, be it Kindly Light, Providence, the Over Soul, Omnipotence, or whatever term may be most convenient. I care not what the term may be as long as we are agreed in regard to the great central fact itself.
God, then, is this Infinite Spirit which fills all the universe with Himself alone, so that all is from Him and in Him, and there is nothing that is outside. Indeed and in truth, then, in Him we live and move and have our being. He is the life of our life, our very life itself. We have received, we are continually receiving our life from Him. We are partakers of the life of God; and though we differ from Him in that we are individualized spirits, while He is the Infinite
Spirit including us as well as all else beside, yet in essence the life of God and the life of man are identically the same, and so are one. They differ not in essence, in quality; they differ in degree.
From the great central fact of the universe in regard to which we have agreed， namely, this Spirit of Infinite Life that is behind all and from which all comes, we are led to inquire as to what is the great central fact in human life. From what has gone before, the question almost answers itself.
The great central fact in human life, in your life and mine, is the coming into a conscious, vital realization of our oneness with this Infinite Life, and the opening of ourselves fully to this divine inflow .
This is the great central fact in human life, for in this all else is included, all else follows in its train. In just the degree that we come into a conscious realization of our oneness with the Infinite Life, and open ourselves to this divine inflow, do we actualize in ourselves the qualities and powers of the Infinite Life.
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…それでわたしは、「何よりもまず『生命の實相』をお読みなさい。再読または再読飽くまで真理に徹してください」とこう申すのであります。八回であれ、十回であれ、反復熟読してくださいましたならばおのずから悟るところがあり、その心境に従って病気その他いっさいの現象的不幸も自然自消（しぜんじしょう）することになるのであります。要するに現象界は遷（うつ）り変わる波の相（すがた）でありますから、悟りによって善き波を起こすことが必要になるのであります。…
All goes to show that the soul in man is not an organ, but animates and exercises all the organs; is not a function, like t he power of memory, of calculation, of comparison, but uses these as h ands and feet; is not a faculty, but a light; is not the intellect or the will, but t he master of the intellect and the will; is the background of our being, in which they lie,--an immensity not possessed and that cannot be possessed.
Excerpt from the March/April 2008 issue of Unity Magazine （ユニティマガジン２００８年３、４月 号の記事からの抜粋）
My father once told me, “When you’re old, you don’t feel old.” I can appreciate what he meant when he said that, as I ponder the fact that the essential being I am inside myse lf is the same in my 50s as when I was only 15.
So who am I really?
Am I the woman who has changed with age, or am I the changeless self within?
Am I the woman who is encased in time or the being who dwells apart from it?
Sometimes when referring to things that happened long ago, we say things like “I remember it like it was yes terday.” And that’s because in a way it was. If time, as Einstein declar ed, is merely an illusion of consciousness, then linear time itself is a metaphysical fiction; everything that has happened, is happening, or will happen, is happening now. There, in that realm of the eternal now, is the tr ue “I am.”
The eternal self dwells in eternity, and et ernity intersects linear time at only one point: the present. Who you are in this moment, therefore, is who you truly are. And from that esse ntial point of perfect being―created anew by God in every instant―m iracles flow naturally. Thoughts of love interrupt the past and open the f uture to new probabilities. No matter who you are, no matter how o ld you are, in the present, all things are possible.
The physical self ages, of course, but the spiritual self does not. As we identify more with the spiritual di mension of our lives, then our experience begins to shift from the c hangeable to the changeless . . . from limitation to limitlessness . . . fr om fear to love. As our journey through linear time gets s horter, our consciousness can in fact expand. And as it does, time itself is affected. The deeper we go into the love of God, the more we act ualize our earthly potential.
The understanding of that which does no t change is the key to our power within a world that does. In aligning ours elves with the eternal self, we age not in a straight line leading from luscious youth to decrepit age, but rather like the flowering lotus openin g more and more to the light of the sun.
