Ernest Holmes
Ernest Holmes
Ernest Shurtleff Holmeswas an American New Thought writer, teacher, and leader. He was the founder of a Spiritual movement known as Religious Science, a part of the greater New Thought movement, whose spiritual philosophy is known as "The Science of Mind." He was the author of The Science of Mind and numerous other metaphysical books, and the founder of Science of Mind magazine, in continuous publication since 1927. His books remain in print, and the principles he taught as "Science...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTheologian
CountryUnited States of America
All limitations are self-imposed.
All emerge from that One Whose Being is ever present and Whose Life, robed in numberless forms, is manifest throughout all creation. Creation is the logical result of the out-push of Life into self-expression.
The universe must exist for the self-expression of God and the delight of God.
Trust in your own self more than in all else.
Since the only life you can have is the life of the Spirit within you, you need but permit Its radiance to flow through your thought into self-expression. You are surrounded by a dynamic force, a great surge of living power. You are immersed in and saturated with the vital essence of Life. Its presence permeates everything, binding all together in one complete whole.
The mind is a magnet and we attract that with which we identify the self. In order to get the most out of life we must learn consciously to change many of our habitual thought patterns. This is not easy, for our old thought patterns cling to us with great tenacity, but, being thought patterns, they can be reversed. If you are filled with fear, refill yourself with faith, for faith always overcomes fear.
Reading Emerson is like drinking water to me.
There is but one ultimate Power. This Power is to each one what he is to it.
No one can rob us of our own soul, and our spirit is already one with the eternal goodness.
We are not depending on a reed shaken by the wind, but on the Priniciple of Life Itself, for all that we have or ever shall need. It is not some Power, or a great Power, it is all power.
What you are looking for is what you are looking with.
There is One Infinite Mind, which of necessity includes all that is, whether it be the intelligence in man, the life in the animal, or the invisible Presence which is God.
Healing is the result of clear thinking.
That which distinguishes the new thought from the old is not a denial of this Divine Reality, but an affirmation of its immediate availability.