Or in other
words, love and hate cannot live together .Many of the so-called problems in life are the result of having to deal with
others who bring hatred into the ener gy field. T ake note of how much of the
hatred infects your home, workplace, family and friends, relationships, and
even your health. Then ask yourself if you contribute to the hatred by hating
the haters. You see, none of this is a problem if you practice what Saint Francis begged
God to help him with in this line of his prayer , “Where there is hatred, let
me sow love.” The challenge is to not allow yourself to be tangled in a web
of hatred that perpetuates more hatred. Even if you are completely
surrounded by this kind of ener gy, and you find it physically impossible to
remove yourself, you can make a conscious decision to not think anything
but loving thoughts. Silently reciting, “Lord, make me an instrument of thy
peace; where there is hatred, let me sow love,” will transform the situation. How? Problems are experienced in your thoughts first. If you have love
there you will not have room for hate, since they cannot live together in the
same place. Becoming conscious of your thoughts in the face of hatred, and
being committed to staying in thoughts of love is the spiritual solution. It
takes time, but gradually and surely , love will transform that hate into joy
and beauty . SOWING SEEDS OF LOVE FOR YOURSELF WHERE THERE IS
SELF-HA TE
If you have places within your heart where hatred for yourself resides, it is
incumbent upon you to let love replace this hatred as well. Sowing love
where hatred resides means anyplace where you encounter hate, even deep
within yourself. Consider these words of Saint Francis, “I have been all
things unholy , if God can work through me, he can work through anyone.”
Imagine the man who bore the stigmatic wounds of Christ, who tamed wild
animals with his divine presence, who healed the sick, and preached
unconditional love for all, saying, “I have been all things unholy .” If it is
true for Saint Francis, surely you can take a look at all of your unholy
actions and thoughts and recognize the need to for give yourself, and replace
that self-hatred with self-love.Everything you have ever done for which you may carry around self-
contempt is in the past. So don’ t spend any of today entertaining self-hate. Remember that the truth about hate is it is love, only it is going in the
wrong direction. Shift your gears into reverse and begin moving your
thoughts in the direction of love. For giveness is the means to accomplishing
this reversal. I have written so much in this book (and others) on the
significance of self-love and self-for giveness that I choose not to replicate
that here. I include this brief section because sowing love where there is hatred
applies wherever hatred appears. All of your errors of the past, mistakes in
judgment, and self-perceived flaws occurred because they had to. Y ou
needed to be there, in that darkness in order to be able to transcend it. As
for your flaws, that is an insult to God, plain and simple. Y ou are a divine
piece of God, flawless, since God is good and all that is created of and by
God is also God, no mistakes, no flaws, no one any better than anyone else. Apply Emerson’ s observation as your antidote to self-perceived flaws:
Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful; for
beauty is God’ s handwriting—a wayside sacrament. W elcome it in
every fair face, in every fair sky , in every fair flower , and thank God
for it as a cup of blessing. That includes your fair face as well. Look upon yourself as an ingredient in
that cup of blessing and let love be there, within you, for yourself. This is
truly one of those opportunities of seeing something that is beautiful. SOME SUGGESTIONS FOR SOWING LOVE WHERE THERE IS
HATRED
I recommend that you practice what I do each and every time I find myself
in a situation wher e hatr ed is pr esent. I repeat the line from the Saint
Francis prayer , “Where there is hatred, let me sow love.” Believe it or not,
the ef fortless act of repeating the line to myself, allows me to shift my inner
dialogue away from the hatred and onto thoughts of love. This prayerful
reminder also empowers me to take actions based upon love, rather than my
ego’s inclination to fight hatred with my own hatred.Last week on a tennis court in the midst of a doubles match, one of the
players began hurling hateful epithets at another player , accusing him of
cheating. The angrier he got with his verbal insults the more the
environment of the court was being poisoned. I had been writing about the
prayer of Saint Francis, and the reminder to sow love where there is hatred
came immediately to mind. I told my partner , who was the intended
recipient of the hatred, to simply say nothing in response, rather than return
the insults. I suddenly said out loud for all to hear , and directly to the man
who was filled with hatred, “Y ou know , we all love you, win or lose.” I was
surprised that I did that, but even more surprised at his response. He looked
at me, smiled, and said, “I’m sorry , I just lost it.” It was an amazing
example of sowing love in the face of hatred and seeing it disappear almost
instantaneously . When you ar e in the pr esence of someone who is obviously dir ecting hate
towar d you, think of Jesus washing the feet of his disciples on the night
befor e his crucifixion. My wife told me that she was taught to think this
way when she was a young girl and has practiced it silently throughout her
life. In your mind imagine what it is like to walk in the shoes of the hater . Then mentally remove those shoes from that person’ s feet and create a
picture of yourself washing his or her feet as Jesus did. This mental image
not only allows you to project love to the hate you are witnessing, but it
distracts you from your conditioned habit of just being hurt and angry . After any episode wher e hatr ed has been dir ected at you, or when you have
been a silent witness to hatr ed, don’ t allow the incident to linger in your
mind. Furthermore, resist the temptation to discuss the episode or make it
the focus of your conversation. Many people, who do not themselves send
out hatred, seem to enjoy discussing the hateful ways of others, and tend to
make that the focal point of almost all their discussions. On and on they go
relating what someone else said, how terrible it was, and how it af fected
everyone around them. Meanwhile, the present moment environment is
reduced to one of hatred by proxy . When you talk about another person, make a serious ef fort to send or direct
loving support to their ener gy field and encourage others to think about and
send loving ener gy to those who seem lost in their hatred. Be the personwho promotes the idea that people can change. Ask everyone in your family
and circle of friends to direct loving, prayerful guidance toward those who
are stuck in the torment of their hatred. When you have private conversations, make the focus of your conversation
love rather than hatred for the hater . In the moments when you are not
witnessing hatred, you can also sow love. Deciding to pray for a person
who is filled with hatred makes just as much sense as praying for someone
who is ill, or impoverished, or injured in some way . Unobtrusively enter hatr ed ener gy fields with love. Without ever having to
identify yourself, you have opportunities to use your love ener gy to halt the
passions of hatred. When you live with love in your heart you radiate
outward a faster , more spiritual ener gy. You can direct this higher ener gy of
love toward situations of hate. I recall being in a park one afternoon with two of my children when a
father ’s anger toward his small son erupted. He shouted and threatened this
little boy with violence. I moved immediately into action, not to confront
the irate father , but to move closer and send him loving ener gy. I enveloped
him in an imaginary cloud of kindness. As I surreptitiously moved into his
energy field I saw him begin to soften, partly because he noticed me and
was embarrassed by his conduct, but mostly because I was bringing the
higher/faster ener gy of love into a space where the lower/slower ener gy of
hate was present. This higher ener gy was impacting his conduct even before
he noticed my presence. You’ve heard the expression, “Let’ s send him some positive ener gy.” This is
not fiction; it is just another way of sowing love where there is hatred. Y ou
have the power to use your loving ener gy this way at any time. Whenever you encounter hate r emind yourself that the person dir ecting that
hate outwar d is feeling hated. This will ignite within you the desire to ease
the torment of feeling hated with the warmth of your love. Whenever any of
our children say or do things that indicate feeling hate, both my wife and I
attempt to reassure them that they are loved, and that they are deserving of
love. Little reminders, after the air has cleared, such as a hug or a pat on theshoulder , or a statement like, “Y ou know , Mom loves you and so does God;
always, even when you are angry .” No long lecture, just a gentle reminder
that they are loved. In the midst of a serious ar gument when hatred is being projected, remind
yourself that God loves everyone involved. If you can somehow convey
this, to all the combatants including yourself, that alone is enough to defuse
hate and simultaneously bring a spiritual solution to the situation. Make a deliberate commitment to spend an unselfish hour with someone
less fortunate. Within three blocks of your home there is someone who feels
desperate and helpless. Most often they do not know that the source of their
anguish is in an absence of feeling loved. Most often they feel unloved by
the world at lar ge and by the individuals in their lives. Y ou can be the
instrument of peace, sowing love for both the person and yourself. Y ou
don’t have to give them money , or food, or anything material. Just the
wonderful act of sowing love creates a spiritual solution to this problem as
well as nourishing your own soul. Never take hatr ed personally . Sowing love where there is hatred means
reminding yourself that you are love, and that is all you have to give away . Consequently , anyone who visits his or her hatred upon you is unable to
reach your soul, because hate cannot live where love is present. Your best method for deflecting hatred is to be conscious of how you react
to hatred. If you immediately find yourself of fended by the conduct of the
hater you have taken it personally and allowed your ego into the fray . When
you respond to the hater with the words, “Y ou feel,” then you have put the
emphasis where it belongs and not taken it personally . Because personally
speaking, you know that you are sowing love here and the hate has nothing
to do with you. Imagine someone says to you, “I hate you; you are so
wishy-washy and you never give me any credit for anything. All you ever
do is criticize me.” Y ou might respond with something like, “Y ou feel that I
don’t give you enough credit, and it really makes you angry . I want you to
know that I think you are able and talented and I’ll work at telling you so
more frequently .” You have not taken anything personally and you have
responded to hate with love. A spiritual solution! And even if the hatredcontinues, you keep your resolve to never , ever take anyone’ s hatred
personally . Make time to join into the lives of those who send out hate. When you get to
know the people who seem to be filled with hate, you’ll discover that they
want the same things you do. They want to feel loved, and their external
manifestations of hatred are nothing but a cry for love. Years ago one of my teenage daughters was rebelling in anger and often
with hatred toward any and all authority figures and particularly toward me. I asked her if we could set aside one evening to spend together at dinner to
which she grudgingly consented. Those few hours of my spending time
talking with rather than at her , and taking an interest in her life from a
nonauthority figure position made a huge dif ference in our relationship. By getting to know someone, by spending time with them, by making a
little extra ef fort to sow some love toward anyone from whom you feel
hatred might be emanating, you create an atmosphere of openness where
love has a chance to bloom. This is not only true of family members. Y ou
can go to lunch with the person who is most disrespectful to you at work,
and in one hour of just being together , you’ll defuse much of the hate. The
word prejudice  comes from a Latin word meaning to prejudge. T o prejudge
is to form an opinion without any contact. It is done before contact. W ith
contact, you embrace the light that you both share, and the “pre” disappears,
as does the judgment. Use a letter as a means of sending love. Very often it seems impossible to
reach someone who is full of hate. The more you attempt to talk with them
about it, the more entrenched they become in their beliefs that they have no
other choice than to be the way they are. These encounters frequently
deteriorate into ar guments, and loud, unpleasant, intolerant exchanges are
often the result. I recommend that you make your feelings known in a letter format, so the
reader is unable to ar gue back with their invested hatred. Even if they
disagree with everything you write in the letter , make an ef fort to let them
know that they are important, worthwhile, intelligent, and most of all, lovedby you and by God. But also include how you feel when their hate is
directed at you, and why you frequently remove yourself from the
immediate vicinity of that hatred. By sending love in a written form you
don’t fan the sparks of hatred, which flare up when words are flying back
and forth in heated exchanges. This is one more opportunity for you to
reach down inside your soul, and sow love where there is hatred. Try being kinder , and still kinder , as your r esponse. One of the best ways
I’ve discovered to sow love where there is hatred is to be generous and
giving in my response. Send flowers to someone who has been verbally
abusive. Mail a box of candy or send a gift certificate in response to hatred. Over the years I have had the experience on many occasions of people
ordering products, sending me a check, and then a week or so later
discovering that the person had insuf ficient funds to cover the costs of the
materials I had purchased and mailed. There was a time when I reacted to
this experience of being defrauded with complaints about how irresponsible
and immoral this was. About five years ago I did an about-face. Every time
this happened to me I mailed the person a free gift of an autographed book,
and requested payment for the bounced check. The response was amazing. About ninety-eight percent of the people who received a free gift in
response to their NSF check, not only returned the money , but took the time
to write a lovely letter of apology as well. This was in contrast to the less
than forty percent who made good on their bad checks previously . The old
saying goes “Kill them with kindness.” I prefer “Connect to them with love
and generosity ,” or as Saint Francis would say , “Sow love.”
Forgive yourself and look upon yourself with love. Always remember that
you are connected eternally to God. Y ou are a divine creation, and you do
not want to fear your divinity any longer . You do not have to perform to
anyone else’ s standard to be loved; you are loved unconditionally . You do
not have to be mistake-free; you are always loved. Y ou do not have to win;
you are loved regardless of the outcome or the score. All the reasons that you may have adopted to hate yourself are the result of
a rigid belief that your ego is the dominant force in your life. Y our ego
believes you are what you do, what you have, what others think of you.Your ego believes you are separate from everyone else, and separate from
God. Thus, that ego is always judging, evaluating, and comparing you to
others. When you don’ t measure up, you engage in self-contempt. Then you
review how many times you failed and turn those self-perceived failures
into self-hate. As a spiritual being, you do not have to perform, compare, win, or anything
else. Y our worthiness is a given. Y ou are a piece of God. Always connected. Remind yourself of this truth whenever you resort to any form of self-
hatred. For give yourself and you are sowing love in your ener gy field, as
well as providing yourself with a spiritual solution to the “problem” of self-
contempt. This concludes my suggestions for learning to sow love where there is
hatred. I know in my heart that no person can love another unless he loves
humanity first. The ability to sow love stems from this inner sense of
feeling connected to, rather than separate from all living creatures, all of
humanity and God as well. An emancipated slave who one would think had every reason to be full of
hate exemplifies the message of this chapter and the request of Saint
Francis. His name was Booker T . Washington and he put it this way , “I shall
allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate him.” Here was a man
who went to work at the age of nine, worked as a janitor to obtain an
education, and later headed up the T uskegee Institute in Alabama. He
refused to hate. Why? Because, as he said, hatred belittles the soul. Sow
love and enjoy the bouquet of respect that adorns your soul. OceanofPDF .com9
WHERE THERE IS INJUR Y, 
PARDON
The world is not in need of a new religion, nor is the world in need of a new philosophy: What
the world needs is healing and regeneration. The world needs people who, through devotion to
God, are so filled with the spirit that they can be instruments through which healings take place,
because healing is important to everybody. —JOEL S. GOLDSMITH, 
THE ART OF SPIRITUAL HEALING
I find the use of the words injury  and pardon a fascinating way of
expressing the desire of Saint Francis to heal the sick and bring recovery to
the wounded. He uses the word pardon as a way of expressing the desire to
have an injury released, much like a prisoner would be released from
custody by the issuance of a pardon. As you are aware, Saint Francis was
known in his time as a healer of the sick. His presence among the injured
brought about miraculous cures that were inexplicable to the physicians of
his time. He is asking, in this line of the prayer , to reunite himself so
completely with spirit that body and universal mind become one. He prays
for the perfection of God’ s consciousness to permeate his body so he can
convey this spiritual ener gy to those who are less than whole. I am not asking you to become a Saint Francis or a Jesus and perform
miraculous healings, although I am in no way suggesting that this isimpossible either . I am asking you to open yourself to an idea that you may
think of as outrageous or even impossible, but one that you will consider
here, if for no other reason than to merely entertain yourself with some of
“Dyer ’s folly .” Perhaps T ilopa’ s tenth-century definition of enlightenment
will encourage you: “T o have a mind that is open to everything, and
attached to nothing.”
I want to make very clear how I believe we can look at the presence of
illness or injury in our lives and the lives of our loved ones from a
perspective of implementing spiritual solutions. When we have to recognize
and accept a given state of disease in our body , our primary thought ought
to be how to create a solution. This generally implies returning our body to
a disease free state as quickly and as painlessly as possible. When I suggest taking responsibility for any disease and injury , I emphasize
that this should be without any accompanying guilt or shame. By saying to
yourself, “This state of disease or imbalance is mine; I own it and I am in
charge of my attitude toward it,” you acquire a sense of empowerment
because you open yourself to the healing ener gy found in a spiritual
solution. Feeling guilt or anger about arthritis, cancer , heart disease, kidney
failure, or any kind of injury prevents you from approaching the ener gy
levels where spiritual solutions abound. We do live in a carcinogenic world, we have pollutants in our air , food, and
water . Guilt or anger about these conditions or blaming the polluters will
only serve to magnify the “problem.” Seeking a spiritual solution means
letting go of those disempowering ener gies of shame, guilt, anger , and
blame. By saying, “This is mine and I seek the spiritual solution to this
situation,” you move into those higher healing ener gies. Your body is your curriculum to God in this lifetime. Some of us have the
condition of a bald head, a short stature, eyes that don’ t see, ears that don’ t
hear, legs that don’ t walk, and on and on. If you refuse to see these
incarnated conditions as problems, and proceed to fulfill their destinies
without guilt, anger or remorse, you attract a higher , faster ener gy into your
life. In short, you simply do not see the physical apparatus as being relevant
to who you are and what you will do. It is as if you know that your spiritualself was assigned this vehicle, this body whatever its condition, for this
incarnation. It is not you and you are not it. I also believe that the law that has allowed any miraculous healing of any
disease or injury is still on the books. It has never been repealed and can be
accessed as evidenced by so many spontaneous healings and abandonment
of crutches and wheelchairs in such high ener gy places as Lourdes in
France, Fatima in Portugal, and remote villages of Brazil, to name only a
few. The presence of injury and disease in children is particularly troublesome to
contemplate. Once again it is important to note emphatically that from a
spiritual perspective we are infinite souls, never dying, never born. Our
essence is not our material form. A young child might be an ancient soul. Who is to know? What I am certain about is that teaching any af flicted child
to adamantly refuse to think of him- or herself as limited in any way , and to
help them to see that their spirit is perfect and always connected to God
regardless of their body’ s impairment is the way to implement a spiritual
solution in the mind of any young person. Always see the unfolding of God
in every person, and teach those in young af flicted bodies to do the same. It
is in such teachings that pardon is brought to the presence of injury and will
facilitate the healing process. Placing the words “where there is injury , let me sow pardon” into the
context of A Spiritual Solution to Every Pr oblem,  is my way of sharing my
belief in the spiritual release of illness, woundedness, or injury through the
individual personal ability to unite in wholeness with the healing capacity
of God. This means beginning to conceptualize the body and the mind as
one, and to use one’ s spiritual essence to maintain a sense of perfect
unifying health. The closer you get to the faster , spiritual based frequencies
of love, kindness, for giveness, connectedness, gratitude, and infinite
awareness, leaving behind the lower/slower vibrations of fear , doubt, hate,
and separateness in your thoughts, the more you will be able to af fect the
health of others and yourself in a healing way . Healing is the state of
consciousness in which you allow God to flow through you to the injury
and to the injured. All illness, metaphysically speaking, is the result of
disconnecting from God in our minds and bodies.There is a strong knowing within me that one can never truly be separate
from the one power , so that once again we see that illness itself is one of
those illusions that can be corrected when we bring spirit to the presence of
this error . And pardon is another word for that spirit. In a very real sense,
you have the power to bring this higher healing ener gy of pardon to the
presence of this thing called injury and in so doing, you bring the power of
God to bear on it. When I say there is a spiritual solution to every  problem, I am not leaving
out the problems we face with our health. While I am not disparaging the
medical community in any way , I am suggesting that it is not doctors or
medicines or therapy that heals anyone. Every physician friend I know
acknowledges the inexplicably awesome power of the body to heal itself. They know there is a power at work that they cannot see or touch, a power
that is pure spiritual ener gy that heals a wound and keeps the whole
organism in perfect harmony . It is to this perfect spiritual ener gy that you
must turn in order to fulfill Saint Francis’ s request to sow pardon in the
presence of injury . YOUR BODY IS ROOTED IN SPIRIT
The functioning of your body represents an invisible source of ener gy in the
universe working actively in you. Y ou do not cause your blood to flow or
the acids in your stomach to perform the miracle of digestion. Y our body
has sprung from something invisible that I am calling spirit. It is rooted in
that spirit, and that spirit is perfect. In a sense your body is a manifestation
of God’ s knowledge, an expression of an idea held in universal
consciousness. This body is a part of the universal cycle of life that you see all around you
in seed, bud, bloom, growth, decay , and giving way to new life. Y our body
and the bodies of all others are destined to express this idea of spirit and
give way to a more perfect idea. Body itself is always firmly rooted in this
perfection of spirit. When it loses contact with this perfect spirit, injury or
illness are the result. Thus, there are no imperfect bodies, only ideas that
people have which reinforce their separateness from God. There are only
imperfect ideas. These imperfect ideas are the ego at work creating a mind-set that we are unable to heal ourselves or others. An idea that says I have
arthritis or migraine headaches and there is nothing I can do about it or I am
stiff and in constant pain because of these af flictions, rather than thinking
which says I have these af flictions because of the imperfect ideas I have
about my body . I want to say unequivocally that the intelligence that inhabits your body will
become whatever you project it to be. It will create a healthy or a sickly
body depending on how you decide to use your mind. If you want a truly
healthy body , and the ability to sow pardon in the face of any kind of injury ,
you must first heal your mind with unconditional love and recognize that
your body is a firmly entrenched instrument of spirit. Make your mind
vigorous, loving, healthy and positive and your body will respond
accordingly . Moreover , you will be able to bring this attitude of healing to
everyone you encounter , which is what Saint Francis was best known for . You can also bring pardon to injury and in the process, facilitate healing. You share the same ener gy. There is a healer in you, rooted in and always
connected to spirit. T o know this healer and to make it work in your life and
the lives of others, you must (once again) get your ego out of the way! GOING BEYOND YOUR EGO
In order to develop an unshakable trust in the healing power of nature you
must learn to harmonize your body with the body , mind and spirit of nature. To accomplish this feat you will need to do all that you can to suppress your
ego. Remember , the definition of ego is that it is nothing more than an idea
that you carry around that identifies you as separate from everyone else and
as the sum total of your accomplishments and acquisitions. In short, your
ego tells you that you are your personality and your body that needs to
compete with all those other bodies and personalities you encounter every
day. When you see yourself as a separate body/mind you are in a world of
illusion in which disease and injury are the way of life. Y our ego fails to see
the lar ger dimensions of being in which it is lodged. So, it often becomes
upset, lonely , frustrated, and fearful, turning on itself to confirm the lowered
value it places on life. These very thoughts of self-contempt, limitedthinking, and fear of not measuring up will manifest in some form of injury
or illness. As you now know if you’ve read this far , these inner thoughts of
ego are nothing more than errors. There is only one power , it is omnipresent
and, therefore, it is in you at all times. Y our ego is the part of you that gives
total credibility to an illusion. Y our ego is what you must transcend in order
to know the truth of healing by bringing pardon to the place where injury
resides. Going beyond your ego is accomplished quite readily by turning your
attention to the one power that is the harmonizing force in all of nature. The
pathway to the miracle of creation and all of existence awaits your
footsteps, yet fear has been allowed to push out this ener gy and create
injury in one form or another . All things proceed from mind, the invisible,
and taming your ego’ s demands and assertions is no exception. Y our body
can become a perfect instrument of your thoughts, as long as you are
continuously on the alert for removing thoughts of impending illness and
the expectation of injury . You are going to release (or pardon) such thoughts
from your being by going to the indwelling being of spirit that creates
perfect harmony in the physical world, including your body . As it says in
the scriptures, “W ith God, all things are possible.” Now you know that this
leaves nothing out. FORGET THE CONCEPT OF INCURABLE
The one basic underlying principle of the physical universe is that of
thoughts becoming things. The ancestor to every material thing in existence
is a thought. When you think that something is impossible you give more
power to the thought of it being impossible. The idea that a disease is
incurable or an injury unfixable is tantamount to saying to God, “I give up
on you and myself as an extension of you as well.” Perfect spirit is within
everyone. When we rid ourselves of the ideas that create the illusions of our
diseases we open ourselves to the potential for creating perfect health. I prefer to think of any disease or injury problem in terms of ener gy. As you
recall from reading the chapters in the first half of this book, all is ener gy
and ener gy is a vibration. When your body is immobilized in any way it is
due to frequencies that are incompatible with your personal higher harmonyfrequencies of perfect health, as created by spirit. When you are able to
identify the frequencies of disease and provide new ener getic solutions, the
negative frequencies can be permanently dislodged and removed. Y our job
in bringing pardon to injury is to first be ener getically balanced. I encourage you once again to look back in chapter two to Patanjali’ s
observations on higher awareness. When you become steadfast in your
abstention from ignorance (false identification with the ego) you are able to
bless and even heal yourself and others by your mere presence in their
energy fields. Being balanced ener getically is actually returning to your
normal state of grace by meditating, having unconditionally loving
thoughts, feeling connected to spirit, being cheerful and, in essence, living
in the faster vibrations of higher spiritual consciousness. In those higher
frequencies, there is no room for the idea of something being impossible or
incurable. My friend Stephen Lewis has written a book titled Sanctuary: The Path to
Consciousness . It is a novel yet it is based on fact as he knows it. He writes
enthusiastically of healing ener gies and the removal of incompatible
energies from the body . Some of it sounds “way out” and will be rejected
by those who are entrenched in the exclusive model of medicines, drugs,
surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy as the only treatment modalities
available for removing diseases from our lives. I have been in the ener getic balancing program and have seen it work for
others and me in my life. Remaining open to all possibilities has allowed
me to see a breakthrough into a healing consciousness, and a deeper
awareness of well-being. I have a very strong knowing that there is much in
the universe and ener gy balancing that has yet to be touched on. Letting go
of the concept of incurable allows you to truly move into the realm of
perfect harmonious ener gy, which is what is meant by spiritual
consciousness, and to realize that there is nothing in God consciousness that
wants us to be warped or injured or plagued by disease. Recognize your
own spiritual perfection and you will come to know the absurdity of
anything ever being viewed as impossible. WHA T IS HEALING?When anyone is experiencing illness or injury as Saint Francis calls it, they
have in some way become disconnected from God. A process of rejoining
accomplishes spiritual healing; what I call God realization. It has nothing to
do with the names of diseases, the swallowing of medicines, or the work of
a skilled sur geon. Healing is a rejoining of the self to the whole. I have
repeatedly referred to diseases (as well as discord and disharmony) as
illusions, since all that is of God is good, and everything is of God. I want
to expand upon this as we look at this process of healing. When I speak of disease as an illusion or being unreal, I do not mean to
imply that it is nonexistent. I do not ask you to fool yourself into believing
that that which exists in you or others is only in your imagination. As Joel
Goldsmith reminds us in The Art of Spiritual Healing :
When disease (like death and sin) is called unreal, it is not a denial of
the so-called existence of these things: It is a denial of their existence
as a part of God or reality . . . . In the realm of the real, the kingdom of
God, the discords of sense have no existence. That however does not
change the fact that we suf fer from them . . . the beginning of wisdom
is the realization that these conditions need not exist. Healing then is not accomplished by asking God for relief, since God is not
a withholding God, but in seeking relief through God and rising to the place
where you become rejoined in that highest ener gy spiritual field which is
where God always is. Healing then is a rising above the concept of the
physical or material and into God realization, and the term unreal or illusion
refers to the unreality of disease in a realm of wholeness and spiritual
consciousness. As Saint Francis beseeches God to bring pardon to injury , he
asks that he be rejoined in this spiritual wholeness and that he allow that
consciousness to radiate outward to any and all who live in the “unreal”
world of disease and disharmony . When you know that your true essence is
spirit, and you live there in your mind, your body will follow suit and
healing will eventually be the result. To witness healing is a miraculous event, and it takes place daily in a
myriad of ways. A blemish disappears as healing invigorates the skin. Symptoms of a cold that lingered suddenly have no impact on you. Y our
nose stops running, your temperature returns to normal, your upset stomachis soothed, your broken finger mends. All this “healing” is nothing more
than a return to wholeness. Y our thoughts have a lot to do with this healing
process. The closer you stay in harmonious bliss in your thoughts to God, the more
you facilitate this one power of the universe in flowing ener getically
through you. Y our thoughts and low ener gy patterns can activate an ulcer
and so can they activate the flow of chi to remove that imbalance. The
mind-body connection is real, but the God-body connection is the essence
of all healing. T o see yourself connected to the highest spiritual ener gy
vibrations and to work at staying in that space is to see the underlying
principle of healing at work. Now you might ask, why did Saint Francis die of tuberculosis, and why did
Jesus die on a cross, and why do saints get cancer and die if they are in
touch with this highest ener gy of wholeness? Like disease, death is unreal,
in that it has never happened in the spiritual kingdom. When Saint Francis
was asked why he didn’ t heal himself of his terminal illnesses he replied, “I
want everyone to know that it is not me who does the healing.” T o the
spiritual master , death is unreal, not nonexistent, unreal. Because reality at
the spiritual level is infinite, no one is ever born, and no one dies. The
reality of the spiritual level is formless, timeless, and boundaryless. Living
in that dimension is living in the realm of wholeness. Bringing pardon to injury is just like rejoining the body with God
consciousness. When this occurs, that which we call healing seems to take
place miraculously . As Saint Augustine put it so succinctly , “Miracles
happen, not in opposition to nature, but in opposition to what we know of
nature.” If you know that healing is nothing more than God realization, and
you abandon all thoughts of being separate from that consciousness,
including fear of illness and death, then you create an ener gy field for
rejoining with spirit. This is healing and Saint Francis asks you through his
prayer to be an instrument of this process. WHA T IS A HEALER?In her marvelous book, The Physician W ithin Y ou, Gladys T aylor McGarey ,
M.D., relates a conversation with her son Carl, who had just finished his
internship and was specializing in orthopedic sur gery. After he had told his
mother of his fears about having people’ s lives in his hands, she related,
“Carl, as a sur geon you may pull an incision together and suture it well, but
you cannot make it heal. If you think you are the one who does the healing,
you have a right to be scared. But if you understand that you are a channel
through which healing moves, and that you are contacting the healing force
within your patients, you have nothing to fear . You will have awakened the
physician within them and sent them on their way to heal themselves.”
As you begin living your life on the spiritual plane you will discover that
both your body and your mind become instruments of God when you are
able to bring a kind of consciousness to the sick or injured wherein you are,
in effect, bringing the potential for pardoning or releasing the disease itself. Healing occurs when we approach our own healing power through faith in
our spiritual perfection and an abiding sense of unconditional love. The
healer is not performing the healing, but bringing pardon in the form of
unconditional love and the faster ener gy of spiritual consciousness to bear
on the injury , while turning the entire process over to God. As you af firm your spiritual perfection you actually set into motion the
universal law . It is through the surrendering of your doubts and fears, the
laying aside of your little ego and living the principle of existence, which is
the principle of thoughts becoming things. It was the thoughts or mental
conditions that created the illusion of illness as separate from the divine,
and it will be your own thoughts of spiritual perfection that will allow the
healing force to work through you in your self, as well as in others. I am not speaking here of the laying on of hands or the world of the occult,
but merely the awareness that a healer must be able to accept in his or her
own mind the spiritual perfection of mind and body as well as the spiritual
perfection of those injuries you look to pardon. In a word, it is love that is
the power that heals. Remember , the opposite of love is fear , and a belief in
fear is a belief in the second power of disease. Y ou are always reminded
that “Perfect love casteth out all fear ,” and the root of all disease and injury
is fear; the fear of being separate from the one power of God.CAN YOU BE A HEALER? Anyone can become a healer who understands that he or she is merely a
channel through which perfect spiritual love can flow . When you are ill you
have disconnected from the capacity to heal yourself. Y ou have lost contact
with your healing source. Y our healing abilities will be found by rejoining
to the source. As a healer , you stay in touch with the whole, never falling
prey to the superstition of separateness, which causes the illness to take
hold in the first place. When you touch the illness of another with the
energy of spirit or the source, you activate the connection and facilitate the
healing process. In that sense, yes, you are a healer , even though you heal
no one. Y ou don’ t even need to understand the mechanics of this process. When you help another to become aware of the source from which healing
takes place, you not only facilitate healing but you act to help others
prevent future illness as well. I am convinced that you can indeed become an instrument of healing by
raising your ener gy field to the highest, most spiritual levels, which were
described in the first six chapters of this book. There I explained that God
does not heal disease, because disease is not accepted as a separate power . Rather , God is the one power of harmony . Be that power , live there, and you will yourself be bringing pardon to injury
in your life, and the lives of those you encounter who live in the illusion of
disease. Believe in this one power . This is not a miracle but simply the way
of things. As Saint Thomas Aquinas put it, “Miracles are signs not to them
that believe, but to them that disbelieve.”
SUGGESTIONS FOR SOWING P ARDON WHERE THERE IS
INJUR Y
Use your thoughts to keep your ener gy on healing rather than disease. It is
pretty common to place ener gy on what is wrong and what you don’ t want. Thoughts such as “This cold is going to get worse,” “There is nothing you
can do, it’ s the flu season and it’ s going around,” “Y ou have to get worse
before it will get any better ,” are all ideas that will help you to manifest
what you don’ t want. A brief reminder here: you act on your thoughts, andthis goes for your body and the bodies of those around you. If your thoughts
are on what you don’ t want (disease) you will act upon those thoughts and
manifest more of what you don’ t want. Anytime you enter an ener gy field of injury or disease remind yourself that
you are bringing the radiant ener gy of spirit to that space. Stay focused on
that faster ener gy, make an ef fort to radiate it outward and in a surrounding
fashion, never buying into the lower ener gy of disease. I visited a young man in a hospital in Canada who had been in a serious
motorcycle accident and was lying comatose. Several of his friends asked if
I would visit him since he was a big fan of my writing and tapes and had
been unable to attend my presentation in T oronto due to his near fatal
accident several days prior to my visit. On my way to the airport I went to
see Anthony in the intensive care unit of the hospital. The nurses said there
was very little chance that he would survive his wounds. He was
surrounded by the ener gy of injury . The other patients on the ward were in
various states of total disrepair . Anthony lay there, twenty-five years old,
unconscious, and in a place where little hope for healing was being of fered. I spent one hour with Anthony , making every ef fort to be a channel through
which healing might flow . I stayed in deep conscious contact (through
meditation) with God, and visualized white light surrounding this young
man. When I left I had a strong knowing that Anthony would recover . Sure
enough, eighteen months later I was speaking at a convention and Anthony
appeared. He looked and sounded fit, and told us he was almost totally
recovered. When he addressed the group, at my request, he described
coming out of the coma and being told by the nurses of my visit. They said
I had prayed and seemed almost lost in my own bliss as I walked around his
bed during my visit. As you know , it was not I, this ego or my body , that had anything to do with
Anthony’ s recovery . I merely brought spiritual consciousness to his injury ,
and in the great scheme of things Anthony now uses his own healing
journey as a metaphor for teaching others. The only thing I was totally
committed to in my visit was to stay in the highest ener gy pattern I could
and to refuse to give credibility to a second power called injury .Appr oach any experience of injury , whether it be in yourself or others, with
a mind-set of high hopes and possibilities for r elease fr om that injury
(pardon). Your thoughts must be on wholeness in order to make this visible
in your body . I believe no one knows enough to be a pessimist, and anyone
can be healed, even those in the absolutely lowest frequencies. I recall receiving a letter from a woman who had fallen into prostitution,
was a crack-cocaine addict, had lost almost all her normal weight, and was
a walking skeleton. At this low point she wandered into a drugstore one
morning and stole a tape from the revolving rack of self-improvement
cassettes. It happened to be one of my tapes and for some reason she went
home and listened to it. When I met her in person she agreed to appear on a national television
show to share her story . She described how from that lowest point in her life
she began to think vigorous healing thoughts, the same kinds of thoughts I
had recorded on the tape. She listened every day and gradually those
thoughts became her own and they literally transformed her injury into
health. Now , I receive a Christmas card each year with a picture of her with
her husband and two children along with a note relating the continued
success of her new business. When you can transcend your malaise and thoughts of impossible or
incurable, and replace them with the ener gy of spirit where all things are
possible, the material world responds and wholeness replaces visions of
doom and separateness. Deliver this higher ener gy thinking to even the
worst of circumstances and a spiritual solution is revealed. In summary , always think yes, it’ s possible, I can, I will, I am trusting God
totally , because all that is not good can’ t possibly be real, even if it exists in
the material world. Be continuously awar e of the times when you ar e trapped in ego
consciousness. At a gathering I attended on Maui led by Swami
Satchidananda, we discussed the dif ference between illness and wellness. He counseled us to look carefully at how these two words were spelled. “Illness,” he said, “begins with the letter i, and it is the source of all disease.The ego’ s belief in its separation from the perfection of God creates a
nonperfect state called illness. W ellness on the other hand,” he reminded us,
“begins with the letters w and e, indicating a sense of being connected to
God in all of God’ s perfection.” By staying in the we, rather than the I, you
stay in wellness and avoid illness. As you seek to bring pardon to the presence of injury be aware that the
presence of the injury is an indication of spiritual separation. Don’ t use this
as an opportunity to feel guilty , or weak, but to remind yourself to shift
away from your ego’ s sense of being separate from spirit. The moment that
you use your mind to see yourself as connected to spirit you will find
yourself feeling more loving, accepting, trusting and peaceful. These are the
signals to your body and to the existence of any injury that you are now
willing to be a channel through which the force of healing can flow . See the existence of injury in others as an opportunity for you to take
pardoning action. Rather than feeling repulsed or upset when you view an
injury allow your inner feelings to motivate you to action. What follows is a
true story sent to me by a reader who did precisely what I am suggesting
here. I have made changes only to protect the privacy of those involved. My co-workers and I attended a dinner meeting at a family restaurant
in town. W e were visiting at our table when a waitress asked us if we
wanted anything to drink. I looked up at the waitress, saw a pretty lady
and smiled at her . She smiled back and I about choked!!! Her teeth
were rotted, half were missing and those that were left were chipped
and bucked outward. She continued to smile and took our order as I
turned away from the awful sight. After she left I made a comment and
so did the others at my table. I felt terrible for her that she has had to
live her life like this. It is not fair , especially in today’ s society when
there is good dental care available. After dinner , I could not stop
thinking about her . I had no idea who she was, knew nothing about her
but I felt a need to help. I’m not sure why I was driven to help her
when we see people in need every day . I went home and meditated and came to the conclusion that I could
help. I was not able to af ford to pay for this myself but I knew of many
organizations that were available in our community that could helppeople like her . In fact, I have served on several boards and even knew
the people to contact. I thought she just did not have the connections. Now , my quandary was how to approach her to tell her I wanted to
help? I did not want to of fend her . I decided to write a letter and if she
responded I would go from there. I delivered the letter in person and
within five minutes I received a phone call from her . To make a long
story short, I promised her I would help her get new teeth at no cost to
her. I thought this was going to be simple! After making phone calls to: United W ay (no programs available
yet), the Community Health Department (no dentist available), the
Donated Dental Services Or ganization (there was a three year wait),
The Area Foundation (no funds were set aside for dental care), Social
Services and government programs (since she works full time she is
disqualified! ); I could not believe it, every door was closed!!! I called
several dentists and they wanted over $5,000.00 to do the work. I was
very discouraged but what was really bothering me was that I
promised this lady a new set of teeth. What was I going to do now? I went out to eat with my family (mom, dad, brothers and their
wives) and told them what had happened and asked their advice. They
all wrote checks that evening. I then called my dentist and he of fered
to donate $1500.00 towards her teeth if I could come up with
$3500.00. Done!!! Here is the article that was written about the lady , I
thought you would enjoy reading it. This is a real life example of bringing pardon to the presence of injury , and
having the injury dissolve. There is a saying, “When the student is ready ,
the teacher will appear .” The reverse is also true: “When the teacher is
ready , the students will appear .” When you are living in spirit as a teacher of
spirit, seeking a spiritual solution to every problem, you will see your
students appear each and every day , and you will be directed to provide
pardon merely by getting out of the way of your ego and allowing spirit to
reign. Immerse yourself in the literatur e of healing rather than that of evil. Read
and listen to stories of miraculous cures, healings, positive ener gy, and the
glory of all that is right with the world. Expose yourself to expressions of
God’ s grace and man’ s potential for spiritual perfection. This will thenbecome your expectation for yourself as a channel of healing. Read the
lives of the saints and how they ef fected monumental change in the lives of
those they encountered, particularly the injured. W atch movies and
television shows which extol the virtues of man rather than the
shortcomings and evil intentions of humanity . Continuously reinforce in
yourself the idea that humanity is good, that the sick can be healed, that the
injured can be pardoned. There are a million acts of kindness for every act
of violence in the world. Do what you can to reinforce this truth. One small example of how this can bring healing came to me in a letter
from a woman in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, who had just read a book that I
had written with my wife, Marcelene. A Promise Is a Pr omise  is a true story
of unmatched unconditional love from Kaye O’Bara, a woman who has
cared for her comatose daughter for over thirty years in a spirit of service
and selfless love unlike any I’ve ever known. Barbara Binkley wrote the
following words to me; they are self-explanatory in the context of this
chapter on sowing pardon in the presence of injury . “I am now reading your book A Promise Is a Pr omise . This is an incredible
book so filled with love and miracles that I noticed after I had read some of
it that the pain in my left elbow that had troubled me daily since November
was gone. God bless Y ou, Barbara J. Binkley .” What a nice reminder of the
value to be found in reading inspiring stories. Take car e of the sick but be indiffer ent to the illness. Don’ t encourage injury
by providing extra special love and attention for the sickness. This applies
to the treatment of others as well as yourself. A void giving yourself and
others a reason to continue being sick. Don’ t make the occurrence of illness
the only time you give loving attention. Sickness and love can become
associated. When a person, particularly a child, wants love they erroneously
may think becoming sick is the way to get it. Take the view that the sickness itself is not real. It is not of God so
spiritually speaking it is unreal. T reat it just like you would treat any other
illusion, as something that really doesn’ t belong in your consciousness or
the consciousness of the injured. Become indif ferent to the illness itself.Reinforce the idea that the real you is not sick and that illness can disappear
as you realize that you don’ t want or deserve it. I find that people who experience a great deal of injury and illness in their
lives appear to enjoy continuously telling everyone about their maladies. When these people begin to tell me how proud they are of their maladies I
respond with indif ference to the sickness itself. “Y ou don’ t have to live with
this pain,” I suggest. “Y ou are stronger than any disease.” I do not give the
injury any credibility . I treat my family and myself in this way as well. I
have long noticed that in our family we rarely ever talk about being tired,
not feeling well, or feeling something “coming on.” My wife and I have just
naturally sent our children messages that they are more powerful than any
disease process. In other words we want our love to be more associated
with health, strength, and spiritual consciousness, than with being sick,
tired, or injured. When you stop reinforcing injury with love, and use your
love to reinforce pardoning, healing often replaces sickness quite quickly . Practice dir ecting healing ener gy. One way of sowing pardon in the
presence of injury is to view yourself as a disseminator of higher healing
energy. Consciously notice your breath and get some sense of your essential
self as pure awareness and ener gy expressed through your body/mind. Visualize placing this awareness in your heart and breathing gently into that
heart awareness. Then, see a gently flowing, loving stream of ener gy from
your heart to any physically or emotionally injured areas, of your own body
or to the body of another person. This process of visualization and directing ener gy can be very powerful. You are a system of higher/faster vibrations in which the work of your mind
is the precursor to material reality (as you think, so shall you be). Y ou can
access the harmonious living ener gy of your being through your
visualization ef forts, and feel that ener gy flowing toward and healing the
painful or injured area. Many books have been written on the amazing ability of the mind to
visualize and then transfer the inner image to material reality . Basketball
players learn to shoot free throws through this process of visualization, so
it’s not that great a stretch to see yourself using this technique to bringhealing ener gy to places that are wounded or diseased. I practice this
visualization technique with myself all the time. I have been able to move a
headache right out of my body by directing heart chakra ener gy to that area
of pain. You can do all of this if you become a person who is open to the idea of
being able to use their higher capacities to help restore the natural loving
harmony of the body . Keep beauty always near you and feel the healing power of God’ s natural
soothing, harmonious world. Allow yourself to fully experience and enjoy
flowers, sunsets and sunrises, mountains, beaches, and beautiful spiritual
literature. When in need of healing, I suggest you open yourself to
experience as much beautiful uplifting music as possible. And above all,
keep uppermost in mind the words of Peace Pilgrim, “Healing does not
always mean staying on the side of life. Sometimes God has other plans for
his children—and both sides of life are really one.”
Let go. Yes, that’ s correct, detach yourself from your thoughts of anger ,
bitterness, self-pity , or whatever and just love your body as the temple that
God gave you to house your soul on this journey . The process of letting go
and refusing to harbor thoughts of illness will bring a calm healing ener gy
to you in the moment and this peace will be your reward for letting go. The use of the wor d pardon  by Saint Francis could also be construed to
imply the willingness to extend for giveness to any and all who may have
injur ed you in any way , not just thr ough bodily injury . As you more and
more live on the spiritual plane you will have less to do with the lower
frequencies of anger , prejudice, fear , and revenge. Saint Francis asks God to
help him to be an instrument of for giveness whenever he feels injured by
the conduct of others. The ability to extend for giveness becomes natural
when you don’ t carry hate within you. Whenever you feel that someone has injured you, or sullied your reputation,
or caused you physical harm, the spiritual solution, as dif ficult as it may
appear , is to extend for giveness. T o hold onto the pain and seek to exact
revenge will simply keep you stuck in pain, and the problem will beexacerbated. The old Chinese proverb states this better than I do: “If you’re
going to seek revenge, you’d better dig two graves.” Practice letting go of
injured feelings with love and pardon and the spiritual solutions to most of
your problems will be activated. Let go, and let God is great advice, as also
is this reminder from a previous chapter: All your conflicts with others ar e
never between you and them; they ar e between you and God. This concludes my thoughts and suggestions for practicing sowing pardon
where there is injury . You can move yourself to a spiritual ener gy space
where you literally become an instrument or a channel for healing. That is,
healing of yourself and all your perceived injuries, as well as aiding all the
injured you encounter in your life. In fact, I will take it one step further . When you become an instrument of pure pardon, you will be aiding in the
healing of everyone on our planet, since we all, individually , share the one
God force. It is, as always, a process of letting go of your ego and
surrendering to grace, which is always available in the form of pardon. As
Ramakrishna put it in his rhetorical question: “Is it an easy thing to receive
the grace of God? One must altogether renounce egotism; one cannot see
God as long as one feels, I am the doer .”
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WHERE THERE IS DOUBT , 
FAITH
One of the main functions of formalized religion is to protect people against a direct experience
of God. —C. G. JUNG
I often use the mango exercise to illustrate that faith is impossible to have
without a direct experience. When speaking to a lar ge audience I invite
someone who has never tasted a mango to volunteer for a little experiment. Then I ask people who have tasted a mango to tell the volunteer exactly
how a mango tastes. As each person attempts to convey the flavor of a
mango they realize how fruitless their ef forts are. The conclusion is that it is
impossible to convey this information in words. The volunteer always
returns to the audience still not knowing what a mango tastes like. The mango tasting exercise is analogous to your ability to have faith where
there is doubt. Just as you cannot know the taste of a mango unless you
have the experience of eating a mango, you cannot know faith without
having had an experience of God. If you rely on the testimony and
experiences of others as your means of establishing faith, you will always
have some doubt where you want there to be only faith. Y ou are in the same
position as the volunteer who has never tasted a mango. It is impossible tobring faith to the presence of doubt, until you abandon the idea of knowing
God through the words or experiences of others. Y ou must make a
concentrated ef fort to know the highest/fastest frequencies of spiritual
energy through your own means of establishing conscious contact. Once you know  this spiritual consciousness yourself, you will not even
entertain the possibility of doubt. Y ou will strive to live more and more at
the spiritual level, where you have access to this knowing at all times. This
knowing is what I call faith, and it cannot be substantiated or verified by
external sources. And when you know  faith you will have accessed a
spiritual solution to any problem that may present itself. REPLACING DOUBT WITH F AITH
Why would you live with any doubts about your ability to access spirit in
times of trouble or the presence of problems? The answer lies in
understanding the dif ference between what you believe and what you know . Beliefs stem from the experiences and testimony of others who in one way
or another have attempted to persuade you of their truths. All your
institutional religious training, holy books, and theological dogma may be
valid and extremely forthright, nevertheless they are usually presented as
the truth for all, including you. The pressures to believe may have been
almost insurmountable if you were assigned these beliefs at birth, and
raised on them. I am not suggesting that religious training is wrong. However , I do think any method of conditioning people to accept beliefs
about God creates doubt, because the beliefs do not come from any
conscious contact or direct experience of God. T o create a knowing that
supplies you with faith, you must establish a direct experience of God for
yourself. You have faith that you can ride a bicycle not because of the testimony or
experiences of others, but because you have made conscious contact with
bicycle riding. Y our experience has provided you with faith in this
endeavor . It is not because of any evidence that has been presented to you
verifying the existence of balance laws, or because others have persuaded
you that balancing is a possibility for you, or even because everyone elsearound you is dutifully riding their bicycles. It is your knowing because of
your direct experience and nothing more that gives you faith. So it is with all knowing, including your coming to know God. Y ou must
abandon your fears and create the place in your life where you are
independent of outside influences, allow yourself to move up the ener gy
ladder , and come into direct contact with these faster/ higher frequencies
that are being called spiritual consciousness in this book. When you live
there, and breathe in the ener gy of God realization, you will then have that
faith from which you can never be dissuaded. Y ou do this by dispelling
fears that arise from making the decision to have this direct experience,
independent of the opinions of those external forces that have been so
powerful in your life. FEAR AND F AITH
When you let go of your fears you find your God nature, which returns you
to the balanced state of body and mind that is in perfect harmony and
problem-free. Fear and faith cannot live harmoniously in the same space
any more than love and hate, or peace and chaos can survive
simultaneously . You may recall that earlier in this book I suggested that humans have only
one problem, from which all subproblems flow . That one problem is a
belief that we are separate from God. It is from this feeling of being
separate that we create all our fears, which foster doubt. W ould you ever
fear if you knew (without doubt) that God was your real self? W ould you
have fear if you knew God was expressing himself as you and that you
could never be separated from him? Obviously , fear would be impossible. Remember , evil cannot and does not exist in the omnipresent good. It is all
the product of your mind (and of our collective mind as well), an error if
you will, in need of correction. In A Course in Miracles  we are reminded
that there are only two emotions, love and fear . When you are in a condition
of fear , you are experiencing problems. When you remove fear and replace
it with love, the problems dissolve right where you experience them, in
your thoughts . In the scriptures we are reminded, “Perfect love casteth outall fears.” In other words, you know that you can never be separated from
your real self which is God. REPLACING FEARS
Fear has the ef fect of changing the body through a chemical process. It also
changes the external world as well. For instance, Mother T eresa addressed
the fears of the sick and homeless.
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        Or in other
words, love and hate cannot live together. Many of the so-called problems in life are the result of having to deal with
others who bring hatred into the ener gy field. T ake note of how much of the
hatred infects your home, workplace, family and friends, relationships, and
even your health. Then ask yourself if you contribute to the hatred by hating
the haters. You see, none of this is a problem if you practice what Saint Francis begged
God to help him with in this line of his prayer, “Where there is hatred, let
me sow love. ” The challenge is to not allow yourself to be tangled in a web
of hatred that perpetuates more hatred. Even if you are completely
surrounded by this kind of ener gy, and you find it physically impossible to
remove yourself, you can make a conscious decision to not think anything
but loving thoughts. Silently reciting, “Lord, make me an instrument of thy
peace; where there is hatred, let me sow love,” will transform the situation. How. Problems are experienced in your thoughts first. If you have love
there you will not have room for hate, since they cannot live together in the
same place. Becoming conscious of your thoughts in the face of hatred, and
being committed to staying in thoughts of love is the spiritual solution. It
takes time, but gradually and surely, love will transform that hate into joy
and beauty. SOWING SEEDS OF LOVE FOR YOURSELF WHERE THERE IS
SELF-HA TE
If you have places within your heart where hatred for yourself resides, it is
incumbent upon you to let love replace this hatred as well. Sowing love
where hatred resides means anyplace where you encounter hate, even deep
within yourself. Consider these words of Saint Francis, “I have been all
things unholy, if God can work through me, he can work through anyone. ”
Imagine the man who bore the stigmatic wounds of Christ, who tamed wild
animals with his divine presence, who healed the sick, and preached
unconditional love for all, saying, “I have been all things unholy. ” If it is
true for Saint Francis, surely you can take a look at all of your unholy
actions and thoughts and recognize the need to for give yourself, and replace
that self-hatred with self-love. Everything you have ever done for which you may carry around self-
contempt is in the past. So don’ t spend any of today entertaining self-hate. Remember that the truth about hate is it is love, only it is going in the
wrong direction. Shift your gears into reverse and begin moving your
thoughts in the direction of love. For giveness is the means to accomplishing
this reversal. I have written so much in this book (and others) on the
significance of self-love and self-for giveness that I choose not to replicate
that here. I include this brief section because sowing love where there is hatred
applies wherever hatred appears. All of your errors of the past, mistakes in
judgment, and self-perceived flaws occurred because they had to. Y ou
needed to be there, in that darkness in order to be able to transcend it. As
for your flaws, that is an insult to God, plain and simple. Y ou are a divine
piece of God, flawless, since God is good and all that is created of and by
God is also God, no mistakes, no flaws, no one any better than anyone else. Apply Emerson’ s observation as your antidote to self-perceived flaws:
Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful; for
beauty is God’ s handwriting—a wayside sacrament. W elcome it in
every fair face, in every fair sky, in every fair flower, and thank God
for it as a cup of blessing. That includes your fair face as well. Look upon yourself as an ingredient in
that cup of blessing and let love be there, within you, for yourself. This is
truly one of those opportunities of seeing something that is beautiful. SOME SUGGESTIONS FOR SOWING LOVE WHERE THERE IS
HATRED
I recommend that you practice what I do each and every time I find myself
in a situation wher e hatr ed is pr esent. I repeat the line from the Saint
Francis prayer, “Where there is hatred, let me sow love. ” Believe it or not,
the ef fortless act of repeating the line to myself, allows me to shift my inner
dialogue away from the hatred and onto thoughts of love. This prayerful
reminder also empowers me to take actions based upon love, rather than my
ego’s inclination to fight hatred with my own hatred. Last week on a tennis court in the midst of a doubles match, one of the
players began hurling hateful epithets at another player, accusing him of
cheating. The angrier he got with his verbal insults the more the
environment of the court was being poisoned. I had been writing about the
prayer of Saint Francis, and the reminder to sow love where there is hatred
came immediately to mind. I told my partner, who was the intended
recipient of the hatred, to simply say nothing in response, rather than return
the insults. I suddenly said out loud for all to hear, and directly to the man
who was filled with hatred, “Y ou know, we all love you, win or lose. ” I was
surprised that I did that, but even more surprised at his response. He looked
at me, smiled, and said, “I’m sorry, I just lost it. ” It was an amazing
example of sowing love in the face of hatred and seeing it disappear almost
instantaneously. When you ar e in the pr esence of someone who is obviously dir ecting hate
towar d you, think of Jesus washing the feet of his disciples on the night
befor e his crucifixion. My wife told me that she was taught to think this
way when she was a young girl and has practiced it silently throughout her
life. In your mind imagine what it is like to walk in the shoes of the hater. Then mentally remove those shoes from that person’ s feet and create a
picture of yourself washing his or her feet as Jesus did. This mental image
not only allows you to project love to the hate you are witnessing, but it
distracts you from your conditioned habit of just being hurt and angry. After any episode wher e hatr ed has been dir ected at you, or when you have
been a silent witness to hatr ed, don’ t allow the incident to linger in your
mind. Furthermore, resist the temptation to discuss the episode or make it
the focus of your conversation. Many people, who do not themselves send
out hatred, seem to enjoy discussing the hateful ways of others, and tend to
make that the focal point of almost all their discussions. On and on they go
relating what someone else said, how terrible it was, and how it af fected
everyone around them. Meanwhile, the present moment environment is
reduced to one of hatred by proxy. When you talk about another person, make a serious ef fort to send or direct
loving support to their ener gy field and encourage others to think about and
send loving ener gy to those who seem lost in their hatred. Be the personwho promotes the idea that people can change. Ask everyone in your family
and circle of friends to direct loving, prayerful guidance toward those who
are stuck in the torment of their hatred. When you have private conversations, make the focus of your conversation
love rather than hatred for the hater. In the moments when you are not
witnessing hatred, you can also sow love. Deciding to pray for a person
who is filled with hatred makes just as much sense as praying for someone
who is ill, or impoverished, or injured in some way. Unobtrusively enter hatr ed ener gy fields with love. Without ever having to
identify yourself, you have opportunities to use your love ener gy to halt the
passions of hatred. When you live with love in your heart you radiate
outward a faster, more spiritual ener gy. You can direct this higher ener gy of
love toward situations of hate. I recall being in a park one afternoon with two of my children when a
father ’s anger toward his small son erupted. He shouted and threatened this
little boy with violence. I moved immediately into action, not to confront
the irate father, but to move closer and send him loving ener gy. I enveloped
him in an imaginary cloud of kindness. As I surreptitiously moved into his
energy field I saw him begin to soften, partly because he noticed me and
was embarrassed by his conduct, but mostly because I was bringing the
higher/faster ener gy of love into a space where the lower/slower ener gy of
hate was present. This higher ener gy was impacting his conduct even before
he noticed my presence. You’ve heard the expression, “Let’ s send him some positive ener gy. ” This is
not fiction; it is just another way of sowing love where there is hatred. Y ou
have the power to use your loving ener gy this way at any time. Whenever you encounter hate r emind yourself that the person dir ecting that
hate outwar d is feeling hated. This will ignite within you the desire to ease
the torment of feeling hated with the warmth of your love. Whenever any of
our children say or do things that indicate feeling hate, both my wife and I
attempt to reassure them that they are loved, and that they are deserving of
love. Little reminders, after the air has cleared, such as a hug or a pat on theshoulder, or a statement like, “Y ou know, Mom loves you and so does God;
always, even when you are angry. ” No long lecture, just a gentle reminder
that they are loved. In the midst of a serious ar gument when hatred is being projected, remind
yourself that God loves everyone involved. If you can somehow convey
this, to all the combatants including yourself, that alone is enough to defuse
hate and simultaneously bring a spiritual solution to the situation. Make a deliberate commitment to spend an unselfish hour with someone
less fortunate. Within three blocks of your home there is someone who feels
desperate and helpless. Most often they do not know that the source of their
anguish is in an absence of feeling loved. Most often they feel unloved by
the world at lar ge and by the individuals in their lives. Y ou can be the
instrument of peace, sowing love for both the person and yourself. Y ou
don’t have to give them money, or food, or anything material. Just the
wonderful act of sowing love creates a spiritual solution to this problem as
well as nourishing your own soul. Never take hatr ed personally. Sowing love where there is hatred means
reminding yourself that you are love, and that is all you have to give away. Consequently, anyone who visits his or her hatred upon you is unable to
reach your soul, because hate cannot live where love is present. Your best method for deflecting hatred is to be conscious of how you react
to hatred. If you immediately find yourself of fended by the conduct of the
hater you have taken it personally and allowed your ego into the fray. When
you respond to the hater with the words, “Y ou feel,” then you have put the
emphasis where it belongs and not taken it personally. Because personally
speaking, you know that you are sowing love here and the hate has nothing
to do with you. Imagine someone says to you, “I hate you; you are so
wishy-washy and you never give me any credit for anything. All you ever
do is criticize me. ” Y ou might respond with something like, “Y ou feel that I
don’t give you enough credit, and it really makes you angry. I want you to
know that I think you are able and talented and I’ll work at telling you so
more frequently. ” You have not taken anything personally and you have
responded to hate with love. A spiritual solution. And even if the hatredcontinues, you keep your resolve to never, ever take anyone’ s hatred
personally. Make time to join into the lives of those who send out hate. When you get to
know the people who seem to be filled with hate, you’ll discover that they
want the same things you do. They want to feel loved, and their external
manifestations of hatred are nothing but a cry for love. Years ago one of my teenage daughters was rebelling in anger and often
with hatred toward any and all authority figures and particularly toward me. I asked her if we could set aside one evening to spend together at dinner to
which she grudgingly consented. Those few hours of my spending time
talking with rather than at her, and taking an interest in her life from a
nonauthority figure position made a huge dif ference in our relationship. By getting to know someone, by spending time with them, by making a
little extra ef fort to sow some love toward anyone from whom you feel
hatred might be emanating, you create an atmosphere of openness where
love has a chance to bloom. This is not only true of family members. Y ou
can go to lunch with the person who is most disrespectful to you at work,
and in one hour of just being together, you’ll defuse much of the hate. The
word prejudice  comes from a Latin word meaning to prejudge. T o prejudge
is to form an opinion without any contact. It is done before contact. W ith
contact, you embrace the light that you both share, and the “pre” disappears,
as does the judgment. Use a letter as a means of sending love. Very often it seems impossible to
reach someone who is full of hate. The more you attempt to talk with them
about it, the more entrenched they become in their beliefs that they have no
other choice than to be the way they are. These encounters frequently
deteriorate into ar guments, and loud, unpleasant, intolerant exchanges are
often the result. I recommend that you make your feelings known in a letter format, so the
reader is unable to ar gue back with their invested hatred. Even if they
disagree with everything you write in the letter, make an ef fort to let them
know that they are important, worthwhile, intelligent, and most of all, lovedby you and by God. But also include how you feel when their hate is
directed at you, and why you frequently remove yourself from the
immediate vicinity of that hatred. By sending love in a written form you
don’t fan the sparks of hatred, which flare up when words are flying back
and forth in heated exchanges. This is one more opportunity for you to
reach down inside your soul, and sow love where there is hatred. Try being kinder, and still kinder, as your r esponse. One of the best ways
I’ve discovered to sow love where there is hatred is to be generous and
giving in my response. Send flowers to someone who has been verbally
abusive. Mail a box of candy or send a gift certificate in response to hatred. Over the years I have had the experience on many occasions of people
ordering products, sending me a check, and then a week or so later
discovering that the person had insuf ficient funds to cover the costs of the
materials I had purchased and mailed. There was a time when I reacted to
this experience of being defrauded with complaints about how irresponsible
and immoral this was. About five years ago I did an about-face. Every time
this happened to me I mailed the person a free gift of an autographed book,
and requested payment for the bounced check. The response was amazing. About ninety-eight percent of the people who received a free gift in
response to their NSF check, not only returned the money, but took the time
to write a lovely letter of apology as well. This was in contrast to the less
than forty percent who made good on their bad checks previously. The old
saying goes “Kill them with kindness. ” I prefer “Connect to them with love
and generosity,” or as Saint Francis would say, “Sow love. ”
Forgive yourself and look upon yourself with love. Always remember that
you are connected eternally to God. Y ou are a divine creation, and you do
not want to fear your divinity any longer. You do not have to perform to
anyone else’ s standard to be loved; you are loved unconditionally. You do
not have to be mistake-free; you are always loved. Y ou do not have to win;
you are loved regardless of the outcome or the score. All the reasons that you may have adopted to hate yourself are the result of
a rigid belief that your ego is the dominant force in your life. Y our ego
believes you are what you do, what you have, what others think of you. Your ego believes you are separate from everyone else, and separate from
God. Thus, that ego is always judging, evaluating, and comparing you to
others. When you don’ t measure up, you engage in self-contempt. Then you
review how many times you failed and turn those self-perceived failures
into self-hate. As a spiritual being, you do not have to perform, compare, win, or anything
else. Y our worthiness is a given. Y ou are a piece of God. Always connected. Remind yourself of this truth whenever you resort to any form of self-
hatred. For give yourself and you are sowing love in your ener gy field, as
well as providing yourself with a spiritual solution to the “problem” of self-
contempt. This concludes my suggestions for learning to sow love where there is
hatred. I know in my heart that no person can love another unless he loves
humanity first. The ability to sow love stems from this inner sense of
feeling connected to, rather than separate from all living creatures, all of
humanity and God as well. An emancipated slave who one would think had every reason to be full of
hate exemplifies the message of this chapter and the request of Saint
Francis. His name was Booker T. Washington and he put it this way, “I shall
allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate him. ” Here was a man
who went to work at the age of nine, worked as a janitor to obtain an
education, and later headed up the T uskegee Institute in Alabama. He
refused to hate. Why. Because, as he said, hatred belittles the soul. Sow
love and enjoy the bouquet of respect that adorns your soul. OceanofPDF. com9
WHERE THERE IS INJUR Y, 
PARDON
The world is not in need of a new religion, nor is the world in need of a new philosophy: What
the world needs is healing and regeneration. The world needs people who, through devotion to
God, are so filled with the spirit that they can be instruments through which healings take place,
because healing is important to everybody. —JOEL S. GOLDSMITH, 
THE ART OF SPIRITUAL HEALING
I find the use of the words injury  and pardon a fascinating way of
expressing the desire of Saint Francis to heal the sick and bring recovery to
the wounded. He uses the word pardon as a way of expressing the desire to
have an injury released, much like a prisoner would be released from
custody by the issuance of a pardon. As you are aware, Saint Francis was
known in his time as a healer of the sick. His presence among the injured
brought about miraculous cures that were inexplicable to the physicians of
his time. He is asking, in this line of the prayer, to reunite himself so
completely with spirit that body and universal mind become one. He prays
for the perfection of God’ s consciousness to permeate his body so he can
convey this spiritual ener gy to those who are less than whole. I am not asking you to become a Saint Francis or a Jesus and perform
miraculous healings, although I am in no way suggesting that this isimpossible either. I am asking you to open yourself to an idea that you may
think of as outrageous or even impossible, but one that you will consider
here, if for no other reason than to merely entertain yourself with some of
“Dyer ’s folly. ” Perhaps T ilopa’ s tenth-century definition of enlightenment
will encourage you: “T o have a mind that is open to everything, and
attached to nothing. ”
I want to make very clear how I believe we can look at the presence of
illness or injury in our lives and the lives of our loved ones from a
perspective of implementing spiritual solutions. When we have to recognize
and accept a given state of disease in our body, our primary thought ought
to be how to create a solution. This generally implies returning our body to
a disease free state as quickly and as painlessly as possible. When I suggest taking responsibility for any disease and injury, I emphasize
that this should be without any accompanying guilt or shame. By saying to
yourself, “This state of disease or imbalance is mine; I own it and I am in
charge of my attitude toward it,” you acquire a sense of empowerment
because you open yourself to the healing ener gy found in a spiritual
solution. Feeling guilt or anger about arthritis, cancer, heart disease, kidney
failure, or any kind of injury prevents you from approaching the ener gy
levels where spiritual solutions abound. We do live in a carcinogenic world, we have pollutants in our air, food, and
water. Guilt or anger about these conditions or blaming the polluters will
only serve to magnify the “problem. ” Seeking a spiritual solution means
letting go of those disempowering ener gies of shame, guilt, anger, and
blame. By saying, “This is mine and I seek the spiritual solution to this
situation,” you move into those higher healing ener gies. Your body is your curriculum to God in this lifetime. Some of us have the
condition of a bald head, a short stature, eyes that don’ t see, ears that don’ t
hear, legs that don’ t walk, and on and on. If you refuse to see these
incarnated conditions as problems, and proceed to fulfill their destinies
without guilt, anger or remorse, you attract a higher, faster ener gy into your
life. In short, you simply do not see the physical apparatus as being relevant
to who you are and what you will do. It is as if you know that your spiritualself was assigned this vehicle, this body whatever its condition, for this
incarnation. It is not you and you are not it. I also believe that the law that has allowed any miraculous healing of any
disease or injury is still on the books. It has never been repealed and can be
accessed as evidenced by so many spontaneous healings and abandonment
of crutches and wheelchairs in such high ener gy places as Lourdes in
France, Fatima in Portugal, and remote villages of Brazil, to name only a
few. The presence of injury and disease in children is particularly troublesome to
contemplate. Once again it is important to note emphatically that from a
spiritual perspective we are infinite souls, never dying, never born. Our
essence is not our material form. A young child might be an ancient soul. Who is to know. What I am certain about is that teaching any af flicted child
to adamantly refuse to think of him- or herself as limited in any way, and to
help them to see that their spirit is perfect and always connected to God
regardless of their body’ s impairment is the way to implement a spiritual
solution in the mind of any young person. Always see the unfolding of God
in every person, and teach those in young af flicted bodies to do the same. It
is in such teachings that pardon is brought to the presence of injury and will
facilitate the healing process. Placing the words “where there is injury, let me sow pardon” into the
context of A Spiritual Solution to Every Pr oblem,  is my way of sharing my
belief in the spiritual release of illness, woundedness, or injury through the
individual personal ability to unite in wholeness with the healing capacity
of God. This means beginning to conceptualize the body and the mind as
one, and to use one’ s spiritual essence to maintain a sense of perfect
unifying health. The closer you get to the faster, spiritual based frequencies
of love, kindness, for giveness, connectedness, gratitude, and infinite
awareness, leaving behind the lower/slower vibrations of fear, doubt, hate,
and separateness in your thoughts, the more you will be able to af fect the
health of others and yourself in a healing way. Healing is the state of
consciousness in which you allow God to flow through you to the injury
and to the injured. All illness, metaphysically speaking, is the result of
disconnecting from God in our minds and bodies. There is a strong knowing within me that one can never truly be separate
from the one power, so that once again we see that illness itself is one of
those illusions that can be corrected when we bring spirit to the presence of
this error. And pardon is another word for that spirit. In a very real sense,
you have the power to bring this higher healing ener gy of pardon to the
presence of this thing called injury and in so doing, you bring the power of
God to bear on it. When I say there is a spiritual solution to every  problem, I am not leaving
out the problems we face with our health. While I am not disparaging the
medical community in any way, I am suggesting that it is not doctors or
medicines or therapy that heals anyone. Every physician friend I know
acknowledges the inexplicably awesome power of the body to heal itself. They know there is a power at work that they cannot see or touch, a power
that is pure spiritual ener gy that heals a wound and keeps the whole
organism in perfect harmony. It is to this perfect spiritual ener gy that you
must turn in order to fulfill Saint Francis’ s request to sow pardon in the
presence of injury. YOUR BODY IS ROOTED IN SPIRIT
The functioning of your body represents an invisible source of ener gy in the
universe working actively in you. Y ou do not cause your blood to flow or
the acids in your stomach to perform the miracle of digestion. Y our body
has sprung from something invisible that I am calling spirit. It is rooted in
that spirit, and that spirit is perfect. In a sense your body is a manifestation
of God’ s knowledge, an expression of an idea held in universal
consciousness. This body is a part of the universal cycle of life that you see all around you
in seed, bud, bloom, growth, decay, and giving way to new life. Y our body
and the bodies of all others are destined to express this idea of spirit and
give way to a more perfect idea. Body itself is always firmly rooted in this
perfection of spirit. When it loses contact with this perfect spirit, injury or
illness are the result. Thus, there are no imperfect bodies, only ideas that
people have which reinforce their separateness from God. There are only
imperfect ideas. These imperfect ideas are the ego at work creating a mind-set that we are unable to heal ourselves or others. An idea that says I have
arthritis or migraine headaches and there is nothing I can do about it or I am
stiff and in constant pain because of these af flictions, rather than thinking
which says I have these af flictions because of the imperfect ideas I have
about my body. I want to say unequivocally that the intelligence that inhabits your body will
become whatever you project it to be. It will create a healthy or a sickly
body depending on how you decide to use your mind. If you want a truly
healthy body, and the ability to sow pardon in the face of any kind of injury,
you must first heal your mind with unconditional love and recognize that
your body is a firmly entrenched instrument of spirit. Make your mind
vigorous, loving, healthy and positive and your body will respond
accordingly. Moreover, you will be able to bring this attitude of healing to
everyone you encounter, which is what Saint Francis was best known for. You can also bring pardon to injury and in the process, facilitate healing. You share the same ener gy. There is a healer in you, rooted in and always
connected to spirit. T o know this healer and to make it work in your life and
the lives of others, you must (once again) get your ego out of the way. GOING BEYOND YOUR EGO
In order to develop an unshakable trust in the healing power of nature you
must learn to harmonize your body with the body, mind and spirit of nature. To accomplish this feat you will need to do all that you can to suppress your
ego. Remember, the definition of ego is that it is nothing more than an idea
that you carry around that identifies you as separate from everyone else and
as the sum total of your accomplishments and acquisitions. In short, your
ego tells you that you are your personality and your body that needs to
compete with all those other bodies and personalities you encounter every
day. When you see yourself as a separate body/mind you are in a world of
illusion in which disease and injury are the way of life. Y our ego fails to see
the lar ger dimensions of being in which it is lodged. So, it often becomes
upset, lonely, frustrated, and fearful, turning on itself to confirm the lowered
value it places on life. These very thoughts of self-contempt, limitedthinking, and fear of not measuring up will manifest in some form of injury
or illness. As you now know if you’ve read this far, these inner thoughts of
ego are nothing more than errors. There is only one power, it is omnipresent
and, therefore, it is in you at all times. Y our ego is the part of you that gives
total credibility to an illusion. Y our ego is what you must transcend in order
to know the truth of healing by bringing pardon to the place where injury
resides. Going beyond your ego is accomplished quite readily by turning your
attention to the one power that is the harmonizing force in all of nature. The
pathway to the miracle of creation and all of existence awaits your
footsteps, yet fear has been allowed to push out this ener gy and create
injury in one form or another. All things proceed from mind, the invisible,
and taming your ego’ s demands and assertions is no exception. Y our body
can become a perfect instrument of your thoughts, as long as you are
continuously on the alert for removing thoughts of impending illness and
the expectation of injury. You are going to release (or pardon) such thoughts
from your being by going to the indwelling being of spirit that creates
perfect harmony in the physical world, including your body. As it says in
the scriptures, “W ith God, all things are possible. ” Now you know that this
leaves nothing out. FORGET THE CONCEPT OF INCURABLE
The one basic underlying principle of the physical universe is that of
thoughts becoming things. The ancestor to every material thing in existence
is a thought. When you think that something is impossible you give more
power to the thought of it being impossible. The idea that a disease is
incurable or an injury unfixable is tantamount to saying to God, “I give up
on you and myself as an extension of you as well. ” Perfect spirit is within
everyone. When we rid ourselves of the ideas that create the illusions of our
diseases we open ourselves to the potential for creating perfect health. I prefer to think of any disease or injury problem in terms of ener gy. As you
recall from reading the chapters in the first half of this book, all is ener gy
and ener gy is a vibration. When your body is immobilized in any way it is
due to frequencies that are incompatible with your personal higher harmonyfrequencies of perfect health, as created by spirit. When you are able to
identify the frequencies of disease and provide new ener getic solutions, the
negative frequencies can be permanently dislodged and removed. Y our job
in bringing pardon to injury is to first be ener getically balanced. I encourage you once again to look back in chapter two to Patanjali’ s
observations on higher awareness. When you become steadfast in your
abstention from ignorance (false identification with the ego) you are able to
bless and even heal yourself and others by your mere presence in their
energy fields. Being balanced ener getically is actually returning to your
normal state of grace by meditating, having unconditionally loving
thoughts, feeling connected to spirit, being cheerful and, in essence, living
in the faster vibrations of higher spiritual consciousness. In those higher
frequencies, there is no room for the idea of something being impossible or
incurable. My friend Stephen Lewis has written a book titled Sanctuary: The Path to
Consciousness. It is a novel yet it is based on fact as he knows it. He writes
enthusiastically of healing ener gies and the removal of incompatible
energies from the body. Some of it sounds “way out” and will be rejected
by those who are entrenched in the exclusive model of medicines, drugs,
surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy as the only treatment modalities
available for removing diseases from our lives. I have been in the ener getic balancing program and have seen it work for
others and me in my life. Remaining open to all possibilities has allowed
me to see a breakthrough into a healing consciousness, and a deeper
awareness of well-being. I have a very strong knowing that there is much in
the universe and ener gy balancing that has yet to be touched on. Letting go
of the concept of incurable allows you to truly move into the realm of
perfect harmonious ener gy, which is what is meant by spiritual
consciousness, and to realize that there is nothing in God consciousness that
wants us to be warped or injured or plagued by disease. Recognize your
own spiritual perfection and you will come to know the absurdity of
anything ever being viewed as impossible. WHA T IS HEALING. When anyone is experiencing illness or injury as Saint Francis calls it, they
have in some way become disconnected from God. A process of rejoining
accomplishes spiritual healing; what I call God realization. It has nothing to
do with the names of diseases, the swallowing of medicines, or the work of
a skilled sur geon. Healing is a rejoining of the self to the whole. I have
repeatedly referred to diseases (as well as discord and disharmony) as
illusions, since all that is of God is good, and everything is of God. I want
to expand upon this as we look at this process of healing. When I speak of disease as an illusion or being unreal, I do not mean to
imply that it is nonexistent. I do not ask you to fool yourself into believing
that that which exists in you or others is only in your imagination. As Joel
Goldsmith reminds us in The Art of Spiritual Healing :
When disease (like death and sin) is called unreal, it is not a denial of
the so-called existence of these things: It is a denial of their existence
as a part of God or reality. In the realm of the real, the kingdom of
God, the discords of sense have no existence. That however does not
change the fact that we suf fer from them. the beginning of wisdom
is the realization that these conditions need not exist. Healing then is not accomplished by asking God for relief, since God is not
a withholding God, but in seeking relief through God and rising to the place
where you become rejoined in that highest ener gy spiritual field which is
where God always is. Healing then is a rising above the concept of the
physical or material and into God realization, and the term unreal or illusion
refers to the unreality of disease in a realm of wholeness and spiritual
consciousness. As Saint Francis beseeches God to bring pardon to injury, he
asks that he be rejoined in this spiritual wholeness and that he allow that
consciousness to radiate outward to any and all who live in the “unreal”
world of disease and disharmony. When you know that your true essence is
spirit, and you live there in your mind, your body will follow suit and
healing will eventually be the result. To witness healing is a miraculous event, and it takes place daily in a
myriad of ways. A blemish disappears as healing invigorates the skin. Symptoms of a cold that lingered suddenly have no impact on you. Y our
nose stops running, your temperature returns to normal, your upset stomachis soothed, your broken finger mends. All this “healing” is nothing more
than a return to wholeness. Y our thoughts have a lot to do with this healing
process. The closer you stay in harmonious bliss in your thoughts to God, the more
you facilitate this one power of the universe in flowing ener getically
through you. Y our thoughts and low ener gy patterns can activate an ulcer
and so can they activate the flow of chi to remove that imbalance. The
mind-body connection is real, but the God-body connection is the essence
of all healing. T o see yourself connected to the highest spiritual ener gy
vibrations and to work at staying in that space is to see the underlying
principle of healing at work. Now you might ask, why did Saint Francis die of tuberculosis, and why did
Jesus die on a cross, and why do saints get cancer and die if they are in
touch with this highest ener gy of wholeness. Like disease, death is unreal,
in that it has never happened in the spiritual kingdom. When Saint Francis
was asked why he didn’ t heal himself of his terminal illnesses he replied, “I
want everyone to know that it is not me who does the healing. ” T o the
spiritual master, death is unreal, not nonexistent, unreal. Because reality at
the spiritual level is infinite, no one is ever born, and no one dies. The
reality of the spiritual level is formless, timeless, and boundaryless. Living
in that dimension is living in the realm of wholeness. Bringing pardon to injury is just like rejoining the body with God
consciousness. When this occurs, that which we call healing seems to take
place miraculously. As Saint Augustine put it so succinctly, “Miracles
happen, not in opposition to nature, but in opposition to what we know of
nature. ” If you know that healing is nothing more than God realization, and
you abandon all thoughts of being separate from that consciousness,
including fear of illness and death, then you create an ener gy field for
rejoining with spirit. This is healing and Saint Francis asks you through his
prayer to be an instrument of this process. WHA T IS A HEALER. In her marvelous book, The Physician W ithin Y ou, Gladys T aylor McGarey,
M. D. , relates a conversation with her son Carl, who had just finished his
internship and was specializing in orthopedic sur gery. After he had told his
mother of his fears about having people’ s lives in his hands, she related,
“Carl, as a sur geon you may pull an incision together and suture it well, but
you cannot make it heal. If you think you are the one who does the healing,
you have a right to be scared. But if you understand that you are a channel
through which healing moves, and that you are contacting the healing force
within your patients, you have nothing to fear. You will have awakened the
physician within them and sent them on their way to heal themselves. ”
As you begin living your life on the spiritual plane you will discover that
both your body and your mind become instruments of God when you are
able to bring a kind of consciousness to the sick or injured wherein you are,
in effect, bringing the potential for pardoning or releasing the disease itself. Healing occurs when we approach our own healing power through faith in
our spiritual perfection and an abiding sense of unconditional love. The
healer is not performing the healing, but bringing pardon in the form of
unconditional love and the faster ener gy of spiritual consciousness to bear
on the injury, while turning the entire process over to God. As you af firm your spiritual perfection you actually set into motion the
universal law. It is through the surrendering of your doubts and fears, the
laying aside of your little ego and living the principle of existence, which is
the principle of thoughts becoming things. It was the thoughts or mental
conditions that created the illusion of illness as separate from the divine,
and it will be your own thoughts of spiritual perfection that will allow the
healing force to work through you in your self, as well as in others. I am not speaking here of the laying on of hands or the world of the occult,
but merely the awareness that a healer must be able to accept in his or her
own mind the spiritual perfection of mind and body as well as the spiritual
perfection of those injuries you look to pardon. In a word, it is love that is
the power that heals. Remember, the opposite of love is fear, and a belief in
fear is a belief in the second power of disease. Y ou are always reminded
that “Perfect love casteth out all fear,” and the root of all disease and injury
is fear; the fear of being separate from the one power of God. CAN YOU BE A HEALER. Anyone can become a healer who understands that he or she is merely a
channel through which perfect spiritual love can flow. When you are ill you
have disconnected from the capacity to heal yourself. Y ou have lost contact
with your healing source. Y our healing abilities will be found by rejoining
to the source. As a healer, you stay in touch with the whole, never falling
prey to the superstition of separateness, which causes the illness to take
hold in the first place. When you touch the illness of another with the
energy of spirit or the source, you activate the connection and facilitate the
healing process. In that sense, yes, you are a healer, even though you heal
no one. Y ou don’ t even need to understand the mechanics of this process. When you help another to become aware of the source from which healing
takes place, you not only facilitate healing but you act to help others
prevent future illness as well. I am convinced that you can indeed become an instrument of healing by
raising your ener gy field to the highest, most spiritual levels, which were
described in the first six chapters of this book. There I explained that God
does not heal disease, because disease is not accepted as a separate power. Rather, God is the one power of harmony. Be that power, live there, and you will yourself be bringing pardon to injury
in your life, and the lives of those you encounter who live in the illusion of
disease. Believe in this one power. This is not a miracle but simply the way
of things. As Saint Thomas Aquinas put it, “Miracles are signs not to them
that believe, but to them that disbelieve. ”
SUGGESTIONS FOR SOWING P ARDON WHERE THERE IS
INJUR Y
Use your thoughts to keep your ener gy on healing rather than disease. It is
pretty common to place ener gy on what is wrong and what you don’ t want. Thoughts such as “This cold is going to get worse,” “There is nothing you
can do, it’ s the flu season and it’ s going around,” “Y ou have to get worse
before it will get any better,” are all ideas that will help you to manifest
what you don’ t want. A brief reminder here: you act on your thoughts, andthis goes for your body and the bodies of those around you. If your thoughts
are on what you don’ t want (disease) you will act upon those thoughts and
manifest more of what you don’ t want. Anytime you enter an ener gy field of injury or disease remind yourself that
you are bringing the radiant ener gy of spirit to that space. Stay focused on
that faster ener gy, make an ef fort to radiate it outward and in a surrounding
fashion, never buying into the lower ener gy of disease. I visited a young man in a hospital in Canada who had been in a serious
motorcycle accident and was lying comatose. Several of his friends asked if
I would visit him since he was a big fan of my writing and tapes and had
been unable to attend my presentation in T oronto due to his near fatal
accident several days prior to my visit. On my way to the airport I went to
see Anthony in the intensive care unit of the hospital. The nurses said there
was very little chance that he would survive his wounds. He was
surrounded by the ener gy of injury. The other patients on the ward were in
various states of total disrepair. Anthony lay there, twenty-five years old,
unconscious, and in a place where little hope for healing was being of fered. I spent one hour with Anthony, making every ef fort to be a channel through
which healing might flow. I stayed in deep conscious contact (through
meditation) with God, and visualized white light surrounding this young
man. When I left I had a strong knowing that Anthony would recover. Sure
enough, eighteen months later I was speaking at a convention and Anthony
appeared. He looked and sounded fit, and told us he was almost totally
recovered. When he addressed the group, at my request, he described
coming out of the coma and being told by the nurses of my visit. They said
I had prayed and seemed almost lost in my own bliss as I walked around his
bed during my visit. As you know, it was not I, this ego or my body, that had anything to do with
Anthony’ s recovery. I merely brought spiritual consciousness to his injury,
and in the great scheme of things Anthony now uses his own healing
journey as a metaphor for teaching others. The only thing I was totally
committed to in my visit was to stay in the highest ener gy pattern I could
and to refuse to give credibility to a second power called injury. Appr oach any experience of injury, whether it be in yourself or others, with
a mind-set of high hopes and possibilities for r elease fr om that injury
(pardon). Your thoughts must be on wholeness in order to make this visible
in your body. I believe no one knows enough to be a pessimist, and anyone
can be healed, even those in the absolutely lowest frequencies. I recall receiving a letter from a woman who had fallen into prostitution,
was a crack-cocaine addict, had lost almost all her normal weight, and was
a walking skeleton. At this low point she wandered into a drugstore one
morning and stole a tape from the revolving rack of self-improvement
cassettes. It happened to be one of my tapes and for some reason she went
home and listened to it. When I met her in person she agreed to appear on a national television
show to share her story. She described how from that lowest point in her life
she began to think vigorous healing thoughts, the same kinds of thoughts I
had recorded on the tape. She listened every day and gradually those
thoughts became her own and they literally transformed her injury into
health. Now, I receive a Christmas card each year with a picture of her with
her husband and two children along with a note relating the continued
success of her new business. When you can transcend your malaise and thoughts of impossible or
incurable, and replace them with the ener gy of spirit where all things are
possible, the material world responds and wholeness replaces visions of
doom and separateness. Deliver this higher ener gy thinking to even the
worst of circumstances and a spiritual solution is revealed. In summary, always think yes, it’ s possible, I can, I will, I am trusting God
totally, because all that is not good can’ t possibly be real, even if it exists in
the material world. Be continuously awar e of the times when you ar e trapped in ego
consciousness. At a gathering I attended on Maui led by Swami
Satchidananda, we discussed the dif ference between illness and wellness. He counseled us to look carefully at how these two words were spelled. “Illness,” he said, “begins with the letter i, and it is the source of all disease. The ego’ s belief in its separation from the perfection of God creates a
nonperfect state called illness. W ellness on the other hand,” he reminded us,
“begins with the letters w and e, indicating a sense of being connected to
God in all of God’ s perfection. ” By staying in the we, rather than the I, you
stay in wellness and avoid illness. As you seek to bring pardon to the presence of injury be aware that the
presence of the injury is an indication of spiritual separation. Don’ t use this
as an opportunity to feel guilty, or weak, but to remind yourself to shift
away from your ego’ s sense of being separate from spirit. The moment that
you use your mind to see yourself as connected to spirit you will find
yourself feeling more loving, accepting, trusting and peaceful. These are the
signals to your body and to the existence of any injury that you are now
willing to be a channel through which the force of healing can flow. See the existence of injury in others as an opportunity for you to take
pardoning action. Rather than feeling repulsed or upset when you view an
injury allow your inner feelings to motivate you to action. What follows is a
true story sent to me by a reader who did precisely what I am suggesting
here. I have made changes only to protect the privacy of those involved. My co-workers and I attended a dinner meeting at a family restaurant
in town. W e were visiting at our table when a waitress asked us if we
wanted anything to drink. I looked up at the waitress, saw a pretty lady
and smiled at her. She smiled back and I about choked. Her teeth
were rotted, half were missing and those that were left were chipped
and bucked outward. She continued to smile and took our order as I
turned away from the awful sight. After she left I made a comment and
so did the others at my table. I felt terrible for her that she has had to
live her life like this. It is not fair, especially in today’ s society when
there is good dental care available. After dinner, I could not stop
thinking about her. I had no idea who she was, knew nothing about her
but I felt a need to help. I’m not sure why I was driven to help her
when we see people in need every day. I went home and meditated and came to the conclusion that I could
help. I was not able to af ford to pay for this myself but I knew of many
organizations that were available in our community that could helppeople like her. In fact, I have served on several boards and even knew
the people to contact. I thought she just did not have the connections. Now, my quandary was how to approach her to tell her I wanted to
help. I did not want to of fend her. I decided to write a letter and if she
responded I would go from there. I delivered the letter in person and
within five minutes I received a phone call from her. To make a long
story short, I promised her I would help her get new teeth at no cost to
her. I thought this was going to be simple. After making phone calls to: United W ay (no programs available
yet), the Community Health Department (no dentist available), the
Donated Dental Services Or ganization (there was a three year wait),
The Area Foundation (no funds were set aside for dental care), Social
Services and government programs (since she works full time she is
disqualified. ); I could not believe it, every door was closed. I called
several dentists and they wanted over $5,000. 00 to do the work. I was
very discouraged but what was really bothering me was that I
promised this lady a new set of teeth. What was I going to do now. I went out to eat with my family (mom, dad, brothers and their
wives) and told them what had happened and asked their advice. They
all wrote checks that evening. I then called my dentist and he of fered
to donate $1500. 00 towards her teeth if I could come up with
$3500. 00. Done. Here is the article that was written about the lady, I
thought you would enjoy reading it. This is a real life example of bringing pardon to the presence of injury, and
having the injury dissolve. There is a saying, “When the student is ready,
the teacher will appear. ” The reverse is also true: “When the teacher is
ready, the students will appear. ” When you are living in spirit as a teacher of
spirit, seeking a spiritual solution to every problem, you will see your
students appear each and every day, and you will be directed to provide
pardon merely by getting out of the way of your ego and allowing spirit to
reign. Immerse yourself in the literatur e of healing rather than that of evil. Read
and listen to stories of miraculous cures, healings, positive ener gy, and the
glory of all that is right with the world. Expose yourself to expressions of
God’ s grace and man’ s potential for spiritual perfection. This will thenbecome your expectation for yourself as a channel of healing. Read the
lives of the saints and how they ef fected monumental change in the lives of
those they encountered, particularly the injured. W atch movies and
television shows which extol the virtues of man rather than the
shortcomings and evil intentions of humanity. Continuously reinforce in
yourself the idea that humanity is good, that the sick can be healed, that the
injured can be pardoned. There are a million acts of kindness for every act
of violence in the world. Do what you can to reinforce this truth. One small example of how this can bring healing came to me in a letter
from a woman in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, who had just read a book that I
had written with my wife, Marcelene. A Promise Is a Pr omise  is a true story
of unmatched unconditional love from Kaye O’Bara, a woman who has
cared for her comatose daughter for over thirty years in a spirit of service
and selfless love unlike any I’ve ever known. Barbara Binkley wrote the
following words to me; they are self-explanatory in the context of this
chapter on sowing pardon in the presence of injury. “I am now reading your book A Promise Is a Pr omise. This is an incredible
book so filled with love and miracles that I noticed after I had read some of
it that the pain in my left elbow that had troubled me daily since November
was gone. God bless Y ou, Barbara J. Binkley. ” What a nice reminder of the
value to be found in reading inspiring stories. Take car e of the sick but be indiffer ent to the illness. Don’ t encourage injury
by providing extra special love and attention for the sickness. This applies
to the treatment of others as well as yourself. A void giving yourself and
others a reason to continue being sick. Don’ t make the occurrence of illness
the only time you give loving attention. Sickness and love can become
associated. When a person, particularly a child, wants love they erroneously
may think becoming sick is the way to get it. Take the view that the sickness itself is not real. It is not of God so
spiritually speaking it is unreal. T reat it just like you would treat any other
illusion, as something that really doesn’ t belong in your consciousness or
the consciousness of the injured. Become indif ferent to the illness itself. Reinforce the idea that the real you is not sick and that illness can disappear
as you realize that you don’ t want or deserve it. I find that people who experience a great deal of injury and illness in their
lives appear to enjoy continuously telling everyone about their maladies. When these people begin to tell me how proud they are of their maladies I
respond with indif ference to the sickness itself. “Y ou don’ t have to live with
this pain,” I suggest. “Y ou are stronger than any disease. ” I do not give the
injury any credibility. I treat my family and myself in this way as well. I
have long noticed that in our family we rarely ever talk about being tired,
not feeling well, or feeling something “coming on. ” My wife and I have just
naturally sent our children messages that they are more powerful than any
disease process. In other words we want our love to be more associated
with health, strength, and spiritual consciousness, than with being sick,
tired, or injured. When you stop reinforcing injury with love, and use your
love to reinforce pardoning, healing often replaces sickness quite quickly. Practice dir ecting healing ener gy. One way of sowing pardon in the
presence of injury is to view yourself as a disseminator of higher healing
energy. Consciously notice your breath and get some sense of your essential
self as pure awareness and ener gy expressed through your body/mind. Visualize placing this awareness in your heart and breathing gently into that
heart awareness. Then, see a gently flowing, loving stream of ener gy from
your heart to any physically or emotionally injured areas, of your own body
or to the body of another person. This process of visualization and directing ener gy can be very powerful. You are a system of higher/faster vibrations in which the work of your mind
is the precursor to material reality (as you think, so shall you be). Y ou can
access the harmonious living ener gy of your being through your
visualization ef forts, and feel that ener gy flowing toward and healing the
painful or injured area. Many books have been written on the amazing ability of the mind to
visualize and then transfer the inner image to material reality. Basketball
players learn to shoot free throws through this process of visualization, so
it’s not that great a stretch to see yourself using this technique to bringhealing ener gy to places that are wounded or diseased. I practice this
visualization technique with myself all the time. I have been able to move a
headache right out of my body by directing heart chakra ener gy to that area
of pain. You can do all of this if you become a person who is open to the idea of
being able to use their higher capacities to help restore the natural loving
harmony of the body. Keep beauty always near you and feel the healing power of God’ s natural
soothing, harmonious world. Allow yourself to fully experience and enjoy
flowers, sunsets and sunrises, mountains, beaches, and beautiful spiritual
literature. When in need of healing, I suggest you open yourself to
experience as much beautiful uplifting music as possible. And above all,
keep uppermost in mind the words of Peace Pilgrim, “Healing does not
always mean staying on the side of life. Sometimes God has other plans for
his children—and both sides of life are really one. ”
Let go. Yes, that’ s correct, detach yourself from your thoughts of anger,
bitterness, self-pity, or whatever and just love your body as the temple that
God gave you to house your soul on this journey. The process of letting go
and refusing to harbor thoughts of illness will bring a calm healing ener gy
to you in the moment and this peace will be your reward for letting go. The use of the wor d pardon  by Saint Francis could also be construed to
imply the willingness to extend for giveness to any and all who may have
injur ed you in any way, not just thr ough bodily injury. As you more and
more live on the spiritual plane you will have less to do with the lower
frequencies of anger, prejudice, fear, and revenge. Saint Francis asks God to
help him to be an instrument of for giveness whenever he feels injured by
the conduct of others. The ability to extend for giveness becomes natural
when you don’ t carry hate within you. Whenever you feel that someone has injured you, or sullied your reputation,
or caused you physical harm, the spiritual solution, as dif ficult as it may
appear, is to extend for giveness. T o hold onto the pain and seek to exact
revenge will simply keep you stuck in pain, and the problem will beexacerbated. The old Chinese proverb states this better than I do: “If you’re
going to seek revenge, you’d better dig two graves. ” Practice letting go of
injured feelings with love and pardon and the spiritual solutions to most of
your problems will be activated. Let go, and let God is great advice, as also
is this reminder from a previous chapter: All your conflicts with others ar e
never between you and them; they ar e between you and God. This concludes my thoughts and suggestions for practicing sowing pardon
where there is injury. You can move yourself to a spiritual ener gy space
where you literally become an instrument or a channel for healing. That is,
healing of yourself and all your perceived injuries, as well as aiding all the
injured you encounter in your life. In fact, I will take it one step further. When you become an instrument of pure pardon, you will be aiding in the
healing of everyone on our planet, since we all, individually, share the one
God force. It is, as always, a process of letting go of your ego and
surrendering to grace, which is always available in the form of pardon. As
Ramakrishna put it in his rhetorical question: “Is it an easy thing to receive
the grace of God. One must altogether renounce egotism; one cannot see
God as long as one feels, I am the doer. ”
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WHERE THERE IS DOUBT, 
FAITH
One of the main functions of formalized religion is to protect people against a direct experience
of God. —C. G. JUNG
I often use the mango exercise to illustrate that faith is impossible to have
without a direct experience. When speaking to a lar ge audience I invite
someone who has never tasted a mango to volunteer for a little experiment. Then I ask people who have tasted a mango to tell the volunteer exactly
how a mango tastes. As each person attempts to convey the flavor of a
mango they realize how fruitless their ef forts are. The conclusion is that it is
impossible to convey this information in words. The volunteer always
returns to the audience still not knowing what a mango tastes like. The mango tasting exercise is analogous to your ability to have faith where
there is doubt. Just as you cannot know the taste of a mango unless you
have the experience of eating a mango, you cannot know faith without
having had an experience of God. If you rely on the testimony and
experiences of others as your means of establishing faith, you will always
have some doubt where you want there to be only faith. Y ou are in the same
position as the volunteer who has never tasted a mango. It is impossible tobring faith to the presence of doubt, until you abandon the idea of knowing
God through the words or experiences of others. Y ou must make a
concentrated ef fort to know the highest/fastest frequencies of spiritual
energy through your own means of establishing conscious contact. Once you know  this spiritual consciousness yourself, you will not even
entertain the possibility of doubt. Y ou will strive to live more and more at
the spiritual level, where you have access to this knowing at all times. This
knowing is what I call faith, and it cannot be substantiated or verified by
external sources. And when you know  faith you will have accessed a
spiritual solution to any problem that may present itself. REPLACING DOUBT WITH F AITH
Why would you live with any doubts about your ability to access spirit in
times of trouble or the presence of problems. The answer lies in
understanding the dif ference between what you believe and what you know. Beliefs stem from the experiences and testimony of others who in one way
or another have attempted to persuade you of their truths. All your
institutional religious training, holy books, and theological dogma may be
valid and extremely forthright, nevertheless they are usually presented as
the truth for all, including you. The pressures to believe may have been
almost insurmountable if you were assigned these beliefs at birth, and
raised on them. I am not suggesting that religious training is wrong. However, I do think any method of conditioning people to accept beliefs
about God creates doubt, because the beliefs do not come from any
conscious contact or direct experience of God. T o create a knowing that
supplies you with faith, you must establish a direct experience of God for
yourself. You have faith that you can ride a bicycle not because of the testimony or
experiences of others, but because you have made conscious contact with
bicycle riding. Y our experience has provided you with faith in this
endeavor. It is not because of any evidence that has been presented to you
verifying the existence of balance laws, or because others have persuaded
you that balancing is a possibility for you, or even because everyone elsearound you is dutifully riding their bicycles. It is your knowing because of
your direct experience and nothing more that gives you faith. So it is with all knowing, including your coming to know God. Y ou must
abandon your fears and create the place in your life where you are
independent of outside influences, allow yourself to move up the ener gy
ladder, and come into direct contact with these faster/ higher frequencies
that are being called spiritual consciousness in this book. When you live
there, and breathe in the ener gy of God realization, you will then have that
faith from which you can never be dissuaded. Y ou do this by dispelling
fears that arise from making the decision to have this direct experience,
independent of the opinions of those external forces that have been so
powerful in your life. FEAR AND F AITH
When you let go of your fears you find your God nature, which returns you
to the balanced state of body and mind that is in perfect harmony and
problem-free. Fear and faith cannot live harmoniously in the same space
any more than love and hate, or peace and chaos can survive
simultaneously. You may recall that earlier in this book I suggested that humans have only
one problem, from which all subproblems flow. That one problem is a
belief that we are separate from God. It is from this feeling of being
separate that we create all our fears, which foster doubt. W ould you ever
fear if you knew (without doubt) that God was your real self. W ould you
have fear if you knew God was expressing himself as you and that you
could never be separated from him. Obviously, fear would be impossible. Remember, evil cannot and does not exist in the omnipresent good. It is all
the product of your mind (and of our collective mind as well), an error if
you will, in need of correction. In A Course in Miracles  we are reminded
that there are only two emotions, love and fear. When you are in a condition
of fear, you are experiencing problems. When you remove fear and replace
it with love, the problems dissolve right where you experience them, in
your thoughts. In the scriptures we are reminded, “Perfect love casteth outall fears. ” In other words, you know that you can never be separated from
your real self which is God. REPLACING FEARS
Fear has the ef fect of changing the body through a chemical process. It also
changes the external world as well. For instance, Mother T eresa addressed
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The author states that love and hate cannot coexist, and that the solution to problems is to focus on loving thoughts and not react to hate with hate.
What is the author's message about the coexistence of love and hate?
The key is to become conscious of your thoughts and commit to staying in loving thoughts, as problems are experienced in your thoughts first.
What is the key to transforming hate into joy and beauty?
The author emphasizes the importance of self-love and self-forgiveness, stating that self-hatred is a result of not loving oneself and that it is essential to replace self-hatred with self-love.
What is the author's view on the concept of self-love and self-forgiveness?
The author recommends not engaging with hate and instead, silently reciting "Where there is hatred, let me sow love" and focusing on loving thoughts.
What is the author's suggestion for responding to hate?
The author suggests that illness is an illusion and that healing is not possible through external means, but rather through spiritual means, such as rejoining with the divine and using one's thoughts to bring about healing.
What is the author's view on the concept of illness and healing?