There is one thing that means more to us than all the other things in the world, and that is our search for God and the understanding of His nature. Our aim is to learn the practice of the presence of God. We practice the presence of God by seeing Him everywhere, in all things and in all people.
Some years ago I coined the phrase “mental equivalent.” For anything that you want in your life—a healthy body, a satisfactory vocation, friends, opportunities, and above all the understanding of God—you must furnish a mental equivalent. Supply yourself with a mental equivalent, and the thing must come to you. This expression “mental equivalent” is borrowed from physics and chemistry. We speak of the mechanical equivalent of one kind of energy in another kind of energy. They have to find out how much coal will be needed to produce so much electricity, and so on. In like manner there is a mental equivalent of every object or occurrence on the physical plane.
The secret of successful living is to build up the mental equivalent that you want; and to get rid of, to expunge, the mental equivalent that you do not want.
I will meditate in thy precepts, and have respect unto thy ways (Psalm 119:15).
What mental equivalents are we providing ourselves? Are we furnishing those which take us closer to God or further away.
The mental states that bring us closer to God are love, peace, joy and all the positive mental states. Those that take us away from God are fear, anger, bitterness and the other negative mental states that block us from God.
As we are able to furnish the positive mental equivalents to ourselves, God will furnish the same to us. Then we can recognize and live in our Edens.
Practicing the presence,
Z gardener
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