What is New Thought? In a Nutshell

• New Thought began in the mid-1800s with Transcendentalism, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Phineas P. Quimby who came to believe the mind can create good health or disease. Other leaders in the movement were Mary Baker Eddy, Thomas Troward, Emmet Fox Joel Goldsmith, Ernest Holmes, Charles and Myrtle Fillmore.

• “I am a child of God and therefore I do not inherit sickness.” (E. B. Weeks) He influenced Myrtle Fillmore and she overcame Tuberculosis.

•  New Thought embraces positive thinking, listening to one’s inner voice, affirmative prayer, meditation, and other ways of realizing the presence of God within.

• As a Spiritual Philosophy New Thought derives its name from an ancient principle that “A NEW THOUGHT PRODUCES A NEW CONDITION.” Voices of Faith, Chapter on ‘New Thought” by Rev. Dr. Mitzi Lynton.

• Its roots are in Christianity but it is not limited or bound by it. (Rev. Wendy Craig-Purcell, Unity) Jesus the Christ was the Way Shower, the teacher, the Awakened One, the GREAT EXAMPLE, not the exception. He knew His Divinity. We believe his words. “What I DO, You can do, and even greater things.” He was fully God Conscious. Everyone has the potential to be fully God Conscious.

• “The philosophy of Religious Science is a synthesis of the greatest concepts that have ever come to the mind of humankind. The laws of Moses, the love of Christ, the ethics of Buddha, the morals of Confucius and the deep spiritual realization of the Hindus all find an exalted place in the philosophy of Religious Science.”  (Ernest Holmes)

• New Thought spirituality teaches that separation is the ultimate illusion and that in reality, there is ONE Consciousness expressing through infinite forms (humans and all species) -(Rev. Cylvia Hayes)

• New Thought followers believe “God in all, as all and is all” and “There is one life, that Life is the Life of God, that Life is Perfect and that Life is my/our life now. The God in me sees the God in you. The Christ in me sees the Christ in you. “There is a Power in the universe greater than you are and you can use it.” Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life.” (Ernest Holmes)

• New Thought continues to develop conceptually, educationally, and organizationally because New Thought affirms freedom of belief of each person.  Always be open at the top. (Science of Mind, Ernest Holmes)

Sometimes a story just SAYS it ALL. My friend Rev. Forward shared this story with me.

“Cliff Young: Embracing the Edge”” A true tale of improbable endurance and quiet revolution”

“In 1983, a crowd gathered in Sydney to witness the beginning of the grueling Westfield Ultramarathon—a 544-mile race stretching all the way to Melbourne. The best ultra-athletes from around the world were there: lean, young, backed by sponsors, outfitted in sleek gear. And then, from the edge of the crowd, stepped a man who didn’t belong.

He was 61 years old. His name was Cliff Young. He wore overalls, not running shorts. His shoes were work boots, not trainers. He had no coach, no nutritionist, no plan beyond the rhythm of his own body and the memory of chasing sheep across fields for days on end without sleep. The onlookers laughed. The other runners blinked in confusion.But Cliff wasn’t there to prove anyone wrong. He was just there to run.

And run he did. Not with speed or style, but with what would come to be known as the Cliff Young Shuffle—a strange, loping gait, low to the ground, effortless, and efficient. While the younger athletes followed tradition—running fast by day and resting at night—Cliff did something no one expected: he didn’t stop. He shuffled through the dark, through the pain, through the silence of night, embracing every edge that rose up to stop him.

On the third night, people began to notice. Cliff was closing the gap. By the fifth day, he had taken the lead. By the time he shuffled across the finish line in Melbourne, he had broken the race record by nearly two days, finishing ten hours ahead of the next competitor.And then, when handed the $10,000 prize, he shocked the world again. Cliff said, “I didn’t know there was a prize. I thought it was just a run.” And he gave it all away—dividing it among the other runners.

Cliff Young didn’t win because he was faster. He won because he lived his life at the edge—of expectation, of logic, of belief—and when the world said “this is impossible,” Cliff said “I’ll just keep going.”

• He didn’t fight the edge. He didn’t fear it.
• He shuffled into it. Night after night. Step after step.
• And in doing so, he redefined what endurance could mean.

Let his story remind us:

•  Sometimes the edge is not a cliff to fall from, but a place to begin.
•  A new gait.
• A quiet revolution.
•  A shuffle that changes the world.”

Cliff just DID what he loved, and what he knew how to do without worrying or even considering what other people thought. What a lesson in DOING WHAT YOU LOVE TO DO, through trials and tribulations!

Be courageous in the long run….

Watch ABC Newsclip on Cliff Young                                            https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-24/cliff-young-potato-farmer-who-ran-from-sydney-to-melbourne/105023078

“LOVE GOES BEFORE ME”

How many of you remember the TV show “Star Trek?”    Remember the words…, SPACE, the Final Frontier?They were looking for new places to go. They couldn’t see them and yet they knew people, other planets, other civilizations were OUT THERE.  That Final Frontier was something you could see and touch traveling  past stars, and landing on other worlds.

There is Another Final Frontier for humans and that is the CONSCIOUSNESS of LOVE. If we all expressed LOVE this world would be a different place. Don’t You Think? LOVE: We can’t see it or touch it, and yet we know IT is there. Like AIR we expel on a cold day, we can’t see it unless it is very cold out and we exhale.

The Consciousness of LOVE is within each and everyone of us.Emerson says, “LOVE is our highest word and the synonym of GOD.”

SAY to yourself everyday whatever you do and wherever you go….

IAM LOVE ENTERING – Be Love entering a building, a store, the post office, whatever threshold you cross over.

I AM LOVE WALKING  – On walks meet people with a smile and kind heart. Take time to say hello.

I AM LOVE TALKING – Preface your words with kindness. Respond to hurtful words with quiet compassion. Think first before talking or answering.

I AM LOVE HEALING – You are the essence of God. The healing vibration is who you are. You were created from LOVE so LOVE is who you are. Love heals.

I AM LOVE EXPANDING – Expand loving thoughts, words and deeds towards all people, even those you disagree with and/or don’t like.

Watch the EFFECT you have on people with a LOVE Consciousness!!! You will be a BLESSING to all in your life and also yourself.