e lived only in the moment that
now is, whether it be to-day or ten thousand years hence, our need is to
harmonise the life of expression with the life of purpose, and by
realising in ourselves the source of the highest purposes to realise
also the life of the fullest expression.

This is the meaning of prayer. Prayer is not a foolish seeking to change
the mind of Supreme Wisdom, but it is an intelligent seeking to embody
that wisdom in our thoughts so as more and more perfectly to express
_it_ in expressing _ourselves_. Thus, as we gradually grow into the
habit of finding this inspiring Presence _within ourselves_, and of
realising its forward movement as the ultimate determining factor in all
true healthful mental action, it will become second nature to us to have
all our plans, down to the apparently most trivial, so floating upon the
undercurrent of this Universal Intelligence that a great harmony will
come into our lives, every discordant manifestation will disappear, and
we shall find ourselves more and more controlling all things into the
forms that we desire.

Why? Because we have attained to _commanding_ the Spirit and making it
obey us? Certainly not, for "if the blind lead the blind both shall fall
into the ditch"; but because we are _companions_ of the Spirit, and by a
continuous and growing intimacy have changed, not "the mind of the
Spirit," but our own, and have learned to think from a higher
standpoint, where we see that the old-world saying "know thyself"
includes the knowledge of all that we mean when we speak of God.

I AM IS ONE

This may seem a very elementary proposition, but it is one of which we
are too apt to lose sight. What does it mean? It means everything; but
we are most concerned with what it means in regard to ourselves, and to
each of us personally it means this. It means that there are not two
Spirits, one which is myself and one which is another. It means that
there is not some great unknown power external to myself which may be
actuated by perfectly different motives to my own, and which will,
therefore, oppose me with its irresistible force and pass over me,
leaving me crushed and broken like the devotee over whom the car of
Jaggarnath has rolled. It means that there is only one mind, one motive,
one power--not two opposing each other--and that my conscious mind in
all its movements is only the one mind expressing itself as (not merely
through) my own particular individua