If each and every one of you would try for a week to hold a silence wherein you actively create a perfect picture of what you want and do not permit for one moment a thought to destroy it, you would find that picture would come forth. You would find that your faith would be so strong that you would know it had to be and it would be.

That does not mean that today in all your great enthusiasm you would sit down and create this picture and tomorrow you would not find time for it, and you would say, "I will wait until tomorrow and I will do that again." When that tomorrow would come, perhaps there would be a moment or two you would snatch from something else and do it, and then place it out of your mind for a day or so, and perhaps then you would sit down and say, “I am not quite sure that is just what I want - perhaps I want it this way."

It is very easy to see why you do not create! You have not time to do the vital things of life, but you have time to do that which lasts for a moment and has no particular place in your lives. Nevertheless, I go back again and say, if you will and desire enough to create it, and love it, and hold fast to it and make it the paramount thing in your lives and all else subservient to it, you may have what you will! You do not forget for a moment what it is that you declare to yourselves. "I must have this thing,” and you love it even as you would your flowers. So many of you will go out and tend your flowers carefully and lovingly and visualize what they will look like when they come through because you usually have a picture on the seed package. You never think if you plant a pansy that an onion may come forth, but you are continuously doing this in your lives - planting a seed and not holding to it. You plant other things with it until your garden is so filled with the conglomeration that nothing perfect can come forth. Your picture is not perfect.

Think of it! You can create what you will -but not in a haphazard manner. It must be a very definite clear-cut manner and if you will have health, do you think that you could have it by continuously declaring to yourself, "I am ill," and saying where you are ill and how you are ill - but you never say WHY you are ill. You will not admit to yourself the truth of why you are ill because you do not wish to go back that far. you would rather cast that point aside and see the fact with your outer senses. But I would suggest to you that you look back within your lives and try to find out why you are ill and if you know you are ill because of any bondage in your lives, or any form of inharmony such as fear or jealousy, or grief or hatred, or any of these attributes which are not all divine in manifestation - if these things have caused you to be in a state of dis-ease. then is it not wise to go back and change that particular phase before you can expect complete health in the outer? And if you do not see why you have created this dis-ease that seems to have come to your body, then I say to you, go back within yourself and try to see how your disposition tallies with the way you think that others should be. Do you do as you would have others do whether it be unto you or unto another? Do you see life as you would have others see it? Have you always lived your lives in a manner that you could stand forth and declare yourself free from bondage in all its phases?

For instance, let us say this, that the individual who suffers from so-called constipation is in some manner in bondage mentally and its picture come forth in this way. It is a law of life and cannot be changed that the individual who finds himself fearful will find a condition in his life that some of you term tuberculosis, which means nothing but fear and bondage within one's self. And turning this erosive acid within causes that part of the body which should be free to contract, to draw together until life cannot flow through properly.

And to the individual who is unkind or to the individual who has hatred or a great selfish desire (I say selfish because I mean a personal one) that has not been fulfilled, and the reason it has not been fulfilled is because he did not have the courage to bring it forth himself and chose to reflect the cause upon another - that cause brings forth the condition known as tumor which, in turn, easily becomes cancerous. Now all of these terms mean nothing. They are only labels for conditions brought about by mental ease, or lack of harmony.

If you will create harmony in your lives, you must gain self-control and no longer permit yourselves to create these disease conditions but bring out of your lives a state of harmony refusing to permit yourself to think along the old channels in which you have thought up to the present time. This is a very definite thing to think about. Turn about and make a change in your lives.

You are all looking for peace and harmony, vitality. strength, health, and all that goes to make life worth while to you. Then if this is true, go back within yourselves first. There is a center of your distorted ideas created in your ignorance. But that is why you are studying, is it not? That you might change all these mistakes and correct the method that brought them about?

Oh! If in some way I could impress upon you the great importance of bringing yourselves to the place where you will say, "I have an appointment with myself and I permit no one or no thing or no condition to over-rule that particular time that I set aside for my silence for that is more important than life itself as I am living it today. It is the very center, it is the very heart of my existence and if I hope to go onward, forward, and upward, I must stop here and now and change my method of approach instead of playing around with the fringes in a distorted manner. I must go back to the center, to the heart of life which lies within me, and control it as I would have it. I must have time to think how I do want it and I must have courage to face it and live it and hold it until such time as it brings itself forth to my liking. And if there are times that I have brought forth that which seems to me I cannot bear to continue in I will still want the strength to hold to it until I can bring about that with which I do want to go hand and hand." By that I mean this. In some of you who declare yourselves free to direct your own lives - there is a timidity, a fear of stepping forth and doing what you will because some of your friends might ridicule you, some of them might even go so far as to say you do not know what you are doing and that you are casting all life from you and are being selfish and thoughtless and you do not care for others.

Then you will meet your darkest moments. Then you will find yourself alone, and then you can ask yourself, "Have I the courage to go on with my picture until I have completed it, and show my friends that I care as much for them as ever, that my courage takes me forward and that I am attempting to live and to be as my soul would have me be, and my selfishness is for a moment, a divine selfishness that I might take myself forward along my path and assist others by having the courage to go forward?”

It takes strong people to do this, and yet there is no one who is not strong enough to do it, there is no one but would be benefited a hundred percent if he would try it. You would have all you have today, and more. You would not lose the love of your friends nor the love that you have for your friends. You would not lose anything because the greater always includes the lesser. I urge you to lift yourselves for a moment high enough to see life as it is and have the courage to step forth - have the courage to dare, to do, and to keep silent. Take your time of silence for your creation, but see to it that your creation is constructive. It is never wise to have created that which would be destructive to another thing or person or condition unless you know that the condition itself needs to be changed to a constructive one.

You have no right to try to direct the life of another in any phase or form, but you have all the right to direct your own life. Do not direct it in a manner that you would try to separate yourself from others. That not only is wrong but is against the laws of life. It cannot be done.

Keep yourself always on the right path for one son, and that reason is that it is right to do so. You can look at both sides of any problem and make your decision, but declare unto yourself. “I do this thing because it is right, not because I should benefit from it, not because others should benefit by it, but because it falls under the law of right," and you will never depart from it.