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...expression in a perfect union between your mind and this Perfect Mind. The point of contact is your own willingness and your search for it.
“Seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.” Matthew 7:7
The question naturally arises: if we are the offspring of this Divine Mind, why are we not naturally aware of its presence? The answer is that we have used our inherited privilege—the power to turn ideas into visible things—to create a realm that separates our consciousness from the Father Mind. This is what Jesus taught in the parable of the prodigal son Luke 15:11-32; a story about a son who leaves his father's house, squanders his inheritance, and eventually returns home to a loving welcome. When we grow tired of focusing only on what our physical senses perceive original: "sense consciousness", we only need to turn our attention original: "face (intelligence)" toward our parent’s house to receive a loving welcome.
Understanding that God is not in a distant heaven, nor located in any specific geographical place, gives us a feeling of closeness and unity with the Parent Mind. Jesus beautifully demonstrated this inner communication between human consciousness and the Ever-Present original: "Omnipresent" Spiritual Force of the universe. God was closer to him than his own hands or feet A reference to Alfred Lord Tennyson's poem "The Higher Pantheism": "Closer is He than breathing, and nearer than hands and feet.". He attributed everything to this loving Father, who was in constant communication and cooperation with the Son.
Yet even in his case, there was an independent personal consciousness that troubled him when he tried to be free from human original: "mortal" limitations. Therefore, we should not be discouraged or saddened if we do not quickly find the kingdom of God within ourselves. Jesus spent entire nights in prayer; we should not grow tired after just a few moments each day. A daily half-hour of meditation...