Editorial March 7, 1970 Issue

Habit or Inspiration?

Alan A. Aylwin

Many people are creatures of habit. Some of their habits are good, some bad, others indifferent. But whatever the quality, if thoughts and acts develop from unthinking repetition, they will form a pretty flimsy base on which to build a harmonious and progressive life.

How easily a good habit can fluctuate and become a bad one! It lacks the stabilizing influence of spirituality. To be consistent in our expression of good, we discover the need to go above mere repetitive human thinking and learn something of man's unity, or oneness, with God, infinite divine Mind. We must begin to understand our real selfhood to be spiritual, an idea living in and exactly expressing the perfect nature of this Mind.

To attempt to correct or discipline mortal mind through willpower is to court defeat. This mind cannot evangelize itself, because it is inherently false. Belief in its reality and power must be given up, and the one real Mind must be accepted as the only consciousness of man. As thought humbly yields to the allness of the eternal Ego—as one recognizes it to be the omniscient "I" of his being, the Principle of every thought and act—his human life becomes more consistently Godlike. It becomes clearly evident that good character traits and their resultant order and consistency of action are not attained by mortally mental processes but by the freshness and spontaneity of spiritual knowing.

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