Article March 3, 1997 Issue

The calm focus of Mind

Carol Rockhold Miller

When I was in college, I had an experience that still delights me many years later. I had an important timed test to take one weekend for a course that I had been struggling in. This particular subject, economic statistics, really baffled me. Try as I might—and I had spent considerable time and effort studying the course material—I couldn't seem to grasp it. As far as I was concerned, the instructor might just as well have been talking in a foreign language, because what he said just didn't register with me. It had been an extremely frustrating term!

This particular day I had been studying with a special friend and was having an otherwise lovely time, except for this unsettled feeling about the material. As I pored over and over the course textbook, feeling I was getting nowhere, I finally knew that I had to meet this situation head-on through prayer. I excused myself for a while and took my statistics book to a quiet study room, where I could pray.

I pondered the fact that there is only one Mind, God. This all-knowing Mind includes all knowledge and understanding of its creation—the spiritual universe, including man. Nothing is confusing or obscure in this divine consciousness, which man rightly reflects. I saw that, as the reflection of divine Mind, I didn't have a separate, finite mind, incapable of understanding; I was the very expression of the one Mind, which made and knows all good.

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