Mind, Consciousness, Thought

Sometimes we shy away from saying the Principles, as though the words might separate listeners or readers from the deep truth they represent. But the words could not be more simple and straightforward. Mind, even without the formal definition provided by Sydney Banks, generates the idea of energy we cannot see or explain, the power that wakes us to life. Consciousness generates the idea of being aware or able to notice or "see" life. Thought generates the recognition that we have ideas going through our heads all the time. Put them together: the energy of life awakens us to the "reality" of our thoughts as we continually create them, using that energy. The remarkable profundity of the Principles is that they are a logic that assures people that what we all see, moment-to-moment, is the life we are creating within our own minds as we respond to life circumstances.  We are creating our own thinking about circumstances, and being conscious of that thinking. The Principles are the gift of freedom. We do not live at the mercy of life circumstances. We live as creators of our own experience of them, with the power to change our minds at any time. Imagine how different the daily news would be if more people in the world really, truly knew that.