Part 1

“Between you and your Good, which belongs to you and which you ought to have, is your idea of the absence of Good.”
— Emma Curtis Hopkins

Emma Curtis Hopkins was a 19th- and early 20th-century mystic, writer, and what many called the “teacher of teachers.” She influenced many of the great New Thought minds of her time, including Ernest Holmes of Religious Science and Charles Fillmore and Myrtle Fillmore of Unity.

Let us examine this quote that so profoundly moved me this morning and apply it not only to our personal lives, but also to the collective experience we are living through today.

When Hopkins uses the term Good, she is referring to infinite substance—the living energy that moves through all of us and supplies us at all times. She uses the term interchangeably with the word God. God means Good, and we are all seeking it.

Think about it in your own life. Doesn’t the desire for good—for yourself and for others—move your day forward?

But if there is a Good and we ought to have it, what is standing in the way?

According to Hopkins, it is our constant affirmation of its absence.

Many thinkers, including Albert Einstein, have suggested that we cannot create something new from the same patterns of thinking that created the old. Hopkins is pointing to a similar truth: we cannot realize the good in our lives while continually affirming that it is missing.

Let’s take this idea into the world scene for a moment.

How are we going to experience something new—something that moves us beyond the turmoil we see—if we keep insisting that everything is a mess?

What if it isn’t a mess at all?

What if it is a call?

What if it is calling us to take the creative energy, the invisible substance that underlies everything, and direct more of our mental attention toward creating something new?

I believe it will be those with imagination, creativity, and intuition who will help lead the way into a new civilization.

Instead of staring into the void, let us begin looking through it, toward the infinite possibilities and blessings that can arise when we remain awake in the midst of chaos.

More on this in my next blog.

Rita Andriello-Feren, Author, Co-Founding Director – CSL Kaua’i, Institute of Magnificence and Partners in Empowerment