Our Mission:
To know & honor the One Eternal Life, in all, through all, as all.
Our Purpose:
To expand the consciousness of Universal Truth, as embodied in the Science of Mind, by promoting self growth, peace, prosperity, and healing through education, interaction, sharing, and love of its members and teachers.
Our Community Affirmations:
The Center for Spiritual Living is a radiant spiritual community, lighting the way for the discovery and expression of every person's inherent divinity and infinite possibilities.
The Center for Spiritual Living is a welcoming community, caring for and about each other and the entire human family, thereby bringing the gift of active compassion to the world.
The Center for Spiritual Living is a vital, vibrant, prosperous, diverse, and inclusive community, dedicated to teaching and practicing tools and principles that empower spiritual growth and healing.
The Center for Spiritual Living is a dynamic, loving, Spirit-centered community, celebrating and honoring the magnificence of all through the ever-unfolding creative expression of Spirit.
Our Global Heart Vision:
We envision:
A world that works for everyone.
A world providing homes to all. A world filled with loving-kindness, peace and food for every soul. A world holding the consciousness that we are truly all connected and joined in love.
A world in which resources are shared generously
and forgiveness is the norm. A world in which borders are irrelevant, and beauty and nature and love are expressed everywhere.
A world in which oneness and connection among all people
is honored, expressed and held sacred.
What We Believe:
We believe in God, the Living Spirit Almighty; one, indestructible, absolute, and self-existent Cause. This One manifests itself in and through all creation but is not absorbed by its creation. The manifest universe is the body of God; it is the logical and necessary outcome of the infinite self-knowingness of God. We believe in the incarnation of the Spirit in everyone and that all people are incarnations of the One Spirit. We believe in the eternality, the immortality, and the continuity of the individual soul, forever and ever expanding. We believe that heaven is within us and that we experience it to the degree that we become conscious of it. We believe the ultimate goal of life to be a complete emancipation from all discord of every nature, and that this goal is sure to be attained by all. We believe in the unity of all life, and that the highest God and the innermost God is one God. We believe that God is personal to all who feel this Indwelling Presence. We believe in the direct revelation of Truth through the intuitive and spiritual nature of the individual, and that any person who lives in close contact with the indwelling God may become a revealer of Truth. We believe that the Universal Spirit, which is God, operates through a Universal Mind, which is the Law of God; and that we are surrounded by the Creative Mind, which receives the direct impress of our thought and acts upon it. We believe in the healing of the sick through the power of this Mind. We believe in the control of conditions through the power of this Mind. We believe in the eternal Goodness, the eternal Loving-kindness, and the eternal Givingness of Life to all. We believe in our own soul, our own spirit, and our own destiny; for we understand that the life of all is God.
What We Believe, by Ernest Holmes, was published in the first issue of Science of Mind magazine, October 1927. This edited version uses gender-inclusive language.