Religious mind

And that's where the 'religious mind' comes in. A basically religious person has a natural sense that we're living in a TOTALITY which is GOOD. In ITS terms, not necessarily ours.

We have a real basic and for the most part unconscious habit! Whenever we think in terms of making things better we think in terms of the future. Our thinking is always geared to plans of action of a consecutive, sequential nature - we shall 'do this and then that' so that things will be better later on - in the 'future' ! That's the way our minds work habitually - that's the way we've been trained - and that must CHANGE! We must come to realize that the change that we want and Need has to do with NOW!

Now is the moment to be acted on - the only moment that there is, constantly recurring, constantly current, always now and here. Our minds, after seeing the truth and the simple logic in the situation must make a complete change. From always and habitually functioning in the pattern of past/present/future in an attempt to fulfill its desires it must now start to function in a total dedication to the present, the NOW. It has seen some of the imagination inevitably resulting from the 'time mind' and understands the necessity of moving behind this picture world, separating from it, to the peace and energy flowing NOW through ‘good conscience’ emotions and relaxed body.

The mind must now start to work for the now, through the now and from the now.

The religious mind 'sees' that everything in the world is interconnected and interdependent. To be intelligently concerned with the part, one must be concerned and knowledgeable of the Whole. The religious mind has no difficulty sensing the extraordinary intelligence in the whole set-up and has no embarrassment in admitting the probability, if not the necessity, of a Higher Intelligence/God behind it all.
The religious mind uses the word 'GOD' as the ALL THAT IS. And also sees that the 'all that is' shows every sign of being intelligent and not merely an accident of nature. The religious mind says, in addition, "I may not know the Truth, but obviously ALL THAT IS is the Truth and thus if I am to have any chance of coming into an understanding or harmony with IT, I must be uncompromisingly careful in regard to the truth, large or small, that falls within my realm." In other words, only the truth can lead to knowing the Truth. So obvious and so perverted is this simplicity.