By Tamara

Faith, Harmony, and Meditations emphasizes the spiritual benefits to be achieved when you take an active role in directing your inner life. Dr. Doreal advocates thinking for yourself and accepting full responsibility for your spiritual growth. This role is not one that an appointee can fulfill; your advisor, guru, preacher, or Jesus can’t work on your behalf. You must realize your inherent ability to develop spiritually, summon your drive to do the necessary work, and dive right in rather than dabble.

It is paramount to establish faith in yourself before meaningful spiritual progress can be made. There is also the matter of overcoming the all-too-common belief that we ourselves hold little power, and that we are separate from an exclusively powerful God.  When you can make a connection with the divine within, you can tap into an infinite supply of internal faith. 

Faith allows you to relinquish fear, and thereby live in one aspect like the majority of the world’s non-human inhabitants do. Animals eat without the fear of where their next meal will come from. Plants grow without the worry of when the next rain will shower upon them. They live in faithful harmony with the divinity within them and the divine nature they sense all around them.

In the opening paragraph, Dr. Doreal expands upon the profound influence of human faith: “Faith is the substance by which man lives: it quickens his soul into new life and by its light he may come to see God. Man may draw upon it without limit and live a new life each day; and its power will give him immortal life. It will lift men out of the depths of hell; and if man will follow its ray of Infinite Light he will be lifted into the sky.”

Faith encourages you to place a greater focus on spirituality rather than materiality. Faith will help remove the obstacles that prevent you from seeking the kingdom of God and will provide the impetus and fuel to do the work needed. Faith teaches you that you cannot wait for God to do things for you: that God has endowed you with all the ability, spiritual insight, and divine source needed. You are an agent of God; you are the hands that God needs in order to work in the material. The more you actualize your connection to the Divine the worthier you become of receiving heavenly energy, power, and wisdom. 

Connecting to the divine within helps you recognize that everyone and everything is connected to the same divine wellspring. After realizing this, the natural progression is to seek to lift up not only yourself, but all. When you see the divine in others, you focus on your similarities, and foster peace. When you live in service to others and aim to raise everyone’s consciousness, all benefit from the universal harmony is established. Dr. Doreal shares a Russian story that illustrates the power of helping others along our life journey. 

In the latter portion of the booklet, Dr. Doreal provides poignant morning and evening meditations to assist you to connect to the Divine and empower your faith. They are a tribute to harmony and are intended to assist you to visualize desired conditions. The Morning Meditation holds the themes of infinite love, connection to God, purification, understanding, oneness, service to mankind, and vibrant health and joy: essentially charging you with Divine energy for the day. Finally, the Evening Meditation helps you forgive all, relinquish fear, and set aside materiality in order to enter the soul world and follow the greater guiding light.