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If
you want to
change your life, you have to change your thoughts! Dr. Donald Curtis—a
minister and teacher for over two decades—offers this exciting book on
the
power of positive thinking, describing the numerous rewards you can
easily gain
just by letting your thoughts work for you! Dr. Curtis proves again
that we are
what we think—physically, mentally, and spiritually. Through a series
of
thought provoking, often humorous anecdotes, the author shares personal
experiences about how he changed his own life.
In
addition,
this spiritual book contains the wise thoughts of some of our most
beloved
minds, such as Ram Das, Emerson, Shakespeare, and Mother Teresa. Its
inspirational message will touch your heart and change your life.
Foreword
The
title of Dr.
Donald Curtis' new book, Helping
Heaven
Happen, is so catchy and inviting that it makes you smile when
you say
it
aloud. But the message of the book, though simply stated, is complex,
profound,
and deeply challenging.
In
this sensitive,
mind-stretching book, Dr. Curtis in a fresh and arresting way, shows
you
how—with divine help—you can retool your mind and heart, expand your
consciousness,
and remake your personal world by affirmative thought.
Here
is a very
practical text that offers concrete and specific guidelines for
building a
personal program of spiritual development for anyone attempting to
achieve such
a goal. Dr. Curtis personally leads you through a series of beautiful
prayers
of affirmation, meditation, and consciousness expansion entitled,
"Personal Realization," at the end of each of the book's twelve
chapters. This is an important feature for those in search of direct
and
immediate guidance and help. As you read these self-help prayers a
number of
times, meditating on them deeply and letting them really sink in,
giving them
the time to infuse your inner heart and mind to the very core of your
God-centered spirit, you will actually—miraculously—experience that
self-realization he promises.
This
renowned spiritual teacher writes with
the sureness of one who knows from experience that what he advocates
will work
because he, himself, has experienced it working in his own life and has
witnessed it in the lives of many others who have turned to him for
help.
This
how-to-do-it
spiritual guidebook, Helping Heaven
Happen is, in part, also a revealing and moving memoir. This is
one of
the
book's greatest charms. Donald Curtis' life experiences as a
western farm boy,
as an aspiring author, college speech instructor, university theater
director,
network radio performer, Broadway stage actor, and rising young movie
star all
serve as colorful parables to illustrate his illuminating teachings.
It
was during these
risk-filled, precarious years that he slowly learned the hard way that
"your strength is only in your use of God's strength." Not in a
blinding flash, but very gradually, he came to understand the ultimate
truth
that, when you really surrender your personal self totally to God's
guidance and
help through prayer, through meditation, and through concentrated
thought in
your daily living, your self becomes quite a different being from the
ego it
previously was—and all sorts of beautiful things begin to happen to
you—and all
kinds of glorious solutions result!
It
was after this
awakening of his own inner God-centered spirit, inspired by such
notable
spiritual teachers as Dr. Ernest Holmes and Dr. Manly Palmer Hall, that
he was
impelled to become a teacher and a minister of the gospel of love, as
exemplified in the New Age teachings of the Church of Religious Science
and the
Unity School of Christianity.
Dr.
Curtis served
for many years as Senior Minister of the Unity Church of Dallas, and
has often
been a guest speaker for many other congregations and groups throughout
the
world. He is heard and seen regularly on radio and television with
his message
of abundant living. His work also includes service to humanity and
global
dedication to the service of God.
Dr.
Curtis'
insightful personal recollections greatly enrich his inspiring
book. He
unsparingly notes his own very human errors, during his earlier
aspiring years,
with a disarming frankness and a rare humility that is warmly
appealing.
Somehow he makes you feel that if he, despite his errors, managed to
find the
purpose and fulfillment of the life that God has now granted him,
surely you can do likewise!
Dr.
Curtis, however,
is not writing an autobiography and, indeed, these personal
stories—though
fascinating—constitute only a small portion of his text. As he explains
quite
simply and modestly, "I have set forth my personal experiences
merely as
a metaphor for larger and more important concepts to show how
these principles
work. In the final analysis, what happens to any one of us is only
important
insofar as it contributes to all of us. The exchange of our
individual
experiences may well be the means by which we learn from each other,
and move
together to make a better world."
This
is a
wide-ranging, broad-gauged book directed toward people of all
faiths who
believe in the power of love and the divinity of life as well as its
divine
diversity.
Having
known Dr.
Curtis as a warm and wonderful friend for many years, I can assure you
that he
has no illusions about walking above water except when the deck of a
sound ship
is beneath his feet. The God-driven, God-inspired author of this
impressive
book would be the first to admit that he is just another vulnerable
human being
like the rest of us foot-dragging mortals. But I have also witnessed
his growth
into one of God's most selfless "tillers of the vineyard" and have
seen him become—truly—one of God's great gentlemen. I'm proud to record
that,
by the practice of what he preaches, he is a living example of the
self-development through divine surrender and cosmic consciousness that
he
dares us to emulate.
David Hyatt, Ph.D.
San Francisco, California
Preface
During
the years
since the publication of my first book, Your
Thoughts Can Change Your Life, a whole generation of people have
changed
their lives by applying the simple mental and spiritual techniques in
that book
and in the more than twenty others I have written following it.
This
current volume
will provide an update of what I know about this subject, and at least
a
partial record of how my thoughts have changed my own life, as well as
reports
of others who have made the same discovery. In Your Thoughts Can Change Your Life
and my other books, I have set
forth many techniques to help us change our lives by changing our
thoughts. Life
is a "do-it-yourself" proposition. There is nothing we cannot do,
nothing we cannot be, no problem we cannot solve, no challenge we
cannot meet
if we take charge of our own thought processes.
As
you build your
own consciousness with affirmative thoughts, balanced emotions, and
high
spiritual awareness, you will be the person you want to be, and you
will live
the life you want to live.
This
book is about you. It tells you everything you always wanted to
know about
yourself and may have been afraid to ask, or to do anything about.
Here
is something to help you meet that situation—so, read on!
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