Thanksgiving: A Day of Praise

Newt List wishes you and yours a festive Thanksgiving holiday with this free PDF excerpt from our newly-released ebook The Power of This Thing Called Life.

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The Power of This Thing Called Life!

Brand new, never-before published, a new ebook by Ernest Holmes, the author of "The Science of Mind" and "Life Is What You Make It"

Advance praise for The Power of This Thing Called Life:

“This book has a simple, yet powerful message: One does not need to make things happen; one’s job is to make things welcome. The Power of This Thing Called Life will teach you how to make your good welcome.”
Rev. David Bruner, DD 
Senior Minister & Spiritual Director

“The Power of This Thing Called Life brings the voice of a spiritual master to life once again. 20th Century American philosopher Ernest Holmes left a huge imprint on the world in the field of spirituality. His wisdom was timeless, and this revised version makes it fresh and relevant for a new generation. Use it as a study guide to happiness and success.”
Dr. Chris Michaels 
Author of The Power of You 

“Students of the world, searching for something to make them whole and something to bring joy into their lives, will find answers in The Power of This Thing Called Life. Here, Ernest Holmes shares basic truths of the universe and of God that will resonate with the reader. Every sentence is filled with wisdom, insight and ways to capture the love and happiness we all seek. We have all the tools, and we’re shown how to use them. The power is within us. I was reminded throughout the book of the simple nature of the feelings, thoughts and emotions that comprise all action and reaction, and the resulting consequences.

This is an excellent book to illuminate the pure nature of God in everything. The Power of This Thing Called Life is a beacon of power and strength in a sometimes rocky existence. Our course is made straighter and stronger.”
Antonia AlbanyAuthor, Golden Grace: Embracing the Richness of Our Later Years

“Newt List publications bring new life to classic works of metaphysics by revitalizing the language for the modern reader. In addition, by making the texts gender neutral, these exciting ideas about the creative power of mind become accessible in a potent new way because the barrier of antiquated writing conventions has been dropped. The Power of This Thing Called Life is beautiful, inspiring, and wonderfully engaging to read. This new book in the tradition of Newt Lists updated classics is a keeper and a must have for serious students of spirituality.”
Dr. Edward Viljoen 
Author, The Power of Meditation

This updated, gender-neutral ebook is now available from Newt List. To order this ebook, visit NewtList.com,  or click here.

How to Improve Your Personality

You are God’s good person, and you alone can decide whether your personality will be happy and whole, dynamic and creative, attractive or repulsive. You alone hold the golden key to a larger life. You hold it in your hand, but you cannot use this key until you first consciously connect yourself with that “something” greater than you are. This doesn’t mean that you are going to get lost or become submerged in a dream or a fantasy. It means that you are going to learn to live and think and act from the feeling that there is a limitless power behind everything you do—a power for good.

Somewhere in you is the same imagination that wrote every book ever written, the same creative genius who invented everything that makes modern life comfortable, the great artist who painted all the pictures, the composer who wrote all the songs. The very dance of life itself is in everything God ever made, and it is in you.

You may ask, “How am I going to bring all this out? How am I going to bring it to the surface? How am I going to become that wonderful, dynamic personality that I would like to be?” Perhaps the best way to begin is not to try to be so wonderful or so dynamic. Don’t strain. Don’t wear a mask. Don’t try to be anyone but yourself. All imitation is suicide. You are you, and you are real. Coming to know the real you is not so much something you develop or create or compel as it is something you discover.

Your first step, then, is as simple as this: Hook up your personality, your physical body, your environment and everything you do, say and think with what you really are—an individual living in pure Spirit here and now.

God didn’t make a mistake when God created you, when God implanted God’s own being in your life and breathed into you the breath of life itself. God made you to be happy and whole, complete and contented. You may start, then, by believing that at the center of your being there is a real person, a lovable person, a creative person. This should not be done with conceit or arrogance, but with the utmost simplicity. You must become acquainted with yourself. You must come to know that the real you is lovable, kind, happy and whole, and of course you can’t do this unless you believe the same thing about everyone else.

- Excerpted from How to Use Your Power: 20 Practical Lessons for Creating a Balanced Life, by Ernest Holmes