Within You Is the Power

by Joseph Murphy

Alles, was wir uns bildlich vorstellen können und als wirklich empfinden, das ziehen wir unweigerlich in unser Leben. Wie man dieses Superbewusstsein nutzt, zeigte Joseph Murphy schon Jahrzehnte vor THE SECRET in diesem Klassiker – einem seiner bekanntesten und beliebtesten Bücher. Wer seinem Superbewusstsein vertraut, kann das Unterbewusstsein so programmieren, dass er zum Meister in der Kunst der Manifestation wird.

Genres: Self Help

277 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1977

About the author

(Arabic: جوزيف ميرفي)
Joseph Murphy was a Divine Science minister and author.

Murphy was born in Ireland, the son of a private boy's school headmaster and raised a Roman Catholic. He studied for the priesthood and joined the Jesuits. In his twenties, an experience with healing prayer led him to leave the Jesuits and move to the United States, where he became a pharmacist in New York (having a degree in chemistry by that time). Here he attended the Church of the Healing Christ (part of the Church of Divine Science), where Emmet Fox had become minister in 1931.

In the mid 1940s, he moved to Los Angeles, where he met Religious Science founder Ernest Holmes, and was ordained into Religious Science by Holmes in 1946, thereafter teaching at the Institute of Religious Science. A meeting with Divine Science Association president Erwin Gregg led to him being reordained into Divine Science, and he became the minister of the Los Angeles Divine Science Church in 1949, which he built into one of the largest New Thought congregations in the country. In the next decade, Murphy married, earned a PhD in psychology from the University of Southern California and started writing. After his first wife died in 1976, he remarried to a fellow Divine Science minister who was his longstanding secretary. He died in 1981.

Reviews

[Margot Note]

"You are the only thinker in your world. You and you alone are completely responsible for the way in which you act and react. You are what you think all day long. As you think and feel, so are you and so do you become" (30).

"You cannot be absolutely sure about anything in this changing world but one thing: God is God and never changes. You can absolutely trust the Infinite Presence and Power. It is always the same--yesterday, today, and forever--absolute, beyond time and space, and beyond all argument, disputation, and dialectics. Place your trust and confidence in the Infinite, which lies stretched in smiling repose" (61).

"Pain is a blessing in disguise, because it calls to our attention the fact that we have misused our mind and should correct it at once" (103).

"Cleanse your mind prior to sleep. Forgive yourself and everybody else, and go to God with a song of praise in your heart. God will pour you out a blessing so bountiful there will not be room enough to receive it. Your last waking concept is engraved in your subconscious mind, the book of life, and records everything you feel and believe" (156).

[Sofia · Rating 5 out of 5]

10/10.

[Vitor Tenório · Rating 3 out of 5]

The book does bring important messages and leads us to recognize how many events in our life are influenced by our subconscious ending up interfering in the way of thinking and acting. The author uses several real examples that happened to patients and marked people, bringing some reflection focused on the spiritual / divine side and how it provides "solving" such cases, and that's the thing, since there are 240 pages of repetitive stories and always passing as same messages. Not to mention some hypotheses that are quite intriguing.

[Jonathan Alonso · Rating 5 out of 5]

One of the most helpful book I've ever read in my life.

[Wesam Taha · Rating 1 out of 5]

The book seems to be addressing Christians only. It goes back and forth from stating the obvious to complete nonsense.