Kindle Notes & Highlights
For this simple reason: Nothing can cease to be in the Father. Even the unlovely things cannot cease to be. If I once give it expression, forever and ever it remains locked within the dimensionally greater Self which is the Father. But I would not like to keep alive within my world all of my mistakes. So I, in my infinite mercy gave to myself, when I became man, the power to become detached from these things that I, in my ignorance, brought to birth in my world..
You become aware of something you would like to express or possess.
The stories of the Bible contain a powerful challenge to the thinking capacity of man. The underlying truth—that they are psychological dramas and not historical facts—
The drama of life is a psychological one in which we bring circumstances to pass by our attitudes rather than by our acts.
point to and claim, “that is where I left it”. A complete transformation of consciousness rubs out all evidence that anything other than this ever existed in the world.
If you decide to climb a particular flight of stairs, because that is the likely event to follow the fulfillment of your desire, then you must restrict the action to climbing that particular flight of stairs. Should your attention wander off, bring it back to its task of climbing that flight of stairs, and keep on doing so until the imaginary action has all the solidity and distinctness of reality.
Spend some time daily in preparing your mind by reading good literature, listening to good music, and entering into conversations that ennoble.
Now that you have found me, now that you have found that which would save you from what you are, let go of that which you are and all that it represents in the world. Become completely detached from it. In other words, go out and commit suicide.
The very moment you have an ambition, or a clearly defined objective, the pool has been disturbed by the angel, which was the desire. You are told that the first one into the disturbed pool is always healed.
“Whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.” Phil. 4:8
Abdullah said to me, “I am not going to tell you ‘you are crazy’ Neville, but you are you know. All these things are stupid.” But I could not believe they were stupid.
“There is no response to a stimulus, no matter how intense the stimulus, unless it endures for a certain length of time.”
The Bible gives it as three days; the duration is three days for response in this world.
Now I know I cannot change another unless I first change myself. To change another within my world I must first change my concept of that other; and to do it best I change my concept of self. For it was the concept I held of self that made me see others as I did.
If I can deny the limitations of my birth, my environment, and the belief that I am but an extension of my family tree, and feel within myself that I am Christ, and sustain this assumption until it takes a central place and forms the habitual center of my energy, I will do the works attributed to Jesus. Without thought or effort I will mold a world in harmony with that perfection which I have assumed and feel springing within me. When I open the eyes of the blind, unstop the ears of the deaf, give joy for mourning and beauty for ashes, then and only then, have I truly established this vine
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Qualities die for want of attention, so the unlovely states might best be rubbed out by imagining ‘“beauty for ashes and joy for mourning”
What would the feeling be like were you of too pure eyes to behold iniquity, if to you all things were pure and you were without condemnation?
Desire is the mainspring of all action.
stand where I am and I allow the world that I want to see and to enter physically to come before me as though I were there now. In other words, I bring elsewhere here by assuming that I am there. Is that clear? I let it come up, I do not make it come up. I simply imagine I am there and then let it happen. lf I want a physical presence, I imagine he is standing here, and I touch him All through the Bible I find these suggestions, “He placed his hands upon them. He touched them.”
The minute you feel this lovely drowsy state, or the feeling of gathered togetherness, wherein you feel. I could move if I wanted to, but I do not want to, I could open my eyes if I wanted to, but I do not want to. When you get that feeling you can be quite sure that you are in the perfect state to pray successfully.
If I should ask you now to define prayer, and say to you, “How would you, through prayer, go about realizing an objective, any objective?” If you can tell me, then you know it; but if you cannot tell me, then you do not know it.
Never accept the suggestion of lack.
There is not a statement made in the Bible that does not represent some attribute of the human mind.
That is what we must do when we pray. If I hold some thing against another, be it a belief of sickness, poverty, or anything else, I must loose it and let it go, not by using words of denial but by believing him to be what he desires to be.
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The only acceptable gift is a joyful heart. Come with singing and praise. That is the way to come before the Lord—your own consciousness. Assume the feeling of your wish fulfilled, and you have brought the only acceptable gift. All states of mind other than that of the wish fulfilled are an abomination; they are superstition and mean nothing.
EXPERIENCE IN THE IMAGINATION WHAT WE WOULD EXPERIENCE IN THE FLESH WERE WE TO ACHIEVE OUR GOAL.
Feed the mind with premises
The more dimensions an object has, the more substantial and real it becomes.
Define your objective, know definitely what you want. 2. Construct an event which you believe you will encounter FOLLOWING the fulfillment of your desire—something which will have the action of Self predominant—an event which implies the fulfillment of your desire. 3. Immobilize the physical body and induce a state of consciousness akin to sleep. Then, mentally feel yourself right into the proposed action, until the single sensation of fulfillment dominates the mind; imagining all the while that you are actually performing the action HERE AND NOW so that you experience in imagination what
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Do not say to yourself, ‘I wonder if I am really detached from that state,” or “I wonder if so and so is true.”
Question: Is it possible to imagine several things at the same time, or should I confine my imagining to one desire?
When I speak of feeling I do not mean emotion, but acceptance of the fact that the desire is fulfilled.
The best denial is total indifference.
