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Post by Admin on Aug 25, 2020 9:08:43 GMT
"'I can't even state my problem very clearly,' said Marvin K., a businessman, 'except to say I'd like more self-confidence. Can the laws you speak about help me?'
'We can start,' I told him, 'with a basic principle. Do not try to add what you think is good, but seek to subtract what you sense is wrong.'
'I guess you mean my aim must be to abolish nervousness.'
'Yes, because your nervousness has a false foundation in your lack of knowledge.'
We discussed some fundamental ideas as follows: Nervousness occurs whenever we want something of a psychological nature. Our arising desire starts the shaking process because we fear we won't get it or that it might fail us after awhile. For example, if I wish to impress or influence you in any way at all, I must unlawfully appeal to your hopes and desires. My own unnaturalness punishes me on the spot with nervousness. Plotinus stated that whoever violates natural laws will feel it at once in a loss of natural happiness."
How Mystic and Cosmic Principles Supply Refreshing Days Pathways to Perfect Living, Chap. 4, p. 41
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Post by Admin on Aug 26, 2020 9:38:03 GMT
"THE OTHER SHORE
A tired traveler stood on the bank of a river and looked over to the opposite shore. When the ferryman invited him to make the crossing, the traveler asked, 'But what is it like over there?'
'The other shore cannot be understood by your present way of thinking,' said the ferryman. 'But make the crossing and you will experience it personally.'
'Can you assure me of happiness and safety over there?'
'Do you want guarantees or do you want the other shore?' the ferryman gently inquired. 'You want the other shore to be what you want it to be, instead of letting it be what it is. Instead of wishing to change it, why not explore it?'
'But what exactly must I do?'
'Leave everything here and dare to cross. This is right action, but you must prove it for yourself.'
'But I am afraid.'
'You are not asked to be unafraid. You are invited to cross while being afraid. See the difference?'
'Cross while being afraid,' repeated the traveler in astonishment. 'I never thought of it that way before. That is something I can do. I will cross over.'"
RELIABLE WAYS TO BUILD INNER STRENGTH The Power of Esoterics, Chap. 5, p. 80
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Post by Admin on Aug 29, 2020 11:02:12 GMT
"THE BUSINESSMAN'S SUCCESS
A businessman in earnest about inner transformation developed his own method for meeting daily events correctly. He pictured himself standing at the base of a sloping hill. He then pictured a ball rol- ling down the hill, which could bounce into a weedy field at his left, or into a box on his right. Everything depended upon his handling of the ball when it reached him. It could be lost in the weeds or saved and used.
It was excellent self-help. Among other things, he learned to meet an event with a new and clear mind. Then, an event remained an _event_, and never turned into a _problem_.
_Each day we receive hundreds of impressions from the external world, which can be used for constructive self-change, or which can be wasted_."
HOW TO CURE DAILY DIFFICULTIES SWIFTLY Inspire Yourself, Chap. 6, p. 81
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Post by Admin on Aug 30, 2020 9:51:15 GMT
"You know what people do as a means of avoiding inner change, changing into something far different? Listen to this and now let's see if you do this too, because if you can understand what I am talking about you can begin to change it.
A man or a woman says, 'me and my frustration,' 'me and my difficulty,' 'me and my suffering.' Look what you're saying, which is very misleading to you. You're saying there is me and there is this thing that's bothering me out there. There are two separate things; there's this entity, this person I call myself and there is that severe financial problem; there are fights with other people, the uncertainties in my own mind. There is me and there is the problem, whatever it might be - you have lots of them, don't you? Isn't your life just one problem after another? Of course it is.
So you say, there is me and the difficulty and now you have prevented your- self from ever solving the problem. You have prevented yourself from ever understanding clearly what is really going on, therefore you cannot act, think, intelligently toward it to dissolve it. Look a little closer at it.
You say here am I with this difficulty. Already do you know what you have done to deceive yourself and which makes your suffering permanent for now? You said, 'Here am I, and here are those persecutors out there, all those people who bother me; therefore if they are guilty, I am innocent.' Now you can go around kidding yourself, keeping yourself from the inner light by saying, here is me and the difficulty. And the difficulty is always outside of you, someone to blame, someone to yell at, someone to complain to and about.
Why do you suppose human beings do that? Because human beings are in love with themselves.
Now look very closely at that statement: Lost human beings, suffering human beings are in love with themselves. Now look, there is no such thing as you and your problem. You are the problem, therefore if you love that, you love yourself. See how it all comes right together."
A Clear Look at Life DVD # 8, talk 2
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Post by Admin on Sept 3, 2020 9:07:47 GMT
"So, here we are, wanting control of our lives, because we're out of control, wanting control and not knowing how to get it. Not knowing how to find it. And worse than that, everybody you ask gives you a different answer and you somehow suspect that the answer they give you can't be very authentic because that man or that social organ- ization that you asked, you sense that they themselves are helpless. Think with me a little bit; let's stop right there for a minute.
Don't you look around and see how everybody is helpless? They don't know what to do about the smallest thing. An international crisis comes up, nobody knows what to do. There are twenty people giving twenty opinions on how to handle it, nobody knows.
In your own family, in your own circle of friends, you ask people should I invest here or should I go there or stay home, what should I do? And you get twenty different answers right within your own family. That's a fact, nobody knows, nobody knows about anything. Why?
I'm going to give you a phrase, and I want you to remember it when you go out of here and cease watching this, listening to this. I want you to remember this phrase but I'm going to discuss it a little bit with you. Remember the phrase: 'Visit yourself.'
Now, please, you don't have to take an exciting tour; you don't have to go to Europe, the Orient, you don't have to go all over the world. Try visiting yourself sometime. You will find the most fascinating adventure any human being could ever have because it will lead to what you really want."
Practical Self Guides DVD # 4, talk 2 Blu-ray # 2, talk 3 [Select talk 4]
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Post by Admin on Sept 5, 2020 12:21:14 GMT
"Maybe you face an unexpected and disturbing crisis. What is the right order to meet this crisis? Do not attack it directly. That only makes it worse. Rather, immediately connect it with everything you know about the Mystic Path. Suppose you feel that your life is shallow, spinning in pointless circles. What does the Mystic Path say? Well, it says you feel this way only because you have not as yet returned to your original nature. Also, it tells you to seek more self-knowledge. It gently points out that such despair is totally unnecessary. And so on. All this leads to the answer - but it will be entirely different from what you now imagine!"
MYSTICAL MYSTERIES THAT CHANGE YOUR LIFE The Mystic Path to Cosmic Power, Chap. 8, p. 127
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Post by Admin on Sept 6, 2020 10:32:34 GMT
"Remember, you are reversing everything - your viewpoints toward yourself and toward your relationships with life. You are reversing the way you think and feel and act. For example, you know how many people waste energy in self-condemnation. What is the reverse of that? Whoever says to himself quietly, 'I will direct my strength toward self-understanding' is placing himself on his own side. Reverse something today."
SOURCES OF HELP THAT SUCCEED PERFECTLY Secrets for Higher Success, Chap. 2, p. 51
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Post by Admin on Sept 7, 2020 9:08:06 GMT
"Every human has a philosophy of life, which means that that human being is thinking about life. As long as you are a thinker, have ideas about life, you'll never rise above it.
Because the thought level is always the level of you being concerned about your life; and you yourself have made the error of thinking that you have a life of your own building. Therefore, you are responsible for it and you have to go out and protect yourself and you have to make something of yourself. You're very much concerned with your life, with yourself, aren't you?
That is wasting your life. That's not what you're supposed to be doing here.
Now, you start listening to that early counsel of the talk to understand that you are doing something dreadfully wrong, and you never change and you never investigate your present state."
from a talk given 7/9/1986 Vernon Howard's Higher World - MP3 CD Volume 4, talk 100, track 21
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Post by Admin on Sept 8, 2020 9:09:34 GMT
"You must make the right decision - to place yourself on the side of God. You must make the decision over and over again."
THE TRUTH ABOUT THIS WORLD A Treasury of Trueness, # 943 New Version, # 946
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Post by Admin on Sept 10, 2020 11:05:02 GMT
"A man unwisely chooses beliefs over Natural Knowing because his beliefs seem to support his self-flattering self-images. But he starts to worry when his frail beliefs are challenged by his jumpy nerves. His surface confidence collapses with a bang because no man really believes in his beliefs. This is an example of how the careless ignoring of wrongness gives consent to its brutality. In back of every human disaster was the attempt to convince oneself that something wrong was right."
Your Power of Natural Knowing Your Power of Natural Knowing, Chap. 1, p. 13
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Post by Admin on Sept 12, 2020 10:56:47 GMT
"Asked a student, 'How have others succeeded?' Answered the teacher, 'Every person who has succeeded in the inner quest did so by passing a certain kind of test. The test was a willingness to bear uncertainty, to permit the winds of Reality to blow away his carefully constructed psychological securities. Then, on the bare ground, he saw the creation of something truly certain.'"
700 Inspiring Guides To A New Life, # 301
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Post by Admin on Sept 13, 2020 9:11:39 GMT
"Receptivity is a miracle worker. It changes the way you see everything. Take what is commonly called failure. It is necessary for you to volun- tarily fail, fail, fail so many times without resistance that you finally see that failure is only a word, an attitude, a feeling and nothing more.
In the realm of social contacts, you should be so receptive that every contact with another person reveals something new about yourself. The best teachers are those who are the worst off; the unkind people who are negative, complaining, talkative, boring, boastful."
HOW TO GET AT THE TURNING POINT OF YOUR LIFE FOR ALL SUCCESS The Power of your Supermind, Chap. 3, p. 29
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Post by Admin on Sept 22, 2020 9:04:26 GMT
"When in a state of _I don't know_, there is a knowing which is total and universal and not a personal possession."
TRUE WISDOM A Treasury of Trueness, # 1384 New Version, # 1388
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Post by Admin on Sept 23, 2020 9:07:32 GMT
"RELAXED POWER
When you are completely powerless - and understand what this means from the esoteric viewpoint - you have an entirely new kind of power. Unlike power and authority on the social level, this power is relaxed, for it has no oppositions and no enemies who must be watched. This is the peaceful power of the single- minded man.
If this esoteric viewpoint is not clear to you, have patience. When watering your garden you may not understand the process by which the underground water works on the roots. However, you can clearly see the results in blooming flowers and tasty fruits. In the same manner, our right internal gardening will produce new life with no concern nor bewilderment on our part."
Esoteric Encyclopedia of Eternal Knowledge, p. 180
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Post by Admin on Sept 24, 2020 12:12:24 GMT
"You have to be a spiritual Sherlock Holmes.
Say you're out at a nice lunch and there is a plate of carrots - don't worry there's more to lunch than that. Even at the moment that you put your hand out for the plate of carrots, you missed it just a little bit and you had to readjust your grip to get it solidly, because the minute you put out your hand for the carrots, you were attacked by the past, which always is being done. Something, anything, a thousand things, assaulted you. There is an active all-out cruel, vicious force, which I'll describe later, which you were thinking about and you weren't paying attention to your physical hand taking the plate, and so it missed.
Now, if you had been alert, a spiritual sentry, at the moment of put- ting out your hand, you could have caught yourself putting your hand to the right too far so it missed. Then you could go back to that from that and say, 'Something agitated me, oh all those nice carrots, I thought I was happy over getting some nice carrots, because I love carrots. How come, in the middle of my pleasure over carrots, how come in the middle of that supposedly pleasant party conversation, good food, how come in the middle of that my hand shook a little because my attention wasn't where my eyes were? I was looking at the plate but I didn't really see it thoroughly, because my attention, my inner eyes were looking some- where else.
'What were my inner eyes looking at and why and what can be done about me being so careless with my attention?'
The point, you are constantly shifting your attention, back and forth, up and down in the physical world to another thing in the physical world with- out remembering that you should be studying your thoughts, your emotions, your reactions. You should be studying yourself so that every day a shock- ing but self-awakening thought, awareness, comes to you which is this: 'I have not been able to undo the damage going on in the cellar of my psychic system. I have not been able to push away the hurt because to my astonish- ment I never knew it was there, I never understood it, I have never analyz- ed it.
'I never dove deep inside of myself every few seconds as I was told to do at New Life class. I have never done that because I was too busy pretend- ing that I was having fun.'
Well, let me tell you something, every time you try to convince yourself that you're having fun, you'll fail."
Win Your Own Life Back - Part 1 Practical Guides to Healthy Relationships - MP3 CD, track 9
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