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Post by Admin on Oct 12, 2020 12:11:27 GMT
"Plato was so eager for cosmic knowledge that he once paid the equivalent of twelve hundred dollars for just three books. Those who gain higher wisdom are those who place a high value on it. Think often about this. It leads to skill in handling people."
700 Inspiring Guides To A New Life, # 465
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Post by Admin on Oct 16, 2020 15:04:24 GMT
"The pain of not knowing who you are is ended by seeing you need not be anyone at all."
Cosmic Command, # 1157
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Post by Admin on Oct 25, 2020 10:44:49 GMT
"After Marjorie S. and I had discussed her difficulties, she explained, 'My chief unhappiness is that I just don't know what to do with myself.'
I asked, 'Why do you need to know?'
She puzzledly replied, 'I don't understand what you mean.'
'You say you do not know what to do with yourself. This means you temporarily have no distraction from your own emptiness. Even when you find one, that distraction will last only as long as the activity, after which you will again not know what to do with yourself. Do you like this vicious circle?'
'No, but what can I do?'
'You can understand your error in assuming that doing or achieving will cancel the anxiety of not knowing what to do.'
'But what will cancel it?'
'Self-understanding, which includes insight into your need to be on the move every minute.'
'Then will I know what to do?'
'In your psychological life there will be no need to know, for life rolls forward of itself, with no concern on your part. This is a new kind of esoteric wisdom, which guides you accurately in exterior matters also.'
Marjorie nodded. 'There is something great about all this, but I need time to absorb it. Please give me a minute to make a couple of notes. I want to think it over at home.'
After making a few notes she asked me to state the same facts in a new way, so I told her, 'There is nothing to fear in not knowing what to do with yourself; fear arises only when you anxiously try to escape the void with a contrived activity. The void is really your happiness - you run from your very happiness in a wrong effort to find happiness.'"
How You Can Awaken to New Feelings of Supreme Happiness Pathways to Perfect Living, Chap. 8, p. 93
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Post by Admin on Nov 13, 2020 11:44:27 GMT
"All can be different. We can learn cosmic science. We can react rightly or wrongly to unpleasant contacts with people. Here is the Supermind way for success:
1. Stand aside from yourself and watch your reactions. 2. Don't resist, condemn or seek to change the reaction, but quietly watch it come and go.
Maybe you hear bad news. All right. Watch how painful thoughts and feelings grab you in an uncomfortable squeeze. That is all you do, merely watch, be aware. Don't call them your own thoughts, for they are not. They are foreign intruders who seek to force themselves upon you. They have no real power whatsoever.
Repeat the two steps every time unpleasantness occurs. In time, an astonishing change will take place within you. You will see things differently. Exterior events will lose their ability to hurt, frighten or puzzle. You will realize that unpleasantness is not something to fight, only something to understand."
HOW TO MAKE YOUR HUMAN RELATIONS A PLEASURE The Power of your Supermind, Chap. 8, p. 95
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