The imagination, backed by great expectations, can bring about almost any reality within the range of probabilities.
When we give way to joy, we do not feel that we have lost control, but gained freedom.
The channels of intuitive knowledge are opened according to the intensity of individual need.
You create your own reality.
If the world was taking care of women, women would take care of the world.
You should tell yourself frequently ‘I will only react to constructive suggestions.’ This gives you positive ammunition against your own negative thoughts and those of others.
Each of us seems to have a main focus, a particular idea of practicality – a concept of ‘what we want out of life’ against which we judge our experiences.
The Point of Power Is in the Present.
I stand upon a block of stillness. It is more secure than any sidewalk. I bring with me my own sidewalk.
Hate is love looking for itself everyplace but where love is.
The human personality has no limitations except those which it accepts.
The flesh is as spiritual as the soul, and the soul is as natural as the flesh.
If it is finally accepted that the personality in whole or part survives death – and I believe that it will be – then such a belief will be considered as modern as a belief in spaceships and rockets.
Personally, I am convinced the human personality does survive the change which we call death. Although we have no scientific evidence of this at present, there is no reason to suppose it will always be lacking.
In terms of earthly life as you understand it, it is overly optimistic to imagine that eventually all illnesses will be conquered, all relationships be inevitably fulfilling, or to foresee a future in which all people on earth are treated with equality and respect.
To make sense to us as physical creatures, any ‘truth’ must undergo transformations, be couched in certain terms or we couldn’t understand it.
Dreams can be like charades in which we act out words rather than see or speak them.
You must begin to trust yourself. If you do not then you will forever be looking to others to prove your own merit to you, and you will never be satisfied. You will always be asking others what to do, and at the same time, resenting those from whom you seek such aid.
I will be unneeded, and gladly so, when you realize that the vitality and reinforcement and joy are your own, and rise from the fountain of your own beings; when you realize that you do not need me for protection, for there is nothing you need protect yourself against.
If toes had eyes, then I could see how my feet know where to go, but toes are blind. And how is it that my tongue speaks words it cannot hear? Because for all its eloquence, the tongue itself is deaf, and flaps in soundlessness.