Another book that might not be for everyone. You might start reading it and not resonate with it.
And that is fine. Because if I had started reading this book only a few years ago, I would’ve likely stopped reading it.
May you, at some point in your life, start reading this book and resonate with it.
Flow: 5/5
Actionability: 5/5
Mindset: 5/5
Some of My Highlights:
“However you regard hi, the fact will remain that the life and death of Jesus, and the teachings attributed to him have influenced the course of human history more than those of any other man who has ever lived; more than Alexander, or Caesar, or Charlemagne, or Napoleon, or Washington.”
“…if someone can raise his consciousness above the limitations of the physical plane in connection with the matter… then the conditions on that plane will change…”
“Enough prayer will get you out of your difficulty if only you will be persistent enough in your appeal to God.”
“It is the Spiritual Key that unlocks the mystery of the Bible teaching in general…”
“…above all, the parable is used to convey spiritual and metaphysical truth.”
“…the truth is that the whole of our life’s experience is but the outer expression of inner thought.”
“… every time you overcome a difficulty by prayer, you help the whole human race, past, present, and future, in a general way…”
“Jesus concerned himself exclusively with the teaching of general principles, and these general principles always had to do with mental states…”
“…he gives us no detailed instructions about what we are to do or are not to do…”
“Indeed, the whole current of his teaching is anti-ritualistic, anti-formalist.”
“The Bible is really a textbook of metaphysics, a manual for the growth of the soul…”
“From the point of view of the soul, success in prayer is the only kind of prosperity worth having; and if our prayers are successful, we shall naturally have all the material things that we need.”
“…but because we have great possessions in the way of preconceived ideas – confidence in our own judgment, and in the ideas with which we happen to be familiar; spiritual pride, born of academic distinction; sentimental or material attachment to institutions and organizations; habits of life that we have no desire to renounce; concern for human respect, or perhaps fear of public ridicule; or a vested interest it worldly honor and distinction. And these possessions keep us chained to the rock of suffering that is our exile from God.”
“The humble and unlearned folk who head the Master gladly were happy in having no such possession to tempt them away from the Truth.”
“The poor in spirit suffer from none of these embarrassments, either because they never had them, or because they have risen above them on the tide of spiritual understanding.”
“Nevertheless, trouble and suffering are often extremely useful, because many people will not bother to learn the Truth until driven to do so by sorrow and failure.”
“But most people will not undertake the search for God wholeheartedly unless driven thereto by trouble of some kind.”
“…but the key to higher mansions is always the acquiring of complete dominion over the one in which we are.”
“…but if we will not do so, then come they must, and for us this mourning will be a blessing in disguise, for through it we shall be ‘comforted.'”
“…but the unflinching realist that only a great mystic can be…”
“He did not, therefore, think of it as self-sacrifice, for he knew it to be the highest form of self-glorification in the true and wonderful sense of the word.”
“If you want to control your circumstances for harmony and happiness, you must first control your thoughts for harmony and happiness, and then the outer things will follow. If you want health, you must first think health…”
“…destructive emotion is one of the primary causes of disease.”
“If you want material prosperity, you must first think prosperity thoughts, and then make a habit of doing so, for the thing that keeps most people poor is the sheer habit of poverty thinking.”
“The answer lies in the extraordinary potency of habit; and habits of thinking are at once the most subtle in character and the most difficult to break.”
“If you are not progressing as fast as you wish to, the remedy is – to be still more careful to hold only harmonious thoughts.”
“Claim Wisdom. Claim Power, or prosperity in prayer.”
“If we are not making any progress at all, then we cannot be praying in the right way, and it is for us to find out why, by examining our lives, and by praying for wisdom and guidance.”
“Kind actions coupled with unkind thoughts are hypocrisy, dictated by fear, or desire for self-glory, or some such motive.”