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My son, do not lose sight of this: preserve sound judgment and discernment. - Proverbs 3:21
Bow down thine ear, and hear the words of the wise, and apply thine heart unto my knowledge. - Proverbs 22:17
For the lips of a priest should preserve knowledge, and people should seek instruction from his mouth, because he is the messenger of the LORD of Hosts. - Malachi 2:7
You crown the year with Your bounty, and Your paths overflow with plenty. - Psalm 65:11
You will keep in perfect peace those whose minds are steadfast, because they trust in you. - Isaiah 26:3
Be on your guard; stand firm in the faith; be courageous; be strong. Do everything in love. - 1 Corinthians 16:13-14
The boundary lines have fallen for me in pleasant places; surely I have a delightful inheritance. - Psalm 16:6
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Faith is a luminous star that leads the honest seeker into the mysteries of nature. You must seek your point of Gravity in God, and put your trust into an honest, divine, sincere, pure and strong faith and cling to it with your whole heart, soul, sense, and thought, full of love and confidence. If you possess such a faith, God (wisdom) will not withhold his truth from you, but will reveal his works to you, credibly, visibly, and consolingly. - Paracelsus
The operation of anything follows the mode of its being. - St. Thomas Aquinas (“Summa Theologica”)
I shall dwell in the House of God all the days of my life; to behold the beauty of God and to meditate in His sanctuary. - Psalms 27: 4
The human soul possesses from the fact of its being of the same essence of all creation, a marvelous power. One who possesses the secret is enabled to rise as high as his imagination will carry him; but he does that only on the condition of becoming closely united to this universal force. - J.B. Craven (on Cornelius Agrippa in “Doctor Robert Fludd, the English Rosicrucian”)
Every “substantial form” proceeds from the first cause, God, and participates in His divine nature according to its nobility. - Dante Alighieri (“Convivio”, Book 3, citing "Liber de Causis" )
A potency without the possibility of actuality destroys nature. - Aristotle
Fourthly, out of the Element there proceeds forth a watery Property; and yet it is only to be understood spiritually : This is the Water of which Christ said he would give us to drink : And whosoever should drink thereof it should spring up in him to a Fountain of Eternal Life: It is the Water above the Firmament of which Moses speaks, that God has separated from the external Waters under the Firmament: This watery and elemental Property proceeds from the Essence of the Free Lubet, which is consumed in the Fire and the Word of the Understanding (which has now manifested itself in the Fire) does express these Powers from itself, as a living and moving Essence; and herein the Angelical World is understood. - Jacob Boehme (“Mysterium Magnum”)
I became a servant of this gospel by the gift of God’s grace given me through the working of his power. Although I am less than the least of all the Lord’s people, this grace was given me: to preach to the Gentiles the boundless riches of Christ, and to make plain to everyone the administration of this mystery, which for ages past was kept hidden in God, who created all things. His intent was that now, through the church, the manifold wisdom of God should be made known to the rulers and authorities in the heavenly realms, according to his eternal purpose that he accomplished in Christ Jesus our Lord. In him and through faith in him we may approach God with freedom and confidence. - Ephesians 3: 7-12
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Wisdom from Neville Goddard:
Your attention must be developed, controlled, and concentrated in order to change your concept of yourself successfully and thereby change your future.
An awakened imagination works with a purpose. It creates and conserves the desirable, and transforms or destroys the undesirable.
When you attain the control of the internal direction of your attention, you will no longer stand in shallow water but will launch out into the deep of life.
The undisciplined man’s attention is the servant of his vision rather than its master. It is captured by the pressing rather than the important.
If we do not like what is happening to us, it is a sure sign that we are in need of a change of mental diet.
If you judge after appearances, you will continue to be enslaved by the evidence of your senses.
All things are possible to God, and you found who he is. It is your own wonderful human imagination that’s God.
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You will keep in perfect peace those whose minds are steadfast, because they trust in you. - Isaiah 26:3
Those who hope in the LORD will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint. - Isaiah 40:31
Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. - Matthew 11:28
Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will. - Romans 12:2
Truly I tell you, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you. - Matthew 17:20
The name of the LORD is a fortified tower; the righteous run to it and are safe. - Proverbs 18:10
Blessed is the one who does not walk in step with the wicked or stand in the way that sinners take or sit in the company of mockers, but whose delight is in the law of the LORD, and who meditates on his law day and night. That person is like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in season and whose leaf does not wither— whatever they do prospers. - Psalm 1:1-3
If you listen carefully to the LORD your God and do what is right in his eyes, if you pay attention to his commands and keep all his decrees, I will not bring on you any of the diseases I brought on the Egyptians, for I am the LORD, who heals you. - Exodus 15:26
Worship the LORD your God, and his blessing will be on your food and water. I will take away sickness from among you. - Exodus 23:25
Remember the LORD your God, for it is he who gives you the ability to produce wealth, and so confirms his covenant, which he swore to your ancestors, as it is today. - Deuteronomy 8:18
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I start early and I stay late, day after day, year after year, it took me 17 years and 114 days to become an overnight success. - Lionel Messi
May the best day of your past be the worst day of your future. - Anonymous
Somewhere in the world someone is training when you are not. When you race him, he will win. - Tom Fleming
The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus. - Bruce Lee
If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door. - Milton Berle
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. - W.B. Yeats
If you want happiness for an hour — take a nap. If you want happiness for a day — go fishing. If you want happiness for a year — inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a life time — help someone else. - Chinese proverb
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Wisdom from Robert Fludd (aka Robertus de Fluctibus) (1574 - 1637):
Particulars are frequently fallible, but universals never. Occult philosophy lays bare Nature in her complete nakedness, and alone contemplates the wisdom of universals by the eyes of intelligence. Accustomed to partake of the rivers which flow from the Fountain of Life, it is unacquainted with grossness and with clouded waters.
Which of us has, at this day, the ability to discover those true and vivific numbers whereby the elements are united and bound to one another?
But, good God, what is this when compared with that deep and true music of the wise, whereby the proportions of natural things are investigated, the harmonical concord and the qualities of the whole world are revealed, by which also connected things are bound together, peace established between conflicting elements, and whereby each star is perpetually suspended in its appointed place by its weight and strength, and by the harmony of its lucent spirit.
In Elementary Music The Relation Of Earth To The Sphere of Water is 4 to 3, As There Are In The Earth Four Quarters of Frigidity to Three of Water.
Geomancy was a natural art, drawing on the inborn powers of the human soul to glean information from the larger soul of the world.
Marvelous is the love and fellowship of the flesh and the soul, of the spirit of life and the mud of the earth: for the whole man may be said to be formed from these two conjoined. For thus it is written: “God made man from the mud of the earth, and breathed the breath of life into his face ”[Genesis 2:7], giving him sense and intellect, so that through sense he might vivify the clay associated with him, and through intellect rule it; that likewise he might enter inwardly through the intellect and contemplate the wisdom of God, and outwardly through the sense behold the works of his wisdom. God illuminated the intellect from within but adorned the sense without, so that the whole man might find recreation in both, namely felicity within and enjoyment without. But since outward things cannot last long, man is bidden to turn from the things without to the things within and to ascend from the things within to the things above, that is to say from sense to imagination, from imagination to reason, from reason to intellect, thence to mind or intelligence and thus to God.
I was whilest I did sojourne in Rome, acquainted with a very learned and skillful personage, called Master Gruther. Hee was by birth of Swisserland, and for his excellency in the Mathematick, and in the Art of Motions and inventions of Machines, he was much esteemed by the Cardinall of Saint George. This gentleman taught mee the best of my skill in those practices: and amongst the rest, he delivered this magneticall experiment unto me, as a great secret, assuring me that it was tried in his Country, upon many with good successe…
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Wisdom from John Scotus Eriugena/Erigena (800 - 877):
Christ wears “two shoes” in the world: scripture and nature. Both are necessary to understand the Lord, and at no stage can creation be seen as a separation of things from God.
Observe the forms and beauties of sensible things and comprehend the Word of God in them. If you do so, the truth will reveal to you in all such things only He who made them.
No one enters heaven except through philosophy.
What, then, is it to treat of philosophy, unless to lay down the rules of the true religion by which we seek rationally and adore humbly God, who is the first and sovereign cause of all things? Hence it follows that the true philosophy is the true religion, and reciprocally that the true religion is the true philosophy.
When we are told that God is the maker of all things, we are simply to understand that God is in all things – that He is the substantial essence of all things.
Synthesizing as it does the philosophical accomplishments of fifteen centuries, this book appears as the final achievement of ancient philosophy.
All that is is light.
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Only for you, children of doctrine and learning, have we written this work. Examine this book, ponder the meaning we have dispersed in various places and gathered again; what we have concealed in one place we have disclosed in another, that it may be understood by your wisdom. - Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa
The beginning of wisdom is the beginning of supernatural power. - Paracelsus
There is nothing more to controlling demons than to do good and fear nothing. - Eliphas Levi
True magic therefore is the high knowledge of the more subtle powers that have not yet been acknowledged by science up to this date because the methods of scrutiny that have been applied so far do not suffice for their grasping, understanding and utilization; although the laws of magic are analogous to all official sciences of the world. - Franz Bardon
Magic is real. And reality… it is magical. - Aleister Crowley
Within every man and woman is a force that directs and controls the entire course of life. Properly used, it can heal every affliction and ailment we may have. - Israel Regardie
Faith is a luminous star that leads the honest seeker into the mysteries of nature. You must seek your point of Gravity in God, and put your trust into an honest, divine, sincere, pure and strong faith and cling to it with your whole heart, soul, sense, and thought; full of love and confidence. If you possess such a faith, God (wisdom) will not withhold his truth from you, but will reveal his works to you, credibly, visibly, and consolingly. - Paracelsus
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Make each day your masterpiece. - John Wooden
When you have a dream, you’ve got to grab it and never let go. - Carol Burnett
Wherever you go, go with all your heart. - Confucius
Whatever you do, do with all your might. - Marcus Tullius Cicero
Be faithful to that which exists within yourself. - André Gide
Dream big and dare to fail. - Norman Vaughan
Leave no stone unturned. - Euripides
Every noble work is at first impossible. - Thomas Carlyle
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The mind has a definite way of clothing one’s thoughts in appropriate physical equivalents. Think in terms of poverty and you will live in poverty. Think in terms of opulence and you will attract opulence. Through the eternal law of harmonious attraction, one’s thoughts always clothe themselves in material things appropriate unto their nature. - Napoleon Hill
Man’s status in the natural world is determined by the quality of his thinking. - Manly P. Hall
A change of feeling is a change of destiny. - Neville Goddard
Thought is the property of those only who can entertain it. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Christ says, “If anyone asks you for your coat, give him your overcoat also.” A worldly man will say, “It is not practical; if someone asked this of me every day, I would be continually buying new coats!” Yet, at the same time, it is more than practical from the point of view of the Master, for according to his view we cannot give anything, in whatever form, without getting it back in some way or other. Pure thought, goodwill, our service, our time— whatever we give—is never lost. It comes back to us according to our willingness to give; it comes back to us a thousandfold. That is why one is never the loser by being generous; one only gains. The mystic sees the law in all things, and this gives him an insight into life. He begins to see why this misery has come upon him, why that pleasure has come; why one person is prospering and another not, why one is progressing and not the other. All these things become clear to him, because he sees the law working in all things. The law of the mystic is not the law of the people. It is the law of nature; it is the real law. - Hazrat Inayat Khan
We are magnets…We have keys to all doors. We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities… - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Here is the true secret of the Law of Attraction (by Bashar):
“You have a core vibrational frequency. It is purely uniquely you. It’s a beacon. It’s like a lighthouse. It shines. It radiates purely that signature frequency of your unique being. It never stops radiating that light, that frequency, that energy - never stops.
Everything that is in alignment with that frequency is doing its utmost to come to you.
Everything that is not aligned with that frequency is doing its utmost to get as far away from you as it possibly can.
If the things that are aligned with that beacon aren’t reaching you, it’s not because "you’re not vibrating at the resonance that you need to attract it”. It’s because your definitions and beliefs are holding it away.
If the things that are trying to get away from you can’t get away from you, it’s not because they’re not trying - it’s because you’re holding onto them.
So the true Secret of the Law of Attraction is not “how to learn to attract what you prefer”, it’s how to learn to let go of what you don’t, so that you can let in what is trying to get to you automatically - by definition.
That’s the true Secret and that’s why it’s effortless. It’s just about letting go and letting in. It’s not about having to learn to do something you’re not already doing.”
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Wisdom from Emmet Fox:
Each day is a new life. Each moment is really a new life. What we call memories are really present thoughts. What we call anticipations are really present thoughts. No one has ever lived in any moment except the present.
What you think upon grows. Whatever you allow to occupy your mind you magnify in your life. Whether the subject of your thought be good or bad, the law works and the condition grows. Any subject that you keep out of your mind tends to diminish in your life, because what you do not use atrophies. The more you think of grievances, the more such trials you will continue to receive; the more you think of the good fortune you have had, the more good fortune will come to you.
There is no difficulty that enough LOVE will not conquer, no disease that enough LOVE will not heal, no door that enough LOVE will not open, no gulf that enough LOVE will not bridge, no wall that enough LOVE will not throw down, no sin that enough LOVE will not redeem.
God is bigger than any problem. God in you is greater than any difficulty you have to meet. God cares for you more than it is possible for any human being to realize. God can help you in proportion to the degree in which you worship him. You worship God by really putting your trust in him instead of in outer conditions, or in fear, or in depression, or in seeming dangers, and so forth. You worship God by recognizing his presence everywhere, in all people and conditions that you meet; and by praying regularly. You pray well when you pray with joy.
Whenever you are afraid of something you are worshipping it. Whatever you fear, you bow down to and give it power.
Attention is the key to life. Whatever you really give your attention to, you become. Whatever you really concentrate upon will come into your life. We grow into the thing that fills our thoughts as inevitably as the stream merges into the ocean at last.
The great difference between the two feelings is that love is always creative, and fear is always destructive.
The story of your life is really the story of the relations between yourself and God.
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Wisdom from Dr. Joseph Murphy:
If you really want peace of mind and inner calm, you will get it. Regardless of how unjustly you have been treated, or how unfair the boss has been, or what a mean scoundrel someone has proved to be, all this makes no difference to you when you awaken to your mental and spiritual powers.
As a person thinks, feels, and believes, so is the condition of his or her mind, body, and circumstances.
It is my right to be rich, happy, and successful. Money flows to me freely, copiously, and endlessly. I am forever conscious of my true worth. I give of my talents freely, and I am wonderfully blessed financially. It is wonderful!
Whatever your conscious mind assumes and believes to be true, your subconscious mind will accept and bring to pass. Believe in good fortune, divine guidance, right action, and all the blessings of life.
Fear is a negative thought in your mind. Supplant it with a constructive thought. Fear has killed millions. Confidence is greater than fear. Nothing is more powerful than faith in God and the good.
Success means successful living. When you are peaceful, happy, joyous and doing what you love to do, you are successful.
Happiness is the harvest of a quiet mind. Anchor your thoughts on peace, poise, security and divine guidance and your mind will be productive of happiness.
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It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty. - Walter Scott
Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours. - Mark 11:24
Progress is the activity of today and the assurance of tomorrow. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity. - Zig Ziglar
How blessed is the man who finds wisdom and the man who gains understanding. For her profit is better than the profit of silver and her gain better than fine gold. She is more precious than jewels; and nothing you desire compares with her. Long life is in her right hand; in her left hand are riches and honor. - Proverbs 3:13 - 3:16
The thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings. - Henry Ward Beecher
Health is a state of complete mental, social and physical well-being, not merely the absence of disease or infirmity. - World Health Organization, 1948
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Feed your mind with thoughts that cause it to be peaceful. To have a mind full of peace merely fill it full of peace. It’s as simple as that!
Reject hopelessness and substitute faith. By using intelligent and persevering effort, you can lift yourself out of hopelessness.
We are different at every age, and beautiful too! How boring it is to stay exactly the same for our whole lives.
SUMMER LOVIN’
“Summer loving had me a blast, summer loving happened so fast…”
Oh yeah…you Grease fans will be singing that all day now. So last night at 11:30 EST the summer solstice took place (unless you’re reading this in the southern hemisphere) kicking off Summer!
Porch rocking. Flip flops, shorts and t-shirt. Vacation…lakes & beaches. Ice cream. Laying in the sun or shade. Thunder storms. Flowers. Fireworks. Taking ‘strolls’. Amusement parks. Drive-in movies. Outside church. Picnics. The noise of kids playing. New friends. Sleeping outside. That special “summer song” that comes out of nowhere, plays in your head constantly and defines the fun you’re having. Who doesn’t like summer?
Sure, it’s warm and the days go on forever it seems….but it’s really much more than that. We look forward to summer because it’s a time to slow down and spend time with our friends and family. It’s a time to create new traditions but also conjures up memories of the past and our childhood.
So, get excited and be creative! No more masks and restrictions. It’s okay to constantly be in a good mood. Get crazy with your planning…. adventure, fun, and child-like wonder await!
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Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion. - Jack Kerouac
Pause and remember - Every single event in your life, especially the difficult lessons, have made you smarter, stronger, and wiser than you were yesterday. Be thankful! - Jennifer Young
Just one small positive thought in the morning can change your whole day. - Dalai Lama
If you fell down yesterday, stand up today. - H. G. Wells
Keep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision, hard work, determination, and dedication. Remember all things are possible for those who believe. - Gail Devers
An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
The secret of living a life of excellence is merely a matter of thinking thoughts of excellence. Really, it’s a matter of programming our minds with the kind of information that will set us free. - Charles R. Swindoll
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Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin. - Matthew 6:28
The laborer is worthy of his reward. - 1 Timothy 5:18
I planted the seed, Apollos watered it, but God has been making it grow. - 1 Corinthians 3:6
Love is the fulfilling of the law. - Romans 13:10
He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters. - Psalm 23:2
The price of wisdom is above rubies. - Job 28:18
The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places, surely I have a delightful inheritance. - Psalm 16:6
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Wisdom from Mouni Sadhu (Mieczyslaw Demetriusz Sudowski):
Everything is flowing. The Great River of Time takes everything with it, and nothing in this world remains unchanged or stabilized.
Man creates the link between Nature and Archetype.
Saints and mystics have developed considerable degrees of concentration and ability to exclude the mind’s activities from the field of awareness.
There are signs which indicate that our meditation is really leading us to samadhi, when we are free from all thought of the body and of the ‘ego’, and when thoughts and feelings are stilled.
Although all kinds of mental and emotional vibrations are present around us at all times, men usually respond to those most familiar to them, just as different radio receivers have varying ranges of reception.
Whoever has made peace in himself thereby possesses power.
The power that allows us to reach one-pointedness in our mind is called: attention, or interest in a particular subject.
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