Our first Thought
As he becomes more sensitive to the Overself’s presence, he knows that he has only to turn to it to receive divine strength and nourishment.
14.22.3.1022010-10-30
If a situation is fraught with anxiety and is also either unavoidable or unalterable, the first procedure is to organize all your forces to meet it calmly. The second is to call on the higher power for help by turning to it in relaxation and meditation.
9.13.2.2142012-02-10
We must put out of our minds every weakening impulse by instant reference to the strength of the Overself, every evil thought by a call to the infinite good of the Overself. In this way character is uplifted and made noble.
5.6.1.1462019-06-27
The consequence of this self-training on the Short Path is that in all questions, problems, situations, and practices his first thought will be to take the matter to the Overself, identifying with Overself, and later, when he returns to the second thought, the matter will be looked at under this diviner light.
15.23.1.1492017-10-23
If, while managing a situation, you are filled with anxiety or taut with tension, take it as a warning sign that you are managing with the unaided ego alone. That is, you have forgotten, or failed, to turn it over to the higher power, to put it in the hands of the Overself.
9.13.2.2522011-03-17
Remember to recess back into consciousness, to the centre, when other persons are present. This instantly subjugates nerve strain and self-consciousness.
15.24.2.742012-02-26
… In times of actual danger, the calm remembrance of the Overself will help to protect him.
3.2.3.131, Excerpt2012-02-16
If we concentrate attention only on the miseries and distresses which afflict us, then we have to depend on our own intellect to find a way out of them. If, however, we turn concentration in the opposite direction, that of the Overself, and deposit our troubles there, we gain a fresh source of possible help in dealing with them.
12.18.4.242015-06-27
If each attack of adverse force, each temptation that tries a weakness, is instantly met with the Short Path attitude, he will have an infinitely better chance of overcoming it. The secret is to remember the Overself, to turn the battle over to IT. Then, what he is unable to conquer by himself, will be easily conquered for him by the higher power.
5.6.1.682016-04-09
… If he looks only to the little ego for his supply, he must accept all its narrow limitations, its dependence on personal effort alone. But if he looks farther and recognizes his true source of welfare is with the Overself, with its miracle-working Grace, he knows that all things are possible to it. Hope, optimism, and high expectation make his life richer, more abundant.
15.23.1.146, Excerpt 2013-03-19
Do not think so much of looking for outside help. Your Higher Self is with you. If you could have enough faith in its presence, you could look inwards. With persistence and patience, it would guide you.
14.22.3.1542011-01-26
You will have turned over the matter or problem if certain signs appear: first, no more anxiety or fretting about it; second, no more stress or tension over it; third, no more deliberating and thinking concerning it.
12.18.4.982012-12-30
If he turns his problem over to the Overself in unreserved trust, he must admit no thoughts thereafter of doubt or fear. If they still knock at his door he must respond by remembering his surrender.
12.18.4.1042011-12-05
We blunder in life and make endless mistakes because we have no time to listen for the Overself«s voice – Intuition.
14.22.1.1252010-10-20
The essence of the matter is that he should be constantly attentive to the intuitive feeling in the heart and not let himself be diverted from it by selfishness, emotion, cunning, or passion.
15.23.6.2112019-10-19
To cast out tensions of body and mind and keep relaxed is to keep free and open and receptive to the higher forces–and especially to the intuitive ones.
3.3.3.782013-10-20
If we respectfully meet each intuitive feeling and give it our trusting collaboration, it will little by little become a frequent visitor.
14.22.1.952016-03-17
Submit yourself as an empty vessel to be filled with the intuitive leading of Overself. Do not stop short of this goal, do not be satisfied with a half-and-half sort of life.
14.22.1.1052012-05-05
The power to commune with the Overself is within us all, but most do not trouble to exert themselves in the nurture and cultivation of it. Hence they do not possess it in actuality.
3.2.6.492012-01-28
Is it too much to ask a man to pause in each of his busy days long enough to cultivate the one faculty–intuition–which offers him an utterly disproportionate return for the investment of time and attention?
3.3.1.1472012-05-22
With this serene acceptance of Life, this glad co-operation with it and willing obedience to its laws, he begins to find that henceforth Life is for him. Events begin to happen, circumstances so arrange themselves, and contacts so develop themselves that what he really needs for his further development or expression appears of its own accord.
12.18.4.1872012-09-09
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