The eXchanger - The eXchangers' Thread - Quotes to Ponder

"There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left
on in an
empty room. It is even stranger than a man talking to
himself or a
woman standing dreaming at her stove. It is as if
another planet is
communicating with you." said Jean Baudrillard.

"Wonder if there is life on another planet? Let's
suppose there
is. Suppose further, that only one star in a trillion
has a planet
that could support life. If that were the case, then
there would be
at least 100 million planets that harbored life." said
Ben
Sweetland.

"The only thing we have to fear on this planet is
man," said Carol
Gustav Jung.

"I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather
that my spark
should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be
stifled by
dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom
of me in
magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.
The function
of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my
days trying to
prolong them. I shall use my time." said Jack London.

"A friend of mine once sent me a post card with a
picture of the
entire planet Earth taken from space. On the back it
said, "Wish you
were here." by Stephen Wright.

"Oh man! There is no planet, sun ,or star could hold
you, if you
but knew what you are." Ralph Waldo Emerson.

"It is known that there are an infinte number of
worlds, simply
because there is an infinite amount of space for them
to be in.
However, not every one of them is inhabited. Any
finite number
divided by infinity is as near nothing as makes no
odds, so the
average population of all the planets in the Universe
can be said to
be zero. From this it follows that the population of
the whole
Universe is also zero, and that any people you may
meet from time to
time are merely product a deranged imagination,"
said Douglas
Adams.

"Maybe this world is another planet's Hell," said
Aldous Huxley.

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REMAIN CLOSE TO THE GREAT SPIRIT

SHOW GREAT RESPECT FOR YOUR
FELLOW BEINGS


GIVE ASSISTANCE AND KINDNESS
WHEREVER NEEDED


BE TRUTHFUL AND HONEST AT ALL TIMES


DO WHAT YOU KNOW TO BE RIGHT


LOOK AFTER THE WELL BEING
OF MIND AND BODY


TREAT THE EARTH AND ALL THAT
DWELL THEREON WITH RESPECT


TAKE FULL RESPONSIBILITY FOR
YOUR ACTIONS


DEDICATE A SHARE OF YOUR EFFORTS
TO THE GREATER GOOD


WORK TOGETHER FOR THE BENEFIT
OF ALL MANKIND

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"If A Nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a
state of
civilization, it expects what never was and never will
be"
Thomas Jefferson.

The Nature of Personal Reality

"You are in physical existence to learn
and understand that your energy, translated into
feelings, thoughts and
emotions, causes all experience. There is no
exceptions."

"I told you that the self was not limited, yet
surely you
think that your self stops where your skin meets
space, that you are
inside your skin. Period. Yet your environment is an
extension of your
self. It is the body of your experience coalesced in
physical form. The
inner self forms the objects that you know as surely
and automatically
as it forms your finger or your eye.

Your environment is the physical picture
of your thoughts emotions and beliefs made visible.
Since your thoughts
emotions and beliefs move through space and time, you
therefore affect
physical conditions separate from you."

You are confined only to the extent that
you have chosen physical reality, and so placed
yourself within its
context of experience. While physical, you follow
physical laws, or
assumptions. These form the framework for corporeal
expression.

Within this framework you have full
freedom to create your experience, your personal life
in all of its
aspects, the living picture of the world. Your
personal life, and to
some extent your individual living experience, help
create the world as
it is known in your time.

"Look about you. Your entire physical
environment is the materialization of your beliefs.
Your sense of joy,
sorrow, health or illness - all of these are also
caused by your
beliefs. "

"I would like you to recognize your own
beliefs in several areas. You must realize that any
idea you accept as
truth is a belief that you hold. You must, then, take
the next step and
say, "It is not necessarily true, even though I
believe it." You will, I
hope, learn to disregard all beliefs that imply basic
limitations.

"Physical data will always seem to
reinforce the beliefs, therefore, but the beliefs
formed the reality. "

"....you must realize that no one can
change your beliefs for you, nor can they be forced
upon you from
without. You can indeed change them for yourself,
however, with
knowledge and application. "

" Within you is the ability to
change your ideas about reality and about yourself, to
create a personal
living experience that is fulfilling to yourself and
others. "

"The realization that you form your own
reality should be a liberating one. You are
responsible for your
successes and your joys. You can change those areas of
your life with
which you are less than pleased, but you must take the
responsibility
for your being.

Your spirit joined itself with flesh, and
in flesh, to experience a world of incredible
richness, to help create a
dimension of reality of colors and of form. Your
spirit was born in
flesh to enrich a marvelous area of sense awareness to
feel energy made
into corporeal form. You are here to use enjoy and
express yourself
through the body. You are here to aid in the great
expansion of
consciousness."

Remember, even false beliefs will seem to
be justified in terms of physical data, since your
experience in the
outside world is the materialization of those beliefs.
So, you must work
with the raw material of your ideas, even when your
sense data may tell
you that a given belief is obviously a truth. To
change your experience
or any portion of it, then, you must change your
ideas. Since you have
been forming your own reality all along, the results
will follow
naturally."

"You must be convinced that you can alter your
beliefs. You must be
willing to try. "

" The inner self is embarked upon an
exciting endeavor, in which it learns how to translate
its reality into
physical terms. The conscious mind is brilliantly
attuned to physical
reality, then, and often so dazzled by what it
perceives that it is
tempted to think physical phenomena is a cause, rather
than a result.
Deeper portions of the self always serve to remind it
that this is not
the case. When the conscious mind accepts too many
false beliefs,
particularly if it sees that inner self as a danger,
then it closes out
these constant reminders. When this situation arises
the conscious mind
feels itself assailed by a reality that seems greater
than itself, over
which it has no control. The deep feeling of security
in which it should
be anchored is lost.

The false beliefs must be weeded out so
that the conscious mind can become aware of its source
once again, and
open to the inner channels of splendor and power
available to it."

"Realize that your physical experience and
environment is the materialization of your beliefs. If
you find great
exuberance, health, effective work, abundance, smiles
on the faces of
those you meet, then take it for granted that your
beliefs are
beneficial. If you see a world that is good, people
that like you, take
it for granted, again, that your beliefs are
beneficial. But if you find
poor health a lack of meaningful work, a lack of
abundance, a world of
sorrow and evil, then assume that your beliefs are
faulty and begin
examining them."
Sessions 613 thru 616, pages 14 thru 34.

"You must learn to deal with your own
beliefs directly or you will be forced to deal with
them indirectly."

"To act in an independent manner, you must
begin to initiate action that you want to occur
physically
(emphatically) by creating it in your own being.

This is done by combining belief, emotion
and imagination, and forming them into a mental
picture of the desired
physical result. "
Session 627, page 108

"Your beliefs about what is
desirable and what is not, what is good and what is
evil, cannot be
divorced from the condition of your body. Your own
ideas of values can
help you achieve good health or bring about disease,
can bring into your
experience success or failure, happiness or sadness.
Yet each of you
will interpret that last remark in line with your own
value system. You
will have definite ideas about what success or failure
means, or what
good or evil is.

Your own value system then is built up of
your beliefs about reality, and those beliefs form
your experience. "
Session 633, page 140

"Normal aggressiveness flows with strong
patterns of energy, giving motive power to all of your
thoughts whether
you consciously regard them as positive or negative,
good or bad. (very
definitely:) The same thrusting creative surge brings
them all forth.
When you consider a thought good you usually do not
question it. You allow it its life and follow through.
Usually if you
regard a thought as bad or beneath you, or if you are
ashamed of it,
then you try to deny it, stop this motion and hold it
back. You cannot
restrain energy, although you may think you can. You
simply collect it,
whereupon it grows, seeking its fulfillment. session
634

"As you examine the contents of your
conscious mind, it may seem to you that you hold so
many different
beliefs at different times that you cannot correlate
them. They will,
however, form into clear patterns. You will find a
grouping of core
beliefs about which the others gather.

If you think of these as planets, then
your other ideas orbit about them. There may be some
"invisible
beliefs," and there may be one or two invisible core
beliefs. These,
following the analogy, would be hidden behind the
other brighter, more
obvious "planets," and yet would show their presence
through their
effects upon your relationships with all of the other
visible core
beliefs in your "planetary system."

Questions you cannot seem to answer as you
study your own ideas, for example may lead you to
suspect the existence
of such invisible core beliefs. Let me emphasize that
they are
consciously available. You can find them through the
approaches
mentioned earlier working from your feelings or by
beginning with the
beliefs that become most readily available."
Session 645, pg. 227

"Ruburt also saw that he believed he had
to justify his existence through his writing. This
because he did not
trust the basic right of his being as it existed, and
does, in space and
time. These old beliefs had not caught up to his newer
ones.

The same artificial need to vindicate
being is present in many of my readers, and various
core beliefs may be
built up to hide this inner insecurity. You may
"justify your life" by
biological creativity, and then latch onto your
children and never want
to let them go. You may use your career instead. But
in all cases you
must come to grips with such unnecessary ideas, face
the reality of your
creaturehood, and see that you certainly have as much
of a place in the
universe as a squirrel, an ant or a leaf. You do not
question their
right to exist. Why question your own?"
Session 645, pg. 233

"Numbers of you are looking for a state of "peace" in
which there is a
static sort of bliss, with all question forever
answered and all
problems solved. Some of you think that this will
somehow be
miraculously accomplished for you. If you recognized
the power of your
own being, you would know that it ever seeks greater
realms of
creativity and experience, in which new challenges are
inherent - for
all problems are challenges."
Session 666, pg. 380.

"Because you now distrust the imagination so, you do
not understand the
great clues it give you, both in terms of problem
solving and of
creative expression. ..... A good percentage of your
problems can be
worked out rather easily through the use of your
imagination." Session
669, pg 396

"No matter what your current situation,
the answers lie within your own aspirations and
abilities."
Session 669, pg. 397

"The ordinary sense of communication given
you through your creaturehood, if spontaneously and
honestly followed,
would solve many of your problems. Only repressed
communication leads to
violence. The natural force of love is everywhere
within you, and the
normal methods of communication are always meant to
bring you in greater
contact with your fellow creatures."
Session 674, pg. 427
c c c
The Early Sessions, Book 9,

"In your system of reality you are
learning what mental energy is, and how to use it. You
do this by
constantly transforming your thoughts and emotions
into physical form.
You are supposed to get a clear picture of your inner
development by
perceiving the exterior environment. What seems to be
a perception, an
objective concrete event, independent and apart from
you the perceiver,
is instead the physical materialization of the
perceiver's own inner
emotions, energy and mental environment." Session 469,
Page 268
c c c
The Early Sessions, Book 4

"His (an individual's) perceptions of
basic reality in one way does not change the nature of
that reality or
of that action, as it exists independently of his
field of reference.
However, the very distortions that occur in his
attempt to perceive this
reality results in a new reality."
Session 157, Page 43
c c c
The Early Sessions, Book 8

"If you want to know what you think of
yourself, then ask yourself what you think of others,
and you will find
your answer."

"For example: if others seem deceitful to
you it is because you deceive yourself and then
project this outward
onto others."
Session 340, Page 25

"Thoughts however are connected with language
and with highly organized ego development. They are
translations and
symbols for inner activity. As a rule they are highly
physically
oriented, their function being to acquaint the
physically adapted ego
with some inner data. The thoughts may rather
faithfully, though never
completely, translate such data, or they may
considerably distort it.
Behind thoughts are images, which are more basic but
still physically
oriented. Because they are more basic they have a
stronger effect. They
are more emotionally charged, more concise than
thoughts, and they are
directly connected with the mechanics involved in
translating inner data
to physical reality. Behind these, so to speak, exist
what you may term
temperature pictures, in which delicate gradations of
heat form
ever-shifting emotional patterns that so have a
semi-physical outline.
From these, you see, normal images are built up, and
from the images
thoughts are formed...Thus thought becomes an inner
image which is
translated into a thermal image, and then into
intuitional form, into
highly condensed and codified data, and then into a
pure and direct sort
of experience which you cannot understand as physical
creatures."
Session 341, Page 27

"There must be an open-minded, and
openhearted attitude here. You must not try to use
what you have learned
in a narrow, limiting way. This hampers your own
development. It closes
your eyes to many possibilities that will be important
to you. It is
natural, perhaps, to want to use what you have
learned, this
information, as a technique to achieve what you at any
particular time
think desirable, a particular person, a particular
thing. But what is
important is the inner development. If this is taken
care of, it will
automatically lead you to the person that is best for
you and to the
circumstances that will help you develop. To insist
that a specific
individual or a specific goal be attained through
these methods is
limiting. There must always be the acknowledgment that
you do not
consciously as yet realize the depths of yourself, the
goals you have
set and the challenges, and this material should be
used to open up your
inner horizons and to lead you in those directions
toward which your
inner self has already set you. If you then
egotistically, say - No
- this particular situation is what I want, then you
may be blocking the
inner direction which has been meant for you." Session
403, Page 233
c c c
The Early Sessions, Book 9

"You cannot separate creative and psychic
ability." Session 444, Page 126

"Now when anything is wrong with your
body, it is trying to tell you something. And when you
understand what
it is trying to say, and if you make an effort to do
what is needed, the
symptoms are no longer needed as a method of
communication. The body is
trying to tell you that you have a problem, and
because you did not cope
with it, and denied it mentally, it is physically
materialized in
symbolic body language." Session 502, Page 401
c c c
The Nature of Personal Reality

"Your emotions and your imagination both
follow
your belief. When the belief vanishes then the same
emotional context is
no longer entertained, and your imagination turns in
other directions.
Beliefs automatically mobilize your emotional and
imaginative powers.

Few beliefs are intellectual alone. When
you are examining the contents of your conscious mind,
you must learn,
or recognize, the emotional and imaginative
connotations that are
connected with a given idea."
Session 619, page 65
c c c
The Nature of the Psyche

"The [human] species has built into it all
of the knowledge, information, and data that it can
possibly need under
any and all conditions. This heritage must be
triggered psychically,
however, as a physical mechanism such as a music is
triggered through
desire or intent."
Session 762, Page 36

"A tree does not have to ask for
nourishment from the ground or the sun, and so
everything that you need
is available to you in your practical experience."
Session 800, Page 220
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The Nature of Personal Reality

"And so it is from your larger identity
that you form the reality that you know. It is up to
you to do this with
joy and vigor, clearing your conscious mind so that
the deeper knowledge
of your greater identity can form joyous expressions
in the world of
flesh." Session 613, Page 14
c c c
The Early Sessions, Book 4

"It goes without saying that you must bring to
all your experiences more than a mere wish to be
different, more than a
mere curiosity. In order for you to operate
effectively in any area
there must be in your makeup a strong, positive and
definite desire to
benefit the race of man."
Session 185, Page 244
c c c
The Early Sessions, Book 6

"The one main test to be applied to these
sessions, to my advice and to the material is this:
The sessions, the
material and your new knowledge must transform your
psychic and physical
environment, your health and all aspects of your inner
and outer life
for the better." Session 245, Page 56

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The Prayer:
"We are one global family
All colors, All races
One world united.
We pray for peace and the healing of our planet Earth
Peace for all nations.
Peace for our communities.
And peace within ourselves.
As we join as one across the world,
let us connect heart to heart.
Through our diversity we recognize Unity.
Through our compassion we recognize Peace.
Our love is the power to transform our world
Let us send it out
NOW..."

The Nature of Personal Reality

Jane Roberts -- seth

Thank You Susan .



Love for You
mudra

"it is all about The eXchange"
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"we set our lives to music"

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"Other people do NOT come to make us happy,
they come to make us happier"

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"Will it to be, and, it will be "

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"The deepest sadness i know,
are things i've left unsaid and undone"

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"As we grow positively,
everything alters, and, everything changes,
and, everything shifts,
and, it all becomes more,
rather than ever less"

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"Your soul is your suitcase,
pack it wisely, stuff it full"

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"The louder the horn,
the less there is to TOOT about"

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"it is better to be, than not to be,
and, it is better to be more,
than it is to be less"

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"i do NOT ever want,
to make old bones,
or, do old bones "

susan lynne schwenger

"When the old game of life is over,
The King and The Pawn,
they both end up in the same box"

susan lynne schwenger

"Simply

invert e.v.i.l. / evil

To l.i.v.e. / live "

susan Lynne Schwenger

THEeXchanger wrote:

"When the old game of life is over,
The King and The Pawn,
they both end up in the same box"

susan lynne schwenger

'remember balance equates to the processing of light and dark
if you paint on what is already bright or light
you miss the best parts of your canvas "

susan lynne schwenger