Thomas Troward > Quotes

“My mind is a center of Divine operation. The Divine operation is always for expansion and fuller expression, and this means the production of something beyond what has gone before, something entirely new, not included in the past experience, though proceeding out of it by an orderly sequence of growth. Therefore, since the Divine cannot change its inherent nature, it must operate in the same manner with me; consequently, in my own special world, of which I am the center, it will move forward to produce new conditions, always in advance of any that have gone before.”
― Thomas Troward, The Dore Lectures on Mental Science

“Therefore, whatever may be the nature of our anxiety, we should endeavour to dispel it by the consideration that there may be already existing other facts we do not know of which will produce a different result from the one we fear, and that in any case there is a power which can produce new facts in answer to our appeal to it.”
― Thomas Troward

“My mind s a center of divine operations”
― Thomas Troward, The Doré Lectures on Mental Science

“A lie is a statement that something is, which is not. then, since the Spirit's statement or conception of anything necessarily makes that thing exist, it is logically impossible for it to conceive a lie. Therefore the Spirit is Truth. Similarly disease and death are the negative of life, and therefore the Spirit, as the Principle of life, cannot embody disease or death in its Self-contemplation. In like manner also, since it is free to produce what it will, the Spirit cannot desire the presence of repugnant forms, and so one of its inherent Laws must be Beauty. In this treefold Law of Truth, Life and Beauty, we find the whole underlying nature of the spirit, and no action on the part of the individual can be at variance with the Originating Unity which does not contravert fundamental principles.”
― Thomas Troward, The Creative Process in the Individual

“in the true order everything is seen from within.”
― Thomas Troward, The Hidden Power And Other Papers upon Mental Science

“Relying on the maxim that Principle is not bound by Precedent we should not limit our expectations of the future; and if our speculations lead us to the conclusion that we have reached a point where we are not only able, but also required, by the law of our own being, to take a more active part in our personal evolution than heretofore, this discovery will afford us a new outlook upon life and widen our horizon with fresh interests and brightening hopes.”
― Thomas Troward, The Creative Process in the Individual

“The principle being thus universal there is no reason why we should postpone its application till we find ourselves in another world, and the best place and time to begin are Here and Now. The starting point is not in time or locality, but in the mode of Thought; and if we realize that this Point of Origination is Spirit's power to produce something out of nothing, and that it does this in accordance with the natural order of substance of the particular world in which it is working, then the spiritual ego in ourselves, as proceeding direct from the Universal Spirit, should be able first, to so harmoniously combine the working of spiritual and physical laws in its own body as to keep it in perfect health, secondly to carry this process further and renew the body, thus eradicating the effects of old age, and thirdly to carry the process still further and perpetuate this renewed body as long as the individual might desire.”
― Thomas Troward, The Creative Process in the Individual

“Take care of the heart, and the head will take care of itself.”
― Thomas Troward, Bible Mystery and Bible Meaning

“Prayer is the heart's sincere desire, Uttered or unexpressed,”
― Thomas Troward, Thomas Troward Six-Book Collection: The Hidden Power; The Law And The Word; The Creative Process In The Individual; Edinburgh Lectures On Mental

“Spirit in the Infinite is the Creative Power of the universe,”
― Thomas Troward, The Hidden Power And Other Papers upon Mental Science

“Our object, however, is not to transfer ourselves to other planets but to get the best out of this one; but we shall not get the best out of this one until we realize that the power which will enable us to do so is so absolutely universal and fundamental that its application in this world is precisely the same as in any other, and that is why I have stated it as a general proposition applicable to all worlds. The principle being thus universal there is no reason why we should postpone its application till we find ourselves in another world, and the best place and time to begin are Here and Now. The starting point is not in time or locality, but in the mode of Thought; and if we realize that this Point of Origination is Spirit's power to produce something out of nothing, and that it does this in accordance with the natural order of substance of the particular world in which it is working, then the spiritual ego in ourselves, as proceeding direct from the Universal Spirit, should be able first, to so harmoniously combine the working of spiritual and physical laws in its own body as to keep it in perfect health, secondly to carry this process further and renew the body, thus eradicating the effects of old age, and thirdly to carry the process still further and perpetuate this renewed body as long as the individual might desire.”
― Thomas Troward, The Creative Process in the Individual

“for what we do not act up to we do not really believe;”
― Thomas Troward, Bible Mystery and Bible Meaning

“if you take your own knowledge of law as the starting-point of the creative action in your personal life, you have inverted the true order, and the logical result from your premises will be to bring the whole burden upon yourself like a thousand of bricks; but if you take the All-givingness of the Creating Spirit as your starting-point, then everything else will fall into a harmonious order, and all you will have to do is to receive and use what you receive, asking the Divine guidance to use it rightly.”
― Thomas Troward, Bible Mystery and Bible Meaning

“Perfect harmony with its environment, and perfect expression of its own inward nature are what constitute Beauty;”
― Thomas Troward, Thomas Troward Six-Book Collection: The Hidden Power; The Law And The Word; The Creative Process In The Individual; Edinburgh Lectures On Mental

“What is our point of support? Is it in ourselves or outside us? Are we self-poised, or does our balance depend on something external? According to the actual belief in which our answer to these questions is embodied so will our lives be. In everything there are two parts, the essential and the incidental – that which is the nucleus and raison d'être of the whole thing, and that which gathers round this nucleus and takes form from it. The true knowledge always consists in distinguishing these two from each other, and error always consists in misplacing them.”
― Thomas Troward, The Hidden Power And Other Papers upon Mental Science

“Beauty is the externalisation of Harmony, and Harmony is the co-ordinated working of all the powers of Being, both in the individual and in the relation of the individual to the Infinite from which it springs; and therefore this Harmony conducts us at once into the presence of the innermost undifferentiated Life.”
― Thomas Troward, Thomas Troward Six-Book Collection: The Hidden Power; The Law And The Word; The Creative Process In The Individual; Edinburgh Lectures On Mental

“Liberty without Love is Destruction, and Love without Liberty is Despair.”
― Thomas Troward, Bible Mystery and Bible Meaning

“the life and substance of all things must first subsist as images in the Divine Mind before they can come into manifestation in the world of time and space, much as in Plato's conception of archetypal ideas;”
― Thomas Troward, Bible Mystery and Bible Meaning

“We are aiming at consciously controlling our mental powers instead of letting them hurry us hither and thither in a purposeless manner,”
― Thomas Troward, Thomas Troward Six-Book Collection: The Hidden Power; The Law And The Word; The Creative Process In The Individual; Edinburgh Lectures On Mental

“Because I am what I am, I may be what I will to be. My individuality is one of the modes in which the Infinite expresses itself, and therefore I am myself that very power which I find to be the innermost within of all things.”
― Thomas Troward, Thomas Troward Six-Book Collection: The Hidden Power; The Law And The Word; The Creative Process In The Individual; Edinburgh Lectures On Mental

“Whatever we believe does, for us, in very fact exist. Our beliefs may be erroneous from the point of view of a happier belief, but this does not alter the fact that for ourselves our beliefs are our realities, and these realities must continue until some ground is found for a change in belief.”
― Thomas Troward, Bible Mystery and Bible Meaning

“Beauty represents the supremest living quality of Thought.”
― Thomas Troward, Thomas Troward Six-Book Collection: The Hidden Power; The Law And The Word; The Creative Process In The Individual; Edinburgh Lectures On Mental

“God employs the foolish things of this world to confute the wise;”
― Thomas Troward, Thomas Troward Six-Book Collection: The Hidden Power; The Law And The Word; The Creative Process In The Individual; Edinburgh Lectures On Mental

“But whether acting cosmically or personally it is always the same Spirit and therefore cannot lose its inherent character which is-that of the Power which creates ex nihilo.”
― Thomas Troward, Thomas Troward Six-Book Collection: The Hidden Power; The Law And The Word; The Creative Process In The Individual; Edinburgh Lectures On Mental

“Limitations surround us because we believe in our inability to do what we desire.”
― Thomas Troward, Thomas Troward Six-Book Collection: The Hidden Power; The Law And The Word; The Creative Process In The Individual; Edinburgh Lectures On Mental

“I am—therefore I can—therefore I will;”
― Thomas Troward, Thomas Troward Six-Book Collection: The Hidden Power; The Law And The Word; The Creative Process In The Individual; Edinburgh Lectures On Mental

“think Life, illumination, harmony, prosperity, happiness”
― Thomas Troward, Thomas Troward Six-Book Collection: The Hidden Power; The Law And The Word; The Creative Process In The Individual; Edinburgh Lectures On Mental

“The principle is never new, for principles are eternal and universal;”
― Thomas Troward, Thomas Troward Six-Book Collection: The Hidden Power; The Law And The Word; The Creative Process In The Individual; Edinburgh Lectures On Mental

“If our life is not a portion of the life of Universal Spirit, whence comes it?”
― Thomas Troward, Thomas Troward Six-Book Collection: The Hidden Power; The Law And The Word; The Creative Process In The Individual; Edinburgh Lectures On Mental

“The Negative always points to some external source of strength. Its formula is "I AM NOT.”
― Thomas Troward, Thomas Troward Six-Book Collection: The Hidden Power; The Law And The Word; The Creative Process In The Individual; Edinburgh Lectures On Mental