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"They [astronauts & cosmonauts] imagined themselves to be rocketing upward to get to outer space, only to find when they got there that they were looking up at the Earth. Or were they? Maybe they were looking down at the Earth! But then, where was the sun? Up? Down? No! Over there, to the left. So now, suddenly, a thing was neither up nor down--it was sideways... and all dimensions thus disappeared." (195)

Ugh

179: "To change your reality, simply stop thinking like that. In this case, instead of thinking 'I want success', think 'I have success.'
That feels like a lie to me.
Then think a thought you can accept. 'My success is coming to me now,' or 'all things lead to my success.'"

179: "A thought or a word expressed and expressed and expressed becomes just that--expressed. That is, pushed out. It becomes outwardly realized. It becomes your physical reality."

164: usual method of creation: thought, word, action
"The most rapid way to change a root thought, or sponsoring idea, is to reverse the thought-word-deed process.
Do the deed that you want to have the new thought about. Then say the words that you want to have your new thought about. Do this often enough and you'll train the mind to think a new way."

160: Chapter 11 on money was one of the best chapters

151: "You have determined, in the creation of Self, that respect for human life is, and must be, a high prime value. I am pleased with your decision, because I did not create life that it may be destroyed."

132: Determine what your purpose in life is.
"In situations where you are being abused, at the very least you will stop the abuse. And that will be good for both you and your abuser. For even an abuser is abused when his abuse is allowed to continue.
If the abuser finds his abuse is acceptable, what has he learned? Yet if the abuser finds that his abuse will be accepted no more, what has he been allowed to discover?"

125: People subconsciously think "'If I can just love others, they will love me. Then I will be lovable, and I can love me."

"Two people join together in partnership hoping the whole will be greater than the sum, only to find less. They feel less capable, less able, less attractive, less content. This is because they are less. They've given up most of who they are in order to be--and stay--in their relationship."

101: "Passion is the love of turning being into action. It fuels the engine of creation. It changes concepts into experience. Passion is the fire that drives us to express who we really are. Never deny passion, for that is to deny Who You Are and Who You Truly Want to Be. Passion is a love of doing."

92-93: Lose all pessimism. Release all doubts. Reject all fears. Discipline your mind to hold fast to the original creative thought. When your thoughts are clear and steadfast, begin to speak them as truths. Say them out loud. 'I am' is the strongest creative statement in the universe. Whatever you think, whatever you say, after the words 'I am' sets into motion these experiences, calls them forth, brings them to you