Your invisible Power
Welcome to Thinks™ on Books, where I share the golden lines from the books I believe hold invaluable insights for the world today.
This time we are doing the book called “Your Invisible Power.“
Your Invisible Power by Genevieve Behrend
Let’s get to the golden lines:
Never forget that every physical thing, whether for you or against you, was a sustained thought before it was a thing.
Try to remember that the picture you think, feel and see is reflected into the Universal Mind, and by the natural law of reciprocal action must return to you in either spiritual or physical form.
Knowledge of this law of reciprocal action between the individual and the Universal Mind opens to you free access to all you may wish to possess or to be.
always recognizing that your own mind is a projection of the Originating Spirit, will prove to you that the best there is, is yours in all your ways.
Hurry is Fear and consequently destructive.
Visualizing is the great secret of Success.
You are happier than you ever were, because you have learned to know where your sources of supply is, and you rely upon its never-failing response to your given direction.
Nothing can prevent your picture from coming into concrete form except the same power that gave it birth — yourself.
The more enthusiasm and faith you are able to put into your picture, the more quickly it will come into visible form, and your enthusiasm is increased by keeping your desire secret.
Your feelings should be that the thing, or the consciousness which you so much desire, is normal and natural, a part of yourself, a form for your evolution.
“Form the habit of devoting a few moments every day to thinking about your work in a large, broad imaginative way, as a vital necessity to yourself and a useful service to society.”
The best time for making your definite picture is just before breakfast and before retiring at night.
Your must always bear in mind that you are dealing with a wonderful potential energy — which is not yet differentiated into any particular mould, and that by the action of your mind you can differentiate it into any specific mould that you will.
…you are making a mental picture for the purpose of determining the quality you are giving to the previously undifferentiated substance and energy rather than to arrange the specific circumstances for its manifestation.
It will build its own forms of expression quite naturally, if you will allow it, and save you a great deal of needless anxiety.
You are concentrating energy of a particular kind for a particular purpose. Bear this in mind and let specific details take care of themselves, and never mention your intention to anyone.
Thought as thought is neither good nor bad, it is creative action and always takes physical form.
Therefore, the thoughts you dwell upon become the things you possess or do not possess.
Notwithstanding the fact that each day found me in the midst of friends, surrounded by mirth and gayety, there was a persistent feeling that I was alone in the world.
I had been a widow for about three years, wandering from country to country, seeking for peace of mind.
Yet, if my friends could have penetrated my inmost emotions, they would have found a deep sense of emptiness and isolation. This feeling inspired a spirit of unrest that drove me on and on in fruitless search upon the outside for that which I later learned could only be obtained from within.
When about to abandon the search for contentment and resign myself to resume a life of apparent amusement, a friend invited me to visit the great Seer and Teacher, Abdul Baha.
I simply held my thought steady
To get good results we must properly understand our relation to the great impersonal power we are using. It is intelligent, and we are intelligent, and the two intelligences must co-operate.
We must not fly in the face of the Law expecting it to do for us what it can only do through us; and we must therefore use our intelligence with the knowledge that it is acting as the instrument of a greater intelligence; and because we have this knowledge we may and should cease from all anxiety as to the final result
In actual practice we must first form the ideal conception of our object with the definite intention of impressing it upon the universal mind — it is this thought that takes such thought out of the region of mere casual fancies — and then affirm that our knowledge of the Law is sufficient reason for a calm expectation of a corresponding result, and that therefore all necessary conditions will come to us in due order.
We can then turn to the affairs of our daily life with the calm assurance that the initial conditions are either there already or will soon come into view.
It may be a very small circumstance, but it is the direction and not the magnitude that is to be taken into consideration. As soon as we see it we should regard it as the first sprouting of the seed sown in the Absolute, and do calmly, and without excitement, whatever the circumstances seem to require, and then later on we shall see that this doing will in turn lead to a furthur circumstance in the same direction, until we find ourselves conducted, step by step, to the accomplishment of our object.
…finding its way to me.
…intuition told me that…
It is your word of faith that sets you free, not faith in any specific thing or act, but simple Faith in your best self in all ways.
Because you have expanded your faith into the faith and laws of the universe that know no failure, your faith in the best of yourself (the principle of life in you) has brought you into conscious realization that you are not a victim of the universe, but a part of it
It should be steadily borne in mind that there is an intelligence and power in all nature and all space that is always creative and infinitely sensitive and responsive.
The responsiveness of its nature is two-fold: it is creative and amenable to suggestion.
In the conscious use of the universal power to reproduce your desires in physical form, three facts should be borned in mind: First — All space is filled with a creative power. Second — This creative power is amenable to suggestion. Third — It can only work by deductive methods.
If you realize the truth that the only creative power can be to you only what you feel and think it to be, it is willing and able to meet your demands.
Believing You Have Already Received
…Love and Unity with all Humanity.