We change the world as a consequence of what we have become.

It doesn't take time to think right. It only takes the willingness to do so. Kenneth G(eorge) Mills

“When you say to yourself,

"If you engage his heart, you have a fair chance of imposing upon his understanding and determining his will."

~ Professor Upham writing of a celebrated writer, who had given those directions to his son as to the manner of conducting with foreign ministers.

Clairvoyance V

Yet more from Quimby on Clairvoyance
Lecture Notes–Booklet V http://www.ppquimby.com/articles/booklet_5.htm
My subject [Lucius Burkmar] was placed in communication with a lady who directed him to her father's house, which he described with particularity, even noticing the closets and doors. And often giving a description of each member of the family, said there was an old lady sitting in the corner, with a pair of spectacles over her eyes and that she was knitting. The lady immediately wrote home and ascertained that at the time named by my subject, there was such an individual present in the room, answering to the description of my subject and that she was also knitting.

Clairvoyance IV

More from Quimby on Clairvoyance
Lecture Notes–Booklet III http://www.ppquimby.com/articles/booklet_3.htm

PPQ

I have frequently alluded to the capacities of mind, acting in its excited state, independent of matter. This can be clearly proved by a subject under the mesmeric influence. The mind is then present with all things and needs only to be directed and the object is before it. Distance and space are nothing, and therefore, no time is required to pass the mind from one object to another.
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