Our actions are accomplished in our thought
before they are reproduced outside of us. Honoré de Balzac
You always just go around thinking about the wrong things.
Your mind is occupied with
trivialities, you think about things that it is not necessary for you to think
about, you go into fantastic detail over the smallest subject and keep your
mind grinding along all the time, not knowing that you have abandoned the
control, the higher control of your mind, that you could have had. VH
Your life forces swell swiftly. Your recuperative powers are
miraculous. Affirm constantly: "I am Spirit, and shed abroad health,
life and strength."
Believe
this text: "In due season we shall reap if
we faint not."ECH
Sickness is not an accident. Like all defenses, it is an
insane device for self-deception. And like all the rest, its purpose is to hide
reality, attack it, change it, render it inept, distort it, twist it, or reduce
it to a little pile of unassembled parts. … Defenses are not unintentional, nor
are they made without awareness. They are secret, magic wands you wave when
truth appears to threaten what you would believe. … Who but yourself evaluates
a threat, decides escape is necessary, and sets up a series of defenses to
reduce the threat that has been judged as real? … It is this quick forgetting
of the part you play in making your "reality" that makes defenses
seem to be beyond your own control. … Every defense takes fragments of the
whole, assembles them without regard to all their true relationships, and thus
constructs illusions of a whole that is not there. It is this process that
imposes threat, and not whatever outcome may result. When parts are wrested
from the whole and seen as separate and wholes within themselves, they become
symbols standing for attack upon the whole; successful in effect, and never to
be seen as whole again. And yet you have forgotten that they stand but for your
own decision of what should be real, to take the place of what is real. … I have forgotten what I really am, for I
mistook my body for myself. Sickness is a defense against the truth. But I am
not a body. And my mind cannot attack. So I can not be sick. Lesson 136
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