Take responsibility for everything that happens to you.

How to regain our control?

Examine your thinking and correct it. Develop the habit of honest introspection by asking yourself, “Wherein did I cause this to happen to me?” and holding it until the thought that caused the happening comes out of the subconscious into the conscious plane. Then you recognize your mastership, that you caused that pleasant or unpleasant experience to happen to you. The more you will do this, the easier it becomes and the more able you become, until finally --- you recognize that you were always the master.    From Keys To The Ultimate Freedom by Lester Levenson

The mind is a very powerful creator, and it never loses its creative force. It never sleeps. Every instant it is creating and always as you will. – Course of Miracles

“What is this?”

“What does this mean?”

“How should I respond?”

The Ultimate Key To Happiness by Robert Scheinfeld

If I merely intervene between your thoughts and their results, I would be tampering with a basic law of cause and effect, in fact the most fundamental one there is in this world. ACiM – Chapter 2 – VII. Cause and Effect

The only effect from the presence of God comes in that final moment after we’ve done all the wrong thinking and the wrong speaking and have settled down to be influenced by God rather than to influence God; when we settle down in the last moments of our prayers or treatment to receive the seal—the still, small voice. God isn’t in the problem, and God is not in the words you speak or the thoughts you think, for God is in the still, small voice. And, whether you have said the right words, thought the right thoughts or the wrong ones, be assured of this that if they lead you to where you can settle down and say, “I am not trying to influence God but to be influenced by God,” you will then find that the spirit of God works in you.

 Towards Peace 1962 Joel S. Goldsmith

The best defense against being hurt is to feel good about yourself and the way a person responds to you says more about them, than about you.~ Brenda Shoshanna

I would like to make a statement here at the very beginning and have you entertain it tonight in the silence, and plant this statement, this idea, in your heart as you would a seed, to grow. It is this:

That the more difficult the situation is, the higher you will rise if you think correctly about it. Let us make a familiar and close communication with the heart of it, so that in the future when we may need to be strong under great pressure or temptation we may through this correct thinking about it be blessed and comforted.

Let us be silent for a moment and entertain these statements. Let us relax and open our hearts to the Greater Self, to the Self more abundant, to the One Self of us which is not duality nor multiplicity nor division, but One Self, radiantly beautiful and divine, the Self that is described only in deific terms.

I am rich in God’s love.

I give my best to the world and the best the world has comes back to me.

I am Prosperity. I am Success. God made me so.

I claim my own freely and fearlessly.

My Prosperity is based upon the true foundation, therefore is changeless, is GOD,

and the Spirit, overshadowing and indwelling, my one and everlasting good.

Amen!

From a Lecture on “The Rich Mentality”

by Harriet Hale Rix 1914

If there is such a thing as a God that heals the sick and prevents disease and accident, why isn’t it universally on Earth? Why is it that only those of a certain degree of consciousness can bring forth spiritual works? The answer is this. God is infinite, divine, universal Consciousness, which means your consciousness and mine. And, when we attain the awareness of that Consciousness, we are consciously one with God, the Source. When we are not consciously one with It, we are the human consciousness, the house divided against itself through which no spiritual miracles ever come.

 Doing Greater Works Joel S. Goldsmith 1961