{"product_id":"9789562919944","title":"Thoughts Are Things","description":"Excerpt: The Material Mind Vs The Spiritual Mind \u003cp\u003eTHERE belongs to every human being a higher self and a lower self--a self or mind of the spirit which has been growing for ages, and a self of the body, which is but a thing of yesterday. The higher self is full of prompting idea, suggestion and aspiration. This it receives of the Supreme Power. All this the lower or animal self regards as wild and visionary. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe higher self argues possibilities and power for us greater than men and women now possess and enjoy. The lower self says we can only live and exist as men and women have lived and existed before us. The higher self craves freedom from the cumbrousness, the limitations, the pains and disabilities of the body. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe lower self says that we are born to them, born to ill, born to suffer, and must suffer as have so many before us. The higher self wants a standard for right and wrong of its own. The lower self says we must accept a standard made for us by others--by general and long-held opinion, belief and prejudice. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"To thine own self be true\" is an oft-uttered adage. But to which self? The higher or lower? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYou have in a sense two minds--the mind of the body and the mind of the spirit. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSpirit is a force and a mystery. All we know or may ever know of it is that it exists, and is ever working and producing all results in physical things seen of physical sense and many more not so seen. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat is seen, of any object, a tree, an animal, a stone, a man is only a part of that tree, animal, stone, or man. There is a force which for a time binds such objects together in the form you see them. That force is always acting on them to greater or lesser degree. It builds up the flower to its fullest maturity. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIts cessation to act on the flower or tree causes what we call decay. It is constantly changing the shape of all forms of what are called organized matter. An animal, a plant, a human being are not in physical shape this month or this year what they will be next month or next year. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis ever-acting, ever-varying force, which lies behind and, in a sense, creates all forms of matter we call Spirit. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTo see, reason and judge of life and things in the knowledge of this force makes what is termed the \"Spiritual Mind.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe have through knowledge the wonderful power of using or directing this force, when we recognize it, and know that it exists so as to bring us health, happiness and eternal peace of mind. Composed as we are of this force, we are ever attracting more of it to us and making it a part of our being. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith more of this force must come more and more knowledge. At first in our physical existences we allow it to work blindly. Then we are in the ignorance of that condition known as the material mind. But as mind through its growth or increase of this power becomes more and more awakened, it asks: \"Why comes so much of pain, grief and disappointment in the physical life?\" \"Why do we seem born to suffer and decay?\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThat question is the first awakening cry of the spiritual mind, and an earnest question or demand for knowledge must in time be answered.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Beta Nu Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47042527133936,"sku":"9789562919944","price":6.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9789562919944_p0.jpg?v=1763679478","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9789562919944","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}