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A passing change of mood is not a transformation: one must remain in the assumed state until it is stable and all one's energies flow from it, no longer thinking of the state but from it. The state that grows stable enough to expel all its rivals becomes the central, habitual state of consciousness from which one thinks, and defines one's character.

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A little alteration of mood is not a transformation
I am no longer thinking of that state. I am thinking from that state
wherever a state grows so stable as to definitely expel all of its rivals, then that central, habitual state of consciousness from which I think defines my character
That is the secret: thinking from what I want, instead of thinking of what I want

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When I know what I want, I enter into that state and think from it.
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That is the secret: thinking from what I want, instead of thinking of what I want.
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I don’t think of it; I think from it. When I think from it, I’m actually preparing that state.
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One that I want to stress throughout the entire series is the wide difference between thinking from an end and thinking of an end.
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So I begin to think from it. As I begin to think from it, all former states vanish
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you begin to think from it, and not constantly starve yourself by thinking of it
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as mere possibilities while we are not in them, but they are overpoweringly real when we are in them
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You carry on these mental conversations from premise of fulfilled desire, you talk to all you friends on these premises – and that is Jacob.
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I am looking out on the world proving that I am in New York City, for were I in New York City I would see the world from New York City. So I saw it from New York City. I didn’t think of New York, I thought from New York, and slept in it.
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If I think of what I want, I’m in conflict because I am not there.
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Now I am looking at it, and thinking of it, but the secret is to think from it, to occupy that state and get into it.
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But I mean transformation of consciousness, I do not mean a slight alteration of consciousness like a change of mood.
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So he thinks from it instead of thinking of it.
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Learn then to think from that end, though reason denies it
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If I am still seeing what I saw when I was insecure, I have not succeeded in occupying that desirable end; I am still only thinking of it.
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If I desired to get your point of view, while standing here I would assume that I am seated where you are and therefore within my imagination look from that position.
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the wide difference between thinking from an end and thinking of an end
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I am no longer thinking of that state. I am thinking from that state.
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Every image can be embodied, but unless man himself enters the image and thinks from it, it is incapable of birth.
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What makes a present sense impression so objectively real is the individual’s imagination functioning in it and thinking from it.
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they are mere possibilities while we think OF them. But they become overpoweringly real when we think FROM them and dwell IN them
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When you know what you want, you are thinking of it. That is not enough. You must now begin to think FROM it.
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LectureTwo Adams
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