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The objective world is not acted on directly: it constantly molds itself in harmony with, and testifies to, the state one is conscious of being (the final HE of the divine name; the hills of Gilead as witnesses). Man sees only the contents of his own consciousness.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature | Man ever surrounds himself with the true image of himself
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature | Every spirit builds itself a house and beyond its house, a world, and beyond its world, a heaven. Know then the world exists for you, for you the phenomenon is perfect. What we are that only can we see
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature | Build, therefore, your own world, and as fast as you conform your life to the pure idea in your mind, that will unfold its great proportions
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the visible objective world which constantly bears witness of that which I am conscious of being
You do nothing about the objective world; it always molds itself in harmony with that which you are conscious of being
Man is incapable of seeing other than the contents of his own consciousness
When my world conforms to my assumption the prophecy is fulfilled
Circumstances alter, then remold themselves in harmony with my assumption
We are incapable of seeing other than the contents of our own consciousness
We radiate the world that surrounds us by the intensity of our imagination and feeling
We fashion the world that surrounds us by the intensity of our imagination and feeling
life molds the outer world to reflect the inner arrangement of our minds
As within, so without
in this third-dimensional world of ours time beats slowly
no two in this room live in the same world
Because of the slowness of the beat of time here you often fail to see the relationship between your inner nature and the outer world that bears witness to it
Your world is a grand mirror constantly telling you who you are
your world is forever bearing witness to your present concept of self
“As the world is, so is the individual,” should be changed to, “As the individual is so is the world.”
We know that all we meet is part of ourselves
this whole vast wonderful world is a response to the arrangement of man’s mind
For my world mirrors the being I am
I am forever surrounding myself with the true image of myself, and what I am in consciousness that only can I see
Inner state is equal to place, and where I stand within myself determines what I see when I look outside the self
Your description of the world is a confession of the self that you do not know
the state from which a man observes the world determines the world that man describes
the world that is described from observation must be, as thus described, relative to the describing observer