"…prune your imagination by withdrawing your attention from all unlovely and destructive ideas
and concentrating on the ideal you wish to attain."

"If you believe in the horrors of the world as they are given to you in the paper and on television,
your belief causes the horrors to continue."

"The world is an externalized play, bearing witness to an inner activity of the soul.
If you see experiences as horrors and become emotionally involved in them, they tie you to them.
But if you can see that which is external to yourself, but reflecting your thoughts, you will change their flow,
thereby departing from thoughts which would bind and curse you."

"Begin now to discipline your mind by observing your thoughts.
Watch them all through the day and refuse to listen to any thought that is unlovely."

"Take yourself in hand and uncritically observe your thoughts and reactions to life.
Don't condemn your thoughts, but subdue them."

"As horrible as the world appears to be, it is like a tapestry whose knots and loose strings appear ugly on one side,
while its beauty is revealed on the other."

"When people sit in judgment, it is because they haven't the slightest concept of scripture,
and do not realize what is taking place in the soul of man.
Nothing is to be condemned, for God would not have made it had he not loved it, for God is love"

"We have only to enlarge our conception of causality to excuse everything and forgive all"

"Good and evil are not conditions imposed by some benevolent deity,
but states the soul must experience in order to surpass them and awaken as God Himself."

- N.Goddard

"Man is the beginning and end of all the beauty and abomination in the world"

-R.Fludd

"Excessive sorrow laughs.
Excessive joy weeps."

"Without contraries is no progression.
Attraction and repulsion,
reason and energy,
love and hate,
are necessary to human existence."
-W.Blake