Thread by @AlisonBlunt

Quote, 'There are probably no two individuals precisely alike as regards the relative condition or action on them of their material and spiritual minds. With some the spiritual seems not at all awakened. With others it has begun to stretch and rub its eyes as a person does..' ..

...'on physical awakening, when everything still appears vague and indistinct. Others are more fully awakened. They feel to greater or lesser extent that there are forces belonging to them before unthought of. It is with such that the struggle for mastery between..' ..

..'the material and spiritual mind is likely to be most severe, and such struggle for a time is likely to be accompanied by physical disturbance, pain or lack of ease.'

Quoting 'Thoughts are Things' by Prentice Mulford (1889) ghostcircle.com/wp-content/upl…

'The material mind is, until won over and convinced of the truths, constantly received by the spiritual mind at war and in opposition to it. The ignorant part of yourself dislikes very much to give up its long accustomed habits of thinking.'

'Its costs a struggle in any case at first to own that we have been mistaken and give up views long held to.
The material mind wants to more on in a rut of life and idea, as it always has done, and as thousands are now doing.'

'It dislikes change more and more as the crust of the old thought held from year to year grows more thickly over it. It wants to live on and on in the house it has inhabited for years; dress in the fashion of the past; go to business and return year in and year out..' ..

..'at precisely the same hour. It rejects and despises after a certain age the idea of learning any new accomplishments, such as painting or music, whose greatest use is to divert the mind, rest it, and enable you to live in other departments of being, ..' ..

..'all this being apart from the pleasure also given you as the mind or spirit teaches the body more and more skill and expertness in the art you pursue.'

Quoting 'Thoughts are Things' by Prentice Mulford (1889) ghostcircle.com/wp-content/upl…

'The material mind sees as the principal use of any art only a means to bring money, and not in such art a means for giving variety to life, dispelling weariness, resting that portion of the mind devoted to other business, improving health and increasing vigour of mind and body.'

'It holds to the idea of being “too old to learn.”
This is the condition of so many persons who have arrived at or are past “middle age.” They want to “settle down.” They accept as inevitable the idea of “growing old.”'

'Their material mind tells them that their bodies must gradually weaken, shrink from the fullness and proportion of youth, decay and finally die.
Material minds say this always has been, and therefore always must be. They accept the idea wholly.'

'They say quite unconsciously, “It must be.”
To say a thing must be, is the very power that makes it. The material mind then sees the body ever as gradually decaying, even though it dislikes the picture, and puts it out of sight as much as possible.'

'But the idea will recur from time to time as suggested by the death of their contemporaries, and as it does they think “must,” and that state of mind indicated by the word “must” will inevitably bring material results in decay.'

'Thoughts are Things' by Prentice Mulford (1889)

'The spiritual or more enlightened mind says: “If you would help to drive away sickness, turn your thought as much as you can on health, strength and vigour, and on strong, healthy, vigorous material things, such as moving clouds, fresh breezes, the cascade, the ocean surge; ..'

..'on woodland scenes and growing healthy trees; on birds full of life and motion; for in so doing you turn on yourself a real current or this healthy life-giving thought, which is suggested and brought you by the thought of such vigorous, strong material objects.'

'And above all, try to rely and trust that Supreme Power which formed all these things and far more and which is the endless and inexhaustible part of your higher self or spiritual mind, and as your faith increases in this Power, so will your own power ever increase.'

Quoting 'Thoughts are Things' by Prentice Mulford (1889) ghostcircle.com/wp-content/upl…

Quote from Chapter 3, 'Thought Currents'
'We need to be careful of what we think and talk. Because thought runs in currents as real as those of air and water. Of what we think and talk we attract to us a like current of thought. This acts on mind or body for good or ill.'

'If thought was visible to the physical eye we should see its currents flowing to and from people. We should see that persons similar in temperament, character and motive are in the same literal current of thought.'

'We should see that the person in a despondent and angry mood was in the same current with others despondent or angry, and that each one in such moods serves as an additional battery or generator of such thought and is strengthening that particular current.'

'We should see these forces working in similar manner and connecting the hopeful, courageous and cheerful, with all others hopeful, courageous and cheerful.'

Quoting 'Thoughts are Things' by Prentice Mulford (1889) ghostcircle.com/wp-content/upl…