Highlights from “The mind”
[session 10 of “Keys to the ultimate freedom” by Lester Levenson]
♡ The mind is an instrument created by you to imagine the Oneness as chopped up and separated into many parts interrelated.
♡ The mind is simply the sum total composite of all thoughts.
♡ The mind becomes habitual.
♡ The subconscious mind is running us - making us the victims of habit.
♡ The thing that keeps us from recognizing and expressing our infinity is simply the mind, conscious and subconscious. If we are to express this infinite nature, we can do it only by getting behind this mind. When we reach the realm behind the mind we operate without thoughts, intuitively, and are in harmony with the whole universe.
♡ The direction is to still the mind. Quiet the mind and you'll see your infinity right there.
♡ Just let go of the mind completely and what's left over is your infinite beingness, all knowing, all powerful, everywhere present.
♡ Were we to direct all our energies to stilling our mind, we would soon be realized.
♡ You feel as good as your mind is quiet.
♡ Your mind is an instrument used to identify your real Self with your body and world.
♡ If you do not identify with your body or mind, neither your body not your thoughts will effect you.
♡ In this dream-illusion there's a thing called thought. And thought determines and is the cause of all matter.
♡ In your imagination you have written and projected a cinema show of acts, actors and audiences on a screen and have lost sight of the fact that it is all in your imagination, your mind. Discover this and you discover the absolute Truth.
♡ The world and universe are a mental concoction.
♡ A thought is an assumption of lack causing a wish to fulfill it.
♡ All thoughts are of non-truth.
♡ You've got to use the mind to quiet the mind. You need to use determination to still it.
♡ Without concentrated mind, progress is relatively small.
♡ A wandering, wavering mind is one that dissipates one's energy in the form of many thoughts. Hold one thought and the energy is less dissipated and more conserved.
♡ Direct this conserved energy toward the Self.
♡ In the beginning the mind pursues the Self intermittently between long intervals. As one continues, the intervals shorten. .Toward the end, the mind is constant in the pursuit and does not wander from it.
♡ The more you eliminate mind, the more peace you feel.
♡ The mind will never discover the Self because the mind is the cover-up over the Self. It's only by letting go of the mind that the Self is seen. You get the mind quiet enough to allow your Self to be obvious to you so that you may use It to let go of the mind.
♡ Eliminating what you are not is growth.
♡ Every mind uses the very same unlimited intelligence. Everyone uses it as much as he believes he can use it to fulfill his desires. When he learns that his mental limitations are self imposed, he lets go of them. Then his intelligence (I. Q.) can be raised to the degree that he knows he has no limits.
♡ We are all in the same mind and the only thing that keeps us from reading the other one is that our attention is too centered on our own little self.
♡ All minds are influencing each other.
♡ Thoughts smother the capacity to be happy.
♡ Anything man can think can be.
♡ The ego-mind struggles for survival and tries to subvert your direction.
♡ The mind cannot give the ultimate answer because it's part of the ego, part of our limitation.
♡ When the Self, which is just behind the mind, is discovered, you see that the mind is limited and let go of it.
♡ Where is the world without your mind? Is there such a thing as world when you submerge the mind? The thought of the world creates it. This whole solid universe that you mentally say is a solid universe is just your thought that it is a solid universe.
♡ Anything your mind is absolutely convinced of materializes instantly.
♡ Mind can do anything with the body.
♡ Every thought is motivated by a desire for pleasure or an aversion to pain.
♡ Letting go of all attachments and aversions is letting go of all your thoughts.
♡ The only thing we are aware of is our own thoughts.
♡ What we're seeing out there is our own mind.
♡ The mind can be made quiet wherever you are. The place to do it is right where you are.
♡ As mind gets quiet, first the sense of havingness decreases until a measure of security is felt. It becomes less necessary to have in order to be. Then the sense of doership decreases until a further security is felt in that one is not the real doer, that the real doer is a higher power, that one can actually be with much less doing and it becomes less necessary to do in order to be. Finally your real Self that has always been in the background steps in and takes over and you feel that there is nothing necessary any more that you must have or do, that there is no choice but to only be!
♡ Unless we're eliminating the mind, unless we're eliminating ego, we're not progressing.
♡ The more we keep looking into the mind, the quieter we become.
♡ If I am separate then there has to be others, he, she and it. And you start dividing up the One by first becoming an individual separate from It. Thought first divides and separates you from the One Beingness, and then creates a multitude of beings and things and all the relationships. It's all your thought, that's all it is.
METHODS OF MIND REVELATION
♡ See the source of the mind and you will find your Self.
♡ Turn the mind back upon the mind and it will reveal its secrets.
♡ Eliminate the ego. The ego thinks and causes all thought. The ego is the identifier of the Self as the body.
♡ Surrender the mind to God.
♡ The mind must be eliminated permanently by realizing that it is not real but only an apparency, an illusion that has its source in your Self.
♡ Where there is only subject and no object, there the Self is.