* Beyond The Dream - Chapter 3 Thoughts and Feelings
* Healing Through Spiritual Understanding
* Consciousness...is a unique faculty of man enabling him to be aware
of himself in a transcendent manner. This is the divine element in us. To fully appreciate
it is very important because until we have learned to appreciate the divine in us, we are
undeveloped and we live below the level of our potentialities.
pg. 46, Beyond the Dream
* There is more to man than meets the eye. We all have the faculty to
discern spiritual qualities in the world. We can see honesty; we can see integrity; we can
see beauty; we can see love; we can see goodness; we can see joy; we can see peace; we can
see harmony; we can see intelligence; and so forth. None of these things has any form;
none of these things can be imagined; none of these things is tangible, and yet they can
be seen. What is the organ that sees these invisible things? Some people call it the soul,
spirit, or consciousness. Man is a spiritual being endowed with spiritual faculties of
perception.
pg.14, God in Psychiatry
* As we study man we become more and more impressed by the absolute
supremacy of consciousness, up to the point where we come to realize that consciousness is
all that really matters. Man without consciousness is nothing, just decaying organic
matter. So what really makes the difference is consciousness.
pg. 74, Dialogues in Metapsychiatry
* When God created the universe, he said: "Let there be
light" (Gen.1:3). This light is continually expanding through the ages and there is
more and more light. This is called spiritual evolution. The Darwinian evolution is the
symbolic counterfeit, on a material plane, of the spiritual evolutionary process.
pg. 33, Commentaries on Scripture
* Today there are new ways of coming to know more and more of divine
Reality. It helps to begin to call God new names. For instance, in Metapsychiatry we call
God omniactive Love-Intelligence, Cosmic Consciousness, infinite omnipresent Mind, the
source of inspired Wisdom, Love, creative Intelligence, and healing Power.
pg. 287, Beyond the Dream
* As spiritual beings, we are made of the same stuff as God. In
Metapsychiatry we speak of God as Love-Intelligence. Love-Intelligence is indestructible,
omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent, and omniactive. We live and move and have our being
in Him, or Her, or It.
pg.115, Beyond the Dream
* We are not separate units of life; we are one with the creative
principle of our existence. Infinite mind is our creator and spirit is our substance. We
are made of the same stuff as God is made of, and we cannot really be independent.
Existence apart from God is an illusion which we all have to be healed of eventually.
Wonderful things happen when we reach a point of understanding wholeness; wholeness is
oneness, undividedness, and that is very important to realize.
pg. 6, Healing Through Spiritual Understanding
* Spiritual growth takes place when we study and meditate and aspire to
a realization of the fact that God is our creator and not our human parents. We learn that
God is infinite Love-Intelligence and that we have been created for a purpose. As we
consider this very carefully, we may come to know that God loves us, and that's wonderful.
pg.23, Marriage and Family Life
* The existence of man reveals the existence of God. Without man, God
could not be known. .... The purpose of man is to reveal the existence of God.
pg. 10, Existential Metapsychiatry
* God is infinite Mind and is not the possessor of anything material.
What God gives us is an abundance of intelligent, spiritual ideas and when we become
receptive to them, they provide us with the means to meet every legitimate need.
pg.4, What Does God Want?
* What would happen if the world would suddenly understand that God is
the Mind of the universe, and that besides this Mind there is no other Mind?... All
conflicts and fears would vanish. ...There would be harmonious participation in the good
of God. Universal and permanent Christmas.
pg.79, Dialogues in Metapsychiatry
* What are the metapsychiatric signs of the Kingdom of God on earth?
They are peace, assurance, gratitude, and love (PAGL). These are the qualities of
consciousness which we realize when we are in harmony with the Fundamental Order of
Existence.
pg. 12, The Soundless Music of Life
* God's grace is flooding the whole universe all the time, but there is
not enough receptivity to it in human consciousness. Therefore the blessings are scarce.
pg.43, Beyond the Dream
* Spiritual love, derived from Love-Intelligence, is nonconditional,
nonpersonal benevolence. It is the love of being loving, with no strings attached, just
for the sake of being what God wants us to be.
pg.13, What Does God Want?
* Thought is fundamental to life. Essentially, thought is energy which
has the tendency to transmute itself into phenomena. Invalid thoughts will transmute
themselves into invalid phenomena, which means that invalid thoughts are harmful, while
valid thoughts are health promoting. It is not a mystery that it is not a desirable
condition of mind to entertain unloving thoughts. As we grow in the understanding of this
basic principle of the transmutation of thought energy, we will become very careful about
what we are thinking. We may develop a discipline of mind where we do not indulge
ourselves anymore in negative and existentially invalid thought processes.
pg.22, Beyond The Dream
* Our consciousness is an empty screen and it is either filled with
garbage--and then we have the illusion that we are thinking--or we disengage our attention
from the garbage and refocus our interest on God. And what happens then? The garbage
disappears, as far as we are concerned, and intelligent ideas begin gently to engage our
attention.
pg. 48, Dialogues in Metapsychiatry
* The aim of Metapsychiatry is to heal man of his afflictions by
elevating his consciousness to the recognition of his identity as an image and likeness of
God, a spiritual being capable of transcendence.
pg. 3, Beyond the Dream
* We seldom suffer from other people. We suffer from what we want and
what we don't want.
pg. 1, Compassion
* The best way to define forgiveness is to give up blaming.
pg. 1, Forgiveness
* Problems are psychological, but solutions are spiritual.
pg. 17, A Hierarchy of Values
* What is compassion? We define it as "understanding the lack of
understanding."
pg.1, Compassion
* What is the secret of affluence? Cheerful generosity. The principle
is this: Affluence is in proportion to effluence. The more outflow, the more inflow.
pg. 39, Dialogues in Metapsychiatry
* Anger is an epiphenomenon of frustration. The meaning of anger can be
found mainly in one single phrase - "I want." Another source of anger is the
habit of "should" thinking, namely, thinking in terms of what should be and what
should not be. Habits of thoughts and words are our tormentors.
pg. 232, Beyond the Dream
* The principle of harmonious living is as follows: Take no thought for
what should be or what should not be. Seek ye first to know the harmony and joy of
soul-existence, the good of God.
pg. 125, Dialogues in Metapsychiatry
* When we are more interested in the truth than in being right, we are
transcending ourselves.
pg. 1, Self-Transcendence
* Gratitude is the door to joy... Seriousness is a killjoy.
Tape # 7, Conference 1986
* It is not difficult to be enlightened, it is only difficult to be
interested in enlightenment.
pg. 33, Dialogues in Metapsychiatry
* A very helpful way to pray for ourselves is by meditating on the
following statement: "I am a place where God's presence reveals itself as
omniactive Love-Intelligence."
pg. 89, Beyond the Dream
* When we pray, we are not trying to reach God with our prayers. What
are we trying to achieve? We are trying to realize that we are emanating from God and
therefore we are partaking in all the qualities of God...If a wave were praying, it
wouldn't try to reach the ocean; the wave would try to realize that it is inseparable from
the ocean. That is a tremendous difference which helps us gain a more perfect
understanding of the principle of God and man. We don't really have a relationship to God
or with God, we have an at-one-ment with God.
pg.11,13, Dialogues in Metapsychiatry
* The moment we are willing to become nothing, we become part of that
all-seeing, all-knowing presence, the divine Mind, and whatever is needed at that moment,
appears.
pg. 155, Dialogues in Metapsychiatry
* The Four Ws - A Meditation on our Identity
- Who am I? I am an image and likeness of God, a manifestation of
Love-Intelligence.
- What am I? I am a divine consciousness.
- Where am I? I live and move and have my being in omniactive divine
Mind.
- What is my purpose? My purpose is to be a beneficial presence in the
world.
pg.31, Can Meditation Be Done?
* Essentially, there are three kinds of parents: 1) learning parents,
2) teaching parents, and 3) daydreamers. The learning parent is an inspiration and a model
for growth. The teaching parent is tyrannical and creates resistance in his children. A
daydreaming parent is perhaps the most damaging one, for he rejects his children in favor
of his own fantasies, and at times may set impossible conditions for love in a nonverbal
way.
pg. 168, Beyond the Dream
* The Metapsychiatric definition of work is: useful activity in
response to manifest needs.
pg. 1, Right Usefulness
* When the presence of the truth, the awareness of the presence of God
in human experience, breaks through in human consciousness, it results in unexpected
blessings of harmony, peace, assurance, gratitude and love (PAGL).
pg. 30, Self-Transcendence
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