Sunday 16 October 2011

Law of Thinking (2)

Law of Thinking (2 continued)

Mental attitudes are the result of ideas, and these have their origin in points of
view; therefore, by seeking true and natural points of view, one may secure the best
and most superior ideas, and these in turn will determine the predominating state of
mind.
We are prone to believe more than what we see.
The evidences of the senses are the only facts that some accept, but now we
shall realize more and more that it is what we believe that determines what we shall
see. In other words, believing is seeing. More defeats and failures are due to mental
blindness than to moral deviations. If one lived only by physical sight; his world would
be very small. It is said of a bug that its world is only as large as the size of the leaf on
which it lives, and many times it does not live long enough to consume the whole leaf.
With man, if he lived according to the senses, the largest sense he possessed would be
that of sight. Thus our whole world would extend only as far as we could see.

If we believed in the testimony of our eyes we would accept many conditions
that are not true. For example, if you look down a railroad track you will observe that at
a certain distance the two tracks converge at one point. This is not true.
Have you ever stood on the boardwalk and watched a ship slowly sink into the
sea as it sailed away? That ship wasn’t sinking; our eyes tell us falsely. When you are
worried over some obstacle or problem, just remind yourself that it may be purely an
illusion of the senses, that it may not be true at all, according to the Law.

Did you know that you don’t even see with your eyes! Your eyes are like a pair
of windows; at the back of the window there is a reflector and this reflector, in turn,
forms an image of what you see and sets up a wave current. This wave current follows
along thin wires called nerves. This relays the image back to the brain. Here at the
brain it is referred to the memory center. If the picture is a common one our memory
accepts it readily, but if we are looking upon some new picture, some new scene, our
memory does not recognize it, and then we must repeat the picture over and over
many times until it makes a lasting impression. Therefore, we do not see with our eyes;
we see with our mind.

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