Lecture #232 Feeling the Secret of Life

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FEELING, THE SECRET OF LIFELecture #232 – Neville No Date

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Recently I asked a very successful business man his formula for success.

He laughed and said. “I guess it’s just because I can’t conceive of

failure. It’s more a feeling than anything else.” This gentleman’sstatement coincides with my belief and experiments.

You can think about something forever and never see it in your world, but

once you feel its reality, you are bound to encounter it. The intensity of your

feeling determines the time of its arrival.

Feelings are far too often regarded as effects and not causes, but feeling is

not only the result of life’s conditions, it is its creator.

We say we are happy because we are well, not realizing that the process alsoworks in the reverse direction. We are well because we are happy. To be

joyful for another is to bless ourselves, as well as him.

To be angry with another is to punish ourselves for a seeming fault of

his. The distressed mind stays at home, though the body travels, while the

happy mind travels, though the body remains at home.

Feeling is the secret of successful prayer. Feel yourself into the situation of

your answered prayer by living and acting upon your conviction. Feelinggradually unfolds the soul’s hidden capacities. It is the ferment without

which no creation is possible.

All forms of creative imagination imply elements of feeling. All emotional

dispositions, however, may influence the creative imagination. Feeling has

no finality. It is an acquisition, increasing in proportion to receptivity, which

has not and never will have finality.

An idea which is only an idea, produces nothing and does nothing. It acts

only when it is accompanied by effective feeling. Somewhere within your soul there is a mood which, when found, means wealth, health and happiness

to you.

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The impulse to create a desire may produce happiness, but if the desire’s

fulfillment is not felt, results are uncertain. When the joy of feeling is sure,

however, the words of Proverbs take on new meaning as: “A merry heart

does good like a medicine, while a broken spirit dries the bones.”Start now to watch your feelings and reactions to the day’s events. Guard

your feelings when praying, for prayer is the true creative state. Dignity

indicates that man hears the greater music of life and moves to the tempo of

its deeper meaning. If we did nothing but imagine and feel the lovely, the

world’s reform would be accomplished.

Many of the stories of scripture deal exclusively with the power of

imagination and feeling. “Feel after him” is the cry of the truth seeker. Only

imagination and feeling – the senses by which we perceive the beyond – can

restore the Eden from which experience has driven us. Where knowledgeends, feeling and imagination begin.

Every noble feeling opens a door to the divine world. Man’s true measure is

not by the height of his cities, but by the magnificence of his imagination

and feeling. Let us turn our thoughts heavenward and mix our imagination

with the angels. The world that moves us is the one we imagine, not the

world that surrounds us.

The consciousness of non-finality in feeling after God has been theexperience of all earnest God-ward feelers. They realize that their concept of

the Infinite has deepened and expanded with experience.

Those who endeavor to think out the meaning of an experience, and co-

ordinate it, are the philosophic mystics. Those who try to develop the faculty

in themselves, and deepen the experience are the practical, or experimental:

mystics. The greatest have tried to do both.

Religion is what a man does with his solitude, for in his solitude man is

compelled to subjective experience. A true religious attitude is man’ssalvation. God never changes. It is we who change!

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As our spiritual eyes become keener, our enlargement of truth will bring us

an ever increasing inner peace. The best defense against the deceptive

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assault upon our mental and moral eyesight is the spiritual eye – the eye of

God.

This spiritual ideal cannot be changed by circumstance. Rather, it is a codeof personal honor and integrity, good will and love toward others. The royal

blood of Being runs through the veins of the humblest man on earth.

Therefore, when you see man through the eyes of Imaginative Love, you see

him with the eye of God. Under its influence, man’s ideal rises out of the

actual, as water is etherealized by the sun, to form the imagery cloudland.

Things altogether distant are present to the spiritual eye, for the eye of God

makes the future dream a present fact. It is not four months to harvest.

Today is the day of salvation. Persist in seeing with the eye of God and, with

distance in your eyes, all the staying, stagnate nearby will be of noimportance. You will brush it aside as you move on to your far-seen

objective.

The man who truly finds himself, is forever guided by love. He is of too

pure eyes to behold iniquity. His ability to help others will be in

proportion to his- ability to control and help himself. The day a man

achieves victory over himself, he will have conquered his greatest enemy.

The healing touch is in an attitude. Man is destined to discover that the

mighty surrenders itself fully only to the most gentle.

Recognizing the power of feeling, pay strict attention to your moods and

attitudes. Every stage of your progress is made through the exercise of your

imagination and feeling. By creating an ideal within your mental sphere, you

can feel yourself into your ideal image until you become one with it,

absorbing its qualities into the very core of your being.

The solitary, or captive man can, by the intensity of his imagination and

feeling, affect myriads. He can act through many men and speak through

many voices. Extend your feelers! Trust your touch. Participate in all flightsof your imagination, and do not fear your own sensitivities. The best way to

feel another’s good is to be intensely aware of it. Feel the health, wealth and

happiness you desire for yourself and another.

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Ideas do not bless unless they descend from heaven and take on flesh. Make

results the crucial test of your imagination. Observe your accomplishments

and fill your images with love. Then you will walk in a high and noble

mood, for you will know with the poet that, that which you sow, you reap.

“See yonder fields,

The sesame was sesame,

The corn was corn.

The silence and the darkness knew,

And so is a man’s fate born.”

Let us go into the silence

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