"The old saying: "There is nothing good or bad, but thinking makes it so," is an Absolute Truth."
"When you know that God's Energy comes forth into the individual absolutely Pure and Perfect, then you must realize that it is the individual who requalifies that energy and imposes his own impure quality upon it. This Pure God Energy is projected forth by the conscious effort of the individual, and he must impose some kind of a quality upon it, for that is his privilege as a Creator."
"Everyone is constantly qualifying this energy, which is pouring forth continually. Each one is continually pouring his color into it, through his own consciousness."
from page 32 of the I AM Discourses:
http://www.bahaistudies.net/asma/iam.pdf
Thus, add the gossipy, mean spirited and superstitious thoughts of others to your own misconceptions and images and you have the formula for a personal travesty in the making. Coalesce enough like minded misbegotten souls together and you have a force for disaster.
"When you know that God's Energy comes forth into the individual absolutely Pure and Perfect, then you must realize that it is the individual who requalifies that energy and imposes his own impure quality upon it. This Pure God Energy is projected forth by the conscious effort of the individual, and he must impose some kind of a quality upon it, for that is his privilege as a Creator."
"Everyone is constantly qualifying this energy, which is pouring forth continually. Each one is continually pouring his color into it, through his own consciousness."
from page 32 of the I AM Discourses:
http://www.bahaistudies.net/asma/iam.pdf
Thus, add the gossipy, mean spirited and superstitious thoughts of others to your own misconceptions and images and you have the formula for a personal travesty in the making. Coalesce enough like minded misbegotten souls together and you have a force for disaster.
