So what I have actually read and enjoyed today….
It was interesting to notice how this book has been hovering on the edge of my mind for a couple of days, like a favourite old tune that I was ignoring but aware of in the distance. This morning it was more like the sound of a bell, ringing the title in my mind with some urgency. I was a little surprised to find it instantly in the first place I looked. Maybe the subconscious mind was already working on my behalf..
Not just coincidence since the book is “The Power of Your Subconscious Mind” by Dr Joseph Murphy. One of “the most powerful self help guides ever written, ” according to its cover. Over a Million Copies Sold!
I can well believe it! I liked it the first time I read it and this is about the third time.
Today I have been struck afresh by a couple of passages.
There is a miraculous, causative force in your subconscious that can heal the troubled mind and the broken heart. It can open the prison door of the mind and liberate you. It can free you from all kinds of material and physical bondage.
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Every thought is a cause, and every condition is an effect.
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There is nothing new here. These days, after “the Secret”, it seems most people know about this wonderful teaching. This book dates from 1963…and yet as I read it this morning, I had a new Aha! moment. Intellectually I know this truth. but I have been resisting it! It is so easy to think that an intellectual understanding is enough. But today, I read Dr Murphy’s words with my heart, as well as my eyes. Not the same experience at all.
The difference is in the sense of joy and excitement that comes as I realize, I have the power to choose the focus of my thinking. And somewhere in this is the difference between intellect, which is a cerebral aspect of intelligence, and intelligence itself, which is a quality issuing from a whole person. This is the kind of insight I want to treasure, not forget, and be grateful for.
