What Is the Connection Between Attitude and Advancement?

                                                                      

Q.  You have said negative attitudes can downgrade your Egoic character on the Astral Plane, and it seems like attitudes have a lot to do with character development on the physical plane as well. What is the connection between attitudes and Egoic Advancement?

 

A.  Everyone operates on the basis of what he really believes, not what our religion or philosophy says we are supposed to believe. What you believe determines your attitudes, and your attitudes, in turn, determine how you’re going to respond to different happenings in your life. For example, take several people to whom the same kind of experiences occurs. How do they view that event? One person may see it as a tragedy, another as an interesting sidelight, and yet another totally disregards it. Our growth is dependent not only upon the experiences we have but upon how we feel about them and what we understand about them. Our attitudes predetermine the particular direction our thoughts will take. Thoughts modify our subjective environment and attract external conditions into our lives. We project into the Universe our mental energies and pictures, and the Universe responds in kind.

 

Attitudes count heavily in our soul growth because they are our habits of thinking. You must change thought habits in order to look at things in new and different ways. You can alter the impact of circumstances by taking a different attitude toward them. This is called mental transmutation and it is a very valuable tool. It’s a conscious method of evolving a different attitude about the things that are in your environment or things that happen to you or your own thoughts. (01-1987)

 

 

 

 

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