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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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