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What Is the Connection Between Attitude and
Advancement?
Q. You’ve 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’s
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. (01-1985)
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