FEELING, THE SECRET OF LIFE

Lecture #232 – Neville No Date

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Recently I asked a very successful business man his formula for success.
He laughed and said. “I guess it’s just because I can’t conceive of
failure. It’s more a feeling than anything else.” This gentleman’s
statement coincides with my belief and experiments.

You can think about something forever and never see it in your world, but
once you feel its reality, you are bound to encounter it. The intensity of your
feeling determines the time of its arrival.

Feelings are far too often regarded as effects and not causes, but feeling is
not only the result of life’s conditions, it is its creator.

We say we are happy because we are well, not realizing that the process also
works in the reverse direction. We are well because we are happy. To be
joyful for another is to bless ourselves, as well as him.

To be angry with another is to punish ourselves for a seeming fault of

his. The distressed mind stays at home, though the body travels, while the
happy mind travels, though the body remains at home.

Feeling is the secret of successful prayer. Feel yourself into the situation of
your answered prayer by living and acting upon your conviction. Feeling
gradually unfolds the soul’s hidden capacities. It is the ferment without
which no creation is possible.

All forms of creative imagination imply elements of feeling. All emotional

dispositions, however, may influence the creative imagination. Feeling has
no finality. It is an acquisition, increasing in proportion to receptivity, which
has not and never will have finality.

An idea which is only an idea, produces nothing and does nothing. It acts
only when it is accompanied by effective feeling. Somewhere within your
soul there is a mood which, when found, means wealth, health and happiness
to you.

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The impulse to create a desire may produce happiness, but if the desire’s
fulfillment is not felt, results are uncertain. When the joy of feeling is sure,
however, the words of Proverbs take on new meaning as: “A merry heart
does good like a medicine, while a broken spirit dries the bones.”
Start now to watch your feelings and reactions to the day’s events. Guard
your feelings when praying, for prayer is the true creative state. Dignity
indicates that man hears the greater music of life and moves to the tempo of
its deeper meaning. If we did nothing but imagine and feel the lovely, the
world’s reform would be accomplished.

Many of the stories of scripture deal exclusively with the power of

imagination and feeling. “Feel after him” is the cry of the truth seeker. Only
imagination and feeling – the senses by which we perceive the beyond – can
restore the Eden from which experience has driven us. Where knowledge
ends, feeling and imagination begin.

Every noble feeling opens a door to the divine world. Man’s true measure is
not by the height of his cities, but by the magnificence of his imagination
and feeling. Let us turn our thoughts heavenward and mix our imagination
with the angels. The world that moves us is the one we imagine, not the
world that surrounds us.

The consciousness of non-finality in feeling after God has been the

experience of all earnest God-ward feelers. They realize that their concept of
the Infinite has deepened and expanded with experience.

Those who endeavor to think out the meaning of an experience, and co-
ordinate it, are the philosophic mystics. Those who try to develop the faculty
in themselves, and deepen the experience are the practical, or experimental:
mystics. The greatest have tried to do both.

Religion is what a man does with his solitude, for in his solitude man is
compelled to subjective experience. A true religious attitude is man’s
salvation. God never changes. It is we who change!

As our spiritual eyes become keener, our enlargement of truth will bring us
an ever increasing inner peace. The best defense against the deceptive

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assault upon our mental and moral eyesight is the spiritual eye – the eye of
God.

This spiritual ideal cannot be changed by circumstance. Rather, it is a code

of personal honor and integrity, good will and love toward others. The royal
blood of Being runs through the veins of the humblest man on earth.
Therefore, when you see man through the eyes of Imaginative Love, you see
him with the eye of God. Under its influence, man’s ideal rises out of the
actual, as water is etherealized by the sun, to form the imagery cloudland.

Things altogether distant are present to the spiritual eye, for the eye of God
makes the future dream a present fact. It is not four months to harvest.
Today is the day of salvation. Persist in seeing with the eye of God and, with
distance in your eyes, all the staying, stagnate nearby will be of no
importance. You will brush it aside as you move on to your far-seen
objective.

The man who truly finds himself, is forever guided by love. He is of too
pure eyes to behold iniquity. His ability to help others will be in
proportion to his- ability to control and help himself. The day a man
achieves victory over himself, he will have conquered his greatest enemy.
The healing touch is in an attitude. Man is destined to discover that the
mighty surrenders itself fully only to the most gentle.

Recognizing the power of feeling, pay strict attention to your moods and
attitudes. Every stage of your progress is made through the exercise of your
imagination and feeling. By creating an ideal within your mental sphere, you
can feel yourself into your ideal image until you become one with it,
absorbing its qualities into the very core of your being.

The solitary, or captive man can, by the intensity of his imagination and
feeling, affect myriads. He can act through many men and speak through
many voices. Extend your feelers! Trust your touch. Participate in all flights
of your imagination, and do not fear your own sensitivities. The best way to
feel another’s good is to be intensely aware of it. Feel the health, wealth and
happiness you desire for yourself and another.

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Ideas do not bless unless they descend from heaven and take on flesh. Make
results the crucial test of your imagination. Observe your accomplishments
and fill your images with love. Then you will walk in a high and noble
mood, for you will know with the poet that, that which you sow, you reap.

“See yonder fields,

The sesame was sesame,
The corn was corn.
The silence and the darkness knew,
And so is a man’s fate born.”

Let us go into the silence

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