"The creative abilities operate in the same fashion, appearing within consecutive time, but with the main work done outside of it entirely."
Session One, Page 3
"..you fall into the frame of mind in which you think that each minute is valuable - but what you mean is that each minute must be a minute of production."
Session One, Page 3
"I use the word methods because you understand it, but actually we are speaking about an approach to life, a magical or natural approach to life that is man’s version of the animal’s ?literal? instinctive behavior in the universe."
Session One, Page 5
"True creativity comes from enjoying ?the? moments, which then fulfill themselves, and a part of the creative process is indeed the art of relaxation, the letting go, for that triggers magical activity..."
Session One, Page 8
"The old beliefs, of course, and the rational approach, are everywhere reinforced, and so it does have a great weight. The magical approach has far greater weight, if you use it and allow yourselves to operate in that fashion, for it has the weight of your basic natural orientation."
Session One, Page 9
"It is not that you overuse the intellect as a culture, but that you rely upon it to the exclusion of all other faculties in your approach to life."
Session Two, Page 13
"Now when you understand that intellectually, then the intellect can take it for granted that its own information is not all the information that you possess."
Session Two, Page 16
"..the intellect can then realize that it does not have to go it all alone: Everything does not have to be reasoned out, even to be understood."
Session Two, Page 16
"The rational approach, built up around this framework, insists that the best way to solve a problem is to concentrate upon it, to project its effects into the future, to ruminate upon its consequences, to stare at the bare facts head on."
Session Two, Page 17
"The intellect, then, can and does form strong paranoid tendencies when it is put into the position of believing that it must solve all problems alone -- or nearly -- and certainly when it is presented with any picture of worldwide predicaments. The rational approach, built up around this framework, insists that the best way to solve a problem is to concentrate upon it, to project its effects into the future, to ruminate upon its consequences, to stare at the bare facts head on. This brings about an atmosphere in which the problem is compounded."
Session Two, Page 17
"In the position in which your culture places the intellect, it does see itself quite alone, separated both from other portions of the personality, from other creatures, and from nature itself."
Session Three, Page 27
"The idea of heaven, for all of its distortions, has operated as a theoretical framework, assuring the intellect of its survival."
Session Three, Page 29
"In your terms the intellect’s primary function is to make clear deductions and distinctions involving the personality’s relationship with the world."
Session Three, Page 30
"It certainly seems too simple to say what I am going to say, yet it is almost as if you would be better off turning the entire rational approach upside down, taking it for granted that all of its assumptions were false, for they are indeed more false than true."
Session Three, Page 30
"The intellect is, again, the result of highly spontaneous processes of which it itself knows nothing..."
Session Three, Page 31
Session Four, Page 45
"The intellect alone cannot bring about one motion of the body. It must count upon those other properties that it does indeed set into motion -- that spontaneous array of inner complexity, that orderly magic."
Session Five, Page 54
"When the intellect is used properly, it thinks of a goal and automatically sets the body in motion toward it, and automatically arouses the other levels of communication unknown to it, so that all forces work together toward the achievement."
Session Five, Page 54
"When the intellect is improperly used, however. it is as if the intellect feels required to somehow know or personally direct all of those inner processes. When the erroneous belief systems and negativity connected with so-called rational reason apply, then it is as if our person sees the target, but instead of directing his attention to it he concentrates upon all of the different ways that his arrow could go wrong: It could fall to the left or the right, too far or not far enough, break in the air, fall from his hand, or in multitudinous other ways betray his intent."
Session Five, Page 54
"In other words, the magical approach and the so-called rational one are to be combined in a certain fashion for best results. People sometimes smite you, telling of their intent to make money - or rather, to have it. They concentrate upon money, so they say, and await for it in full faith that it will be attracted to them because of their belief and concentration. They might do the point of power exercise, for example. They may also, however, have quit their jobs, ignored impulses to find other work, or to take any rational approaches, and rely upon, say, the magical approach alone. This does not work either, of course."
Session Five, Page 55
"You do not need a human intellect to be aware of your own consciousness. Your intellect is a part of you - a vital, functioning portion of your cognitive processes - but it does not contain your identity."
Session Six, Page 61
"Ideally, however, children finally claim their feelings and their thoughts as their own. They identify naturally with both, finding each valid and vital. By the time you are an adult, however, you have been taught to disconnect your identity from your feelings as much as possible, and to think of your personhood in terms of your intellectual orientation."
Session Six, Page 62
"The intellect’s expectations and intents spontaneously. and automatically trigger the proper bodily mechanisms to bring about the necessary environmental interactions, and your intent as expressed through your intellect directs your experience of the world."
Session Seven, Page 70
"The beliefs the intellect operate then as powerful suggestions, particularly when the intellect identifies with those beliefs, so that there is little distance between the intellect and the beliefs that it holds as true."
Session Seven, Page 70
"Your own relationship, your private beliefs about the sort of persons you wanted individually for mates, brought about incalculable actions that led finally to your meeting."
Session Seven, Page 71
"Your beliefs bring you into correspondence with the elements likely to lead to their affirmation. They draw from Framework 2 all of the necessary ingredients. They elicit from other people behavior that is in keeping with those beliefs."
Session Seven, Page 71
"Your experiences will follow your concentration and belief and expectation. The mind is a great discriminator. It can use its reasoning to bring about almost any possible experience within your framework."
Session Seven, Page 72
"Work with the sessions of late. For again, it is your understanding that, The Magical Approach
sets it all into motion."
Session Eight, Page 79
"If our ideas were already accepted in the world, there would be no need for our work."
Session Nine, Page 83
"Children, however, will concentrate for hours at a time on subject matters and questions that interest them. They are often taken from such pursuits, and their natural habits of concentration suffer as a result."
Session Ten, Page 88
"The natural person is to be found, now, not in the past or in the present, but beneath layers and layers of official beliefs, so you are dealing with an archeology of beliefs to find the person who creates beliefs to begin with."
Session Ten, Page 89
"You did not realize that you were beings presented, not merely with an alternate view of reality, but with the closest approximation you could get of what reality was, and how it worked, and what it meant."
Session Fourt, Page 119
"This is because many of the beliefs that you have individually and jointly are somewhat relieved in the evening, in that they so often apply to the day’s activities, when the rest of the world seems to be engages in the none-to-five assembly-line world experience. You do not project as many negative ideas upon the evening hours, and the same applies to most people to varying degrees."
Session Fifte, Page 123
"Early man, for example, spontaneously played at acting out the part of other animals. He took the part of a tree, a brood, a stick??. Acting became a teaching method - a way of passing on information. Man always possessed all of the Knowledge he needed. The task was to make it physically available."
Session Seven, Page 129
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