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Harold W. Percival
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“This book was dictated to Benoni B. Gattell at intervals between the years 1912 and 1932. Since then it has been worked over again and again. Now, in 1946, there are few pages that have not been at least slightly changed.”
Harold W. Percival (1868–1953) said by 1953 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I do not presume to preach to anyone; I do not consider myself a preacher or a teacher. Were it not that I am responsible for the book, I would prefer that my personality be not named as its author. The greatness of the subjects about which I offer information, relieves and frees me from self-conceit and forbids the plea of modesty.”
Harold W. Percival (1868–1953) said by 1953 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“From November of 1892 I passed through astonishing and crucial experiences, following which, in the spring of 1893, there occurred the most extraordinary event of my life. I had crossed 14th Street at 4th Avenue, in New York City. Cars and people were hurrying by. While stepping up to the northeast corner curbstone, Light, greater than that of myriads of suns opened in the center of my head. In that instant or point, eternities were apprehended. There was no time. Distance and dimensions were not in evidence.”
Harold W. Percival (1868–1953) said by 1953 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You will not be, you cannot be, satisfied with anything less than Self-knowledge. You, as feeling-and-desire, are the responsible doer of your Triune Self; from what you have made for yourself as your destiny you must learn two great lessons which all experiences of life are to teach. These lessons are:”
Harold W. Percival (1868–1953) said by 1953 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“This is the law: Every thing existing on the physical plane is an exteriorization of thought, which must be balanced through the one who issued the thought, and in accordance with that one’s responsibility, at the conjunction of time, condition, and place.”
Harold W. Percival (1868–1953) said by 1953 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Accidents and chance are words used by persons who do not think clearly when they attempt to account for certain happenings. Anyone who thinks must be convinced that in a world as orderly as this there is no room for the words accident and chance.”
Harold W. Percival (1868–1953) said by 1953 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A thought has no size in the physical sense but is vast as compared to the physical acts and objects into which it is later precipitated. The power of a thought is enormous and superior to all the successive physical acts, objects, and events that body forth its energy. A thought often endures for a time much greater than the whole life of the man who thought it.”
Harold W. Percival (1868–1953) said by 1953 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Therefore public officials in monarchies, oligarchies and democracies, are as bad as they are. They are the representatives of the people; in them the thoughts of the people have taken form. Those who are not in office would do as the present officials do, or even worse, if they had the opportunity. Corrupt officials can hold office and sinecures only so long as the thoughts of the people are depraved.”
Harold W. Percival (1868–1953) said by 1953 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Yes, there is a Government of this changing world. The Government is not in the changing world. It is in the Realm of Permanence, and though the Realm of Permanence pervades this world of change, it cannot be seen by mortal eyes.”
Harold W. Percival (1868–1953) said by 1953 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Consciousness is the ultimate Reality; compared with it, all else is illusion.”
Harold W. Percival (1868–1953) said by 1953 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In every age a few individuals do find The Great Way. They do conquer death by regenerating and restoring their bodies to the Realm of Permanence.”
Harold W. Percival (1868–1953) said by 1953 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“For you it is possible to do anything; the only thing impossible for you to do is to do wrong, inasmuch as you are knowledge and justice and love.”
Harold W. Percival (1868–1953) said by 1953 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source