Thomas Troward Quotes Page 2

“We cannot really think in one way and act in another.”

“A duality in which there is no other opposition than that of the inner and the outer of the same unity, the polarity which is inherent in all Being.”

“In the true order everything is seen from within.”

“Spirit in the Infinite is the Creative Power of the universe,”

“What is our point of support? Is it in ourselves or outside us? Are we self-poised, or does our balance depend on something external?

According to the actual belief in which our answer to these questions is embodied so will our lives be. In everything there are two parts, the essential and the incidental – that which is the nucleus and raison d'être of the whole thing, and that which gathers round this nucleus and takes form from it.

The true knowledge always consists in distinguishing these two from each other, and error always consists in misplacing them.”

“A light, even playful handling, therefore implies a firm grasp and perfect control over the instrument.”

“According to your faith be it unto you.”

“All that hinders the individual from exercising the full power of the Infinite for any purpose whatever is his lack of faith, his inability to realise to the full the stupendous truth that he himself is the very power which he seeks.”

“Beauty is the externalisation of Harmony, and Harmony is the co-ordinated working of all the powers of Being, both in the individual and in the relation of the individual to the Infinite from which it springs; and therefore this Harmony conducts us at once into the presence of the innermost undifferentiated Life.”

“Beauty represents the supremest living quality of Thought.”

“Because I am what I am, I may be what I will to be. My individuality is one of the modes in which the Infinite expresses itself, and therefore I am myself that very power which I find to be the innermost within of all things.”

“Perfect harmony with its environment, and perfect expression of its own inward nature are what constitute Beauty.”

“Prayer is the heart's sincere desire, Uttered or unexpressed,”

“We cannot think into manifestation a different sort of life to that which we realise in ourselves.”