Walter C. Lanyon Quotes

“Curiosity is the most unspiritual of all the faults of the human mind.”

“No man can by thinking do much, but by consciousness and recognition of his Divinity he can find a 'way ye know not of' – he can escape the hopeless pattern of human destiny and Karmic debt. He will understand then how it is he must 'be still and know that I am God' – and how it also is 'then went he in and shut the door'.”

“The involuntary action in your body is God within you in action. The Voluntary action is largely engendered by thought.”

“Your seed must change shape – and it can never accomplish this as long as you hold it – neither can a thought get into manifestation as long as you 'hold' it.”

“If you resist a thing, you fear it, and if you fear it you necessarily endow it with power to hurt you. For who would resist anything that he was not afraid of? We are not afraid of so-called powerless things.”

“Life is a Circle which has no end,
Death does not break the link,
Death is but sleep.
Life is eternal, naught can be lost.”

“Meet every problem that comes to you as its master, knowing that God is working with you and that to be of one mind with Him is to be in the majority, for God is all powerful.”

“Selfish human friendship is like a grain of mustard seed which is tightly grasped in the hand – it cannot grow nor develop, and is worthless. The right kind of friendship is like a mustard seed which is planted in fertile soil – it is constantly developing, and while it may be the joy of one, it is not shut out from others. As there is enough sunshine for all, so is there enough friendship and love for all.”

“What is so impressive as silence, and what carries with it so much dignity? It is the very essence of self control and authority, and what is more pitiful than a man overcome of his anger? The noisy breakers beat against the shores in vain, they only carry with them destruction; but the mighty silent depth of the ocean carries a fleet on its bosom.”

“Whomsoever thou touchest – in the true sense of the word – thou transformest, instantly, gloriously, freely, joyously.”

“All things are of the same value to Mind. Man places the value, and then he sets up walls over which he cannot climb. Realizing that a lump of coal and a diamond are of equal value to the Mind that created them, you can understand how the no-value and no-importance of the relative estimate of things makes it possible for you to have a sense of selectivity...”

“Whatsoever you perceive you will find in the manifest realm, without a question of a doubt. But again, if the discovery of this manifestation is going to excite you or appear as a miracle or a magic display of power, nothing will happen. You have to go beyond the place of surprise, else you are not actually accepting it as a reality but have merely been hoodwinking yourself, hoping by assuming something of this kind to bring out the results. Nothing will happen – God is not mocked.”

“In order that an egg may cease being an egg and take on the new manifestation, the whole outer wall of its universe must give way, and appear to all in­tents and purposes as complete chaos and destruction, but in reality it is freedom for the new manifestation.”

“It is not the possession of things, but the possession by them that counts – I have no interest in things for their worldly value, but for the beauty and comfort they give me.”

“There is nothing that is hidden that shall not be revealed.”