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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 Thinking and Destiny (1946)

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Consciousness is the ultimate Reality; compared with it, all else is illusion.

Thinking and Destiny (1946)

A thought often endures for a time much greater than the whole life of the man who thought it.

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You will not be, you cannot be, satisfied with anything less than Self-knowledge.

Thinking and Destiny (1946)

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.

Thinking and Destiny (1946)

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.

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