Frases de Harold W. Percival

Harold W. Percival era escritor barbadense.

✵ 15. abril 1868 – 6. marzo 1953
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“Accidents and chance are words used by persons who do not think clearly when they attempt to account for certain happenings.”

Harold W. Percival libro Thinking and Destiny

Fuente: Thinking and Destiny (1946), Ch. 3, Objections to the law of thought, p. 48
Contexto: 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.

“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 libro Thinking and Destiny

Author's Forward, p. xxv
Thinking and Destiny (1946)
Contexto: 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.

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

Harold W. Percival libro Thinking and Destiny

Fuente: Thinking and Destiny (1946), Ch. 4 : Operation of the Law of Thought, p. 75
Contexto: 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.

“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 libro Thinking and Destiny

Fuente: Thinking and Destiny (1946), Ch. 5, Physical Destiny, p. 138
Contexto: 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.

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

Harold W. Percival libro Thinking and Destiny

Fuente: Thinking and Destiny (1946), Ch. 9, Re-Existence, p. 620

“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 libro Thinking and Destiny

Fuente: Thinking and Destiny (1946), Ch. 14, Thinking: The Way to Conscious Immortality, p. 943

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