82. How does 'doubt' slow our spiritual progress?
DOUBT is a negative creative consciousness force directed against the very experience of ‘DIVINE-LIFE’ which lifted your spirit on high! (L8)
Doubt destroys steady progress because it creates its own ‘consciousness forms’ which will suppress and even eradicate the insight you had gained previously. (L5)
Therefore, your choice of thoughts ⎯ belief or disbelief, doubt or faith ⎯ construct or destroy your progress in your search for TRUTH. (L5)
Any denial erases from your consciousness the progress which has been previously made. (L5)
No matter where you may be on earth, what trouble you may be in, what disgrace you are facing, what lack of money may be dogging you, right within you, around and above you, you have the SPIRITUAL MEANS on which to call with all your heart and mind ⎯ and the answer will surely come ⎯ IF YOU DO NOT DOUBT. (A3)
Dithering about avails nothing. When I descend into your planes or dimensions of ‘consciousness’, I have seen seriously inclined seekers of Truth uplifted for a few hours and joyfully telling people of their experience, and then, a little while later, doubting what they were so certain they had received earlier. This slows down the process of spiritual development. (L8)
These times of doubt should be strenuously resisted and overcome by meditation and prayer. For what is DOUBT but an undermining of what you have known and believed in! (L8)
You create within yourself a little war between your experience of Divine Consciousness and your human blindness. You will probably destroy the memory of that divine moment and erase all vestiges of spiritual upliftment and development it brought into your consciousness. (L8)
This conflict will leave you feeling jaded and dis-spirited. And you will probably never realise that all alone and unassisted ⎯ you have wrought this negative transformation in yourself! (L8)
Doubt destroys steady progress because it creates its own ‘consciousness forms’ which will suppress and even eradicate the insight you had gained previously. (L5)
Therefore, your choice of thoughts ⎯ belief or disbelief, doubt or faith ⎯ construct or destroy your progress in your search for TRUTH. (L5)
Any denial erases from your consciousness the progress which has been previously made. (L5)
No matter where you may be on earth, what trouble you may be in, what disgrace you are facing, what lack of money may be dogging you, right within you, around and above you, you have the SPIRITUAL MEANS on which to call with all your heart and mind ⎯ and the answer will surely come ⎯ IF YOU DO NOT DOUBT. (A3)
Dithering about avails nothing. When I descend into your planes or dimensions of ‘consciousness’, I have seen seriously inclined seekers of Truth uplifted for a few hours and joyfully telling people of their experience, and then, a little while later, doubting what they were so certain they had received earlier. This slows down the process of spiritual development. (L8)
These times of doubt should be strenuously resisted and overcome by meditation and prayer. For what is DOUBT but an undermining of what you have known and believed in! (L8)
You create within yourself a little war between your experience of Divine Consciousness and your human blindness. You will probably destroy the memory of that divine moment and erase all vestiges of spiritual upliftment and development it brought into your consciousness. (L8)
This conflict will leave you feeling jaded and dis-spirited. And you will probably never realise that all alone and unassisted ⎯ you have wrought this negative transformation in yourself! (L8)