My Favorite Quotes from MBT

Again, I haven't been blogging much lately, still mightily consumed with Tom Campbell's My Big TOE, I finished finding all of the missing hyphens I could locate, and have moved on to building the index for the book.

While I am building the index, I cannot stop myself from pulling out the pearls and nuggets of wisdom that helped make this trilogy one of my all-time favorite books.

I have no right to post these quotes here, and it is most likely a copyright infringement, but in my defense, the vast majority of the My Big TOE trilogy is available for free on google books right here:
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=6To0902iZeYC&printsec=frontcover&dq=My+Big+TOE#v=onepage&q=&f=false
and so I don't think the author can get too upset with me. At least, I hope he doesn't get upset with me.

So without any further ado, here they are, my all-time favorite quotes written in my all-time favorite book by my all-time favorite author, at least for the time that is being.

“…the distinction between the objective physical outside world and the subjective nonphysical inside world of mind and consciousness is wholly dependent upon, and relative to, the observer.”

“Big Truth, once understood and assimilated, always modifies your intent, and invariably leads to personal change.”

“Once the mental door of indisputable fact is pried open, the light begins to flood through.”

“anyone can learn what I have learned”

“Becoming too enamored of paranormal phenomena can distract you from more important issues and retard or prevent your further development.”

“…the evidence, as well as the key to understanding, lies within your own experience – and nowhere else.”

“We almost always let our egos trick us into believing that we are much less ignorant than we actually are.”

“The quality of your being expresses the correctness of your understanding. Think about that a moment. What does the quality of your being say about the correctness of your understanding?”

“What is deeply ingrained in us is nearly impossible for us to notice – it becomes part of the invisible inner core of our being.”

“Big Truth must be understood deeply to be effectively applied.”

“The truth is not delicate; it will stand up to vigorous testing.”

“Belief is not a shortcut that will actually take you to a significant destination. Believing what others say is a risky business. You must discover truth and knowledge for yourself or it will not be your truth or your knowledge. Your truth and knowledge lives deeply and vibrantly within your being while someone else’s truth and knowledge can penetrate no deeper than your intellect.”

“There is a natural and necessary order to any developmental growth.”

“Good science starts with honesty, and honesty is most easily applied in an ego-free and fear-free environment.”

“To get out of the box, you first must step over its edge – an act too frightening and intimidating for most box dwellers who will always find plenty of good reasons why it is actually better to stay safely in the box.”

– “For every irrational rationalization there exists an equal but opposite irrational rationalization.” [Campbell’s Third Law of No Motion (otherwise known as the law of inaction-reaction)]

“Spiritual growth, personal growth, improving the quality of your consciousness, evolving your being, increasing your capacity to love, and decreasing the entropy of your consciousness are all essentially synonymous and equivalent.”

“We humans are generally as aware of our individuality as we are blind to our conformity – that is our nature.”

“All paths have benefits and challenges.”

“Our ignorance does not impose limits on the larger reality – only upon our understanding of it.”

“It may take an extremely long time (dim awareness can be very slow), but under the steady pressure of a relentless evolution constantly nudging all systems toward greater profitability, progress is eventually made as new possibilities are explored.”

“Pseudo-knowledge is useless except as a pacifier for a needy ego.”

“Appreciating your limitations is the first step toward obtaining wisdom.” “At the same time, creating apparent limitations where none actually exist by getting stuck in belief traps is a great waste of potential.”

“The ability to accurately assess one’s fundamental limitations differentiates the wise from the foolish”

“It is our free will, our self- interaction, and our interaction with others that creates the possibility of learning, which in turn creates our potential for growth.”

“Assuming responsibility for your life is a good place to start anything.”

“These maze rats are not dumb – they are merely confused and blinded by their belief systems. What should you do to help? Love them and let them be – they will eventually figure it out (explaining it to them often ends up confusing them more). Just love them and let them be – and evolve your consciousness to the greatest extent possible. That way, if asked, you can point out unseen opportunities and options from a more balanced and less ego driven perspective, serve as a good example, and provide encouragement through living proof that success is possible. That is about all you can do to help.”

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and in my further defense, I do own this book, I could very well have typed all of this up out of the copy my sisters bought me for my birthday, or one of the two copies I bought for myself.

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