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To charge or not?
So much stuff is for sale. Nobody gives away secrets of happiness for free. [Not directed at author of quotation]
On the other hand, when people get things free they don't appreciate them: I spoke with martial arts Master who was giving away his art for free, only to see students to get lazy. So he started to charge.
What about value?
Can we draw parallels between spiritual and trading world 'education'? In latter much info is sold, most half true from people who don't know. If it is the same in spiritual world, one has to be down right scared.
So much stuff is for sale. Nobody gives away secrets of happiness for free. [Not directed at author of quotation]
On the other hand, when people get things free they don't appreciate them: I spoke with martial arts Master who was giving away his art for free, only to see students to get lazy. So he started to charge.
What about value?
Can we draw parallels between spiritual and trading world 'education'? In latter much info is sold, most half true from people who don't know. If it is the same in spiritual world, one has to be down right scared.
Chapter VI
The standards of personality
We have now got some general idea as to the place of the personal factor
in the creative order, and so the next question is, how does this affect ourselves? The
answer is that if we have grasped the fundamental fact that the moving power in the
creative process is the self-contemplation of spirit, and if we also see that, because
we are miniature reproductions of the original spirit, our contemplation of it
becomes its contemplation of itself from the standpoint of our own individuality - if
we have grasped these fundamental conceptions, then it follows that our process for
developing power is to contemplate the original spirit as the source of the power
we want to develop. And here we must guard against a mistake which people often
make when looking to the spirit as the source of power. We are apt to regard it as
sometimes giving and sometimes withholding power, and consequently are never
sure which way it will act. But by doing so we make spirit contemplate itself as
having no definite action at all, as a plus or minus which mutually cancel each
other, and therefore by the law of the creative process no result is to be expected.
The mistake consists in regarding the power as something separate from the spirit;
whereas by the analysis of the creative process which we have now made we see
that the spirit is the power, because the power comes into existence only
through spirit's self-contemplation. Then the logical inference from this is that by
contemplating the spirit as the power, and vice versa by contemplating the power as
the spirit, a similar power is being generated in ourselves.
The Creative Process in the Individual
Thomas Troward
1915
The standards of personality
We have now got some general idea as to the place of the personal factor
in the creative order, and so the next question is, how does this affect ourselves? The
answer is that if we have grasped the fundamental fact that the moving power in the
creative process is the self-contemplation of spirit, and if we also see that, because
we are miniature reproductions of the original spirit, our contemplation of it
becomes its contemplation of itself from the standpoint of our own individuality - if
we have grasped these fundamental conceptions, then it follows that our process for
developing power is to contemplate the original spirit as the source of the power
we want to develop. And here we must guard against a mistake which people often
make when looking to the spirit as the source of power. We are apt to regard it as
sometimes giving and sometimes withholding power, and consequently are never
sure which way it will act. But by doing so we make spirit contemplate itself as
having no definite action at all, as a plus or minus which mutually cancel each
other, and therefore by the law of the creative process no result is to be expected.
The mistake consists in regarding the power as something separate from the spirit;
whereas by the analysis of the creative process which we have now made we see
that the spirit is the power, because the power comes into existence only
through spirit's self-contemplation. Then the logical inference from this is that by
contemplating the spirit as the power, and vice versa by contemplating the power as
the spirit, a similar power is being generated in ourselves.
The Creative Process in the Individual
Thomas Troward
1915