“Realising that feeling (emotion) is the primal manifestation of life, you will seek to know what causes you to feel, what causes emotion in you. Soon will it dawn upon you that your feelings are all primarily caused by something outside yourself. You feel because something awakens a sensation in you. You realise that you can think of that sensation and repeat it. All of your feelings arise first from without and are repeated by memory, by your thoughts. A pain caused by an unkind word can, long after it has passed away, be recalled by thinking of it; so can a pleasure. When you learn not to think of unpleasant things that have happened to you, they will not pain you.”

Peter Caddy from Soul Science, The Rosicrucian Lectures of Aureolis, Volume 1 of 3.

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