In the rest of the book, Hill discusses these seven principles to attain spiritual, mental, and physical freedom:
1. Definiteness of purpose
2. Mastery over self
3. Learning from adversity
4. Controlling environmental influence (associations)
5. Time (giving permanency to positive, rather than negative thought-habits and developing wisdom)
6. Harmony (acting with definiteness of purpose to become the dominating influence in your own mental, spiritual, and physical environment)
7. Caution (thinking through your plan before you act)
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#1 - Social Engineering
In both of the earlier scenarios, not having enough a good enough plan and model will lead to failure. A good way to practice communication modeling is to write out a model for manipulating people you know well—a husband, wife, parent, child, boss, or friend—to do something you want, to take some action you desire.
List the following five
7# SPONTANEITY
Free of fear, intelligence is no longer a slave to an identity that needs to be consistent with itself.
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7# SPONTANEITY
We do not trust our nature. Our nature is imprisoned by a controlling mind. Why not base your life in spontaneity, in freedom of expression, in the excitement of not knowing how you might respond next... Trusting it, not being afraid of it. It would be smarter to trust nature instead of fearing it and being suspicious of it.
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6# TRUTH
Enlightenment is not an attainment to be proud of. (...) It’s more like you’ve given away that which was never yours!
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6# TRUTH
The final moment of identification is when you stop identifying yourself with even consciousness.
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6# TRUTH
We tend to identify with our roles, but these roles are not absolute. (...) Identification makes everything disproportionately personal. We are identified with our bodies, our feelings, our thoughts, and our consciousness to the point where we feel this is I, this is what and who I am. And because of our identification, we can become really emotional if what we’ve identified with turns out to be of relative nature. We find it difficult to change, and we are afraid to die because we are deeply identified.
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6# TRUTH
The truth of you existence is really the truth of all existence, because such is the nature of truth: it cannot be monopolized by anyone.
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6# TRUTH
Truth cannot be found within existence, existence is found within truth. This relative existence exists within absolute truth.
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5# ALIVE SILENCE
In silence you become aware of you conscious nature. Your thoughts have gone, but the sky remains. As clouds disappear, suddenly the immovable blue sky becomes obvious. As thoughts disappear, suddenly your immovable consciousness becomes obvious. The blue sky was always there, but you were just seeing the clouds. Consciousness was always there, but you were just seeing thoughts.
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5# ALIVE SILENCE
To try to silence your mind is a reactive approach. The proactive approach is to not think your next thoughts. The result is that you’ve stopped thinking, not because you stopped your thinking, but because you didn’t continue it. (...) Don’t bother about thoughts you’re already thinking, just be alert to not think your next thought. This is the whole secret of meditation.
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5# ALIVE SILENCE
The more thinking is of a voluntary nature, the more sane we are, when thinking becomes a compulsive and autonomous process, we become insane.
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5# ALIVE SILENCE
We experience projections of our minds, not reality. We are so engrossed in thinking that direct experience has become an exception. (...) While we are having an experience, whatever it happens to be, we are either commenting on the experience or thinking about something else. We are not directly experience life, we are looking at life through a mist of thoughts.
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