Aphorisms of Eugene Halliday
” The individual must rescue himself from the external stimulus and from its mnemic persistence. “
Aphorisms of Eugene Halliday
” ‘Be ye perfect ‘…. Christ means that if a person can refer to his own centre instead of paying attention to the external stimulus it will give him the pure response to any situation in which he may find himself. “
Aphorisms of Eugene Halliday
” Internal forces are causes – the external forms are effects. The cause is inside and presses out. “
Aphorisms of Eugene Halliday
” Security is not in external things, nor in organisations; it is only in reflexive self-conscious awareness. “
Aphorisms of Eugene Halliday
” Today, people want form – which is something to bow down to – this is idolatry. Assimilate all experience – but do not become idolatrous. “
Aphorisms of Eugene Halliday
” Faith is actually power, initiating an act, prior to the examination of the rationale of the situation. “
Aphorisms of Eugene Halliday
” Faith is the energy that puts its foot out in the dark; that makes you act before you know what is going to happen. “
Aphorisms of Eugene Halliday
” Feeling is the link factor between thought and will – without this link-factor, thought would remain in its own sphere and never gain expression, and Will (cause) would be deprived of the guiding hand of Thought. “
Aphorisms of Eugene Halliday
” Only in plurality can we have a complex relation. The more differences there are in people, the richer the world – providing those differences are understood by the people that possess them. “
Aphorisms of Eugene Halliday
” Only Feeling (not form) can tell you whether it is Now and Here that something should be done (thinking can not do it). “
Aphorisms of Eugene Halliday
” We are in an existential world. We must adapt to it. We must learn to use the correct level – to think or act as required. This needs feeling-sensitivity. “
Aphorisms of Eugene Halliday
” Enlightenment is where you are. “
Aphorisms of Eugene Halliday
” Love is essential. What we do not love, we must at least fear, lest it encroach on us. We cannot be indifferent to anything. “
Aphorisms of Eugene Halliday
” If we fail to love something, we must hate it. “
Aphorisms of Eugene Halliday
” That which we do not love stands forever as a threat to our peace of soul – Somewhere, someday, it may encroach upon our privacy. “
Aphorisms of Eugene Halliday
” Conscious inhibition is good. But if energy is repressed only, it produces tension, which remains. “
Aphorisms of Eugene Halliday
” The important thing, when we have tension in us, is to consider how we take it – rather than its origin. “
Aphorisms of Eugene Halliday
” The inner-energy should be analysed in a three-fold manner:
- What kind of tension – what is its object, i.e. what is the urge-direction of that tension?
- Do I like or dislike the tension?
- What is the ideational content of the tension?
If we apply this three-fold break-down, the energy is not bottled up. “