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  • Let her make a choice and he would present her with the unmounted stone on the spot, a public proposal that would-he thought-force her either to accept him at once, or cause an unpleasant scene by rejecting him outright.

    Drums of Autumn Gabaldon, Diana 1997

  • [Illustration: Their combined thought-force hit him like a thunderbolt.]

    The Penal Cluster Randall Garrett 1957

  • Occultists say that all power results from the continual exercise of active mentation and all weak-mindedness is the direct outcome of this wool-gathering, castle-building, inattentive habit which is an extension of passive mentation into useless channels of thought-force.

    The Doctrine and Practice of Yoga A. P. Mukerji

  • They give you an aura of thought-force such as never knows fear.

    The Doctrine and Practice of Yoga A. P. Mukerji

  • It was by their developed thought-force that they drew the whole world to themselves.

    The Doctrine and Practice of Yoga A. P. Mukerji

  • This sets up a series of strong vibrations in the body of the aura, which gradually resolve themselves into a strong whirling centre of thought-force involved in a mass of strongly cohesive auric substance, and strongly charged with the power of the prana of the person.

    The Human Aura Astral Colors and Thought Forms Swami Panchadasi

  • The walls of your room, the clothes you wear, the letters you write are all being impressed by the aura of your thought-force.

    The Doctrine and Practice of Yoga A. P. Mukerji

  • Instead of wasting precious thought-force by dreading or fearing a disagreeable interview or event, instead devote the time and concentrated thought in how to make the best of the interview or event and you will find that it will not be as unpleasant as you thought it would be.

    The Power of Concentration 1917

  • It contains the invisible particles of matter which are held together by vital force, and it also possesses mind or thought-force in a potential state, just as the seed of a plant contains in it the life force and the power of growth.

    Five Lectures on Reincarnation Swami Abhedananda 1902

  • Man is an organism which transforms various forms of force into thought-force, an organism the activity of which we maintain by what we call 'food,' and with which we produce what we call 'thought.'

    Christentum als mystische Tatsache und die Mysterien des Altertums. English Rudolf Steiner 1893

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