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The negative thoughts can and should be recognized and plucked up as they are encountered, but you do not need a shovel to pluck up one weed at a time, nor hit yourself over the head with a sledgehammer for finding a weed in your garden. This does little to help the gardener but put him out of commission for a while, and it does not pluck any more weeds.

In other words negative thoughts can be recognized and plucked out with no more rancor than you would pluck out weeds in a garden. There is no need blaming yourself that in the past you allowed the weeds to grow, sometimes in your ignorance imagining them to be flowers. Your job now is simply to remove them, and as you remove each one, easily, to drop in a seed of positive thought to replace it.

Fear of any kind, including fear of fear, is destructive. A negative thought gains in power to the extent that you fear it, and you had better underline that whole sentence. A better attitude is “Well, there is a negative thought, let’s get rid of it.” Now, mentally, have Ruburt pretend it is simply a weed, and mentally throw it over his shoulder after he has plucked it from the seed of his consciousness.

Now tell him he has learned, for in the past he would have allowed this to continue, and he did not. You help him pluck out the mood. The whole idea is not fear of the symptoms that you have. He must not build them up by comparing them with the state of health that he desires. This builds up the wrong end of the equation.

[...] Then have him imagine plucking out the resentment by the roots and replacing it with a positive feeling. But he must imagine the plucking-out process.

[...] With our method it is recognized, imaginatively plucked out as being undesirable, and replaced by the thought of peace and constructive energy.

[...] And when you pluck a finger into the air, then you disturb and change and alter other realities that you cannot see nor touch, and other realities in which a finger, as a finger, does not exist. [...]

[...] Then have him imagine plucking out the resentment by the roots and replacing it with a positive feeling. But he must imagine the plucking-out process.

[...] With our method it is recognized, imaginatively plucked out as being undesirable, and replaced by the thought of peace and constructive energy.” [...]

[...] “The evil must be plucked out.” [...]

The feelings were responsible for the blocking mentioned in our last session, and represent the plucking of the sorest thorn from his flesh, symbolically. [...]

[...] At other levels it enjoys playing with such concepts and perceiving great unity from events that occur outside of a time context — mixing, for example, events from various centuries, finding harmony and points of contact by examining both historical and private environments, plucking them out of the time framework.

[...] Compassion for living things in males was regarded as a weakness to be plucked out, to a degree that you can barely realize now. [...]

[...] Compassion for living things in males was regarded as a weakness to be plucked out. [...]

[...] In the case of both thoughts and emotions, with great confidence you pluck out those that are connected with the malady. [...]

[...] The climbing up was also connected with fruit, as you might climb a tree to pluck it. [...]

[...] It is up to you to wander in that field and pluck your own idiot flowers and find your own paths. [...]

[...] To pluck up a flower from the earth is violent. [...]

[...] If you were jealous of his success, he should not have it, and it must be plucked out.

Pluck them from the trembling trees of creation

[...] But for this moment, you pluck this vitality from the inner senses. [...]

[...] But for this moment you pluck this vitality from the inner senses, you grab ahold of this fuel with both hands. [...]

[...] She plucked nervously at her dress. [...]