THOUGHT AND IDEA
Question—What is the difference between a thought and an idea?

ANSWER—From the viewpoint of this question a thought is a conscious act of the mind, while an idea is an actual subjective embodiment. How we get our images of thought, is the greatest single philosophic problem. Do we get them from outside or do they come up from inside? The external object is recognized because it awakens an intuitive perception which must have been inherent before it awakened. In reality there can be but one mind in the universe. In this mind is contained everything that was ever thought or perceived. From it will flow all ideas that are now inherent within it. Any demand made upon it creates a new idea. When we say that everything exists in mind, we do not mean in our conscious thought but in the Universal Mind. Our thought interprets this Mind. Our images of thought, even though they appear to be external, really come from within.

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RIGHT AND WRONG THOUGHT ANALYZED
Question—How are we going to know what thought is right and what is wrong?

ANSWER—Our criterion is this—any thought resting upon the premise that there is One indivisible and perfect Presence which is never allied against Itself or against anyone or anything, that the only thing issuing from this is goodness, truth, and beauty and that this is all there is—that thought is always right. In our personal experience and for and about others, our thought will always be right if it is willing for anything that we think of, or about, others to be or to become true about ourselves. (page 30)