ACTION OF THOUGHT
Question—Where do you draw the line between holding thoughts and sending them out?

ANSWER—We neither hold thoughts nor send them out. We think them.

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PASSIVE ACTIVITY
Question—What is meant by being passive yet also active?

ANSWER—To be passive and also active means to be nonresident to those vibrations which are inimical to our peace. While at the same time we declare for the condition that we desire.
In practicing passivity to undesirable conditions, 0ne should be very certain that he is not merely enduring them and hiding the fact from himself. While in the midst of things he seems unable to change to his liking, he must practice knowing with all the God mind within him that the condition he desires is present in its fullness. It is present in his consciousness, complete and perfect. If he can realize this truth nothing can keep back the perfect manifestation. The invisible precedes the visible always. A person who is actively conscious that the invisible perfection is present, while being to all appearances in the midst of imperfection, is practicing activity while being passive to the imperfection. In his Essay on Spiritual Laws, Emerson says: "I see action to be good, when the need is, and sitting still to be also good." In our mind we may sit still in undesirable conditions and at the same time be very active in creating desirable conditions. (page 45)