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There is only one thing we must strictly observe: when we say these words to ourselves, even if we only think them, a feeling of piety will arise, and we must connect this feeling with the words every time we say or think them. It would be wrong not to say the words at all in order to avoid saying them in the wrong frame of mind; rather, we must practice always associating this feeling of piety with them. We will then get the feeling that what is thinking within us is related to our I, that the high beings who gave it to us are thinking within us. This should be made clear to exotericists in the words of the Mystery Play: “World thoughts live in your thinking.” (For esotericists, this is expressed in the mantra: It thinks me.)","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Esoteric Lesson","site_heading":"Mantric Words for Spiritual Progress and Divine Consciousness","site_heading_note":"A heading the site wrote for this unit from a summary of it; not in the edition, and not the words of Rudolf Steiner or of the translator. 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