Freedom Technique: Path to Awareness and Love with Autobiography by Lester Levenson

When we look at ourselves as we really are, and discover what we are, we discover that all things are possible to us, that all intelligence is available to us, that we have a direct line to omniscience, to omnipotence. And the only thing that keeps us from using it is these preindoctrinated dictums from our parents and teachers: Do. Don’t.

The next day my eyes were burning and tearing. As I lay back with closed eyes on the bed in a Los Angeles motel, I asked myself, “Now what did I do to cause this?” Then I heard Bill saying it the first time. I reversed it. Then I heard the radio saying it. I reversed that. And I heard Bill saying it the second time and again I reversed it. I opened

There is never a time when these great ones are not offering their hands. It’s called grace. It’s gotten by one way only - through surrender. Not my will, but Thy will be done. It’s pushing the ego sense to the background,

Get to the place where no one and nothing can disturb you. Take full responsibility for what’s happening to you. Get the habit of bringing the unconscious causative thought up into consciousness, so that you can drop it and be free of it. I developed this. Every time anything unpleasant happened to me, I would say, “What did I do to cause this?” Im

Take the colleges. They tell you you must learn to think for yourself. But if you think differently from the professors, you flunk.

In most love relationships, that which one wants from the other is mostly ego approval. That is why the majority of people are not happily married. They’re picking at each other most of the time, wanting ego approval. That makes for a bad marriage. What makes for a successful marriage? Two things – having interests in common and friendship.

But you cannot transcend the body by killing it. If you kill the body before you’re able to consciously walk out of it, you’ll only have to get a new body, be reborn again, and wait twenty years or so before you can start on the path again – all a terrible waste of time! You transcend the body when you can consciously exit it. Then you never have t

From the highest point of view I saw that matter is frozen energy, and energy is nothing more than mind in motion – that all of it is just mentation! The whole universe is only a mentation. The whole thing is an image in our minds!

And I said, “Gee! A Cadillac, with a specially built body.” I pictured a Cadillac with a specially built body, and I saw myself riding in it, and it was mine. Then I let go of the picture and because I was so sure I had it. In about two weeks, an acquaintance came to me and said, “Lester I just bought you the most beautiful Cadillac,” and he descri