Will the real Churchill quote please stand up (to scruitny?)

If you haven’t yet heard it there is a great, free recording of a call with Dr. Kevin Hogan, Dave Lakhani, Blair Warren and Pastor Dr. Bob Beverly called “The Truth is the Secret.” If you want to hear an intelligent and heartfelt summary of every criticism of the movie (and a few I had never heard before) I do recommend it. It will certainly get you thinking. You can get it at http://www.thetruthisthesecret.com

One thing they pointed out, that I had assumed when I watched the movie, is that many of the quotes from famous people who supposedly knew The Secret and kept it hidden were taken entirely out of context. One blatant example of this kind of misuse of quotes is the quote from Winston Churchill.

The Quote in the movie is:

“You create your own universe as you go along”

The REAL Quote is:

“Some of my cousins who had the great advantage of University education used to tease me with arguments to prove that nothing has
any existence except what we think of it. The whole creation is but a
dream; all phenomena are imaginary. You create your own universe
as you go along. The stronger your imagination, the more variegated
your universe. When you leave off dreaming, the universe ceases to
exist. These amusing mental acrobatics are all right to play with.
They are perfectly harmless and perfectly useless. I warn my younger readers only to treat them as a game. The metaphysicians will have the last word and defy you to disprove their absurd propositions.” (Emphasis added by me. See how this last part negates the quote they used in the movie? Churchill used that phrase as an example of what he DID NOT believe in!)

How sad that they felt the need to quote Churchill, and others, out of context. Was it really so necessary to create this aura of mystery around The Secret? Did it really lend so much credibility? Do people really believe that Gandhi used The Secret and kept it hidden from the world?

Of course, there is a kernel of truth in everything. The Secret, or Law of Attraction was not widely taught, but I do not think it was actively suppressed either. They just created this conspiracy theory to set themseleves up as ‘our liberators.’ Now they are going to share The Secret so we can share the wealth! Don’t you feel emancipated?

NOT.

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Do you know of any quotes from famous people that were taken out of context in The Secret? Post them here by leaving a comment.