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THE LAW OF ATTRACTION IN THE THOUGHT WORLD: Master the Secrets of Creating Your Reality - William Walker Atkinson (1906) · THE SECRET LAW OF ATTRACTION: Manifest Wealth, Success & Abundance

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  The Law of Success and the Law of Attraction by Prentice Moulford, eighteen eighty
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  six. Thoughts are things. Success in any business or undertaking comes through the
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  working of a law. It never comes by chance. In the operations of
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  nature's laws, there is no such thing as chance or accident. The so
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  called accidental tumbling of the stone from the mountain side is the result of forces
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  which have been acting in that stone through countless ages. You and your fortunes
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  are no more the things of chance than is the tree from its earliest growth.
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  You are the product of the elements, and that product through the working
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  of a law. You can, as you find out the law, make
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  of yourself whatever you please. Your thought or spirit, and not your body,
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  is your real self. Your thought is an invisible substance, as real
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  as air, water, or metal. It acts apart from your body.
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  It goes from you to others far and near. It acts on them,
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  moves and influences them. It does this whether your body be sleeping or waking.
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  This is your real power. As you learn how this power really acts,
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  as you learn how to hold, use, and control it, you
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  will do more profitable business and accomplish more in an hour than now you may
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  do in a week. You will continually increase this power by exercise. This
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  and only this was the basis of the miracles, the magic or occult power
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  of ancient times. Your prevailing mood or frame of mind has more to do
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  than anything else with your success or failure in any undertaking. Your mind is
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  that amount of thought substance which has come together during countless ages and after using
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  many physical bodies. The mind is a magnet. It has the power first
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  of attracting thought, and next of sending that thought out again. You do
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  not of yourself make your thought. You only receive and feel it as it
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  comes to you. What kind of thought you most charge that magnet your mind
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  with, or set it open to receive, it will attract most of that
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  kind to you. If then you think or keep most in mind the mere
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  thought of determination, hope, cheerfulness, strength, force, power, justice,
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  gentleness, order, and precision, you will attract and receive more and
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  more of such thought elements. These are among the elements of success. These
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  qualities are of thought element as real things as any we see or feel.
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  The more you set the magnet in this direction, the stronger it grows to
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  attract these elements. Whatever of thought you think or receive, you send from
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  you again an invisible substance to act on others. Your own thought is now
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  in the air, acting on and attracting to you of its kind of thought
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  of others whose bodies you may never have seen. The people you are in
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  the future to meet, who may help or damage your fortunes are those whose
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  thought, in like manner, se and far from their bodies, has already
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  met and mingled with your own. That attraction tends to bring you together in
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  the body. It will certainly bring you together in some form of existence.
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  When determined thought meets determined thought and unites on a similar purpose. A double
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  power for success comes of such union. Be the bodies used by such thought,
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  mind, or spirit in the same house or a thousand miles apart.
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  But if you are thinking most of the time discouragement or anger, or any
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  form of ill temper, you are sending hundreds and thousands of miles away from
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  your body. This thought element of discouragement, hopelessness, or anger literally a
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  part of your unseen self. It attracts, meets, and mingles with the
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  same thought element similarly sent out by others. Parts of such people, so
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  it attracts you to them. Your partners. In misery, you hurt each
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  other's health and fortune. A thought attracts thought of like kind. Keep any
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  thought fixed in your mind, Say the thing thought of strength or health,
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  and you attract to you more and more of the thought element of strength and
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  health. Keep in mind the idea of force. Go ahead, push,
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  and you attract to you an element that which gives you force. Push and
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  go ahead. So long as you are in a confident, determined, serene
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  frame of mind, having some special aim in view based on right and justice.
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  So long are you moving in this way, the strongest silent power of
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  your thought in attracting to you the persons you need to cooperate with. If
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  your aim is not based on right and justice, you will still move this
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  silent power of your mind, but it will not affect results so beneficial to
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  you as your thought based on your highest idea of right. If you wish
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  to gain through deceit and craft, you can do so. You will attract,
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  by the same law and method deceitful and dishonest thought in advance of its
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  body. You will then work with the dishonest in the body dishonest mind herds
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  together through a natural law, the dishonest are certain to in to each other
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  at last in some way. A thought, be it good or bad,
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  is a thing or construction of unseen element, as real as a tree,
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  a flower, a clock. It is already made before you think or receive
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  it, as your mind, through its mood, frame, or attitude,
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  attracts it. As you think it, you put it out again to act,
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  move, or influence others. But your thoughts, spoken or whispered in
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  the privacy of your room, is put out with more force so to act
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  on others than if you merely think it. And if two or more persons
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  talk together without wrangle or disagreement on a common purpose in any business, they
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  send out a proportionately greater volume of force to work on other minds relative to
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  such business. If your company so putting out thought, element or force do
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  not agree, if they are angry and wrangle with each other, the force
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  so sent from them is injurious to that business. If they talk peacefully and
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  will set aside individual preferences or prejudices in order to work out the common purpose
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  in view, the thought or force they generate is constructive and acts favorably on
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  other minds far and near to advance that business. So whenever you think you
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  are affecting your fortunes for good or ill, and whenever you talk to others,
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  you are making a force still greater to make or lose for you health,
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  friends, and money. Every thought of yours, silent or spoken,
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  has a literal value. If you receive, that is, think, the
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  thought that you cannot succeed in any undertaking. That thought also goes out,
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  meets and attracts other discouraged despondent I can't thought brings you nearer and nearer the
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  hopeless, fretting people's bodies. It is in advance of, injures your health
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  and all pushing business ability, and brings you at last in personal contact with
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  people who only help to ruin each other. You are working than your thought
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  power for non success. You can use this power to bring you good or
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  ill results, as you can use the locomotive to carry your body on a
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  journey, or to crush your body by throwing yourself before it. Whatever plan
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  or scheme of business you fix your mind persistently upon in the determination to succeed,
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  it commences then as a thought construction of unseen element to draw aiding forces
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  to you. By aiding forces is meant first ever growing fertility of mind to
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  breed new plans for pushing your business. Secondly, drawing to you the best
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  people to aid you in your plans. Do not waste your power in looking
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  for such aiding forces with your body. Let silent, persistent resolve in mind
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  do the work. It will do it if you persevere holding to this frame
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  of mind. It is no new power, though possibly new to most of
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  us. It is constantly, though unconsciously, exercised for good or ill all
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  about us. Because your body is not the only power you have to work
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  with. Your body is only the instrument used by your mind or spirit.
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  Your mind, your invisible self, uses your body in say, cutting down
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  a tree or other work of hand, exactly as your body uses the acts.
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  But when such force thought is not using the body, it is at
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  work with greater power elsewhere. To think, persistent, resolve to think,
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  persistent push in your one aim and purpose to simply think it and do nothing
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  else will create for you a power as certain to move and effect results as
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  the jackscrews placed under the heaviest building will move. It upward. The power
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  you so create of your mind and of unseen forces will work while you sleep.
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  It will bring to you new devices, plans, and methods for moving
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  your business forward. And as you get these plans, they will move your
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  body to act. You cannot sit still when an idea that means business comes
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  to you. Such idea is for you power, But you can tire your
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  body to such an extent that you will have no power to receive an idea
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  when it does come. All successful business is based on a continual inflowing of
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  new idea, plan, device, scheme. Your spirit or thought acts and
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  works on others while your body sleeps. It may do this with those whose
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  bodies are also asleep. If you are angry or discouraged on going to sleep,
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  your invisible self, on leaving its body, will probably be attracted to
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  some other angry or discouraged nature. The better mood you are in on quitting
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  your body at night and entering on your other existence, the better the thought
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  or person you will meet in that existence to further your purpose. If you
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  have no purpose, you will then probably meet with another purposeless nature. To
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  have no special purpose in life, to simply drift is to have nothing on
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  which to focus or concentrate your thought power. If it is not so concentrated
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  but scattered, fastening on one thing to day and another tomorrow, you will
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  be restless, moping, and unhappy in mind. If unhappy in mind,
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  you can never be healthy in body. Spirit or thought is always active,
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  be the body asleep or awake. When the body is unconscious in sleep,
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  your mind then enters on its other phase of life and activity. You have
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  only exchanged one form of existence for another. When you awake, you do
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  literally take the body up to use for purposes on the earth stratum of life.
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  Your thought acts on others for or against you, far and near while
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  you are awake, but it acts more strongly on those to whom it is
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  attracted. When your body sleeps. It is then less distracted by the hopes,
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  fears, prejudices, customs, and surroundings of its body life. It
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  is better, then, if you have any purpose in view, not to
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  fix your thought too strongly when awake on such persons as you may think may
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  cooperate with you. Because your spirit, when out of its body, has
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  a much wider range of acquaintance in action than when using its body. You
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  may concentrate its force over much while it holds them on some person less likely
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  to help you than the person or thought to which it is attracted while away
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  from the body. In such case, its force is placed in two directions,
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  when it should be but in one. Talking your business plan or project
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  makes force for or against you. A clear plan or idea by which you
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  can make more money represents force. A muddled plan represents a lesser and imperfect
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  force. A new invention is a new force. Talking your business with those
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  who are really friendly to you, actively friendly and without a shade of envy
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  or grudge against you adds their thought or force to your own for making clearer
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  plans and working on other minds and enlisting them in some way in your favor.
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  Sympathy is force. Any person's good will is a real, living,
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  active substance, flowing always to you as that person thinks of you. It
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  has a commercial value in dollars and cents. Ill will is also an element
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  sent from the person that thinks it and works against you, though that person
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  never speaks or acts with the body against you. This you can only successfully
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  oppose by putting out against it. The thought element of friendliness. The thought
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  of good to others is the stronger unseen element, and can turn the bad
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  the weaker aside. It prevents it from reaching or harming you. Through the
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  working of that same law, it is dangerous to make enemies, no matter
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  how good or just. The cause to talk your business at random is not
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  only to give your secrets to such as will tell them to others, but
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  it is to send your secrets and plans in thought element, flying far and
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  wide in the air. Then they fall into other minds, and you may
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  find your plan used by others before you. The air is literally full of
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  supposed secrets. They herald themselves to thousands in the form of suspicion and impression.
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  Every disorderly meeting, every family quarrel, every discordance between man and man
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  sends into the air a wave of destructive and unpleasant substance. It affects unpleasantly
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  minds thousands of miles distant. The thought so coming from some center of turbulence,
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  forms a wave or current. If you are by some trifle made angry,
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  you then place your mind in the attitude of a magnet to attract and
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  let in this hurtful thought current your anger, peevishness, or irritation caused at
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  first by a trifle is constantly fed from these currents. You must, for
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  relief turn your mind towards some more agreeable order of thought. Practice in so
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  doing will give you more power and make it more and more easy to change
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  the character of the thought element coming to you. When interest, sympathy,
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  and good will meet to present pleasantly their opinions or thoughts on any special subject
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  to each other for an hour, there goes from that company a wave of
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  thought substance which strikes other minds and awakens or renews interest in that especial business,
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  art, or cause in proportion to the sensitiveness or capacity of such minds
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  to receive thoughts. The new thought coming suddenly to you comes because somewhere it
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  is being talked out or agitated. The wave so caused acts an unseen element
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  precisely like that made by throwing the stone in calm water. The waves so
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  radiate from the talk center, and they will continue to spread out in every
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  direction, striking other minds. So long as the agitation of talk is kept
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  up at that center. No thought is in a sense original. The same
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  idea or parts or shades of that idea may float into a thousand minds within
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  an hour when one started through a few people talking it talk with others in
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  friendliness about an improvement in machinery, a new invention, a new idea for
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  man's comfort. And through thought substance so sent far and wide, you awakened
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  desire or interest for the thing talked of. The more people interested in a
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  thing, the more will be attracted to you to aid you or by the
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  thing produced. Regarding your plan, purpose and aim, all your discreet talk,
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  your interest, and persistent determination represent for you so much actual outlay of
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  force expended in attracting the thing desired to you. If you expend such amount
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  of force four say, three months, and then get discouraged and give it
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  all up, you abandon so much of a structure you have built up having
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  this attracting power. You may not see where that power is operating, but
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  it is at work bringing to you the people in sympathy with you, or
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  those who want what you have to give. Quarreling, angry, argument,
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  and grumbling put out the silent destructive force. Friendly discussion and peaceful presentation of
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  individual opinion put out the silent constructive force. If you set your mind persistently
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  in the desire for having the best people to talk to and so aid you,
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  they will come to you through this power of thought attraction. Exactly the
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  order of mind will so come you most desire. If you are not particular
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  as to principle or honesty, this law will attract those not particular as to
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  honesty. There will always be a demand for a better article, a better
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  effort in any art, or a better service of any kind than those before
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  produced. When you are sure yours is the better effort, push it,
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  get it before people. Talent in art or invention is one thing. Talent
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  for pushing that art or invention is quite another. You must to be successful
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  have both. The world pays best those who push. Hundreds of inventors and
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  artists fail because they do not cultivate the science of pushing themselves before the world.
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  You can learn the science of pushing by yourself. You will acquire it
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  by seeing yourself in mind or imagination as asserting yourself courageously, fairly, honestly
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  before others, and making yourself agreeable to all. The more you do this
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  in imagination, the more will you feel doing it in reality. What you
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  do in thought is a reality. What you live most in thought you make
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  a reality. You will find, after a time of such mental exercise,
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  that you have more nerve, more courage, more tact, more address,
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  more desire to mingle with all sorts of people, to take hold of the
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  world and make it give you what rightfully belongs to you. Poverty comes largely
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  of shrinking away from people and fear of assuming responsibilities. See yourself always in
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  imagination as diffident, bashful shrinking, and by the same law you make yourself
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  so reverse this process of silent mental treatment. See yourself courageous. You are
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  always growing up to your highest ideal of yourself, and you reconstruct yourself by
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  this process of silent thought. You cannot succeed and make money if you remain
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  in a corner. You cannot do business with the world entirely by letter or
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  by proxy. You must, to an extent, show yourself to others.
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  When your spirit carries your body before another person, it carries the instrument for
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  enabling your spirit to put out its fullest volume of thought power on that person.
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  Thought being substance, or force, you can pile up in your mind
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  volumes of that force for or against you. To think of nothing but difficulties
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  and possible troubles in business is to set your mind as the magnet to attract
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  only difficulties, first in thought, next in substance. This becomes with many
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  a fixed habit hard to get rid of. You have nothing whatever to do
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  with a difficulty, but to set your mind as a magnet in the direction
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  for receiving force, ideas and plans for overcoming that difficulty. If you have
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  trouble with any person and are always thinking of his injustice towards you in the
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  mood of anger or complaint, you are in thought element making over again and
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  again the wrangle or battle you can use up in growling, scolding, complaining,
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  and grumbling, be it thought out silently or spoken to others, the
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  same force or thought which would make a plan to get rid of the thing
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  scolded or grumbled at. It is un precisely the same principle as the strength
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  with which the mason builds his wall can be used in tearing it down or
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  in flinging about bricks at random. If you will give your body all the
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  rest it needs, your mental force will work far and near more powerfully for
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  you your plans will be deeper, and, when carried out, more productive
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  of results. If the body is always fagged out, much of the force
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  of that spirit must be used up in keeping its hold on the body,
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  in other words, keeping it alive. It matters not whether you tire yourself
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  out voluntarily or are obliged to do so to get a living. The result
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  is the same. If you want more time in which so to rest desire
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  and demand it persistently, an opportunity will then at length come to you by
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  which you can earn enough for your present support without working the body at one
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  employed so many hours daily. It will come by that mysterious law and attractive
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  force which moves all things to all people according to their strongest desires, and
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  the persistency of such desire. You can, through this same power persistent desire,
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  bring to you an evil as quickly as a good. The thing you
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  are now strongly desiring may turn out an evil. If you desire or demand
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  wisdom to know what will do you the most lasting good, you will,
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  by the same law bring to you the capacity to see what is really the
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  best for you. Desire persistently a clear head, and a clear head will
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  come to you. When your opportunity comes granting you four or five more hours
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  daily of leisure, do not pile on yourself any extra effort for the sake
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  of the few dollars you may get by it. This opportunity may be your
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  first step out into a newer life. Give yourself leisure. Don't be afraid
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  of enjoying yourself. Your mind will then breed plans for future your success,
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  and as such plans come to you, you will be inspired to act them
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  out with your body. A steady situation in good wages for life, in
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  any calling is not the road to any permanent or growing success. You are
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  then but a screw in the great business machine, and when worn out,
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  will be mercilessly replaced by the newer screw. If in skill you are in
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  your business at the top, and as to wages near the bottom, it
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  is because while skilled in your trade, you are not so in getting your
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  just reward for that skill. You must aspire to manage a business founded on
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  your skill. You must not be content to be managed by others who taking
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  advantage of your skill. Get your industry an article before the public, and
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  with that three fourths of the profits you must use this your power of thought
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  to get it and yourself before the public. You must to gain the greatest
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  success, manage a business or a department of a business, and be its
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  sole governor without interference or hindrance from another. Responsibility alone can bring out your
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  fullest power and its attendant happiness. Otherwise you will, as a mere employee,
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  be fettered by an employer's demands or by conditions made by others in which
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  you will be obliged to work. You will see your best ideas imperfectly carried
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  out, because you cannot fully control their carrying out yourself