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Path to Prosperity (version 2)-James Allen · Eight Pillars of Prosperity

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  Speaker 1: Section one of the Path to Prosperity by James Allen.
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  Speaker 1: This is a libyvrox recording. All libyvox recordings are in
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  Speaker 1: visit libyvox dot org. Recording by Algiepug Section one. The
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  Speaker 1: lesson of evil, Unrest, and pain and sorrow are the
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  Speaker 1: shadows of life. There is no heart in all the
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  Speaker 1: world that has not felt the sting of pain, no
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  Speaker 1: mind that has not been tossed upon the dark waters
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  Speaker 1: of trouble, no eye that has not wept the hot,
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  Speaker 1: blinding tears of unspeakable anguish. There is no household where
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  Speaker 1: the great destroyers disease and death have not entered, severing
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  Speaker 1: heart from heart, and casting over all the dark pall
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  Speaker 1: of sorrow in the strong and apparently indestructible meshes of evil.
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  Speaker 1: All are morally fast. Court and pain, unhappiness, and misfortune
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  Speaker 1: wait upon mankind. With the object of escaping or in
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  Speaker 1: some way mitigating this overshadowing gloom. Men and women rush
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  Speaker 1: blindly into innumerable devices pathways by which they fondly hope
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  Speaker 1: to enter into a happiness which will not pass away.
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  Speaker 1: Such are the drunkard, and the harlot who revel in
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  Speaker 1: sensual excitements. Such is the exclusive esthete, who shuts himself
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  Speaker 1: out from the sorrows of the world and surrounds himself
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  Speaker 1: with enovating luxuries. Such is he who thirsts for wealth
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  Speaker 1: or fame, and subordinates all things to the achievement of
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  Speaker 1: that object. And such are they who seek consolation in
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  Speaker 1: the performance of religious rites. And to all the happiness
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  Speaker 1: sort seems to come, and the soul for a time
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  Speaker 1: is lulled into a sweet security and an intoxicating forgetfulness
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  Speaker 1: of the us existence of evil. But the day of
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  Speaker 1: disease comes at last, or some great sorrow, temptation, or
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  Speaker 1: misfortune breaks suddenly in on the unfortified soul, and the
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  Speaker 1: fabric of its fancied happiness is torn to shreds. So
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  Speaker 1: over the head of every personal joy hangs the Damocletian
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  Speaker 1: sword of pain, ready at any moment to fall and
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  Speaker 1: crush the soul of him who is unprotected by knowledge.
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  Speaker 1: The child cries to be a man or woman. The
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  Speaker 1: man and woman sigh for the lost felicity of childhood.
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  Speaker 1: The poor man chafes under the chains of poverty, by
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  Speaker 1: which he is bound, and the rich man often lives
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  Speaker 1: in fear of poverty, or scours the world in search
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  Speaker 1: of an elusive shadow he calls happiness. Sometimes the soul
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  Speaker 1: feels that it is found a secure peace and happiness
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  Speaker 1: in adopting a certain religion, in embracing an intellectual philosophy,
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  Speaker 1: or in building up an intellectual or artistic ideal. But
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  Speaker 1: some overpowering temptation proves the religion to be inadequate or insufficient,
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  Speaker 1: the theoretical philosophy is found to be a useless prop
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  Speaker 1: or in a moment, the idealistic statue upon which the
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  Speaker 1: devotee has for years been laboring is shattered into fragments
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  Speaker 1: at his feet. Is there then no way of escape
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  Speaker 1: from pain and sorrow? Are there no means by which
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  Speaker 1: bonds of evil may be broken? Is permanent happiness, secure prosperity,
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  Speaker 1: an abiding peace, a foolish dream. No, there is a way,
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  Speaker 1: and I speak it with gladness, by which evil can
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  Speaker 1: be slain forever. There is a process by which disease, poverty,
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  Speaker 1: or any adverse condition or circumstance can be put on
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  Speaker 1: one side, never to return. There is a method by
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  Speaker 1: which a permanent prosperity can be secured free from all
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  Speaker 1: fear of the return of adverse city. And there is
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  Speaker 1: a practice by which unbroken and unending peace and bliss
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  Speaker 1: can be partaken of and realized. And the beginning of
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  Speaker 1: the way which leads to this glorious realization is the
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  Speaker 1: acquirement of a right understanding of the nature of evil.
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  Speaker 1: It is not sufficient to deny or ignore evil. It
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  Speaker 1: must be understood. It is not enough to pray to
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  Speaker 1: God to remove the evil. You must find out why
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  Speaker 1: it is there and what lesson it has for you.
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  Speaker 1: It is of no avail to fret and fume and
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  Speaker 1: chafe at the change which bind you. You must know
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  Speaker 1: why and how you are bound. Therefore, reader, you must
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  Speaker 1: get outside yourself and must begin to examine and understand yourself.
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  Speaker 1: You must cease to be a disobedient child in the
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  Speaker 1: skill of experience, and must begin to learn with humility
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  Speaker 1: and patience the lessons that are set for your edification
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  Speaker 1: and ultimate perfection. For evil, when rightly understood, is found
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  Speaker 1: to be not an unlimited power or principle in the universe,
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  Speaker 1: but a passing phase of human experience, and it therefore
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  Speaker 1: becomes a teacher to those who are willing to learn.
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  Speaker 1: Evil is not an abstract something outside yourself. It is
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  Speaker 1: an experience in your own heart, and by patiently examining
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  Speaker 1: and rectifying your heart, you will be gradually led into
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  Speaker 1: the discovery of the origin and nature of evil, which
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  Speaker 1: will necessarily be followed by its complete eradication. All evil
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  Speaker 1: is corrective and remedial, and is therefore not permanent. It
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  Speaker 1: is rooted in ignorance, ignorance of the true nature and
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  Speaker 1: relation of things, And so long as we remain in
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  Speaker 1: that state of ignorance, we remain subject to evil. There
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  Speaker 1: is no evil in the universe which is not the
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  Speaker 1: result of ignorance, and which would not if we were
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  Speaker 1: ready and willing to learn its lesson lead us to
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  Speaker 1: higher wisdom and then vanish away. But men remain in evil,
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  Speaker 1: and it does not pass away because men are not
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  Speaker 1: willing or prepared to learn the lesson which he came
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  Speaker 1: to teach them. I knew a child who, every night,
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  Speaker 1: when its mother took it to bed, cried to be
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  Speaker 1: allowed to play with the candle. And one night, when
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  Speaker 1: the mother was off guard for a moment, the child
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  Speaker 1: took hold of the candle. The inevitable result followed, and
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  Speaker 1: the child never wished to play with the candle again.
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  Speaker 1: By its one foolish act, it learned and learned perfectly
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  Speaker 1: the lesson of obedience, and entered into the knowledge that
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  Speaker 1: fire burns. And this incident is a complete illustration of
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  Speaker 1: the nature, meaning an ultimate result of all sin and evil.
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  Speaker 1: As the child suffered through its own ignorance of the
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  Speaker 1: real nature of fire, so older children suffer through the
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  Speaker 1: ignorance of the real nature of the things which they
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  Speaker 1: weep for and strive after, and which harm them when
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  Speaker 1: they are secured, the only difference being that in the
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  Speaker 1: latter case the ignorance and evil are more deeply rooted
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  Speaker 1: and obscure. Evil has always been symbolized by darkness and
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  Speaker 1: good by light, and hidden within the symbol is contained
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  Speaker 1: the perfect interpretation the reality. For just as light always
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  Speaker 1: floods the universe and darkness is only a mere speck
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  Speaker 1: or shadow cast by a small body intercepting a few
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  Speaker 1: rays of the illimitable light, so the light of the
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  Speaker 1: supreme good is the positive and life giving power which
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  Speaker 1: floods the universe, and evil the insignificant shadow cast by
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  Speaker 1: the self that intercepts and shuts off the illuminating rays
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  Speaker 1: which strive for entrance. When night folds the world in
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  Speaker 1: its black, impenetrable mantle, no matter how dense the darkness
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  Speaker 1: it covers, but the small space of half our little planet,
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  Speaker 1: while a whole universe is ablaze with living light, and
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  Speaker 1: every soul knows that it will awake in the light
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  Speaker 1: in the morning. Know then, that when the dark night
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  Speaker 1: of sorrow, pain or misfortune settles down upon your soul
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  Speaker 1: and you stumble along with weary and uncertain steps, that
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  Speaker 1: you are merely intercepting your own personal desires between yourself
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  Speaker 1: and the boundless light of joy and bliss. And the
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  Speaker 1: dark shadow that covers you is cast by none and
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  Speaker 1: nothing but yourself. And just as the darkness without is
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  Speaker 1: but a negative shadow, an unreality which comes from nowhere,
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  Speaker 1: goes to nowhere and has no abiding dwelling place, so
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  Speaker 1: the darkness within is equally a negative shadow passing over
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  Speaker 1: the evolving and light born soul. But I fancy I
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  Speaker 1: hear someone say, why pass through the darkness of evil
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  Speaker 1: at all? Because by ignorance you have chosen to do so,
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  Speaker 1: and because by doing so you may understand both good
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  Speaker 1: and evil. And may the more appreciate the light by
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  Speaker 1: having passed through the darkness. As evil is the direct
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  Speaker 1: outcome of ignorance, so when the lessons of evil are
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  Speaker 1: fully learned, ignorance passes away and wisdom takes its place.
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  Speaker 1: But as a disobedient child refuses to learn its lessons
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  Speaker 1: at school, so it is possible to refuse to learn
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  Speaker 1: the lessons of experience, and thus to remain in continual darkness,
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  Speaker 1: and to suffer continually recurring punishments in the form of disease, disappointment,
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  Speaker 1: and sorrow. He therefore, who would shake himself free of
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  Speaker 1: the evil which encompasses him, must be willing and ready
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  Speaker 1: to learn, and must be prepared to undergo that disciplinary process,
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  Speaker 1: without which no grain of wisdom or abiding happiness and
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  Speaker 1: peace can be secured. A man may shut himself up
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  Speaker 1: in a dark room and deny that the light exists,
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  Speaker 1: but it is everywhere without, and darkness exists only in
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  Speaker 1: his own little room. So you may shut out the
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  Speaker 1: light of truth, or you may begin to pull down
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  Speaker 1: the walls of prejudice, self seeking an error which you
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  Speaker 1: have built around yourself, and so let in the glorious
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  Speaker 1: and omnipresent light. By earnest self examination, strive to realize,
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  Speaker 1: and not merely hold as a theory, that evil is
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  Speaker 1: a passing phase, a self created shadow. That all your pains, sorrows,
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  Speaker 1: and misfortunes have come to you by a process of
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  Speaker 1: undeviating and absolutely perfect law, have come to you because
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  Speaker 1: you deserve and require them, And that by first enduring
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  Speaker 1: and then understanding them, you may be made stronger, wiser, nobler.
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  Speaker 1: When you have fully entered into this realization, you will
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  Speaker 1: be in a position to mold your own circumstances, to
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  Speaker 1: transmute all evil into good, and to weave with a
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  Speaker 1: master hand the fabric of your destiny. What of the night,
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  Speaker 1: O watchman, cease thou, yet the glimmering dawn upon the
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  Speaker 1: mountain heights, the golden herald of the light of lights
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  Speaker 1: are his fair feet upon the hill top set cometh
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  Speaker 1: he yet to chase away the gloom, and with it
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  Speaker 1: all the demons of the night.
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  Speaker 2: Strike.
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  Speaker 1: Yet his darting rays upon thy sight. Hearest thou his
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  Speaker 1: voice the sound of error's doom. The morning cometh, lover
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  Speaker 1: of the light, Even now he gilds with gold the
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  Speaker 1: mountain's brow. Dimly I see the Path, whereon even now
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  Speaker 1: his shining feet are set toward the night, darkness shall
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  Speaker 1: pass away, and all the things that love the darkness
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  Speaker 1: and that hate the light shall disappear forever with the night. Rejoice,
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  Speaker 1: for thus the speeding herald sings. End of section one,
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  Speaker 1: Section two of The Path The Prosperity by James Allen.
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  Speaker 1: This libyvox recording is in the public domain. Section two.
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  Speaker 1: The World a reflex of mental states.
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  Speaker 2: What you are so is your world.
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  Speaker 1: Everything in the universe is resolved into your own inward experience.
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  Speaker 1: It matters little what is without, for it is all
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  Speaker 1: a reflexion of your own state of consciousness. It matters
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  Speaker 1: everything what you are within, for everything without will be
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  Speaker 1: mirrored and colored accordingly. All that you positively know is
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  Speaker 1: contained in your own experience. All that you ever will
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  Speaker 1: know must pass through the gateway of experience, and so
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  Speaker 1: become part of yourself. Your own thoughts, desires, and aspirations
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  Speaker 1: comprise your world, and to you, all that there is
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  Speaker 1: in the universe of beauty and joy and bliss, or
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  Speaker 1: of ugliness and sorrow and pain, is contained within yourself.
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  Speaker 1: By your own thoughts, you make or mar your life,
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  Speaker 1: Your world, your universe. As you build within by the
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  Speaker 1: power of thought, so will your outward life and circumstances
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  Speaker 1: shape themselves accordingly. Whatsoever you harbor in the inmost chambers
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  Speaker 1: of your heart, will, sooner or later, by the inevitable
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  Speaker 1: law of reaction, shape itself in your outward life. The
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  Speaker 1: soul that is impure, sordid, and selfish is gravitating with
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  Speaker 1: unerring precision towards misfortune and catastrophe. The soul that is pure, unselfish,
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  Speaker 1: and noble is gravitating with equal precision toward happiness and prosperity.
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  Speaker 1: Every soul attracts its own and nothing can possibly come
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  Speaker 1: to it that does not belong to it. To realize
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  Speaker 1: this is to recognize the universality of divine law. The
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  Speaker 1: incidents of every human life, which both make and mar
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  Speaker 1: are drawn to it by the quality and power of
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  Speaker 1: its own inner thought life. Every soul is a complex
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  Speaker 1: combination of gathered experiences and thoughts, and the body is
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  Speaker 1: but an improvised vehicle for its manifestation. What therefore, your
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  Speaker 1: thoughts are, that is your real self, and the world around,
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  Speaker 1: both animate and inanimate, wears the aspect with which your
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  Speaker 1: thoughts clothe it. All that we are is the result
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  Speaker 1: of what we have thought. It is founded on our thoughts.
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  Speaker 1: It is made up of our thoughts, Thus said Buddha.
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  Speaker 1: And it therefore follows that if a man is happy,
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  Speaker 1: it is because he dwells in happy thoughts, if miserable,
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  Speaker 1: because he dwells in despondent and debilitating thoughts. Whether one
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  Speaker 1: be fearful or fearless, foolish, or wise troubled or serene,
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  Speaker 1: within that soul lies the cause of its own state
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  Speaker 1: or states, and never without. And now I seem to
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  Speaker 1: hear a chorus of voices exclaim, but do you really
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  Speaker 1: mean to say that outward circumstances do not affect our minds?
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  Speaker 1: I do not say that. But I say this and
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  Speaker 1: know it to be an infallible truth, that circumstances can
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  Speaker 1: only affect you in so far as you allow them
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  Speaker 1: to do so. You are swayed by circumstances because you
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  Speaker 1: have not a right understanding of the nature, use, and
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  Speaker 1: power of thought. You believe, and upon this little word
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  Speaker 1: hang all our sorrows and joys, that outward things have.
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  Speaker 2: The power to make or mar your life.
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  Speaker 1: By so doing, you submit to those outward things, confess
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  Speaker 1: that you are their slave, and they your unconditional master.
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  Speaker 1: By so doing, you invest them with a power which
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  Speaker 1: they do not of themselves possess. And you succumb in
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  Speaker 1: reality not to the mere circumstances, but to the gloom
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  Speaker 1: or gladness, the fear or hope, the strength or weakness,
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  Speaker 1: which your thought sphere has thrown around them. I knew
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  Speaker 1: two men who, at an early age lost the hard
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  Speaker 1: earned savings of years. One was very deeply troubled and
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  Speaker 1: gave way to chagrin, worry, and despondency. The other, on
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  Speaker 1: reading in his morning paper that the bank in which
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  Speaker 1: his money was deposited had hopelessly failed and that he
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  Speaker 1: had lost all, quietly and firmly remarked, Well, it's gone,
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  Speaker 1: and trouble and worry won't bring it back, but hard
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  Speaker 1: work will. He went to work with renewed vigor and
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  Speaker 1: rapidly became prosperous. While a former man, continuing to mourn
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  Speaker 1: the loss of his money and to grumble at his
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  Speaker 1: bad luck, remained the sport and tool of adverse circumstances.
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  Speaker 1: In reality of his own weak and slavish thoughts, the
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  Speaker 1: loss of money was a curse to the one because
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  Speaker 1: he clothed the event with dark and dreary thoughts. It
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  Speaker 1: was a blessing to the other because he threw around
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  Speaker 1: it thoughts of strength, of hope, and renewed endeavor. If
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  Speaker 1: circumstances had the power to bless or harm, though it bless.
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  Speaker 2: And harm all men alike.
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  Speaker 1: But the fact that the same circumstances will be alike
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  Speaker 1: good and bad to different souls proves that the good
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  Speaker 1: or bad is not in the circumstance, but only in
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  Speaker 1: the mind of him that encounters it. When you begin
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  Speaker 1: to realize this, you will begin to control your thoughts,
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  Speaker 1: to regulate and discipline your mind, and to rebuild the
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  Speaker 1: inward temple of your soul, eliminating all useless and superfluous material,
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  Speaker 1: and incorporating into your being thoughts alone of joy and serenity,
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  Speaker 1: of strength and life, of compassion and love, of beauty
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  Speaker 1: and immortality. And as you do this, you will become
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  Speaker 1: joyful and serene, strong and healthy, compassionate and loving, and
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  Speaker 1: beautiful with the beauty of immortality. And as we clothe
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  Speaker 1: the vents with the drapery of our own thoughts, so
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  Speaker 1: likewise do we clothe the objects of the visible world
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  Speaker 1: around us, and where one sees harmony and beauty, another
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  Speaker 1: seas revolting ugliness. An enthusiastic naturalist was one day roaming
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  Speaker 1: the country lanes in pursuit of his hobby, and during
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  Speaker 1: his rambles, came upon a pearl of brackish water near
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  Speaker 1: a farmyard. As he proceeded to fill a small bottle
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  Speaker 1: with the water for the purpose of examination under the microscope,
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  Speaker 1: he dilated with more enthusiasm than discretion to an uncultivated
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  Speaker 1: son of the plow, who stood close by, upon the
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  Speaker 1: hidden and innumerable wonders contained in the pearl, and concluded
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  Speaker 1: by saying, Yes, my friend, within this pearl is contained
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  Speaker 1: a hundred, nay a million universes. Had we but the
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  Speaker 1: sense or the instrument by which we could apprehend them,
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  Speaker 1: And the unsophisticated one ponderously remarked, ah, nor the wad
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  Speaker 1: be full of dudpos, but thee be easy to catch.
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  Speaker 1: Where the naturalist, his mind stored with the knowledge of
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  Speaker 1: natural facts, saw beauty, harmony, and hidden glory, the mind
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  Speaker 1: unenlightened upon those things, saw only an offensive mud puddle
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  Speaker 1: the wild flower which the casual wayfarer thoughtlessly. Tramples on
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  Speaker 1: is to the spiritual eye of the poet, an angelic
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  Speaker 1: messenger from the invisible to the many. The ocean is
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  Speaker 1: but a dreary expanse of water on which ships sail
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  Speaker 1: are sometimes wrecked. To the soul of the musician, it
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  Speaker 1: is a living thing, and he hears in all its
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  Speaker 1: changing moods divine harmonies. Where the ordinary mind sees disaster
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  Speaker 1: and confusion, the mind of the philosopher sees the most
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  Speaker 1: perfect sequence of cause and effect. And where the materialist
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  Speaker 1: sees nothing but endless death, the mystic sees pulsating and
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  Speaker 1: eternal life. And as we clothe both events and objects
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  Speaker 1: with our own thoughts, so likewise do we clothe the
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  Speaker 1: souls of others in the garments of our thoughts. The
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  Speaker 1: suspicious believe everybody to be suspicious. The lire feels secure
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  Speaker 1: in the thought that is not so foolish as to
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  Speaker 1: believe that there is such a phenomenon as a strictly
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  Speaker 1: truthful person. The envious see envy in every soul. The
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  Speaker 1: maser thinks everybody is eager to get his money. He
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  Speaker 1: who has subordinated conscience in the making of his wealth
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  Speaker 1: sleeps with a revolver under his pillow, rapt in the
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  Speaker 1: delusion that the world is full of consciouslestness, people who
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  Speaker 1: are eager to rob him, and the abandoned sensualists looks
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  Speaker 1: upon the saint as a hypocrite. On the other hand,
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  Speaker 1: those who dwell in loving thoughts see that in all
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  Speaker 1: which calls forth their love and sympathy. The trusting and
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  Speaker 1: honest are not troubled by suspicions. The good natured and charitable,
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  Speaker 1: who rejoice at the good fortune of others, scarcely know
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  Speaker 1: what envy means. And he who has realized the divine
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  Speaker 1: within himself recognizes it in all beings, even in the beasts.
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  Speaker 1: And men and women are confined in their mental outlook
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  Speaker 1: because of the fact that, by the law of cause
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  Speaker 1: and effect, they attract to themselves that which they send forth,
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  Speaker 1: and so come in contact with people similar to themselves.
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  Speaker 1: The old adage birds of a feather flock together as
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  Speaker 1: a deeper significance than is generally attached to it. For
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  Speaker 1: in a thought world, as in the world of matter,
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  Speaker 1: each clings to its kind. Do you wish for kindness
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  Speaker 1: be kind? Do you wish for truth be true? What
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  Speaker 1: you give of yourself. You find your world is a
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  Speaker 1: reflex of you. If you are one of those who
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  Speaker 1: are praying for and looking forward to a happier world
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  Speaker 1: beyond the grave, here is a message of gladness for you.
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  Speaker 1: You may enter into and realize that happy world. Now
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  Speaker 1: it fills the whole universe, and it is within you,
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  Speaker 1: waiting for you to find acknowledge and possess, said one
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  Speaker 1: who knew the inner laws of being. When men shall say,
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  Speaker 1: lo here or lo there, go not after them. The
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  Speaker 1: Kingdom of God is within you. What you have to
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  Speaker 1: do is to believe this. Simply believe it with a
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  Speaker 1: mind unshadowed by doubt, and then meditate upon it till
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  Speaker 1: you understand it. You will then begin to purify and
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  Speaker 1: to build your inner world. And as you proceed, passing
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  Speaker 1: from revelation to revelation, from realization to realizeization, you will
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  Speaker 1: discover the utter powerlessness of outward things beside the magic
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  Speaker 1: potency of a self governed soul. If thou wouldst right
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  Speaker 1: the world and banish all its evils and its woes,
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  Speaker 1: make its wild places bloom and its drear deserts blossom
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  Speaker 1: as the rose, then right thyself. If thou wouldst turn
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  Speaker 1: the world from its long lone captivity in sin, restore
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  Speaker 1: all broken hearts, slay grief, and let sweet consolation. In
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  Speaker 1: turn thou thyself. If thou wouldst cure the world, if
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  Speaker 1: its long sickness, end its grief and pain, bring in
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  Speaker 1: all healing joy, and give to the afflicted, rest again,
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  Speaker 1: then cure thyself. If thou wouldst wake the world out
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  Speaker 1: of its dream of death and darkening strife, bring it
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  Speaker 1: to love and peace, and light and brightness of immortal life,
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  Speaker 1: wake thou thy self. End of section two Section three
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  Speaker 1: of The Path to Prosperity by James Allen. This libyvox
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  Speaker 1: recording is in the public domain. Section three The Way
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  Speaker 1: Out of Undesirable Conditions. Having seen and realized that evil
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  Speaker 1: is but a passing shadow thrown by the intercepting self
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  Speaker 1: across the transcendent form of the eternal good, and that
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  Speaker 1: the world is a mirror in which each sees a
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  Speaker 1: reflection of himself, we now ascend, by firm and easy steps,
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  Speaker 1: to that planet of perception, whereon is seen and realized
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  Speaker 1: the vision of the law. With this realization comes the
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  Speaker 1: knowledge that everything is included in the ceaseless interaction of
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  Speaker 1: cause and effect, and that nothing can possibly be divorced
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  Speaker 1: from law. From the most trivial thought, word, or act
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  Speaker 1: of man, up to the grippings of the celestial bodies,
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  Speaker 1: law reigns supreme. No arbitrary condition can even for one
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  Speaker 1: moment exist, for such a condition would be a denial
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  Speaker 1: and an annihilation of law. Every condition of life is
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  Speaker 1: therefore bound up in an orderly and harmonious sequence, And
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  Speaker 1: the secret and cause of every condition is contained within itself.
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  Speaker 1: The law, whatsoever a man sows, that shall he also reap,
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  Speaker 1: is inscribed in flaming letters upon the portal of eternity.
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  Speaker 1: And none can deny it, none can cheat it, none
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  Speaker 1: can escape it. He who puts his hand in the
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  Speaker 1: fire must suffer the burning until such time as it
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  Speaker 1: has worked itself out, and neither curses nor prayers can
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  Speaker 1: avail to alter it. And precisely the same law governs
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  Speaker 1: the realm of mind. Hatred, anger, jealousy, envy, lust, covetousness.
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  Speaker 1: All these are fires which burn, and whoever even so
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  Speaker 1: much as touches them, must suffer the torments of burning.
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  Speaker 1: All these conditions of mind are rightly called evil. For
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  Speaker 1: they are the efforts of the soul to subvert in
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  Speaker 1: its ignorance, the law, and they therefore lead to chaos
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  Speaker 1: and confusion within, and are sooner or later actualized in
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  Speaker 1: the outward circumstances as disease, failure, and misfortune coupled with grief,
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  Speaker 1: pain and despair. Whereas love, gentleness, good will, purity are
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  Speaker 1: cooling airs which breathe peace upon the soul that woos them,
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  Speaker 1: and being in harmony with the eternal law, they become
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  Speaker 1: actualized in the form of health, peaceful surroundings, an undeviating success,
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  Speaker 1: and good fortune. A thorough understanding of this great law
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  Speaker 1: which permeates the universe leads to the acquirement of that
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  Speaker 1: state of mind known as obedience. To know that justice, harmony,
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  Speaker 1: and love are supreme in the universe is likewise to
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  Speaker 1: know that all adverse and painful conditions are the result
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  Speaker 1: of our own disobedience to that law. Such knowledge leads
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  Speaker 1: to strength and power, and it is upon such knowledge
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  Speaker 1: alone that a true life and an enduring success and
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  Speaker 1: happiness can be built. To be patient under all circumstances,
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  Speaker 1: and to accept all conditions as necessary fact as in
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  Speaker 1: your training, is to rise superior to all painful conditions,
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  Speaker 1: and to overcome them with an overcoming which is sure,
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  Speaker 1: and which leaves no fear of their return. For by
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  Speaker 1: the power of obedience to law, they are utterly slain.
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  Speaker 1: Such an obedient one is working in harmony with the law,
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  Speaker 1: has in fact identified himself with the law. And whatsoever
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  Speaker 1: he conquers, he conquers forever. Whatsoever he builds, can never
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  Speaker 1: be destroyed. The cause of all power, as of all weakness,
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  Speaker 1: is within, the secret of all happiness, as of all misery,
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  Speaker 1: is likewise within. There is no progress apart from enfoldment within,
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  Speaker 1: and no sure foothold of prosperity or peace, except by
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  Speaker 1: orderly advancement in knowledge. You say you are chained by circumstances.
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  Speaker 1: You cry out for better opportunities, for a wider scope,
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  Speaker 1: for improved physical conditions, and perhaps you inwardly curse the
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  Speaker 1: fate that binds you hand and foot. It is for
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  Speaker 1: you that I write. It is to you that I speak. Listen,
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  Speaker 1: and let my words burn themselves into your heart, For
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  Speaker 1: that which I say to you is truth. You may
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  Speaker 1: bring about that improved can in your outward life which
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  Speaker 1: you desire, if you will unswervingly resolve to improve your
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  Speaker 1: inner life. I know this pathway looks barren at its commencement.
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  Speaker 1: Truth always does. It is only error and illusion which
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  Speaker 1: are at first inviting and fascinating. But if you undertake
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  Speaker 1: to walk it, if you perseveringly discipline your mind, eradicating
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  Speaker 1: your weaknesses, and allow your soul forces and spiritual powers
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  Speaker 1: to unfold themselves, you will be astonished at the magical
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  Speaker 1: changes which will be brought about in your outward life.
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  Speaker 1: As you proceed. Golden opportunities will be strewn across your path,
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  Speaker 1: and the power and judgment to properly utilize them will
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  Speaker 1: spring up within you. Genial friends will come unbidden to you.
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  Speaker 1: Sympathetic souls will be drawn to you as the needle
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  Speaker 1: is to the magnet, and books and all outward aids
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  Speaker 1: that you require will come to you unsought. Perhaps the
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  Speaker 1: change of pobl hang heavily upon you, and you are
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  Speaker 1: friendless and alone, and you long, with an intense longing
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  Speaker 1: that your load may be lightened. For the load continues,
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  Speaker 1: and you seem to be enveloped in an ever increasing darkness.
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  Speaker 1: Perhaps you complain, you bewail your lot, you blame your birth,
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  Speaker 1: your parents, your employer, or the unjust powers which are
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  Speaker 1: bestowed upon you so undeservedly poverty and hardship, and upon
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  Speaker 1: another affluence and ease. Cease your complaining and fretting. None
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  Speaker 1: of these things which you blame are the cause of
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  Speaker 1: your poverty. The cause is within yourself, and where the
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  Speaker 1: cause is, there is the remedy. The very fact that
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  Speaker 1: you are a complainer shows that you deserve your lot,
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  Speaker 1: shows that you lack that faith which is the ground
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  Speaker 1: of all effort and progress. There is no room for
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  Speaker 1: a complainer in a universe of law, and worry is
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  Speaker 1: sole suicide. By your very attitude of mind, you are
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  Speaker 1: strengthening the change which bind you, and are drawing about
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  Speaker 1: you the darkness by which you are enveloped.
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  Speaker 2: All to your.
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  Speaker 1: Outlook upon life, and your outward life will alter. Build
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  Speaker 1: yourself up in faith and knowledge, and make yourself worthy
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  Speaker 1: of better surroundings and wider opportunities. Be sure first of
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  Speaker 1: all that you are making the best of what you have.
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  Speaker 1: Do not delude yourself in disupposing that you can step
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  Speaker 1: into greater advantages whilst overlooking smaller ones, For if you could,
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  Speaker 1: the advantage would be impermanent and you would quickly fall
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  Speaker 1: back again in order to learn the lesson which you
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  Speaker 1: had neglected. As the child at school must master one
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  Speaker 1: standard before passing on to the next. So before you
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  Speaker 1: can have that greater good which you so desire, must
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  Speaker 1: you faithfully employ that which you are already possessed. The
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  Speaker 1: Parable of the Talents is a beautiful story illustrative of
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  Speaker 1: this truth. For does it not plainly show that if
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  Speaker 1: we misuse, neglect, or degrade that which we possess, be
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  Speaker 1: it ever so mean and insignificant, even that little will
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  Speaker 1: be taken from us, for by our conduct we show
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  Speaker 1: that we are unworthy of it. Perhaps you are living
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  Speaker 1: in a small cottage and are surrounded by unhealthy and
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  Speaker 1: vicious influences. You desire a larger and more sanitary residence,
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  Speaker 1: Then you must fit yourself for such a residence by
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  Speaker 1: first of all, making your cottage as far as possible,
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  Speaker 1: a little paradise. Keep it spotlessly clean, make it look
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  Speaker 1: as pretty and sweet as your limited means will allow.
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  Speaker 1: Cook your plain food with all care, and arrange your
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  Speaker 1: humble table as tastefully as you possibly can. If you
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  Speaker 1: cannot afford a carpet, let your rooms be carpeted with
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  Speaker 1: smiles and welcomes, fastened down with the nails of kind words,
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  Speaker 1: driven in with the hammer of patience. Such a carpet
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  Speaker 1: will not fade in the sun, and constant use will
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  Speaker 1: never wear it away. By so enabling your present surroundings,
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  Speaker 1: you will rise above them and above the need of them,
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  Speaker 1: and at the right time you will pass on into
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  Speaker 1: the better house and surroundings which have all along been
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  Speaker 1: waiting for you, and which you have fitted yourself to occupy.
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  Speaker 1: Perhaps you desire more time for thought and effort, and
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  Speaker 1: feel that your hours of labor are too hard and long,
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  Speaker 1: then see to it that you are utilizing to the
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  Speaker 1: fullest possible extent what little spare time you have. It
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  Speaker 1: is useless to desire more time if you are already
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  Speaker 1: wasting what little you have, for you would only grow
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  Speaker 1: more indolent and indifferent. Even poverty and lack of time
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  Speaker 1: and leisure are not the evils that you imagine they are,
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  Speaker 1: And if they hinder you in your progress, it is
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  Speaker 1: because you have clothed them in your own weaknesses, and
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  Speaker 1: the evil that you see in them is really in yourself.
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  Speaker 1: Endeavor to fully and completely realize that in so far
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  Speaker 1: as you shape and mold your mind, you are the
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  Speaker 1: maker of your destiny. And as by the transmuting power
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  Speaker 1: of self discipline you realize this more and more, you
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  Speaker 1: will come to see that these so called evils may
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  Speaker 1: be converted into blessings. You will then utilize your poverty
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  Speaker 1: for the cultivation of patience, hope, and courage, and your
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  Speaker 1: lack of time in the gaining of promptness of action
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  Speaker 1: and decision of mind, by seizing the precious moments as
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  Speaker 1: they present themselves for your acceptance. As in the rankest
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  Speaker 1: soil the most beautiful flowers are grown, so in the
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  Speaker 1: dark soil of poverty, the choicest flowers of humanity have
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  Speaker 1: developed and bloomed. Where there are difficulties to cope with
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  Speaker 1: and unsatisfactory conditions to overcome, there virtue most flourishes and
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  Speaker 1: manifests its glory. It may be that you are in
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  Speaker 1: the employ of a tyrannist master or mistress, and you
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  Speaker 1: feel that you are harshly treated. Look upon this also
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  Speaker 1: as necessary to your training. Return your employer's unkindness with
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  Speaker 1: gentleness and forgiveness, practice unceasingly, patience, and self control turn
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  Speaker 1: the disadvantage to account by utilizing it for the gaining
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  Speaker 1: of mental and spiritual strength, and by your silent example
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  Speaker 1: and influence, you will thus be teaching your employer, will
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  Speaker 1: be helping him to grow ashamed of his conduct, and
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  Speaker 1: will at the same time be lifting yourself up to
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  Speaker 1: that height of spiritual attainment, by which you will be
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  Speaker 1: enable to step into new and more congenial surroundings at
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  Speaker 1: the time when they are presented to you. Do not
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  Speaker 1: complain that you are a slave, but lift yourself up
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  Speaker 1: by noble conduct above the plane of slavery. Before complaining
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  Speaker 1: that you are a slave to another, be sure that
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  Speaker 1: you are not a slave to self. Look within, look searchingly,
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  Speaker 1: and have no mercy upon yourself. You will find there,
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  Speaker 1: perchance slavish thoughts, slavish desires, and in your daily life
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  Speaker 1: and conduct slavish habits. Conquer these, cease to be a
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  Speaker 1: slave to self, and no man will have the power
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  Speaker 1: to enslave you. As you overcome self, you will overcome
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  Speaker 1: all adverse conditions, and every difficulty will fall before you.
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  Speaker 1: Do not complain that you are oppressed by the rich.
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  Speaker 1: Are you sure that if you gained riches, you would
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  Speaker 1: not be an oppressor yourself. Remember that there is the
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  Speaker 1: eternal law, which is absolutely just, and that he who
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  Speaker 1: oppresses to day must himself be oppressed to morrow. And
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  Speaker 1: from this there is no way of escape. And perhaps you, yesterday,
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  Speaker 1: in some former existence, were rich and an oppressor, and
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  Speaker 1: that you are now merely paying off the debt which
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  Speaker 1: you owe to the great law. Practice. Therefore, fortitude and
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  Speaker 1: faith dwell constantly in mind upon the eternal justice, the
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  Speaker 1: eternal good. Endeavor to lift yourself above the personal and
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  Speaker 1: the transitory into the impersonal and permanent. Shake off the
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  Speaker 1: delusion that you are being injured or oppressed by another,
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  Speaker 1: and try to realize, by a profounder comprehension of your
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  Speaker 1: inner life and the laws which govern that life, that
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  Speaker 1: you are only really injured by what is within you.
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  Speaker 1: There is no practice more degrading, debasing, and soul destroying
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  Speaker 1: than that of self pity. Cast it out from you
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  Speaker 1: while such a canker is feeding upon your heart, you
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  Speaker 1: never expect to grow into a fuller life. Cease from
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  Speaker 1: the condemnation of others, and begin to condemn yours. Condone
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  Speaker 1: none of your acts, desires, or thoughts that will not
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  Speaker 1: be a comparison with spotless purity, or endure the light
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  Speaker 1: of sinless good. By so doing, you will be building
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  Speaker 1: your house upon the rock of the eternal, and all
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  Speaker 1: that is required for your happiness and well being will
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  Speaker 1: come to you in its own time. There is positively
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  Speaker 1: no way of permanently rising above poverty or any undesirable condition,
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  Speaker 1: except by eradicating as selfish and negative conditions, within of
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  Speaker 1: which these are the reflection, and by virtue, of which
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  Speaker 1: they continue. The way to true riches is to enrich
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  Speaker 1: the soul by the acquisition of virtue. Outside of real
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  Speaker 1: heart virtue, there is neither prosperity nor power, but only
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  Speaker 1: the appearances of these. I am aware that men make
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  Speaker 1: money who have acquired no measure of virtue, and have
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  Speaker 1: little desire to do so. But such money does not
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  Speaker 1: constitute true riches, and his possession is transitory and feverish.
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  Speaker 1: Here is David's testimony, For I was envious at the
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  Speaker 1: foolish when I saw the prosperity of the wicked. Their
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  Speaker 1: eyes stand out with fatness. They have more than heart
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  Speaker 1: could wish. Verily, I have cleansed my heart in vain
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  Speaker 1: and washed my hands in innocence. When I thought to
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  Speaker 1: know this. It was too painful to me until I
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  Speaker 1: went into the sanctuary of God. Then understood I their end.
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  Speaker 1: The prosperity of the wicked, was a great trial to
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  Speaker 1: David until he went into the sanctuary of God, and
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  Speaker 1: then he knew their end. You, likewise, may go into
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  Speaker 1: that sanctuary. It is within you. It is that state
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  Speaker 1: of consciousness which remains when all that is sordid and
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  Speaker 1: personal and impermanent is risen above, and universal and eternal
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  Speaker 1: principles are realized. That is the God's state of consciousness.
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  Speaker 1: It is the sanctuary of the Most High. When by
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  Speaker 1: long strife and self discipline you have succeeded in entering
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  Speaker 1: the door of that holy Temple, you will perceive with
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  Speaker 1: unobstructed vision the end and fruit of all human thought
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  Speaker 1: and endeavor, both good and evil. You will then no
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  Speaker 1: longer relax your faith when you see the immoral man
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  Speaker 1: accumulating outward riches, for you will know that he must
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  Speaker 1: come again to poverty and degradation. The rich man, who
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  Speaker 1: is barren of virtue, is in reality poor. And as
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  Speaker 1: surely as the waters of the river are drifting to
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  Speaker 1: the ocean, so surely is he in the midst of
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  Speaker 1: all his riches, drifting towards poverty and misfortune. And though
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  Speaker 1: he die rich, yet must he return to reap the
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  Speaker 1: bitter fruit of all his immorality. And though he become
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  Speaker 1: rich many times, yet as many times must he be
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  Speaker 1: thrown back into poverty, until by long experience and suffering
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  Speaker 1: he conquers the poverty within. But the man who is
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  Speaker 1: outwardly poor yet rich in virtue, is truly rich, And
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: in the midst of all his poverty, he is surely
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  Speaker 1: traveling towards prosperity, and a bounding joy and bliss await
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  Speaker 1: his coming. If you would become truly and permanently prosperous,
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  Speaker 1: you must first become virtuous. It is therefore unwise to
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  Speaker 1: aim directly at prosperity, to make it the one object
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  Speaker 1: of life, to reach out greedily for it. To do
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: this is to ultimately defeat yourself, But rather aim at
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  Speaker 1: self perfection. Make useful and unselfish service the object of
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  Speaker 1: your life, and ever reach out hands of faith towards
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  Speaker 1: the supreme and unalterable good. You say you desire wealth
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  Speaker 1: not for your own sake, but in order to do
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  Speaker 1: good with it and to bless others. If this is
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  Speaker 1: your real motive in desiring wealth, then wealth will come
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  Speaker 1: to you, for you are strong and unselfish. Indeed, if
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  Speaker 1: in the midst of riches you are willing to look
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  Speaker 1: upon yourself as steward and not as owner, but examine
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  Speaker 1: well your motive, For in the majority of instances where
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  Speaker 1: money is desired for the admitted object of blessing others,
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  Speaker 1: the real underlying motive is a love of popularity and
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  Speaker 1: a desire to pose as a philanthropist or reformer. If
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  Speaker 1: you are not doing good with what little you have,
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  Speaker 1: depend upon it. The more money you got, the more
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  Speaker 1: selfish you would become, And all the good you appeared
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  Speaker 1: to do with your money, if you attempted to do
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  Speaker 1: any would be so much insinuating self laudation. If your
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  Speaker 1: real desire is to do good, there is no need
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  Speaker 1: to wait for money before you do it. You can
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  Speaker 1: do it now, this very moment, and just where you are.
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  Speaker 1: If you are really so unselfish as you believe yourself
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  Speaker 1: to be, you will show it by sacrificing yourself for others. Now,
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  Speaker 1: no matter how poor you are, there is room for
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  Speaker 1: self sacrifice. For did not the widow put her all
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  Speaker 1: into the treasury. The heart that truly desires to do
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  Speaker 1: good does not wait for money before doing it, but
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  Speaker 1: comes to the altar of sacrifice, and leaving there the
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  Speaker 1: unworthy elements of self, goes out and breathes upon the
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  Speaker 1: neighbor and stranger, friend and enemy alike, the breath of blessedness.
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  Speaker 1: As the effect is related to the cause, so is
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  Speaker 1: prosperity and power related to the inward good, and poverty
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  Speaker 1: and weakness to the inward evil. Money does not constitute
• 43:35
  Speaker 1: true wealth, nor position, nor power, And to rely upon
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  Speaker 1: it alone is to stand upon a slippery place. Your
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  Speaker 1: true wealth is your stock of virtue, and your true power.
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  Speaker 1: The uses to which you put it rectify your heart,
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  Speaker 1: and you will rectify your life. Lust, hatred, anger, vanity, pride, covetousness,
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  Speaker 1: self indulgence, seeking, obstinacy, all these are poverty and weakness,
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  Speaker 1: where as love, purity, gentleness, meekness, compassion, generosity, self forgetfulness,
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  Speaker 1: and self renunciation, all these are wealth and power. As
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  Speaker 1: the elements of poverty and weakness are overcome and irresistible.
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  Speaker 1: And all conquering power is evolved from within, and he
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  Speaker 1: who succeeds in establishing himself in the highest virtue, brings
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  Speaker 1: the whole world to his feet. But the rich, as
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  Speaker 1: well as the poor, have their undesirable conditions, and are
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  Speaker 1: frequently farther removed from happiness than the poor. And here
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  Speaker 1: we see how happiness depends not upon outward age or possessions,
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  Speaker 1: but upon the inward life. Perhaps you are an employer,
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  Speaker 1: and you have endless trouble with those whom you employ,
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  Speaker 1: And when you get good and faithful servants, they quickly
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  Speaker 1: leave you. As a result, you are beginning to lose,
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  Speaker 1: or have completely lost, your faith in human nature. You
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  Speaker 1: try to remedy matters by giving better wages and by
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  Speaker 1: allowing certain liberties, yet matters remain unaltered. Let me advise
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  Speaker 1: you the secret of all your trouble is not in
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  Speaker 1: your servants. It is in yourself. And if you look
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  Speaker 1: within with a humble and sincere desire to discover and
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  Speaker 1: eradicate your error, you will sooner or later find the
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  Speaker 1: origin of all your unhappiness. It may be some selfish desire,
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  Speaker 1: or lurking suspicion, or unkind attitude of mind, which sends
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  Speaker 1: out its poison upon those about you, and reacts upon yourself,
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  Speaker 1: even though you may not show it in your manner
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  Speaker 1: or speech. Think of your servants with kindness, Consider of
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  Speaker 1: them that extremity of service which you, yourself would not
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  Speaker 1: care to perform, were you in their place. Rare and
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  Speaker 1: beautiful is that humility of soul by which a servant
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  Speaker 1: entirely forgets himself in his master's good. But far rarer
• 46:05
  Speaker 1: and beautiful, with a divine beauty, is that nobility of soul,
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  Speaker 1: by which a man, forgetting his own happiness, seeks the
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  Speaker 1: happiness of those who are under his authority and who
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  Speaker 1: depend upon him for their bodily sustenance. And such a
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  Speaker 1: man's happiness is increased tenfold. Nor does he need to
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  Speaker 1: complain of those whom he employs, said a well known
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  Speaker 1: and extensive employer of labor, who never needs to dismiss
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  Speaker 1: an employee. I've always had the happiest relations with my workpeople.
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  Speaker 1: If you ask me how it is to be accounted for,
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  Speaker 1: I can only say that it has been my aim
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  Speaker 1: from the first to do to them as I would
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  Speaker 1: wish to be done by. Herein lies the secret by
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  Speaker 1: which all desirable conditions are secured, and all that are
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  Speaker 1: undesirable are overcome. Do you say you are lonely and unloved,
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  Speaker 1: and have not a friend in the world, then I
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  Speaker 1: pray you, for the sake of your own happiness, blame
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  Speaker 1: nobody but yourself. Be friendly towards others, and friends will
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  Speaker 1: soon flock round you. Make yourself pure and lovable, and
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  Speaker 1: you will be loved by all. Whatever conditions are rendering
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  Speaker 1: your life burdensome, you may pass out of and beyond
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  Speaker 1: them by developing and utilizing within yourself the transforming power
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  Speaker 1: of self purification and self conquest. Be it the poverty
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  Speaker 1: which galls Remember that the poverty upon which I have
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  Speaker 1: been dilating is that poverty which is a source of misery,
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  Speaker 1: and not that voluntary poverty which is the glory of
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  Speaker 1: emancipated souls. Or the riches which burden, or the many misfortunes, griefs,
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  Speaker 1: and annoyances which form the dark background in the web
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  Speaker 1: of life. You may overcome them by overcoming the selfish
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  Speaker 1: elements within which give them life. It matters not that
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  Speaker 1: by the unfailing law there are parts, thoughts and acts
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  Speaker 1: to work out and to atone For as by the
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  Speaker 1: same law we are setting in motion during every moment
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  Speaker 1: of our life fresh thoughts and acts, and we have
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  Speaker 1: the power to make them good or ill. Nor does
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  Speaker 1: it follow that if a man reaping what he has
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  Speaker 1: sown must lose money or forfeit position, that he must
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  Speaker 1: also lose his fortitude or forfeit his uprightness. And it
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  Speaker 1: is in these that his wealth and power and happiness
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  Speaker 1: are to be found. He who clings to self is
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  Speaker 1: his own enemy, and is surrounded by enemies. He who
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  Speaker 1: relinquishes self is his own savior, and is surrounded by
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  Speaker 1: friends like a protecting belt. Before the divine radiance of
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  Speaker 1: a pure heart, all darkness vanishes, and all clouds melt away,
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  Speaker 1: and he who has conquered self has conquered the universe. Come, then,
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  Speaker 1: out of your poverty, come out of your pain, Come
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  Speaker 1: out of your troubles and sighings and complainings, and heart
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  Speaker 1: aches and loneliness. By coming out of yourself, let the
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  Speaker 1: old tattered garment of your petty selfishness fall from you,
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  Speaker 1: and put on the new garment of universal love. You
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  Speaker 1: will then realize the inward heaven, and it will be
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  Speaker 1: reflected in all your outward life. He who has set
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  Speaker 1: his foot firmly upon the path of self conquest. Who
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  Speaker 1: walks aided by the staff of faith the high way
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  Speaker 1: of self sacrifice will assuredly achieve the highest prosperity, and
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  Speaker 1: will reap abounding and enduring joy and bliss to them
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  Speaker 1: that seek the highest good. All things subserve the wisest ends.
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  Speaker 1: Naught comes as ill, and wisdom lends wings to all
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  Speaker 1: shapes of evil brood. The darkening sorrow veils a star
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  Speaker 1: that waits to shine with gladsome light. Hell waits on heaven,
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  Speaker 1: and after night comes God. Glory from Afar defeats our
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  Speaker 1: steps by which we climb with purer aim to nobler ends.
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  Speaker 1: Loss leads to gain, and joy attends true footsteps up
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  Speaker 1: the hills of time. Pain leads to paths of holy bliss,
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  Speaker 1: to thoughts and words and deeds divine and clouds that
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  Speaker 1: gloom and rays that shine along life's upward highway. Kiss
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  Speaker 1: misfortune does but cloud the way, whose end and summit
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  Speaker 1: in the sky of bright success, sun kiss'd and high
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  Speaker 1: awaits our seeking and our stay. The heavy pall of
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  Speaker 1: doubts and fears that clouds the valley of our hopes,
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  Speaker 1: the shades with which the spirit copes the bitter harvesting
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  Speaker 1: of tears, the heart aches, miseries and griefs, the bruisings
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  Speaker 1: born of broken ties, or these are steps by which
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  Speaker 1: we rise to living ways of sound beliefs, love, pitying,
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  Speaker 1: watchful runs to meet the pilgrim from the land of fate.
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  Speaker 1: All glory and all good await the coming of obedient feet.
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  Speaker 1: End of section three Section four of The Path to
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  Speaker 1: Prosperity by James Allen. This libivox recording is in the
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  Speaker 1: public domain. Section four. The silent power of thought, controlling
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  Speaker 1: and directing one's forces. The most powerful forces in the
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  Speaker 1: universe are the silent forces, and in accordance with the
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  Speaker 1: intensity of its power, does a force become beneficent when
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  Speaker 1: rightly directed, and destructive when wrongly employed. This is common
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  Speaker 1: knowledge in regard to the mechanical forces such as steam, electricity,
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  Speaker 1: et cetera. But few have yet learn and to apply
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  Speaker 1: this knowledge to the realm of mind, where the thought forces,
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  Speaker 1: most powerful of all, are continually being generated and sent
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  Speaker 1: forth as currents of salvation or destruction. Of this stage
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  Speaker 1: of his evolution, man is entered into the possession of
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  Speaker 1: these forces, and the whole trend of his present advancement
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  Speaker 1: is their complete subjugation. All the wisdom possible to man
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  Speaker 1: on this material earth is to be found only in
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  Speaker 1: complete self mastery and the command love thy enemies resolved
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  Speaker 1: itself into an exhortation to enter here and now into
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  Speaker 1: the possession of that sublime wisdom by taking hold of,
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  Speaker 1: mastering and transmuting those mind forces to which man is
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  Speaker 1: now slavishly subject, and by which he is helplessly borne
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  Speaker 1: like a straw on the stream upon the currents of selfishness.
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  Speaker 1: The Hebrew prophets, with their perfect knowledge of the supreme Law,
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  Speaker 1: always related outward events to inward thought, an associated national
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  Speaker 1: disaster or success with the thoughts and desires that dominated
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  Speaker 1: the nation at the time. The knowledge of the causal
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  Speaker 1: power of thought is the basis of all their prophecies,
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  Speaker 1: as it is the basis of all real wisdom and power.
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  Speaker 1: National events are simply the working out of the psychic
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  Speaker 1: forces of the nation. Wars, plagues, and famines are the
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  Speaker 1: meeting and clashing of wrongly directed thought forces, the culminating
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  Speaker 1: points at which destruction steps in as the agent of
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  Speaker 1: the law. It is foolish to ascribe war to the
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  Speaker 1: influence of one man or to one body of men.
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  Speaker 1: It is the crowning horror of national selfishness. It is
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  Speaker 1: the silent and conquering thought forces which bring all things
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  Speaker 1: into manifestation. The universe grew out of thought. Matter, in
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  Speaker 1: its last analysis, is found to be merely object dejectivised thought.
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  Speaker 1: All men's accomplishments were first wrought out in thought and
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  Speaker 1: then objectivised. The author, the inventor, the architect, first builds
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  Speaker 1: up his work in thought, and, having perfected it in
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  Speaker 1: all its parts as a complete and harmonious whole upon
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  Speaker 1: the thought plane, he then commences to materialize it, to
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  Speaker 1: bring it down to the material or sense plane. When
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  Speaker 1: the thought forces are directed in harmony with the overruling law,
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  Speaker 1: they are upbuilding and preservative, but when subverted they become
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  Speaker 1: disintegrating and self destructive. To adjust all your thoughts to
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  Speaker 1: a perfect and unswerving faith in the omnipotence and supremacy
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  Speaker 1: of good is to cooperate with that good and to
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  Speaker 1: realize within yourself the solution and destruction of all evil.
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  Speaker 1: Believe and ye shall live. And here we have the
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  Speaker 1: true meaning of salvation, Salvation from the darkness and negation
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  Speaker 1: of evil. By entering into and realizing the living light
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  Speaker 1: of the eternal good. Where there is fear, worry, anxiety, doubt, trouble, chagrin,
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  Speaker 1: or disappointment, there is ignorance and lack of faith. All
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  Speaker 1: these conditions of mind are the direct outcome of selfishness,
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  Speaker 1: and are based upon an inherent belief in the power
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  Speaker 1: and supremacy of evil. They therefore constitute practical atheism, and
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  Speaker 1: to live in and become subject to these negative and
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  Speaker 1: soul destroying conditions of mind is the only real atheism.
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  Speaker 1: It is salvation from such conditions that the race needs,
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  Speaker 1: and let no man boast of salvation while he is
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  Speaker 1: their helpless and obedient slave. To fear or to worry
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  Speaker 1: is as sinful as to curse, For how can one
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  Speaker 1: fear or worry if he intrinsically believes in the eternal justice,
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  Speaker 1: the omnipotent good, the boundless love. To fear, to worry,
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  Speaker 1: to doubt is to deny, to disbelieve. It is from
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  Speaker 1: such states of mind that all weakness and failure proceed,
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  Speaker 1: for they represent the annulling and disintegrating of the positive
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  Speaker 1: thought forces, which would otherwise speed to their object with
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  Speaker 1: power and bring about their own beneficent results. To overcome
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  Speaker 1: these negative conditions is to enter into a life of power,
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  Speaker 1: is to cease to be a slave and to become
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  Speaker 1: a master. And there is only one way by which
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  Speaker 1: they can be overcome, and that is by steady and
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  Speaker 1: persistent growth in inward knowledge. To mentally deny evil is
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  Speaker 1: not sufficient. It must, by daily practice, be risen above
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  Speaker 1: and understood. To mentally affirm the good is inadequate, it must,
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  Speaker 1: by unswerving endeavor, be entered into and comprehended. The intelligent
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  Speaker 1: practice of self control quickly leads to a knowledge of
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  Speaker 1: one's interior thought forces, and later on the acquisition of
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  Speaker 1: that power by which they are rightly employed and directed,
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  Speaker 1: in the measure that you master self, that you control
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  Speaker 1: your mental forces instead of being controlled by them. In
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  Speaker 1: just such measure, will your master affairs and outward circumstances
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  Speaker 1: show me a man under whose touch everything crumbles away,
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  Speaker 1: and who cannot retain success even when it is placed
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  Speaker 1: in his hands. And I will show you a man
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  Speaker 1: who dwells constantly in those conditions of mind which are
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  Speaker 1: the very negation of power, to be for ever wallowing
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  Speaker 1: in the bogs of doubt, to be drawn continually into
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  Speaker 1: the quicksands of fear, or blown ceaselessly about by the
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  Speaker 1: winds of anxiety. Is to be a slave, and to
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  Speaker 1: live the life of a slave, even though success and
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  Speaker 1: influence be forever knocking at your door seeking for admittance.
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  Speaker 1: Such a man, being without faith and without self government,
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  Speaker 1: is incapable of the right government of his affairs, and
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  Speaker 1: is a slave to circumstances, in reality, a slave to himself.
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  Speaker 1: Such are taught by affliction and ultimately passed from weakness
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  Speaker 1: to strength by the stress of bitter experience. Faith and
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  Speaker 1: purpose constitute the motive power of life. There is nothing
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  Speaker 1: that a strong faith and an unflinching purpose may not accomplish.
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  Speaker 1: By the daily exercise of silent faith, the thought forces
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  Speaker 1: are gathered together, and by the daily strengthening of silent purpose,
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  Speaker 1: those forces are directed toward the object of accomplishment. Whatever
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  Speaker 1: your position in life may be, Before you can hope
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  Speaker 1: to enter into any measure of success, usefulness, and power,
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  Speaker 1: you must learn how to focus your thought forces by
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  Speaker 1: cultivating calmness and repose. It may be that you are
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  Speaker 1: a business man and you are suddenly confronted with some
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  Speaker 1: overwhelming difficulty or probable disaster, you grow fearful and anxious
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  Speaker 1: and are at your wits end. To persist in such
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  Speaker 1: a state of mind would be fatal, for when anxiety
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  Speaker 1: steps in, correct judgment passes out. Now, if you will
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  Speaker 1: take advantage of a quiet hour or two in the
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  Speaker 1: early morning or at night, and go away to some
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  Speaker 1: solitary spot or to some room in your house where
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  Speaker 1: you know you will be absolutely free from intrusion, and
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  Speaker 1: having seated yourself in an easy attitude, you forcibly direct
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  Speaker 1: your mind right away from the object of anxiety by
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  Speaker 1: dwelling upon something in your life that is pleasing and
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  Speaker 1: bliss giving a calm, reposeful strength will gradually steel into
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  Speaker 1: your mind, and your anxiety will pass away. Upon that
• 59:51
  Speaker 1: instant that you find your mind reverting to the lower
• 59:54
  Speaker 1: plane of worry, bring it back again, and re establish
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  Speaker 1: it on the plane of peace and stress. When this
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  Speaker 1: is fully accomplished, you may then concentrate your whole mind
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  Speaker 1: upon the solution of your difficulty, and what was intricate
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 1: and insurmountable to you in your hour of anxiety will
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  Speaker 1: be made plain and easy, and you will see with
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  Speaker 1: a clear vision and perfect judgment which belong only to
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  Speaker 1: a calm and untroubled mind, the right course to pursue,
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  Speaker 1: and the proper end to be brought about.
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  Speaker 2: It may be that you will have to.
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  Speaker 1: Try day after day before you will be able to
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  Speaker 1: perfectly calm your mind. But if you persevere, you will
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  Speaker 1: certainly accomplish it. And the course which is presented to
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  Speaker 1: you in that hour of calmness must be carried out. Doubtless,
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 1: when you are again involved in the business of the day,
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  Speaker 1: and worries again creep in and begin to dominate you,
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  Speaker 1: you will begin to think that the course is a
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  Speaker 1: wrong or foolish one. But do not heed such suggestions.
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  Speaker 1: Be guarded absolutely and entirely by the vision of calmness,
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  Speaker 1: and not by the shadows of anxiety. The hour of
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  Speaker 1: calmness is the error of illumination and correct judgment. By
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  Speaker 1: such a course of mental discipline, the scattered thought forces
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  Speaker 1: are reunited and directed, like the rays of the search light,
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  Speaker 1: upon the problem at issue, with the result that it
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  Speaker 1: gives way before them. There is no difficulty, however great,
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  Speaker 1: but will yield before a calm and powerful concentration of thought.
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  Speaker 1: A no legitimate object, but may be speedily actualized by
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  Speaker 1: the intelligent use and direction of one's sole forces. Not
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  Speaker 1: until you have gone deeply and searchingly into your inner
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  Speaker 1: nature and have overcome many enemies that lurk there, can
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  Speaker 1: you have any approximate conception of the subtle power of thought,
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  Speaker 1: of its inseparable relation to outward and material things, or
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  Speaker 1: of its magical potency when rightly poised and directed in
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  Speaker 1: readjusting and transforming the life conditions. Every thought you think
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  Speaker 1: is a force sent out and in accordance with its
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  Speaker 1: nature and intensity. Will it go out to seek a
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  Speaker 1: lodgment in minds receptive to it, and will react upon
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  Speaker 1: yourself for good or evil. There is ceaseless reciprocity between
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  Speaker 1: mind and mind, and a continual interchange of thought forces.
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  Speaker 1: Selfish and disturbing thoughts as so many malignant and destructive
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  Speaker 1: forces messages of evil sent out to stimulate and augment
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  Speaker 1: the evil in other minds, which in turn send them
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  Speaker 1: back upon you with added power. While thoughts that are calm, pure,
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  Speaker 1: and unselfish are so many angelic messengers sent out into
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  Speaker 1: the world with health, healing, and blessedness upon their wings,
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  Speaker 1: counteracting the evil forces, pouring the oil of joy upon
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  Speaker 1: the troubled waters of anxiety and sorrow, restoring to broken
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  Speaker 1: hearts their heritage of immortality. Think good thoughts, and they
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  Speaker 1: will quickly become actualized in your outward life in a
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  Speaker 1: form of good conditions. Control your soul forces, and you
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  Speaker 1: will be able to shape your outward life as you will.
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  Speaker 1: The difference between a savior and a sinner is this,
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  Speaker 1: that the one has a perfect control of all the
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  Speaker 1: forces within him, the other is dominated and controlled by them.
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  Speaker 1: There is absolutely no other way to true power and
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  Speaker 1: abiding peace but by self control, self government, self purification.
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  Speaker 1: To be at the mercy of your disposition is to
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  Speaker 1: be impotent, unhappy, and of little real use in the world.
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  Speaker 1: The conquest of your petty likes and a dislikes, your
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  Speaker 1: capricious loves and hates, your fits of anger, suspicion, jealousy,
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  Speaker 1: and all the changing moods to which you are more
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  Speaker 1: or less helplessly subject. This is the task which you
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  Speaker 1: have before you. If you would weave into the web
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  Speaker 1: of life the golden threads of happiness and prosperity, in
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  Speaker 1: so far as you are enslaved by the changing moods
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  Speaker 1: within you, will you need to depend upon others and
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 1: upon outward aids as you walk through life. If you
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  Speaker 1: would walk firmly and securely, and would accomplish any achievement,
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  Speaker 1: you must learn to rise above and control all such
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 1: disturbing and retarding vibrations. You must daily practice the habit
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  Speaker 1: of putting your mind at rest, going into the silence,
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  Speaker 1: as it is commonly called. This is a method of
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  Speaker 1: replacing a troubled thought with one of peace, a thought
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  Speaker 1: of weakness with one of strength. Until you succeed in
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  Speaker 1: doing this, you cannot hope to direct your mental forces
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  Speaker 1: upon the problems and pursuits of life with any appreciable
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  Speaker 1: measure of success. It is a process of diverting one's
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 1: scattered forces into one powerful channel, just as a useless
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  Speaker 1: marsh may be converted into a field of gold and
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  Speaker 1: corn or a fruitful garden by draining and directing the
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 1: scattered and harmful streams into one well cut channel. So
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  Speaker 1: he who acquires calmness and subdues and directs the thought
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  Speaker 1: currents within himself saves his soul and fructifies his heart
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  Speaker 1: and life. As you succeed in gaining mastery over your
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  Speaker 1: impulses and thoughts, you will begin to feel growing up
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  Speaker 1: within you. A new and silent power and a settled
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  Speaker 1: feeling of composure and strength will remain with you. Your
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  Speaker 1: latent powers will begin to unfold themselves, and whereas formerly
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  Speaker 1: your efforts will weak and ineffectual, you will now be
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  Speaker 1: able to work with that calm confidence which commands success.
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  Speaker 1: And along with this new power and strength, there will
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  Speaker 1: be awakened within you that interior illumination known as intuition,
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  Speaker 1: and you will walk no longer in darkness and speculation,
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  Speaker 1: but in light and certainty. With the development of this soul, vision,
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  Speaker 1: judgment and mental penetration will be incalculably increased, and there
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  Speaker 1: will evolve within you that prophetic vision, by the aid
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  Speaker 1: of which you will be able to sense coming events
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  Speaker 1: and to forecast with remarkable accuracy the result of your efforts.
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  Speaker 1: And in just the measure that you alter from within,
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  Speaker 1: will your outlook upon life alter. And as you alter
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  Speaker 1: your mental attitude towards others, they will alter inner attitude
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  Speaker 1: and conduct toward you. As you rise above the lower,
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  Speaker 1: debilitating and destructive thought forces, you will come in contact
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  Speaker 1: with the positive, strengthening and upbuilding currents generated by strong, pure,
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  Speaker 1: and noble minds. Your happiness will be immeasurably intensified, and
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  Speaker 1: you will begin to realize the joy, strength and power
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  Speaker 1: which are born only of self mastery. And this joy,
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  Speaker 1: strength and power will be continually radiating from you, and
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  Speaker 1: without any effort on your part, Nay, though you are
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  Speaker 1: utterly unconscious of it, strong people will be drawn toward you,
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  Speaker 1: Influence will be put into your hands, and in accordance
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  Speaker 1: with your altered thought, world will outward events shape themselves.
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  Speaker 1: A man's foes are they of his own household, And
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 1: he who would be useful, strong, and happy must cease
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  Speaker 1: to be a passive receptacle for the negative, beggarly and
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  Speaker 1: impure streams of thought. And as a wise householder commands
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  Speaker 1: his servants and invites his guests, so must he learn
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  Speaker 1: to command his desires and to say with authority what
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  Speaker 1: thoughts he shall admit into the mansion of his soul.
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  Speaker 1: Even a very partial success in self mastery adds greatly
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  Speaker 1: to one's power, And he who succeeds in perfecting this
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  Speaker 1: to thine accomplishment enters into possession of undreamed of wisdom
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  Speaker 1: and inward strength and peace, and realizes that all the
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  Speaker 1: forces the universe aid and protect his footsteps. Who is
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  Speaker 1: master of his soul? Would you scale the highest heaven?
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  Speaker 1: Would you pierce the lowest hell? Live in dreams of
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  Speaker 1: constant beauty, or in basest thinkings dwell? For your thoughts
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  Speaker 1: are heaven above you, and your thoughts are hell below.
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  Speaker 1: Bliss is not except in thinking. Torment nought, but thought
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  Speaker 1: can know. Worlds would vanish but for thinking. Glory is
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  Speaker 1: not but in dreams and the drama of the ages
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  Speaker 1: from the thought. Eternal streams. Dignity and shame and sorrow,
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  Speaker 1: pain and anguish, love and hate are but maskings of
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  Speaker 1: the mighty, pulsing thought that governs fate. As the colors
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  Speaker 1: of the rainbow make the one uncolored beam, so the
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  Speaker 1: universal changes make the one eternal dream. And the dream
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  Speaker 1: is all within you. And the dreamer waiteth long for
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  Speaker 1: the morning to awake him to the living thought and
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  Speaker 1: strong that shall make.
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  Speaker 2: The ideal real.
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  Speaker 1: Make to vanish dreams of hell in the highest, holiest heaven,
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  Speaker 1: where the pure and perfect dwell. Evil is the thought
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  Speaker 1: that thinks it good, the thought that makes it so.
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  Speaker 1: Light and darkness, sin and pureness. Likewise, out of thinking
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  Speaker 1: grow dwell in thought upon the grandest and the grandest
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  Speaker 1: you shall see. Fix your thought upon the highest and
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  Speaker 1: the highest you shall be. End of section four, Section
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  Speaker 1: five of the Path to Prosperity, Oh James Allen, This
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  Speaker 1: libyvox recording is in the public domain. Section five The
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  Speaker 1: Secret of Health, Success and Power. We all remember with
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  Speaker 1: what intense delight as children we listened to the never
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  Speaker 1: tiring fairy tale. How eagerly we followed the fluctuating fortunes
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  Speaker 1: of the good boy or girl, ever protected in the
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  Speaker 1: hour of crisis from the evil machinations of the scheming witch,
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  Speaker 1: the cruel giant, or the wicked king. And our little
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  Speaker 1: hearts never faltered for the fate of the hero or heroine,
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  Speaker 1: nor did we doubt their ultimate triumph over all their enemies,
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  Speaker 1: for we knew that the fairies were infallible, and that
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  Speaker 1: they would never desert those who had consecrated themselves to
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  Speaker 1: the good and the true. And what unspeakable joy pulsated
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  Speaker 1: within us when the fairy queen, bringing all her magic
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  Speaker 1: to bear at the critical moment, scattered all the darknes
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  Speaker 1: and trouble and granted them the complete satisfaction of all
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  Speaker 1: their hopes and they were happy. Ever After, with the
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  Speaker 1: accumulating years and an ever increasing intimacy with the so
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  Speaker 1: called realities of life, our beautiful fairy world became obliterated,
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  Speaker 1: and its wonderful inhabitants were relegated in the archives of
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  Speaker 1: memory to the shadowy and unreal.
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  Speaker 2: And we thought we were.
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  Speaker 1: Wise and strong in thus leaving forever the land of
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  Speaker 1: childish dreams. But as we rebecome little children in the
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  Speaker 1: wondrous world of wisdom, we shall return again to the
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  Speaker 1: inspiring dreams of childhood and find that they are after
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  Speaker 1: all realities. The fairy folk, so small and nearly always invisible,
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  Speaker 1: yet possessed of an all conquering and magical power, who
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  Speaker 1: bestow upon the good, health, wealth, and happiness, along with
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  Speaker 1: all the gifts of nature, in lavish profit fusion, start
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  Speaker 1: again into reality and become immortalized in the sole realm
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  Speaker 1: of Him who, by growth in wisdom, has entered into
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  Speaker 1: a knowledge of the power of thought and the laws
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  Speaker 1: which govern the inner world of being. To him, the
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  Speaker 1: fairies live again as thought, people, thought messengers, thought powers,
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  Speaker 1: working in harmony with the overruling good, and they who
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  Speaker 1: day by day endeavor to harmonize their hearts with the
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  Speaker 1: heart of the supreme good do in reality acquire true health, wealth,
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  Speaker 1: and happiness. There is no protection to compare with goodness.
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  Speaker 1: And by goodness, I do not mean a mere outward
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  Speaker 1: conformity to the rules of morality. I mean pure thought,
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  Speaker 1: noble aspiration, unselfish love, and freedom from vainglory. To dwell
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  Speaker 1: continually in good thoughts is to throw around oneself a
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  Speaker 1: psychic atmosphere of sweetness and powers, which leaves its impress
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  Speaker 1: upon all who come in contact with it. As the
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  Speaker 1: rising sun puts to rout the helpless shadows, so are
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  Speaker 1: all the impotent forces of evil put to flight by
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  Speaker 1: the searching rays of positive thought, which shine from a
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  Speaker 1: heart made strong impurity and faith. Whether is sterling faith
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  Speaker 1: and uncompromising purity, there is health, there is success, there
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  Speaker 1: is power. In such a one. Disease, failure, and disaster
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  Speaker 1: can find no lodgment, for there is nothing on which
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  Speaker 1: they can feed. Even physical conditions are largely determined by
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  Speaker 1: mental states. And to this truth the scientific world is
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  Speaker 1: rapidly being drawn. The old materialistic belief that a man
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  Speaker 1: is what his body makes him is rapidly passing away
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  Speaker 1: and is being replaced by the inspiring belief that man
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  Speaker 1: is superior to his body, and that is his body
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  Speaker 1: is what he makes it. By the power of thought,
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  Speaker 1: men everywhere are ceasing to believe that a man is
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  Speaker 1: despairing because he is dyspeptic, and are coming to understand
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  Speaker 1: that he is dyspeptic because he is despairing. And in
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  Speaker 1: the near future the fact that all disease has its
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  Speaker 1: origin in the mind will become common knowledge. There is
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  Speaker 1: no evil in the universe, but has its root and
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  Speaker 1: origin in the mind. And sin, sickness, sorrow, and affliction
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  Speaker 1: do not, in reality belong to the universal order, are
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  Speaker 1: not inherent in the nature of things, but are the
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  Speaker 1: direct outcome of our ignorance of the right relations of things.
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  Speaker 1: According to tradition, there once lived in India a school
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  Speaker 1: of philosophers who led a life of such absolute purity
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  Speaker 1: and simplicity that they commonly reach the age of one
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  Speaker 1: hundred and fifty years, and to fall sick was looked
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  Speaker 1: upon by them as an unpardonable disgrace, for it was
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  Speaker 1: considered to indicate a violation of law. The sooner we
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  Speaker 1: realize and acknowledge that sickness, far from being the arbitrary
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  Speaker 1: visitation of an offender to God, or the test of
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  Speaker 1: an unwise providence, is the result of our own error
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  Speaker 1: or sin. The sooner shall we enter upon the highway
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  Speaker 1: of health. Disease comes to those who attract it, to
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  Speaker 1: those whose minds and bodies are receptive to it, and
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  Speaker 1: flees from those whose strong, pure and positive thought sphere
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  Speaker 1: generates healing and life giving currents. If you are given
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  Speaker 1: to anger, worry, jealousy, greed, or any other inharmonious state
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  Speaker 1: of mind and expect perfect physical health, you are expecting
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  Speaker 1: the impossible, for you are continually sowing the seed of
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  Speaker 1: disease in your mind. Such conditions of mind are carefully
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  Speaker 1: shunned by the wise man, for he knows and to
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  Speaker 1: be far more dangerous than a bad drain or an
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  Speaker 1: infection ded house.
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  Speaker 2: If you would be free from all.
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  Speaker 1: Physical aches and pains, and would enjoy perfect physical harmony,
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  Speaker 1: then put your mind in order and harmonize your thoughts.
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  Speaker 1: Think joyful thoughts, think loving thoughts. Let the elixir of
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  Speaker 1: good will course through your veins, and you will need
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  Speaker 1: no other medicine. Put away your jealousies, your suspicions, your worries,
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  Speaker 1: your hatreds, your selfish indulgences, and you will put away
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  Speaker 1: your dyspepsia, your biliousness, your nervousness, and aching joints. If
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  Speaker 1: you will persist in clinging to these debilitating and demoralizing
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  Speaker 1: habits of mind, then do not complain when your body
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  Speaker 1: is laid low with sickness. The following story illustrates the
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  Speaker 1: close relation that exists between habits of mind and bodily conditions.
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  Speaker 1: A certain man was afflicted with a painful disease. Had
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  Speaker 1: he tried one physician after another, but all to no purpose.
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  Speaker 1: He then visited towns which were famous for their curate
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  Speaker 1: of waters and art. Having bathed in them all, his
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  Speaker 1: disease was more painful than ever. One night he dreamed
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  Speaker 1: that a presence came to him and said, brother, hast
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  Speaker 1: thou tried all the means of a cure. And he replied,
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  Speaker 1: I have tried all. Nay, said the presence, come with me,
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  Speaker 1: and I will show thee a healing bath which has
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  Speaker 1: escaped thy notice. The afflicted man followed, and the presence
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  Speaker 1: led him to a clear pool of water, and said,
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  Speaker 1: plunged thyself in this water, and thou shalt surely recover,
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  Speaker 1: and thereupon vanished. The man plunged into the water, and
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  Speaker 1: on coming out lo his disease had left him, and
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  Speaker 1: at the same time he saw written above the peol
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  Speaker 1: the word renounce. Upon waking, the full meaning of his
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  Speaker 1: dream flashed across his mind, and looking within, he discovered
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  Speaker 1: that he had all along been a victim to a
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  Speaker 1: sinful indulgence, and he vowed that he would renounce it forever.
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  Speaker 1: He carried out his vow, and from that day his
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  Speaker 1: affliction began to leave him, and in a short time
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  Speaker 1: he was completely restored to health. Many people complain that
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  Speaker 1: they have broken down through overwork. In the majority of
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  Speaker 1: such cases, the breakdown is more frequently the result of
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  Speaker 1: foolishly wasted energy. If you would secure health, he must
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  Speaker 1: learn to work without friction. To become anxious or excited,
• 1:18:35
  Speaker 1: or to worry over needless details, is to invite a breakdown. Work,
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  Speaker 1: whether of brain or body, is beneficial and health giving.
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  Speaker 1: And the man who can work with a steady and
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  Speaker 1: calm persistency, freed from all anxiety and worry, and with
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  Speaker 1: his mind utterly oblivious to all but the work he
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  Speaker 1: has in hand, will not only accomplish far more than
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  Speaker 1: the man who has always hurried and anxiou. But he
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  Speaker 1: will retain his health, a boon which the other quickly forfeits.
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  Speaker 1: True health and true success go together, for they are
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  Speaker 1: inseparably intertwined in the thought realm. As mental harmony produces
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  Speaker 1: bodily health, so it also leads to a harmonious sequence
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  Speaker 1: in the actual working out of one's plans. Order your
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  Speaker 1: thoughts and you will auder your life. Pour the oil
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  Speaker 1: of tranquility upon the turbulent waters of the passions and prejudices,
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  Speaker 1: and the tempests of misfortune, howsoever they may threaten, will
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  Speaker 1: be powerless to wreck the bark of your soul as
• 1:19:38
  Speaker 1: it threads its way across the ocean of life. And
• 1:19:42
  Speaker 1: if that bark be piloted by it cheerful and never
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  Speaker 1: failing faith, its course will be doubly sure, and many
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  Speaker 1: perils will pass it by which would otherwise attack it.
• 1:19:53
  Speaker 1: By the power of faith, every enduring work is accomplished
• 1:19:57
  Speaker 1: faith in the Supreme faith in the over ruling law,
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  Speaker 1: faith in your work, and in your power to accomplish
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  Speaker 1: that work. Here is the rock upon which you must build.
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  Speaker 1: If he would achieve, if you would stand and not fall,
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  Speaker 1: To follow, under all circumstances, the highest promptings within you,
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  Speaker 1: to be always true to the divine self, to rely
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  Speaker 1: upon the inward light, the inward voice, and to pursue
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  Speaker 1: your purpose with a fearless and RESTful heart, believing that
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  Speaker 1: the future will yield unto you the need of every
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  Speaker 1: thought and effort, Knowing that the laws of the universe
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  Speaker 1: can never fail, and that your own will come back
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  Speaker 1: to you with mathematical exactitude. This is faith and the
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  Speaker 1: living of faith. By the power of such a faith,
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  Speaker 1: the dark waters of uncertainty are divided, every mountain of
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  Speaker 1: difficulty crumbles away, and the believing soul passes on unharmed. Strive, o, reader,
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  Speaker 1: to acquire above everything, the priceless possession of this dauntless faith,
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  Speaker 1: for it is the talisman of happiness, of success, of peace,
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  Speaker 1: of power of all that makes life great and superior
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  Speaker 1: to suffering. Build upon such a faith, and you build
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  Speaker 1: upon the rock of the eternal, and with the materials
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  Speaker 1: of the eternal, and the structure that you erect will
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  Speaker 1: never be dissolved, for it will transcend all the accumulations
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  Speaker 1: of material luxuries and riches. The end of which is dust.
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  Speaker 1: Whether you are hurled into the depths of sorrow or
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  Speaker 1: lifted upon the heights of joy, ever retain your hold
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  Speaker 1: upon this faith, Ever return to it as your rock
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  Speaker 1: of refuge, and keep your feet firmly planted upon its
• 1:21:47
  Speaker 1: immortal and immovable base. Centered in such a faith, you
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  Speaker 1: will become possessed of such a spiritual strength as will shatter,
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  Speaker 1: like so many toys of glass, all the forces of
• 1:21:59
  Speaker 1: evil that hurled against you, and you will achieve success
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  Speaker 1: such as the mere striver after worldly gain can never
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  Speaker 1: know or even dream of. If ye have faith and
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  Speaker 1: doubt not, ye shall not only do this, but if
• 1:22:14
  Speaker 1: ye shall say, unto this mountain, be thou removed, and
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  Speaker 1: be thou cast into the sea, it shall be done.
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  Speaker 1: There are those to day, men and women tabernacled in
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  Speaker 1: flesh and blood, who have realized this faith, who live
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  Speaker 1: in it and by it day by day, and who,
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  Speaker 1: having put it to the uttermost test, have entered into
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  Speaker 1: the possession of its glory and peace. Such have sent
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  Speaker 1: out the word of command, and the mountains of sorrow
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  Speaker 1: and disappointment, of mental weariness and physical pain have passed
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  Speaker 1: from them and have been cast into the sea of oblivion.
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  Speaker 1: If you will become possessed of this faith, ye need
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  Speaker 1: not trouble about your success or failure, and success will come.
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  Speaker 1: You will not need become anxious about results, but will
• 1:23:04
  Speaker 1: work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right
• 1:23:08
  Speaker 1: efforts will inevitably bring about right results.
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  Speaker 2: I know a lady who.
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  Speaker 1: Has entered into many blissful satisfactions, and recently a friend
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  Speaker 1: remarked to her, Oh, how fortunate you are. You have
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  Speaker 1: only to wish for a thing and it comes to you.
• 1:23:26
  Speaker 1: And it did indeed appear so on the surface. But
• 1:23:29
  Speaker 1: in reality, all the blessedness that has entered into this
• 1:23:33
  Speaker 1: woman's life is the direct outcome of the inward state
• 1:23:36
  Speaker 1: of blessedness which she has throughout life been cultivating and
• 1:23:40
  Speaker 1: training toward perfection. Mere wishing brings nothing but disappointment. It
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  Speaker 1: is living that tells the foolish wish and grumble.
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  Speaker 2: The wise work and wait.
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  Speaker 1: And this woman had worked worked without and within, but
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  Speaker 1: especially within, upon heart and soul, and with the invisible
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  Speaker 1: hands of the spirit. She had built up with the
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  Speaker 1: precious stones of faith, hope, joy, devotion, and love, a
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  Speaker 1: fair temple of light whose glorifying radiance was ever round
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  Speaker 1: about her. It beamed in her eye, it shone through
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  Speaker 1: her countenance, it vibrated in her voice, and all who
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  Speaker 1: came into her presence felt its captivating spell. And so
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  Speaker 1: with her, So with you, your success, your failure, your influence,
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  Speaker 1: your whole life you carry about with you, for your
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  Speaker 1: dominant trends of thought are the determining factors in your destiny.
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  Speaker 1: Send forth, loving, stainless, and happy thoughts and blessings will
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  Speaker 1: fall into your hands, and your table will be spread
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  Speaker 1: with the cloth of peace. Send forth, hateful, impure, and
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  Speaker 1: unhappy thoughts and curses will rain down upon you, and
• 1:24:57
  Speaker 1: fear and unrest will wait upon your pillow. You are
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  Speaker 1: the unconditional maker of your fate. Be that fate what
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  Speaker 1: it may. Every moment you are sending forth from you
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  Speaker 1: influences which will make or mar your life. Let your
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  Speaker 1: heart grow large and loving and unselfish, and great and lasting.
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  Speaker 1: Will be your influence and success. Even though you make
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  Speaker 1: little money, confine it within the narrow limits of self interest.
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  Speaker 1: And even though you become a millionaire, Your influence and success,
• 1:25:30
  Speaker 1: at the final reckoning will be found to be utterly insignificant.
• 1:25:34
  Speaker 1: Cultivate then this pure and unselfish spirit, and combine it
• 1:25:39
  Speaker 1: with purity and faith, singleness of purpose, and you are
• 1:25:42
  Speaker 1: evolving from within the elements not only of a bounding
• 1:25:46
  Speaker 1: health and enduring success, but of greatness and power. If
• 1:25:51
  Speaker 1: your present position is distasteful to you, and your heart
• 1:25:55
  Speaker 1: is not in your work, nevertheless perform your duties with
• 1:25:58
  Speaker 1: scrupulous diligence, and whilst resting your mind in the idea
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  Speaker 1: that the better position and greater opportunities are waiting for you. Ever,
• 1:26:07
  Speaker 1: keep an active mental outlook for budding possibilities, so that
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  Speaker 1: when the critical moment arrives and the new channel presents itself,
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  Speaker 1: you will step into it with your mind fully prepared
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  Speaker 1: for the undertaking, and with that intelligence and foresight which
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  Speaker 1: is born of mental discipline. Whatever your task may be,
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  Speaker 1: concentrate your whole mind upon it, throw into it all
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  Speaker 1: the energy of which you are capable. The faultless completion
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  Speaker 1: of small tasks leads inevitably to larger tasks. See to
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  Speaker 1: it that you rise by steady climbing, and you will
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  Speaker 1: never fall. And herein lies the secret of true power.
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  Speaker 1: Learn by constant practice how to husband your resources and
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  Speaker 1: to concentrate them at any moment upon a given point.
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  Speaker 1: The foolish waste all their mental and spiritual energy in
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  Speaker 1: frivoli he foolish chatter or selfish argument not to mention
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  Speaker 1: wasteful physical excesses. If you would acquire overcoming power, you
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  Speaker 1: must cultivate poise and passivity. You must be able to
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  Speaker 1: stand alone. All power is associated with immovability. The mountain,
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  Speaker 1: the mass of rock, the storm tried oak all speak
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  Speaker 1: to us of power because of their combined solitary grandeur
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  Speaker 1: and defiant fixity, while a shifting sand, the yielding twig,
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  Speaker 1: and the waving reed speak to us of weakness because
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  Speaker 1: they are movable and non resistant, and are utterly useless
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  Speaker 1: when detached from their fellows. He is the man of power, who,
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  Speaker 1: when all his fellows are swayed by some emotion or passion,
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  Speaker 1: remains calm and unmoved. He only is fitted to command
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  Speaker 1: and control, who has succeeded in commanding and controlling himself.
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  Speaker 1: The hysterical, the fearful, the thoughtless, and frivolous. Let such
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  Speaker 1: seek company, or they will fall for lack of support.
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  Speaker 1: But the calm, the fearless, and the thoughtful. Let such
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  Speaker 1: seek the solitude of the forest, the desert, and the
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  Speaker 1: mountain top.
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  Speaker 2: And to their.
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  Speaker 1: Power more power will be added, and they will more
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  Speaker 1: and more successfully stem the psychic currents and whirlpools which
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  Speaker 1: engulf mankind. Passion is not power, It is the abuse
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  Speaker 1: of power, the dispersion of power. Passion is like a
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  Speaker 1: furious storm which beats fiercely and wildly upon the embattled rock,
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  Speaker 1: while power is like the rock itself, which remains silent
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  Speaker 1: and unmoved through it all. That was a manifestation of
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  Speaker 1: true power. When Martin Luther, wearied with the persuasions of
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  Speaker 1: his fearful friends, who were doubtful as to his safety,
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  Speaker 1: should he go to worms, replied, if there were as
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  Speaker 1: many devils in worms as there are time on the housetops,
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  Speaker 1: I would go. And when Benjamin Disraeli broke down in
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  Speaker 1: his first parliamentary speech and brought upon himself the derision
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  Speaker 1: of the house, that was an exhibition of germanal power.
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  Speaker 1: When he exclaimed, the day will come when you will
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  Speaker 1: consider it an honor to listen to me. And when
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  Speaker 1: that young man whom I knew was passing through continual
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  Speaker 1: reverses and misfortunes. Was mocked by his friends and told
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  Speaker 1: to desist from further effort, and he replied, the time
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  Speaker 1: is not far distant when you will marvelous my good
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  Speaker 1: fortune and success. He showed that he was possessed of
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  Speaker 1: that silent and irresistible power which has taken him over
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  Speaker 1: innumerable difficulties and crowned his life with success. If you
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  Speaker 1: have not this power, he may acquire it by practice.
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  Speaker 1: And the beginning of power is likewise the beginning of wisdom.
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  Speaker 1: You must commence by overcoming those purposeless trivialities to which
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  Speaker 1: you have hitherto been a willing victim, boisterous, an uncontrolled laughter, slander,
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  Speaker 1: an idle talk, and joking merely to raise a laugh.
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  Speaker 1: All these things must he put on one side, as
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  Speaker 1: so much waste of valuable energy. Saint Paul never showed
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  Speaker 1: his wonderful insight into the hidden laws of human progress
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  Speaker 1: to greater advantage than when he warned the Ephesians against
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  Speaker 1: foolish talking and jesting, which is not convenient, for to
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  Speaker 1: dwell habitually in such practices is to destroy all spiritual
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  Speaker 1: power and life. As you succeed in rendering yourself impervious
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  Speaker 1: to such mental dissipations. You will begin to understand what
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  Speaker 1: true power is, and you will then commence to grapple
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  Speaker 1: with the more powerful desires and appetites which hold your
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  Speaker 1: soul in bondage and bar the way to power, and
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  Speaker 1: your further progress will then be made clear. Above all,
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  Speaker 1: be of single aim. Have a legitimate and useful purpose,
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  Speaker 1: and devote yourself unreservedly to it. Let nothing draw you aside.
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  Speaker 1: Remember that the double minded man is unstable in all
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  Speaker 1: his ways. Be eager to learn, but slow to beg
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  Speaker 1: Have a thorough understanding of your work, and let it
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  Speaker 1: be your own. And as you proceed, ever following the
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  Speaker 1: inward guide, the infallible voice, you will pass on from
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  Speaker 1: victory to victory, and will rise step by step to
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  Speaker 1: high resting places, and your ever broadening outlook will gradually
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  Speaker 1: reveal to you the essential beauty and purpose of life.
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  Speaker 1: Self purified health will be yours, faith protected success will
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  Speaker 1: be yours. Self governed power will be yours, and all
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  Speaker 1: that you do will prosper for Ceasing to be a
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  Speaker 1: disjointed unit, self enslaved, you will be in harmony with
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  Speaker 1: the Great Law, no longer working again, but with the
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  Speaker 1: universal life, the eternal good, and what health you gain
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  Speaker 1: it will remain with you. What success you achieve will
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  Speaker 1: be beyond all human computation and will never pass away.
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  Speaker 1: And what influence and power you wield will continue to
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  Speaker 1: increase throughout the ages, for it will be a part
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  Speaker 1: of that unchangeable principle which supports the universe. This, then,
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  Speaker 1: is the secret of health. A pure heart and a
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  Speaker 1: well ordered mind. This is the secret of success. An
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  Speaker 1: unfaltering faith, and a wisely directed purpose. And to reign
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  Speaker 1: in with unfaltering will the dark steed of desire. This
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  Speaker 1: is the secret of power. Always are waiting for my
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  Speaker 1: feet to tread the light and dark, the living and
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  Speaker 1: the dead, the broad and narrow way, the high and low,
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  Speaker 1: the good and bad. And with quick step or slur,
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  Speaker 1: I now may enter any way I will and find
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  Speaker 1: by walking which is good, which ill, and all good
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  Speaker 1: things by wandering feet await if I but come with
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  Speaker 1: thou inviolate, unto the narrow, high and holy way of
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  Speaker 1: heart born purity, And therein stay walking secure from him
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  Speaker 1: who taunts and scorns, to flowery meads across the path
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  Speaker 1: of thorns, and I may stand where health, success, and
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  Speaker 1: power await my coming. If each fleeting hour I cling
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  Speaker 1: to love and patience, and abide with stainlessness, and never
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  Speaker 1: step aside from high integrity, and so shall I see
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  Speaker 1: at last the land of immortality, and I may seek
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  Speaker 1: and find, I may achieve. I may not claim, but
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  Speaker 1: losing may retrieve. The law bends not for me, but
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  Speaker 1: I must bend unto the law. If I would reach
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  Speaker 1: the end of my afflictions, if I would restore my
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  Speaker 1: soul to light and life, and weep no more, not
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  Speaker 1: mine the arrogant and selfish claim to all good.
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  Speaker 2: Things be mine.
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  Speaker 1: The lowly aim to seek and find, to know and comprehend,
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  Speaker 1: and wisdom ward all holy footsteps wend. Nothing is mine
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  Speaker 1: to claim or to command, but all is mind to
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  Speaker 1: know and understand. End of section five, Section six of
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  Speaker 1: The Path to Prosperity by James Allen. This Libyrox recording
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  Speaker 1: is in the public domain. Section six The secret of
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  Speaker 1: abounding happiness. Great is the thirst for happiness, and equally
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  Speaker 1: great is the lack of happiness. The majority of the
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  Speaker 1: poor long for riches, believing that their possession bring them
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  Speaker 1: supreme and lasting happiness. Many who are rich having gratified
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  Speaker 1: every desire and whim, suffer from om wei and repletion,
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  Speaker 1: and are farther from the possession of happiness even than
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  Speaker 1: the very poor. If we reflect upon this state of things,
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  Speaker 1: it will ultimately lead us to a knowledge of the
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  Speaker 1: all important truth that happiness is not derived from mere
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  Speaker 1: outward possessions, nor misery from the lack of them. For
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  Speaker 1: if this were so, we should find the poor always
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  Speaker 1: miserable and the rich always happy, whereas the reverse is
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  Speaker 1: frequently the case. Some of the most wretched people whom
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  Speaker 1: I have known were those who were surrounded with riches
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  Speaker 1: and luxury, whilst some of the brightest and happiest people
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  Speaker 1: I have met or possessed of only the bareest necessities
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  Speaker 1: of life. Many men who have accumulated riches have confessed
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  Speaker 1: that the selfish gratification which followed the acquisition of riches
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  Speaker 1: has robbed life of its deatness, and that they were
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  Speaker 1: never so happy as when they were poor. What then,
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  Speaker 1: is happiness and how is it to be secured? Is
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  Speaker 1: it a figment a delusion? And is suffering alone perennial?
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  Speaker 1: We shall find, after earnest observation and reflection, that all
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  Speaker 1: except those who have entered the way of wisdom believe
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  Speaker 1: that happiness is only to be obtained by the gratification
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  Speaker 1: of desire. It is this belief, rooted in the soil
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  Speaker 1: of ignorance and continually watered by selfish cravings, that is
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  Speaker 1: the cause of all the misery in the world. And
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  Speaker 1: I do not limit the word a desire to the
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  Speaker 1: grosser animal cravings. It extends to the high psychic realm,
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  Speaker 1: where far more powerful, subtle and insidious cravings hold in
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  Speaker 1: bondage intellectual and refined, depriving them of all that beauty, harmony,
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  Speaker 1: and purity of soul whose expression is happiness. Most people
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  Speaker 1: will admit that selfishness is the cause of all the
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  Speaker 1: unhappiness in the world, but they fall under the soul
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  Speaker 1: destroying delusion that it is some one else's selfishness and
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  Speaker 1: not their own. When you are willing to admit that
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  Speaker 1: all your unhappiness is the result of your own selfishness,
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  Speaker 1: you will not be far from the gates of paradise.
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  Speaker 1: But so long as you are convinced that it is
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  Speaker 1: the selfishness of others that is robbing you of joy,
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  Speaker 1: so long will you remain a prisoner in your self created.
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  Speaker 1: Purgatory happiness is that inward state of perfect satisfaction, which
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  Speaker 1: is joy and peace, and from which all desire is eliminated.
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  Speaker 1: The satisfaction which results from gratified desire is brief and illusionary,
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  Speaker 1: and is always followed by an increased demand for gratification.
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  Speaker 1: Desire is as insatiable as the ocean, and clamors louder
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  Speaker 1: and louder as its demands are attended to. It claims
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  Speaker 1: ever increasing service from its deluded devitees, until at last
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  Speaker 1: they are struck down with physical or mental anguish and
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  Speaker 1: are hurled into the purifying fires of suffering. Desire is
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  Speaker 1: the region of Hell, and all torments are center'd there.
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  Speaker 1: The giving up of desire is the realization of heaven,
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  Speaker 1: and all delights await the pilgrim there. I sent my
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  Speaker 1: soul through the invisible some letter of that after life
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  Speaker 1: dispell and by and by my soul returned to me
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  Speaker 1: and whispered I myself am Heaven and Hell. Heaven and
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  Speaker 1: Hell are inward states. Sink into self and all its gratifications,
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  Speaker 1: and you sink into Hell. Rise above self into that
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  Speaker 1: state of consciousness which is the utter denial and forgetfulness
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  Speaker 1: of self, and you enter heaven. Self is blind without judge,
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  Speaker 1: not possessed of true knowledge, and always leads to suffering.
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  Speaker 1: Correct perception, unbiased judgment, and true knowledge belong only to
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  Speaker 1: the divine state. And only in so far as you
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  Speaker 1: realize this divine consciousness can you know what real happiness is.
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  Speaker 1: So long as you persist in selfishly seeking for your
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  Speaker 1: own personal happiness, so long will happiness elude you, and
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  Speaker 1: you will be sowing the seeds of wretchedness. In so
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  Speaker 1: far as you succeed in losing yourself in the service
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  Speaker 1: of others, in that measure, will happiness come to you,
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  Speaker 1: and you will reap a harvest of bliss. It is
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  Speaker 1: in loving, not in being loved, the heart is blessed.
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  Speaker 1: It is in giving, not in seeking gifts. We find
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  Speaker 1: our quest. Whatever be thy longing or thy need, that
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  Speaker 1: do thou give, so shall thy soul be fed, And
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  Speaker 1: thou indeed shalt truly live. Cling to self, and you
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  Speaker 1: cling to sorrow. Relinqu with self, and you enter into peace.
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  Speaker 1: To seek selfishly is not only to lose happiness, but
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  Speaker 1: even that which we believe to be the source of happiness.
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  Speaker 1: See how the glutton is continually looking about for a
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  Speaker 1: new delicacy wherewith to stimulate his deadened appetite, and how bloated, burdened,
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  Speaker 1: and diseased, scarcely any food at last is eaten with pleasure.
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  Speaker 1: Whereas he who has mouthed at his appetite and not
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  Speaker 1: only does not seek, but never thinks of gustatry pleasure,
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  Speaker 1: finds delight in the most frugal meal. The angel form
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  Speaker 1: of happiness, which men, looking through the eyes of self,
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  Speaker 1: imagine they see in gratified desire, when clasped, is always
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  Speaker 1: found to be the skeleton of misery. Truly, he that
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  Speaker 1: seeketh his life shall lose it, and he that loseth
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  Speaker 1: his life shall find it.
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  Speaker 2: Abiding.
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  Speaker 1: Happiness will come to you when ceasing to selfishly cling,
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  Speaker 1: you are willing to give up, When you are willing
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  Speaker 1: to lose unreservedly, that impermanent thing which is so dear
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  Speaker 1: to you, and which, whether you cling to it or not,
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  Speaker 1: will one day be snatched from you, then you will
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  Speaker 1: find that that which seemed to you like a painful
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  Speaker 1: loss turns out to be a supreme gain. To give
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  Speaker 1: up in order to gain than this, there is no
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  Speaker 1: greater delusion, nor no more prolific source of misery, but
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  Speaker 1: to be willing to yield up and to suffer loss.
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  Speaker 1: This is indeed the way of life. How is it
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  Speaker 1: possible to find real happiness by centering ourselves in those
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  Speaker 1: things which, by their very nature must pass away? Abiding
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  Speaker 1: and real happiness can only be found by centering ourselves
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  Speaker 1: in that which is permanent. Rise therefore above the clinging
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  Speaker 1: to and the craving force impermanent things, and you will
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  Speaker 1: then enter into a consciousness of the eternal, and as
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  Speaker 1: rising above self, and by growing more and more into
• 1:42:10
  Speaker 1: the spirit of purity, self sacrifice, and universal love, he
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  Speaker 1: becomes centered. In that consciousness, you will realize that happiness,
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  Speaker 1: which has no reaction, and which can never be taken
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  Speaker 1: from you. The heart that has reached utter self forgetfulness
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  Speaker 1: in its love for others, has not only become possessed
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  Speaker 1: of the highest happiness, but has entered into immortality, for
• 1:42:33
  Speaker 1: it has realized the divine. Look back upon your life,
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  Speaker 1: and you will find that the moments of supremest happiness
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  Speaker 1: were those in which you uttered some word or performed
• 1:42:44
  Speaker 1: some act of compassion or self denying love. Spiritually, happiness
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  Speaker 1: and harmony are synonymous harmony is one phase of the
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  Speaker 1: great Law, whose spiritual expression is love. All selfishness is
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  Speaker 1: this diacord, And to be selfish is to be out
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  Speaker 1: of harmony with the divine order. As we realize that
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  Speaker 1: all embracing love, which is the negation of self, we
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  Speaker 1: put ourselves in harmony with the divine music, the universal song,
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  Speaker 1: and that ineffable melody, which is true, happiness becomes our own.
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  Speaker 1: Men and women are rushing hither and thither in the
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  Speaker 1: blind search for happiness, and cannot find it, nor ever
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  Speaker 1: will until they recognize that happiness is already within them
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  Speaker 1: and round about them, filling the universe, and that they,
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  Speaker 1: in their selfish searching, are shutting themselves out from it.
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  Speaker 1: I followed happiness to make her mind. Past towering oak
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  Speaker 1: and swinging ivy vine. She fled by chaste or slanting
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  Speaker 1: hill and dale, or fields and meadows in the purpling vale.
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  Speaker 1: Pursuing rapidly or dashing stream, I scaled the dizzy cliffs
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  Speaker 1: where eagles scream. I traversed swiftly every land and sea,
• 1:44:05
  Speaker 1: but always happiness eluded me. Exhausted fainting, I pursued no more,
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  Speaker 1: but sank to rest upon a barren shore. One came
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  Speaker 1: and asked for food, and one for arms.
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  Speaker 2: I placed the.
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  Speaker 1: Bread and gold in bony palms. One came for sympathy,
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  Speaker 1: and one for rest. I shared with every needy one
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  Speaker 1: my best. When lo sweet happiness with form divine stood
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  Speaker 1: by me, whispering softly.
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  Speaker 2: I am thine.
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  Speaker 1: These beautiful words of Burley's expressed the secret of all
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  Speaker 1: abounding happiness. Sacrificed the personal and transient, and you rise
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  Speaker 1: at once into the impersonal and permanent. Give up that narrow,
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  Speaker 1: cramped self that seeks to render all things subservient to
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  Speaker 1: its ow petty interests, and you will enter into the
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  Speaker 1: company of the angels, into the very heart and essence
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  Speaker 1: of universal love. Forget yourself entirely in the sorrows of
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  Speaker 1: others and in ministering to others, and divine happiness will
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  Speaker 1: emancipate you from all sorrow and suffering. Taking the first
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  Speaker 1: step with a good thought, the second with a good word,
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  Speaker 1: and the third with a good deed. I entered paradise,
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  Speaker 1: and you also may enter into paradise by pursuing the
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  Speaker 1: same course. It is not beyond, it is here. It
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  Speaker 1: is realized only by the unselfish. It is known in
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  Speaker 1: its fullness only to the pure in heart. If you
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  Speaker 1: have not realized this unbounded happiness, you may begin to
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  Speaker 1: actualize it by ever holding before you the lofty ideal
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  Speaker 1: of unselfish love and aspiring towards it. Aspiration or prayer
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  Speaker 1: is desire turned up. It is the soul turning toward
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  Speaker 1: its divine source, where alone permanent satisfaction can be found.
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  Speaker 1: By aspiration, the destructive forces of desire are transmuted into
• 1:46:12
  Speaker 1: divine and all preserving energy. Who aspire is to make
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  Speaker 1: an effort to shake off the trammels of desire. It
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  Speaker 1: is the prodigal made wise by loneliness and suffering, returning
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  Speaker 1: to his father's mansion. As you rise above the sordid self,
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  Speaker 1: as you break one after another the change that bind you,
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  Speaker 1: will you realize the joy of giving, as distinguished from
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  Speaker 1: a misery of grasping. Giving of your substance, giving of
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  Speaker 1: your intellect, giving of the love and light that is
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  Speaker 1: growing within you. You will then understand that it is
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  Speaker 1: indeed more blessed to give than to receive. But the
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  Speaker 1: giving must be of the heart, without any taint of self,
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  Speaker 1: without desire for reward. The gift of pure love is
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  Speaker 1: always attended with bliss. If after you have given, you
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  Speaker 1: are wounded because you are not thanked or flattered, or
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  Speaker 1: your name put in the paper, know then that your
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  Speaker 1: gift was prompted by vanity and not by love, and
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  Speaker 1: that you were giving merely in order to get. We're
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  Speaker 1: not really giving but grasping. Lose yourself in the welfare
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  Speaker 1: of others, forget yourself in all that you do. This
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  Speaker 1: is the secret of a bounding happiness. Ever beyond the
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  Speaker 1: watch to guard against selfishness, and learned faithfully the divine
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  Speaker 1: lessons of inward sacrifice. So shall you climb the highest
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  Speaker 1: heights of happiness, and shall remain in the never clouded
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  Speaker 1: sunshine of universal joy, clothed in the shining garment of immortality.
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  Speaker 1: Are you searching for the happiness that does not fade away?
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  Speaker 1: Are you looking for the joy that lives and leaves
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  Speaker 1: no grievous day? Are you panting for the water brooks
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  Speaker 1: of love and life and peace? Then let all dark
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  Speaker 1: desires depart and selfish seeking cease. Are you lingering in
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  Speaker 1: the paths of pain, grief, haunted, stricken sore? Are you
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  Speaker 1: wandering in the ways that wound your weary feet. The
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  Speaker 1: more are you sighing for the resting place where tears
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  Speaker 1: and sorrows cease, Then sacrifice your selfish heart and find
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  Speaker 1: the heart of peace. End of section six. Section seven
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  Speaker 1: of The Path of Prosperity by James Allen. This libivox
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  Speaker 1: recording as in the public domain. Section seven The realization
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  Speaker 1: of prosperity. It is granted only to the heart that
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  Speaker 1: abounds with integrity, trust, generosity, and life to realize true prosperity.
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  Speaker 1: The heart that is not possessed of these qualities cannot
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  Speaker 1: know prosperity, for prosperity, like happiness, is not an outward possession,
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  Speaker 1: but an inward realization. The greedy man may become a millionaire,
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  Speaker 1: but he will always be wretched and mean and poor,
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  Speaker 1: and will even consider himself outwardly poor as long as
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  Speaker 1: there is a man in the world who is richer
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  Speaker 1: than himself. Whilst the upright, open handed, and loving will
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  Speaker 1: realize a full and rich prosperity, even though their outward
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  Speaker 1: possessions may be small. He is poor who is dissatisfied.
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  Speaker 1: He is rich who is contented with what he has,
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  Speaker 1: and he is richer who is generous with what he has.
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  Speaker 1: When we contemplate the fact that the universe is abounding
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  Speaker 1: in all good things, material as well as spiritual, and
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  Speaker 1: compare it with man's blind eagerness to secure a few
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  Speaker 1: gold coins or a few acres of dirt, it is
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  Speaker 1: then that we realize how dark and ignorant selfishness is.
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  Speaker 1: It is then that we know that self seeking is
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  Speaker 1: self distraction. Nature gives all without reservation and loses nothing.
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  Speaker 1: Man grasping all loses everything. If you would realize true prosperity,
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  Speaker 1: do not settle down, as many have done, into the
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  Speaker 1: belief that if you do right, everything will go wrong.
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  Speaker 1: Do not allow the word competition to shake your faith
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  Speaker 1: in the supremacy of righteousness. I care not what men
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  Speaker 1: may say about the laws of competition, for do I
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  Speaker 1: not know the unchangeable law which shall one day put
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  Speaker 1: them all to rout, and which puts them to rout
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  Speaker 1: even now in the heart and life of the righteous man.
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  Speaker 1: And knowing this law, I can contemplate all dishonesty with
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  Speaker 1: undisturbed repose, for I know where certain destruction awaits it.
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  Speaker 1: Under all circumstances, Do that which you believe to be
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  Speaker 1: right and trust the law, trust the divine power that
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  Speaker 1: is imminent in the universe, and it will never desert you,
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  Speaker 1: and you will always be protected by such a trust.
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  Speaker 1: All your losses will be converted into gains, and all
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  Speaker 1: curses which threaten will be transmuted into blessings. Never let
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  Speaker 1: go of integrity, generosity, and love, for these, coupled with energy,
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  Speaker 1: will lift you into the truly prosperous state. Do not
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  Speaker 1: believe the world when it tells you that you must
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  Speaker 1: always attend to number one first and to others afterwards.
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  Speaker 1: To do this is not to think of others at all,
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  Speaker 1: but only of one's own comforts. To those who practice this,
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  Speaker 1: the day will come when they will be deserted by all,
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  Speaker 1: and when they cry out in their loneliness and anguish,
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  Speaker 1: will be no one to hear and help them. To
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  Speaker 1: consider oneself before all others is to cramp and warp
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  Speaker 1: and hinder every noble and divine impulse. Let your soul expand,
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  Speaker 1: Let your heart reach out to others in loving and
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  Speaker 1: generous warmth, and great and lasting will be your joy,
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  Speaker 1: and all prosperity will come to you. Those who have
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  Speaker 1: wandered from the highway of righteousness guard themselves against competition.
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  Speaker 1: Those who always pursue the right need not trouble about
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  Speaker 1: such defense. This is no empty statement. There are men
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  Speaker 1: to day who, by the power of integrity and faith,
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  Speaker 1: have defied all competition, and who, without swerving in the
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  Speaker 1: least from their methods, when competed with, have risen steadily
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  Speaker 1: into prosperity, whilst those who try to undermine them have
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  Speaker 1: fallen back defeated. To possess those inward qualities which constitute
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  Speaker 1: goodness is to be our against all the powers of evil,
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  Speaker 1: and to be doubly protected in every time of trial.
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  Speaker 2: And to build.
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  Speaker 1: Oneself up in those qualities is to build up a
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  Speaker 1: success which cannot be shaken, and to enter into a
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  Speaker 1: prosperity which will endure forever. The white robe of the
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  Speaker 1: heart invisible is stained with sin and sorrow, grief and pain,
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  Speaker 1: and all repentant pools and springs of prayer shall not
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  Speaker 1: avail to wash it white again. While in the path
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  Speaker 1: of ignorance I walk, the stains of error will not
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  Speaker 1: cease to cling. Defilements mark the crooked path of self,
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  Speaker 1: where anguish lurks and disappointments sting knowledge and wisdom only
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  Speaker 1: can avail to purify and make my garment clean. For
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  Speaker 1: therein lie Love's waters. Therein rests peace, undisturbed, eternal and serene.
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  Speaker 1: Sin and repentance is the path of pain. Knowledge and
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  Speaker 1: wisdom is the path of peace. By the near way practice,
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  Speaker 1: I will find where bliss begins, how pains and sorrows cease.
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  Speaker 1: Self shall depart, and truth shall take its place. The
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  Speaker 1: changeless one, the indivisible, shall take up his abode in
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  Speaker 1: me and cleanse the white robe of the heart invisible.
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  Speaker 1: End of section seven End of the Path of Prosperity
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  Speaker 1: by James Allen. Recording by Algie pug