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THE LAW OF ATTRACTION: The Drawing Power of the Mind - Prentice Mulford (1890) · THE SECRET LAW OF ATTRACTION: Manifest Wealth, Success & Abundance

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  Speaker 1: The Drawing Power of Mind by Prentice Molford from the
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  Speaker 1: book Your Forces and How to Use Them eighteen ninety.
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  Speaker 1: Calm demand brings all good things in time. Impatient demand
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  Speaker 1: drives them away. We are, through our mental conditions, always
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  Speaker 1: drawing things to us, good or bad, beneficial or injurious,
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  Speaker 1: pleasant or disagreeable. There is possible a state of mind which,
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  Speaker 1: if permanently kept, will draw to you money, lands, possessions, luxuries, health,
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  Speaker 1: and happiness. It is a mental condition, always serene, calm, determined, decided,
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  Speaker 1: self composed, and bent on some purpose whose aim is
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  Speaker 1: lasting good first to yourself, next to others. There is
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  Speaker 1: another state of mind which, if permanently kept in, will
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  Speaker 1: drive prosperity in health from you. It is only the
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  Speaker 1: very small part of what exists in the universe that
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  Speaker 1: can be seen, touched, or otherwise made evident to the
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  Speaker 1: physical senses. The large that you're part of what exists
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  Speaker 1: and has form, shape, and color, cannot be seen, felt,
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  Speaker 1: or be otherwise made evident to the physical senses. What
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  Speaker 1: we call space is filled with realities. There is no
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  Speaker 1: such thing as empty space. These realities might be evident
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  Speaker 1: to our spiritual or finer senses, where they developed. As
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  Speaker 1: these finer senses are more and more opened, then more
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  Speaker 1: and more of these things or realities will become evident
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  Speaker 1: to us. Whatever you think you actually make, you are
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  Speaker 1: making these unseen realities continually as you think. If you
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  Speaker 1: think of anything but a second, you make that an
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  Speaker 1: unseen reality for a second. If you think of it
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  Speaker 1: for hours, days, and years, you will in some way
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  Speaker 1: bring that reality to you in the physical world. If
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  Speaker 1: you keep any idea good or ill in your mind
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  Speaker 1: from month to month and year to year, you make
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  Speaker 1: it a more enduring unseen reality. And as it so
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  Speaker 1: becomes stronger and stronger, it must at last take shape
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  Speaker 1: and appear in this and physical of Whatever you think
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  Speaker 1: you attract. It's like from the unseen current of realities.
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  Speaker 1: Think or dwell on any form of crime, and you
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  Speaker 1: attract and draw to you criminal realities from the unseen
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  Speaker 1: side of life. These the unseen, are the forces for
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  Speaker 1: attracting to you material agencies for crime on our side
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  Speaker 1: of existence. When you read with interest in your morning's
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  Speaker 1: paper of murders, burglaries, scandals, and dreadful accidents on sea
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  Speaker 1: and land, you are attracting to you unseen things of
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  Speaker 1: the same character. You connect yourself with this a lower
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  Speaker 1: order of spiritual realities, and being then in this current,
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  Speaker 1: as you so read with interest day after day, you
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  Speaker 1: are the more likely to bring some form of these
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  Speaker 1: horrors and miseries to you. These of the unseen form
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  Speaker 1: a current of real element in the unseen world of realities.
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  Speaker 1: You connect your spirit with this current. When you keep
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  Speaker 1: these ghastly things so much in mind, that current then
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  Speaker 1: acts on you. You are borne along in care worried
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  Speaker 1: by it. It will then all the quicker bring to
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  Speaker 1: you the elements of crime or evil. If you love
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  Speaker 1: to read of the acts of burglars and thieves, you
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  Speaker 1: are the more likely to have burglars and thieves about
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  Speaker 1: you and in your house. You and they will be
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  Speaker 1: brought together, because you and they are in the same
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  Speaker 1: current of thought. Neither you nor the thief is aware
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  Speaker 1: of the power which brings you together. But no power
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  Speaker 1: is so irresistible as one of whose action upon us,
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  Speaker 1: and of whose very existence we are entirely ignorant. If
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  Speaker 1: you think but for ten seconds of something ghastly or horrible,
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  Speaker 1: something which causes pain of body or distress of mind
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  Speaker 1: to another, then you set in motion a force to
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  Speaker 1: draw some form of this trouble to you. If you
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  Speaker 1: think ten seconds of something pleasant, cheerful, or beautiful, something
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  Speaker 1: which can give pleasure to another, leaving no sting behind,
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  Speaker 1: then you set in motion a force to bring some
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  Speaker 1: of this pleasure to you. The longer you put your
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  Speaker 1: mind on any one thing, be it evil or good,
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  Speaker 1: the stronger do you make it as an unseen reality.
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  Speaker 1: It must, at last, as you keep it in mind
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  Speaker 1: or put your mind on it, make itself in the scene,
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  Speaker 1: physical world and agency for pain or pleasure. The power
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  Speaker 1: to fix mind persistently on some definite purpose or in
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  Speaker 1: a certain frame or mood, say that of calm, determination,
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  Speaker 1: or to keep mind from being disturbed, is not now
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  Speaker 1: very common. Look at many people about you on what,
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  Speaker 1: from year to year is their thought or purpose fixed
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  Speaker 1: on getting their wages at the week's end. Beyond this,
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  Speaker 1: nothing on getting a new bonnet, a new dress, a
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  Speaker 1: pleasure trip. Beyond this, nothing on living from day to
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  Speaker 1: day or week to week. Beyond this nothing. Many cannot
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  Speaker 1: fix their mind on any useful purpose for two days
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  Speaker 1: in succession. It is this thing earnestly desired today, something
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  Speaker 1: else tomorrow. Their mental forces pull a little while on
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  Speaker 1: this thing a in it, then pull a little on
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  Speaker 1: the next whim or fancy, and abandon that. There is
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  Speaker 1: no steady pull or exercise of drawing power on any
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  Speaker 1: one thing. These are the people who accomplish very little,
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  Speaker 1: who are always poor, and often in ill health. These minds,
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  Speaker 1: where fixed at all, are often on the useless and injurious.
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  Speaker 1: They will read with avidity of horrors and hangings. The
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  Speaker 1: longer these are spun out, and the more minute are
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  Speaker 1: they in detail, the more they like them. They love
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  Speaker 1: the drama depicting violence or emotional torture. A vast amount
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  Speaker 1: of their force goes in this direction. It is a
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  Speaker 1: force to draw to them some form of evil. If
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  Speaker 1: turned in another direction, it would draw to them good.
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  Speaker 1: The unseen world and upper currents of unseen realities are
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  Speaker 1: full of bright and beautiful things, full of the spiritual
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  Speaker 1: correspondences of all luxuries, necessities, and good things enjoyed here,
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  Speaker 1: full of beautiful things as yet here, never seen and enjoyed.
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  Speaker 1: When minds here learn, as in time, they will to
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  Speaker 1: have faith in these existences, and faith in the simple
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  Speaker 1: means of attracting them, they will fix their thought persistently
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  Speaker 1: on the bright side of life. They will come to
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  Speaker 1: know that the longer they endeavor so to fix it
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  Speaker 1: on the brighter and healthier side, the more power will
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  Speaker 1: they have, and the less effort will it cost so
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  Speaker 1: to keep their thought in the right direction and in
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  Speaker 1: connection with the right current, until at last it will
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  Speaker 1: become second nature for them to live in these higher realities,
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  Speaker 1: and as so, living, health and prosperity will flow toward them.
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  Speaker 1: They will cease then to think so much, and read
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  Speaker 1: so much, and talk and live so much in the crude,
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  Speaker 1: the horrible, the long drawn recitals of crime. Having learned
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  Speaker 1: that these thoughts bring them evil and injure their power
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  Speaker 1: for drawing to them that which will result in permanent good,
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  Speaker 1: set your affections on things above. This upper current of
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  Speaker 1: thought contains the correspondences in unseen element of all that
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  Speaker 1: is good for us to use and enjoy, and more still,
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  Speaker 1: of joys we do not yet realize. These are the
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  Speaker 1: things above, those of horror, ghastliness, crime, and misery on
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  Speaker 1: which now so much of people's affections or thought is set.
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  Speaker 1: Are things below. Evil of any sort is only to
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  Speaker 1: be thought of and dealt with long enough to remedy it.
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  Speaker 1: One remains inacsessible no longer than is necessary to bail
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  Speaker 1: out its contents. You want to get your cold, your pain,
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  Speaker 1: your last sprained ankle, or the last injustice done you
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  Speaker 1: by another, out of your mind as soon as you can,
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  Speaker 1: and not keep making it over and over again, through
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  Speaker 1: ever thinking it, brooding over it, and telling it to others.
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  Speaker 1: Whenever you get a chance. Such mood of mind may
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  Speaker 1: become habitual, second nature, and a power for drawing poverty
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  Speaker 1: and ill health. Constant contact with crime or misery, with
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  Speaker 1: ill of any kind, or even the thought of it,
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  Speaker 1: will at last beget an unnatural and unhealthy appetite for it.
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  Speaker 1: So at last people had rather at the breakfast table
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  Speaker 1: talk of sickness and death bed scenes than of health,
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  Speaker 1: or of crime and horrors, than of things cheerful, peaceable,
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  Speaker 1: and pleasant. All such talk and thought dwelling in misery
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  Speaker 1: injures your power for drawing good things to you. It
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  Speaker 1: is a direct means for taking money from your purse
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  Speaker 1: and health from your body. Living ever in the thought
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  Speaker 1: of sickness will surely bring sickness to you. For such
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  Speaker 1: reason have those who made a study of insanity gone
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  Speaker 1: themselves insane, as did an eminent physician a few years ago,
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  Speaker 1: as did the superintendent of one of the largest insane
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  Speaker 1: asylums in this country, as do very, very many of
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  Speaker 1: whom we never hear. The vast amount of matter printed
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  Speaker 1: and read by millions concerning the diseases and death of
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  Speaker 1: such prominent persons as General Grant, the late Emperor Frederick,
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  Speaker 1: and some others have put millions of minds more or
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  Speaker 1: less in a thought current of sickness, pain and misery.
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  Speaker 1: You will be the more healthy for living as much
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  Speaker 1: as you can in the thought and also surrounding of
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  Speaker 1: healthy things. You will be the stronger for living in
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  Speaker 1: the thought and being in the physical surrounding of strong things,
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  Speaker 1: strong animals, strong and vigorous men and women. A circus
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  Speaker 1: with its skilled riders, its acrobats and tumblers, and its audience,
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  Speaker 1: with care for a time off their minds and smiles
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  Speaker 1: in their faces, is a far healthier place and connects
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  Speaker 1: one with a healthier thought current than a dissecting room
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  Speaker 1: or the poring over a book devoted to the recital
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  Speaker 1: of any form of suffering or disease. What we call
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  Speaker 1: the drawing power of mind is not that of longing
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  Speaker 1: for things. Longing implies impatience because they do not come
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  Speaker 1: so soon as we desire. The impatient state of mind
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  Speaker 1: will either drive what you desire from you or delay
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  Speaker 1: its advance. When your thought takes this form, I want
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  Speaker 1: the thing desired now, right now. I'm tired of waiting.
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  Speaker 1: I can't stand waiting any longer. I'm sick and tired
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  Speaker 1: of waiting. You are in the wrong mood. You are
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  Speaker 1: then using your force in scolding or grieving or finding
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  Speaker 1: fault because what you desire does not come when you
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  Speaker 1: scold or complain or grieve. Because the things you desire
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  Speaker 1: do not come, your force is set upon that scolding
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  Speaker 1: or grieving and is not working to bring them to you.
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  Speaker 1: It is analogous to the man who, in a fit
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  Speaker 1: of rage, should tear his wagon to pieces because it
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  Speaker 1: is stuck in a mire. The force he used to
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  Speaker 1: tear it to pieces might have drawn it out. The
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  Speaker 1: force of mind you need to put out to draw
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  Speaker 1: good things to you lies in that mood which says
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  Speaker 1: continually and calmly, I must have these things. I am
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  Speaker 1: going to have them, provided that a wisdom greater than
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  Speaker 1: mine sees that it will not work me injury to
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  Speaker 1: have them. It must be a mental state of serenity,
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  Speaker 1: in determination, decided and positive, but never angered or impatient
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  Speaker 1: or anxious or worrying, so that you keep your mind
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  Speaker 1: in the proper drawing mood. You need not have in
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  Speaker 1: mind continually the thing you desire. It is the state
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  Speaker 1: of mind that draws money and things desirable, and not
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  Speaker 1: the constant recollection of the special thing desired. When you
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  Speaker 1: can put your mind in this mood and keep it there,
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  Speaker 1: when for instance, you say to yourself calmly and deliberately,
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  Speaker 1: I am going to travel and see the world abroad,
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  Speaker 1: you can forget for a time that special purpose and
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  Speaker 1: employ and enjoy yourself in the other efforts without retarding it.
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  Speaker 1: All the power which will be working to send you abroad.
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  Speaker 1: You need only, as your determination to travel or any
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  Speaker 1: other aim recurs to your mind, have the mood of calm,
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  Speaker 1: unruffled determination and decision connected with it. You lessen this
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  Speaker 1: drawing power for good. When you get angry or irritable,
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  Speaker 1: you increase it. Then for evil, you lessen it for
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  Speaker 1: good through becoming discouraged or despondent, you set it. Then
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  Speaker 1: the wrong way, and for evil, you lessen it for
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  Speaker 1: good through hurried states of mind, to covet the property
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  Speaker 1: of another person, To comber the mind with schemes to
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  Speaker 1: get property through inheritance of another To feel anxiety, envy,
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  Speaker 1: and jealousy of others who may share in such property,
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  Speaker 1: or who may seem likely to get the whole of it.
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  Speaker 1: To set longing and envious eyes on another's lands, houses, carriages, horses,
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  Speaker 1: and other evidences of material wealth. To commence calculating on
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  Speaker 1: being brought into any degree of association with a rich
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  Speaker 1: man or woman, and how you may gain or wheedle
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  Speaker 1: or sow become a favorite of such person as to
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  Speaker 1: induce him or her to give you of their wealth.
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  Speaker 1: All this brings on a state of mind retarding your
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  Speaker 1: connection with the greatest drawing power. It brings to you
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  Speaker 1: a current of low groveling in narrow thought. It is
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  Speaker 1: loss also to allow yourself to drift into the petty
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  Speaker 1: prejudices of people concerning others, to take sides, even in thought,
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  Speaker 1: in petty quarrels. You lose power by engaging with others
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  Speaker 1: in any conversation on a plane of motive and sentiment.
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  Speaker 1: Lower than your own, such as tattle, sarcastic remark on
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  Speaker 1: the failings of others, fault finding with affairs which do
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  Speaker 1: not concern you, an unwarrantable inquiry in ferreting out others
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  Speaker 1: private affairs you put out in so doing thought forces
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  Speaker 1: which are opposed to, and will destroy or retard the
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  Speaker 1: effect of your higher and more powerful attitude of mind
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  Speaker 1: toward all mankind. An outflow of thought which deals only
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  Speaker 1: with the best in others, sees as little as possible
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  Speaker 1: of their thoughts, speaks as little as possible concerning them,
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  Speaker 1: and sends them in thought only good will, from which
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  Speaker 1: you will fight off every shade of malice, envy, and jealousy,
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  Speaker 1: thoughts now so dominant on our stratum of life, and
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  Speaker 1: which will thrust themselves in our minds at every opportunity.
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  Speaker 1: You want power to gain, the highest health, the greatest
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  Speaker 1: success in business, and the growth of your spirit into
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  Speaker 1: possibilities not now to be realized. Nothing so much weakens
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  Speaker 1: you in every way as descending in thought and talk
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  Speaker 1: to ill natured and ferreting gossip. You descend then to
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  Speaker 1: the world of failure and ill health. You clothe yourself
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  Speaker 1: then in an actual thought robe or envelope of weakness,
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  Speaker 1: the robes now worn by so many who ascribe their
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  Speaker 1: ill health or non success to any and everything. But
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  Speaker 1: this the real cause. Keep away as much as you
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  Speaker 1: can from despondent, reckless, and purposeless people, and you will
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  Speaker 1: keep your drawing power at its best. You will then
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  Speaker 1: not lessen it through adulteration by absorption of their discouraged, undecided,
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  Speaker 1: purposeless thoughts. If of necessity you are thrown in their company,
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  Speaker 1: make up your mind beforehand that you will not absorb
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  Speaker 1: any of their thought. Then you put on a positive
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  Speaker 1: protective armor against such absorption. If you give a great
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  Speaker 1: deal of your sympathy to those who do not believe
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  Speaker 1: in these ideas, if you make their troubles your troubles,
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  Speaker 1: and their cares your cares, you lessen your drawing power
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  Speaker 1: for the best, and increase it for the worst. For
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  Speaker 1: then you absorb these doubts and other defects of mind,
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  Speaker 1: you mix up your faith with their lack of faith.
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  Speaker 1: You cripple your decision with their possible indecision. Speak of
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  Speaker 1: your purposes only to those of whose friendship you are
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  Speaker 1: very sure, only to those who are not envious, and
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  Speaker 1: who really wish you to have your desire. Keeping your
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  Speaker 1: secrets adds vastly to your drawing power. Walls do have ears.
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  Speaker 1: In other words, secrets can get into the air if
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  Speaker 1: you talk them out, even when none with a physical
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  Speaker 1: body are near you. If you want to keep a
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  Speaker 1: secret from others, keep it as much as possible out
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  Speaker 1: of your own mind, save when it is absolutely necessary
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  Speaker 1: to recall it. For what you think, you make or
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  Speaker 1: put out in the air. And as put out in
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  Speaker 1: the air, when you are much of the time thinking
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  Speaker 1: of it, it is all the more likely to fasten
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  Speaker 1: on some mind about you in the form of a surmise,
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  Speaker 1: a passing thought, which, at last, as you keep forcing
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  Speaker 1: it upon them by thinking of it, ripens into a suspicion.
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  Speaker 1: All great successes depend on secrecy, that is, secrecy from
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  Speaker 1: all save those you can trust and who have an
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  Speaker 1: equal interest in the success with yourself. No practical man
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  Speaker 1: of business reads his ledgers to the public, or confides
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  Speaker 1: his plans to every one. To talk of your purpose
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  Speaker 1: to those who, in their secret thought, are jealous of
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  Speaker 1: your possible success, will lessen your force to draw the
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  Speaker 1: thing desire to you. Then you do literally give yourself,
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  Speaker 1: i e. Your thought or force away thousands cripple their fortunes.
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  Speaker 1: In this way. Temperance and moderation in the use of
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  Speaker 1: all things and in the play of all emotion is
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  Speaker 1: very necessary to the attainment of the most powerful drawing
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  Speaker 1: frame of mind. But asceticism and extreme self denial in
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  Speaker 1: anything only lessens this drawing power. For all asceticism creates
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  Speaker 1: unnatural longings. Then the force of mind is placed on
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  Speaker 1: what nature is starved of and will long for, and
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  Speaker 1: sets its thought or force upon of anything which annoys.
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  Speaker 1: You make up your mind that it shall not annoy you.
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  Speaker 1: This decision will increase the drawing power of your mind.
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  Speaker 1: But if in mind you give way to annoyances and
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  Speaker 1: do not resist them, you increase their power to annoy you.
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  Speaker 1: You bring on also by this mental condition more and
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  Speaker 1: more annoyances. You lessen also your force for drawing things
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  Speaker 1: to you, or in other words, you use that same
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  Speaker 1: force to draw annoying things to you. Resist the devil
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  Speaker 1: and he will flee from you. A disagreeable habit in
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  Speaker 1: another person, an impertinence or rudeness in another, a creaking door,
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  Speaker 1: anything in the working of the physical world about us,
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  Speaker 1: if we do not not set our minds against its annoying,
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  Speaker 1: us will grow more and more upon us, it will
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  Speaker 1: master us. All these things represent the devil to be resisted.
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  Speaker 1: When we allow ourselves to be annoyed by any person,
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  Speaker 1: we are ruled by that person. For if we cannot
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  Speaker 1: abide their presence in a room, then that person drives
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  Speaker 1: us from that room. If we cannot be agreeable to
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  Speaker 1: others with that person in our presence, then that person
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  Speaker 1: governs our speech and makes us silent and sulky. But
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  Speaker 1: when this resisting power is used, and we endeavor to
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  Speaker 1: turn our mind from the annoyance, we shall be carried
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  Speaker 1: at last beyond the reach of all annoying things. That
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  Speaker 1: is the real power for driving from us? What what
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  Speaker 1: annoys us? I do not here imply that the habit
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  Speaker 1: of being easily annoyed, or of non resistance to annoyance,
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  Speaker 1: or the habit and love of reading living mentally in
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  Speaker 1: scenes of misery, or any other mental habit which lessens
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  Speaker 1: our power can be immediately broken off. That is all
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  Speaker 1: but impossible. No mental habit the growth of years can
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  Speaker 1: be suddenly changed. How then, can it be changed by
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  Speaker 1: not trying too barred to change it by not becoming
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  Speaker 1: impatient on finding yourself unconsciously reverting to the state of
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  Speaker 1: mind you wish to get rid of. For impatience at
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  Speaker 1: anything is force employed in anger, because matters do not
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  Speaker 1: change as quickly as you wish, and that is so
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  Speaker 1: much force loss to your drawing power. You can, in
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  Speaker 1: this way hurt yourself as much when the motive is
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  Speaker 1: good as when it is bad. It will increase your
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  Speaker 1: drawing power to feel the real need of the thing
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  Speaker 1: you set your mind upon. There is a great difference
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  Speaker 1: between wanting things and needing things. Some people want everything
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  Speaker 1: they set their eyes on when they need but few
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  Speaker 1: of those things at a time. You may need warm
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  Speaker 1: garments for winter. You may want things which may have
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  Speaker 1: no use during winter. Now the need for serviceable clothing
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  Speaker 1: is imperative. For other things, the need may not be imperative,
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  Speaker 1: though they have their place and use in good time.
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  Speaker 1: If you feel the need of the thing you set
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  Speaker 1: your mind upon, you increase the force of your demand
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  Speaker 1: for it. This increases your drawing power, provided, as we
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  Speaker 1: must say again, your demand is made in the mood
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  Speaker 1: of decision and patience, and does not use itself up
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  Speaker 1: in the mood of impatience, because the thing demanded does
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  Speaker 1: not immediately come. There are two ways of saying I
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  Speaker 1: must have the better things desired. To say I must
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  Speaker 1: or I demand it in the mood of ugliness or
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  Speaker 1: irascibility carries little or no power to bring the thing demanded.
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  Speaker 1: But a great deal of drawing power is set upon
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  Speaker 1: the thing demanded when you say I demand this special
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  Speaker 1: thing because I need it, because it is right. I
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  Speaker 1: should have it, because I feel that my ability to
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  Speaker 1: benefit first myself and next others will be increased by it.
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  Speaker 1: This is the mood to be permanently maintained from month
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  Speaker 1: to month and year to year, until at last it
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  Speaker 1: becomes a part of yourself, and you carry such frame
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  Speaker 1: of mind, whether conscious you carry it or not. If
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  Speaker 1: you feel that there is truth in my assertions, then
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  Speaker 1: the seed of conviction is sown in your mind, that seed,
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  Speaker 1: that idea, that force will do the work for you
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  Speaker 1: you need. In a sense, do but little. That truth
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  Speaker 1: will take deeper and deeper root. It will grow an increase.
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  Speaker 1: You will find yourself gradually changing for the better. You
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  Speaker 1: will have less and less inclination to live in the
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  Speaker 1: grim and ghastly. As you realize more and more the
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  Speaker 1: danger of so doing better. Still, you will turn away
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  Speaker 1: more and more from the racks and slaughter pens of
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  Speaker 1: a lower life, as you realize more and more the power,
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  Speaker 1: the pleasure, and the profit of holding ever in your
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  Speaker 1: thought things cheerful, bright, gay, and innocent. When you acquire
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  Speaker 1: this power, or in other words, get your drawing force
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  Speaker 1: turned in the right direction, it is always working in
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  Speaker 1: some direction, you will know that it is all yours.
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  Speaker 1: No one can take it from you. It must also
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  Speaker 1: be ever on the increase. As it increases its force,
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  Speaker 1: it is increasing forever. When it is working in the
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  Speaker 1: right direction to bring you health, fortune, and success. In
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  Speaker 1: all you undertake, you depend on no one but yourself
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  Speaker 1: and the supreme power. You lean on no one. You
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  Speaker 1: will feel that you have the power within to accomplish
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  Speaker 1: all you undertake. You will not then seek fortune by
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  Speaker 1: marrying merely for money, or by waiting for rich relatives
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  Speaker 1: to die, or by pandering in any way to the
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  Speaker 1: rich and powerful. Your body also will by degrees grow
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  Speaker 1: more stronger, more healthy, more attractive. For you are then
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  Speaker 1: in the current which can carry you beyond the realm
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  Speaker 1: of disease, eeminent peace and tranquility of mind is the
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  Speaker 1: proof that this power is working in the right direction
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  Speaker 1: for you. There may be occasional intervals of mental disturbance.
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  Speaker 1: At times the force may return in its old direction.
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  Speaker 1: This is the effort of the old habit, the material
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  Speaker 1: mind to resume its sway. Such disturbances must become less
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  Speaker 1: and less violent, and of shorter and shorter duration, because
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  Speaker 1: your higher promptings or spiritual mind is the greater power
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  Speaker 1: and must always subdue the lower. The oriental adept or
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  Speaker 1: fakir has this power to a limited extent, but places
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  Speaker 1: it on purposes which, though wonderful from their novelty, are
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  Speaker 1: relatively of little use to him or others. The basis
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  Speaker 1: on which he acts lies in the holding of forces
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  Speaker 1: in himself and gathering them also from outside sources by
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  Speaker 1: a permanently calm, unruffled, deliberate, and undisturbed mental state of mind.
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  Speaker 1: Can all attain to this drawing power. Those who can
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  Speaker 1: have faith in it will reverse this same force now
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  Speaker 1: possibly bringing them poverty, sickness, and evil, and turn it
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  Speaker 1: in the direction of bringing them good. All will not
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  Speaker 1: have faith. These will go on as before, using their
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  Speaker 1: minds blindly to attract the evil and suffer from it.
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  Speaker 1: All must have this power in some existence. All may
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  Speaker 1: not reach it in this physical existence, but will in
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  Speaker 1: some future one. If you are alone in the world
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  Speaker 1: and lack congenial association, the mood of calm demand based
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  Speaker 1: for all things demanded on a continual silent desire or
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  Speaker 1: pray to be led by a higher and diviner wisdom
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  Speaker 1: than our own, will draw to you in time that
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  Speaker 1: association which is the best for you. Note it is
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  Speaker 1: in the power of some to have under their own
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  Speaker 1: roof a chapel for silent demand or prayer. A room
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  Speaker 1: can be set apart, furnished appropriately, and held sacred as
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  Speaker 1: a place for communion with the infinite mind. It should
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  Speaker 1: have no thought carried into it save that of an
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  Speaker 1: earnest desire to draw power to the spirit see error
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  Speaker 1: more and more clearly, be led of higher wisdom in
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  Speaker 1: the right way when we cannot see that way for ourselves,
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  Speaker 1: and gain ever in faith, in health, in strength, in beauty,
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  Speaker 1: in grace, and every desirable quality. It would prove for
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  Speaker 1: the family their inner sanctuary, their Holy of holies, and
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  Speaker 1: a place which, when rightly kept, would be ever filling
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  Speaker 1: with pure, healthy life, giving in mind clearing thought. It
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  Speaker 1: would be also the portal for ministering spirits to enter,
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  Speaker 1: who would add their beneficial thought and power to yours.
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  Speaker 1: It would confer untold benefit to members of the family who,
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  Speaker 1: having lost their bodies, but still drawn by the irresistible
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  Speaker 1: bonds of attraction, linger still harmless and lonesome about a
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  Speaker 1: former home. Its paintings and statuary should be suggestive only
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  Speaker 1: of nobility of character, of health, strength, vigor, grace, and beauty.
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: For these representations in material clement are great helps to
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  Speaker 1: lift our minds above the thought of depression and suffering,
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  Speaker 1: and draws to us the spirit virtual element they symbolize.
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  Speaker 1: When the few make these physical conditions, as soon they
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  Speaker 1: will in their homes, there will be closer bonds than
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  Speaker 1: ever between the visible and invisible worlds. What is now
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  Speaker 1: deemed impossible and visionary will be realized also in time.
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  Speaker 1: But not to satisfy aimless curiosity, not to be trumpeted
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  Speaker 1: abroad as a show, but only to bring good to
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  Speaker 1: those who can believe and act up to a higher life.