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CHARACTER POWER: Attracting Success Through Positive Individuality - William Walker Atkinson (1922) · THE SECRET LAW OF ATTRACTION: Manifest Wealth, Success & Abundance

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  Speaker 1: Character power positive individuality by William Walker Atkinson, nineteen twenty two.
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  Speaker 1: The springs of character. Character is the peculiar quality or
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  Speaker 1: the sum of such qualities by which a person or
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  Speaker 1: a thing is distinguished from others. The term, as applied
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  Speaker 1: to human beings, usually is defined as the strong intellectual
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  Speaker 1: or moral qualities of a person, but others have sought
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  Speaker 1: to emphasize the part played by actions and conduct in
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  Speaker 1: human character, and have accordingly suggested the definition of character
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  Speaker 1: as the general rule of conduct governing the acts and
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  Speaker 1: actions of a person. Another definition of character, one offered
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  Speaker 1: in a leading reference work, is the nature of the
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  Speaker 1: individual manifesting in and as the continuity of his various
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  Speaker 1: successive voluntary in habitual acts. For the purposes of the
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  Speaker 1: present consideration of the subject, we may pass by the
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  Speaker 1: technical and academic definitions of the term in question, and
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  Speaker 1: content ourselves with the idea or concept of character as
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  Speaker 1: the essential principle of the nature of the individual, which
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  Speaker 1: governs and decides his habitual mode of action, and which
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  Speaker 1: therefore expresses and manifests his individuality. As the individual is
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  Speaker 1: known to us almost exclusively through his actions, and as
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  Speaker 1: his principle of action is his character. Therefore, the character
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  Speaker 1: of an individual is practically the individual in himself, so
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  Speaker 1: far as is concerned our knowledge of him. There is
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  Speaker 1: frequently found to be some confusion concerning the relation between
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  Speaker 1: character and reputation. Some writers use these terms as if
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  Speaker 1: they were synonymous, while others employ them as if they
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  Speaker 1: denoted widely separated ideas. The general opinion of the most
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  Speaker 1: careful authorities, however, is that character denotes the true nature
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  Speaker 1: of the individual, while reputation denotes the particular view of
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  Speaker 1: the character of an individual which is favored by public opinion,
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  Speaker 1: and which may be far different from the true character
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  Speaker 1: of that person. Someone has said that there are three
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  Speaker 1: phases of the character of an individual, viz. One his
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  Speaker 1: true nature and character, as an omniscient mind would perceive it,
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  Speaker 1: Two his own opinion of his true nature and character,
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  Speaker 1: and three the public opinion of his character, which constitutes
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  Speaker 1: his reputation. As there is a cause and a because
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  Speaker 1: of and for everything, reason and explanation of, and for
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  Speaker 1: every fact discovered by human knowledge, so there must be
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  Speaker 1: a causal, reason and explanation of that principle of human
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  Speaker 1: conduct and action which we know as character. The individual
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  Speaker 1: is perceived to have such and such character, and to
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  Speaker 1: act in accordance with it. He is discovered to possess
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  Speaker 1: certain habits of thought, feeling, and action, and to express
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  Speaker 1: and manifest these characteristic states in his activities of life.
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  Speaker 1: This habitual character or nature cannot be supposed to exist
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  Speaker 1: in and of itself without cause, reason, or explanation. Rather,
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  Speaker 1: must it be assumed that this character in a non nature,
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  Speaker 1: like everything else in the manifested universe, as its reason
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  Speaker 1: and explanation in an antecedent and preceding chain of circumstances
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  Speaker 1: and conditions, influences and determining factors. Accordingly, the psychologist proceeds
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  Speaker 1: to seek for and to discover these causes and because
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  Speaker 1: these reasons and explanations of character. Hallick expresses the conclusions
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  Speaker 1: of orthodox psychology on the subject of the causal sources
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  Speaker 1: of character in the following statement. Character is the resultant
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  Speaker 1: of several factors will, heredity, and environment. Let us take
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  Speaker 1: an actual case to represent these at work. Shakespeare was
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  Speaker 1: born of parents who could neither read nor write. There
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  Speaker 1: was something in the boy more than either of them.
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  Speaker 1: A part of that additional something was due to his will,
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  Speaker 1: which by always acting in a definite way, often in
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  Speaker 1: the line of the greatest resistance, gave him stability when
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  Speaker 1: others were wavering like reeds in the wind. Unlike Marlowe,
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  Speaker 1: Shakespeare was not killed in an alehouse, although he must
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  Speaker 1: have felt promptings to waste his time and nervous force there,
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  Speaker 1: as did so many of his fellow dramatists. In resisting
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  Speaker 1: these tendencies, in putting the best of himself not into
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  Speaker 1: revels but into his dramatic work, he acquired character. That
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  Speaker 1: heredity was not all in his cases, shown by the
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  Speaker 1: fact that he had brothers and sisters who never climbed
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  Speaker 1: the heights with him. His limited earlier opportunities show that
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  Speaker 1: environment was not all that made him. Besides, environment did
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  Speaker 1: not make Shakespeare's out of others born in that age.
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  Speaker 1: There was will power in him that rose above heredity
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  Speaker 1: and environment and gave him a character that breathes forth
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  Speaker 1: in every play. The modern tendency is to overestimate the
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  Speaker 1: effects of heredity and environment in forming character, But on
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  Speaker 1: the other hand we must not underestimate them. The child
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  Speaker 1: of a hottentot put in Shakespeare's home and afterwards sent
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  Speaker 1: away to London with him would not have given the
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  Speaker 1: will sufficient material to fashion over into such a noble product.
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  Speaker 1: We may also suppose a case to show the great
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  Speaker 1: power of environment. Had a band of gypsy's stolen Shakespeare
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  Speaker 1: at birth carried him to Tartary and left him among
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  Speaker 1: the nomads, his environment would never have allowed him to
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  Speaker 1: produce such plays as he placed upon the English stage.
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  Speaker 1: Heredity is a powerful factor, for it supplies raw materials
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  Speaker 1: for the will to shape. Even the will cannot make
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  Speaker 1: anything without material. Will acts through choice, and some kinds
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  Speaker 1: of environment afford far more opportunities for choice than others.
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  Speaker 1: Shakespeare found in London the germ of true theatrical taste,
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  Speaker 1: already vivified by a long line of miracle plays, moralities
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  Speaker 1: and interludes. In youth. He connected himself with the theater,
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  Speaker 1: and his will responded powerfully to his environment. Some surroundings
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  Speaker 1: are rich in suggestion, affording opportunity for choice, while others
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  Speaker 1: are poor. The will is absolutely con find to a
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  Speaker 1: choice between alternatives. Character, then, is a resultant of will, power, heredity,
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  Speaker 1: and environment. A man cannot choose his parents, but he can,
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  Speaker 1: to a certain extent, determine his environment. Shakespeare left Stratford
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  Speaker 1: and went to London. He might have chosen to go
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  Speaker 1: to some insignificant town where the surroundings would have been uninspiring.
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  Speaker 1: In middle life, a man's decisions represent his character. He
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  Speaker 1: will be swayed by the resultant force of all his
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  Speaker 1: preceding choices, in other words, by his character. What has
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  Speaker 1: the will to do with character? Character is largely a
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  Speaker 1: resultant of every voluntary act. From childhood to the grave.
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  Speaker 1: We gradually make our characters by separate acts of will.
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  Speaker 1: Just as the blacksmith, by repeated blows, beats out a
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  Speaker 1: horse shoe or an anchor from a shapeless mass of iron.
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  Speaker 1: A finished anchor or a horse shoe was never the
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  Speaker 1: product of a single blow. A man acquires character by
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  Speaker 1: separate voluntary acts. We apply the term conduct to those
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  Speaker 1: actions unified into a whole which relates to the welfare
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  Speaker 1: of the self, either directly or indirectly through the welfare
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  Speaker 1: of others. We are coins, the metal of which has
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  Speaker 1: been dug from the minds of our inborn intellectual and
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  Speaker 1: moral faculties by the will power. If we properly work
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  Speaker 1: those minds, we may find metal enough in us to
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  Speaker 1: justify a stamp of a very high value. On the
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  Speaker 1: other hand, though there is much unmind metal beneath the surface,
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  Speaker 1: we often form a character marked with a penny stamp.
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  Speaker 1: It may be true that circumstances stamp us to a
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  Speaker 1: certain extent, but it is also true that the way
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  Speaker 1: in which we use them stamps us indelibly. While the
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  Speaker 1: above quotation from Professor Halleck gives an exceptionally clear and
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  Speaker 1: full view of the representative thought of modern Orthodox psychology
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  Speaker 1: concerning the springs and sources of character, and is deserving
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  Speaker 1: of the most respectful consideration and careful study, Nevertheless, there
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  Speaker 1: is a view of the subject which transcend that of
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  Speaker 1: even such able psychological thought, and which enables us to
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  Speaker 1: interpret the latter in terms of a higher knowledge. This
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  Speaker 1: view is accepted and employed in the present instruction. There
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  Speaker 1: is no particular name applied to this higher presentation, however,
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  Speaker 1: and we must content ourselves with allowing it to explain
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  Speaker 1: and define itself as we proceed to consider it. We
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  Speaker 1: may say, however, that it may be thought of as
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  Speaker 1: the new psychology or applied psychology, with the addition of
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  Speaker 1: a certain spiritual element. Let us consider this view of
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  Speaker 1: the subject by means of its teachings, rather than by
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  Speaker 1: attempting to define it or to give it a name.
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  Speaker 1: In the first place, in this new view of the subject,
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  Speaker 1: the will is not accorded the supreme place. True, it
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  Speaker 1: is that the will is the most important instrument employed
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  Speaker 1: in the development of character, But at the last, the
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  Speaker 1: will is perceived to be but the instrument, not the
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  Speaker 1: user of the instrument. The user of the implement of
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  Speaker 1: will is that mysterious entity which abides in the center
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  Speaker 1: of the consciousness of the individual, and which is known
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  Speaker 1: to him as the ego or I am I, principle
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  Speaker 1: of his being. This I am I is that focal
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  Speaker 1: center of consciousness and of will, established by that power
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  Speaker 1: which is the source and origin of all power. It
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  Speaker 1: is the supreme center of the personal power of the individual.
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  Speaker 1: It is that something or somewhat which is the user
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  Speaker 1: of the physical, mental, and spiritual tools, instruments and implements
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  Speaker 1: of the being of the individual. This I am I
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  Speaker 1: of the individual is the user of the instrument or
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  Speaker 1: implement of will in the process of the development of character.
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  Speaker 1: By means of this instrument, it is able to mold
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  Speaker 1: and fashion the character at will, employing in the process. However,
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  Speaker 1: the raw materials afforded by heredity in environment, employing them
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  Speaker 1: moreover in a manner and to a degree not generally
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  Speaker 1: recognized by modern Orthodox psychology, when the consciousness of the
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  Speaker 1: I am I is awakened to self recognition, self realization,
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  Speaker 1: and self manifestation. In order to understand more clearly how
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  Speaker 1: these raw materials are so employed in the fashioning and
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  Speaker 1: creating of character, let us briefly consider just what are
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  Speaker 1: these raw materials i e. Heredity and environment in their
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  Speaker 1: last analysis. The last analysis shows each of these in
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  Speaker 1: some ways to be less than we had expected, and
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  Speaker 1: yet in other ways more than we had suspected. Each
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  Speaker 1: is moreover shown to be a most efficient servant of
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  Speaker 1: the I am I, yet in itself, by no means
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  Speaker 1: the master of character. Heredity is usually defined as hereditary
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  Speaker 1: transmission of physical or psychical qualities of parents to their offspring.
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  Speaker 1: The term, however, has a far more extended meaning than
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  Speaker 1: that thus indicated. Instead of being limited to the transmission
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  Speaker 1: of the qualities to the individual from his parents, its
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  Speaker 1: meaning may be extended to include the transmission of qualities
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  Speaker 1: to the individual from the entire line of his ancestors.
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  Speaker 1: The racial qualities, the tribal qualities, the general family qualities. Heredity,
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  Speaker 1: in fact, is the transmission of the essence of the
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  Speaker 1: entire experience of the human race, and even of the
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  Speaker 1: experience of the life forms which were the ancestors of
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  Speaker 1: the race of man. At the last, heredity is seen
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  Speaker 1: to be the transmitted record of the past experience of
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  Speaker 1: the life forces of the universe. Heredity is the impressed
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  Speaker 1: records of the past experience, the past environment of the
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  Speaker 1: life forms. It must include the best as well as
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  Speaker 1: the worst, and all that lies in between. Special combinations
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  Speaker 1: of these records may serve to give a set or
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  Speaker 1: a tendency towards certain lines of action on the part
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  Speaker 1: of the individual, but these may be overcome or transcended
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  Speaker 1: by the employment of the will. And other combinations may
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  Speaker 1: be thus built up or fashion from the other elements
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  Speaker 1: of character which abide in the deeper, subconscious regions of
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  Speaker 1: the self, just as truly as from those elements lying
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  Speaker 1: nearer to the surface of consciousness. The determined wal may
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  Speaker 1: oust from the throne of character those elements of heredity
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  Speaker 1: which seem to be objection, and may supplant them by
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  Speaker 1: the more desirable elements which abide in the subconscious self,
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  Speaker 1: merely awaiting the call or demand of environment or will.
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  Speaker 1: It has well been said that we have the whole
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  Speaker 1: menagerie of heredity within us, the tiger, the ape, the peacock,
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  Speaker 1: and all the rest. But equally true is it that
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  Speaker 1: in each of us is to be found the master
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  Speaker 1: of the show, who is able to control the animals,
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  Speaker 1: to summon forth those which serve best his purposes, and
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  Speaker 1: to confine safely those of an undesirable character. Sometimes, alas
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  Speaker 1: this Master of the show is asleep, or at least drowsy,
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  Speaker 1: and the animals conduct the show themselves. But the master,
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  Speaker 1: once aroused into self recognition and self realization, he then
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  Speaker 1: proceeds to exercise his powers of self manifestation. The I
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  Speaker 1: am I is the master of the show, the tamer
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  Speaker 1: of wild beasts, the trainer of the animals, of the
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  Speaker 1: menagerie of the self. Heredity at the last, is seen
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  Speaker 1: to be but the transmitted record of the past experiences
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  Speaker 1: of the race. These racial experiences were the result of
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  Speaker 1: the contact of countless generations of individuals of the race
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  Speaker 1: with their respective environments. These reactions to the stimuli of
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  Speaker 1: environment repeated over and over again, through innumerable generations, gradually
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  Speaker 1: tended to become set or fixed to some degree in
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  Speaker 1: the plastic mental substance of the race. We have instances
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  Speaker 1: of this transmission fixation in the case of the instinct
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  Speaker 1: of animals, which results from the gradual fixing in setting
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  Speaker 1: in the mind substance of certain habits of action, or
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  Speaker 1: rather of the tendency toward those habits. The duck takes
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  Speaker 1: naturally to water, the wild goose tends naturally toward migration
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  Speaker 1: in winter by reason of this inherited instinct or acquired
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  Speaker 1: habit of action. The water acts as a stimulus to
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  Speaker 1: arouse this instinct in the duck. The approach of cold
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  Speaker 1: weather arouses it in the wild goose. Heredity, then is
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  Speaker 1: seen to be nothing more than the transmitted germ of
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  Speaker 1: the acquired habits of past generations to respond in a
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  Speaker 1: certain way to certain phases or conditions of environment. Habit
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  Speaker 1: in the individual is the acquired tendency to respond in
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  Speaker 1: certain ways to certain forms or conditions of environment. So,
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  Speaker 1: as you see, heredity is but one phase or form
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  Speaker 1: of tendency or habit to respond to the stimuli of environment.
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  Speaker 1: Environment is the real external conditioning and determining factor associated
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  Speaker 1: with both heredity and habit, the latter two being the
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  Speaker 1: internal factors. From the reaction of the internal to the external,
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  Speaker 1: our characteristic actions arise. Thus, environment is a most important
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  Speaker 1: element in the development and manifestation of character, and it
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  Speaker 1: behooves us to investigate the nature of this important element environment.
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  Speaker 1: Environment is defined as that which environs or surrounds, particularly
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  Speaker 1: the surrounding conditions, influences, or forces. In short, environment is
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  Speaker 1: composed of those forces, influenruances, or conditions of the outside
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  Speaker 1: world which, by means of their contact, effect, influence, and
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  Speaker 1: exert a modifying power over us. Careful thinkers have announced
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  Speaker 1: their belief that the character of the race and that
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  Speaker 1: of the individual are determined by the effect of their
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  Speaker 1: environment upon them and by their reaction to their environment.
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  Speaker 1: If man were merely an automaton or a mechanical contrivance,
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  Speaker 1: then indeed he would be but the helpless slave to environment.
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  Speaker 1: But as he is not a mere automaton or machine,
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  Speaker 1: he is not the helpless slave. So pictured, as man
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  Speaker 1: emerges into the higher forms of self consciousness and begins
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  Speaker 1: to experience the consciousness of egohood, he also begins to
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  Speaker 1: become aware that, at least to some extent, he can
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  Speaker 1: overcome the power of environment. He finds himself able to
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  Speaker 1: modify his environment, to change his environment, in many cases
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  Speaker 1: by the power of his will. He is able to
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  Speaker 1: do this even before he arrives at the stage of
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  Speaker 1: fully awakened egohood, in which he become comes consciously aware
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  Speaker 1: of the being in power of his I am I.
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  Speaker 1: When he reaches the latter stage, he is able consciously
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  Speaker 1: to employ his will in the direction of modifying his
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  Speaker 1: physical environment and also of creating new mental representations of environment.
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  Speaker 1: This last a most important, though but little understood principle
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  Speaker 1: and process. The real environment which affects the individual is
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  Speaker 1: not the external environment in itself, but rather the mental
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  Speaker 1: representation the mental images of that environment. If a person
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  Speaker 1: from his birth were deprived of the report of the
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  Speaker 1: senses of sight, hearing, feeling, et cetera, then the effect
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  Speaker 1: of the external environment upon him would be lacking. It
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  Speaker 1: would not exist for him. In such case, he would
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  Speaker 1: have no ideas of the external things of his environment.
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  Speaker 1: And it is these ideas of things which so largely
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  Speaker 1: influence and determine his character. It is the mental images
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  Speaker 1: of things, often of purely imaginary things, for that matter,
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  Speaker 1: which exert the greatest effect upon his character. This being perceived,
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  Speaker 1: it may be then realized that if we can supply
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  Speaker 1: the person with the right kind of mental images, we
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  Speaker 1: can do much toward determining developing his character, especially if
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  Speaker 1: from the subconscious regions of his being we can bring
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  Speaker 1: up the appropriate tendencies and habits of reaction to these
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  Speaker 1: right kind of mental images which we have seen have
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  Speaker 1: been placed in those regions by the processes of heredity. This, then,
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  Speaker 1: in short, is the method of the new psychology, with
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  Speaker 1: the added spiritual element of developing and cultivating your character.
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  Speaker 1: Let us briefly recapitulate the three important principles involved in
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  Speaker 1: the method as follows. One, you are aroused into a
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  Speaker 1: conscious recognition, realization, and manifestation of the i Ami which
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  Speaker 1: abides at the center of your consciousness and which is
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  Speaker 1: your real self, and are taught to apply your newfound
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  Speaker 1: power in the direction of working upon the raw materials
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  Speaker 1: of heredity and environment which abide within yourself, and at
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  Speaker 1: the same time to gather new material of the right
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  Speaker 1: pace kind from determined and selected contact with your external environment. Two,
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  Speaker 1: you are then taught to bring from the hidden recesses
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  Speaker 1: of your subconscious self the right kind of tendencies, habits,
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  Speaker 1: and inclinations which have been placed there by the processes
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  Speaker 1: of heredity. This right kind of inherited tendencies, habits, and
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  Speaker 1: inclinations abide in your subconscious regions and in those of
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  Speaker 1: each and every other individual, no matter how hidden from
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  Speaker 1: sight they may be, and how much in evidence may
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  Speaker 1: be the opposite characteristics. The race is old, and the
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  Speaker 1: chain of heredity is long and extends in countless directions.
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  Speaker 1: The best as well as the worst, abides in you
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  Speaker 1: and in each and every individual, for each person is
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  Speaker 1: really the inheritor of the characteristics of every one of
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  Speaker 1: the original ancestors of the race, and of every one
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  Speaker 1: of many generations of their successors. Scientists have asserted that
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  Speaker 1: it may be stated as a true general principle that
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  Speaker 1: in the veins of each and every individual human being
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  Speaker 1: living today there flows the blood of each and every
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  Speaker 1: individual living ten thousand years ago, and probably even as
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  Speaker 1: late as five thousand years ago. This being true, it
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  Speaker 1: follows that the mental heredity must follow the same channels
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  Speaker 1: of distribution. Each of us, then is the air of
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  Speaker 1: the ages. Each of us has within us the potential
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  Speaker 1: characteristics of each and every individual of countless generations of
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  Speaker 1: men and women. This being the case, we may safely
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  Speaker 1: assert that the germ of each and every possible form
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  Speaker 1: of human character abides within your subconscious self, and is
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  Speaker 1: capable of being drawn upon by you to serve as
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  Speaker 1: the raw material of character, which you may mold and
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  Speaker 1: fashion into the kind of finished character you most desire
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  Speaker 1: and mark you this, the new psychology, with the added
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  Speaker 1: spiritual element, has discovered the way whereby you may draw
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  Speaker 1: upon and bring to the surface these desired elements of heredity,
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  Speaker 1: as well as those of the personal experience and environment
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  Speaker 1: of yourself. Three. You are then taught to create the
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  Speaker 1: particular kind of of mental pictures which will produce the
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  Speaker 1: desired reaction on the part of the inherited or acquire
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  Speaker 1: tendencies and characteristics brought into the field of your consciousness.
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  Speaker 1: In the manner above referred to, you are taught how
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  Speaker 1: to create for yourself a working environment, to erect and
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  Speaker 1: to operate a laboratory of environment in which you may
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  Speaker 1: produce those combinations of mind and soul which you seek
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  Speaker 1: to acquire and make your own. You are taught how
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  Speaker 1: to condense the essence of environmental influences in such a
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  Speaker 1: manner as to render them available in your experimental and
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  Speaker 1: creative work of character building. You are able to build
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  Speaker 1: up a miniature world of experience within yourself, in which
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  Speaker 1: you can reproduce the processes of nature and thus duplicate
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  Speaker 1: her results. Noted, botanists and naturalists have been able to
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  Speaker 1: anticipate Nature's evolutionary plans and to produce here and now
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  Speaker 1: plant forms and animal forms which, in the ordinary course
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  Speaker 1: of evolution would not have reached the Earth scene until
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  Speaker 1: after thousands of more years of slow development. So may you,
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  Speaker 1: if you are sufficiently persistent and insistent, develop your character
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  Speaker 1: along the desired lines to such a degree of proficiency
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  Speaker 1: as unaided nature is able to produce only at rare
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  Speaker 1: intervals by exceptional combinations of elements through many generations of
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  Speaker 1: race evolution. The key to the new methods of character
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  Speaker 1: building is, of course, found in the arousing of the
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  Speaker 1: full degree of the conscious recognition, realization, and manifestation of
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  Speaker 1: your I am I. Without this, full success along these
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  Speaker 1: lines is impossible. But even though you obtain only a
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  Speaker 1: partial measure of this superior consciousness, you may obtain a
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  Speaker 1: corresponding degree of success along these lines. By applying these methods, you,
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  Speaker 1: and also practically every individual of average intelligence and will power,
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  Speaker 1: will be enabled to secure satisfactory results in some degree
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  Speaker 1: at least and moreover by means of the continued and
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  Speaker 1: persistent application of these principles and the methods based thereupon.
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  Speaker 1: The fuller way takening of the desired consciousness of the
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  Speaker 1: real self is encouraged. When your inner nature feels most
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  Speaker 1: keenly the need of the fuller awakening, then there is
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  Speaker 1: set into operation the forces which serve to encourage and
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  Speaker 1: to hasten such process. The insistent demand and the persistent
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  Speaker 1: application of the working principles here bring forth the supply,
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  Speaker 1: just as they do on all of the planes of
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  Speaker 1: nature's manifestations and processes. The plan and methods of the
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  Speaker 1: development of character which are taught in this book are
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  Speaker 1: not necessarily based upon the purely metaphysical theories concerning the
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  Speaker 1: nature of mind, although of course they fit very well
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  Speaker 1: into such conceptions and afford efficient channels for their expression.
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  Speaker 1: Those who base their conceptions of mind upon the functions
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  Speaker 1: and activities of the brain will likewise find in these
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  Speaker 1: plans and methods an efficient and useful means of putting
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  Speaker 1: into application the practical features of their phase of mental
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  Speaker 1: philosophy or mental science. Just as electricity may be employed
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  Speaker 1: and set to work along certain lines and under certain
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  Speaker 1: laws of application, with satisfactory results, notwithstanding the different particular
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  Speaker 1: theories concerning the essential nature of the energy itself, so
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  Speaker 1: the powers of your mind may be set into operation
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  Speaker 1: effectively by means of these plans and methods, without regard
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  Speaker 1: to your particular views concerning the essential nature of mind.
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  Speaker 1: So far as the actual practical application of the powers
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  Speaker 1: of the mind is concerned, it makes little or no
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  Speaker 1: difference whether you regard mind as a substance or even
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  Speaker 1: as an entity, or whether, on the other hand, you
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  Speaker 1: regard mind as a product of the activities of the brain,
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  Speaker 1: or even as simply the processes of brain activity. So
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  Speaker 1: far as this instruction is concerned, you may proceed either
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  Speaker 1: upon the theory that mind produces the brain cells, or
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  Speaker 1: upon that which holds that brain cells produce mind. Personally,
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  Speaker 1: we are inclined to the opinion that the truth concerning
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  Speaker 1: this matter consists of a reconciliation of these two opposing hypotheses,
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  Speaker 1: and that mind as we know it in our o
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  Speaker 1: ex experience is the product of the mutual action and
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  Speaker 1: reaction between the spiritual and the material aspects of our
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  Speaker 1: mental nature. But we do not insist even upon this.
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  Speaker 1: You are left free to choose for yourself, and even
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  Speaker 1: to build up an entirely new and different hypothesis. The
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  Speaker 1: plan and methods will be found to work out equally
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  Speaker 1: well in either case. Scientific experiments have demonstrated the fact
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  Speaker 1: that your brain cells may be greatly and rapidly increased
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  Speaker 1: in number by means of proper exercises and active use. Moreover,
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  Speaker 1: it is now an accepted scientific fact that there are
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  Speaker 1: certain areas of the brain which are concerned with respective
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  Speaker 1: particular mental and emotional states or faculties. Certain areas of
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  Speaker 1: the brain which are concerned with certain particular forms of
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: thought and feeling, and even of will activity have been
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  Speaker 1: discovered to be capable of increase of area and of
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  Speaker 1: power under the stimulus of scientifically arranged systems of exercise
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  Speaker 1: and employment. The old time phrenologists insisted upon this fact,
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  Speaker 1: derided as were their theories when first promulgated, and modern
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  Speaker 1: psychological experiments have served to corroborate and to verify the
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  Speaker 1: general principles of these old teachings once so ridiculed. Modern
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  Speaker 1: psychology teaches that the number of brain cells actively developed
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  Speaker 1: depends materially upon the degree of active use of the
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  Speaker 1: particular mental faculties employing these cells. It is estimated that
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  Speaker 1: the brain of the average individual contains many billions of
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  Speaker 1: brain cells in various stages of active development. In some cases,
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  Speaker 1: it is estimated that not more than five hundred million
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  Speaker 1: cells are actively employed and developed, while in others as
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  Speaker 1: many as five billion are actively developed and employed. It
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  Speaker 1: is also stated that the number of brain cells present
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  Speaker 1: always is far in excess of those actually employed and
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  Speaker 1: fully developed. Nature preserves an enormous reserve stock for possible emergencies.
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  Speaker 1: It is also held that active employment of the brain
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  Speaker 1: cells in any particular area tends to hasten the full
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  Speaker 1: development of the reserved cells in that area, and also
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  Speaker 1: that nature causes the brain cells to multiply themselves in
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  Speaker 1: any area in order to keep pace with the demands
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  Speaker 1: made upon it. So you see, there is no danger
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  Speaker 1: of your stock of brain cells becoming depleted. Professor Elmer
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  Speaker 1: Gates has conducted important and interesting experiments along these lines,
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  Speaker 1: all of which tend to corroborate the facts above stated.
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  Speaker 1: The following statement made by this scientist a few years
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  Speaker 1: ago will prove interesting and instructive in this connection. We
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  Speaker 1: ask you to consider it carefully, for it contains the
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  Speaker 1: hint of wonderful future achievements along the same line of
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  Speaker 1: investigation and experiment. Professor Gates says, the first experiment in
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: my investigations regarding the mind consisted in giving certain animals
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  Speaker 1: an extraordinary in excessive training in one mental faculty e g.
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  Speaker 1: Seeing or hearing, and in depriving other animals identical in
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  Speaker 1: age and breed of the opportunity of using that faculty.
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  Speaker 1: I then killed both classes of animals and examined their
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  Speaker 1: brains to see if any structural difference had been caused
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  Speaker 1: by excessive mental activity as compared with the deprivation or
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  Speaker 1: absence thereof. During five or six months, for five or
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  Speaker 1: six hours each day, I trained dogs in discriminating colors.
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  Speaker 1: The result was that, upon examining the occipital areas of
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  Speaker 1: their brains, I found a far greater number of brain
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  Speaker 1: cells than any animal of like breed ever possessed. These
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  Speaker 1: experiments served to localize mental functions and above all, to
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  Speaker 1: demonstrate the fact that more brains can be given to
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  Speaker 1: an animal or to a human being in consequence of
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: a better use of the mental faculties. The trained dogs
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: were taught to discriminate between seven shades of red and
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  Speaker 1: six or eight of green, besides manifesting in other ways
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  Speaker 1: more mental ability than any untrained dog. The application of
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  Speaker 1: these principles to human education is obvious. A child that
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  Speaker 1: had been trained for six weeks after birth in the
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  Speaker 1: excessive use of the temperature senses detection of heat and
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  Speaker 1: cold was found after dying of scarlet fever, to possess
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  Speaker 1: in the temperature areas of the brain more than twenty
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  Speaker 1: four times the average number of cells. As a matter
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  Speaker 1: of fact, the child was able to detect differences in
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  Speaker 1: temperature unrecognizable by other children of its age. Under usual
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  Speaker 1: circumstances in education, children develop less than ten percent of
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  Speaker 1: the cells in their brain areas. By processes of brain building, however,
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  Speaker 1: more cells can be put in these otherwise fallow areas,
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  Speaker 1: the child, thus acquiring a better brain and more power
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  Speaker 1: of mind. Brain building should properly begin a few weeks
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  Speaker 1: after birth because as soon as the brain is fully
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  Speaker 1: developed in all its areas, the child is prepared to
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  Speaker 1: acquire by technical and professional education, special knowledge and particular
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  Speaker 1: kinds of skill. Phrenological measurements made at different periods of
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  Speaker 1: the life of the same adult individual have demonstrated beyond
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  Speaker 1: question that there occurs a perceptii increase in the area
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  Speaker 1: of the brain concerned with the activity of certain mental faculties,
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  Speaker 1: providing that such faculties have been actively employed in the occupation,
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  Speaker 1: the vocation or avocation of the individual. In cases in
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: which the occupation of the individual has been changed by
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  Speaker 1: circumstances and his activities directed into different channels of mental expression,
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  Speaker 1: there has been noted a cessation of development of certain
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  Speaker 1: brain areas and a corresponding increase in other brain areas,
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  Speaker 1: the increased areas being found to be those concerned with
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  Speaker 1: the processes of the particular faculties involved actively in the
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  Speaker 1: new line of work or channel of mental expression. So
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: you see, physiology as well as psychology, furnishes us with
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: sufficient facts to corroborate the principle upon which this instruction
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  Speaker 1: is based, namely that in a mind or the brain
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  Speaker 1: of man, there abides abundant material to serve for the
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  Speaker 1: building up of the qualities of character, the mental and
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  Speaker 1: emotional qualities, faculties, and powers. And that by scientifically disas
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  Speaker 1: and directed methods and exercises, each or any of the qualities, faculties,
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: or powers of your character may be increased, strengthened, and
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  Speaker 1: rendered more efficient. And that your undesirable qualities may be
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  Speaker 1: restricted and inhibited by means of the development of their opposites.
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  Speaker 1: You have the power to make yourself over and to
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  Speaker 1: mold your character closer to your heart's desire. To a
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  Speaker 1: great extent, every man is self created. You are creating
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  Speaker 1: character every day of your life, consciously or unconsciously. Then
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: why not create a character power consciously, scientifically, and according
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  Speaker 1: to a purpose and plan designed by your reason and
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: approved by your conscience. Character Power positive individuality by William
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  Speaker 1: Walker Atkinson, nineteen twenty two. Positive and negative qualities. Your
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  Speaker 1: mental and emotional qualities may be classed as either one
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  Speaker 1: positive or two negative. The terms positive and negative, respectively,
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  Speaker 1: as used in the present connection, denote the character of
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  Speaker 1: these qualities in their relation to the successful accomplishment of
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  Speaker 1: your rightful aims, ambitions, purposes, and ends. Either the successful
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  Speaker 1: accomplishment of your general rightful purposes or of your special
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  Speaker 1: rightful purposes. Positive qualities contribute to your successful accomplishment, attainment, manifestation,
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  Speaker 1: and expression of rightful ideals. Negative qualities contribute to your
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  Speaker 1: failure to accomplish or attain, or to manifest and express
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  Speaker 1: rightful ideals. Positive qualities push and pull you forward. Negative
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  Speaker 1: qualities push or pull you backward. Positive qualities tend to
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  Speaker 1: urge you upward and onward. Negative qualities tend to drag
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: you downward and backward. Positive qualities are helpful to you.
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  Speaker 1: Negative qualities are harmful to you. The best statement of
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: the character and nature of positive qualities and negative qualities, respectively,
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  Speaker 1: is as follows. Positive qualities make you stronger, better, and
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  Speaker 1: more efficient. Negative qualities make you weaker, worse, and less efficient.
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  Speaker 1: The test question to be applied by you to any
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: mental or emotional quality, any feeling, emotion, thought, mental attitude,
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  Speaker 1: or course of action is will this serve to make
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  Speaker 1: me stronger, better, and more efficient? The touch stone of positivity.
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  Speaker 1: The above mentioned test question to be applied by you
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  Speaker 1: to any mental or emotional quality, any feeling, emotion, thought,
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  Speaker 1: mental attitude, or course of action. The question will this
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  Speaker 1: make me stronger, better, and more efficient? Has well been
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  Speaker 1: called the touch stone of positivity, for it serves to
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: determine positivity when such exists in a quality of character.
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: A touch stone is a mineral employed to test gold
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: and silver by means of the streak left upon the
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: stone by the metal when the latter is rubbed upon it.
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  Speaker 1: When the gold or silver of positivity is as applied
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  Speaker 1: to this touchstone, the characteristic mark is left upon it,
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  Speaker 1: and the genuineness of the mental or emotional metal is determined.
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  Speaker 1: The baser metals leave no such mark. The spirit of
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  Speaker 1: the touchstone of positivity consists of the following standard of excellence.
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  Speaker 1: One expressing and manifesting the best possible kind of actions physical, mental,
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  Speaker 1: and spiritual. Two with the greatest possible degree of ability,
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  Speaker 1: power and energy, and free with the maximum of actual
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: and useful effect proportioned to the actual degree of power, strength,
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  Speaker 1: or energy expended. The touchstone is the standard representing your
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  Speaker 1: sumum bonum or chief good, your chief ends and aims
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  Speaker 1: in life. Surely the ideal is a worthy one when
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  Speaker 1: rightly understood and interpreted, it is seen to include the
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  Speaker 1: essence of that which men of widely differing theories of
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: life agree upon as the rightful aim and end of
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: human effort. In this light, the question will this make
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: me stronger, better, and more efficient? Is perceived to be
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: a worthy, consistent, and legitimate test of the value of
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: your mental and emotional qualities of character. The nearer to
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: this standard your character qualities approach in their development and manifestation,
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  Speaker 1: the greater is their value to you. To this end,
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: you should cultivate and develop your positive elements of character.
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  Speaker 1: To this end, you should restrict, restrain, and inhibit your
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  Speaker 1: negative elements of character. The positive norm and the two negations.
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  Speaker 1: Every mental or emotional quality or faculty of character has
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: its positive norm and its two negative extremes. The norm
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  Speaker 1: of anything is the authoritative, standard, model, or type of
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: that thing. The negative extremes of anything serve to negate
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  Speaker 1: the positive norm. To negate the positive norm is to deny, contradict, nullify,
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  Speaker 1: and render it inactive and ineffective. Every norm has two
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: extremes of negation two negative extremes. For convenience, we may
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  Speaker 1: style the two negations or two negative extremes as follows.
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  Speaker 1: One the deficiency negative i e. The state or condition
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  Speaker 1: in which the norm is negated by the absence of
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  Speaker 1: its essential character or by the presence of its antithetical opposite.
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  Speaker 1: And two the excess negative, i e. The state or
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  Speaker 1: condition in which the norm is negated by the presence
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  Speaker 1: of its general character manifested to such an excessive degree
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  Speaker 1: or in such a perverted form that thereby the essential
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  Speaker 1: virtue of the norm is practically nullified and its power
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  Speaker 1: rendered inactive. The deficiency negative represents the departure from the
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  Speaker 1: norm on the side of lack, deficiency or absence. The
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  Speaker 1: excess negative represents the departure from the norm on the
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: side of excess. In temperance, superfluity, extravagance over muchness, or
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: perversion of its essential spirit. The positive norm is the
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: golden mean. The two negations or negative extremes, are the
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: extreme departures from the positive norm on either side. The
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: latter either negative extreme, serves to negate the positive norm
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  Speaker 1: associated with it. The following illustration drawn from everyday life
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  Speaker 1: may help to fix the above idea in your mind.
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  Speaker 1: A normal amount of heat is necessary to your physical
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  Speaker 1: well being. That normal amount is a matter of but
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  Speaker 1: comparatively few degrees of temperature. A narrow space between fixed
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  Speaker 1: limits on the great scale of heat vibrations. It represents
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  Speaker 1: your positive norm of heat. Below that limit, you begin
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  Speaker 1: to suffer, and finally you will die for lack of heat,
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  Speaker 1: or as we usually call it, from too much cold.
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  Speaker 1: This represents your deficiency negative of heat. Above that limit
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  Speaker 1: or norm, you begin to suffer from excess heat and
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: finally will die therefrom this represents your excess negative of heat.
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  Speaker 1: Increase the temperature of the Earth by a comparatively few degrees,
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  Speaker 1: and every living thing on it would perish. Decrease it
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  Speaker 1: correspondingly below the normal limit, and every living thing on
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: the earth would perish, just as truly as in the
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: event of extreme cold. Application of the ultra cold liquid
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: air to the surface of the skin will result in
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: the production of a blister similar to that caused by
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  Speaker 1: scalding hot water. In their effects and results upon man,
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  Speaker 1: lack of heat and excess of heat are both negatives.
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  Speaker 1: That not enough is no worse than that too much.
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  Speaker 1: The only positive for him is found in the norm,
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  Speaker 1: his normal range of temperature. The same rule applies to
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  Speaker 1: every phase of character qualities, and to many other things
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  Speaker 1: in nature as well. Strive ever to secure and to
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  Speaker 1: maintain the golden mean. Few persons realize that by carrying
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  Speaker 1: a good thing too far, they tend to negate its
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  Speaker 1: norm as truly as if they manifested the opposite quality
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  Speaker 1: or deficiency negative of that thing. But such is the
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: actual result of such an extreme course of action. When
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: you manifest the excess negative of a positive mental or
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: emotional characteristic, you really negate its property of making you stronger, better,
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: and more efficient, quite as truly as if you had
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: negated it by manifesting its opposite or deficiency negative. In
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: either case, the negation serves to make you weaker, worse,
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  Speaker 1: and less efficient. You must never lose sight of this
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  Speaker 1: great principle of polarity. When in this instruction we warn
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  Speaker 1: you against manifesting negative mental or emotional states, we mean
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  Speaker 1: either negative i e. Excess negative as truly as deficiency negative.
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  Speaker 1: You have been shown that every element of character has
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: its positive phase and its two phases of negation, each
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: of the latter constituting a true negative to the positive phase.
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  Speaker 1: You are now asked to consider a correlated fact. By
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: a law of nature, positive and negatives cannot coexist in
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: active manifestation. At the same time and place. If one
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: is present and active, the opposite must be non active
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: and practically absent. Just as a thing cannot be both
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: hard and soft, or sharp and blunt or heaving light,
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  Speaker 1: or rough and smooth at the same time and place,
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: so positive and negative mental qualities cannot both be actively
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: manifested at the same time and place. This being likewise
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  Speaker 1: true of the two opposing negatives associated with each positive.
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  Speaker 1: The presence and activity of a positive tends to inhibit
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: the activity of either in both of its associated negatives.
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  Speaker 1: The activity of one negative tends to inhibit the activity
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: of its associated positive and also of its opposite negative.
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: Inhibit means to check, to hold back, to restrain, to forbid,
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: to prohibit, to interdict. Inhibition means act or state of
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: being inhibited, state of restraint, prohibition, or embargo. General rules
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: for development or inhibition. Based upon the above stated laws
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: or principles of the relation and correlation of the positives
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: and negatives of character qualities, we have the following general
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: rules concerning the respective development or inhibition of the qualities
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: of character one. To develop a positive. To develop a
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: positive character quality, you should a earnestly and consistently express
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  Speaker 1: and manifest it in action, so as to obtain the
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: benefits arising from exercise, practice and use. B Supply it
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  Speaker 1: with the appropriate suggestive mental environment in order to obtain
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: the natural reaction to such and the stimulus from it.
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  Speaker 1: C carefully and faithfully refraining from expressing or manifesting its
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  Speaker 1: deficiency negative or from supplying such with appropriate suggestive mental environment.
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  Speaker 1: D Hold firmly in mind and adhere faithfully to the
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  Speaker 1: essential idea and basic conception of the positive norm of
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  Speaker 1: the quality, and add to it the positive elements of discrimination, balance,
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  Speaker 1: and the sense of humor. In order to prevent the
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  Speaker 1: excessive expression in perverted manifestation of the quality, which tends
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  Speaker 1: to transform it into its excess negative, and thus to
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  Speaker 1: rob it of its essential positive virtue. Two. To inhibit
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  Speaker 1: a deficiency negative. To inhibit a deficiency negative character quality,
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  Speaker 1: you should a carefully and faithfully refrain from expressing it
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  Speaker 1: or from supplying it with appropriate suggestive mental environment, and
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  Speaker 1: be endeavor constantly and determinately to express and manifest its
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  Speaker 1: associated positive. Here we have an illustration of the principle
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  Speaker 1: that one expressing a negative tends to inhibit its associated
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  Speaker 1: positive and two. Expressing a positive tends to inhibit its
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  Speaker 1: associated negative. Example, by turning on the light positive, you
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  Speaker 1: inhibit the darkness negative in the room. Or by pouring
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  Speaker 1: muddy water negative in a bowl of clear water positive,
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  Speaker 1: you tend to inhibit the positive, Whereas, on the other hand,
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  Speaker 1: by allowing a stream of clear water positive to flow
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  Speaker 1: into a bowl of dirty water negative, you tend to
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  Speaker 1: inhibit the negative. The best way to inhibit a negative
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  Speaker 1: is to develop its associated positive. Turn on the light,
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  Speaker 1: and you need not shovel the darkness out of the
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  Speaker 1: room free to inhibit an excess negative. To inhibit an
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  Speaker 1: excess negative character quality, you have but to a strongly
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  Speaker 1: idealize and visualize the associated positive norm, thus having before
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  Speaker 1: you a clear, strong picture of the positive quality rationally
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  Speaker 1: and properly manifested, and be adding to and blending with
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  Speaker 1: the quality, a liberal and sufficient mixture of the elements
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  Speaker 1: of judgment, reason, moderation, sense of real values, sense of
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  Speaker 1: balance and proportion, and last but not least, a goodly
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  Speaker 1: portion of the sense of humor. Excess negatives usually are
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  Speaker 1: really perversions or corruptions of the positive norm of a
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  Speaker 1: character quality. The positive quality has been turned away from
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  Speaker 1: the right road of expression and has wandered into the
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  Speaker 1: quagmire of excess, morbidity and misapplication. The addition of other
• 42:56
  Speaker 1: positive elements of character tends to bring about the necessary
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  Speaker 1: reaction to the normal and the positive quality once more
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  Speaker 1: is set upon the right road of manifestation. You will
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  Speaker 1: see the application of this principle more clearly when you
• 43:09
  Speaker 1: consider the illustrations of excess negatives given in the following
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  Speaker 1: sections of this book. You are here asked to commit
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  Speaker 1: to memory the following suggestive aphorism. Excessive expression or manifestation
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  Speaker 1: of a positive character quality is equivalent to a perversion
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: or corruption of the essential spirit of that quality. By
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  Speaker 1: means of it, the positive nature of the quality is
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  Speaker 1: transformed into a negative and thus loses its virtue. Charting
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: your character qualities, Before you can proceed intelligently to develop
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  Speaker 1: your character along the true lines of strength, goodness, and efficiency,
• 43:43
  Speaker 1: you must come to an agreement with yourself concerning the
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  Speaker 1: matter of your present development of character, an understanding of
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: just what qualities of your character are strong, just which
• 43:51
  Speaker 1: of them are weak, just which need developing, just which
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: require restricting. You should take stock of your mental equipment
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: careful noting the state of activity and strength being manifested
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: by your positive qualities and by your negative qualities as well,
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: so that you will know just where you stand in
• 44:09
  Speaker 1: the matter of character qualities. In a general way, you
• 44:12
  Speaker 1: know your strong qualities and your weak ones. If you
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  Speaker 1: are honest with yourself, you will have no difficulty in
• 44:18
  Speaker 1: noting down on your character chart the degree of development
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: an activity which you have attained in the case of
• 44:23
  Speaker 1: most of your mental and emotional faculties. But unless you
• 44:27
  Speaker 1: have made a careful analysis of character qualities in general,
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: you will fail to some extent in preparing an efficient
• 44:33
  Speaker 1: character chart for use in your work of character building. Therefore,
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: we have thought it well to prepare for you and
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  Speaker 1: to present to you in this book a comprehensive character
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  Speaker 1: chart showing the principal qualities of character manifested by men
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  Speaker 1: in general. You will find this character chart to be
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: quite useful to you in your work of character building.
• 44:53
  Speaker 1: The sight of the word indicating some positive quality will
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: cause your mind to form a clear and strong concept
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  Speaker 1: of that quality, which will serve as a mental mold
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  Speaker 1: or framework around which your work of building up that
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: quality may proceed. Likewise, the word denoting some negative quality
• 45:09
  Speaker 1: will cause that quality to take on a definite form
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  Speaker 1: and aspect in your mind, thereby enabling you to combat
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  Speaker 1: it more effectively. You can fight a flesh and blood
• 45:17
  Speaker 1: enemy much better than you can combat an antagonistic, ghostly,
• 45:21
  Speaker 1: nebulous form. When you know your enemies and see them
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  Speaker 1: actually before you, you are the better prepared to fight
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  Speaker 1: and conquer them. As some one has said, an enemy
• 45:31
  Speaker 1: known is half beaten. Drive the enemy out into the open,
• 45:35
  Speaker 1: into the clearing, and you will have him at a disadvantage.
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  Speaker 1: Self examination, we suggest that you study carefully the following
• 45:44
  Speaker 1: character chart, and that at the same time, carefully study
• 45:47
  Speaker 1: yourself your character. Be honest and frank with yourself. Do
• 45:52
  Speaker 1: not try to deceive yourself, for by doing so you
• 45:55
  Speaker 1: will hurt yourself. If you have a strong positive quality
• 45:58
  Speaker 1: well developed, not allow false modesty to prevent you from
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: marking it down on the character chart. Likewise, if you
• 46:06
  Speaker 1: are weak and deficient in some quality, or have its
• 46:08
  Speaker 1: negative opposite too active, do not let pride prevent you
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  Speaker 1: from marking it down. The character chart is the diagnosis
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  Speaker 1: of your case. You know the diagnosis upon which the
• 46:19
  Speaker 1: treatment is to be based, and administered, and unless you
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  Speaker 1: be honest and frank with yourself in preparing this chart,
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  Speaker 1: you will fail to obtain the full benefits of this
• 46:27
  Speaker 1: instruction and of the self treatment based upon it. You
• 46:31
  Speaker 1: will notice that in the character chart there is noted
• 46:34
  Speaker 1: in the middle column the positive norm of each particular
• 46:37
  Speaker 1: faculty or quality of character, and that on either side
• 46:40
  Speaker 1: of this there appears the deficiency negative and the excess negative, respectively.
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  Speaker 1: You should carefully consider each one of these three groups,
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  Speaker 1: and then decide which of the three phases is predominant
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  Speaker 1: in your character. Sometimes you will find yourself just a
• 46:55
  Speaker 1: little to one side or the other of the positive norm,
• 46:58
  Speaker 1: yet not far enough away to place you in the
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: category of either of the negatives. You should check off
• 47:04
  Speaker 1: carefully with your pencil the particular place you occupy in
• 47:07
  Speaker 1: each of the groups. By doing this, you provide yourself
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  Speaker 1: with a plain guide or prescription for self treatment along
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  Speaker 1: the lines of character building. One the egoistic qualities deficiency negative,
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  Speaker 1: lack of egohood, lack of self control, lack of self confidence,
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  Speaker 1: lack of initiative, positive norm egohood, self control, self confidence, initiative,
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  Speaker 1: excess negative egotism, asceticism, egotistic conceit, egotistic rashness. Two The
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  Speaker 1: intellectual qualities deficiency negative, inefficient perception, careless observation, fallacious reasoning,
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  Speaker 1: lack of imagination, inefficient memory, positive norm, efficient observation, efficient perception,
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  Speaker 1: logical reasoning, constructive imagination, efficient memory, excess negative purposeless observation,
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  Speaker 1: nondiscriminative perception, hair splitting reasoning, idle fancy, memory of non
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  Speaker 1: essentials free. The motive qualities positive norm, concentrated attention, persistent determination, stability,
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  Speaker 1: industry deficiency, negative lack of concentration, lack of persistency, instability, slothfulness, excess,
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  Speaker 1: negative over concentration, stubborn obstinacy, inertness, slavery to work. For
• 48:33
  Speaker 1: the emotive qualities deficiency negative cowardice, lack of spirit, improvidence,
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  Speaker 1: hopeless doubt, apathetic, lethargy, lack of ambition, positive norm, courage,
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  Speaker 1: balanced temper, provident acquisitiveness, hopeful faith, earnest interest, ambition, excess,
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  Speaker 1: negative recklessness, ill temper, miserly greed, visionary credulity, unbalanced enthusiasm,
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  Speaker 1: inordinate ambition. Five. The associated qualities deficiency, negative, undue, gravity, cheerlessness, tactlessness,
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  Speaker 1: positive norm, humor, cheerfulness, tact, excess, negative, undue, levity, strained cheerfulness, insincere, suavity.
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  Speaker 1: Six The moral qualities deficiency, negative, untruthfulness, inequity, lack of sympathy, disloyalty,
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  Speaker 1: refusal to serve, temperance, chastity, positive norm, veracity, equity, kindliness, loyalty, service, intemperance, sexophobia, excess,
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  Speaker 1: negative morbid candor, sensoriousness, maudlin sympathy, blind partisanship, servility, austerity, unchastity. Seven.
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  Speaker 1: The spiritual qualities positive norm, spirituality, reverence, deficiency, negative lack
• 50:00
  Speaker 1: of spirituality, lack of reverence, excess, negative, perverted spirituality, superstitious, awe.
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  Speaker 1: The above chart of the principal character qualities is not
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  Speaker 1: offered as an all inclusive or complete list or table
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  Speaker 1: of each and every character quality noted by observers and
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  Speaker 1: known in our own experience. Rather, it is intended merely
• 50:22
  Speaker 1: as a general, suggestive list or table of such general qualities. However,
• 50:27
  Speaker 1: it is thought that but few, if any, typical general
• 50:30
  Speaker 1: character qualities are absent from it. Those qualities not specifically
• 50:35
  Speaker 1: designated in the list or table are believed to be
• 50:37
  Speaker 1: covered by those which are so designated and included in
• 50:41
  Speaker 1: one or more of the following ways, viz. One, where
• 50:44
  Speaker 1: the undesignated quality is included under some other name or term.
• 50:48
  Speaker 1: Two where the undesignated quality is treated as a phase, form, aspect,
• 50:53
  Speaker 1: or degree of some one of the designated qualities. Free,
• 50:57
  Speaker 1: where the undesignated quality is a composite attribute, its elements
• 51:01
  Speaker 1: being represented in the list or table of the designated qualities.
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  Speaker 1: In all such case, however, we believe that you will
• 51:09
  Speaker 1: find the missing character quality present in spirit and meaning,
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  Speaker 1: if not in name and form. The numerous character qualities
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  Speaker 1: designated in the character chart are considered in detail in
• 51:20
  Speaker 1: the several succeeding sections of this book. We advise you
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  Speaker 1: to study carefully this detailed analysis of the several qualities,
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  Speaker 1: so that you may understand each one fully, and that
• 51:30
  Speaker 1: you submit yourself to an honest, vigorous, and exhaustive self
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  Speaker 1: examination concerning the form and degree in which each respective
• 51:37
  Speaker 1: quality is now being manifested and expressed by you. Remember
• 51:42
  Speaker 1: the old adage man know thyself. Character power, positive individuality.
• 51:49
  Speaker 1: By William Walker Atkinson, nineteen twenty two. The egoistic qualities
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  Speaker 1: the first of the several classes of the character qualities
• 51:58
  Speaker 1: is that known as the egoistic qualities. The several particular
• 52:03
  Speaker 1: qualities composing that class are as follows one. The egoistic
• 52:08
  Speaker 1: qualities deficiency negative, lack of egohood, lack of self control,
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  Speaker 1: lack of self confidence, lack of initiative, positive norm egohood,
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  Speaker 1: self control, self confidence, initiative, excess, negative egotism, asceticism, egotistic conceit,
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  Speaker 1: egotistic rashness. You are now asked to consider each of
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  Speaker 1: the above stated several particular character qualities composing the class
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  Speaker 1: of the egoistic qualities. Egohood consists of the conscious recognition, realization,
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  Speaker 1: and manifestation of one's individuality. True individuality is based upon
• 52:47
  Speaker 1: the conscious recognition and realization that one's self or ego
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  Speaker 1: is a reality, a center of real power and life
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  Speaker 1: in the great cosmic manifestation of power and life. Egohood
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  Speaker 1: is the state of life full conscious realization of oneself
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  Speaker 1: as the ego or permanent subject of all mental and
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  Speaker 1: physical experience of the individual. Egohood is the quality of
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  Speaker 1: the conscious recognition, realization, and manifestation of the i Ami
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  Speaker 1: of the individual. Egohood possesses two general phases namely, one
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  Speaker 1: the recognition of the real relation correlation between the ego
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  Speaker 1: and its world of experience, and two the recognition of
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  Speaker 1: the real relation correlation between the ego and the universal
• 53:30
  Speaker 1: principle of power. In the first phase above noted, the
• 53:34
  Speaker 1: ego perceives and realizes the distinction between itself on the
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  Speaker 1: one hand, and its experiences of thought, feeling, will, action,
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  Speaker 1: et cetera on the other hand. In this phase, the
• 53:46
  Speaker 1: ego is conscious of itself as an entity endowed with
• 53:49
  Speaker 1: and possessing certain mental and physical instruments of expression and
• 53:53
  Speaker 1: experience which belong to it, but which in no way
• 53:56
  Speaker 1: constitute its essential being. This recognition brings with it a
• 54:00
  Speaker 1: sense of the right and power of mastery over these
• 54:03
  Speaker 1: mental and physical instruments of expression and experience. The individual
• 54:08
  Speaker 1: in whom egohood is awakened is conscious of his mental
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  Speaker 1: and emotional faculties as rightfully being servants of his will,
• 54:14
  Speaker 1: and not as the masters of his will. In the
• 54:17
  Speaker 1: second phase above noted, the ego perceives itself to be
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  Speaker 1: a center of life, consciousness, and power in and of
• 54:24
  Speaker 1: the great universal principle of power. As a consequence, it
• 54:28
  Speaker 1: experiences a conscious certainty of true being in reality, a
• 54:32
  Speaker 1: certainty of eternal and immutable existence, and a certainty of
• 54:36
  Speaker 1: security and safety, notwithstanding the storms and tempests of the
• 54:39
  Speaker 1: personal existence in the world of experience and expression. The
• 54:43
  Speaker 1: consciousness of this relation to universal power and ultimate reality
• 54:47
  Speaker 1: gives to the ego a sense of power and certainty
• 54:50
  Speaker 1: which nothing else can impart. It links it to the
• 54:52
  Speaker 1: eternal verities, and imparts to it a confidence and sense
• 54:56
  Speaker 1: of security impossible to those who have not unfolded into
• 54:59
  Speaker 1: this consciousness. The subject of egohood has been referred to
• 55:03
  Speaker 1: in a preceding section of this book. It has also
• 55:06
  Speaker 1: been considered in considerable detail and to a greater extent,
• 55:09
  Speaker 1: in that initial book of this series entitled Personal Power,
• 55:12
  Speaker 1: to which we refer the student wishing to proceed further
• 55:15
  Speaker 1: in his study of this particular branch of our general instruction.
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  Speaker 1: The deficiency negative of egohood is known as lack of egohood,
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  Speaker 1: which is marked by an absence of the realization of
• 55:25
  Speaker 1: the presence of the ego as a real entity and
• 55:28
  Speaker 1: as the master of the mental and emotional faculties its
• 55:31
  Speaker 1: instruments of expression and experience, and also by an absence
• 55:34
  Speaker 1: of the realization of the relation of the real self
• 55:37
  Speaker 1: or ego to the universal principle of power, the ultimate reality,
• 55:41
  Speaker 1: and the correlation existing between that and the ego. The
• 55:46
  Speaker 1: excess negative of egohood is that known as egotism, which
• 55:49
  Speaker 1: is marked by a false sense of the importance of
• 55:51
  Speaker 1: one's personality, and which results in self conceit, overweening vanity, arrogance,
• 55:57
  Speaker 1: and inordinate desire for admiration and public notice. It differs
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  Speaker 1: essentially from egohood inasmuch as it is based upon vanity
• 56:05
  Speaker 1: concerning one's real or assumed personal qualities, traits, abilities, or powers,
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  Speaker 1: whereas egohood bases its sense of power upon the conscious
• 56:13
  Speaker 1: fact of its individual impersonal reality and importance. Lack of egohood,
• 56:19
  Speaker 1: the deficiency negative of egohood, cannot exist in coordinated being
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  Speaker 1: with egohood, for the two are antithetical opposites. Neither can
• 56:28
  Speaker 1: egotism exist in coordinated being with true egohood. Egohood is
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  Speaker 1: based upon the true conception of the iamite focus or
• 56:36
  Speaker 1: center of universal power, as being the basic fact of
• 56:38
  Speaker 1: individual existence, personality being regarded by it as merely the
• 56:43
  Speaker 1: part in the play performed by the individual. The manifestation
• 56:46
  Speaker 1: of the instruments of its expression and experience, worthy of
• 56:50
  Speaker 1: being regarded with true pride and satisfaction, but in no
• 56:53
  Speaker 1: wise to be mistaken for the real self, or to
• 56:55
  Speaker 1: become the ground of arrogance, conceit, vanity, et cetera. Self
• 57:02
  Speaker 1: control consists of the control and mastery of the instruments
• 57:05
  Speaker 1: of expression and experience by the ego or i ami
• 57:08
  Speaker 1: of the individual. Self control distinguishes the great individuals of
• 57:13
  Speaker 1: the race. Those in whom the consciousness of egohood is
• 57:17
  Speaker 1: well awakened begin to manifest self control almost involuntarily. Discovering
• 57:21
  Speaker 1: the ego to be the i ami at the center
• 57:24
  Speaker 1: of the being of the individual, they begin to assert
• 57:27
  Speaker 1: that sovereignty which is a prerogative of that dominant position.
• 57:31
  Speaker 1: Such an individual refuses to continue or to become a
• 57:34
  Speaker 1: slave of the thoughts, feelings, emotions, and habits of his
• 57:37
  Speaker 1: instruments of expression and experience, but instead asserts his mastery
• 57:42
  Speaker 1: over them and orders his mental and emotional kingdom to
• 57:45
  Speaker 1: conform to what he conceives to be his sumum bonum,
• 57:47
  Speaker 1: or chief good. The deficiency negative of self control is
• 57:51
  Speaker 1: known as lack of self control. This negative quality is
• 57:55
  Speaker 1: marked by a greater or less degree of the absence
• 57:57
  Speaker 1: of authority of the ego over the mental and emotional
• 58:00
  Speaker 1: instruments under its control, and by the tendency to let
• 58:03
  Speaker 1: these instruments act like runaway horses or as spoiled children
• 58:07
  Speaker 1: i e. Without control, restraint, or mastery. The excess negative
• 58:13
  Speaker 1: of self control is that quality known as asceticism i e. Undue, austerity,
• 58:18
  Speaker 1: extreme self denial, cel mortification, self punishment, et cetera. Asceticism
• 58:24
  Speaker 1: inclines toward extreme self denial based upon the false belief
• 58:28
  Speaker 1: that there is some particular virtue in denying to oneself
• 58:31
  Speaker 1: anything in everything that gives pleasure in any form. It
• 58:35
  Speaker 1: seems to proceed upon the theory that anything that gives
• 58:37
  Speaker 1: pleasure is evil, not because of any probable injurious effects,
• 58:41
  Speaker 1: but rather simply because it possesses the property of giving pleasure.
• 58:45
  Speaker 1: Asceticism seems to regard pleasure as evil and pain as good.
• 58:49
  Speaker 1: This is an abnormal, morbid, and pernicious doctrine in the
• 58:53
  Speaker 1: view of sane, thoughtful individuals. Self control the positive norm
• 58:58
  Speaker 1: is based upon no such which ideas or ideals. Instead,
• 59:02
  Speaker 1: it holds that all things are good to be used
• 59:05
  Speaker 1: in their right time and place, but nothing is good
• 59:08
  Speaker 1: enough to use, dominate, or master the individual. True self
• 59:12
  Speaker 1: control is the same middle ground or golden mean, between
• 59:16
  Speaker 1: uncontrolled indulgence on the one hand and asceticism on the
• 59:20
  Speaker 1: other hand. It is the perfect flower which supplants the
• 59:24
  Speaker 1: two weeds of the extremes of the negatives. Self confidence
• 59:28
  Speaker 1: consists of the conscious confidence, reliance, and belief in oneself.
• 59:33
  Speaker 1: It arises from an underlying conviction that the ego or
• 59:36
  Speaker 1: I am I is in control of the instruments and
• 59:39
  Speaker 1: faculties of expression and experience, and has developed these to
• 59:42
  Speaker 1: an extent sufficient for them to function effectively inefficiently. It
• 59:47
  Speaker 1: is a healthy, normal, rational, mental and emotional quality, and
• 59:51
  Speaker 1: is present in all individuals who dare to attempt to
• 59:54
  Speaker 1: accomplish things in the world of experience. Its keynote is
• 59:58
  Speaker 1: I can, I will I da I do I. It
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 1: employs the master formula of attainment viz. One definite ideals,
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 1: two insistent desire, three confident expectation for persistent determination, five
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 1: balanced compensation. It is the spirit of the I am I,
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 1: conscious of its nature and of its inherent powers, pressing
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 1: forward to expression and realization in objective form. Self confidence
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 1: is one of the most positive of the positive qualities,
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 1: and should be developed carefully and persistently by all who
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 1: wish to do things in the world. The deficiency negative
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 1: of self confidence is known as lack of self confidence,
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 1: and is marked by the absence of all the essential
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 1: qualities which characterize the positive norm of self confidence. It
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 1: is the quality so prominent in the I can't and
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 1: I'm afraid to try individuals. It paralyzes all human effort
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 1: and endeavor. Many persons, having many other positive qualities well developed,
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 1: fail to demonstrate and manifest them effectively because they lack
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 1: self confidence. Self confidence is an important element of character,
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 1: the absence of which prevents the expression and manifestation of
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 1: many of the other positive qualities. The excess negative of
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 1: self confidence is that known as egotistic conceit, which is
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 1: composed of vain conceit, false assurance, and an overweening arrogant cocksureness.
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 1: Self confidence is based upon one's belief in the development
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 1: of his own faculties, his control and efficient direction thereof,
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 1: and his innate and inherent powers. Egotistic conceit, on the
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 1: other hand, is based upon the vain feeling that one's talents, capacity,
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 1: personal qualities, and attractions are of a superior order simply
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 1: because they happen to be his own, a part of
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 1: his own egotistical personal self, rather than because of their
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  Speaker 1: actual degree of development, direction, and control. Egotistic conceit is
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  Speaker 1: a grotesque caricature of true self confidence, and real life
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  Speaker 1: is a negative of the latter. Initiative consists of the
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  Speaker 1: institution of one's action by himself, instead of by the
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  Speaker 1: orders or directions of others. To initiate is to introduce,
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  Speaker 1: to make a beginning, to set afoot, to originate, to commence,
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  Speaker 1: to begin, or enter upon. Persons possessed of initiative are
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  Speaker 1: able to do things without being told. A valuable faculty
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  Speaker 1: when rightly applied. Persons in whom this faculty is well
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  Speaker 1: developed are able to act without special orders when confronted
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  Speaker 1: by conditions concerning which they have received no directions. They
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  Speaker 1: are able to act upon their own when necessity arises.
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  Speaker 1: They are self starters. They find themselves inspired by self
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  Speaker 1: confidence and filled by a sense of their own ability
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  Speaker 1: to act intelligently and effectively on their own account without
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  Speaker 1: being specially ordered or directed by those in authority over them.
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  Speaker 1: Men with initiative of this kind are eagerly sought in
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  Speaker 1: all lines of human endeavor. They are comparatively scarce. Many
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  Speaker 1: are called for, but few are chosen. These men are
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  Speaker 1: the generals and other commanding officers of the army of
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  Speaker 1: everyday life and work, the men of initiative. These self starters, however,
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  Speaker 1: are not uninfluenced by the opinions and views of others,
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  Speaker 1: though they may seem to be so. Instead, they carefully
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  Speaker 1: consider and weigh the views and opinions of others as
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  Speaker 1: well as their own, and then come to a decision
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  Speaker 1: and form a judgment. Then they act on their own responsibility,
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  Speaker 1: without requiring orders or commands from these others. They acquaint
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  Speaker 1: themselves with the pros and cons of the subject of
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  Speaker 1: their actions, and thus are able to decide intelligently and
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  Speaker 1: to act upon that decision. They are not egotistical in
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  Speaker 1: their judgments, but are quite willing to adopt an opinion
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  Speaker 1: or idea of another if it seems to fit in
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  Speaker 1: with the general purpose and end. But they are self
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  Speaker 1: starters and do not require others to initiate their actions
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  Speaker 1: or to command their steps for them. The deficiency negative
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  Speaker 1: of initiative is known as lack of initiative, which is
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  Speaker 1: marked by an absence of all of the characteristics of initiative.
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  Speaker 1: Those who lack initiative are unable or unwilling to undertake
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  Speaker 1: any enterprise or course of action on their own account.
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  Speaker 1: They may be excellent servants and obeyors of orders, but
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  Speaker 1: they cannot act without being told to do the thing,
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  Speaker 1: how and when to do it, and when to stop
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  Speaker 1: doing it. They seem to lack the power of self
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  Speaker 1: starting and that of self direction. They need always to
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  Speaker 1: be told. Their office in life is to be led
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  Speaker 1: or driven. The best that can be expected of them
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  Speaker 1: is that they will obey orders faithfully, and this is
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  Speaker 1: much in many cases. The excess negative of initiative is
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  Speaker 1: known as egotistic rashness, which is marked by a disposition
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  Speaker 1: to act not only without orders for direction, but also
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  Speaker 1: without due consideration, forethought, and judgment. Those of this type
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  Speaker 1: seem to think that every plan of action or conduct
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  Speaker 1: which which occurs to them is good simply because they
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  Speaker 1: themselves happen to think of it. They are inclined to
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  Speaker 1: undervalue the opinions and experience of others simply because they
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  Speaker 1: are those of the others instead of their own. Vanity,
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  Speaker 1: vain conceit, and personal false pride take the place of judgment,
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  Speaker 1: open mindedness, careful consideration, accompanied by self confidence. Such persons
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  Speaker 1: are the fools who rush in where angels fear to tread.
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  Speaker 1: They lack balance, sense of true proportion and that true
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  Speaker 1: individuality which transcends mere personality. This negative quality is a
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  Speaker 1: counterfeit of true initiative. It is the donkey wearing the
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  Speaker 1: lion's skin, the peacock wearing the feathers of the eagle,
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  Speaker 1: the ape wearing the garb of the man. Egohood is
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  Speaker 1: based upon true individuality. Egotism is based upon self exalted personality.
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  Speaker 1: Egohood is posited upon the consciousness of true being. Its
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  Speaker 1: expression is I am I in that sense of the
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  Speaker 1: term which indicates its fundamental reality and verity, as a
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  Speaker 1: focal center of consciousness and power in the universal principle
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  Speaker 1: of power, and as a center of activity in one's
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  Speaker 1: mental and emotional kingdom. Egotism is positive in the limited
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  Speaker 1: consciousness of personality, the consciousness of oneself. As John Smith,
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  Speaker 1: instead of I am I, it regards its temporary, passing,
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  Speaker 1: changeable and variable aggregate of mental and emotional states as
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  Speaker 1: being its true nature instead of things belonging to the
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  Speaker 1: I am I. Egohood has true pride based upon its essential, constant,
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  Speaker 1: and fundamental nature. Egotism has false pride based upon its superficial,
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  Speaker 1: in constant, and non essential nature. An understanding of the
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  Speaker 1: above stated distinction between egohood and egotism will explain the
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  Speaker 1: difference between the counterfeit and the real in the list
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  Speaker 1: of the qualities above considered, the positive norm in each
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  Speaker 1: case will be found to rest upon the consciousness of
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  Speaker 1: true egohood, whereas in each case the excess negative will
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  Speaker 1: be found to wrin upon the consciousness of false selfhood
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  Speaker 1: or egotism. The remedy is apparent, develop true individuality and egohood,
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  Speaker 1: and thus dispel the shadowy presence of egoism or false selfhood.
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  Speaker 1: Remember the rule, develop the positives and thus weaken and
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  Speaker 1: inhibit the negatives. Character power positive individuality. By William Walker Atkinson,
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  Speaker 1: nineteen twenty two. The intellectual qualities. The second of the
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  Speaker 1: several classes of the character qualities is that known as
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  Speaker 1: the intellectual qualities. The several general qualities composing that class
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  Speaker 1: are as follows two. The intellectual qualities deficiency, negative careless observation,
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  Speaker 1: inefficient perception, fallacious reasoning, lack of imagination, inefficient memory, positive
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  Speaker 1: norm efficient observation, efficient perception, logical reasoning, constructive imagination, efficient memory, excess,
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  Speaker 1: negative purposeless observation, nondiscriminative perception, hair splitting reasoning, idle fancy
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  Speaker 1: memory of non essentials. You are now asked to consider
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  Speaker 1: each of the above stated character qualities composing the class
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  Speaker 1: of the intellectual qualities. Efficient observation consists of the efficient
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  Speaker 1: purposive observation of the objects, subjects, and events of one's experience.
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  Speaker 1: Observation means the act or faculty of taking notice, observing,
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  Speaker 1: noting with care, discovering. Observation depends upon the degree of
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  Speaker 1: attention and interest inspiring The act observation constitutes a most
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  Speaker 1: important factor in efficient thinking and reasoning. It supplies the
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  Speaker 1: raw material of thought. Likewise, it is the efficient basis
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  Speaker 1: of creative imagination, invention, and designing, and upon its foundation
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  Speaker 1: the structure of memory is built. Our memory records and
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  Speaker 1: our images of reproductive imagination are but variants of observed
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  Speaker 1: things and facts. The three elements of efficient observation are
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  Speaker 1: one attention, in which the mind goes out towards the
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  Speaker 1: object of observation, two interest, which inspires and holds the attention,
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  Speaker 1: and three discrimination, which distinguishes between the discovery and detection
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  Speaker 1: of facts concerning things which contribute to our efficiency on
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  Speaker 1: the one hand, and the noting of facts and things
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  Speaker 1: which serve no practical purpose or end in our lives
• 1:09:29
  Speaker 1: on the other hand. The excess negative of efficient observation
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  Speaker 1: is known as careless observation, in which are lacking all
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  Speaker 1: the elements of the positive quality. The majority of persons
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  Speaker 1: are deficient in observation, hence their lack of material for
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 1: efficient thought, creative and constructive imagination, and effective memory. The
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  Speaker 1: excess negative of efficient observation is known as purposeless observation,
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  Speaker 1: in which the attention is devoted to every passing object
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  Speaker 1: of experience without rational discrimination and based upon efficient use, purpose,
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  Speaker 1: or definite end. It stores the mind with a lot
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  Speaker 1: of junk instead of with useful material. Efficient perception consists
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  Speaker 1: of the efficient purposive perception of the objects, subjects, and
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  Speaker 1: events of one's experience. Perception is the faculty or act
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  Speaker 1: of consciousness, whereby it apprehends, comprehends or takes cognizance of
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  Speaker 1: the reports of the senses reaching it in the form
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  Speaker 1: of sensation. Perception is the assimilation of the materials supplied
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  Speaker 1: by observation. In observation, you note the things and facts
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  Speaker 1: of your experience. In perception, you identify those facts or
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  Speaker 1: things according to their nature and character, and thus know
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  Speaker 1: them for what they are. Perception furnishes the units of thought, reasoning, judgment,
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  Speaker 1: and constructive imagination. It supplies the building blocks from which
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  Speaker 1: the structures of efficient reasoning and invention are to be built.
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  Speaker 1: Percepts constitute the simple idea from which are built and
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  Speaker 1: constituted our concepts, general ideas, logical classes, and other higher
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  Speaker 1: elements of thought. The deficiency negative of efficient perception is
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  Speaker 1: known as inefficient perception, in which are lacking all the
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  Speaker 1: elements of the positive quality. The great masses of persons
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  Speaker 1: lack the faculty of efficient perception, and thus are without
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  Speaker 1: the materials of efficient thought, reasoning, invention, constructive imagination, et cetera.
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  Speaker 1: The excess negative of efficient perception is known as nondiscriminative perception,
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  Speaker 1: which is characterized by the frittering away of perceptive power
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  Speaker 1: on objects, facts, and events which are non essential to
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  Speaker 1: our efficient thought, reasoning, and constructive imagination, and which fill
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  Speaker 1: the mind with a mass of worthless material serving no
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  Speaker 1: useful or practical purpose. Perceptive power without discrimination is practically
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  Speaker 1: useless and serves to choke and clog the true perceptive
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  Speaker 1: areas of the mind. Logical reasoning consists of the employment
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  Speaker 1: of the reasoning factsiculties along the lines of logical inference, induction,
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  Speaker 1: and deduction. Reasoning is the act or process of proceeding
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  Speaker 1: from that which is known to that which is not
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  Speaker 1: known for the purpose of discovering truth. The report of
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  Speaker 1: the reasoning process is known as a judgment. A judgment
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  Speaker 1: is arrived at by means of the respective processes of analysis,
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  Speaker 1: or the distinction of differences of synthesis, or the distinction
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  Speaker 1: of resemblances and of inference, or the distinction of essential identity.
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  Speaker 1: Logic may be styled the science of correct reasoning. It
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  Speaker 1: is a formal statement of the laws and rules of
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  Speaker 1: correct reasoning as discovered by the great thinkers of the race.
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  Speaker 1: It is not an artificial scheme or plan of reasoning,
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  Speaker 1: but is rather the formulation and statement of the principles
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  Speaker 1: which distinguish efficient and correct thinking. And reasoning from that
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  Speaker 1: of the opposite character. Logic points out the road to
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  Speaker 1: the discovery of truth. The road itself already exists. It
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  Speaker 1: has existed ever since the rational faculty were created or
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  Speaker 1: evolved in man. The deficiency negative of logical reasoning is
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  Speaker 1: known as fallacious reasoning or reasoning either a based upon
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  Speaker 1: false premises, b conducted upon illogical principles, c resulting in
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  Speaker 1: an illogical and unwarranted conclusion or judgment, or d Combining
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  Speaker 1: all of these false methods. The great mass of persons
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  Speaker 1: reason more or less fallaciously, and therefore fail to reach
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  Speaker 1: the truth concerning the subjects under consideration. The excess negative
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  Speaker 1: of logical reasoning is known as hair splitting reasoning, in
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  Speaker 1: which the main purpose and end of reasoning, i e.
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  Speaker 1: The discovery of truth is overlooked, and in which the
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  Speaker 1: technical form takes the place of the spirit and substance
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  Speaker 1: of the thought, in which one reasons about terms and
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  Speaker 1: forms rather than about things. The counterfeit reasoning is inefficient
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  Speaker 1: because it results in no real and practical advantage, use,
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  Speaker 1: or purpose, and also because it tends most readily to
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  Speaker 1: false and deceptive reasoning. Casuistry and sophistry Constructive imagination consists
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  Speaker 1: of the employment of the faculty of imagination along constructive,
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  Speaker 1: creative efficient lines towards some definite and useful purpose. Imagination,
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  Speaker 1: in its true sense, is the power of the mind
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  Speaker 1: to create mental images of objects of sense previously perceived,
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  Speaker 1: or the power to reconstruct or recombine the materials furnished
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  Speaker 1: by experience or memory, and to employ these for the
• 1:14:29
  Speaker 1: accomplishment of some useful and practical purpose. In constructive imagination,
• 1:14:34
  Speaker 1: the powers of imagination are employed for the purpose of construction, creation, invention,
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  Speaker 1: in accordance with some definite purpose and towards some definite end.
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  Speaker 1: Constructive imagination is the chief instrument of the inventor, the designer,
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  Speaker 1: that the forward looking business or professional man, the workman,
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  Speaker 1: the military officer, the writer, the artist, et cetera. It
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  Speaker 1: is one of the most important and useful of the
• 1:14:59
  Speaker 1: men mental faculties, and is truly a positive quality inasmuch
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  Speaker 1: as it tends to make you stronger, better, and more efficient.
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  Speaker 1: The deficiency negative of constructive imagination is known as lack
• 1:15:11
  Speaker 1: of imagination, in which the powers of imagination are not
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  Speaker 1: actively employed and applied, or in which they remain in
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  Speaker 1: an undeveloped state. The person lacking in imagination is under
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  Speaker 1: a serious handicap and will not be likely to move
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  Speaker 1: forward in life, for he cannot see ahead, plan, design, invent,
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  Speaker 1: or construct. The excess negative of constructive imagination is known
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  Speaker 1: as idle fancy, in which the powers of imagination, perhaps
• 1:15:39
  Speaker 1: highly developed and active, are dissipated by reason of indulgence.
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  Speaker 1: In idle fancy, daydreaming, building castles in Spain, purposeless revery,
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  Speaker 1: et cetera, having no relation to practical life, and being
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  Speaker 1: directed to no definite end. This phase of imagination is
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  Speaker 1: typically negative inasmuch as it tends to make you weaker, worse,
• 1:16:00
  Speaker 1: and less efficient according to the standard of positive efficiency
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  Speaker 1: as set forth in this instruction. Efficient memory consists of
• 1:16:08
  Speaker 1: the efficient purposive employment of the faculty of memory, the
• 1:16:12
  Speaker 1: direction of the powers of memory to some definite useful
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  Speaker 1: purpose and end according to the true principles and methods
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  Speaker 1: governing the employment of the processes of memory. The importance
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  Speaker 1: of an efficient memory need not be urged here. It
• 1:16:25
  Speaker 1: is too well known to require argument. The usable knowledge
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  Speaker 1: of the individual is stored away in his memory, subject
• 1:16:33
  Speaker 1: to efficient recollection, remembrance, and recognition memory is to the
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  Speaker 1: mind what the reproducing instrument is to the phonograph. In
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  Speaker 1: either case, that which is recorded and stored away is
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  Speaker 1: practically useless if it cannot be reproduced. An efficient memory
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  Speaker 1: is truly positive inasmuch as it tends to make you stronger, better,
• 1:16:53
  Speaker 1: and more efficient in a marked degree. It meets without qualification,
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  Speaker 1: the test of the touchstone of positivity. The defficient ny
• 1:17:00
  Speaker 1: negative of efficient memory is known as inefficient memory, which
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  Speaker 1: is marked by an absence of practically all of the
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  Speaker 1: characteristics distinguishing the positive quality. An inefficient memory is a
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  Speaker 1: most serious hand decap to the individual and is truly
• 1:17:14
  Speaker 1: a negative quality, for it truly renders the individual weaker, worse,
• 1:17:19
  Speaker 1: and less efficient in every way. The excess negative of
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  Speaker 1: efficient memory is known as memory of non essentials, which
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  Speaker 1: is marked by an undue attention to and an unnecessary
• 1:17:29
  Speaker 1: remembrance of the non essential, trivial, useless, unimportant details and
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  Speaker 1: incidents of everyday experience. This kind of memory is frequently
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  Speaker 1: found in persons of undeveloped intellect, young children, savages, and
• 1:17:43
  Speaker 1: also among the impractical inefficient persons who abound on all sides.
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  Speaker 1: Such persons will be found to lack concentration in trained attention,
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  Speaker 1: and to have interest only in the trivialities of life.
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  Speaker 1: Character power, positive individuality by William Walker Atkinson in nineteen
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  Speaker 1: twenty two. The motive qualities, the third of the several
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  Speaker 1: classes of character qualities is that known as the motive qualities.
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  Speaker 1: The term motive means that which moves or insights to action.
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  Speaker 1: The several general qualities composing that class are as follows,
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  Speaker 1: free the motive qualities deficiency, negative, lack of concentration, lack
• 1:18:26
  Speaker 1: of persistency, instability, slothfulness, positive norm, concentrated attention, persistent determination, stability,
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  Speaker 1: industry excess, negative over concentration, stubborn obstinacy, inertness, slavery to work.
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  Speaker 1: You are now asked to consider each of the above
• 1:18:46
  Speaker 1: stated qualities composing the class of the motive qualities. Concentrated
• 1:18:51
  Speaker 1: attention consists of the deliberate, voluntary concentration or focusing of
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  Speaker 1: the attention upon the subject or object under consideration. Attension
• 1:19:00
  Speaker 1: is the application of the mind to any object of sense, thought,
• 1:19:04
  Speaker 1: or memory, or more technically, attention is consciousness concentrated in
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  Speaker 1: order intelligently to conquer a particular object or subject attention
• 1:19:14
  Speaker 1: has well been compared to the contraction of the pupil
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  Speaker 1: of the eye in the processes of sight. The law
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  Speaker 1: of attention is, the fewer objects we consider at once,
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  Speaker 1: the clearer and more distinct will be our knowledge of them.
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  Speaker 1: Concentrated attention is the focusing of the mind intently upon
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  Speaker 1: that which is before it, to the exclusion of all
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  Speaker 1: else for the time being. The power or faculty of
• 1:19:36
  Speaker 1: concentrated attention distinguishes the great individuals of the race who
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  Speaker 1: have done things, the mental masters. It has been stated
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  Speaker 1: as a general principle every individual who has accomplished anything
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  Speaker 1: worth while in any field of voluntary endeavor has done
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  Speaker 1: so largely by his or her developed and trained powers
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  Speaker 1: of voluntary attention. No individual lacking in development of the
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  Speaker 1: power of voluntary attention ever, has accomplished anything worthwhile while
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  Speaker 1: such lack persists. Concentrated attention meets the requirement of the
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  Speaker 1: touchstone of positivity and is to be considered as a
• 1:20:10
  Speaker 1: positive character quality, for it truly tends to make you stronger, better,
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  Speaker 1: and more efficient. It is one of the characteristics of
• 1:20:18
  Speaker 1: a strong and well trained will, and by some is
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  Speaker 1: held to constitute one of the most important of the
• 1:20:23
  Speaker 1: typical activities of the will. The deficiency negative of concentrated
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  Speaker 1: attention is known as lack of concentration and is marked
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  Speaker 1: by a tendency to scatter and diffuse the power of attention,
• 1:20:34
  Speaker 1: the result being that inattention results lack of concentration or
• 1:20:39
  Speaker 1: the tendency toward inattention is a weakness of character and
• 1:20:43
  Speaker 1: must be classed among the negative character qualities. The excess
• 1:20:47
  Speaker 1: negative of concentrated attention is known as over concentration and
• 1:20:51
  Speaker 1: is marked by a mental state closely resembling self hypnosis.
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  Speaker 1: It results in absent mindness concerning all else except the
• 1:20:59
  Speaker 1: subas or object under attention. Moreover, instead of resulting in
• 1:21:04
  Speaker 1: increased power and clearness of thought, it really produces the opposite.
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  Speaker 1: This because the mind is practically put asleep by reason
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  Speaker 1: of the tiring of the attention. Beware of inducing self
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  Speaker 1: hypnosis by an abnormal and undue forcing of the powers
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  Speaker 1: of attention. Keep in the middle of the road. Persistent
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  Speaker 1: determination consists of the persistent, persevering, tenacious application of the
• 1:21:29
  Speaker 1: powers of the will, the firm, steadfast, steady, fixed, resolute,
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  Speaker 1: constant determination to carry out that which has been undertaken.
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  Speaker 1: This quality of character is found in the strong men
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  Speaker 1: and women of the race who have surmounted obstacles of environment.
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  Speaker 1: It is one of the characteristic marks of such individuals.
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  Speaker 1: It causes one to be sure your right, then go ahead,
• 1:21:52
  Speaker 1: to stand by one's purposes, to hold on even when
• 1:21:55
  Speaker 1: things look the darkest, to refuse to surrender to adverse circumstances.
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  Speaker 1: It is one of the elements of the master formula
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  Speaker 1: of attainment. It is one of the most positive of
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  Speaker 1: the positive character qualities and should be carefully and determinately developed.
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  Speaker 1: The deficiency negative of persistent determination is known as lack
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  Speaker 1: of persistency or irresolution, and is marked by an absence
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  Speaker 1: of the characteristics of the positive quality. It is a negative, weakening,
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  Speaker 1: destructive mental trait, and should be overcome. The excess negative
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  Speaker 1: of persistent determination is known as stubborn obstinacy, which is
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  Speaker 1: really a perversion of the positive quality. It consists of
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  Speaker 1: a stubborn, mulish obstinacy which refuses to move away from
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  Speaker 1: a given spot. Those manifesting it often regarded as doggedness
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  Speaker 1: or firmness, whereas it is rather a wilful, unreasonable mulishness.
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  Speaker 1: In obstinacy, unwilling to move or to be moved, even
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  Speaker 1: when every reason dictates the move. It is not will
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  Speaker 1: but wilfulness which inspires this mental state. It may be
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  Speaker 1: cured by mixing reason and other positive qualities into the
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  Speaker 1: elements of persistency and determination, which, without the mixture have
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  Speaker 1: reached the degree of perversion. Stability consists of the mental
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  Speaker 1: state of steadiness, steadfastness, fixedness, durability, firmness of position and foundation.
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  Speaker 1: Those in whom it is well developed are marked by
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  Speaker 1: a thoroughness, a continuity of purpose and of action, a
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  Speaker 1: general stick to a tidness. They are to be depended
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  Speaker 1: upon and are regarded as reliable, and to be counted
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  Speaker 1: upon with confidence and certainty. They are always there and
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  Speaker 1: are always known to be on the job. Persons in
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  Speaker 1: whom this quality is well developed are the solid individuals
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  Speaker 1: in any walk of life. The quality, in its norm
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  Speaker 1: is decidedly a positive quality, for it tends to make
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  Speaker 1: you stronger, better, and more efficient. It should be cultivated
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  Speaker 1: and developed. The deficiency negative of stability is known as instability,
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  Speaker 1: which is marked by fickleness in constancy of purpose and action, waywardness,
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  Speaker 1: excessive desire, for an habit of change restlessness. Those in
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  Speaker 1: whom it is marked are known for their weathercock nature,
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  Speaker 1: their tendency to change at each shift of the breeze
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  Speaker 1: of circumstance, their fickleness, their irresolution, their inconstancy, their general
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  Speaker 1: lack of dependability. The quality has every mark of negativity
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  Speaker 1: and should be inhibited. The excess negative of stability is
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  Speaker 1: known as inertness, i e. Tendency to remain inert, sluggish, passive,
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  Speaker 1: and indisposed to activity or movement. Persons of this type
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  Speaker 1: tend easily to get in a rut, to get set
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  Speaker 1: in their ways, and to become fossilized. They are incapable
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  Speaker 1: of change, even when the change is required and is
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  Speaker 1: approved of by reason. This quality is a grotesque caricature
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  Speaker 1: of true stability. It is really a perversion rather than
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  Speaker 1: an excess. Industry consists of the active and energetic manifestation
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  Speaker 1: of diligence, perseverance, assiduity, and interest in useful employment in work.
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  Speaker 1: This quality consists not merely of the outer manifestation of work,
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  Speaker 1: but also of the inner inclination and desire to work,
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  Speaker 1: to accomplish, to execute, to do things. The successful man
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  Speaker 1: in any walk of life is industrious. Whatever else he
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  Speaker 1: may be, he finds a joy in his work because
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  Speaker 1: it is his channel of expression. In manifestation, he realizes
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  Speaker 1: to the full the truth of the adage blest is
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  Speaker 1: he who hath found his work. He delights in tearing
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  Speaker 1: down in order to reconstruct, in building up, in doing,
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  Speaker 1: in executing, in accomplishing. Industry is a positive quality, for
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  Speaker 1: it makes you stronger, better, and more efficient. The deficiency
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  Speaker 1: negative of industry is known as slothfulness, which is marked
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  Speaker 1: by disinclination to action, sluggishness, laziness, idleness, indolence, et cetera.
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  Speaker 1: This quality is so manifestly negative that no further comment
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  Speaker 1: concerning it is needed. The excess negative of industry is
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  Speaker 1: known as slavery to work, which consists of the degradation
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  Speaker 1: and perversion of normal, active industry into an habitual routine
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  Speaker 1: of slavish drudgery, in arduous toil and travail, of which
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  Speaker 1: habit is the motive power, and which lacks the spirit
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  Speaker 1: of industry pursued for a definite end and animated by
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  Speaker 1: the desire to accomplish. A writer says, work in labour
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  Speaker 1: implies strenuous, but not necessarily excessive exertion. Toil implies a
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  Speaker 1: painful and exhausting severity of labour. Drudgery implies mean in
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  Speaker 1: degrading work, or at least work which wearies or discusts
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  Speaker 1: from its minuteness or dull uniformity. Work employed toward a
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  Speaker 1: definite end and animated with interest, desire, and ambition is positive.
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  Speaker 1: But work performed from mere habit without interest or ambition
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  Speaker 1: is a mere ox like performance and becomes negative in
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  Speaker 1: its effects. Exalts. The latter degrades character, power positive individuality.
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  Speaker 1: By William Walker Atkinson, nineteen twenty two. The emotive qualities.
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  Speaker 1: The fourth of the several classes of character qualities is
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  Speaker 1: that known as the emotive qualities. The term emotive means
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  Speaker 1: attended by or of the nature of emotion. The term
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  Speaker 1: also carries with it the idea of movement of the
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  Speaker 1: mind or soul to action. The several general qualities composing
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  Speaker 1: that class are as follows. For the emotive qualities deficiency,
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  Speaker 1: negative cowardice, lack of spirit, improvidence, hopeless doubt, apathetic lethargy,
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  Speaker 1: lack of ambition, positive norm, courage, balanced temper, provident, acquisitiveness, hopeful, faith,
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  Speaker 1: earnest interest, ambition, excess, negative recklessness, ill temper, miserly greed,
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  Speaker 1: visionary credulity, unboundles, enthusiasm, inordinate ambition. You are now asked
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  Speaker 1: to consider each of the above stated qualities composing the
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  Speaker 1: class of emotive qualities. Courage consists of those qualities of
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  Speaker 1: the mind which enable one to encounter danger and difficulties
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  Speaker 1: with firmness, without or despite fear. Those qualities may be
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  Speaker 1: summed up as heroism, bravery, intrepidity, valor, gallantry, daring, firmness, hardihood,
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  Speaker 1: stoutness of heart, boldness, dauntlessness, resolution, et cetera. It is
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  Speaker 1: a most positive quality when manifested in its normal degree
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  Speaker 1: and form. The old adage asserts that faint heart never
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  Speaker 1: won fair lady, and we may add nor anything else
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  Speaker 1: worth acquiring that courage makes one stronger, better, and more efficient,
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  Speaker 1: and therefore is a positive quality, requires no argument. For
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  Speaker 1: all human experience proves it. The successful individual must have
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  Speaker 1: courage to encounter dasangers and difficulties, fortitude to endure physical
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  Speaker 1: and mental pain and distress, resolution to maintain his ground
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  Speaker 1: and to sustain his will not to recede, valor to
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  Speaker 1: lead and conduct his enterprises to a successful termination. Courage
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  Speaker 1: is that bold, resistant, defiant, self protective spirit which marks
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  Speaker 1: the men and women who do things and who arrive
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  Speaker 1: The deficiency negative of courage is known as cowardice, which
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  Speaker 1: consists of want of courage to face danger or difficulties,
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  Speaker 1: extreme timidity, pusillanimity, lack of spirit proceeding from more expressing
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  Speaker 1: base fear. Cowardice is the quality of the timid, fearful,
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  Speaker 1: chicken hearted, white livered, pusillanimous, recreant, craven soul. It is
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  Speaker 1: one of the most negative of the negative character qualities
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  Speaker 1: and always tends to make one weaker, worse, and less efficient.
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  Speaker 1: Its germ or essence is found to consist of the
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  Speaker 1: surrender to base fear, a craven dread and apport hension,
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  Speaker 1: accompanied by a lack of spirit to meet and combat
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  Speaker 1: that of which one is afraid. One may experience fear
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  Speaker 1: and still possess courage to confront and combat it, but
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  Speaker 1: the coward not only experiences the fear, but also lacks
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  Speaker 1: the spirit to meet it and to give it battle.
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  Speaker 1: Some of the most courageous men freely admit that they
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  Speaker 1: experience fear, but they go forth to give it battle
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  Speaker 1: instead of seeking to run away from it. The truest
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  Speaker 1: courage is of that which proceeds to the battle despite fear,
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  Speaker 1: in defiance of fear. Fear is the most depressing of
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  Speaker 1: all the emotional states. It has been called the mother
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  Speaker 1: of negative emotions. Its brood is a large one, including
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  Speaker 1: not only cowardice, but also worry, jealousy, and other elements
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  Speaker 1: of the black side of emotional experience. The Buddhists call
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  Speaker 1: it the freezing emotion and treat it as equal in
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  Speaker 1: undesirable rank with anger, or the burning up emotion. They
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  Speaker 1: hold that fear and anger constitute the too great pairsarance
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  Speaker 1: of the negative emotions. Fear and anger are the two
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  Speaker 1: great emotional unbalancers, Fear being the depressing unbalancer, anger being
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  Speaker 1: the maddening unbalancer. Fear freezes the soul, Anger burns up.
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  Speaker 1: Fear paralyzes the will, anger sets it crazy. The extreme
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  Speaker 1: phase of fear is that known as panic, the latter
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  Speaker 1: word originating in the Greek term indicating the mental state
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  Speaker 1: of those who suddenly caught sight of the god. Pan.
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  Speaker 1: Panic causes one to fly all to pieces and to
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  Speaker 1: become irresolute timorous and disposed to flee before shadows or
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  Speaker 1: from vain sounds. Fear may be overcome by boldly facing
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  Speaker 1: it and gazing into its eyes. At the best, Fear
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  Speaker 1: is a big bluffer. Call its bluff, and it retires
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  Speaker 1: from the game. It is a make believe thing, a counterfeit.
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  Speaker 1: It is a lathe painted to resemble iron. Confront it boldly,
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  Speaker 1: seize hold of it, and its falsity of nature will
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  Speaker 1: reveal itself. Confront it with will and determination, and it
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  Speaker 1: will retreat from the scene, though uttering fierce cries intended
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  Speaker 1: to terrify you who have conquered it. Bring into its
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  Speaker 1: presence its positive opposite courage, and its negative shadow will disappear.
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  Speaker 1: Treat fear as a reality, and you but strengthen its power.
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  Speaker 1: Deny its reality, and it melts away into the shadow
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  Speaker 1: world from which it emerged. When you find it confronting
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  Speaker 1: you and seeking to deny you entrance to the gateway
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  Speaker 1: of success, boldly confront it and deny its real existence,
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  Speaker 1: and it will fade away into nothingness, though bestowing upon
• 1:32:35
  Speaker 1: you its hateful grin and baleful glare until the very last,
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  Speaker 1: leaving the gateway free for your passage through its portals.
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  Speaker 1: The excess negative of courage is known as recklessness, which
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  Speaker 1: consists of a perversion of courage, and is composed of
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  Speaker 1: the elements of foolish daring without judgment or prudence, foolhardiness, rashness,
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  Speaker 1: thoughtless action, precipitation, incautiousness, unwariness, action with theid out thought
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  Speaker 1: or care of consequences. This quality undoubtedly tends to make
• 1:33:05
  Speaker 1: you weaker, worse, and less efficient. Being a perversion rather
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  Speaker 1: than a true positive, this quality should be restrained and
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  Speaker 1: restricted and transformed into the true positive norm of courage
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  Speaker 1: by blending with it prudence, reason, judgment, and foresight. Balanced
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  Speaker 1: temper consists of a well balanced, well poised temper. Temper
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  Speaker 1: in this usage means disposition of the mind as respects
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  Speaker 1: the passions and emotions, particularly the passion or emotion of anger.
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  Speaker 1: The dictionaries give the two following antithetical definitions of the
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  Speaker 1: term temper viz. One, calmness of mind, poise of disposition.
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  Speaker 1: Two undue heat of mind passion, irritation, proneness to anger.
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  Speaker 1: The individual of the balanced temper is spirited and animated,
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  Speaker 1: yet poised, self controlled and balanced, firm of purpose, strong
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  Speaker 1: of spirit, yet slow to wrath. He lacks the spiritless
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  Speaker 1: condition of the deficiency negative, yet he also escapes the
• 1:34:05
  Speaker 1: perversion of the excess negative of ill temper, rage, wrathfulness,
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  Speaker 1: proneness to anger, et cetera. Balance temper is a true
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  Speaker 1: positive quality and in every sense tends to make you stronger, better,
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  Speaker 1: and more efficient. The deficiency negative of balance temper is
• 1:34:21
  Speaker 1: known as lack of spirit, the term spirit in this
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  Speaker 1: usage being defined as temper or disposition of the mind, energy, vivacity,
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  Speaker 1: ardor enthusiasm, courage, et cetera. Lack of spirit is marked
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  Speaker 1: by spiritlessness. It is vigorous, wanting in courage, lacking in
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  Speaker 1: animation or liveliness of temperament, destitute of activity of spirit.
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  Speaker 1: It is not a state of being slow to wrath,
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  Speaker 1: but rather a state of abnormal meekness, excessive gentleness, morbid humbleness,
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  Speaker 1: submissive spiritlessness, yielding mildness, and is incapable even of righteous indignation.
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  Speaker 1: It is the sheeplike passivit in negativity, the rabbit like submissiveness.
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  Speaker 1: It is truly negative, always tending to render you weaker, worse,
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  Speaker 1: and less efficient. It must not be confounded with balanced temper,
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  Speaker 1: For The latter is a lively spirit, well controlled, nicely balanced,
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  Speaker 1: and well poised, while the former is weak. Spiritlessness, lack
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  Speaker 1: of courage, and lack of real interest and enthusiasm in
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  Speaker 1: life and living a state of apathy, lethargy, and lifelessness
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  Speaker 1: of spirit. Balance temper manifests the calmness of life. Lack
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  Speaker 1: of spirit manifests the calmness of death. The two are
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  Speaker 1: polar opposites. Be not deceived by those who would persuade
• 1:35:39
  Speaker 1: you that the two are identical. They are antithetical. The
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  Speaker 1: excess negative of balance temper is known as ill temper.
• 1:35:46
  Speaker 1: The term ill meaning contrary to good, opposed to advantage, bad, evil, wrong,
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  Speaker 1: not in accordance with fitness. Ill temper is marked by
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  Speaker 1: a strong tendency toward anger, wrathfulness, loss of temper, rage, fury, ire,
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  Speaker 1: madness of temper, et cetera. Ill temper manifests in a
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  Speaker 1: greater or less tendency toward anger. Anger is defined as
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  Speaker 1: a strong passion or emotion of displeasure, usually involving antagonism
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  Speaker 1: and desire to punish, excited by a real or supposed
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  Speaker 1: injury or insult to one's self or others, or by
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  Speaker 1: the intent to do such injury. Resentment is anger, smoldering
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  Speaker 1: beneath the surface and often consisting of very deep and
• 1:36:29
  Speaker 1: enduring anger. Wrath and ire are the feelings of those
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  Speaker 1: roused to bitter anger. Rage is a vehement abolition of anger.
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  Speaker 1: Fury is rage amounting almost to madness, righteousness, indignation, though
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  Speaker 1: sometimes blending into negative anger, nevertheless, often belongs rather to
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  Speaker 1: the quality of balanced temper. For rightly defined, it is
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  Speaker 1: a generous outburst of temper in view of things which
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  Speaker 1: are unworthy to be done. Anger, in the sense of rage, fury,
• 1:37:00
  Speaker 1: ill temper, et cetera, is a very negative emotional state.
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  Speaker 1: It tends to make you weaker, worse, and less efficient
• 1:37:08
  Speaker 1: in every true sense of these terms. The origin of
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  Speaker 1: the term throws light on its character. It has its
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  Speaker 1: sources in the Sanskrit term meaning pain anguish, and in
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  Speaker 1: the Latin term meaning a strangling anguish, and in the
• 1:37:20
  Speaker 1: Greek term meaning to strangle. Anger strongly manifested really is
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  Speaker 1: a form of madness or temporary insanity. The person filled
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  Speaker 1: with rage and fury really is mentally unbalanced for the
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  Speaker 1: time being. Surely, no further warning against anger is needed here.
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  Speaker 1: All the best psychological, physiological, philosophical, and religious teachings indicate
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  Speaker 1: the danger and viciousness of anger. Listen to these statements.
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  Speaker 1: He that is slow to wrath is of great understanding.
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  Speaker 1: He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty.
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  Speaker 1: The discretion of a man mocketh him slow to anger.
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  Speaker 1: Make no friendship with a man that is given to anger,
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  Speaker 1: And with a wrathful man, Thou shalt not go so
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  Speaker 1: much for the morality phase or the worldly wisdom side
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  Speaker 1: of the subject, for the physiological, psychological side or phase.
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  Speaker 1: Note the following statement of doctor Benjamin Ward richardson the
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  Speaker 1: passions which act most severely upon the physical life are anger, fear, hatred,
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  Speaker 1: and grief. Of all of these passions which I have
• 1:38:27
  Speaker 1: enumerated as most detrimental to life, anger stands first. He
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  Speaker 1: is a man very rich in physical power who can
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  Speaker 1: afford to be angry. The richest cannot afford it many
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  Speaker 1: times without ensuring the penalty, a penalty that is always severe.
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  Speaker 1: We say that a man was red with fury, or
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  Speaker 1: that he was white with rage, by which terms we
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  Speaker 1: seek to express the extent of his fury. Physiologically, we
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  Speaker 1: are speaking of the nervous condition of the minute circulation
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  Speaker 1: of his blood. Red fury means partial paralysis of the
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  Speaker 1: minute blood vessels. White rage means temporary suspension of the
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  Speaker 1: action of the heart, the prime mover of the circulation itself.
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  Speaker 1: But such disturbances cannot often be produced with the occurrence
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  Speaker 1: of permanent organic evils of the vital organs, especially of
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  Speaker 1: the heart and brain. The control of anger, like the
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  Speaker 1: control of fear, is most important. The ancient Greeks and
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  Speaker 1: the ancient and modern Buddhists hold that the man who
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  Speaker 1: has learned to control these two negative emotions is well
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  Speaker 1: advanced on the road to mastery, and that he who
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  Speaker 1: has mastered these two twin evils has thereby gained sufficient
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  Speaker 1: strength whereby he may easily overcome and master the remaining
• 1:39:39
  Speaker 1: negative qualities. Here you will do well to remember that
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  Speaker 1: one deficiency negatives are overcome by manifesting and cultivating the
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  Speaker 1: positive norm associated with them, and that two excess negatives
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  Speaker 1: may be overcome by so blending them with tempering, modifying,
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  Speaker 1: and harmonizing elements that they are transmuted into the positive
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  Speaker 1: norms associate cated with them. Provident acquisitiveness consists of the
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  Speaker 1: feeling and desire, prompting toward the prudent, careful, thoughtful acquisition
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  Speaker 1: of material, useful things, tending toward the well being, comfort,
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  Speaker 1: and happiness of one's self and those in whom one
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  Speaker 1: is interested. The term provident means foreseeing wants and making
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  Speaker 1: provision to supply them. The term acquisitiveness means the quality
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  Speaker 1: of acquiring, gaining, obtaining, attaining, procuring, winning, securing earning desired things,
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  Speaker 1: usually by one's own exertions. That this character quality is
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  Speaker 1: a positive one cannot be doubted, expressed and manifested in
• 1:40:41
  Speaker 1: a normal and positive degree. It certainly tends to make
• 1:40:44
  Speaker 1: you stronger, better, and more efficient. Some so called philosophers
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  Speaker 1: and moralists have sought to identify this character quality with
• 1:40:52
  Speaker 1: its excess, negative or perversion, and have either actually or
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  Speaker 1: tacitly condemned it as unworthy or even reprehensible. But at
• 1:41:00
  Speaker 1: the last such teachings are seen to be a more
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  Speaker 1: or less hypocritical pretense or a more or less vain pose,
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  Speaker 1: the lives of such teachers frequently being in direct contradiction
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  Speaker 1: to their teachings. It cannot be denied that in the
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  Speaker 1: present state of human society at least, it is a worthy, righteous,
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  Speaker 1: and normal course of conduct for one to seek to
• 1:41:20
  Speaker 1: procure and provide the things essential to the comfort, happiness,
• 1:41:24
  Speaker 1: and welfare of oneself and those dependent upon him or
• 1:41:26
  Speaker 1: in whom he is interested. Those who manifest such traits
• 1:41:30
  Speaker 1: of conduct and character are commended by the general average
• 1:41:33
  Speaker 1: of society, and those who fail to manifest them are
• 1:41:36
  Speaker 1: condemned by public or even punished by law. The above
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  Speaker 1: statements refer also to the provident and prudent acquisition of money.
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  Speaker 1: Money is merely a symbol of the things which it
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  Speaker 1: will purchase. In our civilization, money stands not for itself,
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  Speaker 1: but rather for that which it may be used to
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  Speaker 1: acquire and secure. In seeking to acquire money, one is
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  Speaker 1: but striving to obtain food, shelter, clothing, necessities, comforts, conveniences,
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  Speaker 1: or luxuries of many in varied kinds. It may be
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  Speaker 1: true that money is the root of evil, but it
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  Speaker 1: is equally true that money is the wherewithal the necessary
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  Speaker 1: means or instrument with which we obtain the necessary, useful
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  Speaker 1: and good things of life. Money is neither better nor
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  Speaker 1: worse than the things which it is employed to purchase.
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  Speaker 1: The evil of money consists in its wrong getting and
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  Speaker 1: wrong spending in its misuse, rather than in its use.
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  Speaker 1: In many cases, most of the revilement of money on
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  Speaker 1: the part of pseudomorlists is mere, cant and claptrap. There
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  Speaker 1: is no virtue inherent in poverty, in spite of the
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  Speaker 1: pious pretense to the contrary. Poverty is a curse, and
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  Speaker 1: the individual rightfully strives to avoid or to overcome it.
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  Speaker 1: The deficiency negative of provident acquisitiveness is known as improvidence,
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  Speaker 1: which consists of failure to provide for the future, not
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  Speaker 1: only in the direction of being careless, wasteful, shiftless, prodigal,
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  Speaker 1: et cetera, but also in the direction of failing to acquire,
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  Speaker 1: make gain, procure secure, and earn a reasonable and just
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  Speaker 1: recompense for one's services, time and labor. Improvidence may consist
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  Speaker 1: either of a failure to get or a failure to hold,
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  Speaker 1: or both. The excess negative of provident acquisitiveness is known
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  Speaker 1: as miserly greed, which consists of either or both of
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  Speaker 1: the qualities of one unduly greedy avaricious rapacious desire for
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  Speaker 1: gain and wealth, and two miserly parsimonious penurius, stingy, niggardly
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  Speaker 1: hoarding of wealth or property. In either case or phase,
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  Speaker 1: miserly greed overreaches itself and defeats its original object of
• 1:43:48
  Speaker 1: happiness and content. This because, instead of mastering in using
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  Speaker 1: wealth and property, it allows itself to be made a
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  Speaker 1: servant of and to be used by wealth and property.
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  Speaker 1: Either of the two negatives just mentioned meet the test
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  Speaker 1: of the touchstone of positivity viz. Will this make me stronger, better,
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  Speaker 1: and more efficient? The positive norm of provident acquisitiveness, on
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  Speaker 1: the contrary, meets the test fully. Therefore, it is worthy
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  Speaker 1: of being cultivated, developed, expressed, and manifested by those who
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  Speaker 1: wish to become stronger, better, and more efficient. According to
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  Speaker 1: the rule of positivity, hopeful faith consists of the mental
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  Speaker 1: attitude which is marked by a harmonious combination and blending
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  Speaker 1: of hope and faith. Hope is the desire for good,
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  Speaker 1: accompanied by an expectation of obtaining it. Faith is firm
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  Speaker 1: belief in regard to important truth. The mental attitude of
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  Speaker 1: hopeful faith is a most positive one and certainly tends
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  Speaker 1: to make one stronger, better, and more efficient when manifested
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  Speaker 1: in normal and well balanced degree. In form, this mental
• 1:44:54
  Speaker 1: attitude comprises that confident expectation, which is one of the
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  Speaker 1: elemental principles of our master. Fife formula of attainment of hope,
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  Speaker 1: the thoughtful right, and speak in words of praise. Spursium
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  Speaker 1: says hope is necessary to the happiness of man in
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  Speaker 1: almost all situations. Johnson says hope is the chief blessing
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  Speaker 1: of man, and that hope only is rational, of which
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  Speaker 1: we are sensible that it cannot deceive us. Whatever enlarges
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  Speaker 1: hope will also enlarge courage. Collier says hope is a
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  Speaker 1: vigorous principle. It is furnished with light and heat to
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  Speaker 1: advise and to execute. It sets the head and heart
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  Speaker 1: to work, and animates a man to do his utmost.
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  Speaker 1: And thus it is perpetually pushing and assuring it. It
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  Speaker 1: puts a difficulty out of countenance and makes a seeming
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  Speaker 1: impossibility give way. Tennyson sings of the mighty hopes that
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  Speaker 1: make us men, and Coleridge warns us that work without
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  Speaker 1: hope draws nectar in a sieve, and hope without an
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  Speaker 1: object cannot live. Of faith, the wise also speak in
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  Speaker 1: glowing terms. Saint Paul says faith is the substance of
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  Speaker 1: things hoped for the evidence of things not seen. A
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  Speaker 1: writer says faith is the soul going out of itself
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  Speaker 1: for all at wants. Parkhurst says faith is the heroism
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  Speaker 1: of the intellect. Haslett says faith is necessary to victory.
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  Speaker 1: Elizabeth Oakes Smith sings faith is the subtle chain which
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  Speaker 1: binds us to the infinite, the voice of a deep
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  Speaker 1: life within that will remain until we crowd it. Hence
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  Speaker 1: to many who have wearied of dogmatism and blind faith
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  Speaker 1: upon assumed authority, the word faith has lost some of
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  Speaker 1: its original charm, power, and meaning. But faith has a
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  Speaker 1: far deeper and more fundamental meaning. Its roots are embedded
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  Speaker 1: in that universal principle of power, of which the ego
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  Speaker 1: or I am I is a focal center of expression
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  Speaker 1: and manifestation. The positive individual has hopeful faith, faith in
• 1:46:57
  Speaker 1: the cosmic laws, faith in the powers that be, faith
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  Speaker 1: in himself. His faith in himself is the natural result
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  Speaker 1: of his faith in the ultimate meaning of things and
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  Speaker 1: in the cosmic law. Coming in contact with power, he
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  Speaker 1: allows its forces and energies to be transmitted to himself,
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  Speaker 1: Feeling its inflow through the channels of his inner being,
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  Speaker 1: he cannot escape having hopeful faith. But his is not
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  Speaker 1: the weaker faith, which merely believes and dares to expect.
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  Speaker 1: His is the strong, hopeful faith that knows. The deficiency
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  Speaker 1: negative of hopeful faith is known as hopeless doubt, which
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  Speaker 1: is marked by an absence of all that makes hopeful
• 1:47:35
  Speaker 1: faith what it is as might be expected. This is
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  Speaker 1: a most negative quality and tends ever toward making you weaker, worse,
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  Speaker 1: and less efficient. The individual possessing it is damned to
• 1:47:47
  Speaker 1: a hell of his own making. He mentally creates his negative, unsuccessful, inefficient,
• 1:47:53
  Speaker 1: unhappy state by his own mental attitude, thoughts, and feeling
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  Speaker 1: that which he fears indeed comes upon him. He supplies
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  Speaker 1: the mental pattern for it, the mold into which the
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  Speaker 1: material of circumstance is poured. He sets in operation the
• 1:48:08
  Speaker 1: law of attraction, but in the wrong direction. This mental
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  Speaker 1: attitude should be cured vigorously in at once. The excess
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  Speaker 1: negative of hopeful faith is known as visionary credulity, which
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  Speaker 1: consists of false faith and false hope in and upon
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  Speaker 1: unworthy objects, and in absence of valid rational ground and
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  Speaker 1: bases of belief and hope. The term visionary means existing
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  Speaker 1: in imagination only and lacking in reality, fanciful, fantastic, unreal,
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  Speaker 1: fanciful visions of castles in the air, or day dreams.
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  Speaker 1: Credulity means the quality of being credulous, i e. Of
• 1:48:46
  Speaker 1: believing on very slight evidence, being unsuspecting, easily imposed upon superstitious, gullible,
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  Speaker 1: et cetera. Persons of this type readily believe almost all
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  Speaker 1: that is told them, and hope to realize and can
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  Speaker 1: on such promises. They will believe that the moon is
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  Speaker 1: made of green cheese if they are told so in
• 1:49:06
  Speaker 1: the tones and with an air of authority, and they
• 1:49:09
  Speaker 1: will rush to invest their money in shares in the
• 1:49:11
  Speaker 1: Lunar Cheese Supply Company Incorporated. As someone has said, show
• 1:49:16
  Speaker 1: them an egg, and the next minute the air is
• 1:49:19
  Speaker 1: full of feathers, And he might have added, and they
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  Speaker 1: will begin at once to figure on the fortune coming
• 1:49:24
  Speaker 1: to them from the sale of feather dusters. This negative
• 1:49:28
  Speaker 1: quality is a perversion of the positive norm of hopeful faith.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, it may be transmuted into the latter by
• 1:49:35
  Speaker 1: a rational blending and balancing of judgment and discrimination and
• 1:49:39
  Speaker 1: the development and employment of logical reasoning. Earnest interest consists
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  Speaker 1: of the application of the attention to objects or subjects
• 1:49:47
  Speaker 1: which in themselves are of a positive and helpful character,
• 1:49:50
  Speaker 1: and which tend to make you stronger, better, and more
• 1:49:53
  Speaker 1: efficient when knowledge of their nature in their application is acquired.
• 1:49:57
  Speaker 1: Interest is excitement of feeling, a acompanying special attention, the
• 1:50:01
  Speaker 1: moving power of attention based upon feeling or emotion. Earnest
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  Speaker 1: is defined as eager, intent, serious, fixed, determined, et cetera.
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  Speaker 1: Interest is the motive element of attention, and attention is
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  Speaker 1: the key of observation, thought, perception, reasoning, memory, voluntary action,
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  Speaker 1: et cetera. Earnest Interest then is seen to be the
• 1:50:25
  Speaker 1: positive moving power of feeling, which is expressed and manifested
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  Speaker 1: in many important mental activities and actions of the will.
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  Speaker 1: Earnestness has been defined as eagerness, seriousness, intentness, and fixed
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  Speaker 1: determination in pursuit of an object, zealousness combined with sincerity.
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  Speaker 1: Pascal says. Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason. Bov says
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  Speaker 1: Earnestness is the devotion of all the faculties. It is
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  Speaker 1: the cause of patience. It gives endurance, overcomes pain, strengthens weakness,
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  Speaker 1: braves dangers, sustains hope, makes light of difficulties and lessens
• 1:51:03
  Speaker 1: the sense of weariness in overcoming them. Dickens says there
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  Speaker 1: is no substitute for thorough going, ardent, and sincere earnestness.
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  Speaker 1: Earnestness is illustrated by the adage whatever you do do
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  Speaker 1: with all your might. Enthusiasm is the sublimated form of earnestness.
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  Speaker 1: It is earnestness raised to its highest power. So exalting
• 1:51:25
  Speaker 1: is its power when directed by reason, that it sometimes
• 1:51:29
  Speaker 1: causes one to feel that he is actually inspired by
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  Speaker 1: a higher power. The Greek term from which our word
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  Speaker 1: enthusiasm is derived, means to be inspired by the gods.
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  Speaker 1: The English term enthusiasm means enkindled and kindling, fervor of
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  Speaker 1: the soul, ardent, zeal for interest, lively manifestation of zeal.
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  Speaker 1: Without at least a fair degree of enthusiasm, no man
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  Speaker 1: or woman ever attains success. Enthusiasm is a sole power
• 1:51:58
  Speaker 1: which inspires the individual, and which, being contagious, influences those
• 1:52:03
  Speaker 1: with whom he comes in contact. In its normal degree
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  Speaker 1: and form, it is a very positive character quality. The
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  Speaker 1: deficiency negative of earnest interest is known as apathetic lethargy.
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  Speaker 1: Apathy is want of feeling, privation of passion, emotion or excitement, supineness,
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  Speaker 1: sluggishness of emotional feeling. Lethargy is morbid indifference to feeling
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  Speaker 1: and desire for action, listlessness inattention, heaviness of mind and soul.
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  Speaker 1: This negative quality is deadening to the soul. It paralyzes
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  Speaker 1: desire and will, and consequently kills out all ambition and
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  Speaker 1: incentive to action. It renders one a living corpse. By
• 1:52:46
  Speaker 1: all means, inhibit this negative quality if it is manifesting
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  Speaker 1: in you, its influence is pernicious. Destroy the foul weed
• 1:52:55
  Speaker 1: by cultivating the sturdy plant of its positive opposite, earnest interest.
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  Speaker 1: Take an interest in things, manifest zeal in your activities.
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  Speaker 1: Flood your soul with balanced enthusiasm. The excess negative of
• 1:53:08
  Speaker 1: earnest interest is known as unbalanced enthusiasm, which consists of
• 1:53:13
  Speaker 1: an irritating, ill judged, unbalanced manifestation of emotional excitement and enthusiasm.
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  Speaker 1: This is a mark of that neurotic, hysterical, superficial, semi
• 1:53:24
  Speaker 1: delirious flightiness, which by some is mistaken for enthusiasm. This
• 1:53:29
  Speaker 1: wild enthusiasm, however, does not rise from the deep places
• 1:53:33
  Speaker 1: of the soul, but is a surface manifestation. It dissipates
• 1:53:37
  Speaker 1: emotional energy which might otherwise be usefully employed. It defeats
• 1:53:41
  Speaker 1: its own object by reason of its excessive expression, its superficiality,
• 1:53:45
  Speaker 1: and its lack of balance. It may be transformed into
• 1:53:49
  Speaker 1: true enthusiasm by a liberal addition of and blending with reason, judgment,
• 1:53:53
  Speaker 1: and discrimination, which serve to give body in consistency, depth,
• 1:53:57
  Speaker 1: and weight to its otherwise volatile substance. Without such treatment,
• 1:54:02
  Speaker 1: this perverted quality is quite negative in its effects and
• 1:54:05
  Speaker 1: tends to render you weaker, worse, and less efficient. Ambition
• 1:54:10
  Speaker 1: is an eager desire for success, achievement, power, attainment, preferment, honour,
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  Speaker 1: or superiority. Properly understood and interpreted, properly balanced and poised,
• 1:54:22
  Speaker 1: it is a valuable quality of the individual. It is
• 1:54:26
  Speaker 1: the insistent desire, the want a hard enough that animates
• 1:54:30
  Speaker 1: the men who do things in the world. Without it,
• 1:54:34
  Speaker 1: there would be no progress, no success, no attainment, no achievement.
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  Speaker 1: The extreme form and excessive manifestation of ambition has caused
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  Speaker 1: the term to suffer some degree of reproach, but this
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  Speaker 1: need not attached to the term. Properly employed and representing
• 1:54:49
  Speaker 1: the right quality of thought, feeling in will. If in
• 1:54:53
  Speaker 1: your mind the term has suffered by reason of evil associations,
• 1:54:57
  Speaker 1: you may substitute the term aspiration, defined as strong and
• 1:55:01
  Speaker 1: high desire, desire to attain something high and great, For
• 1:55:05
  Speaker 1: this is the real meaning of right ambition. Ambition or
• 1:55:09
  Speaker 1: aspiration is a positive quality. It tends to make you stronger, better,
• 1:55:14
  Speaker 1: and more efficient in the form of insistent desire. It
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  Speaker 1: is one of the elements of the master formula of attainment.
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  Speaker 1: Without it, the will is not called into persistent determination.
• 1:55:26
  Speaker 1: Another element of the master formula, the deficiency negative of ambition,
• 1:55:31
  Speaker 1: is known as lack of ambition. It represents characteristics antithetically
• 1:55:36
  Speaker 1: opposed to those of the positive quality. Without ambition, there
• 1:55:40
  Speaker 1: is no progress, no attainment, no anything worth. While lack
• 1:55:45
  Speaker 1: of ambition is negative, It makes one weaker, worse, and
• 1:55:49
  Speaker 1: less efficient. It is a disease of emotion and will,
• 1:55:53
  Speaker 1: and needs treatment by the methods of the New psychology,
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  Speaker 1: such as are set forth in subsequent sections of this book.
• 1:56:00
  Speaker 1: The excess negative of ambition is known as inordinate ambition.
• 1:56:04
  Speaker 1: Its nature is expressed by the term inordinate, which means excessive, immoderate,
• 1:56:09
  Speaker 1: not limited by ordinary in usual bounds. Rules or laws.
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  Speaker 1: Like all other inordinate excessive the moderate forms or degrees
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  Speaker 1: of qualities good in themselves, good in the positive norm.
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  Speaker 1: Inordinate ambition is a curse rather than a blessing to
• 1:56:25
  Speaker 1: the individual and to the race. It seeks to rule
• 1:56:28
  Speaker 1: or ruin, and usually ends in the latter. History and
• 1:56:32
  Speaker 1: common experience supply illustrative examples of convincing power. No further
• 1:56:37
  Speaker 1: argument is required to point out that inordinate ambition is
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  Speaker 1: negative in its nature, that it tends to make the
• 1:56:42
  Speaker 1: individual weaker, worse, and less efficient in the end, and
• 1:56:46
  Speaker 1: often from the very start. Beware the extremes. Character Power,
• 1:56:52
  Speaker 1: Positive Individuality by William Walker Atkinson, nineteen twenty two. The
• 1:56:59
  Speaker 1: associated quality, the fifth of the several classes of character
• 1:57:03
  Speaker 1: qualities is that known as the associated qualities. The term
• 1:57:08
  Speaker 1: associated is applied to this class because of the fact
• 1:57:11
  Speaker 1: that its several qualities are associated closely with one or
• 1:57:14
  Speaker 1: more of the qualities forming other classes, rather than forming
• 1:57:18
  Speaker 1: an independent class of their own. The several qualities composing
• 1:57:22
  Speaker 1: this class are as follows five The associated qualities deficiency, negative, undue, gravity, cheerlessness, tactlessness,
• 1:57:33
  Speaker 1: positive norm, humour, cheerfulness, tact excess, negative undue, levity, strained cheerfulness,
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  Speaker 1: insincere suavity. You are now asked to consider each of
• 1:57:45
  Speaker 1: the above stated qualities composing the class of the associated qualities.
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  Speaker 1: Humour consists of that quality of human thought, imagination, and
• 1:57:54
  Speaker 1: feeling which enables one to perceive the incongruous or fantastic aspects, elements,
• 1:58:00
  Speaker 1: or phases of the subjects or objects under consideration, which
• 1:58:04
  Speaker 1: tends to induce or produce laughter or mirth, and which
• 1:58:07
  Speaker 1: is expressed in wit, satire, facetiousness, jocularity, et cetera. Humor
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  Speaker 1: causes one to see the funny side of things, and
• 1:58:16
  Speaker 1: thus to escape the effects of over seriousness, ponderous gravity,
• 1:58:20
  Speaker 1: tendency to overestimate the comparative value or importance of particular
• 1:58:24
  Speaker 1: views of things, one sidedness, et cetera. The sense of
• 1:58:28
  Speaker 1: humor has well been called the saving grace, for it
• 1:58:31
  Speaker 1: saves men from fanaticism, bigotry, and undue partisanship by causing
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  Speaker 1: them to see the incongruous, absurd, and ludicrous aspects of
• 1:58:40
  Speaker 1: such one sided views. Humor has punctured the balloon of
• 1:58:44
  Speaker 1: more than one solemn absurdity and fallacy. It also relieves
• 1:58:48
  Speaker 1: the tension of serious discussion and thought, and clears away
• 1:58:52
  Speaker 1: the clouds of overemphasis. Moreover, it tends to lubricate the
• 1:58:56
  Speaker 1: machinery of human intercourse and association properly developed and rationally
• 1:59:02
  Speaker 1: insensibly manifested. Humor is a positive quality, meeting the test
• 1:59:06
  Speaker 1: of the touchstone of positivity in being found to make
• 1:59:09
  Speaker 1: you stronger, better, and more efficient. The deficiency negative of
• 1:59:14
  Speaker 1: humor is known as undue gravity, which is marked by
• 1:59:17
  Speaker 1: the absence of all the characteristics of the positive quality.
• 1:59:20
  Speaker 1: It manifests as over seriousness, ponderous and excessive gravity, absence
• 1:59:25
  Speaker 1: of the perception of the incongruous, and the ridiculous, lack
• 1:59:28
  Speaker 1: of wit and dislike of jocularity. This quality is often
• 1:59:32
  Speaker 1: accompanied by cruel judgment of others, lack of sympathy, bigotry,
• 1:59:37
  Speaker 1: extreme partisanship, and general narrowness of vision and interest. It
• 1:59:42
  Speaker 1: is negative in its effects and results. The excess negative
• 1:59:46
  Speaker 1: of humor is known as undue levity, which is marked
• 1:59:49
  Speaker 1: by extreme frivolity, trifling silliness, the desire to play the
• 1:59:53
  Speaker 1: part of the buffoon on all occasions appropriate and inappropriate,
• 1:59:57
  Speaker 1: to make forced jokes, indulge in clownish antic, to strain
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  Speaker 1: to think up cheap puns, silly illusions, and questionable quips,
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  Speaker 1: and to strive to make everything appear trifling, ridiculous, and silly.
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  Speaker 1: Another perverted form of humor is that manifestation of so
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  Speaker 1: called wit, which seeks to wound others rather than to
• 2:00:16
  Speaker 1: arouse healthy mirth or genuine humorous feelings. These perversions may
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  Speaker 1: be overcome by the addition and blending of reason, judgment, discrimination, and,
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  Speaker 1: in the last case of kindness and sympathy. This course
• 2:00:30
  Speaker 1: is advised for the perverted qualities in question are negative
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  Speaker 1: in effect and results, and in no way tend to
• 2:00:36
  Speaker 1: make you stronger, better, and more efficient. In fact, they
• 2:00:40
  Speaker 1: tend to make you weaker, worse, and less efficient. Cheerfulness
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  Speaker 1: consists of the qualities which tend to make one cheerful, cheery, bright, joyful, happy, vivacious, buoyant,
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  Speaker 1: and blithe. Cheerfulness is a positive quality not only in
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  Speaker 1: its effects upon one's associates, but also in its effect
• 2:01:00
  Speaker 1: upon oneself. Modern physiological psychology informs us that the mental
• 2:01:05
  Speaker 1: attitude of cheerfulness tends to create the most beneficial physical conditions,
• 2:01:09
  Speaker 1: the opposite mental attitude producing the contrary effect Cheerfulness keeps
• 2:01:14
  Speaker 1: the brain clear, keys emotional nature to a desirable pitch,
• 2:01:18
  Speaker 1: and lets the sunshine in on life in general. Moreover,
• 2:01:23
  Speaker 1: it renders one an agreeable companion and associate, makes friends,
• 2:01:27
  Speaker 1: promotes human intercourse, and does much to create a pleasing personality,
• 2:01:31
  Speaker 1: the latter being a decided asset. Its advantages and desirability
• 2:01:36
  Speaker 1: are seen more plainly when we contrast this quality with
• 2:01:39
  Speaker 1: its negative opposite. The deficiency negative of cheerfulness is known
• 2:01:44
  Speaker 1: as cheerlessness, which consists of the qualities creating the mental
• 2:01:48
  Speaker 1: atmosphere of gloom, sadness, discouragement, dejection, forlornness, melancholy, the blues.
• 2:01:55
  Speaker 1: In short, this quality is quite negative and harmful to
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  Speaker 1: the individual, both in its effects upon his physical and
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  Speaker 1: mental being, and also in its effects upon his associates
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  Speaker 1: and those with whom he comes in contact. It poisons
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  Speaker 1: his blood, depresses his vitality, impairs his judgments, clouds his feelings,
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  Speaker 1: and muddies his emotions. It causes others to avoid his company,
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  Speaker 1: to flee his presence, and to regard him as a depressing,
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  Speaker 1: discouraging visitor. The confirmed pessimist is not popular. His presence
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  Speaker 1: is depressing that sunny jem is preferred to the gloomy gusts.
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  Speaker 1: For obvious reasons, human wet blankets are avoided. Men prefer
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  Speaker 1: sunshine to gloom in their atmosphere. The world proceeds on
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  Speaker 1: the lines indicated by the writer of the following lines. Laugh,
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  Speaker 1: and the world laughs with you weep, and you weep alone.
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  Speaker 1: For this sad old earth is in need of mirth.
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  Speaker 1: It has troubles enough of its own. You would act
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  Speaker 1: wisely to adopt that principle of the ancient Japanese Code
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  Speaker 1: of Bushido, which instructed the young noblemen of that country
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  Speaker 1: to maintain always the cheerful, pleasant demeanor, concealing ever their pain, sorrow,
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  Speaker 1: and grief from those with whom they come in contact.
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  Speaker 1: The code taught this course not as a matter of policy,
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  Speaker 1: but as a matter of politeness and right conduct toward others,
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  Speaker 1: particularly towards strangers, and as a manifestation of proper stoical
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  Speaker 1: pride and self respect. It regarded the opposite course as
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  Speaker 1: an indecent exposure of one's sacred emotions, griefs and sorrows.
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  Speaker 1: It taught the virtue of emotional modesty, the excess negative
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  Speaker 1: of cheerfulness is known as strained cheerfulness, which consists of
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  Speaker 1: a forced and unnatural assumption of pleasure and gladness, unwarranted
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  Speaker 1: by the true feelings and the facts of the case.
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  Speaker 1: This is a perversion of the true cheerfulness, which comes
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  Speaker 1: from the heart. It differs from the honest inhibiting of
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  Speaker 1: cheerlessness and gloom inasmuch as it proceeds to counterfeit the
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  Speaker 1: real feeling, or to carry the latter to a ridiculous
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  Speaker 1: and n unwarranted extent. This artificial gladness and counterfeit pleasure
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  Speaker 1: is quite in favor with many. At the present time.
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  Speaker 1: The social fields are well supplied with gladialis pollanity is
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  Speaker 1: in vogue. They deceive no one, and discussed many honest persons.
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  Speaker 1: This unnatural dragging in of gladness upon all occasions is
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  Speaker 1: as unconvincing as the repeated assertion of I am an
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  Speaker 1: honest man by the man whose honesty and truthfulness are
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  Speaker 1: under suspicion, or the similar strained and constantly repeated assertion
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  Speaker 1: of virtue by the woman of questionable character. A stoical cheerfulness,
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  Speaker 1: under even the worst happenings is honest, natural, and commendable,
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  Speaker 1: But to make pretended virtues of pain and adversity, and
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  Speaker 1: to loudly claim to be glad despite them rings false
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  Speaker 1: and is not deserving of praise. The addition and blending
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  Speaker 1: of discrimination, truth and honesty is needed. In such cases.
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  Speaker 1: Hysteria always is negative, this by its shrill assertions and
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  Speaker 1: excited affirmation of gladness. Tact consists of the faculty of
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  Speaker 1: nice perception and discernment, and of the ready power to
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  Speaker 1: appreciate and to say and do what is required under
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  Speaker 1: the circumstances. It is a judicious mixture of the quality
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  Speaker 1: of agreeableness and desire to please, and that of caution
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  Speaker 1: and secretiveness. Its expression is politeness and suavity. Its manifestation
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  Speaker 1: is diplomacy. Politeness consists of courteous, obliging, civil manners directed
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  Speaker 1: toward the recognition of the wants and wishes of others,
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  Speaker 1: the anticipation of such, and the observance of a pleasing
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  Speaker 1: demeanor toward one's associates. Suavity consists of the quality of
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  Speaker 1: being pleasing in manner and demeanor urbanity agreeableness. Diplomacy consists
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  Speaker 1: of the observance of a tactful suavity, accompanied by a
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  Speaker 1: certain caution and reserve concerning one's own desires, plans, and designs.
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  Speaker 1: It is characterized by tact shrewdness and mental dexterity. True
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  Speaker 1: tact is based upon an understanding of the feelings of others,
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  Speaker 1: and that understanding is best derived at by means of
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  Speaker 1: a real interest and sympathy with them, a fellow feeling
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  Speaker 1: for them. It has its spirit in a feeling of
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  Speaker 1: kindness for others, a liberal tolerance and broad charity toward them,
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  Speaker 1: and a desire to make them feel at ease and
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  Speaker 1: to contribute to their mental and emotional satisfaction and comfort.
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  Speaker 1: True tact is a positive quality and tends to make
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  Speaker 1: you stronger, better, and more efficient. This fact is perceived
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  Speaker 1: more clearly when we consider the effect of its negative opposite,
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  Speaker 1: i e. Tactlessness. Tact is fitly subject to adverse criticism
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  Speaker 1: only when it is manifested in a perverted form or
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  Speaker 1: to an unwarranted degree. The deficiency negative of tact is
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  Speaker 1: known as tactlessness, which is marked by an absence of
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  Speaker 1: all that constitutes the positive quality of tact. It causes
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  Speaker 1: one to say even pleasant things in an unpleasant manner.
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  Speaker 1: And to exercise an almost positive genius for speaking in
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  Speaker 1: a tone and acting in a manner likely to offend, distress,
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  Speaker 1: or even hurt others. Those manifesting this negative quality managed
• 2:07:09
  Speaker 1: to blunder along committing unpardonable errors, with an almost entire
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  Speaker 1: lack of understanding or appreciation of what they are doing,
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  Speaker 1: and with an almost total inability to perceive the point
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  Speaker 1: of view or the feelings of the other persons. Surely
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  Speaker 1: such a quality cannot be held to contribute to the
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  Speaker 1: real worth and efficiency of a person. It is clearly
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  Speaker 1: a negative quality and should be treated as such. The
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  Speaker 1: excess negative of tact is known as insincere suavity, and
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  Speaker 1: is marked by smoothness, agreeableness, and subtle flattery, accompanied by
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  Speaker 1: a lack of sincerity and by the presence of actual deceit.
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  Speaker 1: In dealing and associating with others, it tends towards hypocrisy, duplicity, deceit, deception,
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  Speaker 1: double dealing, and false pretensions. It acts to flatter, to
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  Speaker 1: soft soap, and to praise falsely those persons and sought
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  Speaker 1: to be taken advantage of. It is like the actions
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  Speaker 1: of the boa constrictor, which first covers with saliva the
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  Speaker 1: small animals which it plans to swallow a little later.
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  Speaker 1: This quality, fortunately frequently defeats its own ends. It is
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  Speaker 1: a perversion of the positive quality. It should be treated
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  Speaker 1: with a liberal blend of honesty, truthfulness, and real sympathy
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  Speaker 1: for others. Character power, positive individuality. By William Walker Atkinson,
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  Speaker 1: nineteen twenty two. The moral qualities. The sixth of the
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  Speaker 1: several classes of character qualities is that known as the
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  Speaker 1: moral qualities. The term moral means relating to duty or
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  Speaker 1: obligation pertaining to those intentions and actions of which right
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  Speaker 1: and wrong, virtue and vice are predicated. The several general
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  Speaker 1: qualities composing that class are as follows six The moral
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  Speaker 1: qualities deficiency, negative untruthfulness, inequity, lack of sympathy, disloyalty, refusal
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  Speaker 1: to serve in, temperance, unchastity, positive norm, veracity, equity, kindliness, loyalty, service, temperance, chastity, excess,
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  Speaker 1: negative morbid candor, sensoriousness, maudlin, sympathy, blind partisanship, servility, austerity, sexophobia.
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  Speaker 1: You are now asked to consider each of the above
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  Speaker 1: stated qualities composing the class of the moral qualities. Veracity
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  Speaker 1: means the state or quality of being observant of truth, truthful,
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  Speaker 1: voracious and fair, straightforward, and honest in expression. Its essence
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  Speaker 1: is honesty and truthfulness. Honesty and truthfulness constitute the basic
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  Speaker 1: foundation upon which the structure of human intercourse rests. In
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  Speaker 1: all dealings between man and man, there must always be
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  Speaker 1: the tacit assumption of the existence of honesty of purpose
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  Speaker 1: and truthfulness of statement. Else there can be no confidence
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  Speaker 1: and faith manifested between individuals, and without confidence and faith,
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  Speaker 1: there can be no trust. All normal schools of morality
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  Speaker 1: in ethics postulate honesty and truthfulness as positive virtues, the
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  Speaker 1: fundamental positive virtues. In fact, their negatives are always regarded
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  Speaker 1: as vices. The man who has gained the reputation of
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  Speaker 1: being honest and truthful has secured a valuable asset. The
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  Speaker 1: one who has acquired the opposite kind of reputation has
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  Speaker 1: taken on a heavy liability. The man whose word is
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  Speaker 1: as good as his bond possesses a valuable capital of character.
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  Speaker 1: That honesty is the best policy is proverbial. Being on
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  Speaker 1: the level and on the square certainly is being stronger, better,
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  Speaker 1: and more efficient. Being positive. In fact, in spite of
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  Speaker 1: apparent indications to the contrary, which may present themselves from
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  Speaker 1: time to time. In our experience, the wisdom of the
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  Speaker 1: race reports that in the long run, and in many
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  Speaker 1: of the short runs as well, honesty and truthfulness when out,
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  Speaker 1: the individual who would seriously preach the contrary and who
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  Speaker 1: would advocate the pursuit of the opposite policy quite properly
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  Speaker 1: would be condemned and denounced as a false prophet, a
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  Speaker 1: dangerous guide, and an enemy to society. The deficiency negative
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  Speaker 1: of veracity is known as untruthfulness, which is marked by
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  Speaker 1: an absence of the essential characteristics of the positive quality.
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  Speaker 1: Its spirit is dishonesty in thought and expression. It is
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  Speaker 1: expressed in the desire and tendency to lie, equivocate, testify, falsely,
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  Speaker 1: bear false witness, mislead, deceive. This usually accompanied by the
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  Speaker 1: tendency to cheat, defraud, and betray confidence. The dishonest man
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  Speaker 1: and the liar, usually represented by the same individual, are
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  Speaker 1: quite properly objects of scorn and condemnation on the part
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  Speaker 1: of right thinking people. The manifestation of such qualities serves
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  Speaker 1: to undermine the structure of society and to destroy the
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  Speaker 1: floors of mans mutual dealings between man and man, for
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  Speaker 1: these rest primarily upon the foundations of confidence, faith, and trust.
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  Speaker 1: Dishonesty and untruthfulness are negative qualities tending to render anyone weaker, worse,
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  Speaker 1: and less efficient. The excess negative of veracity is known
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  Speaker 1: as morbid candor. This consists of what has been called
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  Speaker 1: ingrown conscientiousness, or an abnormal morbid exaggeration of the requirements
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  Speaker 1: of veracity, and a more or less developed feeling that
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  Speaker 1: it is the bound and duty of every person to
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  Speaker 1: tell the whole truth, or rather what he interprets to be.
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  Speaker 1: This in and out of season, and without sense or reason,
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  Speaker 1: it is generally found that such person's conception of the
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  Speaker 1: whole truth almost always is that of unpleasant fact assumed
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  Speaker 1: to be the truth. They fail to feel the sense
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  Speaker 1: of duty impelling them to tell the whole truth when
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  Speaker 1: it happens to be pleasant. In fact, they seem to
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  Speaker 1: have a mental blind spot for pleasant truths. Their characteristics
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  Speaker 1: self justification is that I think it my duty to
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  Speaker 1: tell you the truth about yourself and your actions, or
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  Speaker 1: those of someone near and dear to the person to
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  Speaker 1: whom the truth is told. Likewise, they are disposed to
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  Speaker 1: spread gossip and scandal under cover of this perverted sense
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  Speaker 1: of truthfulness and candor. They would rather tell an unpleasant
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  Speaker 1: truth than to eat a good meal. They make a
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  Speaker 1: virtue of their inclinations and desire to wound and to
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  Speaker 1: humiliate others. They make odious the virtue of truth by
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  Speaker 1: reason of their exaggerations in perverted judgments and feelings. They
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  Speaker 1: are not content with what they style calling a spade
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  Speaker 1: a spade. They call it a dirty old shovel. They
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  Speaker 1: are really quite one sided. They do not tell the
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  Speaker 1: whole truth at all. They tell only the unpleasant and
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  Speaker 1: disagreeable parts of the facts of the case, only that
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  Speaker 1: which appeals to their perverted tastes. Like the scavenger birds,
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  Speaker 1: they scent only carrion, only that upon which their depraved
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  Speaker 1: thought fees eats. This perverted quality is decidedly negative. It
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  Speaker 1: makes one weaker, worse, and less efficient, and also a nuisance.
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  Speaker 1: Equity consists of the desire and tendency to observe and
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  Speaker 1: comply with the rules of justice and fairness, and to
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  Speaker 1: give to each man his due, while exacting from him
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  Speaker 1: his rightful due. In the popular terminology, equity consists of
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  Speaker 1: the desire to give everyone a square deal and to
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  Speaker 1: expect everyone to act likewise. The synonyms of the term
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  Speaker 1: equity are right, justice, impartiality, rectitude, fairness, honesty, uprightness. Its
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  Speaker 1: spirit is equality of treatment and justice, the meaning of
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  Speaker 1: the latter being the rendering to every one of that
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  Speaker 1: which is his due and the impartial judgment of one's
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  Speaker 1: conduct or motives. Grotius, the old Dutch jurist, summed up
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  Speaker 1: man's duty to man in the following adage, the words
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  Speaker 1: of which are worthy of being inscribed in letters of
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  Speaker 1: gold over the doors of every publicans stay, you will
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  Speaker 1: do well to commit them to memory. The adage runs wrong,
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  Speaker 1: no man and render unto every man his due. Equity
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  Speaker 1: is a positive quality and renders you stronger, better, and
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  Speaker 1: more efficient. The deficiency negative of equity is known as inequity,
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  Speaker 1: which is marked by a lack of desire for fairness, justice,
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  Speaker 1: and equity. It tends toward an easy invasion and violation
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  Speaker 1: of the rights of others, and toward general unfairness, dishonesty,
• 2:15:30
  Speaker 1: and lack of squareness in dealings with others, and toward
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  Speaker 1: at least a tacit approval of such behavior on the
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  Speaker 1: part of others. It is a negative element of character,
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  Speaker 1: and its results in the long run are injurious to
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  Speaker 1: the individual ruled by it. The excess negative of equity
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  Speaker 1: is known as censoriousness, or the tendency to censure unduly
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  Speaker 1: either oneself or others, because of the failure to observe
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  Speaker 1: the formal requirements of justice, custom, or law, the letter
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  Speaker 1: of the law being exalted while the spirit is lost
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  Speaker 1: sight of. When one is unduly censorious of oneself, he
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  Speaker 1: is disposed to indulge in self condemnation and self reproach
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  Speaker 1: concerning matters of formal observance. When he is unduly censorious
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  Speaker 1: of others, he becomes intolerant, persecuting, condemnatory, and overcritical of
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  Speaker 1: their formal actions. Rabid reformers, self constituted censors of the
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  Speaker 1: general public, and others of this general kind have this
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  Speaker 1: negative quality highly developed. It may be cured by adding
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  Speaker 1: a liberal blend of the elements of reason, judgment, discrimination, tolerance, charity, sympathy,
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  Speaker 1: and understanding of human nature with a sufficient quantity of
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  Speaker 1: the element of humor. Kindliness consists of the manifestation of
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  Speaker 1: a humane, sympathetic, benevolent, kind, tolerant, charitable, and helpful mental
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  Speaker 1: attitude toward others. Inspired by affection, fellow feeling, and good will.
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  Speaker 1: It manifests in the direction of a sympathetic and kindly
• 2:17:00
  Speaker 1: desire to make others happy and prosperous. It expresses the
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  Speaker 1: spirit of benevolence, generosity, and philanthropy. It is regarded as
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  Speaker 1: a positive virtue by all schools of ethics, and all
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  Speaker 1: practical philosophers consider it a positive character quality. In the
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  Speaker 1: long run, it tends to make you stronger, better, and
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  Speaker 1: more efficient. Manifested normally, it draws to one the kindly
• 2:17:23
  Speaker 1: sympathy in liking of others, and thus promotes his own
• 2:17:26
  Speaker 1: well being in happiness. The manifestation of the opposite quality
• 2:17:30
  Speaker 1: tends to repel the kindly interest of others, and thus
• 2:17:33
  Speaker 1: is negative in its effects. The deficiency negative of normal
• 2:17:37
  Speaker 1: kindliness is known as lack of sympathy, and is marked
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  Speaker 1: by the absence of sympathy, tolerance, charity, fellow feeling, affection,
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  Speaker 1: or love, and by the lack of all inclination to help, aid, assist,
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  Speaker 1: or render kindly services to others. It is a repelling,
• 2:17:54
  Speaker 1: deadening negative character quality, which should be inhibited by the
• 2:17:57
  Speaker 1: cultivation of its positive opposite. The excess negative of normal
• 2:18:02
  Speaker 1: kindliness is known as Maudlin sympathy, which is marked by
• 2:18:06
  Speaker 1: the presence of sickly sentimentality. It is a neurotic, hysterical
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  Speaker 1: emotional state in which the feeling of love for one's
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  Speaker 1: fellows is reduced to a state of mushy gush and
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  Speaker 1: is manifested in a perverted display of morbid sympathy for
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  Speaker 1: and toward, often quite unworthy objects. To many, the term
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  Speaker 1: brotherly love has lost its real and positive meaning by
• 2:18:28
  Speaker 1: reason of the perverted and misdirected manifestations of so called
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  Speaker 1: love and sympathy on the part of many persons of
• 2:18:34
  Speaker 1: the type just indicated. The perverted excess negative should be
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  Speaker 1: cured by an addition of common sense and discrimination, a
• 2:18:41
  Speaker 1: blending of head with heart, and a goodly portion of
• 2:18:44
  Speaker 1: normal equity in justice with a dash of the ability
• 2:18:47
  Speaker 1: to detect incongruity. Here, once more, an excess of a
• 2:18:52
  Speaker 1: virtue becomes a vice. Loyalty consists of the state or
• 2:18:57
  Speaker 1: quality of being loyal, ie of being faith full and
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  Speaker 1: true to principle or to those to whom one owes fidelity,
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  Speaker 1: truthfulness and honest dealings. Loyalty is a staunch virtue, and
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  Speaker 1: one upon which enduring human relations must be based. The
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  Speaker 1: man whose loyalty is beyond question, the man you can
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  Speaker 1: depend upon and who sticks by you to the end,
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  Speaker 1: is a real man. The reputation of possessing such character
• 2:19:23
  Speaker 1: quality is a valuable asset to anyone. Not only is
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  Speaker 1: the reputation gained by the manifestation of this quality valuable
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  Speaker 1: and helpful, but the practice and manifestation of the quality
• 2:19:34
  Speaker 1: itself is strengthening, invigorating, and backbone producing. In its effects,
• 2:19:40
  Speaker 1: it tends to make you stronger, better, and more efficient.
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  Speaker 1: The deficiency negative of loyalty is known as disloyalty, which
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  Speaker 1: is marked by faithlessness, treachery, desertion, perfidy, inconstancy, in general, unreliability.
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  Speaker 1: Disloyalty is a despicable quality of character and is condemned
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  Speaker 1: all men. It is negative in nature, and in effects
• 2:20:04
  Speaker 1: it most decidedly tends to render one weaker, worse, and
• 2:20:07
  Speaker 1: less efficient. The excess negative of loyalty is known as
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  Speaker 1: blind partisanship, which is marked by an unreasoning adherence to
• 2:20:15
  Speaker 1: a person, party, or faction, an attachment based upon the
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  Speaker 1: fact of habit or prejudice rather than upon actual merit, quality, virtue,
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  Speaker 1: or truth. This is a state of loyalty gone to
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  Speaker 1: seede and having lost its essential spirit and life. It
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  Speaker 1: is a counterfeit of true loyalty and has no real
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  Speaker 1: meaning in fact or truth. Yet it is a most
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  Speaker 1: common quality among mankind. It may be cured by the
• 2:20:41
  Speaker 1: addition of logical thought, discrimination and equity. Service consists of
• 2:20:46
  Speaker 1: the desire to perform the duty due to others, and
• 2:20:49
  Speaker 1: to manifest the proper and equitable labour or effort for
• 2:20:52
  Speaker 1: those to whom it is owing. All men owe service
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  Speaker 1: to society, to their fellow men, to their dependence, and
• 2:20:59
  Speaker 1: to those with whom they have dealings. The law of
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  Speaker 1: compensation exacts the performance of service. One must pay for
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  Speaker 1: what he gets. Must pay in service. He must be
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  Speaker 1: willing to pay the price to render compensation. The price
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  Speaker 1: of service received is service rendered or to be rendered.
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  Speaker 1: He who seeks to get everything and to render no
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  Speaker 1: equivalent service for it is a thief or a parasite.
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  Speaker 1: He is a slacker. The negation of the quality of
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  Speaker 1: service is weakening, degrading, demoralizing, and degenerating in its nature
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  Speaker 1: and effects. Service properly understood and equitably performed is positive
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  Speaker 1: in nature and effects. It tends to render you stronger, better,
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  Speaker 1: and more efficient. The motto ich daine i e I
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  Speaker 1: serve rightly understood is a worthy one. The deficiency negative
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  Speaker 1: of service is known as refusal to serve and consists
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  Speaker 1: of the desire and tendency to shirk or to refuse
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  Speaker 1: rightful service and duty to get without rendering an equivalent
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  Speaker 1: to want to live on others or upon society in general,
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  Speaker 1: without rendering compensating service. This is a negative quality, and
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  Speaker 1: it renders one weaker, worse, and less efficient without doubt.
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  Speaker 1: The excess negative of service is known as servility, which
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  Speaker 1: consists of the servile mental attitude that a slave spirit
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  Speaker 1: and the actions arising therefrom It is marked by slavishness,
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  Speaker 1: meanness of spirit, cringing, fawning, and often is accompanied by sycophancy,
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  Speaker 1: base flattery, and toadying. This perversion may be cured by
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  Speaker 1: a liberal addition of true egoism, self respect, equity, et cetera.
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  Speaker 1: True service is distinguished by a blending of self respect
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  Speaker 1: and equity, and is the antithesis of servility. The latter
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  Speaker 1: is a base caricature of the positive quality and should
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  Speaker 1: never be mistaken for it temperance consists of habitual moderation
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  Speaker 1: of the appetites and passions. It has for its motto
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  Speaker 1: nothing too much. It seeks to maintain the golden mean,
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  Speaker 1: by means of which one may use every fit thing
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  Speaker 1: at the right time, in the right place, and in
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  Speaker 1: the right manner, and yet never misuse nor abuse even
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  Speaker 1: the best thing. True temperance does not mean the total
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  Speaker 1: inhibition of the natural appetites, tastes, and passions, nor the
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  Speaker 1: total abstinence from the satisfaction of these. Rather, does it
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  Speaker 1: mean their self controlled restraint, accompanied by the right to
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  Speaker 1: manifest them in moderation lawfully, righteously, and morally, under the
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  Speaker 1: control of the conscience, judgment, and will. Its essence is
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  Speaker 1: well balanced moderation. That temperance is a positive character quality
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  Speaker 1: cannot be denied. It is perceived to make one stronger, better,
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  Speaker 1: and more efficient, and its negative opposite, i e. In temperance,
• 2:23:52
  Speaker 1: is seen to render one weaker, worse, and less efficient.
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  Speaker 1: The positive should be developed and cultivated, the negative should
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  Speaker 1: be in inhibited. The deficiency negative of temperance is known
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  Speaker 1: as intemperance, which is marked by the absence of all
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  Speaker 1: the characteristics of temperance, and accordingly by the tendency toward excessive, uncontrolled,
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  Speaker 1: unbridled indulgence of the appetites, tastes, and passions without regard
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  Speaker 1: to reason or write. Intemperance is a negative quality and
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  Speaker 1: should be overcome by the cultivation of its positive opposite.
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  Speaker 1: The excess negative of temperance is known as austerity, which
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  Speaker 1: consists of extreme and unreasonable severity, sternness, strictness, rigorousness regarding judging, living,
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  Speaker 1: and acting. The code of extreme, severe and unreasonable self
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  Speaker 1: denial of the appetites, tastes, and passions the manifestation of
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  Speaker 1: the ideals of asceticism. Persons in whom this quality is
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  Speaker 1: well developed and active are inclined to regard practically all
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  Speaker 1: of the natural appetites, tastes, and passions as unworthy and depraved,
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  Speaker 1: and as therefore to be rigorously inhibited and repressed. This
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  Speaker 1: quality violates the spirit of true temperance, which is moderation
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  Speaker 1: in all things. It leads to intolerance, fanaticism, persecution, and
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  Speaker 1: general narrowness of heart and spirit. Chastity is the quality
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  Speaker 1: or state of being chaste i e. Pure, clean, virtuous,
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  Speaker 1: especially in the matter of sexual relations. Chastity is a
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  Speaker 1: positive quality, a positive virtue approved of and encouraged by
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  Speaker 1: the best religious, moral, ethical, and common sense thought of
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  Speaker 1: civilized lands. It is held to promote the welfare of
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  Speaker 1: the race, the protection of society, and the well being
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  Speaker 1: of the individual. Individuals, communities, and nations habitually and extensively
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  Speaker 1: violating the rule of chastity are pushed to the wall
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  Speaker 1: in the course of evolution. As all history informs us,
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  Speaker 1: and as all human experiences corroborates, sexual cleanliness is not
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  Speaker 1: only a virtue for the individual and for society in general,
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  Speaker 1: it is all also a necessity of ultimate well being, success,
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  Speaker 1: and survival. Individual exceptions only serve to verify the general rule.
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  Speaker 1: Unchastity exacts a tremendous toll in the long run and
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  Speaker 1: on the average, Chastity is a positive quality. It makes
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  Speaker 1: you stronger, better, and more efficient. The deficiency negative of
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  Speaker 1: chastity is known as unchastity. It lacks every characteristic of
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  Speaker 1: the positive quality and is its antithetical opposite. It is
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  Speaker 1: marked by lewdness, lust, lacidiousness, lechery, profligacy, licentiousness, sensuality, wantonness, impurity,
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  Speaker 1: and viciousness. In its train follow practically all of the
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  Speaker 1: vices of mankind. It is vicious, harmful, and negative. It
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  Speaker 1: certainly makes one weaker, worse, and less efficient. The poet
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  Speaker 1: truthfully tells us that to be hated, it needs but
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  Speaker 1: to be seen, and likewise warns us against that familiarity
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  Speaker 1: which causes us to to lose our first disgusted and
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  Speaker 1: hatred for it. The excess negative of chastity is known
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  Speaker 1: as sexophobia, that abnormal, morbid state of mind and feeling
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  Speaker 1: that causes persons to think and feel that sex in
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  Speaker 1: itself is evil, impure, and lewed. This view is quite
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  Speaker 1: contrary to nature and to reason, and is not advanced
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  Speaker 1: by true morality, religion, or ethics. It is contrary to
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  Speaker 1: common sense as well. Sex has its rightful and proper place,
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  Speaker 1: an important place in nature. It has its important and
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  Speaker 1: worthy part to play in the life of natural things.
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  Speaker 1: Without it, life would perish. Its vice consists only in
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  Speaker 1: its abuse, its improper use, its unwarranted manifestation. Science informs
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  Speaker 1: us that this perverted, exaggerated hatred of sex and all
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  Speaker 1: that belongs to sex, is not only unnatural, abnormal, and irrational,
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  Speaker 1: but that it is also in many cases actually pathological.
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  Speaker 1: Often indeed, sex does thus treated by individuals, turns upon
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  Speaker 1: and devours them. Sex reviled takes its revenge upon the revilers.
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  Speaker 1: The pathology of sex reveals numerous cases of sexual perversions
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  Speaker 1: and abnormalities arising from this morbid thought and feeling toward
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  Speaker 1: the principle of sex in itself. True chastity dwells in
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  Speaker 1: the light. The perverted form seeks and dwells in the darkness.
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  Speaker 1: Many so called advocates of sexual purity, defined in the
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  Speaker 1: terms of sexophobia, are really prurient prudes. Their thoughts are
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  Speaker 1: unclean and fungus like growths. They lack the purifying rays
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  Speaker 1: of the sun. Chastity must not be confounded with or
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  Speaker 1: mistaken for this base counterfeit. This miserable wolf wearing the
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  Speaker 1: skin of the sheep. This perversion, like all other excess negatives,
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  Speaker 1: is decidedly negative in nature and in its effects. It
• 2:28:50
  Speaker 1: tends to make one weaker, worse, and less efficient. It
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  Speaker 1: is doubly dangerous because it seeks refuge in the temple
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  Speaker 1: of chastity and often wears the garb of thee priests
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  Speaker 1: of that temple. This may seem like strong language, but
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  Speaker 1: it is warranted by the facts of the case, which
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  Speaker 1: are known to all earnest investigators of the subject. Character power,
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  Speaker 1: positive individuality. By William Walker Atkinson, nineteen twenty two. The
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  Speaker 1: Spiritual Qualities. The seventh of the several classes of character
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  Speaker 1: qualities is that known as the spiritual qualities. The term spiritual,
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  Speaker 1: as here used, means pertaining to the soul or spirit,
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  Speaker 1: and concerned with the spiritual principle from which all things proceed.
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  Speaker 1: The several general qualities composing that class are as follows seven.
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  Speaker 1: The spiritual qualities deficiency negative, lack of spirituality, lack of reverence,
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  Speaker 1: positive norm spirituality, reverence, excess negative, perverted spirituality, superstitious awe.
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  Speaker 1: You are now asked to conser each of the above
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  Speaker 1: stated qualities composing the class of the spiritual qualities. Spirituality
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  Speaker 1: in the true sense consists of the unfoldment in consciousness,
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  Speaker 1: of the recognition and realization of the actual being in
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  Speaker 1: imminent presence of the ultimate spiritual principle of being from
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  Speaker 1: which all things proceed, and in which all things live
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  Speaker 1: and move and have their being. This spiritual consciousness is
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  Speaker 1: based on an intuitive faith that knows and not merely
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  Speaker 1: believes it proceeds from a spiritual awakening, which brings the
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  Speaker 1: i ami of the individual into direct contact with the
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  Speaker 1: universal spiritual principle of being or power. It is arrived
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  Speaker 1: at by spiritual evolution, by the unfoldment of the spiritual
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  Speaker 1: faculties or powers which are latent within every individual, and
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  Speaker 1: which are capable of being developed and cultivated by intelligent effort.
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  Speaker 1: By preparing the soil, supplying nourishment and water, and placing
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  Speaker 1: the growing things so that it will catch the life
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  Speaker 1: giving rays of the sun of spirit, you will aid
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  Speaker 1: material in its growth and development. Spirituality in this sense
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  Speaker 1: is a most positive character quality, as all know who
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  Speaker 1: have carefully investigated the matter. It is not a mere
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  Speaker 1: goody goody state of mind, nor is it bound up
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  Speaker 1: with ecclesiasticism. Instead, it is a sole state in which
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  Speaker 1: the being and presence of the spiritual principle of power
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  Speaker 1: is recognized, realized, and also manifested in action. A prominent
• 2:31:26
  Speaker 1: man once said that the practical mystic is a man
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  Speaker 1: to be reckoned with in any and all walks of life.
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  Speaker 1: The truly spiritual man is a tower of strength and
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  Speaker 1: a reservoir of power. The great leaders of the race,
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  Speaker 1: the men of destiny have been men in whom spiritual
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  Speaker 1: consciousness has been awakened. It is true that in many
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  Speaker 1: cases they have afterward misused their power and misdirected its energies.
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  Speaker 1: But their power originally came from spiritual sources. Nevertheless, and
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  Speaker 1: its subsequent misdirection and misapplication brought about its own punishment.
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  Speaker 1: You will be made stronger, better, and more efficient if
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  Speaker 1: you will encourage and open yourself to the inflow of
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  Speaker 1: spiritual consciousness. You may do this in or out of
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  Speaker 1: the churches, in or out of the established forms of
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  Speaker 1: religious practice. Spiritual consciousness is a matter of the inner experience,
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  Speaker 1: and not of the outer form. Man is better, stronger,
• 2:32:22
  Speaker 1: and more efficient by reason of opening his soul to
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  Speaker 1: the inflow of the infinite, and by living up to
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  Speaker 1: the best that he finds awakened within himself as the
• 2:32:29
  Speaker 1: result of this. As for the particular forms or creeds
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  Speaker 1: through which men seek to express and manifest their intuitions
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  Speaker 1: of spiritual consciousness, the present writers feel in accord with
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  Speaker 1: the ancient Oriental sage who said, there is but one
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  Speaker 1: supreme being. Though men worship many semblances and pictured forms
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  Speaker 1: of that formless one, though they give many names to
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  Speaker 1: that nameless one, though they give many descriptions of that
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  Speaker 1: indescribable one. There are many paths to that one, but
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  Speaker 1: there is only one goal and destination. In worshiping their
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  Speaker 1: own highest conception of God, men worship the principle of reality,
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  Speaker 1: which is over and above all of their possible conceptions.
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  Speaker 1: To that one, all worship arises, even from altars erected
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  Speaker 1: to the worship of men's pitifully conceived deities, with their
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  Speaker 1: petty images and childish pictures. There is but one, though
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  Speaker 1: men call it by many different names and explain it
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  Speaker 1: in many different ways. The deficiency negative of spirituality is
• 2:33:28
  Speaker 1: known as lack of spirituality, and is marked by an
• 2:33:31
  Speaker 1: absence of the characteristics of the positive quality. Here, the
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  Speaker 1: spiritual faculties are asleep, the spiritual intuition undeveloped. This state
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  Speaker 1: may exist in the case of the formal church member,
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  Speaker 1: as well as in the unbeliever, or in any one
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  Speaker 1: in whom the higher consciousness has not been awakened. Real
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  Speaker 1: religion is a matter of inner experience and not of
• 2:33:53
  Speaker 1: outer formalism with its creeds, rites, and observances. The absence
• 2:33:58
  Speaker 1: of spiritual consciousness is a weakness and is negative in
• 2:34:02
  Speaker 1: effect and results. The excess negative of spirituality is known
• 2:34:06
  Speaker 1: as perverted spirituality, which is marked by gross superstition, unreasoning, credulity,
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  Speaker 1: religious vagaries, fanaticism, the running after new religions and strange doctrines,
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  Speaker 1: the cultivation of the so called psychic powers of doubtful
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  Speaker 1: value or even of harmful effect, the joining of strange cults,
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  Speaker 1: and the craze for new gisms, ologies and inspired doctrines.
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  Speaker 1: This perversion often takes on the form of pathological religion.
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  Speaker 1: It may be relieved procured by the proper addition of
• 2:34:37
  Speaker 1: logical thought, observation, deduction, judgment and discrimination, and above all
• 2:34:43
  Speaker 1: by the cultivation of the consciousness of the reality of
• 2:34:46
  Speaker 1: the I am I and of its relation to incorrelation
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  Speaker 1: with the universal principle of being. When the gods come,
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  Speaker 1: the half gods disappear. Reverence consists of profound respect and esteem.
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  Speaker 1: Manifested toryes that which is deemed sublime and sacred. It
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  Speaker 1: is the feeling or emotion entertained by men toward the
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  Speaker 1: subject or object of their highest conceptions of being and reality.
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  Speaker 1: It is the obeisance of the soul made to its
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  Speaker 1: source and origin, the veneration accorded by the finite manifestation
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  Speaker 1: toward the infinite manifestor. It is a worthy emotion and tendency,
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  Speaker 1: and is expressed by man in his various forms of worship.
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  Speaker 1: In its highest and purest forms, it is accompanied only
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  Speaker 1: by love, all fear having been cast out. In its
• 2:35:33
  Speaker 1: lower forms, fear plays a prominent part. The positive nature
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  Speaker 1: of this quality is lessened in the degree that fear
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  Speaker 1: is present. It becomes the more positive in its nature
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  Speaker 1: and effect in the degree that fear is banished and
• 2:35:46
  Speaker 1: love and confidence has taken its place. Reverence, rightly manifested
• 2:35:51
  Speaker 1: and rightly understood, is a positive quality and tends to
• 2:35:55
  Speaker 1: make you stronger, better, and more efficient. It is worthy
• 2:35:59
  Speaker 1: of development and cultivation. The deficiency negative of spirituality is
• 2:36:04
  Speaker 1: known as lack of reverence, which is characterized by a
• 2:36:07
  Speaker 1: greater or less degree of irreverence, or the mental and
• 2:36:10
  Speaker 1: emotional attitude directly opposed to that of reverence as described above.
• 2:36:15
  Speaker 1: The excess negative of reverence is known as superstitious awe,
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  Speaker 1: which consists of base fear, terrible dread, and superstitious terror,
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  Speaker 1: arising from crude superstitious beliefs in and conceptions of supernatural
• 2:36:28
  Speaker 1: entities or things. Superstition means misguided or unenlightened religious feeling
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  Speaker 1: or belief, or credulous belief in supernatural things all means
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  Speaker 1: reverential fear or dread. Fear is the characteristic element of
• 2:36:44
  Speaker 1: all forms of superstition, and as we have seen, fear
• 2:36:48
  Speaker 1: is essentially a negative quality, weakening in its effects. Superstitious
• 2:36:53
  Speaker 1: awe sometimes also attaches itself to the individuals posing as prophets, preachers,
• 2:36:58
  Speaker 1: and inspired teachers of mist exterious doctrines or religions, or
• 2:37:02
  Speaker 1: even to the dignitaries of some of the more familiar
• 2:37:04
  Speaker 1: forms of ecclesiastical organization. Fear and awe are the main
• 2:37:09
  Speaker 1: elements of the emotional feeling arising from such causes. Fear
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  Speaker 1: is negative and renders one weaker, worse, and less efficient.
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  Speaker 1: Love and confidence are positive and render one stronger, better,
• 2:37:22
  Speaker 1: and more efficient. Character power positive individuality. By William Walker Atkinson,
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  Speaker 1: nineteen twenty two. The Seven Principles of character building. There
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  Speaker 1: are seven special principles governing the cultivation and development of
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  Speaker 1: the positive character qualities. Each of these general principles is
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  Speaker 1: embodied in a particular psychological method based upon strictly scientific foundations.
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  Speaker 1: The practice and application of these methods have been found
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  Speaker 1: by experiment in actual employment to be highly efficient in
• 2:37:55
  Speaker 1: the direction of the cultivation and development of the character
• 2:37:57
  Speaker 1: qualities which reason and experience have deterin determine to be positive,
• 2:38:01
  Speaker 1: i e. To tend to make one stronger, better, and
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  Speaker 1: more efficient. There is nothing fanciful or visionary in these methods.
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  Speaker 1: They are based upon cold, scientific facts, carefully tested and
• 2:38:14
  Speaker 1: subjected to trial and experiment, and may be verified by
• 2:38:18
  Speaker 1: anyone who will faithfully put them into practice and use.
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  Speaker 1: The seven principles of character building above referred to are
• 2:38:25
  Speaker 1: as follows. One the principle of idealization. Two the principle
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  Speaker 1: of visualization, three the principle of mental declaration or affirmation.
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  Speaker 1: Four the principle of nourishing with suggestive ideas. Five the
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  Speaker 1: principle of rehearsing in imagination. Six the principle of directing
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  Speaker 1: the physical expression. Seven the principle of establishing the habitual manifestation.
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  Speaker 1: You are now asked to consider in fuller detail each
• 2:38:58
  Speaker 1: of the seven principles of character building, with a statement
• 2:39:01
  Speaker 1: of the facts upon which it is based and the
• 2:39:03
  Speaker 1: general method, whereby it may be effectively applied one idealization.
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  Speaker 1: Idealization is the act or process of giving an ideal
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  Speaker 1: form or character to the character quality under consideration, of
• 2:39:17
  Speaker 1: combining its full meaning and content in a unitary idea,
• 2:39:20
  Speaker 1: embodying the basic conception involved in the thought or term
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  Speaker 1: designating it. The principle of idealization is employed not only
• 2:39:28
  Speaker 1: that a full intelligent conception of the quality may be had,
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  Speaker 1: but also that there may be created an ideal mold
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  Speaker 1: or pattern design for framework, in or around which the
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  Speaker 1: substance of the quality may arrange and build itself into
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  Speaker 1: the perfect form and shape to be expressed in objective manifestation.
• 2:39:46
  Speaker 1: In order to build up a desired trait or quality
• 2:39:48
  Speaker 1: of character, it is necessary first to create in the
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  Speaker 1: mind a strong and efficient idea of that trait or quality.
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  Speaker 1: All things in nature are built around an ideal form.
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  Speaker 1: The the form of the oak tree is in the acorn,
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  Speaker 1: and the growth of the tree proceeds according to the
• 2:40:04
  Speaker 1: pattern of the ideal form. All the creative work of
• 2:40:08
  Speaker 1: man proceeds from the ideal to the real, from the
• 2:40:11
  Speaker 1: mental idea to the material reality. Hallick says the Brooklyn
• 2:40:16
  Speaker 1: bridge first existed in the mind before the structure became
• 2:40:19
  Speaker 1: an objective reality. The projectors had first to plan what
• 2:40:23
  Speaker 1: they intended to do. Then they had to put these
• 2:40:26
  Speaker 1: plans on paper in the forms of drawings, the mind
• 2:40:29
  Speaker 1: going before the pencil and telling the fingers where to
• 2:40:31
  Speaker 1: put the next line. Only after the mental object was
• 2:40:35
  Speaker 1: complete was matter slowly poured into this mental mold. Only
• 2:40:39
  Speaker 1: then did that wonderful bridge connecting two great cities become
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  Speaker 1: a reality. The same is true of every step in
• 2:40:47
  Speaker 1: material progress, from the invention of a sewing machine to
• 2:40:50
  Speaker 1: that of the telephone. In the battle of life, those
• 2:40:54
  Speaker 1: succeed best who can form definite ideas of what they
• 2:40:56
  Speaker 1: are going to do before they start to do it.
• 2:41:00
  Speaker 1: Others get into trouble and often are forced to retrace
• 2:41:03
  Speaker 1: their steps in the process of idealization. In the work
• 2:41:07
  Speaker 1: of character building, you must first of all acquire a full,
• 2:41:11
  Speaker 1: comprehensive and complete idea of the nature of the character
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  Speaker 1: quality which you wish to develop. For that is the
• 2:41:16
  Speaker 1: mental pattern upon which you are to fashion and shape
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  Speaker 1: the growth of that quality, the mold into which you
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  Speaker 1: are to pour the mental substance out of which character
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  Speaker 1: qualities are built. Unless you have a full and complete
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  Speaker 1: pattern or mold. The product will be incomplete and imperfect.
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  Speaker 1: You will find that your ideas concerning most character qualities
• 2:41:35
  Speaker 1: are very hazy, indefinite, and imperfect. If you build or
• 2:41:39
  Speaker 1: pattern upon these, you will obtain results far from complete
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  Speaker 1: and perfect. You will do well to begin by referring
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  Speaker 1: to a dictionary, then exercising your general recollection and thought
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  Speaker 1: concerning the report furnished you by that reference. Work. For instance,
• 2:41:55
  Speaker 1: you wish to develop courage within yourself because you find
• 2:41:58
  Speaker 1: yourself lacking in that quality, Stop a moment and see
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  Speaker 1: how little you know concerning courage. You know it only
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  Speaker 1: in a general way. Reference to the dictionary brings the
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  Speaker 1: report that courage is that quality of mind which enables
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  Speaker 1: one to encounter danger and difficulties with firmness or without fear.
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  Speaker 1: The synonyms given for courage are as follows, heroism, bravery, intrepidity, valor, valiantness, gallantry, daring, firmness, hardihood,
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  Speaker 1: stoutness of heart, boldness, dauntlessness, resolution. If you will proceed
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  Speaker 1: further in your dictionary search, you may run down the
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  Speaker 1: meaning of each of these synonyms, writing down the definition
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  Speaker 1: and explanation of each. By so doing, you will have
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  Speaker 1: built up a wonderfully strong concept or conception of courage.
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  Speaker 1: You will know it from top to bottom and from
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  Speaker 1: all sides and points of view. You will find that,
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  Speaker 1: for the first time in your life, you really know
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  Speaker 1: what courage means. If you wish to proceed further, you
• 2:42:57
  Speaker 1: may refer to some standard reference work in which quotations
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  Speaker 1: from eminent writers, poets, and speakers are given, indexed under
• 2:43:04
  Speaker 1: their appropriate headings. Under the heading of courage, you will
• 2:43:08
  Speaker 1: find many strong quotations in which the word or idea
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  Speaker 1: of courage is used as the central thought. You will
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  Speaker 1: find yourself filled with a new and inspired realization of
• 2:43:18
  Speaker 1: the inner meaning of courage. You will have courage idealized, courage, apathetized,
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  Speaker 1: courage deified. Having done this, you should use your recollection
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  Speaker 1: and powers of association in order to bring before your
• 2:43:31
  Speaker 1: mind the numerous instances and examples of courageous action and
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  Speaker 1: behavior of which you have read or heard. You should
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  Speaker 1: recall the individuals noted in history for their courageous behavior
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  Speaker 1: in face of danger and difficulties. You should recall the
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  Speaker 1: individuals in private life who have manifested acts showing the
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  Speaker 1: possession of the quality of courage. In short, you should
• 2:43:51
  Speaker 1: build up a strong and complete mental picture of courage,
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  Speaker 1: using your basic definition or conception as its central point.
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  Speaker 1: The same course should be pursued by you in the
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  Speaker 1: case of any particular character quality which you may wish
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  Speaker 1: to develop in yourself. The principle is universal and is
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  Speaker 1: applicable in all cases to all individuals. Do not pass
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  Speaker 1: this by his fanciful or unimportant detail. It is very
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  Speaker 1: practical and most important, as you will discover if you
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  Speaker 1: will try to put on paper your conception of any
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  Speaker 1: character quality without having followed the course above outlined, your
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  Speaker 1: ignorance concerning any of these qualities is unsuspected by you
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  Speaker 1: until you make the discovery in the way above mentioned.
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  Speaker 1: Having made the discovery, you will get busy in this
• 2:44:35
  Speaker 1: way if you purpose trying to develop a character quality,
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  Speaker 1: for unless you know what you are trying to build,
• 2:44:40
  Speaker 1: you cannot expect to build it very well. First know
• 2:44:44
  Speaker 1: thoroughly what you intend to seek and obtain, then bend
• 2:44:48
  Speaker 1: every effort toward obtaining it. The idealization comes first. The
• 2:44:52
  Speaker 1: realization follows to visualization. The principle of visualization is employed
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  Speaker 1: for the the purpose of creating a clear mental picture
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  Speaker 1: of the character quality deemed desirable and worthy of development.
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  Speaker 1: Because of its positive nature, this mental picture must show
• 2:45:09
  Speaker 1: the quality in actual manifestation and expression on your part.
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  Speaker 1: Your imagination is called into effect in picturing you as
• 2:45:16
  Speaker 1: already possessing the quality in question, and as efficiently manifesting
• 2:45:20
  Speaker 1: it in action. Thus is set into operation that psychological
• 2:45:24
  Speaker 1: law which creates mental paths over which the will afterwards
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  Speaker 1: tends to travel easily and instinctively. Visualization is the act
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  Speaker 1: of picturing a mental image in memory or imagination. Another
• 2:45:36
  Speaker 1: definition is the creation of a mental image or picture
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  Speaker 1: representing a physical form or activity. In the special usage
• 2:45:44
  Speaker 1: of this term in the New Psychology, it means forming
• 2:45:47
  Speaker 1: mental pictures or images of oneself as possessing a desired
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  Speaker 1: mental state and as acting in accordance therewith. As we
• 2:45:55
  Speaker 1: have stated, the purpose of the practice of visualization in
• 2:45:58
  Speaker 1: the process of character building is that of building and
• 2:46:01
  Speaker 1: establishing mental paths over which the will may and will
• 2:46:04
  Speaker 1: travel easily in future performances. Just as one's feet naturally
• 2:46:08
  Speaker 1: and instinctively tread in the path which other feet have
• 2:46:11
  Speaker 1: made for them across a field, through a forest, or
• 2:46:14
  Speaker 1: along a stream, so does the will tend to tread
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  Speaker 1: the path which has been established for it, either by
• 2:46:18
  Speaker 1: the habit of continued and repeated action or by the
• 2:46:21
  Speaker 1: habit of idealistic visualization or mental picturing, which we are
• 2:46:25
  Speaker 1: now considering. In applying the principle of visualization, you should
• 2:46:29
  Speaker 1: picture yourself mentally as already being that which you desire
• 2:46:32
  Speaker 1: actually to be, and as acting in accordance with the
• 2:46:35
  Speaker 1: possession of such qualities of character. You should visualize yourself
• 2:46:40
  Speaker 1: as in possession of the positive qualities you wish to acquire.
• 2:46:43
  Speaker 1: But under no circumstances should you allow yourself to indulge
• 2:46:47
  Speaker 1: in the practice of visualizing yourself in the possession of
• 2:46:49
  Speaker 1: negative qualities. This because in either in each case, you
• 2:46:53
  Speaker 1: will be building mental paths of character over which the
• 2:46:55
  Speaker 1: will may find it very easy to travel in future
• 2:46:58
  Speaker 1: manifestations of character. In the process of visualization, as herein described,
• 2:47:04
  Speaker 1: the imagination is called into play and is pressed into
• 2:47:07
  Speaker 1: active service. There was a time in which the imagination
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  Speaker 1: was regarded as being concerned only with fanciful picturing, having
• 2:47:14
  Speaker 1: no relation to real accomplishment. Today, on the contrary, the
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  Speaker 1: imagination is seen to be a most important factor in
• 2:47:22
  Speaker 1: the creative work of man along all lines of expression.
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  Speaker 1: Everything that man has created, he first created in his imagination,
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  Speaker 1: the physical creation being merely the reproduction of the mental image.
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  Speaker 1: The better and clearer the mental picture of anything you
• 2:47:37
  Speaker 1: wish to accomplish, the better will be your chance of
• 2:47:40
  Speaker 1: accomplishing it. All else being equal, Constructive imagination is the
• 2:47:45
  Speaker 1: secret of the attainment of the inventor, and of the
• 2:47:47
  Speaker 1: success of all persons in any walk of life who
• 2:47:50
  Speaker 1: improve upon older methods and who extend the limits of
• 2:47:53
  Speaker 1: man's achievements. Therefore, do not dismiss the subject of the
• 2:47:58
  Speaker 1: principle of visualization as being being mere imagination. Instead, learn
• 2:48:03
  Speaker 1: to employ the principle earnestly and in good faith, for
• 2:48:06
  Speaker 1: by so doing you set into operation one of nature's
• 2:48:09
  Speaker 1: great hidden forces, one of her finer forces. By creating
• 2:48:13
  Speaker 1: the right kind of mental pictures of that which you
• 2:48:16
  Speaker 1: wish to be and to do, you are erecting the
• 2:48:18
  Speaker 1: mental model which you will may employ in its future
• 2:48:21
  Speaker 1: work of character building. It will try to copy faithfully
• 2:48:24
  Speaker 1: the model you give it, So be careful to give
• 2:48:27
  Speaker 1: it the right kind of model. Build carefully on the
• 2:48:30
  Speaker 1: plane of the ideal, for your work will be reproduced
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  Speaker 1: on the plane of objective reality. Hang the right kind
• 2:48:36
  Speaker 1: of pictures in your mental gallery, for they will be
• 2:48:39
  Speaker 1: used as models by the silent artists working on the
• 2:48:41
  Speaker 1: subconscious planes of your being free. Mental declaration or affirmation.
• 2:48:48
  Speaker 1: The principle of mental declaration or affirmation is employed for
• 2:48:52
  Speaker 1: the purpose of bringing into operation the psychological law which
• 2:48:55
  Speaker 1: tends to set and fix in the character those traits, qualities,
• 2:48:59
  Speaker 1: and tendency which are verbally declared, asserted, and affirmed with
• 2:49:03
  Speaker 1: conviction and confidence. In modern psychology, this principle is frequently
• 2:49:08
  Speaker 1: referred to under the term affirmation or auto suggestion. Affirmation
• 2:49:13
  Speaker 1: means the act of affirming or positively asserting and declaring.
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  Speaker 1: In the special meaning of the term as employed in
• 2:49:20
  Speaker 1: modern psychology, the term affirmation means practically that which is
• 2:49:24
  Speaker 1: known and indicated by the term autosuggestion. Auto suggestion is
• 2:49:29
  Speaker 1: a suggestion made by the individual to himself, and when
• 2:49:32
  Speaker 1: persistently practiced, it takes on the full power and effect
• 2:49:35
  Speaker 1: of that which psychologists know as suggestion. The term suggestion
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  Speaker 1: in this usage is the process of communicating an idea
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  Speaker 1: to the subconscious mind in an unobtrusive manner, carrying conviction.
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  Speaker 1: A suggestion is not an argument or the presentation of proof.
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  Speaker 1: On the contrary, it is rather a positive, confident statement
• 2:49:57
  Speaker 1: made in the tones in spirit of conviction. Suggestion proceeds
• 2:50:02
  Speaker 1: upon the psychological theory that the mind of man is
• 2:50:05
  Speaker 1: largely subconscious, and the subconscious mentality is highly amenable to suggestion.
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  Speaker 1: It would be departing from the special field of psychology
• 2:50:13
  Speaker 1: sought to be covered in this book, where we here
• 2:50:15
  Speaker 1: to enter upon a detailed consideration of the respective subjects
• 2:50:19
  Speaker 1: of subconscious mind suggestion, et cetera, interesting as such subjects
• 2:50:24
  Speaker 1: may be. Instead, we will assume that you are acquainted
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  Speaker 1: in at least a general way with those leading facts
• 2:50:30
  Speaker 1: concerning such subjects, and shall treat the subject of mental declaration,
• 2:50:35
  Speaker 1: affirmation or auto suggestion with that understanding. Those who wish
• 2:50:39
  Speaker 1: to acquaint themselves more fully with the subject of the
• 2:50:42
  Speaker 1: subconscious mind are referred to the volume of the present
• 2:50:45
  Speaker 1: series devoted to that special subject of subconscious power. Mental declaration,
• 2:50:51
  Speaker 1: affirmation or auto suggestion is very simple in its application.
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  Speaker 1: It consists merely of saying to yourself positively, emphatically, earnestly,
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  Speaker 1: and persistently, I am fearless or I am self controlled
• 2:51:05
  Speaker 1: or I am truthful, et cetera, et cetera. The I
• 2:51:08
  Speaker 1: am assertion preceding the statement of the possession of the
• 2:51:11
  Speaker 1: particular character quality sought to be developed and cultivated and
• 2:51:14
  Speaker 1: brought into the field of your mental activity. You should
• 2:51:18
  Speaker 1: never make the affirmation or declaration in the form of
• 2:51:20
  Speaker 1: a denial, as for instance, I am not afraid, I
• 2:51:25
  Speaker 1: am not untruthful, et cetera. This because in such a
• 2:51:29
  Speaker 1: denial you are really suggesting the negative term to the
• 2:51:32
  Speaker 1: subconscious mentality, and thus bringing it into the field of attention,
• 2:51:36
  Speaker 1: thereby strengthening it instead of weakening it, as you desire
• 2:51:39
  Speaker 1: to do. Mental declarations, affirmations, and auto suggestions should be
• 2:51:44
  Speaker 1: positive and never should be expressed in negative terms. The
• 2:51:48
  Speaker 1: power of mental declaration, affirmation or autosuggestion is augmented greatly
• 2:51:53
  Speaker 1: by an accompanying acting out of the character quality, as
• 2:51:56
  Speaker 1: described later in our explanation of the direction of physical expression,
• 2:52:00
  Speaker 1: and by the practice of visualization as previously described, and
• 2:52:05
  Speaker 1: also by the practice of the principle rehearsing in imagination
• 2:52:08
  Speaker 1: as later explained. The combination of one direction of the
• 2:52:13
  Speaker 1: physical expression free visualization and for mental rehearsal furnishes an
• 2:52:19
  Speaker 1: ideal method of cultivating. In developing any desired character qualities.
• 2:52:24
  Speaker 1: In declaring, affirming, or auto suggesting the desired character qualities,
• 2:52:29
  Speaker 1: be careful not to fall into a parrot like repetition
• 2:52:32
  Speaker 1: of the words. There is no special virtue in the
• 2:52:35
  Speaker 1: words themselves. The entire virtue consists of the lively meaning
• 2:52:39
  Speaker 1: of the words which the mind absorbs. Your declarations or
• 2:52:43
  Speaker 1: affirmations must be alive, full of energy and animation, not
• 2:52:47
  Speaker 1: dead meaningless statements of words repeated without a vivid consciousness
• 2:52:51
  Speaker 1: of their meaning. Mental declaration or affirmation is not, by
• 2:52:56
  Speaker 1: any means a mumbo jumbo process of repeating mysteries words
• 2:53:00
  Speaker 1: constituting a charm. It is not a superstitious magic right. Instead,
• 2:53:06
  Speaker 1: it is a purely scientific process based upon definite psychological law,
• 2:53:10
  Speaker 1: and is dearly explainable in psychological physiological terms. Remember always
• 2:53:16
  Speaker 1: that there is a reason for this process of says
• 2:53:19
  Speaker 1: I to myself, says I, and that this reason is
• 2:53:23
  Speaker 1: a valid scientific one based upon efficient observation, experimentation, and demonstration.
• 2:53:30
  Speaker 1: For nourishing with suggestive ideas. The principle of nourishing with
• 2:53:35
  Speaker 1: suggestive ideas is employed for the purpose of bringing into
• 2:53:38
  Speaker 1: operation an effect that psychological law, under the operation of
• 2:53:41
  Speaker 1: which mental qualities are fed and nourished by means of
• 2:53:44
  Speaker 1: the presentation of suggestive ideas, or starved by the withholding
• 2:53:48
  Speaker 1: of such ideas from them. This psychological law, simply stated,
• 2:53:53
  Speaker 1: is as follows. Feed your positive qualities with appropriate suggestive ideas,
• 2:53:58
  Speaker 1: starve your negative qualities by withholding appropriate suggestive ideas. In
• 2:54:03
  Speaker 1: considering the application of this principle, you should take note
• 2:54:06
  Speaker 1: of the fact that the element in the character qualities
• 2:54:08
  Speaker 1: which is to be fed or starved by giving or
• 2:54:11
  Speaker 1: withholding suggestive ideas, as the case may be, is the
• 2:54:15
  Speaker 1: feeling or emotional element of such qualities. The feeling or
• 2:54:20
  Speaker 1: emotional element is present in every character quality, and in
• 2:54:24
  Speaker 1: fact is the element which supplies the motive power of
• 2:54:27
  Speaker 1: the manifestation of the quality itself. This being perceived, it
• 2:54:31
  Speaker 1: follows that an understanding of the nature of emotion must
• 2:54:34
  Speaker 1: be had in order that you may be able to
• 2:54:36
  Speaker 1: grasp the principle involved in the case now before you
• 2:54:39
  Speaker 1: for consideration. Emotion is made up of two elements, two
• 2:54:43
  Speaker 1: streams combining to form a mighty river. These two elements
• 2:54:47
  Speaker 1: are one simple feeling and two representative ideas. Emotion is
• 2:54:54
  Speaker 1: technically feeling combined with idea. A leading psychologist has compared
• 2:54:59
  Speaker 1: the river of a mo motion to the Lower Mississippi River,
• 2:55:01
  Speaker 1: which is composed of the waters of one the Missouri River,
• 2:55:05
  Speaker 1: representing representative ideas, and two the Upper Mississippi, representing simple feelings.
• 2:55:12
  Speaker 1: The two streams, combining the Lower Mississippi River representing completed emotion,
• 2:55:18
  Speaker 1: is formed and thenceforth flows toward the Gulf of Will,
• 2:55:21
  Speaker 1: much broader and deeper than before the junction. The waters
• 2:55:25
  Speaker 1: of both the Missouri and the Upper Mississippi are always
• 2:55:28
  Speaker 1: present in every part of the Lower Mississippi, and the
• 2:55:31
  Speaker 1: elements of feeling and idea are always present in every
• 2:55:34
  Speaker 1: emotional state, even when a motion flows into the Gulf
• 2:55:37
  Speaker 1: of Will. The above statement and the accompanying illustrative figure
• 2:55:42
  Speaker 1: will give you the secret of the application of the
• 2:55:44
  Speaker 1: principle now before us for consideration. If you withhold the
• 2:55:48
  Speaker 1: stream of suggestive ideas, the river of emotion will consist
• 2:55:52
  Speaker 1: merely of simple feeling, never rising to the power, never
• 2:55:55
  Speaker 1: displaying the depth, never extending to the width of the
• 2:55:58
  Speaker 1: true river of emotion. But on the other hand, if
• 2:56:02
  Speaker 1: we let flow into the stream of simple feeling a
• 2:56:04
  Speaker 1: copious and abundant stream of suggestive ideas, then will the
• 2:56:08
  Speaker 1: river of emotion be given increased power, depth, and width.
• 2:56:12
  Speaker 1: Completed emotion never comes into being except in response to
• 2:56:16
  Speaker 1: definite suggestive ideas. These ideas may arise from the direct
• 2:56:21
  Speaker 1: perception and observation of some suggestive object. Which object awakens
• 2:56:25
  Speaker 1: either the memory of direct experiences or else of inherited
• 2:56:28
  Speaker 1: race experience, and thus sets the imagination to work. Any idea,
• 2:56:33
  Speaker 1: whether derived from direct observation or else arising from memory,
• 2:56:37
  Speaker 1: which suggests the satisfaction of emotional feeling, or any picture
• 2:56:41
  Speaker 1: of the imagination which is likewise suggestive of similar results,
• 2:56:45
  Speaker 1: will tend to awaken or to kindle emotion. This because
• 2:56:50
  Speaker 1: such ideas combine with the inherited or acquired elements of
• 2:56:53
  Speaker 1: simple feeling, and fusing with these, create emotion or become
• 2:56:57
  Speaker 1: emotion itself. Imagination supplies us with some of the strongest
• 2:57:02
  Speaker 1: suggestive ideas inspiring emotion. Halleck Well says, those ideas which
• 2:57:08
  Speaker 1: give us pictures of a concrete act of injustice, of
• 2:57:11
  Speaker 1: the doing of a noble deed, or of actual suffering
• 2:57:14
  Speaker 1: seldom fail to arouse emotion. If a man intends to
• 2:57:18
  Speaker 1: get a contribution for the sick poor, let him not
• 2:57:21
  Speaker 1: speak in general terms of the inconvenience of sickness the
• 2:57:24
  Speaker 1: pains of poverty. One vivid picture of a forlorn room
• 2:57:27
  Speaker 1: where a feeble mother is watching a sick child for
• 2:57:30
  Speaker 1: which she is unable to procure proper food will be
• 2:57:33
  Speaker 1: infinitely more effective any idea which suggests gratification of desire.
• 2:57:38
  Speaker 1: Any idea which vividly pictures something affecting the welfare of
• 2:57:42
  Speaker 1: the self or of others, is apt to be followed
• 2:57:44
  Speaker 1: by emotion. Stating the case, generally, the rapidity of the
• 2:57:49
  Speaker 1: rise of an internally inhibited emotion will be due to
• 2:57:51
  Speaker 1: the amount of pleasure or pain immediate or remote to
• 2:57:55
  Speaker 1: ourselves or to others in whom we are interested, which
• 2:57:58
  Speaker 1: the idea suggests. From the above, you will see that
• 2:58:02
  Speaker 1: it follows logically that the more that your feeling is
• 2:58:04
  Speaker 1: supplied with appropriate suggestive ideas and mental images, the greater
• 2:58:09
  Speaker 1: will be the power, depth, and width of the emotion aroused.
• 2:58:12
  Speaker 1: And conversely that the more that your feelings are deprived
• 2:58:15
  Speaker 1: of such suggestive ideas and mental pictures, the weaker and
• 2:58:18
  Speaker 1: the less effective will be the resulting emotion. Hence the
• 2:58:22
  Speaker 1: general rule, feed your positives and starve your negatives. Keep
• 2:58:27
  Speaker 1: your mind well filled with the suggestive ideas and mental
• 2:58:30
  Speaker 1: pictures which logically suggest the positive character qualities, and keep
• 2:58:34
  Speaker 1: it as free as possible from the suggestive ideas and
• 2:58:37
  Speaker 1: mental pictures which suggest the negative character qualities. In following
• 2:58:41
  Speaker 1: this course, you will be proceeding scientifically with your work
• 2:58:44
  Speaker 1: of character building. Visualize yourself as manifesting the positive qualities,
• 2:58:49
  Speaker 1: as expressing your feeling desire for their objects, as gratifying
• 2:58:53
  Speaker 1: your desire and craving for such objects, and you will
• 2:58:56
  Speaker 1: be setting into operation a powerful law of mental activity
• 2:58:59
  Speaker 1: in the direction of the attainment of the positive qualities
• 2:59:02
  Speaker 1: which your reason dictates should be cultivated and developed. See
• 2:59:06
  Speaker 1: yourself as you wish to be i e. In possession
• 2:59:10
  Speaker 1: of the positive qualities and manifesting freely, efficiently, and effectively
• 2:59:14
  Speaker 1: such positive qualities. Emotions are hungry creatures feed, while those
• 2:59:20
  Speaker 1: which you desire shall thrive and starve into submission those
• 2:59:23
  Speaker 1: which you are determined to restrain, restrict, and inhibit. Remember
• 2:59:28
  Speaker 1: always that suggestive ideas constitute the natural food of emotion,
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  Speaker 1: and the imagination is the great department store of suggestive ideas. Five.
• 2:59:38
  Speaker 1: Rehearsing in imagination. The principle of rehearsing in imagination is
• 2:59:43
  Speaker 1: employed for the purpose of acting out in imagination those
• 2:59:46
  Speaker 1: actions which you desire to render habitual, and which result
• 2:59:50
  Speaker 1: naturally from the manifestation of the character qualities which you
• 2:59:53
  Speaker 1: are seeking to develop, thus bringing into operation the psychological
• 2:59:57
  Speaker 1: law which operates in the direction of causing idea to
• 3:00:00
  Speaker 1: become real and in creating mental patterns of action which
• 3:00:03
  Speaker 1: will be reproduced in actual manifestation. Just as the actor
• 3:00:08
  Speaker 1: who wishes to become proficient in the representation of his
• 3:00:11
  Speaker 1: part must practice, rehearse, and act out in private the
• 3:00:14
  Speaker 1: part which he wishes to play, so must you practice, rehearse,
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  Speaker 1: and act out in imagination the parts which you desire
• 3:00:22
  Speaker 1: to play. When you have fully developed and cultivated the
• 3:00:24
  Speaker 1: positive qualities to which you are applying the methods of
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  Speaker 1: character building. Careful and extended experience and experiments in the
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  Speaker 1: psychological laboratories have demonstrated the correctness of the above stated
• 3:00:36
  Speaker 1: principle of character building. It has been found that when
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  Speaker 1: the individual experimented upon will earnestly, diligently and faithfully carry
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  Speaker 1: out the instructions to rehearse in imagination the actions which
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  Speaker 1: will naturally result from the possession of the developed character
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  Speaker 1: qualities in question. Then he will rapidly develop those qualities
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  Speaker 1: which are necessary to cause his ideals to become real.
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  Speaker 1: It would seem that nature feels the demand upon it
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  Speaker 1: for the development of the qualities in question, just as
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  Speaker 1: it feels the demand of the growing plant for certain
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  Speaker 1: elements of growth, and thereupon responds to that demand by
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  Speaker 1: supplying that which is needed. When you are engaged in
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  Speaker 1: the work of developing and cultivating a desired positive character quality,
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  Speaker 1: you should avail yourself of the materials gathered by you
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  Speaker 1: in the processes of idealization and visualization, respectively, thus forming
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  Speaker 1: a clear conception and mental picture of just how you
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  Speaker 1: would act if you were really in possession of that
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  Speaker 1: positive character quality, fully developed and in a state of
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  Speaker 1: normal activity. Get this idea and picture well fixed in
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  Speaker 1: your mind, as perfect in detail as is possible to you,
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  Speaker 1: then proceed to act out the part in imagination. Go
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  Speaker 1: about it just as if you were actually learning a
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  Speaker 1: part to be played on the stage, and for which
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  Speaker 1: you would be handsomely rewarded if you succeeded in playing
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  Speaker 1: the part successfully. Go about it seriously, earnestly, and in
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  Speaker 1: good faith, and with persistent determination. Learn well the part,
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  Speaker 1: then play out well in your imaginative rehearsals. Imagine yourself
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  Speaker 1: in all sorts of positions in which you will be
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  Speaker 1: called upon to exercise the positive quality in question. Invent circumstances, conditions,
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  Speaker 1: and events in which you must play this part in
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  Speaker 1: order to be successful. Then mentally picture yourself as successfully
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  Speaker 1: playing the part, going through the motions, displaying the necessary strength,
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  Speaker 1: power and fortitude, saying in doing the right things, and
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  Speaker 1: finally as meeting with success in the matter. Never, under
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  Speaker 1: any circumstances should you indulge in a rehearsal of the
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  Speaker 1: manifestation of negative qualities, and steadfastly refuse to accept such roles,
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  Speaker 1: even in imagination, for otherwise you will make it too
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  Speaker 1: easy for you to actually play such parts in real life.
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  Speaker 1: Rehearse only those parts which you really desire to play,
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  Speaker 1: and cut out the other parts. There is no magic
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  Speaker 1: or uncanny mystery about the workings of this principle. It
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  Speaker 1: proceeds strictly in accordance with scientific psychological law. By rehearsing
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  Speaker 1: and acting out these parts in imagination, you set in
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  Speaker 1: operation certain mental forces which tend to bring to the
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  Speaker 1: surface of your consciousness the mental powers which are latent
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  Speaker 1: there and which are a part of your heredity, the
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  Speaker 1: mental powers associated with the manifestation of the positive qualities
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  Speaker 1: which you are acting out. Moreover, at the same time,
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  Speaker 1: you are acquiring the mental habit of acting in this
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  Speaker 1: particular way, and thus establishing new paths over which the
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  Speaker 1: will may easily travel. Or to put it another way,
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  Speaker 1: you are exercising that set of brain cells which have
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  Speaker 1: to do with the manifestation of the positive quality in question,
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  Speaker 1: and are thereby causing these cells to develop by use
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  Speaker 1: and exercise according to natural law. Aside from all explanations
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  Speaker 1: and theories, though there are plenty of good ones to
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  Speaker 1: be had, the principal fact concerning this principle is this
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  Speaker 1: it works out in actual effect and will produce the
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  Speaker 1: desired effect. You do your part, and the psychological law
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  Speaker 1: of this principle will do its part in return. Six
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  Speaker 1: Directing the physical expression. The principle of directing the physical
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  Speaker 1: expression is employed for the purpose of setting into operation
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  Speaker 1: the psychological law which relates and correlates the inner mental
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  Speaker 1: state with its outer physical expression, and which causes each
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  Speaker 1: of these elements to react upon the other, thereby establishing
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  Speaker 1: the full correlation. Just as this law causes thoughts and
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  Speaker 1: feelings to take form in physical action, so does it
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  Speaker 1: cause physical action to arouse a corresponding an associated set
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  Speaker 1: of mental thoughts and feelings. The first above mentioned result
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  Speaker 1: is a matter of common knowledge. The latter, though equally
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  Speaker 1: well established, is practically unknown to the average person. The
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  Speaker 1: correlation and coordination of mental states and physical expression is
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  Speaker 1: universal and elemental. Particularly marked is this correlation in the
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  Speaker 1: case of emotional feeling and muscular action. The lower animals
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  Speaker 1: manifested in their characteristic physical express of emotional states. The
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  Speaker 1: tossing of the man, the showing of the teeth, the
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  Speaker 1: unsheathing of the claws, the distended fur or hair of
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  Speaker 1: the body, the dropped tail, the wagging tail. All these
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  Speaker 1: are typical examples of the operation of the principle. The
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  Speaker 1: human infant gives vigorous physical expression to its pleasurable and
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  Speaker 1: disagreeable emotional feelings. The adult being also manifests marked physical
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  Speaker 1: expression of his inner emotional states, as for instance, his smile,
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  Speaker 1: his scowl or frown, his clenched fists, his look of
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  Speaker 1: amazement or perplexity, the changing expression of his eyes, his
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  Speaker 1: general bodily attitude. The skilled pantomimest or moving picture actor
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  Speaker 1: is able to express, by mere physical gesture, expression, and posture,
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  Speaker 1: the entire range of human emotions. Psychologists are now quite
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  Speaker 1: generally agreed that if the body remains entirely passive, then
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  Speaker 1: the emotional state can scarcely be said to exist. They
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  Speaker 1: hold that the specific muscular action occurs companying an emotion
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  Speaker 1: is so truly an essential part of the emotion that
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  Speaker 1: it cannot be divorced from the latter. They cite as
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  Speaker 1: evidence this fact that when the features are deliberately fixed
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  Speaker 1: in the facial expression of one emotion, it is impossible
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  Speaker 1: to call up into conscious action a contrary emotion. Furthermore,
• 3:06:17
  Speaker 1: they assert that by restricting and restraining the physical expression
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  Speaker 1: of a strong emotion, one usually is able to inhibit
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  Speaker 1: the further growth of that emotional state. Likewise, that by
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  Speaker 1: refusing to express the physical form of an emotion, the
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  Speaker 1: inner flame of the emotional state flickers and finally dies out. Entirely,
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  Speaker 1: there is discovered to exist a peculiar action and reaction
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  Speaker 1: between the inner emotional state and its outer physical expression.
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  Speaker 1: Each acts upon the other, and in turn, each experiences
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  Speaker 1: the reaction from the other. This process of action and
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  Speaker 1: reaction proceeds until the climax of the emotional state is reached,
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  Speaker 1: when it dies down gradually. In the same way, each
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  Speaker 1: inner excitement produces an outer excitement, the latter reacting upon
• 3:07:01
  Speaker 1: the inner states and thus intensifying them, and so on
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  Speaker 1: until the climax is reached. In anger, for instance, you
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  Speaker 1: will find the following stages manifested. First, there will appear
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  Speaker 1: the rising inner excitement, which is closely followed by the
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  Speaker 1: physical expression i e. The clenched fists, the compressed lips,
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  Speaker 1: the scowl, the labored breathing, the increased heart beat, et cetera.
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  Speaker 1: These physical actions will then react upon the inner flame,
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  Speaker 1: causing it to burn more brightly and more fiercely. The
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  Speaker 1: heat of this increased inner flame will then warm up
• 3:07:34
  Speaker 1: an increased degree of physical expression, and so the action
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  Speaker 1: and reaction continue until the person is roused to fierce,
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  Speaker 1: passion and rage. From these facts, the psychologists have deduced
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  Speaker 1: certain methods of controlling in directing the emotional states. These
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  Speaker 1: methods are of two general classes as follows. One methods
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  Speaker 1: of inhibiting negative emotions by means of refusing physical expression
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  Speaker 1: to them, and two methods of cultivating in developing positive
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  Speaker 1: emotions by means of inducing their physical expression. Let us
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  Speaker 1: now consider each of these in turn. One inhibiting negative emotions.
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  Speaker 1: The discovery that emotional states may be restrained, restricted and inhibited,
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  Speaker 1: or at least prevented from rising to their completed form
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  Speaker 1: by means of a deliberate refusal to allow them to
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  Speaker 1: manifest in physical expression, is of the greatest practical importance
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  Speaker 1: to those individuals who seek to cultivate and develop the
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  Speaker 1: positive elements of character, and to restrain and curb its
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  Speaker 1: negative elements. It places in your hands the key whereby
• 3:08:37
  Speaker 1: you may it will lock the door of any particular
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  Speaker 1: emotion and thus prevent the exit of its tenant. By
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  Speaker 1: means of this discovery, many who were formerly slaves of
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  Speaker 1: their emotional states have become the masters of this part
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  Speaker 1: of their mental being. For instance, many quick tempered men
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  Speaker 1: have discovered that they are able to repress the development
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  Speaker 1: of a rising feeling of anger simply by holding their
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  Speaker 1: voices down to a quiet level tone and to a
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  Speaker 1: calm utterance. By refusing to allow their brows to contract
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  Speaker 1: in a frown, and by preventing their fists from clenching
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  Speaker 1: and their breathing to become labored. By refusing to permit
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  Speaker 1: the muscular contraction, they have aborted the rising passion. Many
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  Speaker 1: so called cold blooded persons owe their immunity to hasty
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  Speaker 1: emotional states to the simple practice of muscular restraint and control,
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  Speaker 1: i e. To the habit of restricting and restraining the
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  Speaker 1: physical expression of the threatening, disadvantageous emotional feeling. There thus
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  Speaker 1: being no physical action to react upon the emotional state,
• 3:09:34
  Speaker 1: the latter has no fuel to keep alive its flame,
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  Speaker 1: and it soon dies out. The physical expression and muscular contraction,
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  Speaker 1: which is the outer phase of the emotional feeling, should
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  Speaker 1: be thought of by you as the oil which poured
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  Speaker 1: on the fire causes it to burn more fiercely. If
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  Speaker 1: you want the flame of inner emotion to burn fiercely,
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  Speaker 1: pour on the oil in goodly quantity. If, on the contrary,
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  Speaker 1: you wish the fire to die out quick, refuse to
• 3:10:01
  Speaker 1: supply it with fuel. Carry in mind this figurative illustration,
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  Speaker 1: so that you will have it at hand when you
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  Speaker 1: need it most. In applying this method, you have but
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  Speaker 1: to note the instinctive impulse toward muscular action which accompanies
• 3:10:14
  Speaker 1: the first dawn of the rising emotional state, and then
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  Speaker 1: resolutely and determinately to employ the will in the direction
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  Speaker 1: of refusing further physical expression. At first, this may be difficult,
• 3:10:25
  Speaker 1: but you will find that once you have acquired the knak,
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  Speaker 1: it will be easy. In fact, the very withdrawal of
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  Speaker 1: the attention from the exciting outside object, arousing the emotion,
• 3:10:35
  Speaker 1: and placing it instead upon the physical movements, will tend
• 3:10:38
  Speaker 1: to quiet the emotional storm. Each and every emotional state
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  Speaker 1: has its own particular forms of physical expression, and when
• 3:10:46
  Speaker 1: you are on the lookout for these, you will detect
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  Speaker 1: the preliminary symptoms at once. Then you must assert yourself
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  Speaker 1: and give the order stop just where you are. I
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  Speaker 1: refuse expression to you. You shall not pass the barrier
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  Speaker 1: of my will. Stick to this command, back it up
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  Speaker 1: with your will, and you will have mastered the emotion.
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  Speaker 1: The Orientals practice a method of emotional mastery by means
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  Speaker 1: of the control of the rhythmic rate of breathing, which
• 3:11:13
  Speaker 1: method is really but one form or phase of the
• 3:11:15
  Speaker 1: general method above. Indicated. Some of these Oriental methods have
• 3:11:20
  Speaker 1: been in use for over two thousand years, perhaps even
• 3:11:23
  Speaker 1: much longer. Leaving out the fanciful theories and technical terms,
• 3:11:27
  Speaker 1: the underlying principles of these methods may be stated as follows. One,
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  Speaker 1: every emotional state has its appropriate rate or rhythm of breathing. Two.
• 3:11:36
  Speaker 1: If one will refuse to allow the breathing process to
• 3:11:39
  Speaker 1: proceed according to this appropriate rate or rhythm, then the
• 3:11:42
  Speaker 1: associated emotional state cannot rise to its completed stage. As
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  Speaker 1: an illustration of the above stated principle, you have but
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  Speaker 1: to think of yourself as becoming angry. If when you
• 3:11:54
  Speaker 1: find this emotional state manifesting within you, you will determinately
• 3:11:58
  Speaker 1: refuse to allow yourself to breathe according to the anger
• 3:12:01
  Speaker 1: rate or rhythm, and instead will keep your breathing rate
• 3:12:04
  Speaker 1: or rhythm down to that of the calm, well poised,
• 3:12:07
  Speaker 1: self controlled mental state, then you will have aborted the
• 3:12:10
  Speaker 1: rising emotion of anger. Again. If you refuse to manifest
• 3:12:14
  Speaker 1: the anger breath and the fear breath, you will have
• 3:12:17
  Speaker 1: conquered anger and fear, the twin devils of the emotional world.
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  Speaker 1: According to the Oriental philosophies, you will do well to
• 3:12:24
  Speaker 1: consider carefully this method and practice and apply it. Another
• 3:12:29
  Speaker 1: method of preventing the rise of negative emotions is based
• 3:12:32
  Speaker 1: upon the same general principle, that principle, however, being here
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  Speaker 1: applied in a different manner. This new method is one
• 3:12:39
  Speaker 1: but little known to the Western psychologists, but it has
• 3:12:42
  Speaker 1: been taught and practiced by the Buddhists for many centuries.
• 3:12:46
  Speaker 1: It may be stated as follows. By concentrating the attention
• 3:12:50
  Speaker 1: upon the several physical states muscular movements, expressions, gestures, and
• 3:12:55
  Speaker 1: postures correlated with an inner emotional state, so that you
• 3:12:58
  Speaker 1: mentally analyze that its emotional state into its associated physical
• 3:13:02
  Speaker 1: elements of expression, you will cause the spirit or soul
• 3:13:05
  Speaker 1: of the emotion to take flight, as if in disgust,
• 3:13:08
  Speaker 1: leaving nothing but the shell of its physical elements for
• 3:13:11
  Speaker 1: further observation and experiment. Example, if you feel yourself growing
• 3:13:16
  Speaker 1: angry or jealous or worried, for instance, you should begin
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  Speaker 1: to think about the several forms or elements of physical
• 3:13:23
  Speaker 1: expression accompanying the emotional state. Analyze the physical expression into
• 3:13:28
  Speaker 1: its ultimate elements, proceeding in a cold blooded, scientific spirit.
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  Speaker 1: When you are through with this task, you will find
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  Speaker 1: yourself contemplating merely the lifeless shell of the departed emotional
• 3:13:39
  Speaker 1: state from which the soul has fled in disgust and despair.
• 3:13:43
  Speaker 1: When you are able to see in the feeling of
• 3:13:45
  Speaker 1: anger merely the physical elements the clenched fists, the frown,
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  Speaker 1: the scowl, the compressed lips, the flushed face, the labored breathing,
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  Speaker 1: the increased heart beat, you will have left but very
• 3:13:56
  Speaker 1: little of the original internal feeling of anger. You do
• 3:14:00
  Speaker 1: not need to wait until the negative emotion actually manifests
• 3:14:03
  Speaker 1: itself in order to perform this analysis. It may be
• 3:14:07
  Speaker 1: performed in imagination. At other times by counterfeiting the feeling
• 3:14:11
  Speaker 1: and thus observing the instinctive physical actions accompanying it. Act
• 3:14:15
  Speaker 1: it out, and you will find the laythan plaster beneath
• 3:14:18
  Speaker 1: the thing which has seemed like solid masonry to you.
• 3:14:21
  Speaker 1: A warning is necessary here, however, we advise you to
• 3:14:26
  Speaker 1: conduct the above experiment only upon the negative emotions, those
• 3:14:29
  Speaker 1: emotions which you wish to inhibit, restrain, restrict, and master.
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  Speaker 1: Do not try it upon the positive emotions, upon those
• 3:14:38
  Speaker 1: you wish to develop, cultivate, and strengthen. The reason is
• 3:14:42
  Speaker 1: obvious you are here striving merely for mastery and self control.
• 3:14:47
  Speaker 1: You are not a candidate for asceticism or anchoritism. Remember
• 3:14:52
  Speaker 1: you do not wish to fill out all emotional feeling
• 3:14:55
  Speaker 1: and expression by any means. For many emotional states are
• 3:14:58
  Speaker 1: positive and contribute to the task of making you stronger, better,
• 3:15:02
  Speaker 1: and more efficient. These you wish to cultivate and develop.
• 3:15:06
  Speaker 1: It is only the negative emotions that you wish to restrict, restrain,
• 3:15:10
  Speaker 1: and inhibit. Maintain the golden mean, and remember the adage
• 3:15:14
  Speaker 1: nothing too much. You should strive only to kill out
• 3:15:18
  Speaker 1: the weeds in the garden of character. You should cultivate
• 3:15:21
  Speaker 1: the many beautiful plants and flowers of emotion which are
• 3:15:24
  Speaker 1: to be found there. Do not pull up by the
• 3:15:26
  Speaker 1: roots the plants of the positive emotion in order to
• 3:15:29
  Speaker 1: see what makes them grow. Do not pick to pieces
• 3:15:32
  Speaker 1: the flowers of the positive emotions in order to discover
• 3:15:35
  Speaker 1: the elusive flower in itself. Remain human with the positive
• 3:15:40
  Speaker 1: human emotions. Do not try to become an emotionless being
• 3:15:43
  Speaker 1: with all head and no heart. Mastery of emotion is
• 3:15:47
  Speaker 1: one thing. Asceticism and renunciation of emotion is another, and
• 3:15:51
  Speaker 1: a far different thing. Keep in the middle of the
• 3:15:54
  Speaker 1: road and avoid the two dangerous extremes on either side
• 3:15:59
  Speaker 1: two developing positive emotions. The methods just described as being
• 3:16:04
  Speaker 1: effective in inhibiting the negative emotions, if their action and
• 3:16:07
  Speaker 1: direction be reversed, will prove equally efficacious in the direction
• 3:16:11
  Speaker 1: of developing and cultivating the positive emotions. The old adage
• 3:16:16
  Speaker 1: it's a poor rule that won't work both ways, is
• 3:16:19
  Speaker 1: found to apply in this case. This great psychological law
• 3:16:23
  Speaker 1: will work equally well in either direction, thus furnishing another
• 3:16:26
  Speaker 1: illustration of the axiom of physics and of metaphysics as well,
• 3:16:30
  Speaker 1: that action and reaction are equal in power, though in
• 3:16:34
  Speaker 1: an opposite direction. Interesting and important, as is the application
• 3:16:38
  Speaker 1: of the principle which we have just asked you to consider.
• 3:16:41
  Speaker 1: Equally interesting and important is the converse application of that principle.
• 3:16:46
  Speaker 1: You are now asked to consider. Such application of the
• 3:16:48
  Speaker 1: principle the reverse action of the rule. Psychologists have discovered
• 3:16:53
  Speaker 1: that if you will deliberately and positively assume the physical
• 3:16:56
  Speaker 1: expression of any particular emotional state, you will find yourself
• 3:17:00
  Speaker 1: self gradually experiencing the inner emotional feeling correlated to that
• 3:17:03
  Speaker 1: physical action. Thus, if you sit in a moping posture,
• 3:17:08
  Speaker 1: sighing and speaking in a melancholy tone, you will soon
• 3:17:11
  Speaker 1: experience a feeling of depression and sadness. Reversing the attitude
• 3:17:16
  Speaker 1: and expression i e. Sitting properly with shoulders thrown back,
• 3:17:20
  Speaker 1: smiling and speaking in a cheerful tone. In short, acting
• 3:17:23
  Speaker 1: like a cheerful person, you will find yourself really feeling cheerful.
• 3:17:28
  Speaker 1: Your depression will have flown away, and you will soon
• 3:17:31
  Speaker 1: feel bright, cheerful, and happy, as every normal person should feel.
• 3:17:36
  Speaker 1: The psychologists furnish us with many illustrations of this phase
• 3:17:40
  Speaker 1: of the general principle involved. The following selected cases will
• 3:17:44
  Speaker 1: serve as illustrations of the typical instances cited by leading
• 3:17:48
  Speaker 1: technical writers on the subject. A German professor assures us
• 3:17:52
  Speaker 1: that when one walks for a little time assuming the
• 3:17:55
  Speaker 1: mincing air and step of a silly schoolgirl, he will
• 3:17:58
  Speaker 1: begin to feel as frivolous and as giddy as does
• 3:18:01
  Speaker 1: the girl whom he is counterfeiting. Actors, we are reminded,
• 3:18:05
  Speaker 1: frequently experience the inner feelings of the character whose outer
• 3:18:09
  Speaker 1: actions they are representing on the stage. Likewise, if we
• 3:18:13
  Speaker 1: cast the eyes upward, assuming the reverential attitude of the
• 3:18:16
  Speaker 1: pictured saints, the madonna, or the girl in the well
• 3:18:19
  Speaker 1: known picture of the soul's awakening, we will be inspired
• 3:18:23
  Speaker 1: with a feeling of awe and the emotion of reverence, devotion,
• 3:18:26
  Speaker 1: and mystic longing counterfeiting the expression of the Mona Lisa
• 3:18:30
  Speaker 1: will give us the key to the inner feeling expressing
• 3:18:33
  Speaker 1: itself in the inscrutable smile which the artist has so
• 3:18:36
  Speaker 1: subtly conveyed to us in the painting. Again, closing our
• 3:18:40
  Speaker 1: eyes and directing our glances sidewise in a suspicious, crafty glance,
• 3:18:46
  Speaker 1: continued for some little time, we will feel rising within
• 3:18:49
  Speaker 1: us the crafty, suspicious, cunning designing feeling of the fox
• 3:18:53
  Speaker 1: and his human counterparts. Or if we will continue a
• 3:18:56
  Speaker 1: glance half downward and a little to one side, we
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  Speaker 1: will soon begin to experience the feelings of the coquettish woman,
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  Speaker 1: quite vain and self satisfied, and rather inclined to a
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  Speaker 1: little flirtation. Professor William James has assured us that whistling
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  Speaker 1: to keep up courage is no mere figure of speech,
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  Speaker 1: and that if we wish to conquer undesirable emotional tendencies
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  Speaker 1: in ourselves, we must assiduously and in the first instance,
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  Speaker 1: cold bloodedly, go through the outward movements of those contrary
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  Speaker 1: dispositions which we prefer to cultivate. Here, then, is the
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  Speaker 1: essence of the method. If you wish to develop and
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  Speaker 1: cultivate a positive emotional state or character quality, or to
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  Speaker 1: inhibit a negative one by means of developing and strengthening
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  Speaker 1: its correlated positive, you may do so by deliberately acting
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  Speaker 1: out the physical expression of that positive emotion, just as
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  Speaker 1: the actor would act out that part on the stage.
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  Speaker 1: By giving full expression to the physical actions associated with
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  Speaker 1: an inner emotional state, you feed the inner flame, and
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  Speaker 1: by first earnestly counterfeiting that physical expression, you may actually
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  Speaker 1: kindle them inner flame. Therefore, in cultivating an emotional state,
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  Speaker 1: you should one throw as much earnestness as possible into
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  Speaker 1: its physical expression when you are manifesting it, and you
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  Speaker 1: should also two seek to induce the feeling by deliberately
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  Speaker 1: inducing its physical expression. You may easily ascertain the appropriate
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  Speaker 1: physical expressions of an emotional feeling if you do not
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  Speaker 1: already know them, by throwing yourself into the part in
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  Speaker 1: imagination and letting yourself act it out. Cast aside the
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  Speaker 1: cultivated and acquired repression of your emotional feelings at least
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  Speaker 1: on such occasions, and let instinct and nature show you
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  Speaker 1: how that particular feeling and emotion expresses itself in physical
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  Speaker 1: form and motion. A little private practice along these lines
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  Speaker 1: will surprise you by the revelation of unsuspected depths of
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  Speaker 1: feeling an expression possible to you. You will be surprised
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  Speaker 1: to discover how good an actor you are. When you
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  Speaker 1: act before the mirror, you will not need a chart
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  Speaker 1: of the complete physical expression of any or all of
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  Speaker 1: the emotional stars. Instinct has supplied you with an inner
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  Speaker 1: chart with all the details worked out, though you have
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  Speaker 1: hidden that chart under the accumulated habits of many generations
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  Speaker 1: of conventional restraint. In all probability, particularly if you are
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  Speaker 1: an Anglo Saxon, if you are of the Latin races,
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  Speaker 1: or have the blood of such races in the mixture
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  Speaker 1: flowing through your veins, you will find the instinctive expression
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  Speaker 1: much nearer to the surface. But no matter how deeply
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  Speaker 1: buried it may be, it exists surely in everyone, for
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  Speaker 1: Nature has placed it there in her processes of racial
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  Speaker 1: psychic inheritance. You will make interesting discoveries concerning your emotional nature.
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  Speaker 1: If you practice this method, you will find that you
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  Speaker 1: have the whole menagerie within yourself. You will hear the
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  Speaker 1: muffled roarings of the animals and the recesses of your nature,
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  Speaker 1: but you will find yourself the master of the show,
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  Speaker 1: by reason of your grasp of the fundamental principles of
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  Speaker 1: their nature and activities, and by the knowledge of the
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  Speaker 1: basic facts of your own being. In applying this principle
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  Speaker 1: inn in the direction of developing and cultivating the positive emotions,
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  Speaker 1: you must reverse in every particular the direction of the
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  Speaker 1: principle as we have explained it to you in our
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  Speaker 1: consideration of the methods designed for the restraint, restriction, and
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  Speaker 1: inhibition of the negative emotions. Instead of shutting off the
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  Speaker 1: supply of fuel, here you must pour oil on the
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  Speaker 1: fire of emotion by encouraging, expressing, and even actually counterfeiting
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  Speaker 1: and acting out the physical expression. Likewise, just as when
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  Speaker 1: in the work of repressing the negative emotions, you refuse
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  Speaker 1: to allow your breathing to take on the rate and
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  Speaker 1: rhythm of the negative emotion, so here, in developing the
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  Speaker 1: positive emotions, you must first deliberately induce, assume, and produce
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  Speaker 1: the desired breathing rate or rhythm. Breathe as you wish
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  Speaker 1: to feel, is the oriental adage applying in this case. Furthermore,
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  Speaker 1: you may here even reverse the method of analyzing into
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  Speaker 1: its physical elements the negative emotion, which you have been
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  Speaker 1: taught to apply in cases in which you wish to
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  Speaker 1: neutralize the effect of the latter. In this reversed action
• 3:23:02
  Speaker 1: or converse method, instead of analyzing the negative element into
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  Speaker 1: its physical elements, you proceed to synthesize, i e. Combine
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  Speaker 1: put together these physical elements so as to create an
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  Speaker 1: inner emotional state. Instead of driving out the soul of
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  Speaker 1: the emotion by dissecting its body, you here build up
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  Speaker 1: an appropriate body into which the soul of the emotion
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  Speaker 1: may enter. This analysis and the synthesis, as the case
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  Speaker 1: may be, is performed mentally. Of course, in the synthesis,
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  Speaker 1: you form a mental picture of the coordinated and combine
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  Speaker 1: physical elements of expression, visualizing these as animated by the
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  Speaker 1: soul or spirit of the positive emotion. In this way,
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  Speaker 1: you awaken the sleeping spirit of the positive emotion, which
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  Speaker 1: then proceeds to live and act and breathe through its
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  Speaker 1: physical form. We ask that you do not dismiss as
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  Speaker 1: fanciful and impractical. These methods of controlling the physical expression
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  Speaker 1: of emotion. While they may be new to you, and
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  Speaker 1: while they may be different from anything you have previously
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  Speaker 1: thought or learned concerning this matter, nevertheless they are the
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  Speaker 1: most practical and efficient methods discovered by modern psychology, or
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  Speaker 1: perhaps we should say rediscovered, for these methods have long
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  Speaker 1: been known to the Orientals. Seven. Establishing habitual manifestation. The
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  Speaker 1: principle of establishing the habitual manifestation of the positive character
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  Speaker 1: qualities is employed for the purpose of building up a
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  Speaker 1: line of least resistance and establishing a second nature along
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  Speaker 1: which and according to which course the will will tend
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  Speaker 1: to travel in future actions. This principle is based upon
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  Speaker 1: the well established psychological law that the expression of the
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  Speaker 1: emotions and the manifestation of the will proceed along the
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  Speaker 1: line of least resistance, the latter being the line of
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  Speaker 1: established habit and upon the fact that in establishing a
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  Speaker 1: new set of habit action, there is created a second
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  Speaker 1: nature of even greater power than that of the original
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  Speaker 1: nature of the individual habit is that tender see of
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  Speaker 1: the mind, feelings, emotion, and will to move along the
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  Speaker 1: line of least resistance established by previous actions of the
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  Speaker 1: same or similar nature. When one performs with difficulty a
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  Speaker 1: voluntary act several times, the repetitions of that act become
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  Speaker 1: steadily easier, more involuntary, more instinctive, more habitual. Here follows
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  Speaker 1: the technical statement of psychology concerning the nature and operation
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  Speaker 1: of habit. An acquired habit is an established and traveled
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  Speaker 1: pathway of discharge of nervous energy over which subsequent currents
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  Speaker 1: ever after tend to travel or escape into action. The
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  Speaker 1: two laws governing such habitual action are as follows. One,
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  Speaker 1: all actions tend to recur and to be manifested more
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  Speaker 1: easily after each performance. Two actions, at first voluntary by
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  Speaker 1: frequent repetition, tend to become involuntary and are performed principally
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  Speaker 1: by the subconscious will. Here the mind is seen to
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  Speaker 1: work and perform just as does material substance, such as as,
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  Speaker 1: for instance, the piece of paper or cloth, which, after
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  Speaker 1: being once folded, thereafter tends to fold more or less
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  Speaker 1: easily along the lines of the original crease. This principle
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  Speaker 1: being perceived, it logically follows that if you are desirous
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  Speaker 1: of cultivating, in developing the positive character qualities, you will
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  Speaker 1: do well to start to acquire the habit of actually
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  Speaker 1: expressing them. The more often you actually manifest such character qualities,
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  Speaker 1: the more easily, instinctively and automatically will you express them. Subsequently,
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  Speaker 1: you must create a wide, clear mental path over which
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  Speaker 1: you will may travel in future manifestation. Such a path
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  Speaker 1: may be created by firmly establishing the habit of actually
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  Speaker 1: manifesting the desired positive character qualities. Here follow the classical,
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  Speaker 1: well established psychological rules of habit adapted to the particular task.
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  Speaker 1: Before you acquire momentum at the start. When you undertake
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  Speaker 1: the task of cultivating a positive character quality, either for
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  Speaker 1: its own sake or for the purpose of inhibit its
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  Speaker 1: correlated negative quality, give the positive quality a good running
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  Speaker 1: start so that it will be launched with a strong
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  Speaker 1: and vigorous initiative. Be in earnest and put enthusiasm and
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  Speaker 1: vigor into your work of character building. Beware of slipping
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  Speaker 1: at the start when you undertake the development of a
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  Speaker 1: positive character quality. This because such a failure discourages the
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  Speaker 1: will and renders easier any subsequent slips or stumbles. Your
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  Speaker 1: positive character quality must be given the habit of success
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  Speaker 1: from the very start. This will put new life, vigor,
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  Speaker 1: and confidence into it. Beware of early discouragements before the
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  Speaker 1: habit has been established in the tendency set, express promptly
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  Speaker 1: in action your positive qualities when they present themselves in
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  Speaker 1: consciousness to you. Do not allow procrastination or delayed expression
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  Speaker 1: to deaden your will to action. In such cases. Let
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  Speaker 1: the positive qualities express themselves in action at the first
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  Speaker 1: possible opportunity. This gives the inner spirit of the feeling
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  Speaker 1: a body to inhabit and causes it to take on
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  Speaker 1: an objective form. Exercise the positive quality in actual work.
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  Speaker 1: This as early and as often as possible. Character qualities,
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  Speaker 1: like muscles, grow and develop by use and exercise. If
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  Speaker 1: you cannot find an opportunity to exercise the quality in
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  Speaker 1: actual work, then do the next best thing and give
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  Speaker 1: it a good rehearsal or acting out both of inner
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  Speaker 1: feeling and of physical expression. Keep the faculty fit and
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  Speaker 1: in good condition by trotting it around the track every
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  Speaker 1: once in a while. Character qualities, also like muscles, tend
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  Speaker 1: to atrophy, stiffen, and weaken if not used in exercised
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  Speaker 1: Beware of allowing your positive character qualities to become muscle
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  Speaker 1: bound in your work of character building. In your task
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  Speaker 1: of building up a positive individuality, as in any other
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  Speaker 1: form of mental work, you will be aided by employing
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  Speaker 1: the principles of the master Formula of Attainment, which is
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  Speaker 1: frequently referred to in the instruction contained in a series
• 3:29:04
  Speaker 1: of books of which the present volume is a part.
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  Speaker 1: The Master Formula of Attainment is composed of the following
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  Speaker 1: several elements viz. One definite ideals, two insistent desire, three
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  Speaker 1: confident expectation for persistent determination, five balanced compensation. Its principles
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  Speaker 1: may be expressed in popular form as follows. You may
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  Speaker 1: have anything you want, provided that you one know exactly
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  Speaker 1: what you want, two want it hard enough, three confidently
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  Speaker 1: expect to obtain it for persistently determined to obtain it,
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  Speaker 1: and five are willing to pay the price of its attainment.
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  Speaker 1: We suggest that you apply the principles of the master
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  Speaker 1: formula in your work of building up a strong, positive character, poise,
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  Speaker 1: and power. In this instruction, we have sought to lead
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  Speaker 1: you to concentrate upon, and to exercise, express and manifest
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  Speaker 1: the positive norm of the very classes of character qualities
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  Speaker 1: which are present within you in at least some form
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  Speaker 1: of development and cultivation, and also to lead you to
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  Speaker 1: inhibit and starve out the deficiency negatives of those positive qualities,
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  Speaker 1: and to transform the excess negatives into their appropriate positive
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  Speaker 1: norms by the addition and blending of the positive elements
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  Speaker 1: which serve to neutralize the perversion excess constituting the negative
• 3:30:22
  Speaker 1: form of the positive qualities. The two negatives i e.
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  Speaker 1: The deficiency negative and the excess negative, respectively, represent the
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  Speaker 1: extremes of any particular class of character qualities. Situated exactly
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  Speaker 1: at the central point between these two poles or extremes
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  Speaker 1: is to be found the positive norm of the quality
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  Speaker 1: in question. Many find it difficult to attain and maintain
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  Speaker 1: the state of the positive norm. They find that the
• 3:30:49
  Speaker 1: pendulum of expression and manifestation tends to swing from one
• 3:30:53
  Speaker 1: extreme to the other, the swing being wide in some
• 3:30:56
  Speaker 1: cases and narrow in others. Human nature tends to run
• 3:31:00
  Speaker 1: to extremes. Becoming tired and disgusted with one extreme of
• 3:31:05
  Speaker 1: a character quality, it seeks to escape from it, and
• 3:31:08
  Speaker 1: in so doing tends to swing equally far in the
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  Speaker 1: other direction, and thus reaches the other extreme. The reformed
• 3:31:15
  Speaker 1: libertine often becomes an ascetic. The ascetic who breaks loose
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  Speaker 1: tends to rival his libertine cousin. Few are able to
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  Speaker 1: master the extremes and to secure the poise and power
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  Speaker 1: which comes only to him who has found and held
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  Speaker 1: that place and position represented by the positive norm. That
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  Speaker 1: place and position must be found and held by all
• 3:31:35
  Speaker 1: who wish to attain mastery. Not only in physics, but
• 3:31:39
  Speaker 1: in the realm of psychology as well, are the law
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  Speaker 1: of polarity, the principle of the opposites, and the law
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  Speaker 1: of rhythm found to manifest their presence and power. The
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  Speaker 1: mental or the physical pendulum swings as far in one
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  Speaker 1: direction as in the other. Action at one extreme tends
• 3:31:56
  Speaker 1: to produce reaction to the opposite extreme. The rule is
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  Speaker 1: action and reaction are equal, though in an opposite direction.
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  Speaker 1: From the perception of this great fact of nature and
• 3:32:08
  Speaker 1: of life, the ancients deduced numerous adages and aphorisms, as
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  Speaker 1: for instance, too much is as bad as not enough
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  Speaker 1: nothing Too much, a virtue carried to excess may become
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  Speaker 1: a vice. Seek Ever, the golden mean. The golden mean
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  Speaker 1: is always found represented by the positive norm, which abides
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  Speaker 1: at the central point between the two negative extremes, which
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  Speaker 1: escapes the too much, as well as that not enough,
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  Speaker 1: and which is always that just right. Concerning the character
• 3:32:35
  Speaker 1: quality in question, the truly wise seek to attain and
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  Speaker 1: maintain this golden mean, this positive norm. They refuse to
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  Speaker 1: be mastered by either negative extreme. They employ the two
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  Speaker 1: extremes as weights on the balancing pole, which they use
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  Speaker 1: in traveling over the tight rope of conduct and behavior.
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  Speaker 1: They stand erect and refuse to fall to either side.
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  Speaker 1: When one weight seems likely to pull them over to
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  Speaker 1: its side, they dip the pole in the opposite direction,
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  Speaker 1: and thus maintain their balance. The individual who has attained
• 3:33:07
  Speaker 1: mastery has learned the secret of balance. He has seen
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  Speaker 1: the disturbances and inharmony manifested by each of the two
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  Speaker 1: extremes of any set of character qualities, and he seeks
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  Speaker 1: and finds a way out of the trouble. He discovers
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  Speaker 1: the place of poise and power at the central point
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  Speaker 1: of the golden mean. But only by recognizing and realizing
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  Speaker 1: the existence and location of the two extremes is he
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  Speaker 1: able to find that central point. If you will observe
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  Speaker 1: the great individuals who have attained prominence in any walk
• 3:33:37
  Speaker 1: of life, and who have achieved success in their own
• 3:33:39
  Speaker 1: respective fields. You will discover that they not only possess power,
• 3:33:43
  Speaker 1: but that they also manifest poise and balance. Their power
• 3:33:47
  Speaker 1: brings to them poise. Their poise brings to them power.
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  Speaker 1: The well balanced person is the strong individual. The ill
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  Speaker 1: balanced or unbalanced person is the weak one. Balance is
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  Speaker 1: an essential attribute of power. Without it, there is no power.
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  Speaker 1: In the heart of the storm of the opposing extremes.
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  Speaker 1: There is to be found a secret place, a quiet place,
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  Speaker 1: a place of power. This is the real home of
• 3:34:13
  Speaker 1: the I am I. He who discovers this place, and
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  Speaker 1: who takes up his abode there may defy the winds
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  Speaker 1: of circumstance and the storms of change. He is thrice blessed,
• 3:34:24
  Speaker 1: thrice wise, thrice strong. The only way to find that
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  Speaker 1: place of poise and power is to learn and apply
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  Speaker 1: the secret of balance. We have given you here in
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  Speaker 1: a few simple words, the essence of a certain bit
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  Speaker 1: of the ancient wisdom. It is as true today as
• 3:34:39
  Speaker 1: when it was first announced many thousands of years ago
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  Speaker 1: by certain wise men who came out of the east,
• 3:34:44
  Speaker 1: and who pointed out the direction of that place in
• 3:34:47
  Speaker 1: which the demand for light more light might be supplied,
• 3:34:51
  Speaker 1: and from which all light comes the man of character,
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  Speaker 1: power of positive individuality. Is he who has discovered the
• 3:34:58
  Speaker 1: secret of balance, of the positive norm of the Golden mean,
• 3:35:02
  Speaker 1: and who thereby has attained poise and power, that power
• 3:35:05
  Speaker 1: which comes from poise, and that poise that comes from power.
• 3:35:09
  Speaker 1: We conclude this phase of our instruction with the admonition
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  Speaker 1: seek ever to attain and maintain the Golden Mean.