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YOUR FORCES AND HOW TO USE THEM: Original Principles of the Secret Law of Attraction - Prentice Mulford (1886) · THE SECRET LAW OF ATTRACTION: Manifest Wealth, Success & Abundance

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Speaker 1: Thought Vibration or the Law of attraction in the Thought
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Speaker 1: World by William Walker Atkinson, nineteen o eight, Chapter one,
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Speaker 1: The Law of attraction in the thought world. The universe
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Speaker 1: is governed by law, one great law. Its manifestations are multiform,
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Speaker 1: but viewed from the ultimate, there is but one law.
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Speaker 1: We are familiar with some of its manifestations, but are
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Speaker 1: almost totally ignorant of certain others. Still, we are learning
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Speaker 1: a little more every day. The veil is being gradually lifted.
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Speaker 1: We speak learnedly of the law of gravitation, but ignore
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Speaker 1: that equally wonderful manifestation, the law of attraction. In the
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Speaker 1: thought world, we are familiar with that wonderful manifestation of
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Speaker 1: law which draws and holds together the atoms of which
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Speaker 1: matter is composed. We recognize the power of the law
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Speaker 1: that attracts bodies to the earth, that holds the circling
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Speaker 1: worlds in their places. But we close our eyes to
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Speaker 1: the mighty law that draws to us the thing we
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Speaker 1: desire or fear, that makes or mars our lives. When
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Speaker 1: we come to see that thought is a force, a
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Speaker 1: manifestation of energy, having a magnet like power of attraction,
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Speaker 1: we will begin to understand the why and wherefore of
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Speaker 1: many things that have heretofore seemed dark to us. There
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Speaker 1: is no study that will so well repay the student
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Speaker 1: for his time and trouble as the study of the
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Speaker 1: workings of this mighty law of the world of thought,
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Speaker 1: the law of attraction. When we think, we send out
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Speaker 1: vibrations of a fine ethereal substance, which are as real
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Speaker 1: as the vibrations manifesting light, heat, electricity, magnetism. That these
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Speaker 1: vibrations are not evident to our five senses is no
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Speaker 1: proof that they do not exist. A powerful magnet will
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Speaker 1: send out vibrations and exert a force sufficient to attract
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Speaker 1: to itself a piece of steel weighing one hundred pounds,
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Speaker 1: But we can neither see, taste, smell here, nor feel
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Speaker 1: the mighty force. These thought vibrations, likewise, cannot be seen, taste, it, smelled, heard,
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Speaker 1: or felt in the ordinary way. Although it is true
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Speaker 1: there are on record cases of persons peculiarly sensitive to
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Speaker 1: psychic impressions who have perceived powerful thought waves, and very
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Speaker 1: many of us can testify that we have distinctly felt
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Speaker 1: the thought vibrations of others, both whilst in the presence
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Speaker 1: of the sender, and at a distance, telepathy and its
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Speaker 1: kindred phenomena are not idle dreams. Light and heat are
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Speaker 1: manifested by vibrations of a far lower intensity than those
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Speaker 1: of thought, but the difference is solely in the rate
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Speaker 1: of vibration. The annals of science throw an interesting light
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Speaker 1: upon this question. Professor Alicia Gray, an eminent scientist, says
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Speaker 1: in his little book The Miracles of Nature, there is
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Speaker 1: much food for speculation in the thought that there exist
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Speaker 1: sound waves that no human ear can hear, and color
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Speaker 1: waves of light that know I can see. The long dark,
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Speaker 1: soundless space between forty thousand and four hundred trillion vibrations
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Speaker 1: per second, and the infinity of range being yon seven
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Speaker 1: hundred trillion vibrations per second, where light ceases in the
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Speaker 1: universe of motion, makes it possible to indulge in speculation. M. M. Williams,
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Speaker 1: in his work entitled Short Chapters in Science, says there
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Speaker 1: is no gradation between the most rapid undulations or tremblings
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Speaker 1: that produce our sensation of sound and the slowest of
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Speaker 1: those which give rise to our sensations of gentless warmth.
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Speaker 1: There is a huge gap between them, wide enough to
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Speaker 1: include another world of motion, all lying between our world
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Speaker 1: of sound and our world of heat and light. And
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Speaker 1: there is no good reason whatever for supposing that matter
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Speaker 1: is incapable of such intermediate activity, or that such activity
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Speaker 1: may not give rise to intermediate sensations, provided there are
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Speaker 1: organs for taking up and sensifying their movements. I cite
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Speaker 1: the above authorities merely to give you food for thought,
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Speaker 1: not to attempt to demonstrate to you the fact that
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Speaker 1: thought vibrations exist. The last named fact has been fully
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Speaker 1: established to the satisfaction of numerous investigators of the subject,
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Speaker 1: and a little reflection will show you that it coincides
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Speaker 1: with your own experiences. We often hear repeated the well
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Speaker 1: known mental science statement thoughts are things, and we say
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Speaker 1: these words over without consciously realizing just what is the
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Speaker 1: meaning of the statement. If we fully comprehended the truth
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Speaker 1: of the statement and the natural consequences of the truth
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Speaker 1: back of it, we should understand many things which have
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Speaker 1: appeared dark to us, and would be able to use
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Speaker 1: the wonderful power thought force, just as we use any
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Speaker 1: other manifestation of energy. As I have said, when we think,
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Speaker 1: we set into motion vibrations of a very high degree,
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Speaker 1: but just as real as the vibrations of light, heat, sound, electricity.
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Speaker 1: And when we understand the laws governing the production and
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Speaker 1: transmission of these vibrations, we will be able to use
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Speaker 1: them in our daily life, just as we do the
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Speaker 1: better known forms of energy that we cannot see. Here.
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Speaker 1: Weigh or measure these vibrations is no proof that they
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Speaker 1: do not exist. There exist waves of sound which no
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Speaker 1: human ear can hear, although some of these are undoubtedly
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Speaker 1: registered by the ear of some of the insects, and
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Speaker 1: others are caught by delicate scientific instruments invented by man.
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Speaker 1: Yet there is a great gap between the sounds registered
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Speaker 1: by the most delicate instrument and a limit which man's mind,
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Speaker 1: reasoning by analogy, knows to be the boundary line between
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Speaker 1: sound waves and some other forms of vibration. And there
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Speaker 1: are light waves which the eye of man does not register,
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Speaker 1: some of which may be detected by more delicate instruments,
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Speaker 1: and many more so fine that the instrument has not
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Speaker 1: yet been invented which will detect them. Although improvements are
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Speaker 1: being made every year, and the unexplored field gradually lessened
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Speaker 1: as new instruments are invented, new vibrations are registered by them,
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Speaker 1: and yet the vibrations were just as real before the
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Speaker 1: invention of the instrument as afterward. Supposing that we had
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Speaker 1: no instruments to register magnetism, one might be justified in
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Speaker 1: denying the existence of that mighty force, because it could
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Speaker 1: not be tasted, felt, smell, heard, seen, weighed, or measured.
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Speaker 1: And yet the mighty magnet would still send out waves
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Speaker 1: of force sufficient to draw to it pieces of steel
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Speaker 1: weighing hundreds of pounds. Each form of vibration requires its
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Speaker 1: own form of instrument for registration. At present, the human
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Speaker 1: brain seems to be the only instrument capable of registering
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Speaker 1: thought waves, although occultists say that in this century scientists
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Speaker 1: will invent apparatus sufficiently delicate to catch and register such impressions.
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Speaker 1: And from present indications, it looks as if the invention
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Speaker 1: named might be expected at any time. The demand exists,
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Speaker 1: and undoubtedly will be soon supplied. But to those who
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Speaker 1: have experimented along the lines of practical telepathy, no further
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Speaker 1: proof is required than the results of their own experiments.
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Speaker 1: We are sending out thoughts of greater or less intensity
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Speaker 1: all the time, and we are reaping the results of
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Speaker 1: such thoughts. Not only do our thought waves influence ourselves
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Speaker 1: and others, but they have a drawing power. They attract
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Speaker 1: to us the thoughts of others, things, circumstances, people, luck
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Speaker 1: in accord with the character of the thought uppermost in
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Speaker 1: our minds. Thoughts of love will attract to us the
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Speaker 1: love of others, circumstances and surroundings in accord with the
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Speaker 1: thought people who are of like thought. Thoughts of anger, hate, envy, malice,
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Speaker 1: and jealousy will draw to us the foul brood of
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Speaker 1: kindred thoughts emanating from the minds of others, circumstances in
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Speaker 1: which we will be called upon to manifest these vile thoughts,
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Speaker 1: and will receive them in turn from others people who
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Speaker 1: will manifest in harmony and so on. A strong thought
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Speaker 1: or a thought long continued will make us the center
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Speaker 1: of attraction for the corresponding thought waves of others. Like
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Speaker 1: attracts like in the thought world. As ye sow, so
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Speaker 1: shall ye reap. Birds of a feather flock together. In
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Speaker 1: the thought world, curses like chickens come home to roost
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Speaker 1: and bring their friends with them. The man or woman
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Speaker 1: who is filled with love sees love on all sides
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Speaker 1: and attracts the life of others. The man with hate
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Speaker 1: in his heart gets all the hate he can stand.
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Speaker 1: The man who thinks fight generally runs up against all
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Speaker 1: the fight he wants before he gets through. And so
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Speaker 1: it goes. Each gets what he calls for over the
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Speaker 1: wireless telegraphy of the mind. The man who rises in
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Speaker 1: the morning feeling grumpy usually manages to have the whole
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Speaker 1: family in the same mood before the breakfast is over.
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Speaker 1: That nagging woman generally finds enough to gratify her nagging
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Speaker 1: propensity during the day. This matter of thought attraction is
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Speaker 1: a serious one. When you stop to think of it,
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Speaker 1: you will see that a man really makes his own surroundings,
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Speaker 1: although he blames others for it. I have known people
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Speaker 1: who understood this law to hold a positive, calm thought
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Speaker 1: and be absolutely unaffected by the inner mooney surrounding them.
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Speaker 1: They were like the vessel from which the oil had
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Speaker 1: been poured on the troubled waters. They rested safely and calmly,
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Speaker 1: whilst the tempest raged around them. One is not at
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Speaker 1: the moment mercy of the fitful storms of thought. After
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Speaker 1: he has learned the workings of the law, we have
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Speaker 1: passed through the age of physical force on to the
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Speaker 1: age of intellectual supremacy, and are now entering a new
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Speaker 1: and almost unknown field, that of psychic power. This field
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Speaker 1: of energy has its established laws, as well as have
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Speaker 1: the others, and we should acquaint ourselves with them, or
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Speaker 1: we will be crowded to the wall, as are the
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Speaker 1: ignorant on the plains of effort. I will endeavor to
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Speaker 1: make plain to you the great underlying principles of this
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Speaker 1: new field of energy which is opening up before us,
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Speaker 1: that you may be able to make use of this
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Speaker 1: great power and apply it for legitimate and worthy purposes,
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Speaker 1: just as men are using steam, electricity, and other forms
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Speaker 1: of energy today. Chapter two, Thought waves and their process
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Speaker 1: of reproduction. Like a stone thrown into the water, thought
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Speaker 1: produces ripples and waves which spread out over the great
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Speaker 1: ocean of thought. There is this difference, however, the waves
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Speaker 1: on the water move only on a level plain, in
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Speaker 1: all directions, whereas thought waves move in all directions from
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Speaker 1: a common center, just as do the rays from the sun.
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Speaker 1: Just as we hear on Earth are surrounded by a
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Speaker 1: great sea of air, so are we surrounded by a
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Speaker 1: great sea of mind. Our thought waves move through this
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Speaker 1: vast mental ether, extending, however, in all directions, as I
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Speaker 1: have explained, becoming somewhat lessened in intensity according to the
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Speaker 1: distance traversed, because of the friction occasioned by the waves
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Speaker 1: coming in contact with the great body of mind surrounding
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Speaker 1: us on all sides. These thought waves have other qualities,
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Speaker 1: Differing from the waves on the water. They have the
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Speaker 1: property of reproducing themselves. In this respect, they resemble sound
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Speaker 1: waves rather than waves upon the water. Just as a
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Speaker 1: note of the violin will cause the thin glass to
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Speaker 1: vibrate and sing, so will a strong thought tend to
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Speaker 1: awaken similar vibrations in minds the tune to receive it.
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Speaker 1: Many of the stray thoughts which come to us are
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Speaker 1: but reflections or answering vibrations to some strong thought sent
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Speaker 1: out by another. But unless our minds are attuned to
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Speaker 1: receive it, the thought will not likely affect us. If
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Speaker 1: we are thinking high and great thoughts are sixteen minds
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Speaker 1: acquire a certain keynote corresponding to the character of the
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Speaker 1: thoughts we have been thinking, and this keynote, once established,
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Speaker 1: we will be apt to catch the vibrations of other
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Speaker 1: minds keyed to the same thought. On the other hand,
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Speaker 1: let us get into the habit of thinking thoughts of
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Speaker 1: an opposite character, and we will soon be echoing the
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Speaker 1: low order of thought emanating from the minds of the
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Speaker 1: thousands thinking along the same lines. We are largely what
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Speaker 1: we have thought ourselves into being, the balance being represented
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Speaker 1: by the character of the suggestions and thought of others
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Speaker 1: which have reached us, either directly by verbal suggestions or
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Speaker 1: telepathically by means of such thought waves. Our general mental attitude, however,
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Speaker 1: determines the character of the thought waves received from others,
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Speaker 1: as well as the thoughts emanating from ourselves. We receive
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Speaker 1: only such thoughts as are in harmony with the general
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Speaker 1: mental attitude held by ourselves. The thoughts not in harmony
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Speaker 1: affecting us very little, as they awaken no response in us.
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Speaker 1: The man who believes thoroughly in himself and maintains a positive,
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Speaker 1: strong mental attitude of confidence and determination is not likely
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Speaker 1: to be affected by the adverse and negative thoughts of
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Speaker 1: discouragement and failure emanating from the minds of other persons
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Speaker 1: in whom these last qualities predominate. At the same time,
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Speaker 1: these negative thoughts, if they reach one whose mental attitude
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Speaker 1: is pitched on a low key, deepen his negative state,
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Speaker 1: and add fuel to the fire which is consuming his strength, or,
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Speaker 1: if you prefer this figure, serve to further smother the
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Speaker 1: fire of his energy and activity. We attract to us
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Speaker 1: the thoughts of others of the same order of thought.
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Speaker 1: The man who thinks success will be apt to get
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Speaker 1: into tune with the minds of others thinking likewise, and
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Speaker 1: they will help him and heed them. The man who
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Speaker 1: allows his mind to dwell constantly upon thoughts of failure
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Speaker 1: brings himself into close touch with the minds of other
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Speaker 1: failure people, and each will tend to pull the other
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Speaker 1: down still more. The man who thinks that all is
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Speaker 1: evil is apt to see much evil, and will be
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Speaker 1: brought into contact with others who will seem to prove
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Speaker 1: his theory. And the man who looks for good in
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Speaker 1: everything and everybody will be likely to attract to himself
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Speaker 1: the things and people corresponding to his thought. We generally
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Speaker 1: see that for which we look. You will be able
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Speaker 1: to carry this idea more clearly if you will think
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Speaker 1: of the Marconi wireless instruments, which receive the vibrations only
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Speaker 1: from the sending instrument which has been attuned to the
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Speaker 1: same key, while other telegrams are passing through the air
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Speaker 1: in near vicinity without affecting the instrument. The same law
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Speaker 1: applies to the operations of thought. We receive only that
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Speaker 1: which corresponds to our mental attunement. If we have been discouraged,
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Speaker 1: we may rest assured that we have dropped into a
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Speaker 1: negative key and have been affected not only by our
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Speaker 1: own thoughts, but have also received the added depressing thoughts
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Speaker 1: of similar character, which wuch are constantly being sent out
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Speaker 1: from the minds of other unfortunates who have not yet
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Speaker 1: learned the law of attraction in the thought world. And
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Speaker 1: if we occasionally rise to heights of enthusiasm and energy,
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Speaker 1: how quickly we feel the inflow of the courageous, daring, energetic,
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Speaker 1: positive thoughts being sent out by the live men and
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Speaker 1: women of the world. We recognize this without much trouble
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Speaker 1: when we come in personal contact with people and feel
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Speaker 1: their vibrations depressing or invigorating, as the case may be.
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Speaker 1: But the same law operates when we are not in
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Speaker 1: their presence, although less strongly. The mind has many degrees
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Speaker 1: of pitch, ranging from the highest positive note to the
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Speaker 1: lowest negative note, with many notes in between, varying in
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Speaker 1: pitch according to their respective distance from the positive or
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Speaker 1: negative extreme. When your mind is operating along positive lines,
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Speaker 1: you feel strong, buoyant, bright, cheerful, happy, confident and courageous,
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Speaker 1: and are enabled to do your work well, to carry
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Speaker 1: out your intentions and progress on your road to success.
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Speaker 1: You send out strong positive thought which affects others and
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Speaker 1: causes them to co operate with you or to follow
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Speaker 1: your lead according to their own mental keynote. When you
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Speaker 1: are playing on the extreme negative end of the mental keyboard,
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Speaker 1: you feel depressed, weak, passive, dull, fearful, cowardly, and you
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Speaker 1: find yourself unable to make progress or to succeed, and
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Speaker 1: your effect upon others is practically nil. You are led by,
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Speaker 1: rather than leading, others, and are used as a human
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Speaker 1: doormat or football by more positive persons. In some persons
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Speaker 1: the positive element seems to predominate, and in others the
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Speaker 1: negative quality seems to be more in evidence. There are,
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Speaker 1: of course, widely varying degrees of positiveness and negativeness, and
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Speaker 1: be may be negative to A while positive to C.
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Speaker 1: When two people first meet, there is generally a silent
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Speaker 1: mental conflict, in which their respective minds test their quality
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Speaker 1: of positiveness and fix their relive position toward each other.
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Speaker 1: This process may be unconscious in many cases, but it
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Speaker 1: occurs Nevertheless, the adjustment is often automatic. But occasionally the
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Speaker 1: struggle is so sharp, the opponents being so well matched,
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Speaker 1: that the matter forces itself into the consciousness of the
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Speaker 1: two people. Sometimes both parties are so much alike in
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Speaker 1: their degrees of positiveness that they practically fail to come
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Speaker 1: to terms. Mentally, they never really are able to get
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Speaker 1: along with each other, and they are either mutually repelled
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Speaker 1: and separate, or else stay together amid constant broils and wrangling.
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Speaker 1: We are positive or negative to every one with whom
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Speaker 1: we have relations. We may be positive to our children,
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Speaker 1: our employees, and dependents, but we are at the same
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Speaker 1: time negative to others to whom we occupy inferior positions,
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Speaker 1: or whom we have allowed to assert themselves over us.
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Speaker 1: Of course, something may occur, and we will suddenly become
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Speaker 1: more positive than the man or woman to whom we
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Speaker 1: have heretofore been negative. We frequently see cases of this kind,
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Speaker 1: and as the knowledge of these mental laws becomes more general,
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Speaker 1: we will see many more instances of persons asserting themselves
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Speaker 1: and making use of their newfound power. But remember, you
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Speaker 1: possess the power to raise the keynote of your mind
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Speaker 1: to a positive pitch by an effort of the will,
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Speaker 1: And of course it is equally true that you may
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Speaker 1: allow yourself to drop into a low negative note by
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Speaker 1: carelessness or a weak will. There are more people on
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Speaker 1: the negative plane of thought than on the positive plane,
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Speaker 1: and consequently there are more negative thought vibrations in operation
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Speaker 1: in our mental atmosphere. But happily for us, this is
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Speaker 1: counterbalanced by the fact that a positive thought is infinitely
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Speaker 1: more powerful than a negative one, and if by force
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Speaker 1: of what we raise ourselves to a higher mental key,
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Speaker 1: we can shut out the depressing thoughts and may take
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Speaker 1: up the vibrations corresponding with our changed mental attitude. This
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Speaker 1: is one of the secrets of the affirmations and autosuggestions
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Speaker 1: used by the several schools of mental science and other
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Speaker 1: new thought cults. There is no particular merit in affirmations
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Speaker 1: of themselves, but they serve a twofold purpose one They
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Speaker 1: tend to establish new mental attitudes within us and act
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Speaker 1: wonderfully in the direction of character building the science of
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Speaker 1: making ourselves over two. They tend to raise the mental
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Speaker 1: keynote so that we may get the benefit of the
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Speaker 1: positive thought waves of others on the same plane of thought,
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Speaker 1: whether or not we believe in them. We are constantly
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Speaker 1: making affirmations. The man who asserts that he can and
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Speaker 1: will do a thing, and asserts it earnestly develops in
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Speaker 1: himself the qualities conducive to the well doing of that thing,
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Speaker 1: and at the same time places his mind in the
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Speaker 1: proper key to receive all the thought waves likely to
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Speaker 1: help him in the doing. If, on the other hand,
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Speaker 1: one says and feels that he is going to fail,
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Speaker 1: he will choke and smother the thoughts coming from his
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Speaker 1: own subconscious mentality which are intended to help him, and
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Speaker 1: at the same time will place himself in tune with
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Speaker 1: the failure thought of the world. And there is plenty
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Speaker 1: of the latter kind of thought around. I can tell
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Speaker 1: you do not allow yourselves to be affected by the
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Speaker 1: adverse and negative thoughts of those around you. Rise to
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Speaker 1: the upper chambers of your mental dwelling, and key yourself
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Speaker 1: up to a strong pitch away above the vibrations on
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Speaker 1: the lower planes of thought. Then you will not only
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Speaker 1: be immune to their negative vibrations, but will be in
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Speaker 1: touch with the great body of strong, positive thought coming
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Speaker 1: from those of your own plane of development. My aim
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Speaker 1: will be to direct and train you in the proper
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Speaker 1: use of thought and will, that you may have yourself
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Speaker 1: well in hand and may be able to strike the
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Speaker 1: positive key at any moment you may feel it necessary.
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Speaker 1: It is not necessary to strike the extreme note on
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Speaker 1: all occasions. The better plan is to keep yourself in
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Speaker 1: a comfortable key without much strain, and to have the
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Speaker 1: means at command, whereby you can raise the pitch at
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Speaker 1: once when occasion demands. By this knowledge, you will not
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Speaker 1: be at the mercy of the old automatic action of
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Speaker 1: the mind, but may have it well under your own control.
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Speaker 1: Development of the will is very much like the development
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Speaker 1: of a muscle, a matter of practice and gradual improvement.
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Speaker 1: At first, it is apt to be tiresome, but at
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Speaker 1: each trial one grows stronger until the new strength becomes
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Speaker 1: real and permanent. Many of us have made ourselves positive
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Speaker 1: will be equal to your bracing up stage. Now and then,
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Speaker 1: desirable to relieve the tension at times and become receptive
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Speaker 1: that you may absorb impressions. It is well to be
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Speaker 1: able to relax and assume a certain degree of receptiveness,
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Speaker 1: knowing that you are all able to spring back to
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Speaker 1: the more positive state at will. The habitually strongly positive
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Speaker 1: man loses much enjoyment and recreation. Positive you give out expressions,
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Speaker 1: to be a good teacher, but it is also very
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Speaker 1: important to be a good listener at times. Chapter three
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Speaker 1: a talk about the mind. Man has but one mind,
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Speaker 1: but he has many mental faculties, each faculty being capable
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Speaker 1: are no distinct dividing lines separating the two several functions
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Speaker 1: of a faculty, but they shade into each other, as
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Speaker 1: do the colors of the spectrum. An active effort of
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Speaker 1: any faculty of the mind is the result of a
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Speaker 1: direct impulse imparted at the time of the effort. A
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Speaker 1: passive effort of any faculty of the mind is the
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Speaker 1: mind an active effort of another along the lines of
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Speaker 1: suggestion thought, vibrations from the mind of another, thought impulses
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Speaker 1: from an ancestor, transmitted by the laws of heredity, including
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Speaker 1: impulses transmitted from generation to generation from the time of
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Speaker 1: the original vibratory impulse imparted by the primal cause, which
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Speaker 1: impulses gradually unfold and unsheath. When the proper state of
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Speaker 1: evolutionary development is reached, the active effort is newborn, fresh
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Speaker 1: from the mint, whilst the passive effort is of less
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Speaker 1: recent creation, and in fact is often the result of
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Speaker 1: vibratory impulses imparted in ages long past. The active effort
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Speaker 1: makes its own way, brushing aside the impeding vines and
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Speaker 1: kicking from its path the obstructing stones. The passive effort
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Speaker 1: travels along the beaten path. A thought impulse or motion
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Speaker 1: impulse originally caused by an active effort of faculty may
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Speaker 1: given it by the repeated active effort developing a strong
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Speaker 1: momentum which carries it on along passive lines until stopped
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Speaker 1: by another active effort or its direction changed by the
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Speaker 1: same cause. On the other hand, thought impulses or motion
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Speaker 1: impulses continued along passive lines may be terminated or corrected
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Speaker 1: by an active effort. The active function creates, changes, or destroys.
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Speaker 1: The passive function carries on the work given it by
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Speaker 1: the active function, and obeys orders and suggestions. The active
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Speaker 1: passive lines. Thereafter, the active function also has the power
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Speaker 1: to send forth vibrations which neutralize the momentum of the
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Speaker 1: thought habit or motion habit. It also is able to
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Speaker 1: launch a new thought habit or motion habit with stronger vibrations,
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Speaker 1: which overcomes and absorbs the first thought or motion and
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Speaker 1: substitutes the new one. All thought impulses or motion impulses,
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Speaker 1: once started on their errands, continue to vibrate along passive
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Speaker 1: renders its correction or termination more difficult. This explains that
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Speaker 1: which is called the force of habit. I think that
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Speaker 1: to overcome a habit which have been easily acquired. The
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Speaker 1: law applies to good habits as well as bad. The
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Speaker 1: often combined to produce a single manifestation. A task to
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Speaker 1: be performed may call for the combined exercise of several faculties,
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Speaker 1: some of which may manifest by active effort and others
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Speaker 1: by passive effort. The meeting of new conditions new problems
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Speaker 1: calls for the exercise of active effort, whilst of from
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Speaker 1: familiar problem or task can be easily handled by the
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Speaker 1: passive effort without the assistance of his more enterprising brother.
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Speaker 1: There is in nature an instinctive tendency of living organisms
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Speaker 1: This tendency is sometimes called appetency. It is really a
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Speaker 1: passive mental impulse, originating with the impetus imparted by the
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Speaker 1: primal cause, and transmitted along the lines of evolutionary development,
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Speaker 1: gaining strength and power as it progresses. The impulse of
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Speaker 1: the primal cause is assisted by the powerful upward attraction
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Speaker 1: exerted by the absolute. In plant life, this tendency is
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Speaker 1: plainly discernible, ranging from the lesser exhibitions in the lower
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Speaker 1: types to the greater in the higher types. It is
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Speaker 1: that which is generally spoken of as the life force
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Speaker 1: in plants. It is, however, a manifestation of rudimentary mentation,
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Speaker 1: functioning along the lines of passive effortffort. In some of
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Speaker 1: the higher forms of plant life, there appears a faint
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Speaker 1: of volition. Writers on plant life relate many remarkable instances
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Speaker 1: of this phenomenon. It is undoubtedly an exhibition of rudimentary
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Speaker 1: active mentation. In the lower animal kingdom, a very high
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Speaker 1: degree of passive mental effort is found, and varying in
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Speaker 1: of active mentation is apparent. The lower animal undoubtedly possesses
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Speaker 1: reason only in a lesser degree than man, and in fact,
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Speaker 1: the display of volitional mentation exhibited by an intelligent animal
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Speaker 1: is often nearly as high as that shown by the
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Speaker 1: lower types of man, or by a young child. As
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Speaker 1: a child before birth shows in its body the stages
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Speaker 1: of the physical evolution of man, so does a child
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Speaker 1: before and after birth until maturity manifest the stages of
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Speaker 1: the mental life of man. Man, the highest type of
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Speaker 1: life yet produced, at least upon this planet, shows the
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Speaker 1: highest form of passive mentation, and also a much higher
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Speaker 1: development of active mentation than is seen in the lower animals.
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Speaker 1: And yet the degrees of that power very widely among
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Speaker 1: the different races of men, even among men of our race,
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Speaker 1: the different degrees of active mentation are plainly noticeable, these
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Speaker 1: degrees not depending by any means upon the amount of culture,
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Speaker 1: social position, or educational advantages possessed by the individual. Mental
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Speaker 1: culture and mental development are two very different things. You
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Speaker 1: stages of the development of active mentation in man. The
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Speaker 1: reasoning of many men is scarcely more than passive mentation,
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Speaker 1: exhibiting but little of the qualities of volitional thought. They
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Speaker 1: prefer to let other men think for them. Active mentation
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Speaker 1: tires them, and they find the instinctive, automatic, passive mental
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Speaker 1: process much easier. Their minds work along the lines of
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Speaker 1: least resistance. They are but little more than human sheep.
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Speaker 1: Among the lower animals and the lower types of men,
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Speaker 1: active mentation is largely confined to the grosser faculties, the
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Speaker 1: more material plane, the higher mental faculties, working along the
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Speaker 1: instinctive automatic lines of the passive function. As the lower
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Speaker 1: forms of life progressed in the evolutionary scale, they developed
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Speaker 1: new faculties which were latent within them. These faculties always
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Speaker 1: manifested in the form of rudimentary passive functioning, and afterwards
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Speaker 1: worked up through higher passive forms until the active functions
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Speaker 1: were brought into play. The evolutionary process still continues, the
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Speaker 1: invariable tendency being toward the goal of highly developed active mentation.
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Speaker 1: This evolutionary progress is caused by the vibratory impulse imparted
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Speaker 1: by the primal cause, aided by the uplifting attraction of
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Speaker 1: the absolute. This law of evolution is still in progress,
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Speaker 1: and man is beginning to develop new powers of mind,
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Speaker 1: of passive effort. Some men have developed these new faculties
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Speaker 1: to a considerable degree, and it is possible that before
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Speaker 1: long man will be able to exercise them along the
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Speaker 1: line of their active functions. In fact, this power has
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Speaker 1: of the Oriental occultists and of some of their Occidental brethren.
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Speaker 1: The amenability of the mind to the will can be
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Speaker 1: increased by properly directed practice. That which we are in
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Speaker 1: the habit of referring to as the strengthening of the
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Speaker 1: will is, in reality the training of the mind to
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Speaker 1: recognize and absorb the power within the will is strong
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Speaker 1: enough it does not need strengthening, But the mind needs
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Speaker 1: to be trained to receive and act upon the suggestions
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Speaker 1: of the will. The will is the outward manifestation of
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Speaker 1: the I Am. The will. Current is flowing in full
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Speaker 1: strength along the spiritual wires, but you must learn how
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Speaker 1: to raise the trolley pole to touch it. Before the
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Speaker 1: mental car will move. This is a somewhat different idea
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Speaker 1: from that which you have been in the habit of
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Speaker 1: receiving from writers on the subjective will power. But it
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Speaker 1: is correct, as you will demonstrate to your own satisfaction
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Speaker 1: if you will follow up the subject by experiments along
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Speaker 1: the proper lines. The attraction of the absolute is drawing
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Speaker 1: man upward, and the vibratory force of the primal impulse
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Speaker 1: has not yet exhausted itself. The time of evolutionary development
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Speaker 1: has come when man can help himself. The man who
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Speaker 1: understands the law can accomplish wonders by means of the
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Speaker 1: development of the powers of the mind, whilst the man
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Speaker 1: who turns his back upon the truth will suffer from
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Speaker 1: his lack of knowledge of the law. He who understands
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Speaker 1: the laws of his mental being develops his latent powers
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Speaker 1: and uses them intelligently. He does not despise his passive
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Speaker 1: mental functions, but makes good use of them, also charges
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Speaker 1: them with the duties for which they are best fitted,
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Speaker 1: and is able to obtain wonderful results from their work,
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Speaker 1: Having mastered them in train them to do the bidding
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Speaker 1: of the higher self. When they fail to do their
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Speaker 1: work properly. He regulates them, and his knowledge prevents him
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Speaker 1: from meddling with them unintelligently and thereby doing himself harm.
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Speaker 1: He develops the faculties and powers latent within him and
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Speaker 1: mentation as well as passive. He knows that the real
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Speaker 1: man within him is the master, to whom both active
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Speaker 1: and passive functions are but tools. He has banished fear
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Speaker 1: and enjoys freedom. He has found himself. He has learned
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Speaker 1: the secret of the I Am. Chapter four, Mind building.
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Speaker 1: Man can build up his mind and make it what
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Speaker 1: he wills. In fact, we are mind building every hour
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Speaker 1: of our lives, either consciously or unconsciously. The majority of
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Speaker 1: us are doing the work unconsciously. But those who have
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Speaker 1: the matter in hand and have become conscious creators of
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Speaker 1: their own mentality. They are no longer subject to the
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Speaker 1: suggestions and influences of others, but have become masters of themselves.
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Speaker 1: They assert the eye and compel obedience from the subordinate
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Speaker 1: mental faculties. The eye is the sovereign of the mind,
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Speaker 1: and what we call will is the instrument of the eye.
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Speaker 1: Of course, there is something back of this, and the
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Speaker 1: universal will is higher than the will of the individual.
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Speaker 1: But the latter is in much closer touch with the
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Speaker 1: universal will than is generally supposed. And when one conquers
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Speaker 1: the lower self and asserts the eye, he becomes in
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Speaker 1: its wonderful power. The moment one asserts the eye and
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Speaker 1: finds himself, he establishes a close connection between the individual
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Speaker 1: will and the universal will. But before he is able
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Speaker 1: to avail himself of the mighty power at his command,
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Speaker 1: he must first effect the mastery of the lower self.
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Speaker 1: Think of the absurdity of man claiming to manifest powers
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Speaker 1: when he is the slave of the lower parts of
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Speaker 1: his mental being, which should be subordinate. Think of a
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Speaker 1: man being the slave of his moods, passions, animal appetites,
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Speaker 1: and lower faculties, and at the same time trying to
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Speaker 1: claim the benefits of the will. Now I am not
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Speaker 1: preaching asceticism, which seems to me to be a confession
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Speaker 1: But our space does not permit the discussion of this point,
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Speaker 1: entire man. Before a man can assert the I in
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Speaker 1: its full strength, he must obtain the complete mastery of
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Speaker 1: the subordinate parts of the self. All things are good
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Speaker 1: when we learn to master them, but no thing is
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Speaker 1: good when it masters us. Just so long as we
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Speaker 1: allow the lower portions of the self to give us orders,
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Speaker 1: we are slaves. It is only when the eye mounts
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Speaker 1: his throne and lifts the scepter that order is established
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Speaker 1: and things assume their proper relation to each other. We
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Speaker 1: are finding no fault with those who are swayed by
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Speaker 1: their lower selves. They are in a lower grade of
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Speaker 1: evolution and will work up in time. But we are
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Speaker 1: calling the attention of those who are ready to the
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Speaker 1: fact that the sovereign must assert his will, and that
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Speaker 1: the subjects must obey. Orders must be given and carried out.
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Speaker 1: Rebellion must be put down and the rightful authority insisted upon.
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Speaker 1: And the time to do it is now. You have
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Speaker 1: been allowing your rebellious subjects to keep the king from
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Speaker 1: his throne. You have been allowing the mental kingdom to
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Speaker 1: be misgoverned by irresponsible faculties. You have been the slaves
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Speaker 1: of appetite, unworthy thoughts, passion, and negativeness. The will has
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Speaker 1: been set aside, and low desire has usurped the throne.
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Speaker 1: It is time to re establish order in the mental kingdom.
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Speaker 1: You are able to assert the mastery over any emotion, appetite, passion,
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Speaker 1: or class of thoughts. By the assertion of the will,
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Speaker 1: you can order fear to go to the rear, jealousy
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Speaker 1: to leave your presence, hate to depart from your sight,
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Speaker 1: anger to hide itself, worry to cease troubling you, uncontrolled appetite,
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Speaker 1: and passion to bow in submission, and to become humble
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Speaker 1: slaves instead of masters. All by the assertion of the
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Speaker 1: eye you may surround yourself with the glorious company of courage, love,
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Speaker 1: and self control. By the same means, you may put
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Speaker 1: down the rebellion and secure peace and order in your
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Speaker 1: mental kingdom. If you will but utter the mandate and
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Speaker 1: insist upon its execution. Before you march forth to empire,
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Speaker 1: you must establish the proper internal conditions, must show your
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Speaker 1: ability to govern your own kingdom. The first battle is
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Speaker 1: the conquest of the lesser self by the real self. Affirmation,
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Speaker 1: I am asserting the mastery of my real self. Repeat
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Speaker 1: these words earnestly and positively during the day, at least
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Speaker 1: once an hour, and particularly when you are confronted with
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Speaker 1: conditions which tempt you to act on the lines of
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Speaker 1: the lesser self instead of following the course dictated by
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Speaker 1: the real self. In the moment of doubt and hesitation,
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Speaker 1: say these words earnestly, and your way will be made
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Speaker 1: clear to you. Repeat them several times after you retire
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Speaker 1: and settle yourself to sleep, But be sure to back
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Speaker 1: up the words with the thought inspiring them, and do
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Speaker 1: not merely repeat them parrot like form. The mental image
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Speaker 1: of the real self asserting its mastery over the lower
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Speaker 1: planes of your mind. See the king on his throne.
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Speaker 1: You will become conscious of an influx of new thought,
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Speaker 1: and things which have seemed hard for you will suddenly
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Speaker 1: become much easier. You will feel that you have yourself
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Speaker 1: well in hand, and that you are the master and
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Speaker 1: not the slave. The thought you are holding will manifest
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Speaker 1: itself in action, and you will steadily grow to become
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Speaker 1: that which you have in mind, exercise. Fix the mind
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Speaker 1: firmly on the higher self, and draw inspiration from it.
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Speaker 1: When you feel led to yield to the promptings of
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Speaker 1: the lower part of your nature. When you are tempted
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Speaker 1: to burst into anger, assert the eye and your voice
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Speaker 1: will drop. Anger is unworthy of the developed self. When
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Speaker 1: you feel vexed and cross, remember what you are and
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Speaker 1: rise above your feeling. When you feel fearful, remember that
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Speaker 1: the real self fears nothing, and assert courage. When you
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Speaker 1: feel jealousy inciting, think of your higher nature and laugh,
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Speaker 1: and so on. Asserting the real self, and not allowing
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Speaker 1: the things on the lower plane of mentality to disturb you.
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Speaker 1: They are unworthy of you and must be taught to
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Speaker 1: keep their places. Do not allow these things to master you.
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Speaker 1: They should be your subjects, not your masters. You must
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Speaker 1: get away from this plane, and the only way to
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Speaker 1: do so is to cut loose from these phases of
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Speaker 1: thought which have been running things to suit themselves. You
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Speaker 1: may have trouble at the start, but keep at it
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Speaker 1: and you will have that satisfaction which comes only from
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Speaker 1: conquering the lower parts of our nature. You have been
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Speaker 1: a slave long enough. Now is the time to free yourselves.
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Speaker 1: If you will follow these exercises faithfully, you will be
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Speaker 1: a different being by the end of the year, and
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Speaker 1: will look back with a pitying smile to your former condition.
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Speaker 1: But it takes work. This is not child's play, but
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Speaker 1: a task for earnest men and women. Will you make
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Speaker 1: the effort? Chapter five, The Secret of the Will. While
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Speaker 1: psychologists may differ in their theories regarding the nature of
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Speaker 1: the will, none deny its existence nor question its power.
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Speaker 1: All persons recognize the power of strong will, all see
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Speaker 1: how it may be used to overcome the greatest obstacles.
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Speaker 1: But few realize that the will may be developed and
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Speaker 1: strengthened by intelligent practice. They feel that they could accomplish
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Speaker 1: wonders if they had a strong will, but instead of
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Speaker 1: attempting to develop it, they content themselves with vain regrets.
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Speaker 1: They sigh but do nothing. Those who have invested negated
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Speaker 1: the subject closely know that will power, with all its
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Speaker 1: latent possibilities and mighty powers, may be developed, disciplined, controlled
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Speaker 1: and directed, just as may be any other of nature's forces.
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Speaker 1: It does not matter what theory you may entertain about
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Speaker 1: the nature of the will, You will obtain the results
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Speaker 1: if you practice intelligently personally. I have a somewhat odd
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Speaker 1: theory about the will. I believe that every man has
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Speaker 1: potentially a strong will, and that all he has to
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Speaker 1: do is to train his mind to make use of it.
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Speaker 1: I think that in the higher regions of the mind
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Speaker 1: of every man is a great store of will power
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Speaker 1: awaiting his use. The will current is running along the
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Speaker 1: psychic wires, and all that it is necessary to do
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Speaker 1: is to raise the mental trolley pole and bring down
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Speaker 1: the power for your use. And the supply is unlimited.
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Speaker 1: For your little storage battery is connected with the great
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Speaker 1: powerhouse of the universal will power, and the power is inexhaustible.
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Speaker 1: Your will does not need training, but your mind does.
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Speaker 1: The mind is the instrument, and the supply of will
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Speaker 1: power is proportionate to the fineness of the instrument through
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Speaker 1: which it manifests. But you needn't accept this theory if
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Speaker 1: as well as mine. He who has developed his mind
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Speaker 1: so that it will allow the will power to manifest
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Speaker 1: through it has opened up wonderful possibilities for himself. Not
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Speaker 1: only has he found a great power at his command,
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Speaker 1: but he is able to bring into play and use faculties,
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Speaker 1: talents and abilities of whose existence he has not dreamed.
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Speaker 1: This secret of the will is the magic key which
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Speaker 1: opens all doors. The late Donald G. Mitchell once wrote,
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Speaker 1: resolve is what makes a man manifest. Not puny resolve,
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Speaker 1: but crude determination. Not air and purpose, but that strong
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Speaker 1: and indefatigable will, which treads down difficulties and danger, as
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Speaker 1: which kindles his eye and brain with a proud pulse
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Speaker 1: beat toward the unattainable will makes men giants. Many of
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Speaker 1: us feel that if we would but exert our will,
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Speaker 1: we might accomplish wonders. But somehow we do not seem
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Speaker 1: to want to take the trouble. At any rate, we
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Speaker 1: do not get to the actual willing point. We put
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Speaker 1: some day, but that some day never comes. We instinctively
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Speaker 1: feel the power of the will, but we haven't enough
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Speaker 1: energy to exercise it, and so drift along with the tide,
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Speaker 1: unless perhaps some friendly difficulty arises, some helpful obstacle appears
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Speaker 1: in our path, or some kindly pain stirs us into action.
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Speaker 1: We don't want a hard enough. We are mentally lazy
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Speaker 1: You are not willing to pay the price of attainment.
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Speaker 1: Don't talk to me about not having enough will. You
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Speaker 1: That's the real test, the resolving. Think of these things
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Speaker 1: a little and make up your mind whether or not
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Speaker 1: you really want to be a willer sufficiently hard to
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Speaker 1: But few have anything to say about how this power
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Speaker 1: given exercises designed to strengthen the will, which exercises really
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Speaker 1: I am using my will power. Say these words several times,
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Speaker 1: and particularly when you meet something that calls for the
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Speaker 1: So think of what you are saying and mean what
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Speaker 1: Hold the steady thought that you are drawing on your
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Speaker 1: surprised at how things are being smoothed out for you.
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Speaker 1: Exercise perform at least one disagreeable task each day during
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Speaker 1: Anyone can do a pleasant thing cheerfully, but it takes
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Speaker 1: most valuable discipline to you. Try it for a month,
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Speaker 1: Chapter six. How to become immune to injurious thought attraction.
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Speaker 1: Fear is a habit of mind which has been fastened
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Speaker 1: is a powerful magnet. He of the strong, confident desire
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Speaker 1: attracts to him the things best calculated to aid him. Persons, things,
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Speaker 1: he feared to come upon him. Don't you see, the
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Speaker 1: The best way to overcome the habit of fear is
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Speaker 1: best way to get rid of darkness is to let
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Speaker 1: fight a negative thought habit by recognizing its force and
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Speaker 1: trying to deny it out of existence by mighty efforts.
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Speaker 1: The best, surest, easiest, and quickest method is to assume
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Speaker 1: the existence of the positive thought desired in its place,
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Speaker 1: and by constantly dwelling upon the positive thought manifested into
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Speaker 1: boldly I am full of courage, I am courageous, you
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Speaker 1: must assert there's nothing to fear, which, although in the
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Speaker 1: nature of a denial, simply denies the reality of the
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Speaker 1: then denying it, to overcome fear, one should hold firmly
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Speaker 1: his normal mental attitude. Hold the ideal firmly before you,
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Speaker 1: and you will gradually grow to its attainment. The ideal
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Speaker 1: mind fastens it in place. Think of yourself as being courageous.
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Speaker 1: See yourself as acting with courage in trying situations. Realize
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Speaker 1: that there is nothing to fear, That worry in fear
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Speaker 1: and that courage promotes activity. The confident, fearless, expectant I
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Speaker 1: can and I will man is a mighty magnet. He
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Speaker 1: attracts to himself just what is needed for his success.
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Speaker 1: It's all in the mental attitude, and the mental attitude
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Speaker 1: of the I can't or the I'm afraid man also
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Speaker 1: determines his measure of success. There's no mystery whatsoever about it.
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Speaker 1: You have but to look about you to realize the
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Speaker 1: a successful man who did not have the I can
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Speaker 1: walk all around the I can't man who has perhaps
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Speaker 1: even more ability. The first mental attitude brought to the
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Speaker 1: whilst the second mental attitude not only attracted I can't
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Speaker 1: from manifesting themselves. I have demonstrated the correctness of these views,
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Speaker 1: and so have many others, and the number of people
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Speaker 1: will plain. And before you are aware of it, you
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Speaker 1: will feel the new vibrations manifesting themselves in action, will
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Speaker 1: see them bring results, will be conscious of the new
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Speaker 1: point of view. We'll realize that your own is coming
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Speaker 1: earnest and when you have ridded yourself of the vile thing,
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Speaker 1: life will seem entirely different to you. You will feel happier, freer, stronger,
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Speaker 1: more positive, and will be more successful in every undertaking
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Speaker 1: of life. Start in to day, make up your mind
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Speaker 1: that this intruder must go. Do not compromise matters with him,
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Speaker 1: but insist upon an absolute surrender on his part. You
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Speaker 1: will find the task difficult at first, but each time
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Speaker 1: you oppose him, he will grow weaker, and you will
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Speaker 1: be stronger. Shut off his nourishment, starve him to death.
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Speaker 1: He cannot live in a thought atmosphere of fearlessness. So
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Speaker 1: Keep yourself busy thinking fearlessness, and fear will die of
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Speaker 1: his own accord. Fearlessness is positive, fear is negative, and
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Speaker 1: you may be sure that the positive will prevail so
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Speaker 1: long as fear is around with his But if suppose
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Speaker 1: of his cowardly suggestions, you will not be able to
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Speaker 1: use your thought force to the best advantage. Once get
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Speaker 1: him out of the way, you will have clear sailing,
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Speaker 1: and every inch of thought sail will catch the wind.
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Speaker 1: He is a jonah. Overboard with him, the wail who
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Speaker 1: Start to work to do these things, affirming courage all
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Speaker 1: how the changed mental attitude will clear away obstacles from
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Speaker 1: will only throw aside the yoke of fear, if you
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Speaker 1: boldly assert the eye and its power. And the best
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Speaker 1: way to vanquish fear is to assert courage and stop
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Speaker 1: thinking of fear. By this plan, you will train the
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Speaker 1: mind into new habits of thought, thus eradicating the old
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Speaker 1: negative thoughts which have been pulling you down and holding
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Speaker 1: and many manifested in action. Remember the only thing to
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Speaker 1: fear is fear, And well, don't even fear fear, for
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Speaker 1: he's a cowardly chap at the best, who will run
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Speaker 1: This advice is very old, and yet it is always
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Speaker 1: we are greatly in need. Some people think that if
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Speaker 1: one can never accomplish any of the great tasks of life,
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Speaker 1: is nonsense. No matter who utters it, worry never helped
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Speaker 1: one to accomplish anything. On the contrary, it stands in
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Speaker 1: and doing things is desire and interest. If one earnestly
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Speaker 1: desires a thing, he naturally becomes very much interested in
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Speaker 1: ideas of value and importance. Desire and interest are the
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Speaker 1: is true that if one surroundings and environments become intolerable,
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Speaker 1: he is driven in desperation to some efforts that will
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Speaker 1: result in throwing off the undesirable conditions and in the
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Speaker 1: acquiring of those more in harmony with his desire. But
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Speaker 1: this is only another form of desire. The man desires
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Speaker 1: something different from what he has, and when his desire
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Speaker 1: becomes strong enough, his entire interest is given to the task.
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Speaker 1: He makes a mighty effort, and the change is accomplished.
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Speaker 1: But it wasn't worry that caused the effort. Worry could
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Speaker 1: content itself with wringing its hands and moaning woe is me,
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Speaker 1: and wearing its nerves to a frazzle and accomplishing nothing.
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Speaker 1: Desire acts differently. It grows stronger as the man's conditions
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Speaker 1: become intolerable, and finally, when he feels the hurt so
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Speaker 1: strongly that he can't stand it any longer, he says,
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Speaker 1: Worry never accomplished anything. Worry is negative and death producing.
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Speaker 1: But let that man transmute his worry in discontent into
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Speaker 1: able to make the change that I can and I
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Speaker 1: will idea. Then something happens. Yes, fear and worry must
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Speaker 1: go before we can do much. One must proceed to
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Speaker 1: cast out these negative intruders and replace them with confidence
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Speaker 1: you from the great reserve stock in your mind, and
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Speaker 1: you will start to manifest them in action. Moreover, you
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Speaker 1: will be placing yourself in harmony with similar thoughts of others,
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Speaker 1: and will draw to you aid and assistance from the
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Speaker 1: great volume of thought waves with which the world is filled.
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Speaker 1: One draws to himself thought waves corresponding in character with
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Speaker 1: his mental attitude. Then again he begins to set into
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Speaker 1: him others likely to help him, and is in turn
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Speaker 1: attracted to others who can aid him. This law of
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Speaker 1: working principle of nature, as anyone may learn by experimenting
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Speaker 1: The stronger the desire, the greater the force set into motion.
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Speaker 1: You must want a thing hard enough before you can
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Speaker 1: the things around you, and you must be prepared to
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Speaker 1: pay the price for it. The price is the throwing
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Speaker 1: overboard of certain lesser desires that stand in the way
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Speaker 1: of the accomplishment of the greater one. Comfort, ease, leisure, amusements,
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Speaker 1: and many other things may have to go, not always,
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Speaker 1: though it all depends on what you want. As a rule,
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Speaker 1: be paid for it. Nature believes inadequate compensation. But if
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Speaker 1: the price without question, for the desire will dwarf the
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Speaker 1: importance of the other things. You say that you want
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Speaker 1: its attainment. Pshaw, You are only playing desire. Do you
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Speaker 1: want the thing as much as a prisoner wants freedom,
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Speaker 1: Do you work for the desired thing as if your
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Speaker 1: life depended upon it? Nonsense? You don't know what desire is.
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Speaker 1: I tell you, if a man wants a thing as
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Speaker 1: be able to sweep away obstacles and impediments apparently immovable.
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Speaker 1: The key to attainment is desire, confidence, and will. This
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Speaker 1: key will own open many doors. Fear paralyzes desire, It
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Speaker 1: scares the life out of it. You must get rid
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Speaker 1: of fear. There have been times in my life when
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Speaker 1: firm grip on my vitals, and I would lose all hope,
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Speaker 1: all interest, all ambition, all desire. But thank the Lord.
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Speaker 1: I have always managed to throw off the grip of
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Speaker 1: the monster and face my difficulty like a man, and lo,
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Speaker 1: things would seem to be straightened out for me somehow.
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Speaker 1: Either the difficulty would melt away, or I would be
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Speaker 1: given means to overcome it, or get around or under
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Speaker 1: or over it. It is strange how this works. No
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Speaker 1: matter how great is the difficulty, when we finally face
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Speaker 1: it with courage and confidence in ourselves, we seem to
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Speaker 1: pull through somehow, And then we begin to wonder what
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Speaker 1: we were scared about. This is not a mere fancy.
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Speaker 1: It is the working of a mighty law, which we
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Speaker 1: do not as yet fully understand, but which we may
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Speaker 1: prove at any time. People often ask, it's all very
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Speaker 1: well for you, new thought, people to say, don't worry.
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Speaker 1: But what's a person to do when he thinks of
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Speaker 1: all the possible things ahead of him which might upset
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Speaker 1: him and his plans. Well, all that I can say
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Speaker 1: is that the man is foolish to bother about thinking
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Speaker 1: of troubles to come at some time in the future.
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Speaker 1: The majority of things that we worry about don't come
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Speaker 1: to pass at all. A large proportion of the others
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Speaker 1: come in a milder form than we had anticipated. And
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Speaker 1: there are always other things which come at the same time,
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Speaker 1: which help us to overcome the trouble. The future holds
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Speaker 1: in store for us not only difficulties to be overcome,
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Speaker 1: but also agents to help us in overcoming the difficulties.
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Speaker 1: Things adjust themselves. We are prepared for any trouble which
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Speaker 1: may come upon us, and when the time comes, we
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Speaker 1: somehow find ourselves able to meet it. God not only
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Speaker 1: tempers the wind to the shorn lamb, but he also
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Speaker 1: tempers the shorn lamb to the wind. The wind and
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Speaker 1: the shearing do not come together. There is usually enough
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Speaker 1: time for the lamb to get seasoned, and then he
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Speaker 1: generally grows new wool before the cold blast comes. It
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Speaker 1: has been well said that nine tenths of the worries
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Speaker 1: are over things which never come to pass, and that
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Speaker 1: the other tenth is over things of little or no account.
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Speaker 1: So what's the use in using up all your reserve
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Speaker 1: force in fretting over future troubles? If this be so, better,
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Speaker 1: wait until your troubles really come before you worry. You
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Speaker 1: will find that by this storing up of energy you
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Speaker 1: will be able to meet about any sort of trouble
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Speaker 1: that comes your way. What is it that uses up
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Speaker 1: all the energy in the average man or woman anyway?
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Speaker 1: Is it the real overcoming of difficulties or the worrying
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Speaker 1: about impending troubles? It's always tomorrow tomorrow, and yet tomorrow
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Speaker 1: never comes, just as we feared it would. Tomorrow is
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Speaker 1: all right. It carries in its grip good things as
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Speaker 1: well as troubles. Bless my soul. When I sit down
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Speaker 1: and think over the things which I once feared might
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Speaker 1: possibly descend upon me, I laugh. Where are those feared things? Now?
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Speaker 1: I don't know, have almost forgotten that I ever feared them.
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Speaker 1: You do not need to fight worry. That isn't the
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Speaker 1: way to overcome the habit. Just practice concentration, and then
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Speaker 1: learn to concentrate upon something right before you, and you
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Speaker 1: will find that the worry thought has vanished. The mind
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Speaker 1: can think of but one thing at a time, and
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Speaker 1: if you concentrate upon a bright thing, the other thing
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Speaker 1: will fade away. There are better ways of overcoming objectionable
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Speaker 1: thoughts than by fighting them. Learn to concentrate upon thoughts
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Speaker 1: of an opposite character, and you will have solved the problem.
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Speaker 1: When the mind is full of worry thoughts, it cannot
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Speaker 1: find time to work out plans to benefit you. But
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Speaker 1: when you have concentrated upon bright, helpful thoughts, you will
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Speaker 1: discover that it will start to work subconsciously. And when
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Speaker 1: the time comes, you will find all sorts of plans
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Speaker 1: and methods by which you will be able to meet
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Speaker 1: the demands upon you. Keep your mental attitude right, and
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Speaker 1: all things will be added unto you. There's no sense
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Speaker 1: in worrying. Nothing has ever been gained by it, and
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Speaker 1: nothing ever will be. Bright, cheerful and happy thoughts attract bright,
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Speaker 1: cheerful and happy things to us. Worry drives them away.
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Speaker 1: Cultivate the right mental attitude. Chapter eight, The Law of
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Speaker 1: mental control. Your thoughts are either faithful servants or tyrannical masters,
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Speaker 1: just as you allow them to be. You have to
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Speaker 1: say about it. Take your choice. They will either go
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Speaker 1: about your work under direction of the firm, will doing
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Speaker 1: it the best they know how, not only in your
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Speaker 1: waking hours, but when you are asleep. Some of our
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Speaker 1: best mental work being performed for us when our conscious
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Speaker 1: mentality is at rest, as is evidenced by the fact
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Speaker 1: that when the morning comes we find troublesome problems have
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Speaker 1: been worked out for us during the night, after we
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Speaker 1: had dismissed them from our minds, apparently, or they will
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Speaker 1: ride all over us and make us their slaves if
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Speaker 1: we are foolish enough to allow them to do so.
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Speaker 1: More than half the people of the world are slaves
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Speaker 1: of every vagrant thought which may see fit to torment them.
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Speaker 1: Your mind is given you for your good and for
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Speaker 1: your own use, not to use you. There are very
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Speaker 1: few people who seem to realize this and who understand
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Speaker 1: the art of managing the mind. The key to the
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Speaker 1: mystery is concentration. A little practice will develop within every
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Speaker 1: man the power to use the mental machine properly. When
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Speaker 1: you have some mental work to do, concentrate upon it
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Speaker 1: to the exclusion of everything else, and you will find
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Speaker 1: that the mind will get right down to business, to
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Speaker 1: the work at hand, and matters will be cleared up
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Speaker 1: in no time. There is an absence of friction, and
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Speaker 1: all waste motion or lost power is obviated. Every pound
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Speaker 1: of energy is put to use, and every revolution of
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Speaker 1: the mental driving will counts for something. It pays to
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Speaker 1: be able to be a competent mental engineer, and the
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Speaker 1: man who understands how to run. His mental engine knows
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Speaker 1: that one of the important thing things is to be
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Speaker 1: able to stop it when the work has been done.
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Speaker 1: He does not keep putting coal in the furnace and
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Speaker 1: maintaining a high pressure after the work is finished, or
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Speaker 1: when the day's portion of the work has been done
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Speaker 1: and the fires should be banked until the next day.
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Speaker 1: Some people act as if the engine should be kept running,
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Speaker 1: whether there was any work to be done or not,
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Speaker 1: and then they complain if it gets worn out and
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Speaker 1: wobbles and needs repairing. These mental engines are fine machines
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Speaker 1: and need intelligent care. To those who are acquainted with
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Speaker 1: the laws of mental control, it seems absurd for one
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Speaker 1: to lie awake at night fretting about the problems of
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Speaker 1: the day, or, more often of the moral It is
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Speaker 1: just as easy to slow down the mind as it
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Speaker 1: is to slow down an engine, and thousands of people
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Speaker 1: are learning to do this in these days of new thought.
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Speaker 1: The best way to do it is to think of
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Speaker 1: something else as far different from the obtruding thought as possible.
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Speaker 1: There is no use fighting an objectionable thought with the
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Speaker 1: purpose of downing it. That is a great, great waste
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Speaker 1: of energy, and the more you keep on saying I
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Speaker 1: won't think of this thing, the more it keeps on
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Speaker 1: coming into your mind, for you are holding it there
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Speaker 1: for the purpose of hitting it. Let it go, don't
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Speaker 1: give it another thought. Fix the mind on something entirely different,
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Speaker 1: and keep the attention there by an effort of the will.
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Speaker 1: A little practice will do much for you in this direction.
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Speaker 1: There is only room for one thing at a time
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Speaker 1: in the focus of attention, So put all your attention
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Speaker 1: upon one thought, and the others will sneak off. Try
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Speaker 1: it for yourself. Chapter nine, Asserting the life Force. I
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Speaker 1: have spoken to you of the advantage of getting rid
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Speaker 1: of fear. Now I wish to put life into you.
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Speaker 1: Many of you have been going along as if you
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Speaker 1: were dead. No ambition, no energy, no vitality, no interest,
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Speaker 1: no life. This will never do. You are stagnating. Wake
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Speaker 1: up and display a few signs of life. This is
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Speaker 1: not the place in which you can stalk around like
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Speaker 1: a living corpse. This is the place for wide awake, active,
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Speaker 1: live people, and a good general awakening is what is needed.
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Speaker 1: Although it would take nothing less than a blast from
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Speaker 1: Gabriel's trumpet to awaken some of the people who are
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Speaker 1: stalking around thinking that they are alive, but who are
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Speaker 1: really dead. To all that makes life worth while, we
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Speaker 1: must let life flow through us and allow it to
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Speaker 1: express itself naturally. Do not let the little worries of
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Speaker 1: life or the big ones either depress you and cause
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Speaker 1: you to lose your vitality. Assert the life force within
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Speaker 1: you and manifest it in every thought, act and deed,
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Speaker 1: and before long you will be exhilarated and fairly bubbling
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Speaker 1: over with vitality in energy. Put a little life into
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Speaker 1: your work, into your pleasures, into yourself. Stop doing things
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Speaker 1: in a half hearted way, and begin to take an
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Speaker 1: interest in what you are doing, saying, and thinking. It
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Speaker 1: is astonishing how much interest we may find in the
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Speaker 1: ordinary things of life if we will only wake up.
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Speaker 1: There are interesting things all around us, interesting events occurring
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Speaker 1: every moment, but we will not be aware of them
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Speaker 1: unless we assert our life force and begin to actually
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Speaker 1: live instead of merely existing. No man or woman ever
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Speaker 1: amounted to anything unless he or she put life into
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Speaker 1: the tasks of every day life, the acts, the thoughts.
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Speaker 1: What the world needs is live men and women. Just
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Speaker 1: look into the eyes of the people whom you meet
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Speaker 1: and see how few of them are really alive. The
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Speaker 1: most of them lack that expression of conscious life which
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Speaker 1: distinguishes the man who lives from the one who simply exists.
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Speaker 1: I want you to acquire this sense of conscious life
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Speaker 1: so that you may manifest it in your life and
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Speaker 1: show what mental science has done for you. I want
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Speaker 1: you to get to work to day and begin to
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Speaker 1: make yourselves over according to the latest pattern. You can
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Speaker 1: do this if you will only take the proper interest
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Speaker 1: in the task, affirmation and exercise I am alive. Fix
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Speaker 1: in your mind the thought that the eye within you
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Speaker 1: is very much alive, and that you are manifesting life
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Speaker 1: fully mentally and physically. And keep this thought there, aiding
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Speaker 1: yourself with constant repetitions of the watchword. Don't let the
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Speaker 1: thought escape you, but keep pushing it back into the mind.
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Speaker 1: Keep it before the mental vision as much as possible.
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Speaker 1: Repeat the watchword when you awaken in the morning, say
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Speaker 1: it when you retire at night, and say it at
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Speaker 1: meal times and whenever else you can. During the day,
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Speaker 1: at least once an hour, form the mental picture of
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Speaker 1: yourself as filled with life and energy. Live up to
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Speaker 1: it as far as possible. When you start in to
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Speaker 1: perform a task, say I am alive, and mix up
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Speaker 1: as much life as possible in the task. If you
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Speaker 1: find yourself feeling depressed, say I am alive, and then
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Speaker 1: take a few deep breaths, and with each inhalation, let
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Speaker 1: the mind hold the thought that you are breathing in
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Speaker 1: strength and life, and as you exhale, hold the thought
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Speaker 1: that you are breathing out all the old, dead, negative
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Speaker 1: conditions and are glad to get rid of them. Then
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Speaker 1: finish up with an earnest, vigorous affirmation I am alive,
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Speaker 1: and mean it when you say it, too, and let
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Speaker 1: your thoughts take form in action. Don't rest content with
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Speaker 1: merely saying that you are alive, but prove it with
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Speaker 1: your acts. Take an interest in doing things, and don't
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Speaker 1: go around mooning or daydreaming. Get down to business and live.
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Speaker 1: Chapter ten, Training the Habit Mind. Professor William James, the
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Speaker 1: well known teacher of and writer upon psychology, very truly
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Speaker 1: says the great thing in all education is to make
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Speaker 1: our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy. For
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Speaker 1: this we must make automatic and habitual as early as possible,
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Speaker 1: as many useful actions as we can, and as carefully
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Speaker 1: guard against growing into ways that are likely to be disadvantageous.
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Speaker 1: In the acquisition of an a new habit or the
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Speaker 1: leaving off of an old one, we must take care
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Speaker 1: to launch ourselves with as strong and decided initiative as possible.
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Speaker 1: Never suffer an exception to occur until the new habit
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Speaker 1: is securely rooted in your life. Seize the very first
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Speaker 1: possible opportunity to act on every resolution you make, and
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Speaker 1: on every emotional prompting you may experience in the direction
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Speaker 1: of the habits you aspire to gain. This advice is
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Speaker 1: along the lines familiar to all students of mental science,
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Speaker 1: but it states the matter more plainly than the majority
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Speaker 1: of us have done. It impresses upon us the importance
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Speaker 1: of passing on to the subconscious mind the proper impulses,
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Speaker 1: so that they will become automatic and second nature. Our
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Speaker 1: subconscious mentality is a great storehouse for all sorts of
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Speaker 1: suggestions from ourselves and others, and as it is the
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Speaker 1: habit mind, we must be careful to send it the
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Speaker 1: proper material from which it may make habits. If we
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Speaker 1: get into the habit of doing certain things, we may
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Speaker 1: be sure that the subconscious mentality will make it easier
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Speaker 1: for us to do just the same thing over and
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Speaker 1: over again, easier each time, until finally we are firmly
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Speaker 1: bound with the ropes and chains of the habit, and
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Speaker 1: find it more or less difficult, sometimes almost impossible, to
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Speaker 1: free ourselves from the hateful thing. We should cultivate good
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Speaker 1: habits against the hour of need. The time will come
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Speaker 1: when we will be required to put forth our best efforts,
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Speaker 1: and it rests with us today whether that hour of
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Speaker 1: need shall find us doing the proper thing automatically and
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Speaker 1: almost without thought, or struggling to do it, bound down
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Speaker 1: and hindered with the chains of things opposed to that
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Speaker 1: which we desire at that moment. We must be on
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Speaker 1: guard at all times to prevent the forming of undesirable habits.
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Speaker 1: There may be no special harm in doing a certain
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Speaker 1: thing today or perhaps again tomorrow, but there may be
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Speaker 1: much harm in setting up the habit of doing that
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Speaker 1: particular thing. If you are confronted with the question, which
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Speaker 1: of these two things should I do? The best answer
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Speaker 1: is I will do that which I would like to
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Speaker 1: become a habit. With me in forming a new habit
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Speaker 1: or in breaking an old one, we should throw ourselves
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Speaker 1: into the task with as much enthusiasm as possible in
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Speaker 1: order to gain the most ground before the energy expends
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Speaker 1: itself when it meets with friction from the opposing habits
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Speaker 1: already formed. We should start in by making as strong
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Speaker 1: an impression as possible upon the subconscious mentality. Then we
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Speaker 1: should be constantly on guard against temptations to break the
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Speaker 1: new resolution. Just this once, This just once idea kills
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Speaker 1: off more good resolutions than any other one, cause the
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Speaker 1: moment you yield just this once, you introduce the thin
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Speaker 1: edge of the wedge that will, in the end split
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Speaker 1: your resolution into pieces. Equally important is the fact that
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Speaker 1: each time you resist temptation, the stronger does your resolution become.
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Speaker 1: Act upon your resolution as early and as often as possible.
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Speaker 1: As with every manifestation of thought in action, the stronger
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Speaker 1: does it become. You are adding to the strength of
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Speaker 1: your original resolut every time you back it up with action.
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Speaker 1: The mind has been likened to a piece of paper
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Speaker 1: that has been folded. Ever afterwards, it has a tendency
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Speaker 1: to fold in the same crease unless we make a
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Speaker 1: new crease or fold when it will follow the last lines,
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Speaker 1: and the creases are habits. Every time we make one,
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Speaker 1: it is so much easier for the mind to fold
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Speaker 1: along the same crease. Afterward, let us make our mental
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Speaker 1: creases in the right direction. Chapter eleven, The Psychology of Emotion.
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Speaker 1: One is apt to think of the emotions as independent
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Speaker 1: from habit. We easily may think of one acquiring habits
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Speaker 1: of action and even of thinking. But we are apt
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Speaker 1: to regard the emotions as something connected with feeling and
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Speaker 1: quite divorced from intellectual effort. Yet, notwithstanding the distinction between
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Speaker 1: the two, both are dependent largely upon habit, and one
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Speaker 1: may repress, increase, develop, and change one's emotions just as
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Speaker 1: one may regulate habits of action and lines of thought.
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Speaker 1: It is an axiom of psychology that emotions deepen by repetition.
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Speaker 1: If a person allows a state of feeling to thoroughly
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Speaker 1: take possession of him, he will find it easier to
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Speaker 1: yield to the same emotion the second time, and so on,
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Speaker 1: until the particular emotion or feeling becomes second nature to him.
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Speaker 1: If an undesirable emotion shows itself inclined to take up
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Speaker 1: a permanent abode with you, you had better start to work
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Speaker 1: to get rid of it, or at least to master it.
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Speaker 1: And the best time to do this is at the start,
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Speaker 1: for each repetition renders the habit more firmly entrenched, and
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Speaker 1: the task of dislodging it more difficult. Were you ever jealous?
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Speaker 1: If so, you will remember how insidious was its first approach,
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Speaker 1: how subtly it whispered hateful suggestions into your willing year,
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Speaker 1: and how gradually it followed up such suggestions, until finally
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Speaker 1: you began to see green. Jealousy has an effect upon
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Speaker 1: the bile and causes it to poison the blood. This
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Speaker 1: is why the idea of green is always a soociated
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Speaker 1: with it. Then you will remember how the thing seemed
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Speaker 1: to grow, taking possession of you, until you scarcely could
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Speaker 1: shake it off. You found it much easier to become
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Speaker 1: jealous the next time. It seemed to bring before you
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Speaker 1: all sorts of objects, apparently justifying your suspicions, and feeling
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Speaker 1: everything began to look green. The green eyed monster waxed fat.
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Speaker 1: And so it is with every feeling or emotion. If
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Speaker 1: you give way to a fit of rage, you will
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Speaker 1: find it easier to become angry the next time on
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Speaker 1: less provocation. The habit of feeling acting mean does not
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Speaker 1: take long to firmly settle itself in its new home.
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Speaker 1: If encouraged, worry is a great habit for growing and
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Speaker 1: waxing fat People start by worrying about big things, and
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Speaker 1: then begin to worry and fret about some smaller thing.
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Speaker 1: And then the merest trifle worries and distresses them. They
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Speaker 1: imagine that all sorts of evil things are about to
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Speaker 1: befall them. If they start on a journey, they are
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Speaker 1: certain there is going to be a wreck. If a
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Speaker 1: telegram comes, it is sure to contain some dreadful tidings.
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Speaker 1: If a child seems a little quiet, the worrying mother
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Speaker 1: is positive it is going to fall ill and die.
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Speaker 1: If the husband seems thoughtful as he revolves some business
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Speaker 1: plan in his mind, then the good wife is convinced
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Speaker 1: that he is beginning to cease to love her, and
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Speaker 1: indulges in a crying spell. And so it goes worry, worry, worry,
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Speaker 1: each indulgence, making the habit more at home. After a while,
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Speaker 1: the continued thought shows itself in action. Not only is
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Speaker 1: the mind poisoned by the blue thoughts, but the forehead
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Speaker 1: shows deep lines between the eyebrows, and the voice takes
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Speaker 1: on that whining rasping tones so common among worry burdened people.
1:18:47
Speaker 1: The condition of mind known as fault finding is another
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Speaker 1: emotion that grows fat with exercise. First fault is found
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Speaker 1: with this thing, then with that, and finally with everything.
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Speaker 1: Becomes a chronic nagger, a burden to friends and relatives,
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Speaker 1: and a thing to be avoided by outsiders. Women make
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Speaker 1: the greatest naggers, not because men are any better, but
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Speaker 1: simply because a man nagger is apt to have the
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Speaker 1: habit knocked out of him by other men who will
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Speaker 1: not stand his nonsense. He finds that he is making
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Speaker 1: things too hot for himself, and he reforms, while a
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Speaker 1: woman has more of a chance to indulge in the habit.
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Speaker 1: But this nagging is all a matter of habit. It
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Speaker 1: grows from small beginnings, and each time it is indulged in,
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Speaker 1: it throws out another root, branch or tendril, and fastens
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Speaker 1: itself the closer to the one who has given it
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Speaker 1: soil in which to grow. Envy, uncharitableness, gossip, scandal mongering
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Speaker 1: are all habits of this kind. The seeds are in
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Speaker 1: every human breast and only need good soil and a
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Speaker 1: little watering to become lusty and strong. Each time you
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Speaker 1: give way to one of these negative emotions, the easier
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Speaker 1: do you make it for a recurrence of the same
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Speaker 1: thing or similar ones. Sometimes, by encouraging one unworthy emotion,
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Speaker 1: you find that you have given room for the growth
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Speaker 1: of a whole family of these mental weeds. Now this
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Speaker 1: is not a good old Orthodox preachment against the sin
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Speaker 1: of bad thoughts. It is merely a calling of your
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Speaker 1: attention to the law underlying the psychology of emotions. Nothing
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Speaker 1: new about it, old as the hills, so old that
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Speaker 1: many of us have forgotten all about it. If you
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Speaker 1: wish to manifest these constantly disagreeable and unpleasant traits, and
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Speaker 1: to suffer the unhappiness that comes from them, by all
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Speaker 1: means do so. That is your own business and privilege.
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Speaker 1: It's none of mine, and I am not preaching at you.
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Speaker 1: It keeps me busy minding my own business and keeping
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Speaker 1: an eye on my own undesirable habits and actions. I
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Speaker 1: am merely telling you the law regarding the matter, and
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Speaker 1: you may do the rest. If you wish to choke
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Speaker 1: out these habits, there are two ways open to you. First,
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Speaker 1: whenever you find yourself indulge in a negative thought or feeling,
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Speaker 1: Take right hold of it and say to it firmly
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Speaker 1: and vigorously get out. It won't like this at first,
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Speaker 1: and will bridle up, curve its back and snarl like
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Speaker 1: an offended cat. But never mind, Just say scat to it.
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Speaker 1: The next time. It will not be so confident and aggressive.
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Speaker 1: It will have manifested a little of the fear habit.
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Speaker 1: Each time you repress and choke out a tendency of
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Speaker 1: this kind, the weaker it will become, and the stronger
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Speaker 1: will your will be. Professor James says, refuse to express
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Speaker 1: a passion and it dies. Count ten before venting your
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Speaker 1: anger and its occasion seems ridiculous. Whistling to keep up
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Speaker 1: courage is no mere figure of speech. On the other hand,
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Speaker 1: sit all day in a moping posture, sigh and reply
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Speaker 1: to everything with a dismal voice, and your melancholy lingers.
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Speaker 1: There is no more valuable precept in moral education than this,
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Speaker 1: as all who have experienced know, if we wish to
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Speaker 1: conquer emotional tendencies in ourselves, we must assiduously and in
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Speaker 1: the first instance, cold bloodedly, go through the outward movements
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Speaker 1: of those contrary dispositions. Which we prefer to cultivate. Smooth
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Speaker 1: the brow, brighten the eye, contract the dorsal rather than
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Speaker 1: the ventral aspect of the frame, and speak in a
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Speaker 1: major key past the genial complement. And your heart must
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Speaker 1: be frigid, indeed, if it does not gradually fall Chapter twelve,
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Speaker 1: Developing new brain cells. I have spoken of the plan
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Speaker 1: of getting rid of undesirable states of feeling by driving
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Speaker 1: them out, But a far better way is to cultivate
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Speaker 1: the feeling or emotion directly opposed to the one you
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Speaker 1: wish to eradicate. We are very apt to regard ourselves
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Speaker 1: as the creatures of our emotions and feelings, and to
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Speaker 1: fancy that these feelings and emotions are we, But such
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Speaker 1: is far from being the truth. It is true that
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Speaker 1: the majority of the race are slaves of their emotions
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Speaker 1: and feelings, and are governed by them to a great degree.
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Speaker 1: They think that feelings are things that rule one and
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Speaker 1: from which one cannot free himself, and so they cease
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Speaker 1: to rebel. They yield to the feeling without question, although
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Speaker 1: they may know that the emotion or mental trait is
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Speaker 1: calculated to injure them and to bring unhappiness and failure.
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Speaker 1: Instead of happiness and success. They say, we are made
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Speaker 1: that way, and let it go at that the new
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Speaker 1: psychology is teaching the people better things. It tells them
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Speaker 1: that they are masters of their emotions and feelings instead
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Speaker 1: of being their slaves. It tells them that brain cells
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Speaker 1: may be developed that will manifest along desirable lines, and
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Speaker 1: that the old brain cells that have been manifesting so
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Speaker 1: unpleasantly may be placed on the retired list and allowed
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Speaker 1: to atrophy from want of use. People may make themselves
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Speaker 1: over and change their entire natures. This is not mere
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Speaker 1: idle theory, but is a working fact which has been
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Speaker 1: demonstrated by thousands of people, and which is coming more
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Speaker 1: and more before the at tension of the race. No
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Speaker 1: matter what theory of mind we entertain, we must admit
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Speaker 1: that the brain is the organ and instrument of the
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Speaker 1: mind in our present state of existence at least, and
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Speaker 1: that the brain must be considered in this matter. The
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Speaker 1: brain is like a wonderful musical instrument, having millions of
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Speaker 1: keys upon which we may play innumerable combinations of sounds.
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Speaker 1: We come into the world with certain tendencies, temperaments, and predispositions.
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Speaker 1: We may account for these tendencies by heredity, or we
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Speaker 1: may account for them upon theories of pre existence. But
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Speaker 1: the facts remain the same. Certain keys seem to respond
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Speaker 1: to our touch more easily than others. Certain notes seem
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Speaker 1: to sound forth as the current of circumstances sweeps over
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Speaker 1: the strings, and certain other notes are less easily vibrated.
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Speaker 1: But we find that if we but make an effort
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Speaker 1: of the will to restrain the utterance of some of
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Speaker 1: these easily sounded strings, they will grow more difficult to
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Speaker 1: sound and less liable to to be stirred by the
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Speaker 1: passing breeze. And if we will pay attention to some
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Speaker 1: of the other strings that have not been giving forth
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Speaker 1: a clear tone, we will soon get them in good
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Speaker 1: working order. Their notes will chime forth, clear and vibrant,
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Speaker 1: and will drown the less pleasant sounds. We have millions
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Speaker 1: of unused brain cells awaiting our cultivation. We are using
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Speaker 1: but a few of them, and some of these we
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Speaker 1: are working to death. We are able to give some
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Speaker 1: of these cells a rest by using other cells. The
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Speaker 1: brain may be trained and cultivated in a manner incredible
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Speaker 1: to one who has not looked into the subject. Mental
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Speaker 1: attitudes may be acquired and cultivated, changed, and discarded at will.
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Speaker 1: There is no longer any excuse for people manifesting unpleasant
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Speaker 1: and harmful mental states. We have the remedy in our
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Speaker 1: own hands. We acquire habits of thought, feeling, and action
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Speaker 1: by repeated use. We may be born with a tendency
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Speaker 1: in a certain direction, or we may acquire tendencies by
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Speaker 1: suggestions from others, such as the examples of those around us,
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Speaker 1: suggestions from reading, listening to teachers. We are a bundle
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Speaker 1: of mental habits. Each time we indulge in an undesirable
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Speaker 1: thought or habit, the easier does it become to repeat
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Speaker 1: that thought or action, and the oftener we give forth
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Speaker 1: a certain desirable thought or perform a desirable action, the
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Speaker 1: easier does it become for us to repeat that thought
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Speaker 1: or action. Mental scientists are in the habit of speaking
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Speaker 1: of desirable thoughts or mental attitudes as positive and of
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Speaker 1: the undesirable ones as negative. There is a good reason
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Speaker 1: for this. The mind instinctively recognizes certain things as good
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Speaker 1: for the individual to which it belongs, and it clears
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Speaker 1: the path for such thoughts and interposes the least resistance
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Speaker 1: to them. They have a much greater effect than an
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Speaker 1: undesirable thought possesses, and one positive thought will counteract a
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Speaker 1: number of negative thoughts. The best way to overcome undesirable
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Speaker 1: or or negative thoughts and feelings is to cultivate the
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Speaker 1: positive ones. The positive thought is the strongest plant, and
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Speaker 1: will in time starve out the negative one by withdrawing
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Speaker 1: from it the nourishment necessary for its existence. Of course,
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Speaker 1: the negative thought will set up a vigorous resistance at first,
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Speaker 1: for it is a fight for life with it. In
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Speaker 1: the slang words of the time, it sees its finish.
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Speaker 1: If the positive thought is allowed to grow and develop,
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Speaker 1: and consequently it makes things unpleasant for the individual until
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Speaker 1: he has started well into the work of starving it out.
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Speaker 1: Brain cells do not like to be laid on the
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Speaker 1: shelf any more than does any other form of living energy,
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Speaker 1: and they rebel and struggle until they become too weak
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Speaker 1: to do so. The best way is to pay as
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Speaker 1: little attention as possible to these weeds of the mind,
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Speaker 1: but put in as much time as possible watering, caring for,
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Speaker 1: and attending to the new and beautiful plants in the
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Speaker 1: garden of the mind. For instance, if you are apt
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Speaker 1: to hate people, you can best overcome the negative thought
1:27:59
Speaker 1: by coultivating love in its place. Think love and act
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Speaker 1: it out as often as possible. Cultivate thoughts of kindness,
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Speaker 1: and act as kindly as you can to everyone with
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Speaker 1: whom you come in contact. You will have trouble at
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Speaker 1: the start, but gradually love will master hate, and the
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Speaker 1: latter will begin to droop and wither. If you have
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Speaker 1: a tendency toward the blues, cultivate a smile and a
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Speaker 1: cheerful view of things. Insist upon your mouth wearing upturned corners,
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Speaker 1: and make an effort of the will to look upon
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Speaker 1: the bright side of things. The blue devils will set
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Speaker 1: up a fight, of course, but pay no attention to them.
1:28:37
Speaker 1: Just go on cultivating optimism and cheerfulness. Let brite, cheerful,
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Speaker 1: and happy be your watchword, and try to live it out.
1:28:47
Speaker 1: These recipes may seem very old and time worn, but
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Speaker 1: they are psychological truths and may be used by you
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Speaker 1: to advantage. If you once comprehend the nature of the thing,
1:28:57
Speaker 1: the affirmations and auto suggestions of the several schools may
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Speaker 1: be understood and taken advantage of. You may make yourself
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Speaker 1: energetic instead of slothful, active instead of lazy by this method.
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Speaker 1: It is all a matter of practice and steady work
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Speaker 1: new thought. People often have much to say about holding
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Speaker 1: the thought, and indeed it is necessary to hold the
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Speaker 1: thought in order to accomplish results. But something more is needed.
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Speaker 1: You must act out the thought until it becomes a
1:29:28
Speaker 1: fixed habit with you. Thoughts take form in action, and
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Speaker 1: in turn, actions influence thought. So by acting out certain
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Speaker 1: lines of thought, the actions react upon the mind and
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Speaker 1: increase the development of the part of the mind having
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Speaker 1: close relation to the act. Each time the mind entertains
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Speaker 1: a thought, the easier becomes the resulting action, and each
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Speaker 1: time an act is performed, the easier becomes the corresponding thought.
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Speaker 1: So you see, the thing works both ways, action and reaction.
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Speaker 1: If you feel cheerful and happy, it is very natural
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Speaker 1: for you to laugh, And if you will laugh a little,
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Speaker 1: you will begin to feel bright and cheerful. Do you
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Speaker 1: see what I am trying to get at here? It
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Speaker 1: is in a nutshell. If you wish to cultivate a
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Speaker 1: certain habit of action, begin by cultivating the mental attitude
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Speaker 1: corresponding to it. And as a means of cultivating that
1:30:21
Speaker 1: mental attitude, start in to act out or go through
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Speaker 1: the motions of the act corresponding to the thought. Now
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Speaker 1: see if you cannot apply this rule. Take up something
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Speaker 1: that you really feel should be done, but which you
1:30:34
Speaker 1: do not feel like doing. Cultivate the thought leading up
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Speaker 1: to it. Say to yourself, I like to do so
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Speaker 1: and so, and then go through the motions cheerfully, remember
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Speaker 1: and act out the thought that you like to do
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Speaker 1: the thing. Take an interest in the doing, study out
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Speaker 1: the best way to do it, put brains into it,
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Speaker 1: take a pride in it, and you will find yourself
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Speaker 1: doing the thing with a considerable amount of pleasure and interest.
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Speaker 1: You will have cultivated a new habit. If you prefer
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Speaker 1: trying it on some mental trade of which you wish
1:31:05
Speaker 1: to be rid, it will work the same way. Start
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Speaker 1: in to cultivate the opposite trait and think it out
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Speaker 1: and act it out for all you are worth. Then
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Speaker 1: watch the change that will come over. You. Don't be
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Speaker 1: discouraged at the resistance you will encounter at first, but
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Speaker 1: sing gaily, I can and I will, and get to
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Speaker 1: work in earnest. The important thing in this work is
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Speaker 1: to keep cheerful and interested. If you manage to do this,
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Speaker 1: the rest will be easy. Chapter thirteen, The attractive power
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Speaker 1: desire force. We have discussed the necessity of getting rid
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Speaker 1: of fear that your desire may have full strength with
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Speaker 1: which to work. Supposing that you have mastered this part
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Speaker 1: of the task, or at least started on the road
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Speaker 1: to mastery, I will now call your attention to another
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Speaker 1: important branch of the subject. I allude to the subject
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Speaker 1: of mental leaks. No, I don't mean the leakage arising
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Speaker 1: from your failure to keep your own secrets. That is
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Speaker 1: also important, but forms another story. The leakage I am
1:32:08
Speaker 1: now referring to is that occasioned by the habit of
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Speaker 1: having the attention attracted to and distracted by every passing fancy.
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Speaker 1: In order to attain a thing, it is necessary that
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Speaker 1: the mind should fall in love with it and be
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Speaker 1: conscious of its existence almost to the exclusion of everything else.
1:32:25
Speaker 1: You must get in love with the thing you wish
1:32:26
Speaker 1: to attain, just as much as you would if you
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Speaker 1: were to meet the girl a man you wished to marry.
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Speaker 1: I do not mean that you should become a monomaniac
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Speaker 1: upon the subject and should lose all interest in everything
1:32:37
Speaker 1: else in the world. That won't do, for the mind
1:32:40
Speaker 1: must of recreation and change. But I do mean that
1:32:44
Speaker 1: you must be so set upon the desired thing that
1:32:47
Speaker 1: all else will seem of secondary importance. A man in
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Speaker 1: love may be pleasant to everyone else, and may go
1:32:53
Speaker 1: through the duties and pleasures of life with good spirit,
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Speaker 1: but underneath it all he is humming to himself just
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Speaker 1: one girl, and every one of his actions is bent
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Speaker 1: toward getting that girl and making a comfortable home for her.
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Speaker 1: Do you see what I mean? You must get in
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Speaker 1: love with the thing you want, and you must get
1:33:10
Speaker 1: in love with it in earnest. None of this latter
1:33:13
Speaker 1: day flirting on to day and off tomorrow sort of love.
1:33:16
Speaker 1: But the good old fashioned kind that used to make
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Speaker 1: it impossible for a young man to get to sleep
1:33:21
Speaker 1: unless he took a walk around his best girl's house
1:33:24
Speaker 1: just to be sure it was still there. That's the
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Speaker 1: real kind. And the man or woman in search of
1:33:30
Speaker 1: success must make of that desired thing his ruling passion.
1:33:34
Speaker 1: He must keep his mind on the main chance success
1:33:37
Speaker 1: is jealous. That's why we speak of her as feminine.
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Speaker 1: She demands a man's whole affection, and if he begins
1:33:44
Speaker 1: flirting with other fair charmers, she soon turns her back
1:33:47
Speaker 1: upon him. If a man allows his strong interest in
1:33:50
Speaker 1: the main chance to be sidetracked, he will be the loser.
1:33:54
Speaker 1: Mental force operates best when it is concentrated. You must
1:33:58
Speaker 1: give to the desired thing your best and most earnest thought.
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Speaker 1: Just as the man who is thoroughly in love will
1:34:05
Speaker 1: think out plans and schemes whereby he may please the
1:34:07
Speaker 1: fair one, so will the man who is in love
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Speaker 1: with his work or business give it his best thought,
1:34:12
Speaker 1: and the result will be that one hundred and one
1:34:14
Speaker 1: plans will come into his field of consciousness, many of
1:34:17
Speaker 1: which are very important. The mind works on the subconscious plane, remember,
1:34:22
Speaker 1: and almost always along the lines of the ruling passion
1:34:25
Speaker 1: or desire. It will fix up things and patch together
1:34:29
Speaker 1: plans and schemes, and when you need them the most,
1:34:32
Speaker 1: it will pop them into your consciousness and you will
1:34:34
Speaker 1: feel like crying, just as if you had received some
1:34:37
Speaker 1: valuable aid from outside. But if you scatter your thought force,
1:34:41
Speaker 1: the subconscious mind will not know just how to please you,
1:34:44
Speaker 1: and the result is that you are apt to be
1:34:46
Speaker 1: put off from this source of aid and assistance. Beside this,
1:34:51
Speaker 1: you will miss the powerful result of concentrated thought. In
1:34:54
Speaker 1: the conscious working out of the details of your plans.
1:34:57
Speaker 1: And then again, the man whose mind is full of
1:34:59
Speaker 1: a dust and interests, fails to exert the attracting power
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Speaker 1: that is manifested by the man of the one ruling passion,
1:35:05
Speaker 1: and he fails to draw to him persons, things, and
1:35:08
Speaker 1: results that will aid in the working out of his plans,
1:35:11
Speaker 1: and will also fail to place himself in the current
1:35:13
Speaker 1: of attraction, whereby he is brought into contact with those
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Speaker 1: who will be glad to help him because of harmonious interests.
1:35:20
Speaker 1: I have noticed in my own affairs that when I
1:35:23
Speaker 1: would allow myself to be sidetracked by anything outside of
1:35:26
Speaker 1: my regular line of work, it would be only a
1:35:28
Speaker 1: short time before my receipts dropped off and my business
1:35:32
Speaker 1: showed signs of a lack of vitality. Now, many may
1:35:36
Speaker 1: say that this was because I left undone some things
1:35:38
Speaker 1: that I would have done if my mind had been
1:35:40
Speaker 1: centered on the business. This is true. But I have
1:35:44
Speaker 1: noticed like results in cases where there was nothing to
1:35:46
Speaker 1: be done, cases in which the seed was sown and
1:35:49
Speaker 1: the crop was awaited. And in just such cases, as
1:35:54
Speaker 1: soon as I directed my thought to the matter, the
1:35:56
Speaker 1: seed began to sprout. I do not mean that I
1:35:59
Speaker 1: had to send out great mental waves with the idea
1:36:01
Speaker 1: of affecting people, not a bit of it. I simply
1:36:05
Speaker 1: began to realize what a good thing I had, and
1:36:07
Speaker 1: how much people wanted it, and how glad they would
1:36:10
Speaker 1: be to know of it, and all that sort of thing.
1:36:12
Speaker 1: And lo, my thoughts seemed to vitalize the work, and
1:36:16
Speaker 1: the sea began to sprout. This is no mere fancy,
1:36:20
Speaker 1: for I have experienced it on several occasions. I have
1:36:23
Speaker 1: spoken to many others on the subject, and I find
1:36:26
Speaker 1: that our experience is talied perfectly. So don't get into
1:36:30
Speaker 1: the habit of permitting these mental leaks. Keep your desire
1:36:33
Speaker 1: fresh and active, and let it get in its work
1:36:36
Speaker 1: without interference from conflicting desires. Keep in love with the
1:36:40
Speaker 1: thing you wish to attain, feed your fancy with it.
1:36:43
Speaker 1: See it as accomplished already, But don't lose your interest.
1:36:47
Speaker 1: Keep your eye on the main chance, and keep your
1:36:50
Speaker 1: one ruling passion strong and vigorous. Don't be a mental polygamist.
1:36:55
Speaker 1: One mental love is all that a man needs, that
1:36:58
Speaker 1: is one at a time. Some scientists have claimed that
1:37:02
Speaker 1: something that might as well be called love is at
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Speaker 1: the bottom of the whole of life. They claim that
1:37:07
Speaker 1: the love of the plant for water causes it to
1:37:10
Speaker 1: send forth its roots until the loved thing is found.
1:37:14
Speaker 1: They say that the love of the flower for the
1:37:16
Speaker 1: sun causes it to grow away from the dark places
1:37:19
Speaker 1: so that it may receive the light. The so called
1:37:22
Speaker 1: chemical affinities are really a form of love, and desire
1:37:27
Speaker 1: is a manifestation of this universal life love. So I
1:37:31
Speaker 1: am not using a mere figure of speech when I
1:37:33
Speaker 1: tell you that you must love the thing you wish
1:37:35
Speaker 1: to attain. Nothing but intense love will enable you to
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Speaker 1: surmount the many obstacles placed in your path. Nothing but
1:37:43
Speaker 1: that love will enable you to bear the burdens of
1:37:45
Speaker 1: the task. The more desire you have for a thing,
1:37:49
Speaker 1: the more you love it, and the more you love it,
1:37:51
Speaker 1: the greater will be the attractive force exerted toward its attainment,
1:37:55
Speaker 1: both within yourself and outside of you. So love but
1:37:59
Speaker 1: one thing at a time. Don't be a mental Mormon.
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Speaker 1: Chapter fourteen, The great dynamic forces. You have noticed the
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Speaker 1: difference between the successful and strong men in any walk
1:38:12
Speaker 1: of life and the unsuccessful, weak men around them. You
1:38:16
Speaker 1: are conscious of the widely differing characteristics of the two classes,
1:38:20
Speaker 1: but somehow find it difficult to express just in what
1:38:23
Speaker 1: the difference lies. Let us take a look at the matter.
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Speaker 1: Buxton said, the longer I live, the more certain I
1:38:30
Speaker 1: am that the great difference between men, the feeble and
1:38:33
Speaker 1: the powerful, the great and the insignificant, is energy and
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Speaker 1: invincible determination, a purpose, once fixed, and then death or victory.
1:38:42
Speaker 1: That quality will do anything that can be done in
1:38:45
Speaker 1: this world. And no talents, no circumstances, no opportunities, will
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Speaker 1: make a two legged creature a man without it. I
1:38:53
Speaker 1: do not see how the idea could be more clearly
1:38:55
Speaker 1: expressed than Buxton has spoken. He has put his finger
1:38:59
Speaker 1: right into the center of the subject. His eye has
1:39:02
Speaker 1: seen into the heart of it. Energy and invincible determination.
1:39:06
Speaker 1: These two things will sweep away mighty barriers, and will
1:39:09
Speaker 1: surmount the greatest obstacles. And yet they must be used together.
1:39:14
Speaker 1: Energy without determination will go to waste. Lots of men
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Speaker 1: have plenty of energy, they are full to overflowing with it,
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Speaker 1: and yet they lack concentration. They lack the concentrated force
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Speaker 1: that enables them to bring their power to bear upon
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Speaker 1: the right spot. Energy is not nearly so rare. A
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Speaker 1: thing as many imagine it to be. I can look
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Speaker 1: around me at any time and pick out a number
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Speaker 1: of people I know who are full of energy. Many
1:39:40
Speaker 1: of them are energy plus, and yet somehow they do
1:39:44
Speaker 1: not seem to make any headway. They are wasting their
1:39:47
Speaker 1: energy all the time. Now they are fooling with this thing, now,
1:39:51
Speaker 1: meddling with that. They will take up some trifling thing
1:39:55
Speaker 1: of no real interest or importance, and waste enough energy
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Speaker 1: in nervous force to carry them through a hard day's work.
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Speaker 1: And yet when they are through, nothing has been accomplished.
1:40:05
Speaker 1: Others who have plenty of energy fail to direct it,
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Speaker 1: by the power of the will, toward the desired end.
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Speaker 1: Invincible determination. Those are the words. Do they not thrill
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Speaker 1: you with their power? If you have something to do,
1:40:18
Speaker 1: get to work and do it. Marshal your energy, and
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Speaker 1: then guide and direct it by your will. Bestow upon
1:40:25
Speaker 1: it that invincible determination, and you will do the thing.
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Speaker 1: Everyone has within him a giant will, But the majority
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Speaker 1: of us are too lazy to use it. We cannot
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Speaker 1: get ourselves nerved up to the point at which we
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Speaker 1: can say, truthfully, I will dot if we can, but
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Speaker 1: screw up our courage to that point, and will then
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Speaker 1: pin it in place so that it will not slip back.
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Speaker 1: We will be able to call into play that wonderful
1:40:49
Speaker 1: power the human will. Man as a rule has but
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Speaker 1: the faintest conception of the power of the will. But
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Speaker 1: those who have studied along the occult teachings know that
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Speaker 1: the will is one of the great dynamic forces of
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Speaker 1: the universe, and if harnessed and directed properly, it is
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Speaker 1: capable of accomplishing almost miraculous things. Energy and invincible determination.
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Speaker 1: Aren't they magnificent words? Commit them to memory, Press them
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Speaker 1: like a die into the wax of your mind, and
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Speaker 1: they will be a constant inspiration to you in hours
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Speaker 1: of need. If you can get these words to vibrating
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Speaker 1: in your being, you will be a giant among pigmies.
1:41:26
Speaker 1: Say these words over and over again, and see how
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Speaker 1: you are filled with new life. See how your blood
1:41:32
Speaker 1: will circulate, how your nerves will tingle. Make these words
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Speaker 1: a part of yourself, and then go forth anew to
1:41:38
Speaker 1: the battle of life, encouraged and strengthened. Put them into practice.
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Speaker 1: Energy and invincible determination. Let that be your motto in
1:41:48
Speaker 1: your workaday life, and you will be one of those
1:41:50
Speaker 1: rare men who are able to do things. Many persons
1:41:54
Speaker 1: are deterred from doing their best by the fact that
1:41:56
Speaker 1: they underrate themselves by comparison with the successful ones of life,
1:42:00
Speaker 1: or rather overrate the successful ones by comparison with themselves.
1:42:05
Speaker 1: One of the curious things noticed by those who are
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Speaker 1: brought in contact that the people who have arrived is
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Speaker 1: the fact that these successful people are not extraordinary. After all.
1:42:15
Speaker 1: You meet with some great writer, and you are disappointed
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Speaker 1: to find him very ordinary. Indeed, he does not converse brilliantly,
1:42:22
Speaker 1: And in fact, you know a score of everyday people
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Speaker 1: who seem far more brilliant than this man who dazzles
1:42:28
Speaker 1: you by his brightness in his books. You meet some
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Speaker 1: great statesmen, and he does not seem nearly so wise
1:42:35
Speaker 1: as lots of old fellows in your own village who
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Speaker 1: waste their wisdom upon the desert air. You meet some
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Speaker 1: great captain of industry, and he does not give you
1:42:44
Speaker 1: the impression of the shrewdness so marked in some little
1:42:46
Speaker 1: bargain driving trader in your own town. How is this anyway?
1:42:52
Speaker 1: Are the reputations of these people fictitious or what is
1:42:55
Speaker 1: the trouble? The trouble is this you have imagined these
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Speaker 1: people to be made of superior metal, and are disappointed
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Speaker 1: to find them made of the same stuff as yourself
1:43:04
Speaker 1: and those about you. But you ask wherein does their
1:43:08
Speaker 1: greatness of achievement lie? Chiefly in this belief in themselves
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Speaker 1: and in their inherent power, in their faculty to concentrate
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Speaker 1: on the work in hand when they are working, and
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Speaker 1: in their ability to prevent leaks of power when they
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Speaker 1: are not working. They believe in themselves and make every
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Speaker 1: effort count Your village wiseman spills his wisdom on every
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Speaker 1: corner and talks to a lot of fools, when if
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Speaker 1: he really were wise, he would save up his wisdom
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Speaker 1: and place it where it would do some work. The
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Speaker 1: brilliant writer does not waste his wit upon every comber.
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Speaker 1: In fact, he shuts the drawer in which he contains
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Speaker 1: his wit and opens it only when he is ready
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Speaker 1: to concentrate and get down to business. The captain of
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Speaker 1: industry has no desire to impress you with his shrewdness
1:43:52
Speaker 1: and smartness. He never did even when he was young,
1:43:57
Speaker 1: while his companions were talking and boasting and blowing. This
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Speaker 1: future successful financier was sawin would and sayin nothin dot.
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Speaker 1: The great people of the world, that is, those who
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Speaker 1: have arrived, are not very different from you, or me
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Speaker 1: or the rest of us. All of us are about
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Speaker 1: the same at the base. You have only to meet
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Speaker 1: them to see how very ordinary they are after all.
1:44:22
Speaker 1: But don't forget the fact that they know how to
1:44:25
Speaker 1: use the material that is in them, while the rest
1:44:27
Speaker 1: of the crowd does not, and in fact even doubts
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Speaker 1: whether the true stuff is there. The man or woman
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Speaker 1: who gets there usually starts out by realizing that he
1:44:37
Speaker 1: or she is not so very different after all from
1:44:41
Speaker 1: the successful people that they hear so much about. This
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Speaker 1: gives them confidence, and the result is they find out
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Speaker 1: that they are able to do things. Then they learn
1:44:51
Speaker 1: to keep their mouths closed and to avoid wasting and
1:44:54
Speaker 1: dissipating their energy. They store up energy and concentrated upon
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Speaker 1: the task at hand, while their companions are scattering their
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Speaker 1: energies in every direction, trying to show off and let
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Speaker 1: people know how smart they are. The man or woman
1:45:08
Speaker 1: who gets there prefers to wait for the applause that
1:45:11
Speaker 1: follows deeds accomplished, and cares very little for the praise
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Speaker 1: that attends promises of what we expect to do some day,
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Speaker 1: or an exhibition of smartness without works. One of the
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Speaker 1: reasons that people who are thrown in with successful men
1:45:25
Speaker 1: often manifests success themselves is that they are able to
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Speaker 1: watch the successful man and sort of catch the trick
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Speaker 1: of his greatness. They see that he is an everyday
1:45:34
Speaker 1: sort of man, but that he thoroughly believes in himself,
1:45:37
Speaker 1: and also that he does not waste energy, but reserves
1:45:40
Speaker 1: all his force for the actual tasks before him. And,
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Speaker 1: profiting by example, they start to work and put the
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Speaker 1: lesson into practice in their own lives. Now, what is
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Speaker 1: the moral of this talk? Simply this, don't undervalue yourself
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Speaker 1: or overvalue others. Realize that you are made of goods
1:45:59
Speaker 1: STF and that locked within your mind are many good things.
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Speaker 1: Then get to work and unfold those good things and
1:46:06
Speaker 1: make something out of that good stuff. Do this by
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Speaker 1: attention to the things before you, and by giving to
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Speaker 1: each the best that is in you, knowing that plenty
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Speaker 1: of more good things are in you, ready for the
1:46:17
Speaker 1: fresh tasks that will come. Put the best of yourself
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Speaker 1: into the undertaking on hand, and do not cheat the
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Speaker 1: present task in favor of some future one. Your supply
1:46:28
Speaker 1: is inexhaustible, and don't waste your good stuff on the
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Speaker 1: crowd of gapers, watchers and critics who are standing around
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Speaker 1: watching you work. Save your good stuff for your job,
1:46:38
Speaker 1: and don't be in too much of a hurry for applause.
1:46:42
Speaker 1: Save up your good thoughts for copy if you are
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Speaker 1: a writer, save up your bright schemes for actual practice
1:46:48
Speaker 1: if you are a business man, save up your wisdom
1:46:51
Speaker 1: for occasion, if you are a statesman, And in each case,
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Speaker 1: avoid the desire to scatter your pearls before, well before
1:46:58
Speaker 1: the gaping crowd that wants to be entertained by a
1:47:01
Speaker 1: free show. Nothing very high about this teaching, perhaps, but
1:47:06
Speaker 1: it is what many of you need very much. Stop
1:47:10
Speaker 1: fooling and get down to business. Stop wasting good raw material,
1:47:14
Speaker 1: and start to work making something worth while. Chapter fifteen,
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Speaker 1: Claiming your own. In a recent conversation, I was telling
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Speaker 1: a woman to pluck up courage and to reach out
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Speaker 1: for a certain good thing for which she had been
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Speaker 1: longing for many years, and which at last appeared to
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Speaker 1: be in sight. I told her that it looked as
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Speaker 1: if her desire was about to be gratified, that the
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Speaker 1: law of attraction was bringing it to her. She lacked
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Speaker 1: faith and kept on repeating, Oh, it's too good to
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Speaker 1: be true, it's too good for me. She had not
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Speaker 1: emerged from the worm of the dust stage, and although
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Speaker 1: she was in sight of the promised land, she refused
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Speaker 1: to enter it because it was too good for her.
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Speaker 1: I think I succeeded in putting sufficient ginga into her
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Speaker 1: to enable her to claim her own. For the last
1:48:03
Speaker 1: reports indicate that she is taking possession. But that is
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Speaker 1: not what I wish to tell you. I want to
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Speaker 1: call your attention to the fact that nothing is too
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Speaker 1: good for you, no matter how great the thing may be,
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Speaker 1: no matter how undeserving you may seem to be, you
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Speaker 1: are entitled to the best there is, for it is
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Speaker 1: your direct inheritance. So don't be afraid to ask, demand,
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Speaker 1: and take. The good things of the world are not
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Speaker 1: the portion of any favored sons. They belong to all,
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Speaker 1: but they come only to those who are wise enough
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Speaker 1: to recognize that the good things are theirs by right,
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Speaker 1: and who are sufficiently courageous to reach out for them.
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Speaker 1: Many good things are lost for want of the asking.
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Speaker 1: Many splendid things are lost to you because of your
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Speaker 1: feeling that you are unworthy of them. Many great things
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Speaker 1: are lost to you because you lack the confidence and
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Speaker 1: courage to demand and take possession of them. None but
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Speaker 1: the brave deserves the fair, says the old adage. And
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Speaker 1: the rule is true in all lines of human effort.
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Speaker 1: If you keep on repeating that you are unworthy of
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Speaker 1: the good thing, that it is too good for you,
1:49:08
Speaker 1: the law will be apt to take you at your
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Speaker 1: word and believe what you say. That's a peculiar thing
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Speaker 1: about the law. It believes what you say. It takes
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Speaker 1: you in earnest, So beware what you say to it,
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Speaker 1: for it will be apt to give credence. Say to
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Speaker 1: it that you are worthy of the best there is,
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Speaker 1: and that there is nothing too good for you, and
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Speaker 1: you will be likely to have the law take you
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Speaker 1: in earnest and say, I guess he is right. I'm
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Speaker 1: going to give him the whole bake shop if he
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Speaker 1: wants it. He knows his rights, and what's the use
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Speaker 1: of trying to deny it to him. But if you say, oh,
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Speaker 1: it's too good for me, the law will probably say, well,
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Speaker 1: I wouldn't wonder, but what that is? So surely he
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Speaker 1: ought to know and it isn't for me to contradict him,
1:49:51
Speaker 1: And so it goes, Why should anything be too good
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Speaker 1: for you? Did you ever stop to think just what
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Speaker 1: you are? You are a manifestation of the whole thing,
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Speaker 1: and have a perfect right to all there is, Or
1:50:05
Speaker 1: if you prefer it this way, you are a child
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Speaker 1: of the infinite and are heir to it all. You
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Speaker 1: are telling the truth in either statement or both. At
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Speaker 1: any rate, no matter for what you ask, you are
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Speaker 1: merely demanding your own, And the more in earnest you
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Speaker 1: are about demanding it, the more confident you are of
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Speaker 1: receiving it. The more will you use in reaching out
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Speaker 1: for it, the surer you will be to obtain it.
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Speaker 1: Strong desire, confident, expectation, courage and action these things bring
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Speaker 1: to you your own. But before you put these forces
1:50:38
Speaker 1: into effect, you must awaken to a realization that you
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Speaker 1: are merely asking for your own, and not for something
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Speaker 1: to which you have no right or claim. So long
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Speaker 1: as there exists in your mind the last sneaking bit
1:50:49
Speaker 1: of doubt as to your right to the things you want,
1:50:52
Speaker 1: you will be setting up a resistance to the operation
1:50:54
Speaker 1: of the law. You may demand as vigorously as you please,
1:50:58
Speaker 1: but you will lack the courage to act if you
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Speaker 1: have a lingering doubt of your right to the thing
1:51:02
Speaker 1: you want. If you persist in regarding the desired thing
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Speaker 1: as if it belonged to another instead of to yourself,
1:51:09
Speaker 1: you will be placing yourself in the position of the
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Speaker 1: covetous or envious man, or even in the position of
1:51:15
Speaker 1: attempted thief. In such a case, your mind will revolt
1:51:18
Speaker 1: at proceeding with the work, for it instinctively will recoil
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Speaker 1: from the idea of taking what is not your own.
1:51:24
Speaker 1: The mind is honest. But when you realize that the
1:51:27
Speaker 1: best the universe holds belongs to you as a divine heir,
1:51:30
Speaker 1: and that there is enough for all without your robbing
1:51:33
Speaker 1: anyone else, then the friction is removed and the barrier
1:51:36
Speaker 1: broken down, and the law proceeds to do its work.
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Speaker 1: I do not believe in this humble business. This meek
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Speaker 1: and lowly attitude does not appeal to me. There is
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Speaker 1: no sense in it at all, the idea of making
1:51:50
Speaker 1: a virtue of such things. When man is the heir
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Speaker 1: of the universe and is entitled to whatever he needs
1:51:56
Speaker 1: for his growth, happiness and satisfaction. I do. I do
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Speaker 1: not mean that one should assume a blustering and domineering
1:52:02
Speaker 1: attitude of mind that is also absurd, For true strength
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Speaker 1: does not so exhibit itself. The blusterer is a self
1:52:10
Speaker 1: confessed weakling. He blusters to disguise his weakness. The truly
1:52:15
Speaker 1: strong man is calm, self contained, and carries with him
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Speaker 1: a consciousness of strength, which renders unnecessary the bluster and
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Speaker 1: fuss of assumed strength. But get away from this hypnotism
1:52:26
Speaker 1: of humility, this meek and lowly attitude of mind. Remember
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Speaker 1: the horrible example of Uriah Heap, and beware of imitating him.
1:52:36
Speaker 1: Throw back your head and look the world square in
1:52:38
Speaker 1: the face. There's nothing to be afraid of. The world
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Speaker 1: is apt to be as much afraid of you as
1:52:44
Speaker 1: you are of it. Anyway, be a man or woman
1:52:48
Speaker 1: and not a crawling thing. And this applies to your
1:52:52
Speaker 1: mental attitude as well as to your outward demeanor. Stop
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Speaker 1: this crawling in your mind. See yourself as standing erect
1:53:00
Speaker 1: and facing life without fear, and you will gradually grow
1:53:03
Speaker 1: into your ideal. There is nothing that is too good
1:53:06
Speaker 1: for you, not a thing. The best there is is
1:53:10
Speaker 1: not beginning to be good enough for you, for there
1:53:12
Speaker 1: are still better things ahead. The best gift that the
1:53:16
Speaker 1: world has to offer is a mere bauble compared to
1:53:18
Speaker 1: the great things in the cosmos that await your coming
1:53:21
Speaker 1: of age. So don't be afraid to reach out for
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Speaker 1: these playthings of life, these baubles of this plane of consciousness.
1:53:29
Speaker 1: Reach out for them, grab a whole fistful, play with
1:53:32
Speaker 1: them until you are tired. That's what they are made for, anyway.
1:53:36
Speaker 1: They are made for our express use, not to look at,
1:53:39
Speaker 1: but to be played with. If you desire help yourself,
1:53:44
Speaker 1: there's a whole shopful of these toys awaiting your desire, demand,
1:53:47
Speaker 1: and taking. Don't be bashful. Don't let me hear any
1:53:52
Speaker 1: more of this silly talk about things being too good
1:53:54
Speaker 1: for you. Pshaw, you have been like the Emperor's little son,
1:53:59
Speaker 1: thinking that the tear soldiers and toy drum were far
1:54:02
Speaker 1: too good for him, and refusing to reach out for them.
1:54:05
Speaker 1: But you don't find this trouble with children. As a rule,
1:54:09
Speaker 1: they instinctively recognize that nothing is too good for them.
1:54:13
Speaker 1: They want all that is in sight to play with,
1:54:16
Speaker 1: and they seem to feel that the things are theirs
1:54:18
Speaker 1: by right, and that is the condition of mind that
1:54:21
Speaker 1: we seekers after the divine adventure must cultivate. Unless we
1:54:25
Speaker 1: become as little children, we cannot enter the kingdom of Heaven.
1:54:29
Speaker 1: The things we see around us are the playthings of
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Speaker 1: the kindergarten of God, playthings which we use in our
1:54:34
Speaker 1: game tasks. Help yourself to them. Ask for them without bashfulness.
1:54:39
Speaker 1: Demand as many as you can make use of. They
1:54:42
Speaker 1: are yours. And if you don't see just what you want,
1:54:46
Speaker 1: ask for it. There's a big reserve stock on the
1:54:48
Speaker 1: shelves and in the closets. Play play, play to your
1:54:53
Speaker 1: heart's content. Learn to weave mats, to build houses with
1:54:57
Speaker 1: the blocks, to stitch outlines on the squares. Play the
1:55:00
Speaker 1: game through and play it well, and demand all the
1:55:04
Speaker 1: proper materials for the play. Don't be bashful. There's enough
1:55:07
Speaker 1: to go round. But remember this. While all this be true,
1:55:13
Speaker 1: the best things are still only game things. Toys, blocks, mats, cubes,
1:55:18
Speaker 1: and all the rest useful, most useful for the learning
1:55:22
Speaker 1: of the lessons, pleasant, most pleasant with which to play,
1:55:26
Speaker 1: and desirable, most desirable for these purposes. Get all the
1:55:31
Speaker 1: fun and profit out of the use of things that
1:55:33
Speaker 1: is possible. Throw yourself heartily into the game and play
1:55:37
Speaker 1: it out. It is good. But here's the thing to remember.
1:55:41
Speaker 1: Never lose sight of the fact that these good things
1:55:44
Speaker 1: are but playthings, part of the game, and you must
1:55:46
Speaker 1: be perfectly willing to lay them aside when the time
1:55:49
Speaker 1: comes to pass into the next class, and not cry
1:55:52
Speaker 1: and mourn because you must leave your playthings behind you.
1:55:55
Speaker 1: Do not allow yourself to become unduly attached to them.
1:55:59
Speaker 1: They are for your youth and pleasure, but are not
1:56:01
Speaker 1: a part of you, not essential to your happiness in
1:56:03
Speaker 1: the next stage. Despise them not because of their lack
1:56:07
Speaker 1: of reality. They are great things relatively, and you may
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Speaker 1: as well have all the fun out of them that
1:56:12
Speaker 1: you can. Don't be a spiritual prig standing aside and
1:56:16
Speaker 1: refusing to join in the game. But do not tie
1:56:19
Speaker 1: yourself to them. They are good to use and play with,
1:56:22
Speaker 1: but not good enough to use you and to make
1:56:24
Speaker 1: you a plaything. Don't let the toys turn the tables
1:56:27
Speaker 1: on you. This is the difference between the master of
1:56:31
Speaker 1: circumstances and the slave of circumstances. The slave thinks that
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Speaker 1: these playthings are real and that he is not good
1:56:38
Speaker 1: enough to have them. He gets only a few toys
1:56:42
Speaker 1: because he is afraid to ask for more, and he
1:56:44
Speaker 1: misses most of the fun, and then, considering the toys
1:56:48
Speaker 1: to be real, and not realizing that there are plenty
1:56:51
Speaker 1: more where these came from. He attaches himself to the
1:56:54
Speaker 1: little trinkets that have come his way and allows himself
1:56:57
Speaker 1: to be made a slave of them. He is afraid
1:56:59
Speaker 1: that they may be taken away from him, and he is
1:57:02
Speaker 1: afraid to toddle across the floor and help himself to
1:57:05
Speaker 1: the others. The master knows that all are his for
1:57:08
Speaker 1: the asking. He demands that which he needs from day
1:57:11
Speaker 1: to day, and does not worry about overloading himself, for
1:57:15
Speaker 1: he knows that there are lots more and that he
1:57:17
Speaker 1: cannot be cheated out of them. He plays and plays
1:57:21
Speaker 1: well and has a good time in the play, and
1:57:23
Speaker 1: he learns his kindergarten lessons in the playing. But he
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Speaker 1: does not become too much attached to his toys. He
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Speaker 1: is willing to fling away the worn out one and
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Speaker 1: reach out for a new one. And when he is
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Speaker 1: called into the next room for promotion, he drops on
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Speaker 1: the floor the worn out toys of the day, and
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Speaker 1: with glistening eyes and confident attitude of mind, marches into
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Speaker 1: the next room, into the great unknown, with a smile
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Speaker 1: on his face. He is not afraid, for he hears
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Speaker 1: the voice of the teacher and knows that she is
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Speaker 1: there waiting for him in that great next room. Chapter sixteen,
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Speaker 1: Law not Chance. Some time ago I was talking to
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Speaker 1: a man about the attractive power of thought. He said
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Speaker 1: that he did not believe that thought could attract anything
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Speaker 1: to him, and that it was all a matter of
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Speaker 1: luck he had found. He said that ill luck relentlessly
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Speaker 1: pursued him, and that everything he touched went wrong. It
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Speaker 1: always had and always would, and he had grown to
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Speaker 1: expect it. When he undertook a new thing, he knew
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Speaker 1: beforehand that it would go wrong, and that no good
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Speaker 1: would come of it. Oh No, there wasn't anything in
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Speaker 1: the theory of attractive thought. So far as he could see.
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Speaker 1: It was all a matter of luck. This man failed
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Speaker 1: to see that by his own confession he was giving
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Speaker 1: a most convincing argument in favor of the law of attraction.
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Speaker 1: He was testifying that he was always expecting things to
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Speaker 1: go wrong, and that they always came about as he expected.
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Speaker 1: He was a magnificent illustration of the law of attraction.
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Speaker 1: But he didn't know it, and no argument seemed to
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Speaker 1: make the matter clear to him. He was up against it,
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Speaker 1: and there was no way out of it. He always
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Speaker 1: expected the ill luck, and every occurrence proved that he
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Speaker 1: was right, and that the mental science position was all nonsense.
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Speaker 1: There are many people who seem to think that the
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Speaker 1: only way in which the law of attraction operates is
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Speaker 1: when one wishes hard, strong, and steady. They do not
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Speaker 1: seem to realize that a strong belief is as efficacious
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Speaker 1: as a strong wish. The successful man believes in himself
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Speaker 1: and in his ultimate success, and paying no attention to
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Speaker 1: little setbacks, stumbles, tumbles and slips, presses on eagerly to
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Speaker 1: the goal, believing all the time that he will get there.
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Speaker 1: His views and aims may alter as he progresses, and
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Speaker 1: he may change his plans or have them changed for him,
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Speaker 1: but all the time he knows in his heart that
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Speaker 1: he will eventually get there. He is not steadily wishing
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Speaker 1: he may get there. He simply feels it and believes it,
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Speaker 1: and thereby sets into operation the strongest forces known in
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Speaker 1: the world of thought. The man who just as steadily
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Speaker 1: believes he is going to fail, will invariably fail. How
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Speaker 1: could he help it? There is no special miracle about it.
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Speaker 1: Everything he does, thinks, and says is tinctured with the
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Speaker 1: thought of failure. Other people catch his spirit and fail
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Speaker 1: to trust him or his ability, which occurrences he in
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Speaker 1: turn sets down as but other exhibitions of his ill luck,
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Speaker 1: instead of ascribing them to his belief and expectation of failure.
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Speaker 1: He is suggesting failure to himself all the time, and
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Speaker 1: he invariably takes on the effect of the auto suggestion.
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Speaker 1: Then again, he, by his negative thoughts, shuts up that
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Speaker 1: portion of his mind from which should come the ideas
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Speaker 1: and plans conducive to success, and which do come to
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Speaker 1: the man who is expecting success because he believes in it.
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Speaker 1: A state of discouragement is not the one in which
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Speaker 1: bright ideas come to us. It is only when we
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Speaker 1: are enthused and hopeful that our minds work out the
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Speaker 1: bright ideas which we may turn to account. Men instinctively
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Speaker 1: feel the atmosphere of failure hovering around certain of their fellows,
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Speaker 1: and on the other hand, recognize something about others which
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Speaker 1: leads them to say when they hear of a temporary
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Speaker 1: mishap befalling such a one. Oh, he'll come out all right, somehow,
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Speaker 1: you can't down him. It is the atmosphere caused by
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Speaker 1: the prevailing mental attitude. Clear up your mental atmosphere. There
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Speaker 1: is no such thing as chance. Law maintains everywhere, and
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Speaker 1: all that happens happens because of the operation of law.
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Speaker 1: You cannot name the simplest thing that ever occurred by chance.
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Speaker 1: Try it, and then run the thing down to a
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Speaker 1: final analysis, and you will see it as the result
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Speaker 1: of law. It is as plain as mathematics, plan and purpose,
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Speaker 1: cause and effect. From the movements of worlds to the
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Speaker 1: growth of the grain of mustard seed, all the result
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Speaker 1: of law. The fall of the stone down the mountain
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Speaker 1: side is not chance. Forces which had been in operation
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Speaker 1: for centuries caused it, and back of that cause were
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Speaker 1: other causes, and so on, until the causeless cause is reached,
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Speaker 1: and life is not the result of chance. The law
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Speaker 1: is here too. The law is in full operation, whether
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Speaker 1: you know it or not, whether you believe in it
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Speaker 1: or not. You may be the ignorant object upon which
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Speaker 1: the law operates, and bring yourself all sorts of trouble
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Speaker 1: because of your ignorance of or opposition to the law.
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Speaker 1: Or you may fall in with the operations of the law,
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Speaker 1: get into its current as it were, and life will
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Speaker 1: seem a far different thing to you. You cannot get
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Speaker 1: outside of the law by refusing to have anything to
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Speaker 1: do with it. You are at liberty to oppose it
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Speaker 1: and produce all the friction you wish to. It doesn't
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Speaker 1: hurt the law, and you may keep it up until
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Speaker 1: you learn your lesson the law of thought. Attraction is
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Speaker 1: one name for the law, or rather for one manifestation
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Speaker 1: of it. Again, I say your thoughts are real things.
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Speaker 1: They go forth from you in all directions, combining with
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Speaker 1: thoughts of like kind, opposing thoughts of a different character,
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Speaker 1: forming combinations, going where they are attracted, flying away from
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Speaker 1: thought centers, opposing them. And your mind attracts the thoughts
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Speaker 1: of others which have been sent out by them, consciously
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Speaker 1: or unconsciously, But it attracts only those thoughts which are
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Speaker 1: in harmony with its own. Like attracts like and opposite's
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Speaker 1: repel opposites in the world of thought. If you set
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Speaker 1: your mind to the keynote of courage, confidence, strength, and success,
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Speaker 1: you attract to yourself thoughts of like nature, people of
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Speaker 1: like nature, things, that fit in the mental tune. Your
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Speaker 1: prevailing thought or mood determines that which is to be
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Speaker 1: drawn towards you. Picks out your mental bedfellow. You are
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Speaker 1: today setting into motion thought currents which will in time
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Speaker 1: attract towards you thoughts, people, and conditions in harmony with
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Speaker 1: the predominant note of your thought. Your thought will mingle
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Speaker 1: with that of others of like nature and mind, and
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Speaker 1: you will be attracted toward each other, and will surely
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Speaker 1: come together with a common purpose sooner or later, unless
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Speaker 1: one or the other of you should change the current
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Speaker 1: of his thoughts. Fall in with the operations of the law,
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Speaker 1: Make it a part of yourself. Get into its currents.
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Speaker 1: Maintain your poise. Set your mind to the keynote of courage, confidence,
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Speaker 1: and success. Get in touch with all the thoughts of
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Speaker 1: that kind that are emanating every hour from hundreds of minds.
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Speaker 1: Get the best that is to be had in the
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Speaker 1: thought world. The best is there, so be satisfied with
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Speaker 1: nothing less. Get into partnership with good minds. Get into
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Speaker 1: the right vibrations. You must be tired of being tossed
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Speaker 1: about by the operations of the law. Get into harmony
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Speaker 1: with it.