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CREATIVE MIND & SUCCESS: Hidden Power of Thought, Prosperity & Personal Achievement — Ernest S. Holmes · SECRETS OF SUCCESS & WEALTH: Hidden Laws of Money, Power & Success

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  Speaker 1: Creative Mind and Success. By Ernest Holmes, 1919. A word
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  Speaker 1: from the author. This foreword is being written in 1957
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  Speaker 1: for the 19th printing of this little book. I have
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  Speaker 1: just reread it probably for the first time since it
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  Speaker 1: originally appeared in 1919. And as I read, I contemplated
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  Speaker 1: what changes might have occurred in my thinking during these
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  Speaker 1: 38 years, what revisions I might make in the manuscript
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  Speaker 1: if I were writing it today. They were few, for
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  Speaker 1: truth is ageless, timeless, changeless. We may have modified our
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  Speaker 1: technique slightly, for we certainly should make improvements in nearly
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  Speaker 1: four decades of experience with the law of mind in action.
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  Speaker 1: For example, we no longer hold thoughts. We think positive
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  Speaker 1: thoughts and then release them, charged with the spiritual energy
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  Speaker 1: of faith, into the universal mind which is common to
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  Speaker 1: all men. Neither do we use the power of will
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  Speaker 1: to set the law in motion. We use our God-given
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  Speaker 1: power of choice either to use the law constructively or destructively.
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  Speaker 1: This much I know, that if I were writing this
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  Speaker 1: book today, it would be penned with far greater conviction
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  Speaker 1: than in 1919, for during these intervening years I have
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  Speaker 1: witnessed proof in hundreds of cases that all is love,
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  Speaker 1: yet all is law, in the realm of mind. At
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  Speaker 1: that time I wrote, already thousands are using this great power,
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  Speaker 1: and thousands are eagerly watching and waiting for the new day.
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  Speaker 1: It is gratifying to note that during these thirty-eight years,
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  Speaker 1: many more thousands have learned the truth that sets men free,
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  Speaker 1: free from the man-made dogmas and superstitions that have fettered
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  Speaker 1: man's thinking down through the centuries. I am more convinced
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  Speaker 1: than ever that the science of mind, as expounded in
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  Speaker 1: our textbook under that name, based upon the teachings of
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  Speaker 1: Jesus and coordinated with the philosophy of other great thinkers
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  Speaker 1: of the ages, is destined to become the new religion
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  Speaker 1: for the new day. It is a self-evident truth that
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  Speaker 1: if man is made in the spiritual image and likeness
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  Speaker 1: of God, man's mind must be made out of God's mind,
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  Speaker 1: also that man has the same power in his individual
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  Speaker 1: life that God has in the universal. If it is
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  Speaker 1: true that, as Jesus said, it is the Father within,
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  Speaker 1: He doeth the works, then man's inner life is one
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  Speaker 1: with the Father. Since all causation is mental, it follows
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  Speaker 1: that if all things are created by the mind of
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  Speaker 1: God and man's mind is part of God's mind, man
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  Speaker 1: is able, by thinking, to set in motion a power
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  Speaker 1: that creates. Of course, man does not create that power,
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  Speaker 1: neither does he coerce it. It is his to use
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  Speaker 1: either rightly or wrongly. It is always with him. It
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  Speaker 1: never deserts him. It operates every moment of his life.
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  Speaker 1: We need, therefore, only to clear our minds of unbelief,
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  Speaker 1: and know that, it is done unto us as we believe.
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  Speaker 1: In this spirit, We can think thoughts of success and
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  Speaker 1: success will follow as surely as day follows night, for
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  Speaker 1: our thought will not return unto us void. It is
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  Speaker 1: the Father's good pleasure to give us the kingdom. We
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  Speaker 1: need only accept it. Even when we fail, we are
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  Speaker 1: proving that the law works according to our belief that
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  Speaker 1: it will not work. Of course, we do not wish
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  Speaker 1: to fail, but if our mental attitude is one of doubt,
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  Speaker 1: then the result will be the outpicturing of our negative thoughts.
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  Speaker 1: We can change the effect only by changing the cause,
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  Speaker 1: by reversing our thoughts and believing that the good we
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  Speaker 1: desire is already ours. Knowing this, we can no longer
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  Speaker 1: blame others for our trouble. We recognize that, within ourselves
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  Speaker 1: is the power to produce success or failure. Fear brings failure,
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  Speaker 1: faith brings success. It's just that simple. If you keep
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  Speaker 1: that in mind as you read the contents of this
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  Speaker 1: Tittle book, you will find it a delightful spiritual adventure.
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  Speaker 1: Ernest Holmes January, 1957 Part 1, Instruction and Inquiry into
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  Speaker 1: the Truth An inquiry into truth is an inquiry into
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  Speaker 1: the cause of things as the human race sees and
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  Speaker 1: experiences them. The starting point of our thought must always
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  Speaker 1: begin with our experiences. We all know that life is,
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  Speaker 1: else we could not even think that we are. Since
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  Speaker 1: we can think say and feel, we must be. We live,
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  Speaker 1: we are conscious of life, therefore we must be and
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  Speaker 1: life must be. If we are life and consciousness, self-knowing.
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  Speaker 1: Then it follows that we must have come from life
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  Speaker 1: and consciousness. Let us start, then, with this simple fact,
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  Speaker 1: life is and life is conscious of itself. But what
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  Speaker 1: is the nature of this life, is it physical, mental,
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  Speaker 1: material or spiritual? A little careful thinking based upon logic.
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  Speaker 1: more than any merely personal opinion, will do much in
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  Speaker 1: clearing up some of these questions that at first seem
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  Speaker 1: to stagger us with their bigness. How much of that
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  Speaker 1: which is may we call life? The answer would have
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  Speaker 1: to be. Life is all that there is, it is
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  Speaker 1: the reason for all that we see, hear, feel, all
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  Speaker 1: that we experience in any way. Now nothing from nothing
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  Speaker 1: leaves nothing, and it is impossible for something to proceed
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  Speaker 1: from nothing. Since something is, that from which it came
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  Speaker 1: must be all that is. Life, then, is all that
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  Speaker 1: there is. Everything comes from it, ourselves included. The next
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  Speaker 1: question is, how do things come from life? How do
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  Speaker 1: the things that we see come from the things that
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  Speaker 1: we do not see? The things that we see must
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  Speaker 1: be real because we see them. To say they are
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  Speaker 1: not real will never explain them nor answer any question
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  Speaker 1: about them. God's world is not a world of illusion
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  Speaker 1: but one of divine realities. The truth must not explain
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  Speaker 1: away things that we see. It must explain what they are.
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  Speaker 1: We are living and experiencing varying degrees of consciousness and conditions.
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  Speaker 1: Only when the why of this living and of our
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  Speaker 1: experiences is understood will we know the least thing about
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  Speaker 1: the truth. Jesus did not say that things are illusions.
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  Speaker 1: He said that we must not judge from the standpoint
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  Speaker 1: of the scene but must judge righteously or with right judgment,
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  Speaker 1: and he meant that we must get behind the appearance
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  Speaker 1: and find out what caused it. So let us not
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  Speaker 1: in any way fool ourselves nor allow ourselves to believe
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  Speaker 1: we have always been fooled. We are living in a
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  Speaker 1: world of realities. Whatever we have experienced is a reality
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  Speaker 1: insofar as that experience is concerned, although if we had
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  Speaker 1: had a higher understanding of life, the unpleasant experience might
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  Speaker 1: have been avoided. What life is. In the first place,
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  Speaker 1: what do we mean by life? We mean that which
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  Speaker 1: we see, feel, hear, touch or taste, and the reason
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  Speaker 1: for it. We must have come into contact with all
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  Speaker 1: we know of life. We have already found what life
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  Speaker 1: is or we could not have had any of these experiences.
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  Speaker 1: In the beginning was God, or life. Out of this
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  Speaker 1: life which is, everything which is is made. So life
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  Speaker 1: must flow through all things. There is no such thing
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  Speaker 1: as dead matter. Moreover, life is one, and it cannot
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  Speaker 1: be changed except into itself. All forms are forms of
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  Speaker 1: this unity and must come and go through some inner activity.
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  Speaker 1: This inner activity of life or nature must be some
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  Speaker 1: form of self-consciousness or self-knowing. In our human understanding we
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  Speaker 1: would call this inner knowing, or consciousness, thought. The spirit,
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  Speaker 1: or life, or God, must make things out of himself,
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  Speaker 1: through self-recognition or self-knowing or as we would call it, thinking.
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  Speaker 1: Since God is all, there is nothing to hinder Him
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  Speaker 1: from doing what He wishes, and the question, how do
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  Speaker 1: things come into being, is answered, God makes them out
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  Speaker 1: of Himself. God thinks, or knows, and that thing which
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  Speaker 1: He thinks or knows appears from Himself, and is made
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  Speaker 1: out of Himself. There is no other possible explanation for
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  Speaker 1: what we see. Unless people are willing to begin here,
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  Speaker 1: they will never understand how it is that things are
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  Speaker 1: not material but spiritual. Man's place in creation. But where
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  Speaker 1: does man come in? He is. Therefore it follows that he, too,
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  Speaker 1: is made out of God, since God, or spirit, is all.
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  Speaker 1: Being made out of God, we must partake of his nature,
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  Speaker 1: for we are made in his image. Man is a
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  Speaker 1: center of God in God. Whatever God is in the universal,
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  Speaker 1: man must be in the individual world. The difference between
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  Speaker 1: God and man is one of degree and not of quality.
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  Speaker 1: Man is not self-made, he is made out of God.
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  Speaker 1: The question might arise, why did God do this? No
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  Speaker 1: living person can answer this question. This is something that
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  Speaker 1: is known only of the Father. We might suppose that
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  Speaker 1: God made man to live with Him and to enjoy
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  Speaker 1: with Him, to be one with the Father. It is true, indeed,
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  Speaker 1: that those who have felt this most deeply have had
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  Speaker 1: a corresponding spiritual power that leads us to suppose that
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  Speaker 1: God really did make man as a companion. Man is
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  Speaker 1: the individual and God is the universal. For as the
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  Speaker 1: Father has life in Himself, so has He given to
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  Speaker 1: the Son to have life in Himself. Man's mind is
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  Speaker 1: made out of God's mind, and all that man is
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  Speaker 1: or ever will be, all that he has or ever
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  Speaker 1: will have, must partake of the divine nature. Man did
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  Speaker 1: not make it so, but it is so, and he
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  Speaker 1: must accept the fact and see what he can do
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  Speaker 1: with it. If he has the same power in his
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  Speaker 1: individual life that God has in the universal, then this
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  Speaker 1: discovery will mean freedom from all bondage when he learns
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  Speaker 1: how to use his power. As God governs his universal
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  Speaker 1: world so will man govern his individual world, always subject
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  Speaker 1: to the greater law and life. This could not be
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  Speaker 1: otherwise if we realize what follows from it. God governs
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  Speaker 1: not through physical law as result, but first by inner knowing,
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  Speaker 1: then the physical follows. In the same way, man governs
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  Speaker 1: his world by the process which we will call, for
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  Speaker 1: want of a better name, the power of his thought.
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  Speaker 1: Man's inner life is one with the Father. There can
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  Speaker 1: be no separation, for the self-evident reason that there is
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  Speaker 1: nothing to separate him from God, because there is nothing
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  Speaker 1: but life. The separation of two things implies putting a
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  Speaker 1: different element between them but as there is nothing different
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  Speaker 1: from God, the unity of God and man is firmly
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  Speaker 1: established forever. My Father and I are one, is a
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  Speaker 1: simple statement of a great soul who perceived life as
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  Speaker 1: it really is and not from the mere standpoint of
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  Speaker 1: outer conditions. Taking as the starting point that man has
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  Speaker 1: the same life as God, it follows that he uses
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  Speaker 1: the same creative process. Everything is one, comes from the
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  Speaker 1: same source and returns again to it. The things which
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  Speaker 1: are seen are not made of the things which do appear.
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  Speaker 1: What we see comes from what we do not see.
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  Speaker 1: This is the explanation of the whole visible universe, and
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  Speaker 1: is the only possible explanation. As God's thought makes worlds
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  Speaker 1: and peoples them with all living things, so does our
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  Speaker 1: thought make our world and peoples it with all the
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  Speaker 1: experiences we have had. By the activity of our thought
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  Speaker 1: things come into our life, and we are limited because
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  Speaker 1: we have not known the truth. We have thought that
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  Speaker 1: outside things controlled us, when all the time we have
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  Speaker 1: had that within which could have changed everything and given
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  Speaker 1: us freedom from bondage. The question, then, naturally arises, why
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  Speaker 1: did God create man and make him a free agent?
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  Speaker 1: If God had created us in such a way as
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  Speaker 1: to compel us to do or to be anything that
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  Speaker 1: was not of our choosing, we should not have been
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  Speaker 1: individuals at all, we should be automatons. Since we know
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  Speaker 1: that we are individuals, we know that God made us thus.
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  Speaker 1: And we are just discovering the reason why. Let any
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  Speaker 1: man wake up to this, the greatest truth in all ages,
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  Speaker 1: and he will find it will answer all questions. He
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  Speaker 1: will be satisfied that things are what they are. He
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  Speaker 1: will perceive that he may use his own God-given power
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  Speaker 1: so to work, to think and to live that he
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  Speaker 1: will in no way hinder the greater law from operating
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  Speaker 1: through him. According to the clearness of his perception and
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  Speaker 1: the greatness of his realization of this power will he
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  Speaker 1: provide within himself a starting point through which God may operate.
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  Speaker 1: There will no longer be a sense of separation, but
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  Speaker 1: in its place will come that divine assurance that he
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  Speaker 1: is one with God, and thus will he find his
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  Speaker 1: freedom from all suffering, whether it be of body, mind
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  Speaker 1: or estate. The Beginning of Understanding Man is beginning to
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  Speaker 1: realize that he has life within himself as the great
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  Speaker 1: gift of God to him. If he really has life,
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  Speaker 1: if it is the same nature as the life of God,
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  Speaker 1: if he is an individual and has the right of
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  Speaker 1: self-choice which constitutes individuality then it follows that he can
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  Speaker 1: do with his life what he wants to do, he
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  Speaker 1: can make out of himself that which he wishes. Freedom
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  Speaker 1: is his, but this freedom is within law and never
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  Speaker 1: outside it. Man must obey law. If he disobeys it,
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  Speaker 1: it has to act as law, and so acting has
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  Speaker 1: to punish him. This he cannot change but must submit to.
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  Speaker 1: Freedom comes to the individual from understanding the laws of
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  Speaker 1: his own life, and conforming to them, thereby subjecting them
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  Speaker 1: to his use, to the end of health, happiness and success.
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  Speaker 1: Law obtains throughout all nature, governing all things, both the
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  Speaker 1: seen and the unseen. Law is not physical or material
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  Speaker 1: but mental and spiritual. Law is God's method of operation.
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  Speaker 1: We should think of God as the Great Spirit whose
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  Speaker 1: sole impulse is love, freely giving of Himself to all
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  Speaker 1: who ask and refusing none. God is our Father in
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  Speaker 1: every sense of the term, watching over, caring for and
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  Speaker 1: loving all alike. While all is love, yet, in order
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  Speaker 1: that things may not be chaotic, all is governed by law.
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  Speaker 1: And as far as you and I are concerned, this
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  Speaker 1: law is always mental. Our conditions governed by our thinking.
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  Speaker 1: It is easy for the average person to see how
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  Speaker 1: it is that mind can control, and to a certain
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  Speaker 1: extent govern, the functions of the body. Some can go
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  Speaker 1: even further than this and see that the body is
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  Speaker 1: governed entirely by consciousness. This they can see without much difficulty.
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  Speaker 1: but it is not so easy for them to see
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  Speaker 1: how it is that thought governs their conditions and decides
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  Speaker 1: whether they are to be successes or failures. Here we
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  Speaker 1: will stop to ask the question. If our conditions are
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  Speaker 1: not controlled by thought, by what, then, are they controlled?
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  Speaker 1: Some will say that conditions are controlled by circumstances. But
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  Speaker 1: what are circumstances? Are they cause or are they effect?
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  Speaker 1: Of course they are always effect, everything that we see
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  Speaker 1: is an effect. An effect is something that follows a cause,
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  Speaker 1: and we are dealing with causation only, effects do not
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  Speaker 1: make themselves, but they are held in place by mind,
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  Speaker 1: or causation. If this does not answer your thought, begin
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  Speaker 1: over again and realize that behind everything that is seen
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  Speaker 1: is the silent cause. In your life you are that cause.
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  Speaker 1: There is nothing but mind, and nothing moves except as
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  Speaker 1: mind moves it. We have agreed that, while God is love,
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  Speaker 1: yet your life is governed absolutely by mind, or law.
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  Speaker 1: In our lives of conditions we are the cause, and
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  Speaker 1: nothing moves except as our mind moves it. The activity
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  Speaker 1: of our mind is thought. We are always acting because
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  Speaker 1: we are always thinking. At all times we are either
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  Speaker 1: drawing things to us or we are pushing them away
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  Speaker 1: from us. In the ordinary individual this process goes on
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  Speaker 1: without his ever knowing it consciously, but ignorance of the
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  Speaker 1: law will excuse no one from its effects. What, someone
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  Speaker 1: will say, do you think that I thought failure or
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  Speaker 1: wanted to fail? Of course not. You would be foolish
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  Speaker 1: to think that. But according to the law which we
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  Speaker 1: cannot deny, you must have thought things that would produce failure.
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  Speaker 1: Perhaps you thought that failure might come, or in some
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  Speaker 1: other way you gave it entrance to your mind. Thinking
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  Speaker 1: back over the reason for things, you will find that
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  Speaker 1: you are surrounded by a mind or law that casts
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  Speaker 1: back at the thinker, manifested, everything that he thinks. If
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  Speaker 1: this were not true, man would not be an individual.
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  Speaker 1: Individuality can mean only the ability to think what we
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  Speaker 1: want to think. If that thought is to have power
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  Speaker 1: in our lives then there has to be something that
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  Speaker 1: will manifest it. Some are limited and bound by law
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  Speaker 1: through ignorance. This law is sometimes called karma, it is
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  Speaker 1: the law that binds the ignorant and gives freedom to
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  Speaker 1: the wise. We live in mind, and it can return
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  Speaker 1: to us only what we think into it. No matter
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  Speaker 1: what we may do, law will always obtain. If we
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  Speaker 1: are thinking of ourselves as poor and needy, then mind
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  Speaker 1: has no choice but to return what we have thought
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  Speaker 1: into it. At first this may be hard to realize,
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  Speaker 1: but the truth will reveal to the seeker that law
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  Speaker 1: could act in no other way. Whatever we think is
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  Speaker 1: the pattern, and mind is the builder. Jesus, realizing this law, said,
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  Speaker 1: It is done unto you even as you have believed.
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  Speaker 1: Shall we doubt but that this great way Shower knew
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  Speaker 1: what he was talking about? Did he not say, It
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  Speaker 1: is done unto you? What a wonderful thought! It is
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  Speaker 1: done unto you. Nothing to worry about. It is done
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  Speaker 1: unto you. With a tremendous grasp of the power of
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  Speaker 1: true spiritual thought, Jesus even called forth bread from the
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  Speaker 1: ethers of life, and at no time did he ever
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  Speaker 1: fail to demonstrate that when one knows the truth he
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  Speaker 1: is freed by that knowledge. Unconscious Creation The author once
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  Speaker 1: attended a patient who was suffering from a large growth.
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  Speaker 1: She was operated on and about 50 pounds of water
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  Speaker 1: were removed. In a few days the growth had returned.
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  Speaker 1: Where did it come from? Not from eating or drinking.
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  Speaker 1: Neither did it move from one part of the body
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  Speaker 1: to another part, as that would not have increased her weight.
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  Speaker 1: It must have been created from elements which she took
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  Speaker 1: in from the air. It had to come from something
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  Speaker 1: not physically seen, something appearing from nothing that we see.
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  Speaker 1: What we call creation is the same thing, the visible
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  Speaker 1: appearing from the invisible. Was not this phenomenon a creation?
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  Speaker 1: Cases as remarkable as this are occurring every day. We
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  Speaker 1: should not deny this fact but try to explain it.
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  Speaker 1: In the case of this woman there must have been
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  Speaker 1: an activity of thought molded forth into form, else how
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  Speaker 1: could this growth have appeared? There is nothing manifest but
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  Speaker 1: that there is a cause for the manifestation. Investigation proves
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  Speaker 1: that behind every condition, whether of body or environment, there
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  Speaker 1: has been some thought, conscious or unconscious, which produced that condition.
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  Speaker 1: In the case of this woman the thought was not conscious.
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  Speaker 1: But creation is going on all the time, we should
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  Speaker 1: realize this and learn how to control it so that
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  Speaker 1: there may be created for us the things that we
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  Speaker 1: desire and not those that we do not want. Is
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  Speaker 1: it any wonder that the Bible says, With all thy
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  Speaker 1: getting get understanding? Jesus understood all this, and so it
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  Speaker 1: was no more effort for Him to do what He
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  Speaker 1: did than it is for us to breathe or to
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  Speaker 1: digest our food. He understood, that is all. Because Jesus
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  Speaker 1: did understand and did use these great laws with objective consciousness,
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  Speaker 1: people thought he must be God. And when today something
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  Speaker 1: unusual occurs, people think that a miracle has been performed.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus was not God. He was the manifestation of God,
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  Speaker 1: and so are all people. I say that ye are gods,
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  Speaker 1: and every one of you sons of the Most High.
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  Speaker 1: A thinking person will be compelled to admit, in view
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  Speaker 1: of all this, that creation is first spiritual, through mental law,
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  Speaker 1: and then physical in its manifestation. Man does not really create.
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  Speaker 1: He uses creative power that already is. Relatively speaking, he
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  Speaker 1: is the creative power in his own life. And so
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  Speaker 1: far as his thought goes, there is something that goes
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  Speaker 1: with it that has the power to bring forth into
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  Speaker 1: manifestation the thing thought of. Hitherto men have used this
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  Speaker 1: creative power in ignorance and so have brought upon themselves
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  Speaker 1: all kinds of conditions, but today hundreds of thousands are
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  Speaker 1: beginning to use these great laws of their being in
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  Speaker 1: a conscious, constructive way. Herein lies the great secret of
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  Speaker 1: the new thought movements under their various names and cults
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  Speaker 1: and orders. All are using the same law even though
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  Speaker 1: some deny to others the real revelation. We should get
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  Speaker 1: into an attitude of mind wherein we recognize the truth
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  Speaker 1: wherever we find it. The trouble with most of us
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  Speaker 1: is that unless we see sugar in a sugar bowl
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  Speaker 1: we think it must be something else, and so we
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  Speaker 1: stick to our petty prejudices instead of looking after principles.
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  Speaker 1: First Steps The first thing to realize is that since
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  Speaker 1: any thought manifests it necessarily follows that all thought does
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  Speaker 1: the same, else how should we know that the particular
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  Speaker 1: thought we were thinking would be the one that would create?
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  Speaker 1: Mind must cast back all or none. Just as the
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  Speaker 1: creative power of the soil receives all seeds put into it,
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  Speaker 1: and at once begins to work upon them, so mind
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  Speaker 1: must receive all thought and at once begin to operate
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  Speaker 1: upon it. Thus we find that all thought has some
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  Speaker 1: power in our lives and over our conditions. We are
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  Speaker 1: making our environments by the creative power of our thought.
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  Speaker 1: God has created us thus and we cannot escape it.
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  Speaker 1: By conforming our lives and thought to a greater understanding
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  Speaker 1: of law we shall be able to bring into our
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  Speaker 1: experience just what we wish. letting go of all that
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  Speaker 1: we do not want to experience and taking in the
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  Speaker 1: things we desire. Every person is surrounded by a thought atmosphere.
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  Speaker 1: This mental atmosphere is the direct result of thought which
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  Speaker 1: in its turn becomes the direct reason for the cause
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  Speaker 1: of that which comes into our lives. Through this power
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  Speaker 1: we are either attracting or repelling. Like attracts like and
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  Speaker 1: we attract to us just what we are in mind.
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  Speaker 1: It is also true that we become attracted to something
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  Speaker 1: that is greater than our previous experience by first embodying
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  Speaker 1: the atmosphere of our desire. Every business, every place, every person,
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  Speaker 1: everything has a certain mental atmosphere of its own. This
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  Speaker 1: atmosphere decides what is to be drawn to it. For instance,
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  Speaker 1: you never saw a successful man who went around with
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  Speaker 1: an atmosphere of failure. Successful people think about success. A
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  Speaker 1: successful man is filled with that subtle something which permeates
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  Speaker 1: everything that he does with an atmosphere of confidence and strength.
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  Speaker 1: In the presence of some people we feel as though
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  Speaker 1: nothing were too great to undertake, we are uplifted, we
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  Speaker 1: are inspired to do great things, to accomplish, we feel strong, steady, sure.
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  Speaker 1: What a power we feel in the presence of big souls,
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  Speaker 1: strong men, noble women. Did you ever stop to inquire
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  Speaker 1: why it is that such persons have this kind of
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  Speaker 1: an effect over you while others seem to depress, to
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  Speaker 1: drag you down, and in their presence you feel as
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  Speaker 1: though life were a load to carry? One type is positive,
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  Speaker 1: the other negative. In every physical respect they are just alike,
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  Speaker 1: but one has a mental and spiritual power which the
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  Speaker 1: other does not have, and without that power the individual
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  Speaker 1: can hope to do but little. Which of these two
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  Speaker 1: do we like the better? With which do we want
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  Speaker 1: to associate? Certainly not with the one that depresses us,
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  Speaker 1: we have enough of that already. But what about the
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  Speaker 1: man who inspires us with our own worth? Ah, he
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  Speaker 1: is the man to whom we will turn every time.
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  Speaker 1: Before ever we reach him, in our haste to be near,
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  Speaker 1: even to hear his voice, do we not feel a
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  Speaker 1: strength coming to meet us? Do you think that this
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  Speaker 1: man who has such a wonderful power of attraction will
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  Speaker 1: ever want for friends? Will he ever have to look
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  Speaker 1: up a position? Already so many positions are open to
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  Speaker 1: him that he is weighing in his mind which one
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  Speaker 1: to take. He does not have to become a success,
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  Speaker 1: he already is a success. Thoughts of failure, limitation, or
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  Speaker 1: poverty are negative and must be counted out of our
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  Speaker 1: lives for all time. Somebody will say, but what of
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  Speaker 1: the poor, what are you going to do with them,
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  Speaker 1: are they to be left without help? No, a thousand
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  Speaker 1: times no. The same power is in them that is
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  Speaker 1: in all men. They will always be poor until they
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  Speaker 1: awake and realize what life is. All the charity on
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  Speaker 1: earth has never done away with poverty, and never will,
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  Speaker 1: if it could have done so it would have done so.
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  Speaker 1: It could not, therefore it has not. It will do
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  Speaker 1: a man a thousand times more good to show him
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  Speaker 1: how to succeed than it will to tell him he
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  Speaker 1: needs charity. We need not listen to all the calamity howlers.
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  Speaker 1: Let them howl if it does them any good. God
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  Speaker 1: has given us a power and we must use it.
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  Speaker 1: We can do more toward saving the world by proving
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  Speaker 1: this law than all that charity has ever given it.
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  Speaker 1: Right here, in the manifold world today, there is more
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  Speaker 1: money and provision than the world can use. Not even
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  Speaker 1: a fraction of the wealth of the world is used.
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  Speaker 1: Inventors and discoverers are adding to this wealth every day,
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  Speaker 1: they are the real people. But in the midst of plenty,
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  Speaker 1: surrounded by all the gifts of heaven, man sits and
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  Speaker 1: begs for his daily bread. He should be taught to
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  Speaker 1: realize that he has brought these conditions upon himself that
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  Speaker 1: instead of blaming God, man, or the devil for the
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: circumstances by which he is surrounded, he should learn to
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  Speaker 1: seek the truth, to let the dead bury their dead.
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  Speaker 1: We should tell every man who will believe what his
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  Speaker 1: real nature is, show him how to overcome all limitations,
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  Speaker 1: give him courage, show him the way if he will
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  Speaker 1: not believe, if he will not walk in the way,
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  Speaker 1: it is not our fault, and having done all we can,
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  Speaker 1: we must go our way. We may sympathize with people
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  Speaker 1: but never with trouble, limitation or misery. If people still
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  Speaker 1: insist upon hugging their troubles to themselves, all the charity
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  Speaker 1: in the world will not help them. Remember that God
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  Speaker 1: is that silent power behind all things, always ready to
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: spring into expression when we have provided the proper channels,
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  Speaker 1: which are receptive and positive faith in the evidence of
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  Speaker 1: things not seen with the physical eye but eternal in
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: the heavens. All is mind, and we must provide a
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  Speaker 1: receptive avenue for it as it passes out through us
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  Speaker 1: into the outer expression of our affairs. If we allow
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  Speaker 1: the world's opinion to control our thinking, then that will
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  Speaker 1: be our demonstration. If, on the other hand, we rise
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  Speaker 1: superior to the world, we shall do a new thing.
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  Speaker 1: Remember that all people are making demonstrations, only most of
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  Speaker 1: them are making the ones they do not desire, but
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  Speaker 1: the only ones they can't make with their present powers
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  Speaker 1: of perception. How to attain strength Let us see that
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  Speaker 1: we use the right attitude of mind in all that
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  Speaker 1: we do, filling ourselves with such courage and power of
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  Speaker 1: strength that all thought of weakness flees before us. If
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  Speaker 1: any thought of weakness should come, ask this question, is
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  Speaker 1: life weak? If life is not weak and if God
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  Speaker 1: is not discouraged, then you are not, never were, and
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  Speaker 1: never will be. I should like to see the sickly,
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  Speaker 1: discouraged thought that could withstand this attitude of mind. No.
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  Speaker 1: Life is strong, and you are strong with the strength
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  Speaker 1: of the infinite, forget all else as you revel in
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: this strength. You are strong and can say I am.
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  Speaker 1: You have been laboring under an illusion, now you are disillusioned.
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  Speaker 1: Now you know, and knowing is using the law in
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: a constructive way. I and my Father are one, this
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  Speaker 1: is strength for the weak, and life for all who believe.
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  Speaker 1: We can so fill ourselves with the drawing power of
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  Speaker 1: attraction that it will become irresistible. Nothing can hinder things
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  Speaker 1: from coming to the man who knows that he is
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  Speaker 1: dealing with the same power that creates all from itself,
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  Speaker 1: moves all within itself, and yet holds all things in
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  Speaker 1: their places. I am one with the infinite mind. Let
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  Speaker 1: this ring through you many times each day until you
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  Speaker 1: rise to that height that, looking, sees. In order to
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  Speaker 1: be sure that we are creating the right kind of
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  Speaker 1: a mental atmosphere and so attracting what we want, we
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  Speaker 1: must at first watch our thinking. lest we create that
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: which we should not like to see manifest. In other words,
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: we must think only what we wish to experience. All
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: is mind, and mind casts back at the thinker that
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: only which he thinks. Nothing ever happens by chance. Law
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: governs all life, and all people come under that law.
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: But that law, so far as we are concerned, we
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  Speaker 1: ourselves set in motion, and we do this through the
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  Speaker 1: power of our thought. Each person is living in a
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  Speaker 1: world of his own making, and he should speak only
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  Speaker 1: such words and think only such thoughts as he wishes
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  Speaker 1: to see manifested in his life. We must not hear, think, speak,
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  Speaker 1: read or listen to limitation of any kind. There is
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  Speaker 1: no way under heaven whereby we can think two kinds
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  Speaker 1: of thought and get only one result, it is impossible,
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  Speaker 1: and the sooner we realize it the sooner we shall arrive.
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  Speaker 1: This does not mean that we must be afraid to
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  Speaker 1: think lest we create the wrong image, but it does
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  Speaker 1: mean that the way most people think can produce nothing
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: but failure, that is why so few succeed. The person
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  Speaker 1: who is to succeed will never let his mind dwell
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: on past mistakes. He will forgive the past in his
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: life and in the lives of other people. If he
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: makes a mistake he will at once forgive it. He
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: will know that so long as he desires any good,
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: there is nowhere in the universe anything that opposes him.
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  Speaker 1: God does not damn anyone or anything, man damns everyone
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  Speaker 1: and everything. God does not make things by comparing his
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  Speaker 1: power with some other power. God knows that when he
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  Speaker 1: speaks it is done. And if we partake of the
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  Speaker 1: divine nature we must know the same thing in our
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  Speaker 1: lives that God knows in his. I am the master
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  Speaker 1: of my fate, I am the captain of my soul.
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  Speaker 1: What we will attract. We will always attract to us,
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  Speaker 1: in our lives and conditions, according to our thought. Things
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  Speaker 1: are but outer manifestations of inner mental concepts. Thought is
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: not only power, it is also the form of all things.
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  Speaker 1: The conditions that we attract will correspond exactly to our
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: mental pictures. It is quite necessary, then, that the successful
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: businessman should keep his mind on thoughts of happiness, which
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: produce cheerfulness instead of depression. He should radiate joy, and
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: should be filled with faith, hope and expectancy. These cheerful,
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: hopeful attitudes of mind are indispensable to the one who
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: really wants to do things in life. Put every negative
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  Speaker 1: thought out of your mind once and for all. Declare
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  Speaker 1: your freedom. Know that no matter what others may say,
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: think or do, you are a success, now, and nothing
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  Speaker 1: can hinder you from accomplishing your good. All the power
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  Speaker 1: of the universe is with you. Feel it, know it,
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  Speaker 1: and then act as though it were true. This mental
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  Speaker 1: attitude alone will draw people and things to you. Begin
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: to blot out, one by one, all false beliefs, all
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  Speaker 1: idea that man is limited or poor or miserable. Use
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  Speaker 1: that wonderful power of choice that God has given to you.
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: Refuse to think of failure or to doubt your own power.
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  Speaker 1: See only what you wish to experience, and look at
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: nothing else. No matter how many times the old thought returns,
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: destroy it by knowing that it has no power over you,
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: look it squarely in the face and tell it to go,
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  Speaker 1: it does not belong to you, and you must know
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: and stick to it that you are now free. Rise
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: up in all the faith of one who knows what
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: he is dealing with, and declare that you are one
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  Speaker 1: with infinite mind. Know that you cannot get away from
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  Speaker 1: this one mind. That wherever you may go, there, right
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: beside you, waiting to be used, is all the power
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: there is in the whole universe. When you realize this
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: you will know that in union with this, the only power,
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: you are more than all else, you are more than
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: anything that can ever happen to you. More about the
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: power of attraction. Always remember that spirit makes things out
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: of itself, it manifests in the visible world by becoming
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  Speaker 1: the thing that it wills to become. In the world
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: of the individual the same process takes place. It is
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: given to man to use creative power, but with the
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: using of this power comes the necessity of using it
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: as it is made to be used. If God makes
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: things out of his thought before they come into manifestation,
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: then we must use the same method. You can attract
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  Speaker 1: only that which you first mentally become and feel yourself
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: to be in reality, without any doubting. A steady stream
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  Speaker 1: of consciousness going out into creative mind will attract a
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: steady manifestation of conditions. a fluctuating stream of consciousness will
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: attract the corresponding manifestation or condition in your life. We
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  Speaker 1: must be consistent in our attitude of mind, never wavering.
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: James says, Ask in faith, nothing doubting, for he that
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  Speaker 1: doubteth is like a surge of the sea driven by
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: the wind and tossed. For let not that man think
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  Speaker 1: that he shall receive anything of the Lord. We are
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: all immersed in an aura of our own making. This
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: aura is the direct result of all that we have
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: ever said, thought or done, it decides what is to
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: take place in our life, it attracts what is like
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: itself and repels what is unlike itself. We are drawn
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: toward those things that we mentally embody. Most of the
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: inner processes of thought have been unconscious. But when we
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: understand the law all that we have to do is
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: to embody consciously what we wish, and think of that only,
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: and then we shall be drawn silently toward it. We
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: have this law in our hands to do with as
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: we will. We can draw what we want only as
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: we let go of the old order and take up
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: the new, and this we must do to the exclusion
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  Speaker 1: of all else. This is no weak man's job but
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: an undertaking for a strong, self-reliant soul, and the end
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: is worth the effort. The person who can keep his
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: thoughts one-pointed is the one who will obtain the best results.
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: But this does not imply the necessity of strain or
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: anything of a strenuous nature, on the contrary, strain is
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: just what we must avoid. When we know that there
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: is but one power we shall not struggle, we shall know,
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: and in calmness we shall see only what we know
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: must be.the truth. This means a persistent, firm determination to
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: think what we want to think, regardless of all outer
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: evidence to the contrary. We look not to the seen
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: but to the unseen. The king of Israel understood this when,
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: looking upon the advancing host of the enemy, he said,
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: We have no might against this great company, but our
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: eyes are upon the, upon the one power. How to
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: attract friends. The man who has learned to love all people,
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: no matter who they may be, will find plenty of
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: people who will return that love to him. This is
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: not mere sentiment, and it is more than a religious
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: attitude of mind, it is a deep scientific fact, and
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: one to which we should pay attention. The reason is this,
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: as all is mind, and as we attract to us
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: what we first become, until we learn to love we
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: are not sending out love vibrations. and not until we
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: send out love vibrations can we receive love in return.
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: One of the first things to do is to learn
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: to love everybody. If you have not done this, begin
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: to do so at once. There is always more good
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: than bad in people, and seeing the good tends to
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: bring it forth. Love is the greatest healing and drawing
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: power on earth. It is the very reason for our being,
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: and that explains why it is that people should have
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: something or somebody to love. The life that has not
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: loved has not lived, it is still dead. Love is
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: the sole impulse for creation. And the man who does
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: not have it as the greatest incentive in his life
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: has never developed the real creative instinct. No one can
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: swing out into the universal without love, for the whole
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: universe is based upon it. When we find that we
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: are without friends, the thing to do is at once
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: to send our thought out to the whole world, send
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: it full of love and affection. Know that this thought
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: will meet the desires of some other person who is
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: wanting the same thing, and in some way the two
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: will be drawn together. Get over thinking that people are odd.
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: That kind of thought will only produce misunderstanding and cause
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: us to lose the friends that we now have. Think
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: of the whole world as your friend, but you must
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: also be the friend of the whole world. In this
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: way and with this simple practice you will draw to
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: you so many friends that the time will be too
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: short to enjoy them all. Refuse to see the negative
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: side of anyone. Refuse to let yourself misunderstand or be misunderstood.
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: Do not be morbid. Know that everyone wants you to
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: have the best, affirm this wherever you go and then
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: you will find things just as you wish them to be.
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: The atmosphere created by a real lover of the race
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: is so powerful that although his other shortcomings may be many,
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  Speaker 1: still the world will love him in return. To him
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  Speaker 1: who loveth much, much will be forgiven. People are dying
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  Speaker 1: for real human interest, for someone to tell them that
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  Speaker 1: they are all right. Which person do we like the better,
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  Speaker 1: the one who is always full of trouble and fault-finding,
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  Speaker 1: or the one who looks at the world as his
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  Speaker 1: friend and loves it? The question does not need to
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  Speaker 1: be asked. We know that we want the company of
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  Speaker 1: the person who loves and loving, forgets all else. The
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  Speaker 1: only reason we think other people are odd is because
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  Speaker 1: they do not happen to think as we do. We
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  Speaker 1: must get over this little, petty attitude and see things
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  Speaker 1: in the large. The person who sees what he wants
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  Speaker 1: to see, regardless of what appears, will someday experience in
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  Speaker 1: the outer what he has so faithfully seen within. From
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  Speaker 1: selfish motives alone, if from no loftier reason, we cannot
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  Speaker 1: afford to find fault or to hate or even to
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  Speaker 1: hold in mind anything against any living soul. The God
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  Speaker 1: who is love cannot hear the prayer of the man
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  Speaker 1: who is not love. Love and cooperation will yet be
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  Speaker 1: found to be the greatest business principle on earth. God
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  Speaker 1: is love. We will make our unity with all people,
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  Speaker 1: with all life. We will affirm that God in us
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  Speaker 1: is unified with God in all. This one is now
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  Speaker 1: drawing into our life all love and fellowship. I am
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  Speaker 1: one with all people, with all things, with all life.
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  Speaker 1: As I listen in the silence the voice of all
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  Speaker 1: humanity speaks to me and answers the love that I
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  Speaker 1: hold out to it. This great love that I now
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  Speaker 1: feel for the world is the love of God, and
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  Speaker 1: it is felt by all and returned from all. Nothing
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  Speaker 1: comes in between because there is nothing but love to
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  Speaker 1: come in between. I understand all people and that understanding
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  Speaker 1: is reflected back to me from all people. I help,
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  Speaker 1: therefore I am helped. I uplift, therefore I am uplifted.
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  Speaker 1: Nothing can mar this perfect picture of myself and my
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  Speaker 1: relations with the world, it is the truth, the whole truth,
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  Speaker 1: and nothing but the truth. I am now surrounded by
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  Speaker 1: all love, all friendship, all companionship, all health, all happiness,
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  Speaker 1: all success. I am one with life. I wait in
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  Speaker 1: the silence while the Great Spirit bears this message to
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  Speaker 1: the whole world. The control of thought. The man who
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  Speaker 1: can control his thought can have and do what he
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  Speaker 1: wishes to have and to do, everything is his for
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  Speaker 1: the asking. He must remember that whatever he gets is
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  Speaker 1: his to use but not his to hold. Creation is
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  Speaker 1: always flowing by and we have as much of it
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  Speaker 1: as we can take and use, more would cause stagnation.
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  Speaker 1: We are relieved of all thought of clinging to anybody
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  Speaker 1: or anything. Cannot the great principle of life create for
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  Speaker 1: us faster than we can spend or use? The universe
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  Speaker 1: is inexhaustible, it is limitless, it knows no bounds and
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  Speaker 1: has no confines. We are not depending on a reed
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  Speaker 1: shaken by the wind, but on the principle of life itself,
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  Speaker 1: for all that we want, have or ever shall have.
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  Speaker 1: It is not some power, or a great power, we
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  Speaker 1: affirm again, it is all power. All that we have
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  Speaker 1: to do is to believe this and act as though
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  Speaker 1: it were so, never wavering, not even once, no matter
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  Speaker 1: what happens. As we do this we shall find that
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  Speaker 1: things are steadily coming our way, and that they are
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  Speaker 1: coming without that awful effort that destroys the peace of
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  Speaker 1: the majority of the race. We know that there can
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  Speaker 1: be no failure in the divine mind, and this mind
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  Speaker 1: is the power on which we are depending. Now just
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  Speaker 1: because we are depending upon divine mind we must not
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  Speaker 1: think that we do not have to do our share.
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  Speaker 1: God will work through us if we will let him,
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  Speaker 1: but we must act in the outer as though we
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  Speaker 1: were sure of ourselves. Our part is to believe, and
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  Speaker 1: then to act in faith. Jesus went to the tomb
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  Speaker 1: of Lazarus believing and knowing that God was working through him.
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  Speaker 1: Often we may have to go somewhere or do something
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  Speaker 1: and we must know with deep conviction that there will
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  Speaker 1: be a power going with us that none can gainsay.
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  Speaker 1: When we feel this secure place in our thought, all
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  Speaker 1: that we will have to do is to act. There
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  Speaker 1: is no doubt but that the creative power of the
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  Speaker 1: universe will answer, it always does. And so we need
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  Speaker 1: not take the worry upon ourselves, but rather we will,
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  Speaker 1: make known our requests with thanksgiving. When Jesus said, All
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  Speaker 1: things whatsoever ye pray and ask for, believe that ye
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  Speaker 1: receive them and ye shall have them, He was uttering
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  Speaker 1: one of those many deep truths that were so clear
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  Speaker 1: to Him and that we are just beginning to see.
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  Speaker 1: He knew that everything is made out of mind and
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  Speaker 1: that without that positive acceptance on the part of the
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  Speaker 1: individual there is no mold into which mind can pour
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  Speaker 1: itself forth into form. In the mind of God there
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  Speaker 1: is the correct mold, the true knowing, but in the
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  Speaker 1: mind of man there is not always this true knowing.
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  Speaker 1: Since God can do for us only by doing through us,
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  Speaker 1: nothing can be done for us unless we are positively receptive,
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  Speaker 1: but when we realize the law and how it works,
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  Speaker 1: then we will provide that complete inner acceptance. By so
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  Speaker 1: doing we permit the Spirit to do the work, to
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  Speaker 1: make the gift. The reason we can make our requests
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  Speaker 1: known with thanksgiving is because we know from the beginning
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  Speaker 1: that we are to receive and therefore we cannot help
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  Speaker 1: being thankful. This grateful attitude to the Spirit puts us
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  Speaker 1: in very close touch with power and adds much to
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  Speaker 1: the reality of the thing that we are dealing with.
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  Speaker 1: Without it we can do but little. So let us
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  Speaker 1: cultivate all the gratitude that we can. In gratitude we
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  Speaker 1: will send our thoughts out into the world, and as
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  Speaker 1: it comes back it will come laden with the fruits
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  Speaker 1: of the Spirit. Creating Atmosphere To the student who has
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  Speaker 1: realized that all is mind and that everything is governed
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  Speaker 1: by law, there comes another thought. It is that he
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  Speaker 1: can create, or have created for him, from his own thinking.
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  Speaker 1: He can create such a strong mental atmosphere of success
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  Speaker 1: that its power of attraction will be irresistible. He can
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  Speaker 1: send his thought throughout the world and have it bring
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  Speaker 1: back to him whatever he wants. He can so fill
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  Speaker 1: his place of business with the power of success that
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  Speaker 1: it will draw from far and near. Thought will always
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  Speaker 1: bring back to us what we send out. First we
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  Speaker 1: must clear our thought of all unbelief. This book is
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  Speaker 1: written for those who believe, and to those who do
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  Speaker 1: believe it will come true in their lives. Without mental
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  Speaker 1: clearness on the part of the thinker there can be
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  Speaker 1: no real creative work done. As water will reach only
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  Speaker 1: its own level, so mind will return to us only
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  Speaker 1: what we first believe. We are always getting what we
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  Speaker 1: believe but not always what we want. Our thought has
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  Speaker 1: the power to reach, in the outer form of conditions,
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  Speaker 1: an exact correspondence to our inner convictions. By thinking, you
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  Speaker 1: set in motion a power that creates. It will be
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  Speaker 1: exactly as you think. You throw out into mind an idea,
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  Speaker 1: and mind creates it for you and sets it on
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  Speaker 1: the path of your life. Think of it, then, as
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  Speaker 1: your greatest friend. It is always with you wherever you
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  Speaker 1: may be. It never deserts you. You are never alone.
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  Speaker 1: There is no doubt, no fear, no wondering, you know.
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  Speaker 1: You are going to use the only power that there
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  Speaker 1: is in the universe. You are going to use it
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  Speaker 1: for a definite purpose. You have already fixed this purpose
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  Speaker 1: in your thought, now you are going to speak it forth.
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  Speaker 1: You are speaking it for your own good. You desire
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  Speaker 1: only the good and you know that only the good
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  Speaker 1: can come to you. You have made your unity with life,
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  Speaker 1: and now life is going to help you in your affairs.
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  Speaker 1: You are going to establish in your room such an
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  Speaker 1: atmosphere of success that it will become an irresistible power.
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  Speaker 1: It will sweep everything before it as it realizes the
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  Speaker 1: greatness and the almightiness of the One. You are so
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  Speaker 1: sure that you will not even look to see if
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  Speaker 1: it is going to happen, you know. And now your word,
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  Speaker 1: which is one with the infinite life, is to be
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  Speaker 1: spoken in calm, perfect trust. It is to be taken up,
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  Speaker 1: and at once it is to be operated on. Perfect
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  Speaker 1: is the pattern and perfect will be the result. You
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  Speaker 1: see yourself surrounded by the thing that you desire. More
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  Speaker 1: than this, you are the thing that you desire. Your
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  Speaker 1: word is now establishing it forever, see this, feel it,
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  Speaker 1: know it. You are now encompassed by perfect life, by
• 45:56
  Speaker 1: infinite activity, by all power, by all guidance. The power
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  Speaker 1: of the Spirit is drawing to you all people, it
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  Speaker 1: is supplying you with all good, it is filling you
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  Speaker 1: with all life, truth and love. Wait in perfect silence
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  Speaker 1: while that inner power takes it up. And then you
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  Speaker 1: know that it is done unto you. There goes forth
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  Speaker 1: from this word the power of the infinite. The words
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  Speaker 1: which I speak, they are spirit and they are life.
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  Speaker 1: The power of words. Man's word, spoken forth into creative mind,
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  Speaker 1: is endowed with power of expression. By our words we
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  Speaker 1: are justified and by our words we are condemned. Our
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  Speaker 1: word has the exact amount of power that we put
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  Speaker 1: into it. This does not mean power through effort or
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  Speaker 1: strain but power through absolute conviction or faith. It is
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  Speaker 1: like a little messenger who knows what he is doing
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  Speaker 1: and knows just how to do it. We speak into
• 46:53
  Speaker 1: our words the intelligence which we are. and backed by
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  Speaker 1: that greater intelligence of the universal mind our word becomes
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  Speaker 1: a law unto the thing for which it is spoken.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus understood this far better than we do. Indeed, he
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  Speaker 1: absolutely believed it, for he said, Heaven and earth shall
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  Speaker 1: pass away but my words shall not pass away till
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  Speaker 1: all be fulfilled. This makes our word inseparable from absolute
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  Speaker 1: intelligence and power. Now if any word has power it
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  Speaker 1: must follow that all words have power. Some words may
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  Speaker 1: have a greater power than others, according to our conviction,
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  Speaker 1: but all words have some power. How careful, then, we
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  Speaker 1: should be what kind of words we are speaking. All
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  Speaker 1: this goes to prove that we really are one with
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  Speaker 1: the infinite mind, and that our words have the power
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  Speaker 1: of life within them, that the word is always with
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  Speaker 1: us and never far off. The word is within our
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  Speaker 1: own mouth. Every time we speak we are using power.
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  Speaker 1: We are one in mind with the whole universe. we
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  Speaker 1: are all eternally united in this mind with real power.
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  Speaker 1: It is our own fault if we do not use
• 47:59
  Speaker 1: this truth after we see it. We should feel ourselves
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  Speaker 1: surrounded by this mind, this great pulsating life, this all-seeing
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  Speaker 1: and all-knowing reality. When we do feel this near presence,
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  Speaker 1: this great power and life, then all we have to
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  Speaker 1: do is to speak forth into it. Speak with all
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  Speaker 1: the positive conviction of the soul that has found its source,
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  Speaker 1: and above all else never fear but that it will
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  Speaker 1: be done unto us even as we have believed. What
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  Speaker 1: wonderful power, what a newness of life and of power
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  Speaker 1: of expression, is waiting for those who really believe! What
• 48:32
  Speaker 1: may the race not attain to when men wake up
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  Speaker 1: to the real facts of being? As yet the race
• 48:37
  Speaker 1: has not begun to live, but the time is drawing near.
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  Speaker 1: Already thousands are using this great power, and thousands are
• 48:45
  Speaker 1: eagerly watching and waiting for the new day. Why belief
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  Speaker 1: is necessary? Always when we pray we must believe. Our
• 48:53
  Speaker 1: idea of prayer is not so much asking God for
• 48:56
  Speaker 1: things as it is believing that we already have the
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  Speaker 1: things that we need. As we have said before, this
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  Speaker 1: already believing is necessary because all is mind. and until
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  Speaker 1: we have provided that full acceptance we have not made
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  Speaker 1: a mold into which mind could pour itself and through
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  Speaker 1: which it could manifest. This positive belief is absolutely essential
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  Speaker 1: to real creative work, and if we do not at
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  Speaker 1: present have it, then we must develop it. All is law,
• 49:21
  Speaker 1: and cause, and effect obtained through all life. Mind is cause,
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  Speaker 1: and what we term matter, or the visible, is effect.
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  Speaker 1: As water will freeze into the form that it is poured,
• 49:33
  Speaker 1: so mind will solidify only into the forms that our
• 49:36
  Speaker 1: thought takes. Thought is formed. The individual provides the form,
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  Speaker 1: he never creates or even manifests that is, of himself,
• 49:45
  Speaker 1: there is something that does all this for him. His
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  Speaker 1: sole activity is the use of this power. This power
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  Speaker 1: is always at hand ready to be spoken into and
• 49:55
  Speaker 1: at once ready to form the words into visible expression.
• 49:59
  Speaker 1: But the mold that most of us provide is a
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  Speaker 1: very poor one, and we change it so quickly that
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  Speaker 1: it is more like a motion picture than anything else.
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  Speaker 1: Already we have the power, it is the gift of
• 50:09
  Speaker 1: the Most High in its finite expression. But our ignorance
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  Speaker 1: of its use has caused us to create the wrong form,
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  Speaker 1: which in its turn has caused mind to produce the
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  Speaker 1: form which we have thought into it. From this law
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  Speaker 1: of cause and effect we may never hope to escape.
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  Speaker 1: And while we may think of it as a hard thing,
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  Speaker 1: at first, yet, when we understand, we shall see it
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  Speaker 1: as absolute justice without which there could be no real self-acting,
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  Speaker 1: individual life at all. Because of our divine individuality, even
• 50:39
  Speaker 1: God may have to wait our recognition of Him and
• 50:41
  Speaker 1: His laws. People in business will do well to remember
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  Speaker 1: this and so to form their thought that they will
• 50:47
  Speaker 1: be willing to receive what they send out. No thought
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  Speaker 1: of discouragement or disorder should ever be created, but only
• 50:54
  Speaker 1: positive assurance, strong thoughts of success, of divine activity, the
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  Speaker 1: feeling that with God all things are possible, the belief
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  Speaker 1: that we are one with that great mind. These are
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  Speaker 1: the thoughts that make for success. The realization that we
• 51:08
  Speaker 1: are dealing with one and not with two powers enables
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  Speaker 1: us to think with clearness. We are not troubled about
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  Speaker 1: competition or opposition or failure because there is nothing but life,
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  Speaker 1: and this life is continually giving to us all that
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  Speaker 1: we could ask for, wish, or think into it. We
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  Speaker 1: can now see how essential it is that thought should
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  Speaker 1: be held one-pointed, that we should think always and only
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  Speaker 1: upon what we want, never letting our mind dwell on
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  Speaker 1: anything else. In this way the spirit works through us.
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  Speaker 1: where so many fail. The ordinary individual, sitting down to
• 51:42
  Speaker 1: give a treatment to his business, unconsciously does just the
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  Speaker 1: thing that he should have avoided, and then he wonders
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  Speaker 1: why he did not get the desired results. Most people
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  Speaker 1: simply sit and wish for, or long for, something. They
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  Speaker 1: may even have a great desire or hope. They may
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  Speaker 1: even go so far as to believe that their desire
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  Speaker 1: is going to happen. All this is good as far
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  Speaker 1: as it goes, but it does not go far enough.
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  Speaker 1: what we must do is to provide that already having
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  Speaker 1: received attitude. This may seem hard at first but we
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  Speaker 1: can easily see that it is necessary, and as it
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  Speaker 1: is the only way that mind works, this is what
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  Speaker 1: we must do. Power is, and mind is, and life is,
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  Speaker 1: but they have to flow through us in order to
• 52:26
  Speaker 1: express in our lives. We are dealing with law, and
• 52:30
  Speaker 1: nature must be obeyed before it will work for us.
• 52:34
  Speaker 1: Just realize that this law is as natural a law
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  Speaker 1: as any other of God's laws, and use it with
• 52:39
  Speaker 1: the same intelligence that you would use the law of electricity,
• 52:42
  Speaker 1: then you will get the desired results. We provide the
• 52:45
  Speaker 1: thought form around which the divine energies play and to
• 52:48
  Speaker 1: which they attract the conditions necessary for the fulfillment of
• 52:51
  Speaker 1: the thought. When we give a treatment this is all
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  Speaker 1: that we have to do, but before we can do
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  Speaker 1: even this we have to clear our minds of all fear,
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  Speaker 1: of every sense of separation from the divine mind. Law is,
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  Speaker 1: but we must enforce it, or use it, in our
• 53:06
  Speaker 1: own lives. Nothing can happen to us that is not
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  Speaker 1: first an accepted belief in our own consciousness. We may
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  Speaker 1: not always be aware of what is going on within,
• 53:17
  Speaker 1: but practice will enable us to control our thought more
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  Speaker 1: and more so that we shall be able to think
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  Speaker 1: what we want to think, regardless of what may seem
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  Speaker 1: to be the case. Each person has within himself the
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  Speaker 1: capacity of knowing and making use of the law but
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  Speaker 1: it must be consciously developed. This is done by practice,
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  Speaker 1: and by willingness to learn and to utilize whatever we
• 53:36
  Speaker 1: know so far as we have gone. The individual who
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  Speaker 1: has the most power is the one who has the
• 53:42
  Speaker 1: greatest realization of the divine presence, and to whom this
• 53:45
  Speaker 1: means the most as an active principle of his life.
• 53:49
  Speaker 1: We all need more backbone and less wishbone. There is
• 53:52
  Speaker 1: something which waits only our recognition to spring into being,
• 53:56
  Speaker 1: bringing with it all the power in the universe. Using
• 53:59
  Speaker 1: the Imagination Just imagine yourself surrounded by mind, so plastic,
• 54:05
  Speaker 1: so receptive, that it receives the slightest impression of your thought.
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  Speaker 1: Whatever you think it takes up and executes for you.
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  Speaker 1: Every thought is received and acted upon. Not some but
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  Speaker 1: all thoughts. Whatever the pattern we provide, that will be
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  Speaker 1: our demonstration. If we cannot get over thinking that we
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  Speaker 1: are poor then we will still remain poor. As soon
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  Speaker 1: as we become rich in our thought then we will
• 54:30
  Speaker 1: be rich in our expression. These are not mere words,
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  Speaker 1: but the deepest truth that has ever come to the
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  Speaker 1: human race. Hundreds of thousands of the most intelligent thinkers
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  Speaker 1: and the most spiritual people of our day are proving
• 54:43
  Speaker 1: this truth. We are not dealing with illusions but with realities,
• 54:48
  Speaker 1: pay no more attention to the one who ridicules these
• 54:50
  Speaker 1: ideas than you would to the blowing of the wind.
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  Speaker 1: In the center of your own soul choose what you
• 54:55
  Speaker 1: want to become, to accomplish, keep it to yourself. Every
• 55:00
  Speaker 1: clay in the silence of absolute conviction know that it
• 55:02
  Speaker 1: is now done. It is just as much done, as
• 55:06
  Speaker 1: far as you are concerned. as it will be when
• 55:08
  Speaker 1: you experience it in the outer. Imagine yourself to be
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  Speaker 1: what you want to be. See only that which you desire,
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  Speaker 1: refuse even to think of the other. Stick to it,
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  Speaker 1: never doubt. Say many times a day, I am that thing,
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  Speaker 1: realize what this means. It means that the great universal
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  Speaker 1: power of mind is that, and it cannot fail. Man's
• 55:31
  Speaker 1: right of choice. Man is created an individual and as
• 55:35
  Speaker 1: such he has the power of choice. Many people seem
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  Speaker 1: to think that man should not choose, that since he
• 55:42
  Speaker 1: has asked the Spirit to lead him, he need no
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  Speaker 1: longer act or choose. This is taught by many teachers
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  Speaker 1: but is not consistent with our individuality. Unless we had
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  Speaker 1: this privilege, this power of choice, we would not be individuals.
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  Speaker 1: What we do need to learn is that the Spirit
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  Speaker 1: can choose through us. But when this happens it is
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  Speaker 1: an act on our part. Even though we say, I
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  Speaker 1: will not choose, we are still choosing. Because we are
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  Speaker 1: choosing not to choose. We cannot escape the fact that
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  Speaker 1: we are made in such a way that at every
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  Speaker 1: step life is a constant choice. What we do need
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  Speaker 1: to do is to select what we feel to be
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  Speaker 1: right and know that the universe will never deny us anything.
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  Speaker 1: We choose and mind creates. We should endeavor to choose
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  Speaker 1: that which will express always a greater life and we
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  Speaker 1: must remember that the spirit is always seeking to express
• 56:34
  Speaker 1: love and beauty through us. If we are attuned to these,
• 56:38
  Speaker 1: and are working in harmony with the great creative power,
• 56:41
  Speaker 1: we need have no doubt about its willingness to work
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  Speaker 1: for us. We must know exactly what it is that
• 56:47
  Speaker 1: we wish and get the perfect mental picture of it.
• 56:50
  Speaker 1: We must believe absolutely that we now have it and
• 56:52
  Speaker 1: never do or say anything that denies it. Old Age
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  Speaker 1: and Opportunity One of the besetting errors of people is
• 57:00
  Speaker 1: a belief that they are too old to do things.
• 57:03
  Speaker 1: This comes from a lack of understanding what life really is.
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  Speaker 1: Life is consciousness and not years. The man or woman
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  Speaker 1: who is 70 years old should be better able to
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  Speaker 1: demonstrate than the man who is only 20. He should
• 57:17
  Speaker 1: have evolved a higher thought, and it is thought and
• 57:19
  Speaker 1: not conditions that we are dealing with. Amelia Barr was
• 57:23
  Speaker 1: 53 before she wrote a book. After that she wrote
• 57:27
  Speaker 1: over 80, all of which had a large circulation. Mary
• 57:31
  Speaker 1: Baker Eddy was 60 before she began her work. and
• 57:34
  Speaker 1: she attended to all of her great activities until she
• 57:37
  Speaker 1: passed from this plane to a higher one. The author
• 57:40
  Speaker 1: of this book once took a man who was over 60,
• 57:43
  Speaker 1: one who thought his chance for success had gone, and
• 57:45
  Speaker 1: through teaching him these principles in a year's time made
• 57:48
  Speaker 1: him a prosperous businessman. He is now doing well and
• 57:51
  Speaker 1: was never before in his life so happy. The last
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  Speaker 1: time he was interviewed he said that business was increasing
• 57:58
  Speaker 1: every day and that he had not begun yet. Every
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  Speaker 1: day he stands in his store and claims more activity.
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  Speaker 1: He speaks the word and realizes increase all the time.
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  Speaker 1: If this were not true then life would not be
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  Speaker 1: worth the living. What is a few years in eternity?
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  Speaker 1: We must get over these false notions about age and competition.
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  Speaker 1: In the truth the word competition is never mentioned. The
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  Speaker 1: people who think about it have never known the truth.
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  Speaker 1: Life is what we make it from within and never
• 58:29
  Speaker 1: from without. We are just as old as we think
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  Speaker 1: we are, no matter what the number of years may
• 58:35
  Speaker 1: have been that we have lived on this planet. Demonstrating
• 58:38
  Speaker 1: Success in Business All demonstrations take place within ourselves. Creation
• 58:45
  Speaker 1: is eternally flowing through all things. The law is always
• 58:49
  Speaker 1: working from that inner pattern. We do not struggle with conditions,
• 58:53
  Speaker 1: we use principles which create conditions. What we can mentally
• 58:57
  Speaker 1: encompass we can accomplish, no matter how hard it may
• 59:00
  Speaker 1: seem from the outside. All external things are but the
• 59:04
  Speaker 1: outer rim of inner thought activity. You can easily prove
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  Speaker 1: this for yourself. If you are in business, say, running
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  Speaker 1: an ice cream stand or counter, and are not doing
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  Speaker 1: good business, look carefully into your own thought and see
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  Speaker 1: what you will find. You will find that it is
• 59:20
  Speaker 1: an established belief there that business is not good. You
• 59:24
  Speaker 1: are not feeling a sense of activity. You will not
• 59:27
  Speaker 1: find within your thought any feeling of success. You are
• 59:31
  Speaker 1: not expecting many customers. Now suppose someone comes along and
• 59:35
  Speaker 1: says to you, what is the matter? Why are you
• 59:39
  Speaker 1: not doing more business? This is about what the answer
• 59:43
  Speaker 1: would be, people don't seem to want what I have
• 59:45
  Speaker 1: to sell. Or perhaps something like this, I am too
• 59:49
  Speaker 1: old to compete with modern methods. Or even, well, times
• 59:53
  Speaker 1: are hard. All this is negative thought. Now this man
• 59:58
  Speaker 1: to whom you are talking does not believe a word
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  Speaker 1: you have said. He knows that causation is in mind
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 1: and not in matter, and he says, the whole thing
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 1: is in your own mind, the trouble with you is
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 1: that you don't feel that you are a success. Perhaps
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 1: you have heard something of this before, if so you
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 1: will ask him what he means, or perhaps you think
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 1: he is talking about something peculiar, but we are taking
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  Speaker 1: it for granted that you are so anxious to do
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 1: something to make your business a success that you will
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 1: be willing to try anything, so you ask him to explain.
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 1: He begins by telling you all is mind, nothing moves
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 1: but mind moves it and that you are a center
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 1: in this mind. You do not understand how this relates
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 1: in any way to your business, but he goes on
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 1: to say that your thought decides whether your business shall
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 1: be a success or a failure. Here you become indignant
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 1: and ask if he means to tell you that you
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 1: want to fail. Of course he knows you do not
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 1: and he explains that while you wish success, you are
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 1: thinking failure, fearing it, and that there is a law
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 1: that makes your thought, never asking questions but at once
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 1: sets about its fulfillment. You become interested and ask how
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 1: this can be, in return you are asked this question,
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 1: how did anything come into being? This sets you to
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 1: thinking and of course you realize that there was a
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 1: time when nothing existed but life, so whatever has come
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 1: into being must have come from that life, for what
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 1: we see must come from that which we do not see.
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 1: You have to admit that. Then what you do not
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 1: see must be the cause of everything, and you must
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 1: also admit that. and that cause works by law. This
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 1: you are compelled to admit. Then this law, being everywhere,
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 1: must be in you, this is harder for you to see,
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 1: but after much thought you begin to realize that it
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  Speaker 1: is so. Then you, without knowing where your thought processes
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 1: were leading you, have conceded that you, yourself, are the
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 1: reason for what happens in your life, be it success
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 1: or failure. God couldn't make you any other way and
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 1: at the same time make you a self-choosing individual. This
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 1: is plain. Now what are you going to do about it?
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 1: This is what you must do. For every time that
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 1: you have thought failure you are going to replace it
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 1: with strong radiant thoughts of success. You are going to
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 1: speak activity into your business. You are going daily to
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 1: see nothing but activity and to know that it is
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 1: law that you are using, universal law, and as such
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 1: your thought is as sure as the thought of God.
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 1: Daily you are going to give to the great creative
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 1: mind exactly what you want to happen. You will see
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 1: only what you desire and in the silence of your
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 1: soul you will speak and it will be done unto you.
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 1: You will come to believe that a great divine love
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 1: flows through you and your affairs. You will be grateful
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 1: for this love. It fills your life. It satisfies your soul.
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 1: You are a different man. You are so filled with
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 1: activity and courage that when you meet people they will
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 1: wonder at your energy. They will begin to wish simply
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 1: to come in contact with you. They will feel uplifted.
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 1: In the course of a few months you will be
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 1: a success. People will come to you and say, how
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 1: do you do it? The answer will be the same
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 1: that was given to you a few months ago. Let
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 1: the man who is speaking to the public do the
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 1: same thing. Let him daily see throngs of people coming
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 1: to hear him. Let him see nothing else. He will
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 1: experience what he feels and sees. Always remember this. Life
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 1: is from within outward, and never from without inward. You
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 1: are the center of power in your own life. Be
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 1: sure and not take on false suggestion. The world is
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 1: full of calamity howlers, turn from them, every one, no
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 1: matter how great you think they may be, you haven't
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 1: the time to waste over anything that is negative. You
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 1: are a success, and you are giving to the law,
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 1: every day, just what you want done. And the law
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 1: is always working for you, All fear has gone and
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 1: you know that there is but one power in all
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 1: the universe. Happy is the man who knows this, the
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 1: greatest of all truths. The whole thing resolves itself into
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 1: our mental ability to control our thought. The man who
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 1: can do this, can have what he wants, can do
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 1: what he wishes, and becomes what he wills. Life, God,
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 1: the universe, is his. Money a spiritual idea. Many people
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 1: seem to think that money must be evil, but actually
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 1: it is only an inordinate love of money that is
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 1: characterized as the root of all evil. If all is
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 1: an expression of life, then money is an expression of life,
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 1: and as such, must be good. Without a certain amount
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 1: of it in this life, we would have a hard time.
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 1: But how to get it, that is the race problem.
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 1: How shall we acquire wealth? Money didn't make itself and
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 1: not being self-creative it must be in effect. Behind it
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 1: must be the cause that projects it. That cause is
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 1: never seen, no cause is ever seen. Consciousness is cause
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 1: and people who have a money consciousness have the outward
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 1: expression of it. People who have it as a sure
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 1: reality in their mind, have it as an expression in
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 1: their pocket. People who don't have this mental likeness don't
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 1: have money in their pockets. What we need to do
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 1: is to acquire a money consciousness. This may seem very material,
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 1: but the true idea of money is not material, it
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 1: is spiritual. We need to make our unity with it.
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 1: We can never do this while we hold it away
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 1: from us by thinking that we have in it. Let
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 1: us change the method and begin to make our unity
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 1: with supply by daily declaring that all the power in
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 1: the universe is daily bringing to us all that we
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 1: can use. Feel the presence of supply. Know that it
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 1: is yours now. Make yourself feel that you now have,
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 1: and to you shall be given. Work with yourself until
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 1: there is nothing in you that doubts. Money cannot be
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 1: kept away from the man who understands that all is mine,
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 1: and that divine law governs his life. Daily give thanks
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 1: for perfect supply. Feel it to be yours, that you
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 1: have entered into the full possession of it now. Refuse
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 1: to talk poverty or limitation. Stick to it that you
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 1: are rich. Get the million-dollar consciousness. There is no other way,
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 1: and this will react into everything that you do. See
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 1: money coming to you from every source and from every direction.
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 1: Know that everything is working for your good. Realize in
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 1: your life the presence of an omnipotent power. Speak forth
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 1: into it, and feel that it responds to your approach.
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 1: Whenever you see anything or anybody whom you think has
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 1: more than you, at once affirm that you have the
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 1: same thing. This doesn't mean that you have what is his,
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 1: but that you have as much. It means that all
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 1: you need is yours. Whenever you think about anything big,
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 1: at once say, that means me. In this way you
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 1: learn to unify yourself, in the law, with large concepts,
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 1: and according to the way that law works, it will
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 1: tend to produce that thing for you. Never let yourself
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 1: doubt for even a minute. Always be positive about yourself.
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 1: Keep watch over the inner workings of your thought, and
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 1: the law will do the rest. Action. The universe is
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 1: teeming with activity. There is motion everywhere. Nothing ever stands still.
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 1: All activity comes from mind. If we want to be
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 1: in line with things we must move. This doesn't mean
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 1: that we must strain or struggle, but we must be
• 1:07:38
  Speaker 1: willing to do our part by letting the law work
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 1: through us. God can do for us only as we
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 1: will allow him to do through us. Intelligence gives us
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 1: ideas and in our turn we work on them. But
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 1: our work is no longer done in any sense of
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 1: doubt or fear, for we know that we are dealing
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 1: with something that never makes a mistake. We proceed with
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 1: a calm confidence born of the inner trust in a
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 1: power that is infinite. Behind all of our movements, then,
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 1: is a great purpose, to let the law work through us.
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 1: We must comply with the law of activity. We must
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 1: be willing to take the way of outer activity. Jesus
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 1: went to the tomb of Lazarus. We may have to
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 1: go but there will accompany us something that never fails.
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 1: This law of activity we must use in our business.
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 1: So many business places that we go in to have
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 1: such an atmosphere of inactivity, produce such a drowsy feeling,
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 1: that we at once lose all interest in what is
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 1: going on. We don't feel like buying. We leave that
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 1: place without any apparent reason and go into another. Here
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 1: we feel that all is life, all is motion, all
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 1: is activity. We feel confident that this is the place
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 1: we are looking for. We will buy here, we find
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 1: just what we want, we are satisfied with our purchase
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 1: and go away cheerful. Now to create this activity something
• 1:09:01
  Speaker 1: more than thought is essential. Not that it does not
• 1:09:04
  Speaker 1: come first, but the one who has this thought of
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 1: activity will naturally manifest it in vigorous, energetic movement which
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 1: helps to produce a spirit of activity in his business
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 1: and in everything he undertakes. Wherever you see a man
• 1:09:17
  Speaker 1: who does not move, then you will find one whose
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 1: thought is inactive, the two always go together. A man
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 1: in a store or place of business should always be
• 1:09:26
  Speaker 1: moving his goods. He should always be doing something. People
• 1:09:31
  Speaker 1: will see this and getting the thought of activity behind
• 1:09:33
  Speaker 1: it will want to trade there. We are not attracted
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 1: to a store that always has the same things on
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 1: the same shelf. The world likes action, change. Action is life.
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 1: Let a clerk in a store think activity and begin
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 1: to manifest it, even though he may not be waiting
• 1:09:51
  Speaker 1: on customers and in a short time he will be
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 1: waiting on them. Alertness is the word. Always be alert.
• 1:09:59
  Speaker 1: There must be mental alertness before there can be physical activity.
• 1:10:03
  Speaker 1: Act as though things were happening even though they may
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 1: not appear to be. Keep things moving and soon you
• 1:10:09
  Speaker 1: will have to avoid the rush. Activity is genius. Half
• 1:10:14
  Speaker 1: the stores that you go in to make you sleepy
• 1:10:16
  Speaker 1: before you get out, and you feel as though you
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 1: can't get out fast enough. The other half are alive
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 1: and those are the ones who are doing the business
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 1: of the world. The man who is active in his
• 1:10:27
  Speaker 1: thought doesn't have to sit by himself to think, he
• 1:10:30
  Speaker 1: works while he thinks and so complies with the law
• 1:10:32
  Speaker 1: which has to work through him. The thought of activity
• 1:10:36
  Speaker 1: makes him move, and the thought of confidence makes his
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 1: movements sure, and the thought of supreme guidance makes his
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 1: work intelligent. We must be careful and not get into ruts,
• 1:10:46
  Speaker 1: always be doing something new and different, and you will
• 1:10:48
  Speaker 1: find life becomes a great game in which you are
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 1: taking the leading part. Life will never become tiresome to
• 1:10:54
  Speaker 1: the active mind and body. It is so interesting that
• 1:10:58
  Speaker 1: we wonder if we will ever get enough of it.
• 1:11:01
  Speaker 1: Some people get into such lazy mental habits that a
• 1:11:04
  Speaker 1: new idea cannot find entrance. Great things are done by
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 1: people who think great thoughts and then go out into
• 1:11:10
  Speaker 1: the world to make their dreams come true. If you
• 1:11:13
  Speaker 1: can't find anything new to do, go home and change
• 1:11:16
  Speaker 1: the bed around, or the piano, put the cook stove
• 1:11:19
  Speaker 1: in the parlor and eat on the back step for
• 1:11:21
  Speaker 1: a time. It will start something moving and changing in
• 1:11:25
  Speaker 1: you that will never stop. The wide awake person can
• 1:11:29
  Speaker 1: find so many things to do that he hasn't time
• 1:11:31
  Speaker 1: even to begin in this life and he knows that
• 1:11:33
  Speaker 1: eternity is necessary to carry out the ideals that he
• 1:11:36
  Speaker 1: already has evolved. Everything comes from mind, but mind acts
• 1:11:40
  Speaker 1: on itself and we must act on ourselves and on conditions.
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 1: not as a slave but as a master. Be interested
• 1:11:47
  Speaker 1: in life, if you want life to be interested in you.
• 1:11:50
  Speaker 1: Act in life and life will act through you. So
• 1:11:54
  Speaker 1: will you also become one of the great people on earth.
• 1:11:57
  Speaker 1: Ideas of the Infinite Suppose that we wish to draw
• 1:12:01
  Speaker 1: from the universal mind some definite idea, some guidance, some information,
• 1:12:06
  Speaker 1: some leading. How are we going to do this? First
• 1:12:10
  Speaker 1: we must become convinced that we can do it. Where
• 1:12:13
  Speaker 1: do all the inventions come from? Where does Edison get
• 1:12:16
  Speaker 1: his information about electricity? Where, if not direct from the
• 1:12:21
  Speaker 1: mind of the universe? Everything that has ever come into
• 1:12:24
  Speaker 1: the race comes direct from mind. It could come from
• 1:12:27
  Speaker 1: nothing else. Every invention is but a discovery of something
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 1: that already is, although we may not have seen it.
• 1:12:35
  Speaker 1: Where does the harmony of music come from? Where could
• 1:12:39
  Speaker 1: it originate except in mind? Does not a great musician
• 1:12:42
  Speaker 1: listen and hear something that we do not hear? His
• 1:12:45
  Speaker 1: ear is attuned to harmony and he catches it straight
• 1:12:48
  Speaker 1: from life itself and interprets it to the world. We
• 1:12:51
  Speaker 1: are surrounded by the music of the spheres but few
• 1:12:54
  Speaker 1: of us ever catch the sound. We are so filled
• 1:12:58
  Speaker 1: with trouble that the divine melody is never heard. If
• 1:13:01
  Speaker 1: we could see, if we could hear, if we could understand,
• 1:13:05
  Speaker 1: if we only realized the presence of the all, what
• 1:13:07
  Speaker 1: could we not do? When a great thought springs up
• 1:13:10
  Speaker 1: in the mind of an individual, when a great poem
• 1:13:13
  Speaker 1: is written, when a great work of art is wrought
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  Speaker 1: by some receptive artist, it is simply a sign that
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  Speaker 1: the veil is thin between, he has caught a glimpse
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  Speaker 1: of reality. But for most of us inspiration is not
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  Speaker 1: to be depended on, and we must take the slower
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  Speaker 1: but nonetheless sure method of receiving straight from the infinite.
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  Speaker 1: The method is a simple one and very effective. When
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  Speaker 1: you want to know a certain thing, or how to
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  Speaker 1: begin a certain line of action, First, you must be
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  Speaker 1: quiet within yourself. You must not be confused by any
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  Speaker 1: outward appearance. Never become disturbed by effects. They didn't make
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  Speaker 1: themselves and have no intelligence to contradict you. Be quiet
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  Speaker 1: until you realize the presence of absolute intelligence all around you,
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  Speaker 1: of the mind that knows. Now get a perfect picture
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  Speaker 1: of just what you desire. You cannot get a picture
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  Speaker 1: unless you know what it is you want. Put your
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  Speaker 1: mind in touch with universal mind, saying just what you
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  Speaker 1: are waiting for. Ask for it, believe that you are
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  Speaker 1: receiving it, and wait. After a few minutes declare that
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  Speaker 1: you now know, even though you may not seem to know,
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  Speaker 1: yet in the depths of consciousness you have received the impression.
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  Speaker 1: Give thanks that you now receive. Do this every day
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  Speaker 1: until you get some direction. It is sometimes a good
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  Speaker 1: thing to do this just before going to sleep. Never,
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  Speaker 1: after you have done this, deny the knowledge that has
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  Speaker 1: been given you. The time will come when some idea
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  Speaker 1: will begin to take form. Wait for it and, when
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  Speaker 1: it does appear, act upon it with all the conviction
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  Speaker 1: of one who is perfectly sure of himself. You have
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  Speaker 1: gotten understanding straight from the source of all understanding, knowledge
• 1:14:55
  Speaker 1: from the source of knowledge. All can do this if
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  Speaker 1: they will be persistent. It is a sure direction and
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  Speaker 1: guidance and will never fail us. But we must be
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  Speaker 1: sure that we are not denying in other moments what
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  Speaker 1: we affirm in the moments of faith. In this way
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  Speaker 1: we will make fewer mistakes and in time our lives
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  Speaker 1: will be controlled by supreme wisdom and understanding. Don't be
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  Speaker 1: a leaner. Never lean on other people. You have strength
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  Speaker 1: of your own that is great enough to do all
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  Speaker 1: that is necessary. The Almighty has implanted genius within the
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  Speaker 1: soul of everyone and what we need to do is
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  Speaker 1: to unearth that inner genius and cause it to shine forth.
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  Speaker 1: We will never do this while we look to others
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  Speaker 1: for guidance. To thine own self-repair, wait thou within the
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  Speaker 1: silence dim, and thou shalt find him there. All the
• 1:15:45
  Speaker 1: power and intelligence of the universe is already within, waiting
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  Speaker 1: to be utilized. The divine spark must be fanned into
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  Speaker 1: a blaze of the living fire of your own divinity.
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  Speaker 1: Self-reliance is the word to dwell on. Listen to your
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  Speaker 1: own voice, it will speak in terms that are unmistakable.
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  Speaker 1: Trust in your own self more than in all else.
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  Speaker 1: All great men have learned to do this. Every person,
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  Speaker 1: within his own soul, is in direct communication with the
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  Speaker 1: infinite understanding. When we depend on other people we are
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  Speaker 1: simply taking their light and trying to light our path
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  Speaker 1: with it. When we depend on ourselves we are depending
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  Speaker 1: on that inner voice that is God, speaking in and
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  Speaker 1: through man. Man is the inlet and the outlet to
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  Speaker 1: all there is in God. God has made us and
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  Speaker 1: brought us up to where we recognize our own individuality,
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  Speaker 1: from now on we will have to let him express
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  Speaker 1: through us. If it were different we should not be individuals.
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  Speaker 1: Behold I stand at the door and wait. This is
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  Speaker 1: a statement of the near presence of power, but we,
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  Speaker 1: the individual, must open the door. This door is our
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  Speaker 1: thought and we are the guardian of it, and when
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  Speaker 1: we do open the door we will find that the
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  Speaker 1: divine presence is right at hand, waiting, ready and willing
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  Speaker 1: to do for us all that we can believe. We
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  Speaker 1: are strong with the strength of the infinite. We are
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  Speaker 1: not weak. We are great and not mean. We are
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  Speaker 1: one with the infinite mind. When you have a real
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  Speaker 1: thing to do, keep it to yourself. Don't talk about it.
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  Speaker 1: Just know in your own mind what it is that
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  Speaker 1: you want and keep still about it. Often when we
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  Speaker 1: think that we will do some big thing we begin
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  Speaker 1: to talk about it and the first thing we know
• 1:17:28
  Speaker 1: all the power seems to be gone. This is what happens.
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  Speaker 1: We are all sending out into mind a constant stream
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  Speaker 1: of thought, the clearer it is, the better will it manifest.
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  Speaker 1: If it becomes doubtful it will not have so clear
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  Speaker 1: a manifestation. If it is confused it will manifest only confusion.
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  Speaker 1: All this is according to the law of cause and effect,
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  Speaker 1: and we cannot change that law. Too often when we
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  Speaker 1: tell our friends what we are going to do they
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  Speaker 1: confuse our thought by laughing about it or by doubting
• 1:17:59
  Speaker 1: our capacity to do so large a thing. Of course
• 1:18:03
  Speaker 1: this would not happen if we were always positive but
• 1:18:06
  Speaker 1: when we become the least bit negative it will react
• 1:18:08
  Speaker 1: and we will lose that power of clearness which is
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  Speaker 1: absolutely necessary to good creative work. When you want to
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  Speaker 1: do a big thing get the mental pattern make it
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  Speaker 1: perfect know just what it means enlarge your thought keep
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  Speaker 1: it to yourself pass it over to the creative power
• 1:18:23
  Speaker 1: behind all things, wait and listen, and when the impression comes,
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  Speaker 1: follow it with assurance. Don't talk to anyone about it.
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  Speaker 1: Never listen to negative talk or pay any attention to
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  Speaker 1: it and you will succeed where all others fail. Causes
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  Speaker 1: and Conditions When we realize that life is not fundamentally physical,
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  Speaker 1: but mental and spiritual, it will not be hard for
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  Speaker 1: us to see that by a certain mental and spiritual
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  Speaker 1: process we can demonstrate what we want. We are not
• 1:18:52
  Speaker 1: dealing with conditions but with causes. Causes originate only from
• 1:18:57
  Speaker 1: the unseen side of life. This is not strange as
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  Speaker 1: the same might be said of electricity, or even of
• 1:19:04
  Speaker 1: life itself. We do not see life, we only see
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  Speaker 1: what it does. This we call a condition. Of itself
• 1:19:12
  Speaker 1: it is simply an effect. We are living in the
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  Speaker 1: outer world of effects and in the inner world of causes.
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  Speaker 1: These causes we set in motion by our thought, and,
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  Speaker 1: through the power inherent within the cause, expresses the thought
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  Speaker 1: as a condition. It follows that the cause must be
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  Speaker 1: equal to the effect and that the effect always evaluates
• 1:19:32
  Speaker 1: with the cause held in mind. Everything comes from one substance.
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  Speaker 1: and our thought qualifies that substance and determines what is
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  Speaker 1: to take place in our life. The whole teaching of
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  Speaker 1: the Bhagavad Gita is that there is but one and
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  Speaker 1: that it becomes to us just what we first believe
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  Speaker 1: into it. In other words we manifest the unmanifested. This
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  Speaker 1: in no way takes away from the omnipotence of God,
• 1:19:55
  Speaker 1: but adds to it, for He has created something that
• 1:19:58
  Speaker 1: is able to do this. God still rules in the universe,
• 1:20:02
  Speaker 1: but we are given the power to rule in our lives.
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  Speaker 1: We must realize, then, absolutely that we are dealing with
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  Speaker 1: a substance that we have a right to deal with,
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  Speaker 1: and by learning its laws we will be able to
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  Speaker 1: subject them to our use, just as Edison does with electricity.
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  Speaker 1: Law is but we must use it. The substance that
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  Speaker 1: we deal with, in itself, is never limited, but we
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  Speaker 1: often are, because we draw only what we believe. Because
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  Speaker 1: we are limited is no reason why the universe should
• 1:20:31
  Speaker 1: have limitation. Our limitation is only our unbelief. life can
• 1:20:36
  Speaker 1: give us a big thing or a little thing. When
• 1:20:39
  Speaker 1: it gives us a little thing, it is not limited,
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  Speaker 1: any more than life is limited when it makes a
• 1:20:43
  Speaker 1: grain of sand, because it could just as well have
• 1:20:46
  Speaker 1: made a planet. But in the great scheme of things
• 1:20:50
  Speaker 1: all kinds of forms, small and large, are necessary, which, combined,
• 1:20:55
  Speaker 1: make a complete whole. The power and substance behind everything
• 1:20:59
  Speaker 1: remain infinite. Now this life can become to us only
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  Speaker 1: through us, and that becoming is the passing of spirit
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  Speaker 1: into expression in our lives through the form of the
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  Speaker 1: thought that we give to it. In itself life is
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  Speaker 1: never limited, an ant has just as much life as
• 1:21:13
  Speaker 1: an elephant though smaller in size. The question is not
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  Speaker 1: one of size but one of consciousness. We are not
• 1:21:21
  Speaker 1: limited by actual boundaries, but by false ideas about life
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  Speaker 1: and by a failure to recognize that we are dealing
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  Speaker 1: with the infinite. Limitation is an experience of the race,
• 1:21:31
  Speaker 1: but it is not the fault of God, it is
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  Speaker 1: the fault of man's perception. And to prove that this
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  Speaker 1: is so, let any man break the bonds of this
• 1:21:39
  Speaker 1: false sense of life and he at once begins to
• 1:21:41
  Speaker 1: express less and less limitation. It is a matter of
• 1:21:45
  Speaker 1: the growth of the inner idea. People often say when
• 1:21:49
  Speaker 1: they are told this, do you think that I decided
• 1:21:51
  Speaker 1: to be poor and miserable, do you take me for
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  Speaker 1: a fool? No, you are not a fool, but it
• 1:21:57
  Speaker 1: is quite possible that you have been fooled, and most
• 1:21:59
  Speaker 1: of us have been. I know of no one who
• 1:22:02
  Speaker 1: has escaped being fooled about life, you may not have
• 1:22:05
  Speaker 1: had thoughts of poverty but at the same time you
• 1:22:07
  Speaker 1: may have had thoughts that have produced it. Just watch
• 1:22:10
  Speaker 1: the process of your thinking and see how many times
• 1:22:13
  Speaker 1: a day you think something that you would not want
• 1:22:15
  Speaker 1: to happen. This will satisfy you that you need to
• 1:22:18
  Speaker 1: be watchful, that your thought needs to be controlled. What
• 1:22:22
  Speaker 1: we need to do is to reverse the process of
• 1:22:24
  Speaker 1: our thinking and see to it that we think only positive,
• 1:22:27
  Speaker 1: constructive thoughts. A calm determination to think just what we
• 1:22:31
  Speaker 1: want to think regardless of conditions will do much to
• 1:22:34
  Speaker 1: put us on the highway to a greater realization of life.
• 1:22:38
  Speaker 1: Of course we will fall, of course the road is
• 1:22:40
  Speaker 1: not easy, but we will be growing. Daily we will
• 1:22:44
  Speaker 1: be giving to the creative mind a newer and a
• 1:22:46
  Speaker 1: greater concept to be worked out into the life around us.
• 1:22:50
  Speaker 1: Daily we will be overcoming some negative tendency. We must
• 1:22:54
  Speaker 1: stick to it until we gain the mastery of all
• 1:22:56
  Speaker 1: our thought and in that day we will rise never
• 1:22:58
  Speaker 1: to fall again. We must be good-natured with ourselves, never
• 1:23:02
  Speaker 1: becoming discouraged or giving up until we overcome. Feel that
• 1:23:07
  Speaker 1: you are always backed by an omnipotent power and a
• 1:23:09
  Speaker 1: kind father of love and the way will become easier.
• 1:23:13
  Speaker 1: Mental Equivalence One of the most necessary things to remember
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  Speaker 1: is that we cannot demonstrate life beyond our mental ability
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  Speaker 1: to embody. We give birth to an idea only from
• 1:23:24
  Speaker 1: within ourselves. What we are, we put into our thinking.
• 1:23:29
  Speaker 1: What we are not, we cannot put into it. If
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  Speaker 1: we are to draw from life what we want, we
• 1:23:35
  Speaker 1: must first think it forth into life. It always produces
• 1:23:38
  Speaker 1: what we think. In order to have success, we must
• 1:23:43
  Speaker 1: first conceive it in our own thought. This is not
• 1:23:46
  Speaker 1: because we are creators, but because the flow of life
• 1:23:49
  Speaker 1: into manifestation, through us, must take the form we give
• 1:23:52
  Speaker 1: to it, and if we want a thing we must
• 1:23:54
  Speaker 1: have within ourselves the mental equivalent before we get it.
• 1:23:58
  Speaker 1: This is what Jesus meant when he said that we
• 1:24:00
  Speaker 1: must believe when we pray. This belief is providing within
• 1:24:04
  Speaker 1: us that something which knows before it sees what it
• 1:24:06
  Speaker 1: asks for. For instance, suppose a man is praying for activity,
• 1:24:11
  Speaker 1: our idea of prayer is the accepting of a thing
• 1:24:14
  Speaker 1: before we get it. in his affairs. First, before this
• 1:24:18
  Speaker 1: activity can come, he must have it within himself, he
• 1:24:21
  Speaker 1: must come to see activity in everything, there must be
• 1:24:24
  Speaker 1: something that corresponds to the thing that he wants, he
• 1:24:27
  Speaker 1: must have a mental equivalent. We find that we attract
• 1:24:30
  Speaker 1: to ourselves as much of anything as we embody within.
• 1:24:34
  Speaker 1: As water will reach only its own level, so our
• 1:24:37
  Speaker 1: outward conditions will reproduce only our inner realizations. A man
• 1:24:42
  Speaker 1: will always draw to him just what he is. but
• 1:24:45
  Speaker 1: we can learn to provide within the image of what
• 1:24:47
  Speaker 1: we desire and so in a definite way use the
• 1:24:49
  Speaker 1: law to get just what we need. If at first
• 1:24:53
  Speaker 1: we do not have a great realization of activity we
• 1:24:55
  Speaker 1: will have to work on what we do have, and
• 1:24:58
  Speaker 1: as our outer conditions come up to meet the inner cause,
• 1:25:00
  Speaker 1: we will find that it will be much easier to
• 1:25:02
  Speaker 1: enlarge the inner receptivity for something greater and more worthwhile.
• 1:25:07
  Speaker 1: Of one thing we may be assured, we must all
• 1:25:09
  Speaker 1: start somewhere, and that somewhere is within ourselves. In this
• 1:25:13
  Speaker 1: within we must make the affirmation, and there, too, we
• 1:25:17
  Speaker 1: must do the real work of realization. At the first
• 1:25:21
  Speaker 1: the way may seem hard, for we are constantly confronted
• 1:25:24
  Speaker 1: with that which seems to be, and we are not
• 1:25:26
  Speaker 1: always sure of ourselves nor strong enough to overcome, but
• 1:25:29
  Speaker 1: we may rest content in the assurance that we are growing.
• 1:25:33
  Speaker 1: Every day we will be providing a bigger concept of life,
• 1:25:36
  Speaker 1: and with the inner growth we will have an enlarged
• 1:25:38
  Speaker 1: power to speak forth into the creative mind, with the
• 1:25:41
  Speaker 1: result that we shall get a fresh impulse and be
• 1:25:43
  Speaker 1: doing a bigger thing for ourselves. Growth and realization are
• 1:25:47
  Speaker 1: always from within and never from without. The old race
• 1:25:51
  Speaker 1: suggestion of fear and poverty and limitation must be done
• 1:25:54
  Speaker 1: away with and daily we must clear our thought from
• 1:25:56
  Speaker 1: all that limits the one from showing forth in our life.
• 1:26:00
  Speaker 1: Remember that you are dealing with one power and not
• 1:26:03
  Speaker 1: with two. This will make it easier, for you do
• 1:26:06
  Speaker 1: not have to overcome any condition. because conditions flow from
• 1:26:10
  Speaker 1: within out, and not from without in. A man going
• 1:26:13
  Speaker 1: to a new town will at once begin to attract
• 1:26:16
  Speaker 1: to him just what he brings in his thought. He
• 1:26:19
  Speaker 1: should be very careful what he thinks. He should know
• 1:26:22
  Speaker 1: just what he wants and daily give it over to
• 1:26:24
  Speaker 1: the supreme mind, knowing that it will work for him.
• 1:26:27
  Speaker 1: Old thoughts must be destroyed, and new must take their places.
• 1:26:32
  Speaker 1: Every time the old thought comes look it squarely in
• 1:26:34
  Speaker 1: the face and declare that it has no part in
• 1:26:36
  Speaker 1: your mind. It has no power over you. You state
• 1:26:41
  Speaker 1: the law and rely on it to the exclusion of
• 1:26:43
  Speaker 1: all else. Daily try to see more and to understand more,
• 1:26:48
  Speaker 1: feel every day that you are being especially looked after.
• 1:26:51
  Speaker 1: There is no special creation for any individual, but we
• 1:26:54
  Speaker 1: all specialize the law every time we think into it.
• 1:26:58
  Speaker 1: For all our thought is taken up and something is
• 1:27:00
  Speaker 1: always done with it. A good practice is to sit
• 1:27:04
  Speaker 1: and realize that you are a center of divine attraction,
• 1:27:07
  Speaker 1: that all things are coming to you, that the power
• 1:27:09
  Speaker 1: within is going out and drawing back all that you
• 1:27:11
  Speaker 1: will ever need. Don't argue about it, just do it,
• 1:27:15
  Speaker 1: and when you have finished leave it all to the law,
• 1:27:18
  Speaker 1: knowing that it will be done. Declare that all life,
• 1:27:21
  Speaker 1: all love and power are now in your life. Declare
• 1:27:25
  Speaker 1: that you are now in the midst of plenty. Stick
• 1:27:28
  Speaker 1: to it even though you may not as yet see
• 1:27:30
  Speaker 1: the result. It will work and those who believe the
• 1:27:33
  Speaker 1: most always get the most. Think of the law as
• 1:27:36
  Speaker 1: your friend, always looking out for your interest. Trust completely
• 1:27:41
  Speaker 1: in it and it will bring your good to you.
• 1:27:44
  Speaker 1: One law and many manifestations. People often ask if the
• 1:27:48
  Speaker 1: law will not bring harm as well as good. This
• 1:27:51
  Speaker 1: question would never be asked if people understood what universal
• 1:27:54
  Speaker 1: law really means. Of course it will bring us what
• 1:27:58
  Speaker 1: we think. All law will do the same thing. The
• 1:28:02
  Speaker 1: law of electricity will either light our house or burn
• 1:28:05
  Speaker 1: it down. We decide what we are to do with
• 1:28:08
  Speaker 1: the law. Law is always impersonal. There is no likelihood
• 1:28:13
  Speaker 1: of using the law for harmful purposes if we always
• 1:28:16
  Speaker 1: use it for the more complete expression of life. We
• 1:28:19
  Speaker 1: must not use it for any purpose that we would
• 1:28:21
  Speaker 1: not like to experience ourselves. This should answer all questions
• 1:28:26
  Speaker 1: of that nature. Do I really want the thing I
• 1:28:29
  Speaker 1: ask for? Am I willing to take for myself what
• 1:28:32
  Speaker 1: I ask for other people? How can we use the
• 1:28:35
  Speaker 1: law for evil if we desire only the good? We
• 1:28:38
  Speaker 1: cannot and we should not bother about it. We want
• 1:28:42
  Speaker 1: only the good for ourselves and for the whole world,
• 1:28:44
  Speaker 1: when we have started causation, at once the law will
• 1:28:47
  Speaker 1: set to work carrying out our plans. Never distrust the
• 1:28:51
  Speaker 1: law and become afraid lest you misuse it. That is
• 1:28:54
  Speaker 1: a great mistake, all law is impersonal and cares not
• 1:28:58
  Speaker 1: who uses it. It will bring to all just what
• 1:29:01
  Speaker 1: is already in their thought. No person can long use
• 1:29:04
  Speaker 1: it in a destructive way, for it will destroy himself
• 1:29:07
  Speaker 1: if he persists in doing wrong. We have no responsibility
• 1:29:11
  Speaker 1: for anyone except ourselves. Get over all idea that you
• 1:29:15
  Speaker 1: must save the world, we have all tried and have
• 1:29:18
  Speaker 1: all failed. We may, by demonstrating in our own lives,
• 1:29:22
  Speaker 1: prove that the law really exists as the great power
• 1:29:25
  Speaker 1: behind all things. This is all that we can do.
• 1:29:29
  Speaker 1: Everyone must do the same thing for himself. Let the
• 1:29:33
  Speaker 1: dead bury their dead, and see that you live. In
• 1:29:36
  Speaker 1: this you are not selfish but are simply proving that
• 1:29:39
  Speaker 1: law governs your life. All can do the same when
• 1:29:43
  Speaker 1: they come to believe, and none until they believe. Transcending
• 1:29:47
  Speaker 1: Previous Conditions What if at times we attract something that
• 1:29:51
  Speaker 1: we do not want? What about all the things that
• 1:29:54
  Speaker 1: we have already attracted into our lives? Must we still
• 1:29:57
  Speaker 1: suffer until the last farthing be paid? Are we bound
• 1:30:01
  Speaker 1: by karma? Yes, in a certain degree we are bound
• 1:30:05
  Speaker 1: by what we have done, it is impossible to set
• 1:30:07
  Speaker 1: law in motion and not have it produce. What we
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  Speaker 1: sow we must also reap, of that there is no doubt.
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  Speaker 1: But here is something to think about, the Bible also
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  Speaker 1: says that if a man repents his, sins are blotted out,
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  Speaker 1: and remembered no more forever. Here we have two statements
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  Speaker 1: which at first seem not to agree. The first says
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  Speaker 1: that we must suffer from what we have done, and
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  Speaker 1: the second that under certain conditions we will not have
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  Speaker 1: to suffer. What are those conditions? A changed attitude toward
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  Speaker 1: the law. It means that we must stop thinking and
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  Speaker 1: acting in the wrong way. When we do this we
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  Speaker 1: are taken out of the old order and established in
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  Speaker 1: the new. Someone will say, if that is true what
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  Speaker 1: about the law of cause and effect? Is that broken? No,
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  Speaker 1: it is this way. The law is not broken, it
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  Speaker 1: would still work out if we continued to use it
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  Speaker 1: in the wrong way, but when we reverse the cause,
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  Speaker 1: that is, think and act in a different way, then
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  Speaker 1: we have changed the flow of the law. It is
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  Speaker 1: still the same law but we have changed its flow,
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  Speaker 1: so that, instead of limiting us and punishing us, it
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  Speaker 1: frees and blesses. It is still the law but we
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  Speaker 1: have changed our attitude toward it. We might throw a
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  Speaker 1: ball at the window, and if nothing stopped it, it
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  Speaker 1: would break the glass. Here is law in motion. But
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  Speaker 1: if someone catches the ball before it reaches the window,
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  Speaker 1: the glass will not be broken. Neither the glass nor
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  Speaker 1: the law will be broken. The flow of law will
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  Speaker 1: be changed, that is all. So can we, no matter
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  Speaker 1: what has happened in the past, so transcend the old experience,
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  Speaker 1: that it will no longer have any effect upon us.
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  Speaker 1: So if we have attracted something that is not best
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  Speaker 1: to keep, we will remember that we do not have
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  Speaker 1: to keep it. It was the best that we knew
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  Speaker 1: at the time, and so was good as far as
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  Speaker 1: it went, but now we know more and can do better.
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  Speaker 1: As law works without variation, so does the law of
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  Speaker 1: attraction work the same way. All that we have to
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  Speaker 1: do is to drop the undesired thing from our thought,
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  Speaker 1: forgive ourselves and start anew. We must never even think
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  Speaker 1: of it again. Let go of it once and for all.
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  Speaker 1: Our various experiences will teach us more and more to
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  Speaker 1: try to mold all of our thoughts and desires, so
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  Speaker 1: that they will be in line with the fundamental purpose
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  Speaker 1: of the great mind, the expression of that which is perfect.
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  Speaker 1: To fear to make conscious use of the law would
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  Speaker 1: be to paralyze all efforts of progress. More and more
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  Speaker 1: will we come to see that a great cosmic plan
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  Speaker 1: is being worked out, and that all we have to
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  Speaker 1: do is to lend ourselves to it, in order that
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  Speaker 1: we may attain unto a real degree of life. As
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  Speaker 1: we do subject our thought to the greater purposes we
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  Speaker 1: are correspondingly blessed, because we are working more in line
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  Speaker 1: with the Father, who from the beginning knew the end.
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  Speaker 1: We should never lose sight of the fact that we
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  Speaker 1: are each given the individual right to use the law,
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  Speaker 1: and that we cannot escape from using it. Let us, then,
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  Speaker 1: go forward with the belief that a greater power is
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  Speaker 1: working through us, that all law is a law of good,
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  Speaker 1: that we have planted our seed of thought in the
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  Speaker 1: mind of the Absolute, and that we can go our
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  Speaker 1: way rejoicing in the divine privilege of working with the infinite.
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  Speaker 1: Understanding and Misunderstanding There are many persons who are constantly
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  Speaker 1: unhappy because they seem always to be misunderstood. They find
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  Speaker 1: it hard to use the law of attraction in an
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  Speaker 1: affirmative way, and they keep on drawing to themselves experiences
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  Speaker 1: which they would rather have avoided. The trouble with them
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  Speaker 1: is that there is always an undercurrent of thought which
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  Speaker 1: either neutralizes or destroys whatever helpful thoughts they have set
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  Speaker 1: in motion in their moments of greater strength. Such persons
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  Speaker 1: are usually very sensitive, and while this is a quality
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  Speaker 1: which is most creative when under control, it is most
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  Speaker 1: destructive when uncontrolled, because it is most chaotic. They should
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  Speaker 1: first come to know the law and see how it works,
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  Speaker 1: and then treat themselves to overcome all sensitiveness. They should
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  Speaker 1: realize that everyone in the world is a friend, and
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  Speaker 1: prove this by never saying anything unkind to anyone or
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  Speaker 1: about anyone. They must within themselves see all people as
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  Speaker 1: perfect beings made in the divine image, and, seeing nothing else,
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  Speaker 1: they will in time be able to say that this
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  Speaker 1: is also the way that all people see them. Holding
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  Speaker 1: this as the law of their lives they will destroy
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  Speaker 1: all negative thought. And then, with that power which is
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  Speaker 1: always in a sensitive person, but which is now under control,
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  Speaker 1: they will find that life is theirs to do with
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  Speaker 1: as they please, the only requirement being that as they
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  Speaker 1: sow so must they also reap. We all know that
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  Speaker 1: anything that is unlike good is of short duration, but
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  Speaker 1: anything that embodies the good is like God, ever present
• 1:34:49
  Speaker 1: and eternal. We free ourselves through the same law under
• 1:34:53
  Speaker 1: which we first bound ourselves. The ordinary individual unknowingly does
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  Speaker 1: something that destroys any possibility of getting good results in
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  Speaker 1: the demonstration of prosperity. He affirms his good and makes
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  Speaker 1: his unity with it, and this is right, but he
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  Speaker 1: does not stop looking at it in others, which is
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  Speaker 1: wrong and is the cause of confusion. We cannot affirm
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  Speaker 1: a principle and deny it in the same breath. We
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  Speaker 1: must become what we want and we will never be
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  Speaker 1: able to do that while we still persist in seeing
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  Speaker 1: what we do not want, no matter where we see it.
• 1:35:26
  Speaker 1: We cannot believe that something is possible for us without
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  Speaker 1: also believing the same for every individual. One of the
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  Speaker 1: ways of attainment is, of a necessity, the way of
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  Speaker 1: universal love, coming to see all as the true sons
• 1:35:38
  Speaker 1: of God, one with the infinite mind. This is no
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  Speaker 1: mere sentiment but the clear statement of a fundamental law
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  Speaker 1: and that man who does not obey it, is opposing
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  Speaker 1: the very thing that brought him into expression. It is
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  Speaker 1: true that through mental means alone he may bring to
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  Speaker 1: himself things and he may hold them as long as
• 1:35:56
  Speaker 1: the will lasts. This is the ordinary way, but we
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  Speaker 1: want more than compelling things to appear. What we want
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  Speaker 1: is that things should gravitate to us because we are
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  Speaker 1: employing the same law that God uses. When we so
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  Speaker 1: attain this attitude of mind, then that which is brought
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  Speaker 1: into manifestation will never be lost, for it will be
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  Speaker 1: as eternal as the law of God and cannot be
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  Speaker 1: destroyed forever. It is a comfort to know that we
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  Speaker 1: do not have to make things happen, but that the
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  Speaker 1: law of divine love is all that we will ever need,
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  Speaker 1: it will relieve the overworked brain and the faggied muscle
• 1:36:28
  Speaker 1: just to be still and know that we are one
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  Speaker 1: with the all in all. How can we enter in,
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  Speaker 1: if at one and the same time we are believing
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  Speaker 1: for ourselves and beholding the beam in our brother's eye?
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  Speaker 1: Does that not obstruct the view and pervert our own natures?
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  Speaker 1: We must see only the good and let nothing else
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  Speaker 1: enter into our minds. Universal love to all people and
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  Speaker 1: to all things is but returning love to the source
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  Speaker 1: of all love, to Him who creates all in love
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  Speaker 1: and holds all in divine care. The sun shines on
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  Speaker 1: all alike. Shall we separate and divide where God has
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  Speaker 1: so carefully united? We are dividing our own things when
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  Speaker 1: we do this, and sooner or later the law of
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  Speaker 1: absolute justice that weighs out to each one his just
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  Speaker 1: measure will balance the account, and then we shall be
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  Speaker 1: obliged to suffer for the mistakes we have made. God
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  Speaker 1: does not bring this agony on us but we have
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  Speaker 1: imposed it on ourselves. If from selfish motives alone, we
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  Speaker 1: must love all things and look upon all things as good,
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  Speaker 1: made from the substance of the Father. We can only
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  Speaker 1: hope to bring to ourselves that which we draw through
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  Speaker 1: the avenue of love. We must watch our thinking and
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  Speaker 1: if we have ought against any soul, get rid of
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  Speaker 1: it as soon as possible. This is the only safe
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  Speaker 1: and sure way. Did not Jesus at the supreme moment
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  Speaker 1: of sacrifice ask that the Father forgive all the wrong
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  Speaker 1: that was being cloned to Him? Shall we suppose that
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  Speaker 1: we can do it in a better way? If we
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  Speaker 1: do not at the present time love all people, then
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  Speaker 1: we must learn how to do it. and the way
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  Speaker 1: will become easier, when all condemnation is gone forever and
• 1:38:03
  Speaker 1: we behold only good. God is good and God is love,
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  Speaker 1: more than this we cannot ask nor conceive. Another thing
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  Speaker 1: that we must eliminate is talking about limitation. We must
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  Speaker 1: not even think of it or read about it, or
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  Speaker 1: have any connection with it in any of our thinking,
• 1:38:20
  Speaker 1: for we get only that which we think, no more
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  Speaker 1: and no less. This will be a hard thing to do.
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  Speaker 1: But if we remember that we are working out the
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  Speaker 1: science of being, though it may seem long and hard
• 1:38:31
  Speaker 1: at times we sooner or later do it, and once
• 1:38:34
  Speaker 1: done it is done forever. Every step in advance is
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  Speaker 1: an eternal step and will never have to be taken again.
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  Speaker 1: We are not building for a day or a year,
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  Speaker 1: but we are building for all time and for eternity.
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  Speaker 1: So we will build the more stately mansion under the
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  Speaker 1: supreme wisdom and the unfailing guidance of the Spirit, and
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  Speaker 1: we will do unto all, even as we would have
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  Speaker 1: them do unto us, there is no other way. The
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  Speaker 1: wise will listen, look and learn, then follow what they
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  Speaker 1: know to be the only way that is in line
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  Speaker 1: with the divine will and purposes. So shall all see
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  Speaker 1: that God is good and in Him is no evil.
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  Speaker 1: No Unusual Experience In demonstrating the truth of supply we
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  Speaker 1: do not have to experience any peculiar emotion or psychic experience.
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  Speaker 1: We do not have to feel any thrills or anything
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  Speaker 1: of that sort. While it is true that some of
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  Speaker 1: these things may come, yet we should remember that what
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  Speaker 1: we are doing is dealing with law, and that is
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  Speaker 1: law it will obey us, when we comply with its
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  Speaker 1: nature and contact it in the right way. What we
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  Speaker 1: are doing, is stating something into mind, and if the
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  Speaker 1: impression is clear in our own minds that it is
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  Speaker 1: and that it is done we have put all the
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  Speaker 1: activity we can put into it, until such a time
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  Speaker 1: as something happens in the external for us to work upon.
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  Speaker 1: So many people say, I do wish that I could
• 1:39:52
  Speaker 1: feel something, when I give a treatment. All this is
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  Speaker 1: a mistake and is an attempt to give a physical
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  Speaker 1: reason for life. What we do need to feel is that,
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  Speaker 1: since God is all and is good, He wants us
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  Speaker 1: to have only the good, and feeling this we should
• 1:40:06
  Speaker 1: take what is already made for us. Our attitude toward
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  Speaker 1: such a good father should constantly be one of thanksgiving.
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  Speaker 1: When we begin to prove the power of the truth
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  Speaker 1: we will always maintain this attitude. Know that you are
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  Speaker 1: dealing with a sure thing and that all you have
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  Speaker 1: to do is to know positively into it and wait
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  Speaker 1: for the results to come in the outer. Then do
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  Speaker 1: what your own good sense tells you to do, for
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  Speaker 1: this is the thought of God through you. More and
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  Speaker 1: more you will find that you are being led out
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  Speaker 1: of difficulty into that freedom which is the divine birthright
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  Speaker 1: of every living soul. Go ahead, then, looking only at
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  Speaker 1: the things desired and never at the things not wanted.
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  Speaker 1: Victory will always be on the side that the majority
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  Speaker 1: of your thoughts rest on in absolute acceptance. Visualizing Some
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  Speaker 1: people visualize everything that they think of and many think
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  Speaker 1: that it is impossible to make a demonstration unless they
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  Speaker 1: possess the power to visualize. This is not the case.
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  Speaker 1: While a certain amount of vision is necessary, on the
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  Speaker 1: other hand it must be remembered that we are dealing
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  Speaker 1: with a power that is like the soil of the ground,
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  Speaker 1: which will produce the plant when we plant seed. It
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  Speaker 1: does not matter if we have never before seen a
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  Speaker 1: plant like the one that is to be made for us.
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  Speaker 1: Our thought is the seed and mind is the soil.
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  Speaker 1: We are always planting and harvesting. All that we need
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  Speaker 1: to do is to plant only that which we want
• 1:41:29
  Speaker 1: to harvest. This is not difficult to understand. We cannot
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  Speaker 1: think poverty and at the same time demonstrate plenty. If
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  Speaker 1: a person wants to visualize let him do so, and
• 1:41:41
  Speaker 1: if he sees himself in full possession of his desire
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  Speaker 1: and knows that he is receiving, he will make his demonstration. If,
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  Speaker 1: on the other hand, he does not visualize, then let
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  Speaker 1: him simply state what he wants and absolutely believe that
• 1:41:54
  Speaker 1: he has it and the result will always be the same.
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  Speaker 1: Remember that you are always dealing with law and that
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  Speaker 1: this is the only way that anything could come into existence.
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  Speaker 1: Don't argue over it. That means that you have not
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  Speaker 1: as yet become convinced of the truth or you would
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  Speaker 1: not argue. Be convinced and rest in peace. Where demonstration
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  Speaker 1: takes place. Does demonstration take place in the patient, the practitioner,
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  Speaker 1: or in the mind of God? Let us see, we
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  Speaker 1: are in the mind of God and so it must
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  Speaker 1: take place there. But the patient is also in the
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  Speaker 1: mind of God or there would be two minds, and
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  Speaker 1: so it must take place in the mind of the patient, also.
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  Speaker 1: But that is the mind of God, so what does
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  Speaker 1: it matter where it takes place? We do not have
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  Speaker 1: to project our thought, because mind is right at hand
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  Speaker 1: and never leaves us at any time. All that we
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  Speaker 1: have to do is to know within ourselves, and, when
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  Speaker 1: we are absolutely convinced, we will have made the demonstration.
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  Speaker 1: As far as the practitioner is concerned, all that he
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  Speaker 1: has to do is to convince himself. Here his work
• 1:42:59
  Speaker 1: begins and ends. There is a power that will look
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  Speaker 1: after the rest. Is this not the supreme attitude of
• 1:43:06
  Speaker 1: faith in higher power? Of course it is, and the
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  Speaker 1: more of that faith that we have, the easier it
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  Speaker 1: will be for us and the quicker we will receive
• 1:43:14
  Speaker 1: an answer to our prayer. If you have a simple,
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  Speaker 1: childlike faith it will produce, but it should give us
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  Speaker 1: a greater faith when we know something of the way
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  Speaker 1: that the law operates. It follows, then, that we should,
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  Speaker 1: by understanding, have so great a faith that we shall
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  Speaker 1: never fail to get the affirmative answer to all of
• 1:43:33
  Speaker 1: our thoughts. Each victory will strengthen us until the time
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  Speaker 1: will come when we will no longer have to say
• 1:43:38
  Speaker 1: I hope or believe, but I know. Part 2. Treatments.
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  Speaker 1: The way to give a treatment is first of all
• 1:43:47
  Speaker 1: to absolutely believe that you can, believe that your word
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  Speaker 1: goes forth into a real creative power, which at once
• 1:43:52
  Speaker 1: takes it up, and begins to operate upon it, feel
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  Speaker 1: that to this power all things are possible. It knows
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  Speaker 1: nothing but its own power to do that which it
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  Speaker 1: wishes to do. It receives the impress of your thought
• 1:44:04
  Speaker 1: and acts upon it. It is never safe to treat
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  Speaker 1: for anything that you do not wish to happen. This
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  Speaker 1: means that what you would want for another, you must
• 1:44:13
  Speaker 1: first be willing to receive for yourself. Believe then that
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  Speaker 1: your word is to be acted upon by an almighty power,
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  Speaker 1: feel its great reality, in and through all things you
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  Speaker 1: speak into it, and declare just what you wish it
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  Speaker 1: to do for you, never doubting in your own mind
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  Speaker 1: but that it will do just as you have directed.
• 1:44:30
  Speaker 1: All that a practitioner has to do is to convince himself,
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  Speaker 1: to know, to believe, and that thing will happen to
• 1:44:36
  Speaker 1: him which he states. One of the first things, then,
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  Speaker 1: is to be definite, to have a mental likeness of
• 1:44:43
  Speaker 1: the thing that you desire, to know exactly what you want.
• 1:44:47
  Speaker 1: This mental likeness, this absolute acceptance of the fact that
• 1:44:51
  Speaker 1: it now is, must never be overlooked, without it you
• 1:44:54
  Speaker 1: will not accomplish your desired objective. We sit down of
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  Speaker 1: our own souls, at peace with the world, at peace
• 1:45:01
  Speaker 1: with ourselves, we realize that we are dealing with something
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  Speaker 1: that is a reality, something that cannot fail. We try
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  Speaker 1: to get a clear concept of the thing, we rest
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  Speaker 1: in that realization, while the universal creative power takes it
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  Speaker 1: up and acts upon it. We have stated just what
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  Speaker 1: we wanted done unto us, we have believed, we have
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  Speaker 1: believed that we have received, never again will we contradict
• 1:45:23
  Speaker 1: the fact that we have stated. The person who can
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  Speaker 1: do this is sure of getting results. Understanding and Guidance
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  Speaker 1: The inner man is always in immediate connection with the
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  Speaker 1: infinite of understanding. We are immersed in a living intelligence,
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  Speaker 1: we are surrounded by a power that knows, for, in
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  Speaker 1: him we live and move and have our being. If
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  Speaker 1: our outer thought were never confused, we should at all
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  Speaker 1: times draw from this infinite source of knowledge. we should
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  Speaker 1: be guided by it and never make mistakes, our minds
• 1:45:54
  Speaker 1: would be like the smooth surface of a lake, unruffled
• 1:45:56
  Speaker 1: by wind and storm. But with most of us this
• 1:45:59
  Speaker 1: is not the case. We become confused in the outer
• 1:46:03
  Speaker 1: so that the surface of the mind is in turmoil,
• 1:46:06
  Speaker 1: no longer clear and transparent, and we cannot get the
• 1:46:09
  Speaker 1: clear vision, the real guidance, and we get things wrong
• 1:46:12
  Speaker 1: because we do not see clearly. The development of the
• 1:46:15
  Speaker 1: understanding is learning to draw from the infinite understanding, we
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  Speaker 1: can never do this while we are confused in our thinking.
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  Speaker 1: The first thing to do when we wish a greater
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  Speaker 1: understanding is to be still and listen to the inner voice,
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  Speaker 1: to withdraw for a few moments into the silence of
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  Speaker 1: the soul taking here what we already know, and realizing
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  Speaker 1: that a greater intelligence is enlarging it. Here we indefinitely
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  Speaker 1: take the pattern of our thought, the thing that we
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  Speaker 1: are working on, and ask for, and receive, new light,
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  Speaker 1: we hold this up in divine light and try to
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  Speaker 1: believe that we are being guided. We state that supreme
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  Speaker 1: intelligence and absolute power are acting upon our thought and
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  Speaker 1: bringing it to pass, it is now guiding us and
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  Speaker 1: we shall make no mistake, we hold ourselves in the
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  Speaker 1: secret place of the Most High, and abide under the
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  Speaker 1: shadow of the Almighty. How to know just what to do?
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  Speaker 1: Often we find ourselves confronted by the problem of how
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  Speaker 1: to begin. We are not sure what we want to do,
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  Speaker 1: we see no way to begin anything, see nothing to
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  Speaker 1: begin on. When we find ourselves in this position, humanly speaking,
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  Speaker 1: not knowing where to turn, then of all times we
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  Speaker 1: must be quiet and listen, then of all times we
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  Speaker 1: must trust that the same power that started all things
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  Speaker 1: will also start us in the right road, for without
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  Speaker 1: some superior power we shall surely fail. How often do
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  Speaker 1: people in the business world find themselves in this position?
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  Speaker 1: They realize that something must be done, but what? How
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  Speaker 1: can they get the right idea? Here we must wait
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  Speaker 1: and know that the same power that first thought a
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  Speaker 1: universe into being can also think our world and work
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  Speaker 1: into being. It knows all things, it knows how to
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  Speaker 1: begin and it cannot fail, we wish in some way
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  Speaker 1: to connect with this power that will never fail us,
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  Speaker 1: so we may draw from it some idea with which
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  Speaker 1: to begin. We must realize that there is something that
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  Speaker 1: wants to respond, to make manifest and in this realization
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  Speaker 1: wait for the idea. It may not come at first,
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  Speaker 1: but we must be patient, never doubting, and waiting thus
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  Speaker 1: in faith, it will come. I once knew a businessman
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  Speaker 1: who was connected with a firm that had always been
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  Speaker 1: very successful but at that time something had occurred that
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  Speaker 1: was causing them to lose out this had gone on
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  Speaker 1: for a year and things were going from bad to
• 1:48:27
  Speaker 1: worse failure seemed inevitable he became interested in new thought
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  Speaker 1: he was told he could draw an idea from the
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  Speaker 1: infinite and work it out on the plane of the
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  Speaker 1: visible He told his partners that he wished to go
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  Speaker 1: home for a few days and that when he came
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  Speaker 1: back he would have worked out an idea which would
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  Speaker 1: put the business on a successful basis. They laughed at him,
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  Speaker 1: as people generally laugh at something they do not understand,
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  Speaker 1: but having no other plan they gave their consent. He
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  Speaker 1: went home and for three days sat in deep thought,
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  Speaker 1: claiming supreme guidance and absolute leading of the spirit. During
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  Speaker 1: this time a complete plan formulated in his mind as
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  Speaker 1: to the exact method to pursue in the business. he
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  Speaker 1: returned and told his plan to his partners. Again they laughed,
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  Speaker 1: saying it could not be done in business, could not
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  Speaker 1: be done any way, it would not work. But again
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  Speaker 1: they consented, knowing it was this or failure. He then
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  Speaker 1: went to work carrying out all the details of his thought,
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  Speaker 1: following each leading that had come to him during those
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  Speaker 1: three days, and within a year he brought the failing
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  Speaker 1: business to a standard that transcended anything they had ever
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  Speaker 1: before experienced, he proved the law and became such an expert,
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  Speaker 1: that he gave up his business and devoted his entire
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  Speaker 1: time to helping other people do the same for themselves
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  Speaker 1: as he had done. What this man did anyone can
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  Speaker 1: do if he will follow the same course and refuse
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  Speaker 1: to become discouraged. There is a power that simply awaits
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  Speaker 1: our recognition of it, to spring into our thought as
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  Speaker 1: an unfailing leading, an unerring guidance. To those who lean
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  Speaker 1: on the ever-outstretched arm of the infinite, life is big
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  Speaker 1: with limitless possibilities. We must wait and listen. then go
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  Speaker 1: about our outer business with an inner conviction that we
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  Speaker 1: are being led into a more perfect expression of life.
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  Speaker 1: All can do this. Following up a thought. When we
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  Speaker 1: feel that we do have the right leading, when that
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  Speaker 1: something inside us tells us that we are led, then,
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  Speaker 1: no matter what it appears like, we must follow it up.
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  Speaker 1: Something beyond our intelligence is doing the thing through us
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  Speaker 1: and we must do nothing to contradict it. Perhaps it
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  Speaker 1: will cause us to do something that seems to go
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  Speaker 1: contrary to the experience of the race. This makes no difference.
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  Speaker 1: All advance in invention and all advance along any line
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  Speaker 1: has always gone ahead of what the experience of the
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  Speaker 1: race thinks is possible. Great men are the ones who
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  Speaker 1: get a vision and then go to work to make
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  Speaker 1: it come true, never looking to one side but with
• 1:50:55
  Speaker 1: one-pointedness and calm determination, stick to the thing until it
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  Speaker 1: is accomplished. It may take much patience and a great
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  Speaker 1: deal of faith, but the end is as sure as
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  Speaker 1: is the reality of a supreme being itself. Never hesitate
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  Speaker 1: to trust in that inner leading, never fear but it
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  Speaker 1: will be right. We are all in the midst of
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  Speaker 1: supreme intelligence, it presses against the doors of our thought,
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  Speaker 1: waiting to be known. We must be open to it
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  Speaker 1: at all times, ready to receive direction and to be
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  Speaker 1: guided into greater truths. The single stream of thought. We
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  Speaker 1: are all in mind and what we think into it
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  Speaker 1: is taken up and done unto us. This means that
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  Speaker 1: as we think it will be done. We cannot think
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  Speaker 1: one way one day and change our thought the next
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  Speaker 1: and hope to get the desired results. We must be
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  Speaker 1: very clear in our thought sending out only such thoughts
• 1:51:46
  Speaker 1: as we wish to see manifested in our condition. Here
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  Speaker 1: is something worth remembering. Unless we are working with people
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  Speaker 1: who think as we do we had better be working alone.
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  Speaker 1: One stream of thought even though it may not be
• 1:52:00
  Speaker 1: very powerful will do more for us than many powerful
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  Speaker 1: streams that are at variance with each other. This means that,
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  Speaker 1: unless we are sure that we are working with people
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  Speaker 1: who harmonize, we would better work alone. Of course we
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  Speaker 1: cannot retire from business simply because people do not agree
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  Speaker 1: with us, but what we can do is to keep
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  Speaker 1: our thoughts to ourselves. We do not have to leave
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  Speaker 1: the world in order to control our thought, but we
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  Speaker 1: do have to learn that we can stay right in
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  Speaker 1: the world and still think just what we want to think,
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  Speaker 1: regardless of what others are thinking. One single stream of thought,
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  Speaker 1: daily sent out into creative mind, will do wonders. Within
• 1:52:37
  Speaker 1: a year the person who will practice this will have
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  Speaker 1: completely changed his conditions of life. The way to practice
• 1:52:44
  Speaker 1: this is daily to spend some time in thinking and
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  Speaker 1: in mentally seeing just what is wanted, see the thing
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  Speaker 1: just as it is wished and then affirm that this
• 1:52:51
  Speaker 1: is now done. Try to feel that what has been
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  Speaker 1: stated is the truth. Words and affirmation simply give shape
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  Speaker 1: to thought, they are not creative. Feeling is creative and
• 1:53:02
  Speaker 1: the more feeling that is put into the word the
• 1:53:04
  Speaker 1: greater power it will have over conditions. In doing this
• 1:53:08
  Speaker 1: we think of the condition only as an effect, something
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  Speaker 1: that follows what we think. It cannot help following our thought.
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  Speaker 1: This is the way that all creation comes into expression.
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  Speaker 1: It is a great help to realize mentally that at
• 1:53:22
  Speaker 1: all times a great stream of thought and power is
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  Speaker 1: operating through us, it is constantly going out into mind,
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  Speaker 1: where it is taken up and acted upon. Our business
• 1:53:31
  Speaker 1: is to keep that stream of thought just where we
• 1:53:33
  Speaker 1: want it to be, to be ready at any time
• 1:53:35
  Speaker 1: to act when the impulse comes for action. Our action
• 1:53:39
  Speaker 1: must never be negative, it must always be affirmative, for
• 1:53:42
  Speaker 1: we are dealing with something that cannot fail. We may
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  Speaker 1: fail to realize, but the power in itself is infinite
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  Speaker 1: and cannot fail. We are setting in motion in the
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  Speaker 1: absolute a stream of thought that will never cease until
• 1:53:55
  Speaker 1: it accomplishes its purpose. Try to feel this, be filled
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  Speaker 1: with a great joy as you feel that it is
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  Speaker 1: given to you to use this great and only power.
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  Speaker 1: Keep the thought clear and never worry about the way
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  Speaker 1: that things seem to be going. Let go of all
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  Speaker 1: outer conditions when working in mind, for there is where
• 1:54:13
  Speaker 1: things are made, their creation is going on, and it
• 1:54:16
  Speaker 1: is now making something for us. This must be believed
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  Speaker 1: as never believed before, it must be known as the
• 1:54:22
  Speaker 1: great reality, it must be felt as the only presence.
• 1:54:27
  Speaker 1: There is no other way to obtain. Though all the
• 1:54:30
  Speaker 1: infinite may want to give, yet we must take, and,
• 1:54:33
  Speaker 1: as far as we are concerned, that taking is mental.
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  Speaker 1: Though people may laugh at this, even that does not matter,
• 1:54:40
  Speaker 1: he laughs best who laughs last. We know in what
• 1:54:44
  Speaker 1: we believe, and that will be sufficient. Enlarging our thought.
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  Speaker 1: We can never stand still in our thought. Either we
• 1:54:52
  Speaker 1: will be growing or else we will be going back.
• 1:54:56
  Speaker 1: As we can attract to ourselves only what we first
• 1:54:58
  Speaker 1: have a mental likeness of, it follows that if we
• 1:55:01
  Speaker 1: wish to attract larger things we must provide larger thoughts.
• 1:55:05
  Speaker 1: This enlarging of consciousness is so necessary that too much
• 1:55:08
  Speaker 1: cannot be said about it. Most people get only a
• 1:55:11
  Speaker 1: short way and then stop, they cannot seem to get
• 1:55:14
  Speaker 1: beyond a certain point, they can do so much and
• 1:55:17
  Speaker 1: no more. Why is it that a person in business
• 1:55:20
  Speaker 1: does just about so much each year? We see people
• 1:55:24
  Speaker 1: in all walks of life, getting so far, never going
• 1:55:27
  Speaker 1: beyond a certain point. There must be a reason for everything,
• 1:55:31
  Speaker 1: nothing happens, if all is governed by law, and we
• 1:55:34
  Speaker 1: can come to no other conclusion. When we look into
• 1:55:37
  Speaker 1: the mental reason for things we find out why things happen.
• 1:55:41
  Speaker 1: The man who gets so far and never seems to
• 1:55:44
  Speaker 1: go beyond that point is still governed by law, when
• 1:55:46
  Speaker 1: he allows his thoughts to take him out into larger
• 1:55:49
  Speaker 1: fields of action, his conditions come up to his thought.
• 1:55:53
  Speaker 1: When he stops enlarging his thought he stops growing. If
• 1:55:56
  Speaker 1: he would still keep on in thought, realizing more and
• 1:55:59
  Speaker 1: still more, he would find that in the outer form
• 1:56:02
  Speaker 1: of things he would be doing greater things. There are
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  Speaker 1: many reasons why a man stops thinking larger things. One
• 1:56:09
  Speaker 1: of them is a lack of imagination. He cannot conceive
• 1:56:13
  Speaker 1: of anything more to follow than that which has already happened.
• 1:56:17
  Speaker 1: Another thought works like this, this is as far as
• 1:56:19
  Speaker 1: anyone can go in my business. Right here he signs
• 1:56:23
  Speaker 1: his own death warrant. Often a person will say, I
• 1:56:27
  Speaker 1: am too old to do bigger things. There he stops.
• 1:56:32
  Speaker 1: Someone else will say, competition is too great and here
• 1:56:35
  Speaker 1: is where this man stops, he can go no further
• 1:56:38
  Speaker 1: than his thought will carry him. All this is unnecessary
• 1:56:42
  Speaker 1: when we realize that life is first of all consciousness
• 1:56:45
  Speaker 1: and then conditions follow. We see no reason why a
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  Speaker 1: man should not go on and on and never stop growing.
• 1:56:53
  Speaker 1: No matter what age or what circumstance, if life is thought,
• 1:56:57
  Speaker 1: we can keep on thinking bigger things. There is no
• 1:57:00
  Speaker 1: reason why a man who is already doing well should
• 1:57:02
  Speaker 1: not be able mentally to conceive of a still better condition.
• 1:57:06
  Speaker 1: What if we are active? There is always a greater
• 1:57:10
  Speaker 1: activity possible. We can still see a little beyond what
• 1:57:13
  Speaker 1: has come before. This is just what we should do, see,
• 1:57:17
  Speaker 1: even though it be but a little beyond our former thought.
• 1:57:21
  Speaker 1: If we always practice this, we will find that every
• 1:57:24
  Speaker 1: year we shall be growing, every month we shall be advancing,
• 1:57:27
  Speaker 1: and as time goes on we shall become really great.
• 1:57:31
  Speaker 1: As there is no stopping in that power which is infinite,
• 1:57:34
  Speaker 1: as the limitless is without bounds, so should we keep
• 1:57:36
  Speaker 1: on trying to see more and greater possibilities in life.
• 1:57:40
  Speaker 1: We should definitely work every day for the expansion of thought.
• 1:57:44
  Speaker 1: If we have 50 customers a day we should endeavor
• 1:57:46
  Speaker 1: to believe that we have 60. When we have 60
• 1:57:50
  Speaker 1: we should mentally see 70. This should never stop, there
• 1:57:54
  Speaker 1: is no stopping place in mind. Let go of everything else,
• 1:57:58
  Speaker 1: drop everything else from your thought, and mentally see more
• 1:58:01
  Speaker 1: coming to you than has ever come before, believe that
• 1:58:04
  Speaker 1: mind is establishing this unto you, and then go about
• 1:58:07
  Speaker 1: your business in the regular way. Never see the limitation,
• 1:58:11
  Speaker 1: never dwell upon it, and above all things else never
• 1:58:14
  Speaker 1: talk limitation to anyone. This is the only way, and
• 1:58:18
  Speaker 1: there is no other way to grow a larger thought.
• 1:58:22
  Speaker 1: The man with the big thought is always the man
• 1:58:24
  Speaker 1: who does big things in life. Get hold of the
• 1:58:27
  Speaker 1: biggest thing that you can think of and claim it
• 1:58:29
  Speaker 1: for your own, mentally see it and hold it as
• 1:58:31
  Speaker 1: a thing already done, and you will prove to yourself
• 1:58:34
  Speaker 1: that life is without bounds. Always be gathering. There is
• 1:58:38
  Speaker 1: no reason why a person should ever stop. This does
• 1:58:42
  Speaker 1: not mean that we should be miserly, trying to accumulate
• 1:58:45
  Speaker 1: more and more to hold, but that our thought should
• 1:58:48
  Speaker 1: so enlarge that it cannot help gathering more and more,
• 1:58:51
  Speaker 1: even though, on the other hand, or with the other hand,
• 1:58:54
  Speaker 1: we are ever distributing that which we gather. Indeed, the
• 1:58:58
  Speaker 1: only reason for having is that we may give out
• 1:59:00
  Speaker 1: of that which we have. No matter what big thing
• 1:59:03
  Speaker 1: happens to us we should still be expecting more and more.
• 1:59:07
  Speaker 1: Even when we think that we have at last arrived.
• 1:59:10
  Speaker 1: Right at the moment when it seems as though life
• 1:59:13
  Speaker 1: had given us all that we could stand, right here
• 1:59:15
  Speaker 1: let it be but a beginning for still greater things.
• 1:59:18
  Speaker 1: No matter how large the picture that you hold in mind,
• 1:59:21
  Speaker 1: make it larger. The reason why so many people come
• 1:59:25
  Speaker 1: to the point where they stop is that they come
• 1:59:27
  Speaker 1: to a point where they stop growing in their own minds.
• 1:59:30
  Speaker 1: They come to a point where they can see no more,
• 1:59:32
  Speaker 1: thinking that because they have really done a big thing
• 1:59:35
  Speaker 1: they should stop there. We must watch our thought for
• 1:59:39
  Speaker 1: signs of inactivity. Nothing in the universe ever stops. Everything
• 1:59:44
  Speaker 1: is built on a boundless basis, drawn from a limitless source,
• 1:59:48
  Speaker 1: come forth from an infinite sea of unmanifest life. We
• 1:59:52
  Speaker 1: speak forth into this life and draw back from it
• 1:59:54
  Speaker 1: all that we first think into it. Life is always limitless,
• 1:59:58
  Speaker 1: and the only thing that limits us is our inability
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  Speaker 1: to conceive mentally, and we should draw more and more
• 2:00:03
  Speaker 1: from that limitless source. Mental Likeness We can draw from
• 2:00:08
  Speaker 1: the infinite only as much as we first think into it.
• 2:00:12
  Speaker 1: It is at this point that so many fail, thinking
• 2:00:14
  Speaker 1: that all they need to do is to affirm what
• 2:00:16
  Speaker 1: they want and it will follow. While it is true
• 2:00:19
  Speaker 1: that affirmations have real power, it is also true that
• 2:00:22
  Speaker 1: they have only that which we speak into them. As
• 2:00:25
  Speaker 1: we cannot speak a word that we do not know,
• 2:00:28
  Speaker 1: so we cannot make an affirmation that we do not understand.
• 2:00:32
  Speaker 1: We really affirm only that which we know to be true.
• 2:00:36
  Speaker 1: We know that to be true which we have experienced
• 2:00:38
  Speaker 1: within ourselves. Although we may have heard or read that
• 2:00:41
  Speaker 1: this or that thing is true, it is only when
• 2:00:44
  Speaker 1: there is something within our own souls that corresponds or
• 2:00:47
  Speaker 1: recognizes its truth that it is true to us. This
• 2:00:50
  Speaker 1: ought never to be lost sight of, we can effectively
• 2:00:53
  Speaker 1: affirm only that which we know, and we know only
• 2:00:56
  Speaker 1: that which we are. It is herein that we see
• 2:00:59
  Speaker 1: the necessity of providing within a greater concept of life.
• 2:01:03
  Speaker 1: A bigger idea of ourselves and a more expanded concept
• 2:01:06
  Speaker 1: of the universe in which we live, move and have
• 2:01:09
  Speaker 1: our being. This is a matter of inner growth together
• 2:01:12
  Speaker 1: with the enlarging of all lines of thought and activity.
• 2:01:16
  Speaker 1: If we want to do a thing that is really
• 2:01:17
  Speaker 1: worth doing, we must mentally grow until we are that thing,
• 2:01:21
  Speaker 1: which we want to see made flesh. This may take time,
• 2:01:25
  Speaker 1: but we should be glad to use all the time
• 2:01:27
  Speaker 1: necessary to our own development. But few people in limitation
• 2:01:31
  Speaker 1: have a mental likeness of plenty. This likeness must be provided.
• 2:01:37
  Speaker 1: The thought must be large enough to cover the whole
• 2:01:39
  Speaker 1: of the thing desired, a small thought will produce only
• 2:01:42
  Speaker 1: a small thing. The very fact that all is mine
• 2:01:45
  Speaker 1: proves this to be true. All is mind and, because
• 2:01:49
  Speaker 1: it is, we can draw from that mind only that
• 2:01:52
  Speaker 1: which we first think into it as a reality. We
• 2:01:55
  Speaker 1: must become the thing we want. We must see it,
• 2:01:59
  Speaker 1: think it, realize it, before the creative power of mind
• 2:02:02
  Speaker 1: can work it out for us. This is an inner
• 2:02:05
  Speaker 1: process of the expansion of consciousness. It is a thought,
• 2:02:09
  Speaker 1: growing and realizing within. All can do this who wish
• 2:02:13
  Speaker 1: and who will take the time and trouble, but it
• 2:02:15
  Speaker 1: will mean work. The majority of people are too lazy
• 2:02:19
  Speaker 1: to make the effort. Daily we must train our thought
• 2:02:23
  Speaker 1: to see that only which we wish to experience, and
• 2:02:25
  Speaker 1: since we are growing into what we are mentally dwelling upon,
• 2:02:28
  Speaker 1: we should put all small and insignificant thoughts and ideals
• 2:02:31
  Speaker 1: out of our thinking and see things in a larger way.
• 2:02:35
  Speaker 1: We must cultivate the habit of an enlarged mental horizon,
• 2:02:38
  Speaker 1: daily seeing farther and farther ahead, and so experiencing larger
• 2:02:42
  Speaker 1: and greater things in our daily life. A good practice
• 2:02:46
  Speaker 1: for the enlargement of thought is daily to see ourselves
• 2:02:48
  Speaker 1: in a little bigger place, filled with more of activity,
• 2:02:51
  Speaker 1: surrounded with increased influence and power, feel more and more
• 2:02:55
  Speaker 1: that things are coming to us, see that much more
• 2:02:57
  Speaker 1: is just ahead, and so far as possible, know that
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  Speaker 1: we now have all that we see and all that
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  Speaker 1: we feel. Affirm that you are that larger thing, that
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  Speaker 1: you are now entered into that larger life, feel that
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  Speaker 1: something within is drawing more to you. Live with the
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  Speaker 1: idea and let the concept grow. expecting only the biggest
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  Speaker 1: and the best to happen. Never let small thoughts come
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  Speaker 1: into your mind, and you will soon find that a
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  Speaker 1: larger and greater experience has come into your life. Keeping
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  Speaker 1: the thing in mind. Never let go of the mental
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  Speaker 1: image until it becomes manifested. Daily bring up the clear
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  Speaker 1: picture of what is wanted and impress it on the
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  Speaker 1: mind as an accomplished fact. This impressing on our own
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  Speaker 1: minds the thought of what we wish to realize will
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  Speaker 1: cause our own minds to impress the same thought on
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  Speaker 1: universal mind. In this way we shall be praying without ceasing.
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  Speaker 1: We do not have to hold continually the thought of
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  Speaker 1: something we want in order to get it, but the
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  Speaker 1: thought that we may inwardly become the thing we want.
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  Speaker 1: Fifteen minutes, twice each day, is time enough to spend
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  Speaker 1: in order to demonstrate anything, but the rest of the
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  Speaker 1: time ought also to be spent constructively. That is, We
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  Speaker 1: must stop all negative thinking and give over all wrong thought,
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  Speaker 1: holding fast to the realization that it is now done
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  Speaker 1: unto us. We must know that we are dealing with
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  Speaker 1: the only power there is in the universe, that there
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  Speaker 1: is none other beside it, and that we are in
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  Speaker 1: it partaking of its nature and its laws. Always, behind
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  Speaker 1: the word that we send forth, must be the calm
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  Speaker 1: confidence in our ability to speak into the power and
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  Speaker 1: the willingness of mind to execute for us. We must
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  Speaker 1: gradually grow in confidence and in trust in the unseen
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  Speaker 1: world of spiritual activity. This is not hard, if we
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  Speaker 1: but remember that the Spirit makes things out of itself
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  Speaker 1: by simply becoming the thing that it makes, and since
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  Speaker 1: there is no other power to oppose it, it will
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  Speaker 1: always work. The Spirit will never fail us if we
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  Speaker 1: never fail to believe in its goodness and its responsiveness.
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  Speaker 1: Life will become one grand song, when we realize that
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  Speaker 1: since God is for us, none can be against us.
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  Speaker 1: We shall cease merely to exist, we shall live. Destroy
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  Speaker 1: all thoughts that we do not wish to experience. We
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  Speaker 1: must resolutely set our faces to the rising consciousness of
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  Speaker 1: the sun of truth, seeing only the one power we
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  Speaker 1: must destroy the adversary and leave the field to God
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  Speaker 1: or good. All that is in any way negative must
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  Speaker 1: be wiped off the slate and we must daily come
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  Speaker 1: into the higher thought, to be washed clean of the
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  Speaker 1: dust and chaos of the objective life. In the silence
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  Speaker 1: of the soul's communion with the great cause of all being,
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  Speaker 1: into the stillness of the absolute, into the secret place
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  Speaker 1: of the Most High, back of the din and the
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  Speaker 1: ceaseless roar of life, we shall find a resting place
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  Speaker 1: and a place of real spiritual power. Speak in this
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  Speaker 1: inner silence and say, I am one with the Almighty,
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  Speaker 1: I am one with all life, with all power, with
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  Speaker 1: all presence. I am, I am, I am. Listen to
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  Speaker 1: the silence. From out of the seeming void the voice
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  Speaker 1: of peace will answer the waiting soul, all is well.
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  Speaker 1: Here we make known all our needs and wants, and
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  Speaker 1: here we receive first-hand from the infinite all that we
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  Speaker 1: shall ever need to make life healthy, happy, and harmonious.
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  Speaker 1: Few enter here, because of the belief that conditions and
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  Speaker 1: circumstances control. Know that there is no law but God's law,
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  Speaker 1: that the soul sets its own law in the infinite
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  Speaker 1: and that our slightest wish is honored of the Father Mind.
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  Speaker 1: Daily practice the truth and daily die to all error thought.
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  Speaker 1: Spend more time receiving and realizing the presence of the
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  Speaker 1: Most High and less time worrying. Wonderful power will come
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  Speaker 1: to the one who believes and trusts in that power
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  Speaker 1: in which he has come to believe. Know that all
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  Speaker 1: good and all God is with you, all life and
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  Speaker 1: all power, and never again say, I fear, but always,
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  Speaker 1: I trust, because I know in whom I have believed.
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  Speaker 1: Direct Practice for Prosperity Suppose that you are doing a
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  Speaker 1: mail order business and sending out cards to the whole country.
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  Speaker 1: Take the cards into your hands, or simply think of
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  Speaker 1: them and declare into the only mind that they will
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  Speaker 1: accomplish that for which they are sent out, know that
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  Speaker 1: every word written on them is truth and carries its
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  Speaker 1: own conviction with it, see them each reaching that place
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  Speaker 1: where it will be received with gladness and read with interest,
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  Speaker 1: declare this to be so now, feel it to be
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  Speaker 1: the truth. Mentally assert that each card will find its
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  Speaker 1: way to the exact place where it will be wanted
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  Speaker 1: and where it will benefit the receiver, feel that each
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  Speaker 1: card is cared for by the spirit, that it is
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  Speaker 1: a messenger of truth and power and that it will
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  Speaker 1: carry conviction and realization with it. When the word is
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  Speaker 1: dot spoken always feel that mind at once takes it
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  Speaker 1: up and never fails to act upon it. Our place
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  Speaker 1: in the creative order is to know this and to
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  Speaker 1: be willing to do all that we can without hurry
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  Speaker 1: or worry. and, above all else, to trust absolutely in
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  Speaker 1: the Spirit to do the rest. He who sees most
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  Speaker 1: clearly and believes most implicitly will make the greatest demonstration.
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  Speaker 1: This one should be you, and will be you as
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  Speaker 1: soon as the false thought is gone and the realization
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  Speaker 1: that there is but the one power and the one
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  Speaker 1: presence comes. We are wrapped in an infinite love and
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  Speaker 1: intelligence and we should cover ourselves with it and claim
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  Speaker 1: its protection from all evil. Declare that your word is
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  Speaker 1: the presence and the activity of the power of all
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  Speaker 1: that is and wait for the perfect concept to unfold.
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  Speaker 1: Race Consciousness One of the things which greatly hinders us
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  Speaker 1: from demonstrating a greater degree of prosperity we may call
• 2:08:32
  Speaker 1: race thought or race consciousness. This is the result of
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  Speaker 1: all that the race has thought or believed. We are
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  Speaker 1: immersed in it, and those who are receptive to it
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  Speaker 1: are controlled by it. All thought seeks expression along the
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  Speaker 1: lines of least resistance. When we become negative or fearful
• 2:08:50
  Speaker 1: we attract that kind of thought and condition. We must
• 2:08:53
  Speaker 1: be sure of ourselves, we must be positive, we must
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  Speaker 1: not be aggressive, but absolutely sure and poised within. Negative
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  Speaker 1: people are always picking up negative conditions, they get into
• 2:09:05
  Speaker 1: trouble easily, persons who are positive draw positive things. They
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  Speaker 1: are always successful. Few people realize that the law of
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  Speaker 1: thought is the great reality, that thoughts produce things. When
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  Speaker 1: we come to understand this power of thought, we will
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  Speaker 1: carefully watch our thinking to see that no thought enters
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  Speaker 1: that we should not want made into a thing. We
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  Speaker 1: can guard our minds by knowing that no negative thought
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  Speaker 1: can enter, we can daily practice by saying that no
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  Speaker 1: race thought of limitation can enter the mind. That spirit
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  Speaker 1: forms itself around us and protects us from all fear
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  Speaker 1: and from all limitation. Let us clothe ourselves in the
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  Speaker 1: great realization that all power is ours and that nothing
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  Speaker 1: else can enter. let us fill the atmosphere of our
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  Speaker 1: homes and places of business with streams of positive thought.
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  Speaker 1: Other people will feel this and will like to be
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  Speaker 1: near us and enter into the things that we enter into.
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  Speaker 1: In this way we shall be continually drawing only the best.
• 2:10:02
  Speaker 1: Developing Intuition If a person always lived near to mind
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  Speaker 1: he would never make any great mistakes. Some seem to
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  Speaker 1: have the faculty of always knowing just what is best
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  Speaker 1: to do, they always succeed because they avoid making errors.
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  Speaker 1: We can also train ourselves that we will be guided
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  Speaker 1: by the supreme mind of the universe, but we can
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  Speaker 1: never do this until we believe that we can receive
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  Speaker 1: direct from the source of all knowledge. This is done
• 2:10:28
  Speaker 1: by sitting in the silence and knowing that the spirit
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  Speaker 1: is inwardly directing us. We should try to feel that
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  Speaker 1: our thought is being permeated by the thought of the spirit.
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  Speaker 1: We should expect it to direct but should never become
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  Speaker 1: discouraged if at once a direct impression is not received.
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  Speaker 1: The work is going on even if it is not
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  Speaker 1: seen or even felt. Thought is forming in our mind
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  Speaker 1: and in time will come forth as an idea. When
• 2:10:53
  Speaker 1: the idea does come always trust in it even though
• 2:10:55
  Speaker 1: it may not seem to be quite as we had expected.
• 2:10:59
  Speaker 1: The first impressions are usually the most direct and the clearest,
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  Speaker 1: they are generally direct from the mind of the universe
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  Speaker 1: and should be carefully worked out into expression. We declare
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  Speaker 1: as we sit in the silence that the spirit of
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  Speaker 1: all knowledge is making known within us just what we
• 2:11:12
  Speaker 1: should do, that it is telling us just what to
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  Speaker 1: say or where to go. Have absolute reliance on this
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  Speaker 1: as it is one of the most important things to do.
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  Speaker 1: We should always get that inner assurance before undertaking any
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  Speaker 1: new enterprise, being sure that we have really put the
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  Speaker 1: whole thing into the hands of life and that all
• 2:11:30
  Speaker 1: that we have to do is to work it out
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  Speaker 1: in the outer. We shall learn to avoid mistakes when
• 2:11:35
  Speaker 1: we learn to be directed by that inner voice that
• 2:11:37
  Speaker 1: never makes mistakes. We should declare in the silence that
• 2:11:41
  Speaker 1: intelligence is guiding us and it will do so. Presence
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  Speaker 1: of Activity Suppose that your place of business does not
• 2:11:48
  Speaker 1: seem to manifest any activity, that is, suppose that customers
• 2:11:52
  Speaker 1: do not come. To the person in the business world
• 2:11:56
  Speaker 1: the presence of customers generally means activity. Suppose that you
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  Speaker 1: have come to believe that the principle will work in
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  Speaker 1: the smallest as well as in the greatest things. What
• 2:12:05
  Speaker 1: you want now is a greater activity. How are you
• 2:12:09
  Speaker 1: going to see activity when there is none? Here is
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  Speaker 1: a great question in truth. Must we overlook that which
• 2:12:16
  Speaker 1: we see, and that which we have experienced. Yes, absolutely,
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  Speaker 1: there is no other way. If we keep on seeing
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  Speaker 1: the thing as it appears we will never be able
• 2:12:26
  Speaker 1: to change its appearance. What we must do, then, in
• 2:12:30
  Speaker 1: spite of the seeming inactivity, is still to know and
• 2:12:33
  Speaker 1: mentally to see and declare that we are in the
• 2:12:35
  Speaker 1: midst of activity. Feel this to be true, mentally see
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  Speaker 1: the place crowded, know that it is packed full of
• 2:12:41
  Speaker 1: customers all the time, declare that your word draws them in.
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  Speaker 1: Have no sense of strain about it whatever, simply know
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  Speaker 1: that you are dealing with the only power that there is,
• 2:12:52
  Speaker 1: it will work, it must work. Realize when you have
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  Speaker 1: spoken the word that a greater power has taken it
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  Speaker 1: up and that it is being established unto you. Have
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  Speaker 1: no idea of limitation, speak forth into mind with perfect trust.
• 2:13:06
  Speaker 1: If you have the ability mentally to see the place full,
• 2:13:09
  Speaker 1: combine this with the word, and daily visualize it as
• 2:13:12
  Speaker 1: being filled. Always combine faith in the higher power with
• 2:13:16
  Speaker 1: all that you do, feel that you are being especially
• 2:13:18
  Speaker 1: looked after. This is true. When a soul turns to
• 2:13:23
  Speaker 1: the universe of unmanifest life, at the same time it
• 2:13:26
  Speaker 1: turns toward him. Jesus told this in the story of
• 2:13:29
  Speaker 1: the prodigal son, the father saw him afar off. Always
• 2:13:34
  Speaker 1: there is that inward turning to us of the parent
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  Speaker 1: mind when we turn to it and place ourselves in
• 2:13:38
  Speaker 1: closer contact with life. We must keep our mind clear
• 2:13:42
  Speaker 1: so that when the Spirit brings the gift we will
• 2:13:44
  Speaker 1: be open to receive it. Even God cannot force things
• 2:13:48
  Speaker 1: upon us. We must receive even before we see. For
• 2:13:53
  Speaker 1: the feeble hands and helpless, groping blindly in the darkness.
• 2:13:57
  Speaker 1: Touch God's right hand in that darkness and are lifted
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  Speaker 1: up and strengthened. Always, when we believe, we will have
• 2:14:04
  Speaker 1: that belief honored of the Spirit of life. Mentally seeing
• 2:14:08
  Speaker 1: just what we want. Still seeing even though the heavens fall,
• 2:14:13
  Speaker 1: we shall succeed in proving that the law of life
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  Speaker 1: is a law of liberty. God made man to have
• 2:14:18
  Speaker 1: all that the universe contained and then left him alone
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  Speaker 1: to discover his own nature. Stop all striving and all
• 2:14:25
  Speaker 1: struggle and within your own soul know the truth and
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  Speaker 1: trust absolutely in it. Daily declare that you are being
• 2:14:31
  Speaker 1: guided and protected and that the power of the Spirit
• 2:14:34
  Speaker 1: is bringing all to pass, and wait in perfect peace
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  Speaker 1: and confidence. Such an attitude of mind will overcome anything
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  Speaker 1: and will prove that spiritual thought force is the only
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  Speaker 1: real power in the universe. Drawing your own to you.
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  Speaker 1: Suppose that you wish to draw friends and companions to you,
• 2:14:52
  Speaker 1: that you wish to enlarge your circle of friendships. This, too,
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  Speaker 1: can all be worked out by law, for everything can
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  Speaker 1: be worked out by the same law, the reason being
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  Speaker 1: that all is one and that the one becomes the
• 2:15:03
  Speaker 1: many in expression. There are too many people in the
• 2:15:07
  Speaker 1: world who are lonesome because they have a sense of
• 2:15:09
  Speaker 1: separation from people. The thing to do is not to
• 2:15:13
  Speaker 1: try to unify with people, but with the principle of
• 2:15:16
  Speaker 1: life behind all people and things. This is working from
• 2:15:19
  Speaker 1: the center and not the circumference, in this one mind
• 2:15:22
  Speaker 1: are the minds of all people. When you unite your
• 2:15:25
  Speaker 1: thought with the whole you will be united with the
• 2:15:27
  Speaker 1: parts of the whole. The first thing to do, then,
• 2:15:32
  Speaker 1: is to realize that life is your friend and companion.
• 2:15:35
  Speaker 1: Feel the divine companionship, feel that you are one with
• 2:15:38
  Speaker 1: all life, declare that, as this thought awakens within your mind,
• 2:15:41
  Speaker 1: so does it awaken within the mind of the whole race,
• 2:15:44
  Speaker 1: feel that the world is being drawn to you, love
• 2:15:47
  Speaker 1: the world and everyone who is in it, include all,
• 2:15:50
  Speaker 1: if you would be included in all. The world seeks strength,
• 2:15:53
  Speaker 1: be strong. The world loves love, embody it, see the
• 2:15:58
  Speaker 1: good in all people. Let go of all else. people
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  Speaker 1: will feel your love and will be drawn into it.
• 2:16:06
  Speaker 1: Love is the greatest power in the universe, it is
• 2:16:09
  Speaker 1: at the base of all else, it is the cause
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  Speaker 1: of all that is. Feel your love to be like
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  Speaker 1: a great light lighting the pathway of the whole world,
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  Speaker 1: it will come back to you bringing so many friends
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  Speaker 1: that there will not be time enough to enjoy them all.
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  Speaker 1: Become a real friend and you will have many friends.
• 2:16:26
  Speaker 1: Be sufficient unto yourself and at the same time include
• 2:16:29
  Speaker 1: all else, and people will feel your strength and will
• 2:16:32
  Speaker 1: have a desire to come into the radiance of it.
• 2:16:35
  Speaker 1: Never become unhappy or morbid, always be cheerful and radiate
• 2:16:38
  Speaker 1: good nature and happiness, never look depressed or down in
• 2:16:41
  Speaker 1: the mouth, the world is attracted to the strongest center
• 2:16:44
  Speaker 1: of cheer and good fellowship. Never allow your feelings to
• 2:16:48
  Speaker 1: be hurt. No one wants to hurt you, and none could,
• 2:16:52
  Speaker 1: even though they did want to. You are above all that.
• 2:16:57
  Speaker 1: Wherever you go know that the Spirit of Truth goes
• 2:16:59
  Speaker 1: before and prepares the way, bringing to you every friend
• 2:17:02
  Speaker 1: and influence that will be necessary to your comfort and well-being.
• 2:17:06
  Speaker 1: This is not selfishness but good sense and will surely
• 2:17:09
  Speaker 1: bring to you a harvest of friends and companions. Declare
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  Speaker 1: unto mind that you are now linked with all people
• 2:17:16
  Speaker 1: and that all people are linked with you, see yourself
• 2:17:18
  Speaker 1: surrounded with hosts of friends. Mentally feel their presence and
• 2:17:23
  Speaker 1: rejoice that all good is yours now. Do this no
• 2:17:26
  Speaker 1: matter what seems to happen, and it will not be
• 2:17:28
  Speaker 1: long before you will meet wonderful friends and will be
• 2:17:31
  Speaker 1: brought into touch with the great of the world. The
• 2:17:34
  Speaker 1: final word. In the last analysis, man is just what
• 2:17:38
  Speaker 1: he thinks himself to be, he is big in capacity
• 2:17:41
  Speaker 1: if he thinks big thoughts, he is small if he
• 2:17:43
  Speaker 1: thinks small thoughts. He will attract to himself what he
• 2:17:47
  Speaker 1: thinks most about. He can learn to govern his own
• 2:17:50
  Speaker 1: destiny when he learns to control his thoughts. In order
• 2:17:54
  Speaker 1: to do this he must first realize that everything in
• 2:17:57
  Speaker 1: the manifest universe is the result of some inner activity
• 2:17:59
  Speaker 1: of mind. This mind is God, producing a universe by
• 2:18:04
  Speaker 1: the activity of his own divine thoughts, man is in
• 2:18:06
  Speaker 1: this mind as a thinking center. and what he thinks
• 2:18:09
  Speaker 1: governs his life, even as God's thought governs the universe,
• 2:18:12
  Speaker 1: by setting in motion all the cosmic activities. This is
• 2:18:17
  Speaker 1: so easy to understand, and so plain as to use
• 2:18:20
  Speaker 1: that we often wonder why we have been so long
• 2:18:22
  Speaker 1: finding out this, the greatest of all truths of all
• 2:18:25
  Speaker 1: the ages. Believing, thinking what is believed to be true,
• 2:18:29
  Speaker 1: thinking into mind each day that which is wished to
• 2:18:32
  Speaker 1: be returned. eliminating negative thoughts, holding all positive thoughts, giving
• 2:18:36
  Speaker 1: thanks to the spirit of life that it is so
• 2:18:38
  Speaker 1: trusting always in the higher law, never arguing with oneself
• 2:18:42
  Speaker 1: or with others, using. These are the steps which, when followed,
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  Speaker 1: will bring us to where we shall not have to
• 2:18:49
  Speaker 1: ask if it be true, for, having demonstrated, we shall know.
• 2:18:54
  Speaker 1: The seed that falls into the ground shall bear fruit
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  Speaker 1: of its own kind, and nothing shall hinder it. He
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  Speaker 1: that hath ears to hear, let him hear.