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THE SECRET OF POWER: Master Secret Law of Attraction That Shapes Your Reality - Robert Collier · THE SECRET LAW OF ATTRACTION: Manifest Wealth, Success & Abundance

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Speaker 1: The secret of power introduction. What is the strongest political
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Speaker 1: trend in the world to day after the last war?
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Speaker 1: It was towards democracy, But somehow democracy failed the average man.
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Speaker 1: When the depression came and he found himself unable to
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Speaker 1: provide food and shelter for his loved ones, he demanded
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Speaker 1: something more than equality of opportunity. He demanded security from want.
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Speaker 1: To answer that demand came strong men, so called Mussolini's
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Speaker 1: and Hitlers and Antonescus and Francos and the like, and
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Speaker 1: fascism was born. Men achieved security of a kind, but
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Speaker 1: they bartered their freedom for it, and soon they learned
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Speaker 1: that power feeds on power, and the only end of
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Speaker 1: dictatorship is war, which destroys all. And the reason, the
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Speaker 1: same reason that has impelled man since time began, the
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Speaker 1: longing for security, Security for the home, security against want,
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Speaker 1: security for old age. Since time began, the search for
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Speaker 1: security has been one of the strongest urges in all
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Speaker 1: of nature. You see it in the animal, in the
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Speaker 1: way it conceals its nest and tries to make it
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Speaker 1: safe from predatory creatures, man or animal. You see it
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Speaker 1: in the records of early man in the caves. He
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Speaker 1: dug into the sides of the mountains, in the tree huts,
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Speaker 1: in the cliff dwellings. You follow it down through the ages,
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Speaker 1: to the walled cities, the turreted castles, the inaccessible mountains
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Speaker 1: in which men made their homes. Throughout history you see
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Speaker 1: this search for security as one of the dominant characteristics
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Speaker 1: of all human kind. And now that the common man
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Speaker 1: has realized his power, you find him all over the
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Speaker 1: world banding together to take over all property, to the
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Speaker 1: end that he and his may find that security from
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Speaker 1: want that he has so long worked for. What he
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Speaker 1: does not seem to realize is that the mere redistribution
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Speaker 1: of property never has and never will solve his problem.
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Speaker 1: It will provide him with temporary supply, yes, but the
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Speaker 1: apply is a continuing problem, and when his small share
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Speaker 1: of the general distribution is gone, he will be worse
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Speaker 1: off than he was before, because production will have either
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Speaker 1: ceased or been greatly curtailed. Redistribution is not the answer.
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Speaker 1: It has been tried repeatedly and always failed. You must
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Speaker 1: go farther back than that. You must start with the
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Speaker 1: source of things, and that is what we shall try
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Speaker 1: to do in the following pages. Know this, ye restless
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Speaker 1: denizens of earth know this, Ye seekers after joy and mirth.
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Speaker 1: Three things there are eternal in their worth. Love that
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Speaker 1: outreaches to the humblest things, Work that is glad in
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Speaker 1: what it does and brings. And faith that soars upon
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Speaker 1: unwearied wings. Divine the powers that on this trio wait
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Speaker 1: supreme their conquest over time and fate. Love, Work, and faith.
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Speaker 1: These three alone are great. Chapter twenty one. The creative force,
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Speaker 1: the spirit of the Lord is upon me because he
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Speaker 1: anointed me to preach good tidings to the poor. He
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Speaker 1: has sent me to proclaim release to the captives, and
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Speaker 1: recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty
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Speaker 1: them that are bruised, to proclaim the acceptable year of
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Speaker 1: the Lord. In the beginning was the word, and the
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Speaker 1: word was with God, and the word was God. S. T. John.
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Speaker 1: What is a word a mental concept or image? Is
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Speaker 1: it not? In originating language, words were coined to represent
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Speaker 1: certain images or objects. The word horse, for instance, calls
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Speaker 1: to mind the image left upon the retina and the
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Speaker 1: brain by what one has seen of that quadruped But
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Speaker 1: what if there were no horses? What if one were
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Speaker 1: called upon to create a horse with no previous knowledge
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Speaker 1: of such an animal. You'd have to build up a
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Speaker 1: clear mental image of him first, would you not. You'd
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Speaker 1: have to work out a mental picture of every part
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Speaker 1: of his anatomy, every physical outline. You'd need a perfect
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Speaker 1: mental concept of everything that is comprised in the word horse.
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Speaker 1: And that was what happened when God created the world.
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Speaker 1: In the beginning was the word, the mental concept, the
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Speaker 1: image in God's mind of what he planned, and the
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Speaker 1: word was made flesh. It took on shape and substance.
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Speaker 1: It grew into inhabitable world. It developed creatures like the
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Speaker 1: fish in the sea, the birds in the air, the
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Speaker 1: beasts of the field, and finally man. Life then, as
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Speaker 1: now was a continually developing process. Those early forms of
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Speaker 1: life were threatened by every kind of danger, from floods,
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Speaker 1: from earthquakes, from droughts, from desert heat, from glacial cold,
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Speaker 1: from volcanic eruptions. But each new danger was merely an
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Speaker 1: incentive to finding some new resource, to putting forth their
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Speaker 1: creative force in some new shape to meet one set
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Speaker 1: of needs. The creative force formed the dinosaur to meet
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Speaker 1: another the butterfly, long before it worked up to man.
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Speaker 1: We see its unlimited resourcefulness in a thousand ways to
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Speaker 1: escape danger in the water, some forms of life sought land.
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Speaker 1: Pursued on land, they took to the air to breathe.
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Speaker 1: In the sea, the creative force developed gills. Stranded on land,
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Speaker 1: it perfected lungs to meet one kind of danger, it
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Speaker 1: grew a shell for another. It developed fleetness of foot
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Speaker 1: or wings that carried it into the air. To protect
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Speaker 1: itself from glacial cold, it grew fur. In temperate climes,
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Speaker 1: hair subject to alternate heat and cold, it produced feathers.
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Speaker 1: But ever from the beginning, it showed its power to
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Speaker 1: meet every changing condition, to answer every creature need. Had
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Speaker 1: it been possible to stamp out this creative force or
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Speaker 1: halt its constant upward development, it would have perished ages
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Speaker 1: ago when fire and flood and famine followed each other
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Speaker 1: in quick succession. But obstacles, misfortunes, cataclysms were to its
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Speaker 1: merely new opportunities to assert its power. In fact, it
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Speaker 1: required difficulties or obstacles to stir it up, to make
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Speaker 1: it show its energy and resourcefulness. The great reptiles, the
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Speaker 1: monster beasts of antiquity, passed on as the conditions changed
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Speaker 1: that had made them possible, But the creative force stayed,
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Speaker 1: changing as each age changed, always developing, always improving. When
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Speaker 1: God put this creative force into his creatures, he gave
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Speaker 1: to it unlimited energy, unlimited resource. No other power can
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Speaker 1: equal it, no force can defeat it, no obstacle can
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Speaker 1: hold it back. All through the history of life and mankind,
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Speaker 1: you can see its directing intelligence rising to meet every
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Speaker 1: need of life. No one can follow it down through
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Speaker 1: the ages without realizing that the purpose of existence is growth. Development.
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Speaker 1: Life is dynamic, not static. It is ever moving forward,
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Speaker 1: not standing still. The one unpardonable sin in all of
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Speaker 1: nature is to stand still, to stagnate. The gigantosaurus that
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Speaker 1: was over a hundred feet long and as big as
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Speaker 1: a house. The Tyrannosaurus that had the strength of a
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Speaker 1: locomotive and was the last word in frightfulness. The pterodactyl
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Speaker 1: or flying dragon. All the giant monsters of prehistoric ages
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Speaker 1: are gone. They ceased to serve a useful purpose. They
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Speaker 1: stood still while the life around them passed them by.
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Speaker 1: Egypt and Persia, Greece and Rome. All the great empires
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Speaker 1: of antiquity perished when they ceased to grow. China built
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Speaker 1: a wall around herself and stood still for a thousand years.
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Speaker 1: In all of nature, to cease to grow is to perish.
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Speaker 1: It is for men and women who are not ready
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Speaker 1: to stand still, who refuse to cease to grow, that
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Speaker 1: this book is written. Its purpose is to give you
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Speaker 1: a clearer understanding of your own potentialities, to show you
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Speaker 1: how to work with and take advantage of the infinite
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Speaker 1: energy and power of the creative force working through you.
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Speaker 1: The terror of the man at the crossways, not knowing
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Speaker 1: which way to turn, should be no terror for you,
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Speaker 1: For your future is of your own making. The only
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Speaker 1: law of infinite energy is the law of supply. The
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Speaker 1: creative principle is your principle. To survive, to win through,
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Speaker 1: to triumphantly surmount all obstacles, has been its everyday practice
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Speaker 1: since the beginning of time. It is no less resourceful
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Speaker 1: now than it ever was. You have but to supply
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Speaker 1: the urge, to work in harmony with it, to get
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Speaker 1: from it anything you need. For if this creative force
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Speaker 1: is so strong in the lowest forms of animal life
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Speaker 1: that it can develop a shell or a poison to
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Speaker 1: meet a need, if it can teach the bird to
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Speaker 1: circle and dart, to balance and fly. If it can
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Speaker 1: grow a new limb on a spider or crab to
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Speaker 1: replace a lost one, how much more can it do
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Speaker 1: for you? A reasoning, rational being with a mind able
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Speaker 1: to work with this creative force with energy and purpose
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Speaker 1: and initiative to urge it on. The Evidence of this
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Speaker 1: is all about you take up some violent form of exercise,
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Speaker 1: and in the beginning your muscles are weak, easily tired.
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Speaker 1: But keep on a few days, and what happens. The
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Speaker 1: creative force in you promptly strengthens them, toughens them to
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Speaker 1: meet their need. All through your daily life you find
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Speaker 1: this force steadily at work. Embrace it, work with it,
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Speaker 1: take it to your heart, and there is nothing you
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Speaker 1: cannot do. The mere fact that you have obstacles to
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Speaker 1: overcome is in your favor. For when there is nothing
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Speaker 1: to be done, when things run along too smoothly, the
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Speaker 1: creative force seems to sleep. It is when you need it,
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Speaker 1: when you call upon it urgently, that it is most
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Speaker 1: on the job. It differs from luck in this that
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Speaker 1: fortune is a fickle jade who smiles most on those
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Speaker 1: who need her least. Stake your last penny on the
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Speaker 1: turn of a card, have nothing between you and ruin
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Speaker 1: but the spin of a wheel or the speed of
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Speaker 1: a horse, and the chances are one hundred to one
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Speaker 1: that luck will desert you. It is just the opposite
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Speaker 1: with the creative force in you. As long as things
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Speaker 1: run smoothly, as long as life flows along like a song,
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Speaker 1: this creative force seems to slumber, secure in the knowledge
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Speaker 1: that your affairs can take care of themselves. But let
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Speaker 1: things start going wrong, let ruin or death stare you
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Speaker 1: in the face. Then is the time this creative force
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Speaker 1: will assert itself if you give it a chance. There
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Speaker 1: is a napoleonic feeling of power that ensures success in
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Speaker 1: the knowledge that this invincible creative force is behind your
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Speaker 1: every act. Knowing that you have with you a force
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Speaker 1: which never yet has failed in anything it has undertaken,
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Speaker 1: you can go ahead in the confident knowledge that it
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Speaker 1: will not fail in your case. The ingenuity which overcame
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Speaker 1: every obstacle in making you what you are, is not
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Speaker 1: likely to fall short when you have immediate need for it.
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Speaker 1: It is the reserve of strength of the athlete, the
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Speaker 1: second wind of the runner, the power that, in moments
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Speaker 1: of great stress or excitement, you unconsciously call upon to
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Speaker 1: do the deeds which you ever have to look upon
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Speaker 1: as superhuman. But they are in no wise superhuman. They
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Speaker 1: are merely beyond the capacity of your conscious self. Ally,
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Speaker 1: your conscious self, with that sleeping giant within you, rouse
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Speaker 1: him daily to the task, and those superhuman deeds will
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Speaker 1: become your ordinary, every day accomplishments. It matters not whether
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Speaker 1: you are banker or lawyer, business man or clerk, whether
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Speaker 1: you are the custodian of millions or have to struggle
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Speaker 1: for your daily bread. The creative force makes no distinction
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Speaker 1: between high and low, rich and poor. The greater your need,
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Speaker 1: the more readily will it respond to your call. Wherever
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Speaker 1: there is an unusual task, wherever there is poverty or hardship,
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Speaker 1: or sickness or despair, there this servant of your mind waits,
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Speaker 1: ready and willing to help, asking only that you call
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Speaker 1: upon him. And not only is it ready and willing,
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Speaker 1: but it is always able to help. Its ingenuity and
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Speaker 1: resource are without limit. It is mind, It is thought.
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Speaker 1: It is the telepathy that carries messages without the spoken
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Speaker 1: or written word. It is the sixth sense that warns
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Speaker 1: you of unseen dangers, no matter how stupendous and complicated,
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Speaker 1: or how simple your problem may be, the solution of
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Speaker 1: it is somewhere in mind, in thought. And since the
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Speaker 1: solution does exist, this mental giant can find it for you.
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Speaker 1: It can know, and it can do every right thing.
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Speaker 1: Whatever it is necessary for you to know, whatever it
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Speaker 1: is necessary for you to do, you can know, and
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Speaker 1: you can do if you will, but seek the help
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Speaker 1: of this genie of your mind and work with it
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Speaker 1: in the right way. To every living creature, God gave
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Speaker 1: enough of this creative force to enable it to develop
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Speaker 1: whatever it felt that it needed for survival. Behind and
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Speaker 1: working through every living thing was this creative force, and
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Speaker 1: to each was given the power to draw upon it
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Speaker 1: at need. With the lower forms of life, that call
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Speaker 1: had to be restricted to themselves, to their own bodies.
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Speaker 1: They could not change their environment. They could develop a
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Speaker 1: house of shell in which to live, like the crustaceans
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Speaker 1: or the snail or the turtle. They could use the
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Speaker 1: creative force to develop strength or fleetness, or teeth and claws,
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Speaker 1: anything within or pertaining to themselves. But aside from building
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Speaker 1: nests or caves or other more or less secure homes,
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Speaker 1: they could not alter conditions around them to man alone
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Speaker 1: was given the power to make his own environment. To
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Speaker 1: him alone, was given dominion over things and conditions. That
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Speaker 1: he exercises this power even to day, only to a
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Speaker 1: limited extent, does not alter the fact that he has it.
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Speaker 1: Man was given dominion, and God said, let us make
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Speaker 1: man in our image after our likeness, and let them
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Speaker 1: have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over
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Speaker 1: the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and
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Speaker 1: over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that
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Speaker 1: creepeth upon the earth. Of course, few believe in that dominion.
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Speaker 1: Fewer still exercise it for their own good or the
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Speaker 1: good of all. But everyone uses the creative force in
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Speaker 1: him to an extent, everyone builds his own environment. Don't
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Speaker 1: tell me. Some will say indignantly that I built these
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Speaker 1: slums around me, that I am responsible for the wretched
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Speaker 1: conditions under which I work, that I had anything to
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Speaker 1: do with the squalor and poverty in which my family
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Speaker 1: have to live. Yet that is exactly what we do
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Speaker 1: tell you. If you were born in poverty, in misery,
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Speaker 1: it was because your parents image these as something forced
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Speaker 1: upon them, something they could not help, a condition that
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Speaker 1: was necessary and to be expected. Thinking, so they used
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Speaker 1: the creative force working through them to fasten those conditions
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Speaker 1: upon themselves as something they were meant to suffer and
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Speaker 1: could do nothing about. Then you, in your turn, accepted
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Speaker 1: those conditions as what you were born to, and fastened
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Speaker 1: them upon yourself by your supine acceptance of them, by
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Speaker 1: failing to claim better ones, by making no great or
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Speaker 1: sustained efforts to get out of them. All history shows
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Speaker 1: that the determined soul who refuses to accept poverty or
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Speaker 1: lack can change these to riches and power if he
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Speaker 1: has the determination and the perseverance. The great men of
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Speaker 1: the world have almost all come up from poverty and obscurity.
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Speaker 1: The rich men of the world have mostly started with nothing.
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Speaker 1: Always the real leaders of men, the real kings, have
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Speaker 1: come up from the common people, wrote doctor Frank Crane.
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Speaker 1: The finest flowers in the human flora grow in the woods, pasture,
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Speaker 1: and not in the hot house. No privileged class, no
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Speaker 1: royal house, no carefully selected stock produced. A Leonardo or
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Speaker 1: a Michelangelo in art, a Shakespeare or Burns in letters,
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Speaker 1: a golly Cursey or Paderewski in music, a Socrates or
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Speaker 1: Kanton philosophy, an Edison or Pasteur in science, a Wesley
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Speaker 1: or a noox. In religion, it is the need that
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Speaker 1: calls forth such geniuses, the urgent need for development or expression.
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Speaker 1: And it is because these men drew powerfully upon the
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Speaker 1: creative force within them that they became great. As the
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Speaker 1: poet put it, there is power within me, which is
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Speaker 1: life itself. I can turn to it and rest on it.
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Speaker 1: As I turn to it and rest on it, it
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Speaker 1: helps me and heals me all the time. There is
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Speaker 1: wisdom itself within me, which is life itself. I can
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Speaker 1: turn to it and rest on it. As I turn
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Speaker 1: to it and rest on it, it helps me and
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Speaker 1: heals me all the time. There is love itself within me,
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Speaker 1: which is life itself. It can turn to it and
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Speaker 1: rest on it. As I turn to it and rest
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Speaker 1: on it, it helps me and heals me all the time.
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Speaker 1: Look within, said Marcus Aurelius. Within is the fountain of
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Speaker 1: all good, such a fountain where springing waters can never fail.
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Speaker 1: Do thou dig still deeper and deeper. God gave to man,
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Speaker 1: and to man alone, the power to make his own environment.
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Speaker 1: He can determine for himself what he needs for survival.
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Speaker 1: And if he holds to that thought with determination, he
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Speaker 1: can draw whatever is necessary from the creative force working
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Speaker 1: through him to make it manifest. First the word, the
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Speaker 1: mental image, then the creation or manifestation. Professor Michael Pupin says,
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Speaker 1: science finds that everything is a continually developing process. In
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Speaker 1: other words, creation is still going on all around you.
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Speaker 1: Use your creative force to create the conditions you desire
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Speaker 1: rather than those you fear. The life about you is
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Speaker 1: constantly in a state of flux. All you have to
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Speaker 1: do is create the mental mold in which you want
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Speaker 1: the creative force to take form, and then hold to
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Speaker 1: that mold with persistence and determination until the creative force
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Speaker 1: in it becomes manifest. Doctor Titus Bull, the famous neurologist,
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Speaker 1: says matter is spirit at a lower rate of vibration.
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Speaker 1: When a patient is cured, it is spirit in the
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Speaker 1: cell doing the healing according to its own inherent pattern.
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Speaker 1: No doctor ever cured a patient. All he can do
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Speaker 1: is to make it possible for the patient to heal himself.
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Speaker 1: And if that is true of the body, it is
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Speaker 1: just as true of conditions around you. Matter physical materials
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Speaker 1: is spirit or creative force at a lower rate of vibration.
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Speaker 1: The spirit or creative force is all around you. You
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Speaker 1: are constantly forming it into mental molds, but more often
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Speaker 1: than not these are dictated by your fears rather than
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Speaker 1: your desires. Why not determinately form only good molds. Why
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Speaker 1: not insist upon the things you want? It is just
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Speaker 1: as easy, and it works just as surely. There is
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Speaker 1: no great and no small, writes Emerson, to the soul
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Speaker 1: that mocketh all, and where it cometh all things are,
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Speaker 1: and it cometh everywhere. I am the owner of the sphere,
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Speaker 1: of the seven stars, and the solar year, of Caesar's hand,
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Speaker 1: and Plato's brain, of Lord Christ's heart, and Shakespeare's strain.
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Speaker 1: Give me a base of support, set Archimedes, and with
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Speaker 1: a lever I will move the world. And the base
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Speaker 1: of support is that all started with mind. In the
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Speaker 1: beginning was nothing a fire mist. Before anything could come
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Speaker 1: of it, there had to be an idea, a mental
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Speaker 1: model on which to build. The God mind supplied that idea,
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Speaker 1: that model. Therefore, the primal cause is mind. Everything must
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Speaker 1: start with an idea. Every event, every condition, everything is
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Speaker 1: first an idea in the mind of someone. Before you
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Speaker 1: start to build a house, you draw up a plan
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Speaker 1: of it, You make an exact blue print of that plan,
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Speaker 1: and your house takes shape in accordance with your blue print.
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Speaker 1: Every material object takes form in the same way. Mind
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Speaker 1: draws the plan. Thought forms the blue print, well drawn
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Speaker 1: or badly done. As your thoughts are clear or vague,
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Speaker 1: It all goes back to the one cause. The creative
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Speaker 1: principle of the universe is mind, and thought forms the
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Speaker 1: molds in which its eternal energy takes shape. But just
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Speaker 1: as the effect you get from electricity depends upon the
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Speaker 1: mechanism to which the power is attached, so the effects
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Speaker 1: you get from mind depend upon the way you use it.
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Speaker 1: We are all of us dynamos. The power is there,
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Speaker 1: unlimited power, but we've got to connect it with something,
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Speaker 1: set it some task, give it work to do. Else
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Speaker 1: are we no better off than the animals? The Seven
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Speaker 1: wonders of the world were built by men with few
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Speaker 1: of the opportunities or facilities that are available to you.
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Speaker 1: They conceive these gigantic projects first in their own minds,
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Speaker 1: pictured them so vividly that the creative force working through
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Speaker 1: them came to their aid and helped them to overcome
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Speaker 1: building the pyramid of Gize, enormous stone upon enormous stone,
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Speaker 1: between whose legs a ship could pass. Yet men built
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Speaker 1: crudest and machinery was undreamed of, by using the unlimited
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Speaker 1: power of the creative force. That creative force is in you,
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Speaker 1: working through you. But it must have a model on
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Speaker 1: which to work, It must have thoughts to supply the molds.
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Speaker 1: There are in universal mind ideas for millions of wonders,
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Speaker 1: greater far than the seven wonders of the world. And
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Speaker 1: those ideas are just as available to you as they
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Speaker 1: were to the artisans of old, as they were to
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Speaker 1: Michelangelo when he built Saint Peter's in Rome, as they
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Speaker 1: were to the architect who conceived the Empire state building,
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Speaker 1: or the engineer who planned the hell Gate Bridge. Every condition,
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Speaker 1: every experience of life, is the result of our mental attitude.
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Speaker 1: We can do only what we think we can do.
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Speaker 1: We can be only what we think we can be.
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Speaker 1: We can have only what we think. We can have.
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Speaker 1: What we do, what we are, what we have all
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Speaker 1: depend upon what we think. There is only one limit
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Speaker 1: do not first believe in the secret of all power,
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Speaker 1: them in our own mind first. As Edgar Ate guessed
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Speaker 1: you think you can, but you'll never accomplish more if
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Speaker 1: you're afraid of yourself, young man, there's little for you
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Speaker 1: in store. For Failure comes from the inside first. It's
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Speaker 1: there if we only knew it, and you can win,
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Speaker 1: though you face the worst, if you feel that you're
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Speaker 1: going to do it. William James, the famous psychologist, said
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Speaker 1: that the greatest discovery in a hundred years was the
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Speaker 1: discovery of the power of the sub conscious mind. It
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Speaker 1: is the greatest discovery of all time. It is the
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Speaker 1: discovery that man has within himself the power to control
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Speaker 1: his surroundings, that he is not at the mercy of
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Speaker 1: He is the master of the creative force working through him.
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Speaker 1: As James Allen puts it, dream lofty dreams, and as
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Speaker 1: is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.
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Speaker 1: For matter is in the ultimate but a product of thought,
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Speaker 1: the result of the mold into which you have put
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Speaker 1: the creative force working through you. Even the most material
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Speaker 1: scientists admit that matter is not what it appears to be.
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Speaker 1: According to physics, matter, be it the human body or
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Speaker 1: made up of an aggregation of distinct, minute particles called atoms.
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Speaker 1: Considered individually, These atoms are so small that they can
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Speaker 1: if at all. Until comparatively recent years, these atoms were
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Speaker 1: supposed to be the ultimate theory regarding matter. We, ourselves,
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Speaker 1: these atoms have been further analyzed, and physicists tell us
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Speaker 1: mere positive and negative buttons of force or energy, called
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Speaker 1: protons and electrons, without hardness, without density, without solidity, without
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Speaker 1: even positive actuality. In short, they are vortices in the ether,
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Speaker 1: whirling bits of energy, dynamic, never static, pulsating with life.
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Speaker 1: But the life is spiritual. As one eminent British scientist
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Speaker 1: And that mind, you is what the solid table in
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Speaker 1: your body, The whole world is made of whirling bits
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Speaker 1: of energy, to quote the New York Herald Tribune. We
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Speaker 1: used to believe that the universe was composed of an
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Speaker 1: each chemical element. The discovery of a new element had
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Speaker 1: to be anything, to have any imaginable set of properties.
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Speaker 1: That romantic prospect no longer exists. We know now that
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Speaker 1: two kinds, both of these are really kinds of electricity.
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Speaker 1: One is negative electricity, being in fact the tiny particle
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Speaker 1: called the electron, familiar to radio fans as one of
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Speaker 1: the particle's vast swarms of which operate radio vacuum tubes.
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Speaker 1: The other kind of electricity is positive electricity. Its ultimate
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Speaker 1: particles are called protons. From these protons and electrons, all
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Speaker 1: electrons and protons which they contain. That is the modern
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Speaker 1: but electricity. Can you wonder then, that scientists believe the
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Speaker 1: time will come when mankind, through mind, can control all
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Speaker 1: this energy, can be absolute master of the winds, and
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Speaker 1: the waves can literally follow the master's precept. If ye
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Speaker 1: have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall
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Speaker 1: say unto this mountain, remove, hence to yonder place, and
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Speaker 1: it shall remove, and nothing shall be impossible unto you.
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Speaker 1: For modern science is coming more and more to the
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Speaker 1: wholly to the control of mind. So it would seem
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Speaker 1: that to a great degree, at least east, and perhaps altogether,
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Speaker 1: from it pretty much what we wish. Nothing is, said Shakespeare,
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Speaker 1: music on the air waves. To quote from Applied Psychology
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Speaker 1: of sense will produce different sensations. A blow upon the
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Speaker 1: upon the ear will cause you to hear an explosive sound.
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Speaker 1: In other words, the vibratory effect of a touch on
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Speaker 1: or sound vibrations. The notion you may form of any
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Speaker 1: object in the outer world depends solely upon what part
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Speaker 1: nerve end that received an impression from the object. You
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Speaker 1: the only nerve ends tuned to vibrate in harmony with
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Speaker 1: the character of the outer world, the nature of the
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Speaker 1: environment in which our lives are cast. All these things
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Speaker 1: happens to be put together, upon his individual mental make up.
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Speaker 1: In short, it all comes back to the old fable
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Speaker 1: like a tree. To the one who felt of his side,
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Speaker 1: Every moment, thousands of impressions are reaching you. You can
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Speaker 1: on success or failure, on optimism or fear. You can
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Speaker 1: select the particular impressions that will best serve you. You
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Speaker 1: shut out all disagreeable thoughts and sounds and experiences, or
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Speaker 1: you can tune in on discouragement and failure and despair,
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Speaker 1: if these are what you want. Yours is the choice
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Speaker 1: you have within you, a force against which the whole
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Speaker 1: world is powerless. By using it, you can make what
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Speaker 1: you will of life and of your surroundings. But you
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Speaker 1: will say a jecs themselves do not change. It is
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Speaker 1: merely the difference in the way you look at them. Perhaps,
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Speaker 1: the lack of light. There is infinite good all about us.
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Speaker 1: There is fluid, cosmic energy from which to form infinitely more.
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Speaker 1: Why should we not use our thoughts to find the
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Speaker 1: good or to mold it from the creative force all
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Speaker 1: about us? Many scientists believe that we can, and that
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Speaker 1: the good things of life. They have risen above the
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Speaker 1: as the most powerful forces in nature are the invisible
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Speaker 1: just as electricity confuse stone and iron, so can your
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Speaker 1: honor and fortune? So can they make or mar your destiny?
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Speaker 1: From childhood on? We are assured on every hand by scientists,
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Speaker 1: what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.
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Speaker 1: For verily I say unto you that whosoever shall say
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Speaker 1: that doubt in our heart. Bodewin expressed it clearly to
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Speaker 1: be ambitious for wealth and yet always expecting to be poor.
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Speaker 1: To be always doubting your ability to get what you
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Speaker 1: There is no philosophy which will help a man to
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Speaker 1: and thus attracting failure. You will go in the direction
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Speaker 1: in which you face. There is a saying that every
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Speaker 1: time the sheep bleats, it loses a mouthful of hay.
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Speaker 1: Every time you allow yourself to complain of your lot
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Speaker 1: if your thought is saturated with the fear of failure,
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Speaker 1: it will kill your efforts, neutralize your endeavors, and make
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Speaker 1: of his day primarily his magnificent faith in Napoleon. He
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Speaker 1: that the obstacle was not made, which Napoleon could not
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Speaker 1: only when he lost that confidence, when he hesitated and
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Speaker 1: vacillated for weeks between retreat and advance, that winter caught
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Speaker 1: him in Moscow and ended his dreams of world empire.
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Speaker 1: Fate gave him every chance. First. The winter snows were
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Speaker 1: jesus Own description of what the Kingdom of Heaven is like.
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Speaker 1: The Kingdom of Heaven is like to a grain of
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Speaker 1: mustard seed which a man took and sowed in his field,
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Speaker 1: which indeed is the least of all seeds, But when
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Speaker 1: What is the property of a mustard seed? It spreads,
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Speaker 1: A single seed will grow into a tree. A single
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Speaker 1: And what is the property of leaven or yeast? It
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Speaker 1: everything we need in life is within each one of us.
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Speaker 1: That most of us fail to realize this heaven. That
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Speaker 1: many are sickly in suffering, that more are ground down
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Speaker 1: by poverty and worry, is no fault of his He
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Speaker 1: gave us the power to overcome these evils. The kingdom
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Speaker 1: of expansion is within us, the power to increase anything
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Speaker 1: use it, the fault is ours. If we expand the
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Speaker 1: and now, to live the life eternal takes only the
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Speaker 1: right understanding and use of the creative force working through us.
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Speaker 1: Even now, with the limited knowledge at our command. Many
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Speaker 1: people control circumstances to the point of making the world
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Speaker 1: without an expression of their own world within, where the
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Speaker 1: real thoughts, the real power resides through this world. Within
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Speaker 1: they find the solution of every problem, the cause for
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Speaker 1: every effect. Discover it, and all power, all possession is
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Speaker 1: within your control. For the world without God is but
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Speaker 1: a reflection of that world. Within your thought creates the
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Speaker 1: condition your mind images. Keep before your minds I the
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Speaker 1: image of all you want to be, and you will
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Speaker 1: see it reflected in the world. Without think abundance, feel abundance,
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Speaker 1: believe abundance, and you will find that as you think
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Speaker 1: and feel and believe, abundance will manifest itself in your
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Speaker 1: daily life. But let fear and worry be your mental companions.
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Speaker 1: Thoughts of poverty and limitation dwell in your mind, and
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Speaker 1: worry and fear, limitation and poverty will be your constant
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Speaker 1: companion's day and night. Your mental concept is all that matters.
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Speaker 1: Its relation to matter is that of idea and form.
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Speaker 1: There has got to be an idea before it can
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Speaker 1: take form. The creative force working through you supplies you
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Speaker 1: with limitless energy, which will take whatever form your mind demands.
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Speaker 1: Your thoughts are the mold which crystallizes this energy into
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Speaker 1: good or ill, according to the form you impress upon it.
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Speaker 1: You are free to choose which, But whichever you choose,
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Speaker 1: the result is sure. Thoughts of wealth, of power, of
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Speaker 1: success can bring only results commensurate with your idea of them.
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Speaker 1: Thoughts of poverty and lack can bring only limitation and trouble.
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Speaker 1: A radical doctrine, you'll say, and think me wildly optimistic,
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Speaker 1: because the world has been taught for so long to
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Speaker 1: think that some must be rich and some poor, that
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Speaker 1: trials and tribulations are our lot, that this is at
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Speaker 1: best a veil of tears. The history of the race
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Speaker 1: shows that what is considered to be the learning of
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Speaker 1: one age is ignorance to the next age. Doctor Edwin E. Slawson,
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Speaker 1: Editor of Science Service, speaking of the popular tendency to
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Speaker 1: all through the history of science we find that new
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Speaker 1: ideas have to force their way into the common mind
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Speaker 1: in disguise, as though they were burglars instead of benefactors
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Speaker 1: of the race. And Emerson wrote the verse rutue in
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Speaker 1: most requests is conformity. Self reliance is its aversion. It
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Speaker 1: loves not realities and creators, but names and customs. In
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Speaker 1: the ages to come, man will look back upon the
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Speaker 1: poverty and wretchedness of so many millions today, and think
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Speaker 1: how foolish we were not to take advantage of the
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Speaker 1: abundant creative force all about us. Look at Nature, how
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Speaker 1: profuse she is in everything. Do you suppose the mind
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Speaker 1: that image, that profuseness ever intended you to be limited,
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Speaker 1: to have to scrimp and save in order to eke
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Speaker 1: stars in the heavens. Do you suppose the creative force
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Speaker 1: which could bring into being worlds without number, and such
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Speaker 1: prodigality intended to stint you of the few things necessary
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Speaker 1: to your happiness or well being. Nature is prodigal in
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Speaker 1: all that she does. Many Insects increase at such a
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Speaker 1: equal death rate, the world would be unable to support them.
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Speaker 1: million descendants in three years. Fish lay millions of eggs
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Speaker 1: each year. Throughout nature, everything is lavish. Why should the
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Speaker 1: comes to your own supply. Take as an example the
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Speaker 1: science of numbers. Suppose all numbers were of metal, that
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Speaker 1: it was against the law to write figures for ourselves.
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Speaker 1: Every time you wanted to do a sum in arithmetic,
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Speaker 1: you have to provide yourself with a supply of numbers,
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Speaker 1: arrange them in their proper order, work out your problems
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Speaker 1: with them. If your problems were too abstruse, you might
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Speaker 1: run out of numbers, have to borrow some from your
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Speaker 1: neighbor or from the bank. How ridiculous you say, figures
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Speaker 1: are not things. They are mere ideas, and we can
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Speaker 1: add them, or divide them, or multiply them as often
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Speaker 1: as we like. Anybody can have all the figures he
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Speaker 1: wants to be sure he can. And when you learn
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Speaker 1: to use the creative force, you will find that you
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Speaker 1: can multiply your material ideas in the same way, you
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Speaker 1: will expand the good things in your life, even as
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Speaker 1: Jesus did the loaves and fishes. Thought externalizes itself through
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Speaker 1: Every time we think, we start a chain of causes
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Speaker 1: which will create conditions similar to the thoughts which originated it.
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Speaker 1: Every thought we hold in our consciousness for any length
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Speaker 1: under our own control. When you can direct your thought processes,
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Speaker 1: you can consciously apply them to any condition. For all
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Speaker 1: that comes to us in the world without is what
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Speaker 1: we've already imaged in the world within. The source of
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Speaker 1: all good of everything you wish for is mind, and
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Speaker 1: you can reach it best through your subcommon mind will
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Speaker 1: be to you whatever you believe it to be. The
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Speaker 1: kind and loving father whom Jesus pictured, always looking out
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Speaker 1: for the well being of his children, or the dread
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Speaker 1: judge that so many dogmatists would of us think. When
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Speaker 1: a man realizes that his mind is part of the
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Speaker 1: God mind, when he knows that he has only to
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Speaker 1: take any right aspiration to this universal mind to see
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Speaker 1: it realized, he loses all sense of worry and fear.
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Speaker 1: He learns to dominate instead of to cringe. He rises
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Speaker 1: to meet every situation, secure in the knowledge that everything
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Speaker 1: necessary to the solution of any problem is in mind,
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Speaker 1: and that he has but to take his problem to
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Speaker 1: universal Mind to have it correctly answered. For if you
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Speaker 1: take a drop of water from the ocean, you know
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Speaker 1: that it has the same properties as all the rest
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Speaker 1: of the water in the ocean, the same percentage of
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Speaker 1: sodium chloride. The only difference between it and the ocean
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Speaker 1: is in volume. If you take a spark of electricity,
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Speaker 1: you know that it has the same properties as the thunderbolt.
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Speaker 1: This the same power that moves trains or runs giant
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Speaker 1: machines in factories. Again, the only difference is in volume.
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Speaker 1: It is the same with your mind and the God mind.
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Speaker 1: The only difference between them is in volume. Your mind
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Speaker 1: has the same properties as the God mind, the same
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Speaker 1: creative genius, the same power over all the earth, the
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Speaker 1: same access to all knowledge, know this, believe it, use it,
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Speaker 1: and yours is the earth and the fullness thereof in
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Speaker 1: the exact proportion that you believe yourself to be part
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Speaker 1: of the God Mind, sharing in its all power. In
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Speaker 1: that proportion, can you demonstrate the mastery over your own
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Speaker 1: body and over the world about you. All growth, all
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Speaker 1: supply is from the creative force working through you. If
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Speaker 1: you would have power, if you would have wealth, you
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Speaker 1: must first form the mold in this world within, in
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Speaker 1: your subconscious mind, through belief and understanding. If you would
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Speaker 1: remove discord, you must remove the wrong images, images of
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Speaker 1: ill health, of worry and trouble from within. The trouble
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Speaker 1: with most of us is that we live entirely in
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Speaker 1: the world. Without we have no knowledge of that inner world,
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Speaker 1: which is responsible for all the conditions we meet and
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Speaker 1: all the experiences we have. We have no conception of
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Speaker 1: the Father that is within us. The inner world promises
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Speaker 1: us life and health, prosperity and happiness, dominion over all
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Speaker 1: the earth. It promises peace and perfection for all its offspring.
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Speaker 1: It gives you the right way and the adequate way
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Speaker 1: to accomplish any normal purpose. Business labor professions exist primarily
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Speaker 1: in thought and the outcome of your labors in them
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Speaker 1: is regulated by thought. Consider the difference then, in this outcome,
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Speaker 1: if you have at your command only the limited capacity
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Speaker 1: of your conscious mind, compared with the boundless energy of
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Speaker 1: the subconscious and of the creative force working through it. Thought,
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Speaker 1: not money, is the real business capital, says Harves Firestone.
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Speaker 1: And if you know absolutely that what you are doing
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Speaker 1: is right, then you are bound to accomplish it in
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Speaker 1: due season. Thought is a dynamic energy with the power
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Speaker 1: to bring its object out from the creative force. All
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Speaker 1: about us. Matter is unintelligent. Thought can shape and control
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Speaker 1: every form in which matter is. Today is but the
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Speaker 1: expression of some thought, some desire, some idea. You have
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Speaker 1: a mind, You can originate thought, and thoughts are creative.
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Speaker 1: Therefore you can create for yourself that which you desire.
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Speaker 1: Once you realize this, you are taking a long step
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Speaker 1: towards success in whatever undertaking you have in mind. You
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Speaker 1: are the potter. You are continually forming images good or bad.
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Speaker 1: Why not consciously form only good images? More than half
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Speaker 1: the prophecies in the scriptures refer to the time when
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Speaker 1: man shall possess the earth, when tears and sorrow shall
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Speaker 1: be unknown, and peace and plenty shall be everywhere. That
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Speaker 1: time will come. It is nearer than most people think possible.
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Speaker 1: You are helping it along. Every man who is honestly
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Speaker 1: trying to use the power of mind in the right
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Speaker 1: way is doing his part in the great cause. For
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Speaker 1: it is only through mind that peace and plenty can
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Speaker 1: be gained. The earth is laden with treasures as yet undiscovered.
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Speaker 1: But they are every one of them known to the
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Speaker 1: God Mind, for it was this mind that first imaged
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Speaker 1: them there, and as part of universal mind, they can
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Speaker 1: be known to you. To the manner born, few of
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Speaker 1: us have any idea of our mental powers. The old
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Speaker 1: idea was that man must take this world as he
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Speaker 1: found it. He'd been born into a certain position in life,
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Speaker 1: and to try to rise above his fellows was not
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Speaker 1: only the height of bad taste, but sacrilegious as well.
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Speaker 1: An all wise Providence had decreed by birth the position
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Speaker 1: a child should occupy in the web of organized society.
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Speaker 1: For him to be discontented with his lot, for him
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Speaker 1: to attempt to raise himself to a higher level, was
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Speaker 1: tantamount to tempting Providence. The gates have held yoned wide
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Speaker 1: for such scatter brains who were lucky if in this
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Speaker 1: life they incurred nothing worse than the ribled scorn of
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Speaker 1: their associates. That is the system that produced aristocracy and feudalism.
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Speaker 1: That is the system that feudalism and aristocracy strove to perpetuate.
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Speaker 1: What was it that Jesus taught which aroused the wrath
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Speaker 1: of the priests and the rulers. What was it that
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Speaker 1: made them demand his blood? Not the doctrine of the
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Speaker 1: One God, not the teachings of love instead of hate,
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Speaker 1: But the fact that he went up and down the
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Speaker 1: length and breadth of the land, teaching that all men
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Speaker 1: were equally the sons of God. That would never do
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Speaker 1: that would ruin their system, spread discontent because uprisings against
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Speaker 1: their authority. It must be stopped at any cost. Yet
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Speaker 1: jesus teaching has lived to become the basis of all democracies.
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Speaker 1: That man is not bound by any system, that he
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Speaker 1: need not accept the world as he finds it. He
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Speaker 1: can remake the world to his own ideas. It is
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Speaker 1: merely the raw material. He can make what he will
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Speaker 1: of it. It is this idea that is responsible for
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Speaker 1: all our inventions, all our progress. Man is satisfied with nothing.
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Speaker 1: He is constantly remaking his world, and now, more than
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Speaker 1: ever will this be true. For psychology teaches us that
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Speaker 1: each one has within himself the power to use the
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Speaker 1: creative force to become what he wills. Learn to control
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Speaker 1: your thought. Learn to image upon your mind only the
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Speaker 1: things you want to see reflected there. You will never
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Speaker 1: improve yourself by dwelling upon the drawbacks of your neighbors.
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Speaker 1: You will never attain perfect health and strength by thinking
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Speaker 1: of weakness or disease. No man ever made a perfect
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Speaker 1: score by watching his rival's target. You have to think strength,
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Speaker 1: think health, think riches. To paraphrase Pascal, our achievements today
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Speaker 1: are but the sum of our thoughts of yesterday. For
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Speaker 1: yesterday is the mold in which the creative force flowing
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Speaker 1: through us took shape, and cosmic energy, concentrated for any
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Speaker 1: definite purpose, becomes power. To those who perceive the nature
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Speaker 1: and transcendency of this force, all physical power sinks into insignificance.
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Speaker 1: What is imagination but a form of thought. Yet it
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Speaker 1: is the instrument by which all the inventors and discoverers
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Speaker 1: have opened the way to new worlds. Those who grasp
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Speaker 1: this force be their state, ever so humble, their natural gifts,
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Speaker 1: ever so insignificant, become our leading men. They are our
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Speaker 1: governors and supreme law givers, the guides of the drifting
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Speaker 1: host that follows them, as by an irrevocable decree, to
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Speaker 1: quote Glen Clark in the Atlantic Monthly. Whatever we have
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Speaker 1: of civilization is their work, theirs. A loone progress was made,
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Speaker 1: they made it. If spiritual facts were discerned, they discerned them.
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Speaker 1: If justice and order were put in place of insolence
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Speaker 1: and chaos, they wrought the change. Never is progress achieved
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Speaker 1: by the masses. Creation, ever, remains the task of the individual.
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Speaker 1: Our railroads, our telephones, our automobiles, our libraries, our newspapers,
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Speaker 1: to the creative genius of but two percent of our population,
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Speaker 1: and the same two percent own a great percentage of
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Speaker 1: the wealth of the country. The question arises, who are they?
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Speaker 1: What are they? The sons of the rich college men?
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Speaker 1: No few of them had any early advantages. Many of
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Speaker 1: them have never seen the inside of a college. It
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Speaker 1: was grim necessity that drove them, and somehow, some way
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Speaker 1: they found a method of drawing upon their creative force,
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Speaker 1: and through that force. They reached success. You don't need
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Speaker 1: to stumble and grope. You can call upon the creative
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Speaker 1: force at will. There are three steps necessary, first to
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Speaker 1: you want, Third to center your thought upon it with
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Speaker 1: singleness of purpose. To accomplish these steps takes only a
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Speaker 1: fuller understanding of the power that is within you. So
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Speaker 1: let us make use of this dynamo which is you.
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Speaker 1: What is going to start at working your faith, The
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Speaker 1: faith that is begotten of understanding. Faith is the impulsion
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Speaker 1: of this power. Within faith is the confidence, the assurance,
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Speaker 1: the enforcing truth, the knowing that the right idea of
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Speaker 1: life will bring you into the reality of existence, and
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Speaker 1: the manifestation of the all power. All cause is in mind,
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Speaker 1: and mind is everywhere. All the knowledge there is, all
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Speaker 1: the power there is is all about you. No matter
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Speaker 1: where you may be, your mind is part of it.
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Speaker 1: You have access to it. If you fail to avail
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Speaker 1: yourself of it, you have no one to blame but yourself.
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Speaker 1: For as the drop of water in the ocean shares
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Speaker 1: so you share in that all power, all wisdom of mind,
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Speaker 1: If you have been sick and ailing, if poverty and
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Speaker 1: hardship have been your lot, don't blame it on fate,
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Speaker 1: blame yourself. Yours is the earth and everything that's in it,
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Speaker 1: but you've got to take it. The creative force is there,
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Speaker 1: but you must use it. It is round about you,
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Speaker 1: like the air you breathe. You don't expect others to
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Speaker 1: do your breathing for you. Neither can you expect them
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Speaker 1: to use the creative force for you. Universal intelligence is
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Speaker 1: not only the mind of the creator of the universe,
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Speaker 1: but it is also the mind of man. Your intelligence,
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Speaker 1: your mind. Let this mind be in you, which was
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Speaker 1: also in Christ Jesus. I am success. Though hungry, cold,
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Speaker 1: ill clad, I wander for a while, I smile and
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Speaker 1: say it is but a time. I shall be glad tomorrow,
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Speaker 1: for good fortune comes my way. God is my father.
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Speaker 1: He has wealth untold. His wealth is mine, health, happiness,
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Speaker 1: and gold. Ellow Wheeler Wilcox. So start to day by
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Speaker 1: knowing that you can do anything you wish to do,
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Speaker 1: have anything you wish to have, be anything you wish
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Speaker 1: to be. The rest will follow. Ye shall ask what
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Speaker 1: ye will, and it shall be done unto you A
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Speaker 1: funny world. There is a world, a funny world that's
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Speaker 1: not a world at all, a world that has no
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Speaker 1: shape nor size, that's neither spear nor ball. You think
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Speaker 1: at first that it exists, You think it very true,
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Speaker 1: Then finally you see the point that it's just fooling you.
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Speaker 1: Perhaps you once lived in this world, with all its
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Speaker 1: hates and fears. You were a glum and saddened soul,
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Speaker 1: believed in pains and tears. You thought you had to
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Speaker 1: be diseased, and thought there was a hell. When all
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Speaker 1: at once you learn the truth. This world just went pellmell.
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Speaker 1: And then this world, this shadow world, just disappeared from sight,
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Speaker 1: and in its place a world of joy, of health,
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Speaker 1: of love and light came into view right where you were.
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Speaker 1: You came to understand that you abide in heaven now,
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Speaker 1: and God is right at hand. Frank Blen Larry Whitney.
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Speaker 1: The goal. If you think success, success has begun. If
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Speaker 1: you think you can win, your battle is won. Whatever
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Speaker 1: you need you can have, You'll find it's all in
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Speaker 1: the way you set your mind. If you feel that
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Speaker 1: your part in the world is small, you may never
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Speaker 1: achieve your work at all, but feel that your life
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Speaker 1: of God's life is a part. Then you'll work in
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Speaker 1: the way you have set your heart. If you know
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Speaker 1: you are great, you will do great things. Your thoughts
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Speaker 1: will soar on eagle's wings. Your life will reach its
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Speaker 1: destined goal if you know the way to set your soul.
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Speaker 1: Catherine Wilder ruggles two. The urge what is the strongest
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Speaker 1: force in life? What is the power that carries those
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Speaker 1: who heate it from the bottomost pits of poverty to
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Speaker 1: the top of the world, from the slums and ghettos
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Speaker 1: to governorships and presidencies and the rulership of kingdoms. The
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Speaker 1: urge for security, for assured subsistence and safety. When the
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Speaker 1: first primitive water plants appeared, living in the saturated soil
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Speaker 1: along the shores of the waters, you might think the
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Speaker 1: creative force would have rested content for a while. It
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Speaker 1: had created something that lived and grew and reproduced itself.
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Speaker 1: It was the first form of life upon this earth,
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Speaker 1: the thalophytes. As with the water plants. There came next
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Speaker 1: the multiple celled creature, each dependent for life upon drawing
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Speaker 1: its own nourishment from the waters. About then a central
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Speaker 1: system corresponding with the stem and roots of the fern,
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Speaker 1: finally evolving into distinct organs to take care of each
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Speaker 1: function of life, and so was laid the foundation for
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Speaker 1: all forms of animal life that have developed. From this
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Speaker 1: simple beginning. The principle had been perfected. It remained now
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Speaker 1: only to develop every possible ramification of it until the
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Speaker 1: highest form should be reached. When means of protection were
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Speaker 1: found necessary for survival, the creative force developed these two.
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Speaker 1: For those subject to the abrasive effects of sand and rocks,
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Speaker 1: it developed shells to the weak, It gave means of
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Speaker 1: escape to the strong, teeth and claws with which to fight.
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Speaker 1: It fitted each form to meet the conditions it had
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Speaker 1: to cope with. When size was the paramount consideration, it
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Speaker 1: made the gigantosaurus over a hundred feet long and as
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Speaker 1: big as a house, and all the other giant monsters
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Speaker 1: of antiquity. When smallness was the objective, it developed the
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Speaker 1: tiny insects and water creatures, so that it takes a
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Speaker 1: powerful microscope to see them, yet so perfectly made as
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Speaker 1: to form organisms as exact and well regulated as the
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Speaker 1: greatest size, strength, fierceness, speed. All these it developed to
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Speaker 1: the last degree. It tried every form of life, but
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Speaker 1: each had its weaknesses, each was vulnerable in some way.
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Speaker 1: The creative force might develop forms that would grow, but
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Speaker 1: nothing physical could be made that would be invulnerable, that
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Speaker 1: job of emulating his maker, of becoming a creator, finding
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Speaker 1: new and broader in better ways through which to express
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Speaker 1: the creative force in him. His is the work of
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Speaker 1: creating beauty, or bringing more of comfort, of joy, and
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Speaker 1: happiness into the world. To every living thing on earth
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Speaker 1: is given a measure of creative power. Of the lower
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Speaker 1: forms of life. All that is required is that they
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Speaker 1: bring forth fruit according to their kind, some thirty, some sixty,
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Speaker 1: some one hundredfold of you, however, much more is expected.
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Speaker 1: To bring forth fruit according to your physical kind is good,
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Speaker 1: but that is no more than the animals do. More
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Speaker 1: is required of you. You must bring forth fruit according
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Speaker 1: to your mental kind as well. You are a son
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Speaker 1: of God, a creator. Therefore creation is expected of you.
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Speaker 1: You are to spread seeds, not merely of human kind,
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Speaker 1: but of the intellect as well. You are to leave
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Speaker 1: the world a better place than you found it, with
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Speaker 1: more of joy in it, more of beauty, of comfort,
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Speaker 1: of understanding, of light. The real purpose of life is expression,
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Speaker 1: the constant urge onward and upward. Even in the smallest
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Speaker 1: child you see evidence of this. It plays with blocks.
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Speaker 1: Why to express the urge in him to build something?
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Speaker 1: The growing boy makes toys, builds a hut, the girl
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Speaker 1: So's dresses, cares for dolls, cooks, plays house. Why to
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Speaker 1: give vent to the inner urge in each struggling for expression?
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Speaker 1: They reach the period of adolescence. They dance, they motor,
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Speaker 1: they seek all manner of thrill. Why again, to satisfy
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Speaker 1: that constant craving of the creative force in them for expression? True,
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Speaker 1: at the moment it is mostly a physical urge, But
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Speaker 1: in some way that urge must be translated into a
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Speaker 1: mental one and satisfied. It must be given an outlet
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Speaker 1: for expression. It must be brought into the light of day,
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Speaker 1: given useful, uplifting work to do, and it will then
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Speaker 1: bring forth abundant fruit of happiness and accomplishment. Because no
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Speaker 1: matter how it is repressed, no matter how deep it
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Speaker 1: is buried in dark cellars, the creative force will still
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Speaker 1: bring forth fruit. Only then it may be fungus growths
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Speaker 1: of sin and misery. Through every man there flows this
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Speaker 1: creative force with infinite power to draw to itself whatever
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Speaker 1: is necessary to its expression. It doesn't matter who you are,
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Speaker 1: what your environment, or education or advantages. The creative force
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Speaker 1: in you has the same power for good or evil.
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Speaker 1: Mind you, that force never brings forth evil. Its life
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Speaker 1: is good. But just as you can graft onto the
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Speaker 1: trunk of the finest fruit tree, a branch of the
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Speaker 1: yupis tree, and thereupon bring forth deadly fruit, so can
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Speaker 1: you engraft upon the pure energy of your creative force
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Speaker 1: any manner of fruit you desire. But if the fruit
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Speaker 1: be bad, it is you who are to blame, not
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Speaker 1: the perfect force that flows through you. To every man,
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Speaker 1: there openeth a highway and a low, and every man
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Speaker 1: desideth the way his soul shall go. What is it
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Speaker 1: makes a poor immigrant boy like Edward Buck overcome every
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Speaker 1: hand decap of language and education to become one of
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Speaker 1: the greatest editors the country has ever known. Isn't it
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Speaker 1: that the more circumstances conspire to repress it, the stronger
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Speaker 1: becomes the urge of the creative force in you for expression.
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Speaker 1: The more it lacks channels through which to expand, the
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Speaker 1: more inclined it is to burst its shell and flow
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Speaker 1: forth in all directions. It is the old case of
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Speaker 1: the river that is dammed generating the most power. Most
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Speaker 1: of us are so placed that some opportunity for expression
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Speaker 1: is made easy for us, and that little opportunity serves
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Speaker 1: like a safety valve to a boiler. It leaves us
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Speaker 1: steam enough to do something worth while, yet keeps us
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Speaker 1: from getting up enough power to burst the shell about
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Speaker 1: us and sweep away every barrier that holds us down.
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Speaker 1: Yet it is only such an irresistible head of steam
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Speaker 1: as that which makes great successes. That is why the
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Speaker 1: blow which knocks all the props from under us is
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Speaker 1: often the turning point in our whole career. As Walt
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Speaker 1: Whitman put it, Oh, while I live to be the
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Speaker 1: ruler of life, not a slave, to meet life as
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Speaker 1: a powerful conqueror, and nothing exterior shall ever take command
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Speaker 1: of me. You cannot stand still. You must go forward,
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Speaker 1: or see the world's slide it passed you. This was
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Speaker 1: well illustrated by figures worked out by Russell Conwell years ago.
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Speaker 1: Of all the thousands who are left fortunes through the
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Speaker 1: deaths of relatives, only one in seventeen dies wealthy. Why
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Speaker 1: because the fortunes let them take away the need for
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Speaker 1: initiative on their part. Their money gives to them easy
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Speaker 1: means of expressing the urge in them without effort on
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Speaker 1: their part. It gives them dozens of safety valves through
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Speaker 1: which their steam continually escapes. The result is that they
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Speaker 1: not only accomplish nothing worthwhile, but they soon dissipate the
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Speaker 1: fortunes that were left them. They are like kettles, the
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Speaker 1: urge of life keeping the water at boiling point, but
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Speaker 1: the open spout of ease, letting the steam escape as
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Speaker 1: fast as it forms, until presently there is not even
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Speaker 1: any water left. Why do the sons of rich men
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Speaker 1: so seldom accomplish anything worthwhile? Because they don't have to.
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Speaker 1: Every opportunity is given them to turn the creative force
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Speaker 1: in them through play channels, and they dissipate through these
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Speaker 1: the energies that might carry them to any height. The
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Speaker 1: result they never have a strong enough head of steam
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Speaker 1: left to carry through any real job. What shall I
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Speaker 1: do to be saved? Beg the rich young man of Jesus.
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Speaker 1: Sell all that thou hast, give it to the poor,
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Speaker 1: and follow me, the Master told him. Churches have used
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Speaker 1: that to prove that poverty is necessary to salvation. But
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Speaker 1: is that the lesson the Biblical writer meant to convey.
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Speaker 1: If so, why is there no record of Jesus having
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Speaker 1: ever given similar advice to Nicodemus, or Joseph of Arimathea,
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Speaker 1: or any others of the rich who sought counsel of him,
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Speaker 1: and at whose houses he frequently stopped. Isn't the difference
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Speaker 1: That these latter had made their mark in the world,
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Speaker 1: expressed the creative force in them to some worthwhile purpose,
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Speaker 1: and in the expressing of it, the creative force had
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Speaker 1: increased and multiplied, and brought back to them goodly harvests
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Speaker 1: of riches. The young man, on the other hand, had
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Speaker 1: had done nothing to earn all the good things that
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Speaker 1: were his. His life had been cast in pleasant places.
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Speaker 1: The spirit in him urged its need of expression, But
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Speaker 1: Jesus saw that only by getting away from his life
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Speaker 1: of ease was any worth while expression possible, And the
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Speaker 1: young man had not courage enough for that. Truly, it
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Speaker 1: is harder for a camel to go through the eye
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Speaker 1: of the needle than for such a rich man to
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Speaker 1: enter into the Kingdom of heaven, the land of accomplishment.
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Speaker 1: You will be what you will to be. Let failure
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Speaker 1: find its false content in that poor word environment. But
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Speaker 1: spirit scorns it and is free. It masters time, it
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Speaker 1: conquers space, It cows that boastful trickster chance, and bids
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Speaker 1: the tyrant circumstance uncrown and fill a servant's place. Be
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Speaker 1: not impatient in delay, but wait is one who understands
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Speaker 1: when spirit rises and commands, the gods are ready to obey.
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Speaker 1: Ello Wheeler Wilcox. You are a channel for power. There
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Speaker 1: is no limit to the amount of creative force that
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Speaker 1: will flow through you. The only limit to what you
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Speaker 1: get is the amount that you use. Like the widow's cruise,
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Speaker 1: no matter how much you pour out, there is just
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Speaker 1: as much still available. But unlike the crews of oil,
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Speaker 1: your channel and your power grow with use. What are
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Speaker 1: you doing to satisfy the urge in you? What are
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Speaker 1: you doing to give expression and increase to the creative
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Speaker 1: force working through you? Many a man and woman has
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Speaker 1: the urge to write or paint, or sing or do
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Speaker 1: some other worthwhile thing. But does he know indeed he
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Speaker 1: is not well enough known, or has not the right training,
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Speaker 1: or lacks education or opportunity or influence or else he
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Speaker 1: has tried once or twice and failed. What does that matter?
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Speaker 1: It is not your responsibility if others fail in their appreciation.
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Speaker 1: Your job is to express the creative force surging through you,
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Speaker 1: to give it the best you have. Each time you
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Speaker 1: do that, you are the better for it, whether others
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Speaker 1: care for it or not, And each time you will
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Speaker 1: give more, perfect, more understanding expression to the creative force
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Speaker 1: working through you, until sooner or later all appreciate it.
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Speaker 1: You don't suppose the great writers, the successful artists, were
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Speaker 1: born with the ability to write or paint, do you?
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Speaker 1: You don't suppose they had all the latest books or
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Speaker 1: finest courses on the art of expression. On the contrary,
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Speaker 1: all that many of them had was the urge the
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Speaker 1: rest they had to acquire, just as you do. The
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Speaker 1: creative force flowing through you is as perfect as the
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Speaker 1: rose in the bud. But just as the life in
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Speaker 1: the rose bush evolved through millions of less beautiful forms
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Speaker 1: before it perfected the rose, so must you be satisfied
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Speaker 1: to model, but crudely at first, in the sure knowledge
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Speaker 1: that if you keep giving of your best, eventually the
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Speaker 1: product of your hands or your brain will be as
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Speaker 1: perfect as the rose. Every desire, every urge of your
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Speaker 1: being is creative force straining at the bonds of repression
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Speaker 1: you have put upon it, straining for expression. You can't
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Speaker 1: stand still, You can't stop and smugly say look what
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Speaker 1: I did yesterday, or last week or last year. It
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Speaker 1: is what you are doing now that counts. The creative
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Speaker 1: force is dynamic. It is ever seeking expression, and when
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Speaker 1: you fail to provide new and greater outlets for it,
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Speaker 1: it slips away to work through some more ambitious soul
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Speaker 1: who will. Genius is nothing but the irresistible urge for
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Speaker 1: one particular channel of expression, and urge so strong that
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Speaker 1: it is like a mountain torrent in flood, sweeping trees
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Speaker 1: and bridges and dams and everything else before it. So
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Speaker 1: don't worry about whether those around you recognize your talents.
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Speaker 1: Don't mind if the world seems indifferent to them. The
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Speaker 1: world is too busy with its own little ways of
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Speaker 1: expressing life to pay much attention to yours. To get
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Speaker 1: under its skin, you must do something to appeal to
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Speaker 1: its emotions. You see, the world in the mass is
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Speaker 1: like a child. Prod it and you make it angry,
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Speaker 1: preach to it, or try to teach or uplift it,
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Speaker 1: and you lose its attention. You bore it. But appeal
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Speaker 1: to its emotions, make it laugh or weep, and it
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Speaker 1: will love you, love you, and lavish upon you all
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Speaker 1: the gifts in its power to give. That is why
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Speaker 1: it pays a Crosby millions, and a great educator only hundreds.
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Speaker 1: Yet the name of the educator may live for ages,
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Speaker 1: while the entertainer will be remembered only until a better
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Speaker 1: one displaces him. So forget the immediate rewards the world
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Speaker 1: has to offer, and give your energies to finding ways
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Speaker 1: of better expressing the creative force in you. You are
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Speaker 1: expressing it every day an hour. Try to express it better,
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Speaker 1: to find ever greater channels through which to work. If
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Speaker 1: your urge is to write a story, put into it
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Speaker 1: the best you have, no matter. If you know you
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Speaker 1: could get by with a third of the effort. Work
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Speaker 1: always for perfection, knowing that thus only can you be
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Speaker 1: sure of the greatest help of the creative force working
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Speaker 1: through you. I can do all things through Christ, which
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Speaker 1: strengtheneth me, said Paul. And you can do all things
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Speaker 1: through the creative force working through you. That creative force
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Speaker 1: is striving for a perfect body, perfect surroundings, perfect work.
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Speaker 1: It is not its fault when you manifest less than
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Speaker 1: these depend upon it. It is not satisfied with anything less.
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Speaker 1: So don't you be if you have the courage to
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Speaker 1: refuse anything short of your ideal, If you have the
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Speaker 1: dogged perseverance to keep trying, There's no power in the
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Speaker 1: heavens or the earth that can keep you from success.
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Speaker 1: It's the way every great success has been won. Do
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Speaker 1: you suppose if Michelangelo or da Vinci had an off
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Speaker 1: day and painted some imperfect figures into a painting, he
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Speaker 1: left them there? Do you think he explained to his
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Speaker 1: friends that he was under the weather that day, and
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Speaker 1: so while he he is sorry it spoiled the picture,
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Speaker 1: he could not be held accountable for it. Just imagine
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Speaker 1: one of these great painters letting something less than his
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Speaker 1: best go over his name. Why he would cheerfully destroy
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Speaker 1: a year's work rather than have that happen The moment
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Speaker 1: he noticed it, he would hasten to scratch out the
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Speaker 1: offensive figure lest others might see it and judge his
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Speaker 1: work by it. Or even if no one was ever
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Speaker 1: to see it, he would do it because it failed
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Speaker 1: to express the genius that was his. That is how
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Speaker 1: you must feel about your work before ever it can
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Speaker 1: attain greatness. The creative force working through you is perfect,
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Speaker 1: all powerful, without limit, So don't ever be satisfied with
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Speaker 1: less than its best. Follow its urge. Use every atom
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Speaker 1: of strength and skill and riches you have to express it,
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Speaker 1: serene in the knowledge that, like Paul, you can do
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Speaker 1: anything through the Christ working in you. Andrew Carnegie said,
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Speaker 1: here is the prime condition of success, the great eight secret.
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Speaker 1: Concentrate your energy, thought, and capital exclusively upon the business
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Speaker 1: in which you are engaged. Having begun on one line,
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Speaker 1: resolved to fight it out on that line, to lead
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Speaker 1: in it. Adopt every improvement, have the best machinery, and
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Speaker 1: know the most about it. Finally, do not be impatient, for,
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Speaker 1: as Emerson says, no one can cheat you out of
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Speaker 1: ultimate success but yourself. Have you ever climbed a high mountain,
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Speaker 1: did you notice as you kept getting higher and higher,
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Speaker 1: how your horizon rose with you. It is the same
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Speaker 1: with life. The more you use the creative force, the
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Speaker 1: more you have to use your skill and power, and
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Speaker 1: resources grow with your use of them. From earliest infancy,
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Speaker 1: the creative force is trying to express something through you.
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Speaker 1: First it is purely physical, a perfect body, and through
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Speaker 1: it the generation of other perfect bodies. But gradually it
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Speaker 1: rises above the physical plane and strives to express itself
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Speaker 1: in some way that will leave the world a better
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Speaker 1: place for your having been in it. A memory of
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Speaker 1: noble thoughts, of splendid deeds, of obstacles conquered in ideals.
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Speaker 1: One do your part by never falling short of your best,
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Speaker 1: no matter in how small a thing you may express it. Perfection,
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Speaker 1: you remember, is made up of trifles, But perfection is
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Speaker 1: no trifle. It doesn't matter how small or seemingly unimportant
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Speaker 1: your job may be. You have the same chance to
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Speaker 1: attain perfection in it as the greatest artist has in
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Speaker 1: his work. It doesn't matter how little others may believe
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Speaker 1: that any good or great thing can come from you.
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Speaker 1: It was said in the scriptures of a far greater
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Speaker 1: than you can there any good thing come out of Nazareth.
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Speaker 1: Who knows what good things may come from you. There's
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Speaker 1: nothing to fear. You're as good as the best, as
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Speaker 1: strong as the mightiest. Too. You can win in every
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Speaker 1: battle or test, for there's no one just like you.
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Speaker 1: There's only one you in the world today, So nobody
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Speaker 1: else you see can do your work in as fine
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Speaker 1: a way. You're the only youth there'll be, So face
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Speaker 1: the world and all life is yours to conquer and
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Speaker 1: love and live, and you'll find the happiness that endures
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Speaker 1: in just the measure you give. There's nothing too good
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Speaker 1: for you to possess, nor heights where you cannot go.
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Speaker 1: Your power is more than belief or guess. It's something
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Speaker 1: you have to know. There's nothing to fear. You can
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Speaker 1: and you will, for you're the invincible you, so set
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Speaker 1: your foot on the highest hill. There's nothing you cannot do.
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Speaker 1: Anonymous E three the mental equivalent. All the world's a stage,
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Speaker 1: and all the men and women merely players. What part
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Speaker 1: are you acting in the theater of life? What place
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Speaker 1: have you assigned to yourself on that stage? Are you
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Speaker 1: one of the stars? Do you bear one of the
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Speaker 1: important parts? Or are you merely one of the mob scene,
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Speaker 1: just background for the action, or one of the props
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Speaker 1: for moving the scenery around. Whatever part is yours, it
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Speaker 1: is you who have given it to you. For, as
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Speaker 1: Emerson says, and the whole Bible teaches from one end
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Speaker 1: to the other, man surrounds himself with the true image
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Speaker 1: of himself. Every spirit builds itself a house, writes Emerson,
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Speaker 1: and beyond its house a world, and beyond its world
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Speaker 1: a heaven. Know then, that the world exists for you.
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Speaker 1: For you is the phenomenon perfect what we are. That
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Speaker 1: only can we see all that Adam had, all that
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Speaker 1: Caesar could you have and can do. Adam called his
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Speaker 1: house heaven and earth. Caesar called his house Rome. You
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Speaker 1: perhaps call yours a cobbler's trade, a hundred acres of
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Speaker 1: plowed land, or a scholar's garret. Yet line for line,
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Speaker 1: and point for point, your dominion is as great as theirs,
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Speaker 1: though without fine names. Build therefore your own world, as
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Speaker 1: fast as you can form your life to the pure
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Speaker 1: idea in your mind that will unfold its great proportion.
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Speaker 1: All men are created free and equal, in that all
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Speaker 1: are given the only tool with which you can really
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Speaker 1: build your life. That tool is your thought. All have
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Speaker 1: the same material with which to build. That material is
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Speaker 1: the creative force working through you. As your interior thought is,
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Speaker 1: so will your exterior life be. The creative force takes
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Speaker 1: shape and the mold your thoughts give it. We think
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Speaker 1: in secret and it comes to pass. Environment is but
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Speaker 1: our looking glass. In all my lectures, declared Emerson, I
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Speaker 1: have taught one doctrine, the infinitude of the private man,
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Speaker 1: the ever availability to every man of the divine presence
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Speaker 1: within his own mind, from which presence he draws at
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Speaker 1: his need, inexhaustible power. Think big and your deeds will grow.
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Speaker 1: Think small and you'll fall behind. Think that you can,
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Speaker 1: and you will. It's all in a state of mind.
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Speaker 1: What sort of mental image do you hold of yourself?
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Speaker 1: Emi asks in one of his helpful books. Whatever your
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Speaker 1: real conviction of yourself is, that is what you will demonstrate.
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Speaker 1: Whatever enters into your life is but the material expression
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Speaker 1: of some belief of your own mind. The kind of
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Speaker 1: body you have, the kind of home you have, the
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Speaker 1: kind of job you have, the kind of people you
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Speaker 1: meet with, are all conditioned by and correspond to the
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Speaker 1: mental concept you are holding. The Bible teaches that from
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Speaker 1: beginning to end. About twenty years ago, I coin the
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Speaker 1: phrase mental equivalent, and I am going to say that
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Speaker 1: anything that you want in your life, anything that you
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Speaker 1: would like to have in your life, a healthy body,
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Speaker 1: a satisfactory vocation, friends, opportunities, Above all, the understanding of God.
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Speaker 1: If you want these things to come into your life,
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Speaker 1: you must furnish a mental equivalent for them. Supply yourself
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Speaker 1: with a mental equivalent. And a thing must come to you.
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Speaker 1: Without a mental equivalent, it cannot come to you. And
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Speaker 1: what is this mental equivalent? What but your mental image
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Speaker 1: of what you hope to be, plan to be. Think
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Speaker 1: and forms spring into shape, will and worlds disintegrate. God
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Speaker 1: hid the whole world in your heart, as one great
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Speaker 1: writer tells us, so, when any object or purpose is
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Speaker 1: clearly held in thought, its manifestation in tangible and visible
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Speaker 1: form is merely a question of time. Cause and effect
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Speaker 1: are as absolute and undeviating in the hidden realm of
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Speaker 1: thought as in the world of visible and material things.
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Speaker 1: Mind is the master weaver, both of the interior garment
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Speaker 1: of character and the outer garment of circumstance. Thinking for
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Speaker 1: a purpose brings that purpose into being, just as surely
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Speaker 1: as a hen's setting on an egg mature's and brings
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Speaker 1: the chicken into being. Amid all the mysteries by which
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Speaker 1: we are surrounded, wrote Herbert Spencer, nothing is more certain
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Speaker 1: than that we are ever in the presence of an
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Speaker 1: infinite and eternal energy from which all things proceed. That
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Speaker 1: infinite and eternal energy or creative force, is molded by
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Speaker 1: a thought. For thousands of years, men of wisdom have
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Speaker 1: realized this, and have molded their own lives accordingly. The
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Speaker 1: prophets of old did their best to impress this fact
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Speaker 1: upon their people. My word, my thought, or mental image
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Speaker 1: shall not come back to me void, but shall accomplish
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Speaker 1: that whereunto it was sent, says one. And in a
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Speaker 1: hundred places you will find the same thought expressed. You
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Speaker 1: are molding your tomorrows, whether you realize it or not.
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Speaker 1: Make them the good you desire, not the evil you fear.
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Speaker 1: Clarence Edwin Flynn expresses something of the power of thought
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Speaker 1: in his little poem. Whenever you cultivate a thought, remember
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Speaker 1: it will trace, with certain touch its pictured form a
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Speaker 1: story on your face. Whenever you dwell upon a thought,
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Speaker 1: remember it will roll into your being and become a
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Speaker 1: fiber of your soul. Whenever you send out a thought,
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Speaker 1: remember it will be a force throughout the universe for
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Speaker 1: all eternity. Remember that this holds good in all of
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Speaker 1: your affairs. In your own thoughts, you are continually dramatizing yourself,
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Speaker 1: your environment your circumstances. If you see yourself as prosperous,
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Speaker 1: you will be. If you see yourself as continually hard up,
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Speaker 1: that is exactly what you will be. If you are
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Speaker 1: constantly looking for slights, if you seek trouble in your thoughts,
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Speaker 1: you will not be long in finding them in your
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Speaker 1: daily life. Whatever part you give yourself in the drama
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Speaker 1: of life in your own thought, that part you will
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Speaker 1: eventually act out on the stage of life. So give
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Speaker 1: yourself a good part. Make yourself the hero of the piece,
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Speaker 1: rather than the downtrodden member of the mob or the
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Speaker 1: overworked servant. Set your lines in pleasant places. It is
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Speaker 1: just as easy as laying them in the slums. As
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Speaker 1: long as you are bound to dramatize yourself and your
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Speaker 1: surroundings and circumstances anyway, try this one. Dramatize yourself in
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Speaker 1: your mind's eye, with the people and surroundings and things
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Speaker 1: you want most, doing the things you would like most
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Speaker 1: to do, holding the sort of position you long for,
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Speaker 1: doing the work you feel yourself best fitted to do.
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Speaker 1: Some may call it day dreaming, but make it day
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Speaker 1: dreaming with a purpose. Make the picture as clear in
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Speaker 1: your mind's eye as though you saw it on the
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Speaker 1: screen of a motion picture theater, and get all the
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Speaker 1: enjoyment out of it that you can believe in it,
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Speaker 1: be thankful for it. Two. Prove your faith in your
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Speaker 1: dream by making every logical preparation for the material manifestation
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Speaker 1: of your desires, just as the kings of old did
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Speaker 1: when they prayed for water. Did your ditches to receive it.
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Speaker 1: Free Alter minor details of your drama as you like,
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Speaker 1: but stick to the main goal. Make it your objective, and,
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Speaker 1: like Grant in his successful campaign, resolved to stick to
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Speaker 1: it though it takes all Summer. Four, be a finisher
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Speaker 1: as well as a beginner. Remember that one job finished
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Speaker 1: is worth a dozen half finished. The three quarter horses
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Speaker 1: never win a prize. It is only at the finish
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Speaker 1: that the purse awaits you. So complete your drama mentally
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Speaker 1: before you begin to act it out, and then stick
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Speaker 1: to it actually until you've made it manifest for all
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Speaker 1: to see. Five. Keep that mental drama to yourself. Don't
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Speaker 1: tell it to others. Remember Samson, he could do anything
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Speaker 1: as long as he kept his mouth shut. Most people's
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Speaker 1: minds are like boilers with the safety valve wide open.
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Speaker 1: They never get up enough of a head of steam
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Speaker 1: to run their engines. Keep your plans to yourself. That way,
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Speaker 1: they'll generate such power that you won't need to tell
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Speaker 1: others about them. They'll see the result for themselves. The imagination,
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Speaker 1: says Glen Clark, in the sole sincere desire is of
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Speaker 1: all qualities in man, the most godlike that which associates
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Speaker 1: him most closely with God. The first mention we read
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Speaker 1: of man in the Bible is where he is spoken
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Speaker 1: of as an image. Let us make man in our
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Speaker 1: image after our likeness. The only place where an image
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Speaker 1: can be conceived is in the imagination. Thus, man, the
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Speaker 1: highest creation of God, was a creation of God's imagination.
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Speaker 1: The source and center of all man's creative power, the
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Speaker 1: power that above all others lifts him above the level
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Speaker 1: of brute creation, and that gives him dominion, is his
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Speaker 1: power of making images, or the power of the imagination.
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Speaker 1: There are some who have always thought that the imagination
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Speaker 1: was something which makes believe that which is not. This
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Speaker 1: is fancy, not imagination. Fancy would convert that which is
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Speaker 1: real into pretense and sham. Imagination enables one to see
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Speaker 1: through the appearance of a thing to what it really is.
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Speaker 1: There is a very real law of cause and effect
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Speaker 1: which makes the dream of the dreamer come true. It
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Speaker 1: is the law of visualization, the law that calls into
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Speaker 1: being in this outer material world everything that is real
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Speaker 1: in the inner world. By directing your creative force into it.
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Speaker 1: Imagination pictures the thing you desire. Vision idealizes it. It
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Speaker 1: reaches beyond the thing that is into the conception of
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Speaker 1: what can be. Imagination gives you the picture. Vision gives
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Speaker 1: you the impulse to make the picture your own by
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Speaker 1: directing your creative force into it. Make your mental image
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Speaker 1: clear enough, picture it vividly in every detail. Then do
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Speaker 1: everything you can to bring that image into being, and
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Speaker 1: the creative force working through you will speedily provide whatever
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Speaker 1: is necessary to make it an everyday reality. The law
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Speaker 1: holds true of everything in life. There is nothing you
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Speaker 1: can rightfully desire that cannot be brought into being through
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Speaker 1: visualization and faith. The keynote of successful visualization is this,
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Speaker 1: see things as you would have them be, instead of
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Speaker 1: as they are. Close your eyes and make clear mental pictures.
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Speaker 1: Make them look and act just as they would in
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Speaker 1: real life. In short day dream, but daydream purposefully concentrate
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Speaker 1: on the one idea to the exclusion of all others,
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Speaker 1: and continue to concentrate on that one idea until it
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Speaker 1: has been accomplished. Do you want an automobile, a home,
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Speaker 1: a factory. They can all be won in the same way.
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Speaker 1: They are in their essence, all of them ideas of mind.
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Speaker 1: And if you will but build them up in your
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Speaker 1: own mind, first, complete in every detail, you will find
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Speaker 1: that the creative force working through you can build them up.
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Speaker 1: Similarly in the material world. The building of a transcontinental
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Speaker 1: railroad from a mental picture, says Cee W. Chamberlain in
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Speaker 1: the uncommon sense of applied psychology, gives the average individual
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Speaker 1: an idea that it is a big job. The fact
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Speaker 1: of the matter is the achievement, as well as the
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Speaker 1: perfect mental picture is made up of millions of little jobs,
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Speaker 1: each fitting in its proper place and helping to make
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Speaker 1: up the whole. A skyscraper is built from individual bricks,
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Speaker 1: the laying of each brick being a single job which
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Speaker 1: must be completed before the next brick can be laid.
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Speaker 1: It is the same with any work, any study. To
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Speaker 1: quote Professor James, as we become permanent drunkards by so
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Speaker 1: many separate drinks so we become saints in the moral
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Speaker 1: and authorities, and experts in the practical and scientific spheres,
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Speaker 1: by so many separate acts and hours of working. Let
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Speaker 1: no youth have any anxiety about the upshot of his education,
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Speaker 1: whatever the line of it may be. If he keep
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Speaker 1: faithfully busy each hour of the working day, he may
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Speaker 1: safely leave the final result to itself. He can with
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Speaker 1: perfect certainty count on waking some fine morning to find
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Speaker 1: himself one of the competent ones of his generation, in
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Speaker 1: whatever pursuit he may have singled out. Young people should
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Speaker 1: know this truth in advance. The ignorance of it has
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Speaker 1: probably engendered more discouragement and faintheartedness in youths embarking on
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Speaker 1: arduous careers than all other causes taken together. Remember that
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Speaker 1: the only limit to your capabilit is the one you
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Speaker 1: place upon them. There is no law of limitation. The
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Speaker 1: only law is of supply. Through mind. You can draw
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Speaker 1: upon the creative force for anything you wish use it.
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Speaker 1: There are no limitations upon it. Don't put any on yourself.
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Speaker 1: Aim high. If you miss the moon, you may hit
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Speaker 1: a star. Everyone admits that this world and all the
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Speaker 1: vast firmament must have been thought into shape from the
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Speaker 1: formless void by some godmind. That same godmind rules today,
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Speaker 1: and it has given to each form of life power
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Speaker 1: to attract to itself as much of the creative force
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Speaker 1: as it needs for its perfect growth. The tree, the plant,
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Speaker 1: the animal. Each one finds supply to meet its need.
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Speaker 1: You are an intelligent, reasoning creature. Your mind is part
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Speaker 1: of the great godmind, and you have the power to
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Speaker 1: say what you require for perfect growth. Don't be a
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Speaker 1: nigger with yourself. Don't sell yourself for a penny. Whatever
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Speaker 1: price you set upon yourself, life will give so aim
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Speaker 1: high demand much. Make a clear, distinct mental image of
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Speaker 1: what it is you want. Hold it in your thoughts,
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Speaker 1: visualize it, see it, believe it. The ways and means
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Speaker 1: of satisfying that desire will follow, For supply always comes
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Speaker 1: on the heels of demand. It is by doing this
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Speaker 1: that you take your fate out of the hands of chance.
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Speaker 1: It is in this way that you control the experiences
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Speaker 1: you are to have in life. But be sure to
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Speaker 1: visualize only what you want. The law works both ways.
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Speaker 1: If you visualize your worries and your fears, you will
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Speaker 1: make them real. Control your thought, and you control circumstances.
1:27:50
Speaker 1: Conditions will be what you make them. To paraphrase Thackeray,
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Speaker 1: the world is a looking glass and gives back to
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Speaker 1: every man the reflection of his own thought. Philip of Macedon,
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Speaker 1: Alexander's father, perfected the phalanx, a triangular formation which enabled
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Speaker 1: him to center the whole weight of his attack on
1:28:08
Speaker 1: one point in the opposing line. It drove through everything
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Speaker 1: opposed to it. In that day and age, it was invincible,
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Speaker 1: and the idea is just as invincible to day. Keep
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Speaker 1: the one thought in mind, see it being carried out
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Speaker 1: step by step, and you can knit any group of
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Speaker 1: workers into one homogeneous whole, all centered on the one idea.
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Speaker 1: You can accomplish any one thing you can put across
1:28:34
Speaker 1: any definite idea. Keep that mental picture ever in mind,
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Speaker 1: and you will make it as invincible as was Alexander's
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Speaker 1: phalanx of old. It is not the guns or armament
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Speaker 1: or the money they can pay. It's the close co
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Speaker 1: operation that makes them win the day. It is not
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Speaker 1: the individual or the army as a whole, but the
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Speaker 1: everlasting team work of every bluemin soul. J. Mason Knox.
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Speaker 1: The error of the age is the tendency mankind has
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Speaker 1: always shown to limit the power of mind or its
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Speaker 1: willingness to help in time of need. Know ye not,
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Speaker 1: said Paul, that ye are the temples of the Living God. No,
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Speaker 1: most of us do not know it, or at least
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Speaker 1: if we do, we are like the Indian family out
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Speaker 1: on the Cherokee Reservation. Oil have been found on their
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Speaker 1: land and money poured in upon them, more money than
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Speaker 1: they had ever known was in the world. Some one
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Speaker 1: persuaded them to build a great house, to have it
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Speaker 1: beautifully furnished, richly decorated. But the Indians, while very proud
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Speaker 1: of their showy house, continued to live in their old
1:29:39
Speaker 1: sod shack. So it is with many of us. We
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Speaker 1: may know that we are temples of the Living God,
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Speaker 1: we may even be proud of that fact, but we
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Speaker 1: never take advantage of it to dwell in that temple,
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Speaker 1: to proclaim dominion over things and conditions. We never avail
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Speaker 1: ourselves of the power that is ours. The great prophets
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Speaker 1: of old had the forward look. Theirs was the era
1:30:04
Speaker 1: of hope and expectation. They looked for the time when
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Speaker 1: the revelation should come that was to make men sons
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Speaker 1: of God. They shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow
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Speaker 1: and sighing shall flee away. Jesus came to fulfill that revelation.
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Speaker 1: Ask and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full.
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Speaker 1: The world has turned in vain to materialistic philosophy for
1:30:28
Speaker 1: deliverance from its woes. In the future, the only march
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Speaker 1: of actual progress will be in the mental realm. And
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Speaker 1: this progress will not be in the way of human
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Speaker 1: speculation and theorizing, but in the actual demonstration of the
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Speaker 1: power of mind to mold the creative force into anything
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Speaker 1: of good. The world stands to day within the vestibule
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Speaker 1: of the vast realm of divine intelligence, wherein is found
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Speaker 1: the transcendent practical power of mind over all things, what
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Speaker 1: I never saw, nor ear ever heard, what never entered
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Speaker 1: the mind of man, even all that God has prepared
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Speaker 1: for those who love him. Four I Am years ago,
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Speaker 1: emil Kog electrified the world with his cures of all
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Speaker 1: manner of disease, solely through the power of suggestion. Nobody
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Speaker 1: ought to be sick, he proclaimed, and proceeded to prove
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Speaker 1: it by curing hundreds who came to him after doctors
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Speaker 1: had failed to relieve them. Not only that, but he
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Speaker 1: showed that the same methods could be used to cure
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Speaker 1: one's affairs, to bring riches instead of debts, success instead
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Speaker 1: of drudgery. Originally, Ku was a hypnotist. In his little
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Speaker 1: drug store, he found occasional patients whom he could hypnotize.
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Speaker 1: He hypnotized them, put their conscious minds to sleep, and
1:31:43
Speaker 1: addressed himself directly to their subconscious. To the subconscious, he
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Speaker 1: declared that there was nothing wrong with whatever organ the
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Speaker 1: patient had thought diseased, and the subconscious accepted the statement
1:31:55
Speaker 1: and molded the creative force within Accordingly. When the patient
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Speaker 1: came out from under the hypnotic influence, he was well.
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Speaker 1: It remained then only to convince his conscious mind of this,
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Speaker 1: so he would not send through new suggestions of disease
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Speaker 1: to his subconscious, and the patient was cured. How account
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Speaker 1: for that by the fact that the disease or imperfection
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Speaker 1: is not so much in your body as in your mind.
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Speaker 1: It is in your rate of motion, and this is
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Speaker 1: entirely mind controlled. Change the subconscious belief and the physical
1:32:27
Speaker 1: manifestations change with it. You speed up your rate of
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Speaker 1: motion and in that way throw off the discordant elements
1:32:34
Speaker 1: of disease. Doctors recognize this when they give their patients
1:32:38
Speaker 1: harmless sugar pills, knowing that these will dispel fear, and
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Speaker 1: that when the images conjured up by fear are gone,
1:32:44
Speaker 1: the supposed trouble will go with them. But Co found
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Speaker 1: many patients whom he could not hypnotize how treat them
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Speaker 1: by inducing a sort of self hypnosis in themselves. It
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Speaker 1: is a well known fact that constant repetition carries cones,
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Speaker 1: especially to the subconscious mind. So Co had his patients
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Speaker 1: continually repeat to themselves the affirmation that their trouble was passing,
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Speaker 1: that they were getting better and better every day, in
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Speaker 1: every way, I am getting better and better. And this
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Speaker 1: unreasoning affirmation cured thousands of ills that had been troubling
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Speaker 1: them for years. What is back of that success A
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Speaker 1: law as old as the hills, A law that has
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Speaker 1: been known to psychologists for years. The law that the
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Speaker 1: subconscious mind accepts as true anything that is repeated to
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Speaker 1: it convincingly and often. And once it has accepted such
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Speaker 1: a statement as true, it proceeds to mold the creative
1:33:39
Speaker 1: force working through it in such wise as to make
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Speaker 1: it true. You see where the conscious mind reasons inductively.
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Speaker 1: The subconscious use is only deductive reasoning, where the reasoning
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Speaker 1: mind weighs each fact that is presented to it, questions
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Speaker 1: the truth or falsity of each, and then forms its
1:33:56
Speaker 1: conclusions accordingly. The subconscious acts quite differ. It accepts as
1:34:02
Speaker 1: fact any statement that is presented to it convincingly. Then,
1:34:06
Speaker 1: having accepted this as the basis of its actions, it
1:34:09
Speaker 1: proceeds logically to do all in its power to bring
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Speaker 1: it into being. That is why the two most important
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Speaker 1: words in the English language are the words I am.
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Speaker 1: That is why the ancients regarded these two words as
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Speaker 1: the secret name of God. You ask a friend how
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Speaker 1: he is, and he replies, carelessly, I am sick, I
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Speaker 1: am poor, I am unlucky. I am subject to this,
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Speaker 1: that or the other thing, never stopping to think that
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Speaker 1: by those very words, he is fastening misfortune upon himself,
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Speaker 1: declaring to the subconscious mind within him that he I
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Speaker 1: as sick or poor, or weak, or the servant of
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Speaker 1: some desire. Let the weak say I am strong. The
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Speaker 1: prophet Joel exhorted his people thousands of years ago, and
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Speaker 1: the advice is as good today as it was then.
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Speaker 1: You have seen men under hypnotic suggestion performgies of strength.
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Speaker 1: You have seen them with their bodies stretched between two chairs,
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Speaker 1: their heads on one, their feet on another, supporting the
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Speaker 1: weight of several people standing on them, when they could
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Speaker 1: not ordinarily hold up even their own bodies in that position.
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Speaker 1: How can they do it because the hypnotist has assured
1:35:18
Speaker 1: their subconscious that they can do it, that they have
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Speaker 1: the strength and power necessary. Therefore, I say unto you,
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Speaker 1: what things whoever ye desire, when ye pray believe that,
1:35:28
Speaker 1: why ye receive them, and ye shall have them. That
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Speaker 1: was the assurance given us by the master psychologist of
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Speaker 1: all time, the great Healer, the worker of miracles. Again
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Speaker 1: and again he told those he healed that it was
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Speaker 1: their faith that made them whole. And where such faith
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Speaker 1: was lacking, as when he went back to Nazareth, the
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Speaker 1: home of his childhood, it is written that there he
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Speaker 1: did no mighty works. How can you work up the
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Speaker 1: necessary faith to accomplish the things you desire by taking
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Speaker 1: the advice of the wise men of old, of the
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Speaker 1: prophet jol of Jesus, by claiming it as yours and
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Speaker 1: setting your subconscious mind to work making those claims come true.
1:36:08
Speaker 1: It is a sort of self hypnosis, but so is
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Speaker 1: all of prayer away. Back in nineteen fifteen, the head
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Speaker 1: of the Warsaw Psychological Institute conducted a series of experiments
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Speaker 1: from which he concluded that the energy manifested by any
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Speaker 1: one during life is in direct ratio with his power
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Speaker 1: for plunging himself into a condition of auto hypnosis. In
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Speaker 1: simple language, that means convincing yourself of the possibility of
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Speaker 1: doing the things you want to do. The subconscious in
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Speaker 1: each of us has the knowledge, has the power to
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Speaker 1: do any right thing we may require of it. The
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Speaker 1: only need is to implant in it the confidence the
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Speaker 1: believe that you receive, which Jesus taught. In a case
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Speaker 1: cited by Bodwin, the famous psychologist, a woman, after using
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Speaker 1: autosuggestion as a means of helping herself, declared, I can
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Speaker 1: do twice as much work as before during vacation. I
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Speaker 1: have been able to go through two extensive tasks, such
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Speaker 1: as a year ago I should never have attempted. This year.
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Speaker 1: I systematized my work and said I can do at all.
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Speaker 1: What I am undertaking is materially possible, and therefore must
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Speaker 1: be morally possible. Consequently, I ought not to experience, and
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Speaker 1: shall not experience, discouragement, hesitancy, annoyance, or slackness. As a
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Speaker 1: result of these affirmations, the way to her inner powers
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Speaker 1: was opened, and she was able to say, truly, nothing
1:37:29
Speaker 1: could stop me, nothing could prevent my doing what I
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Speaker 1: had planned to do. You might almost have said that
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Speaker 1: things were done by themselves without the slightest effort on
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Speaker 1: my part. Not only did she find herself working with
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Speaker 1: a high degree of success heretofore unknown, but with a
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Speaker 1: certainty and calmness of mind beyond her previous attainment. Emerson,
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Speaker 1: with his genius for condensing great truths into a few words, wrote,
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Speaker 1: do the thing, and you shall have the power. The
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Speaker 1: wise men of old learned thousands of years ago that
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Speaker 1: life is like an echo. It always returns the call
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Speaker 1: sent out. Like the echo, the response is always the
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Speaker 1: same as the call, and the louder the call, the
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Speaker 1: greater the response. You say, I am sick, I am poor,
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Speaker 1: And your words are forerunners of your circumstance. Every idle
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Speaker 1: word that men shall speak, they shall give account of
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Speaker 1: in the day of judgment. And that day of judgment
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Speaker 1: comes sooner than most people think be careful to speak
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Speaker 1: only those words which you are willing to see take
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Speaker 1: form in your life. For remember the words of wise
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Speaker 1: old job, Thou shalt also decree a thing, and it
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Speaker 1: shall be established unto thee. Never speak the word of
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Speaker 1: lack or limitation. For by thy words shalt thou be justified,
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Speaker 1: and by thy words shalt thou be condemned. Affirm constantly,
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Speaker 1: I have faith in the power of my word. I
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Speaker 1: speak only that which I desire to see made manifest.
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Speaker 1: Remember behind you is infinite power. Before you is endless possibility.
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Speaker 1: Around you is endless opportunity. Why should you fear see?
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Speaker 1: G Tanner expresses the idea beautifully. If you have faith
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Speaker 1: in what you want to do, if you behold yourself
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Speaker 1: a king's own son, then you have asked God's power
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Speaker 1: to work through you, and pledge yourself to see that
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Speaker 1: it is done. With faith, I place it in God's hands.
1:39:22
Speaker 1: You say, God's hands are yours. Your good must come
1:39:27
Speaker 1: through you. God has no other hands with which he
1:39:30
Speaker 1: may give unto you. Your sonship's rightful due, faith and
1:39:34
Speaker 1: persistence travel hand in hand, the one without the other incomplete.
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Speaker 1: If you would reach success, then take the stand this.
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Speaker 1: I will try once more. And no defeat can cloud
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Speaker 1: that beacon gleaming bright and clear, or conjure up dread
1:39:48
Speaker 1: failures haunting wraith. You rest secure with God. No thought
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Speaker 1: of fear can dim the shining armor of your faith.
1:39:57
Speaker 1: Most people seem to think that we work to live,
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Speaker 1: but there is It's a deeper purpose in life than that.
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Speaker 1: What we really work for is to call forth the
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Speaker 1: talents that are within our own soul, to give expression
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Speaker 1: to the creative force working through us. That is the
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Speaker 1: one big purpose for which we were born, to express
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Speaker 1: the creative force in us, to give God the chance
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Speaker 1: to express himself through us. And we can do it.
1:40:22
Speaker 1: As the famous English poet Shelley put it, the Almighty
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Speaker 1: has given men arms long enough to reach the stars
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Speaker 1: if they would but put them forth. And the first
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Speaker 1: step lies in using what you have. The key to
1:40:35
Speaker 1: power lies in using, not hoarding. Use releases still more power, forever,
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Speaker 1: greater works. Hoarding builds a hard shell around the thing
1:40:44
Speaker 1: hoarded and prevents more from coming in. You may have
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Speaker 1: what you want if you are willing to use what
1:40:50
Speaker 1: you have. Now you can do what you want to
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Speaker 1: do if you are willing to do what there is
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Speaker 1: to do right now. The one condition coupled with the
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Speaker 1: gift of truth, says Emerson, is its use. Professor William
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Speaker 1: Bateson of the British Society for Scientific Research said, we
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Speaker 1: are finding now beyond doubt that the gifts and geniuses
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Speaker 1: of mankind are due not so much to something added
1:41:12
Speaker 1: to the ordinary person, but instead are due to factors
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Speaker 1: which in the normal person inhibit the development of these gifts.
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Speaker 1: They are now, without doubt to be looked upon as
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Speaker 1: releases of powers normally suppressed. And why are they suppressed?
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Speaker 1: Because of doubt, of fear, of failure, of procrastination, of
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Speaker 1: putting things off till the morrow. Straight from a mighty bow,
1:41:35
Speaker 1: this truth is driven, they fail, and they alone who
1:41:39
Speaker 1: have not striven tomorrow you will live. You always cry,
1:41:43
Speaker 1: in what far country does this moral lie that tis
1:41:47
Speaker 1: so mighty long? Eir it arrive beyond the indies? Does
1:41:50
Speaker 1: this morol live? Tis so far fetched this morow that
1:41:55
Speaker 1: I fear twill be both very old and very dear.
1:41:58
Speaker 1: Tomorrow I will live. The fool does say today itself
1:42:02
Speaker 1: as too late The wise lived yesterday. Abraham Cowley. To begin,
1:42:09
Speaker 1: said Ausonius, is to be half done. Greatly begin, wrote
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Speaker 1: another sage, Though thou have time for but a line,
1:42:17
Speaker 1: be that sublime, And the Easterners have a proverb, but
1:42:21
Speaker 1: the road of a thousand miles begins with one step.
1:42:25
Speaker 1: So make your start, and don't allow any thought of
1:42:27
Speaker 1: failure to stop. You have faith, if not in yourself,
1:42:32
Speaker 1: then in the creative force working through you. Many a
1:42:35
Speaker 1: splendid work has been lost to mankind because the faith
1:42:38
Speaker 1: of its originator was not strong enough to release the
1:42:41
Speaker 1: creative force that would have enabled him to make his
1:42:43
Speaker 1: dream come true. Remember that you cannot talk failure or
1:42:47
Speaker 1: think failure and reap success. You'll never reach the top
1:42:52
Speaker 1: of the latter. If doubt and fear and procrastination make
1:42:55
Speaker 1: you hesitate to put your foot on the first run.
1:42:58
Speaker 1: There is a power working through you that can accomplish
1:43:00
Speaker 1: any aim you may aspire to. But to energize that power,
1:43:05
Speaker 1: you must harness it up with faith. You must have
1:43:08
Speaker 1: the will to believe, the courage to aspire, and the
1:43:11
Speaker 1: profound conviction that success is possible to anyone who works
1:43:14
Speaker 1: for it persistently and believingly. Three hundred and forty years ago,
1:43:19
Speaker 1: there sailed from Spain the mightiest fleet the world had
1:43:22
Speaker 1: ever known, Spanish galleasses, Portuguese carricks, Florentine caravels, huge hulks
1:43:27
Speaker 1: from other countries, Floating fortresses, mounting tier upon tier of
1:43:32
Speaker 1: mighty cannon. One hundred and forty great ships in all,
1:43:35
Speaker 1: manned to the full with sailors and soldiers and gentlemen adventurers.
1:43:39
Speaker 1: The treasure of the Incas, the plunder of the Aztec,
1:43:42
Speaker 1: had gone into the building and outfitting of this vast armada.
1:43:46
Speaker 1: No wonder Spain looked upon it as invincible. No wonder
1:43:50
Speaker 1: England feared it. For this was the armada that was
1:43:54
Speaker 1: to invade England and carry fire and sword through town
1:43:57
Speaker 1: and countryside. This was the art Mada that was to
1:44:00
Speaker 1: punish these impudent Britons for the piradical raids of Sir
1:44:04
Speaker 1: Francis Drake Morgan and all those hardy seamen who had
1:44:07
Speaker 1: dared death and slavery to pull down treasure ships on
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Speaker 1: the Spanish main. The iron hand of Philip the Second
1:44:13
Speaker 1: of Spain rested heavily upon the Netherlands. It dominated all
1:44:18
Speaker 1: of Europe. Now, he confidently looked forward to the time
1:44:21
Speaker 1: when England, too, would groan beneath its weight, But he
1:44:25
Speaker 1: reckoned without one thing faith. He put in charge of
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Speaker 1: this invincible armada the Duke of Medina Sidonia, a man
1:44:33
Speaker 1: who had no faith in himself, no faith in his ability,
1:44:37
Speaker 1: no faith in his men. And when he did that,
1:44:40
Speaker 1: he blunted the point of every pike, He dulled the
1:44:42
Speaker 1: cutting edge of every sword. He took the mightiest naval
1:44:45
Speaker 1: weapon ever forged, and deliberately drew its sting. Is that
1:44:49
Speaker 1: putting it too strongly? Just listen. Here is the letter
1:44:54
Speaker 1: the Duke wrote to the King upon being notified of
1:44:57
Speaker 1: his appointment to the command. My health is bad, and
1:45:00
Speaker 1: from my small experience of the water, I know that
1:45:03
Speaker 1: I am always sea sick. The expedition is on such
1:45:06
Speaker 1: a scale, and the object is of such high importance
1:45:09
Speaker 1: that the person at the head of it ought to
1:45:11
Speaker 1: understand navigation in sea fighting, and I know nothing of either.
1:45:14
Speaker 1: The Adelantado of Castile would do better than I. The
1:45:18
Speaker 1: Lord would help him. He is a good Christian and
1:45:20
Speaker 1: has fought in naval battles. If you send me depend
1:45:24
Speaker 1: upon it, I shall have a bad account to render
1:45:27
Speaker 1: of my trust. He had everything to succeed with everything
1:45:31
Speaker 1: but faith in himself. He expected failure, and disastrous failure
1:45:36
Speaker 1: met him at every turn. One hundred and forty mighty ships,
1:45:40
Speaker 1: the greatest ever built. And England, to meet that splendid
1:45:44
Speaker 1: armada had only thirty small ships of war and a
1:45:47
Speaker 1: few merchantmen, outfitted and manned by private gentleman. Yet England,
1:45:52
Speaker 1: while alarmed, was yet courageous and hopeful. For had not
1:45:56
Speaker 1: England Sir Francis Drake and Lord Charles Howard, and a
1:46:01
Speaker 1: dozen other mighty fighters who had met and bested the
1:46:04
Speaker 1: Spaniards the score of times on the Spanish main, And
1:46:07
Speaker 1: could they not do the same again? So said England,
1:46:11
Speaker 1: believing in her leaders, and her leaders echoed that sentiment.
1:46:16
Speaker 1: Are not English sailors, the hardiest seamen and finest fighters afloat?
1:46:20
Speaker 1: They asked and believed in their men. The English had
1:46:24
Speaker 1: thirty or forty little ships against the Spaniards one hundred
1:46:27
Speaker 1: and forty mighty men of war. The English had scarce
1:46:31
Speaker 1: two days powder aboard, so Penurius was their queen, while
1:46:35
Speaker 1: the Spanish were outfitted with everything a ship of war
1:46:37
Speaker 1: could ask. But Howard and Drake were not depending upon
1:46:41
Speaker 1: any queen to fight their battles. They were not worrying
1:46:45
Speaker 1: about the size of the enemy. They were thinking, there
1:46:48
Speaker 1: are the Spaniards. Here are we. We have fought them
1:46:53
Speaker 1: and whipped them a dozen times before, we can do
1:46:56
Speaker 1: it now, so let's get at them. They went out
1:47:00
Speaker 1: expecting victory, and victory met them at every turn, from
1:47:05
Speaker 1: the Lizard in Cornwall to Portland, where Don Pedro de
1:47:09
Speaker 1: Valdes and his mighty ship were left, From Portland to Calais,
1:47:12
Speaker 1: where Spain lost Hugo de Moncto with the galleys which
1:47:15
Speaker 1: he captured. From Calais out of sight of England, around
1:47:18
Speaker 1: Scotland and Ireland, beaten and shuffled together, that mighty Armada
1:47:23
Speaker 1: was chased, until finally the broken remnants drifted back to Spain.
1:47:27
Speaker 1: With all their vast squadron, they had not taken one
1:47:30
Speaker 1: ship or bark or pinnace of England. With all those
1:47:34
Speaker 1: thousands of soldiers, they had not landed one man but
1:47:37
Speaker 1: those killed or taken prisoner. Three fourths of their number
1:47:41
Speaker 1: lost or captured, their mighty fleet destroyed. And why because
1:47:47
Speaker 1: one man lacked faith. Spanish soldiers were proving on a
1:47:51
Speaker 1: dozen fields that no braver fighters lived anywhere the Spanish
1:47:56
Speaker 1: Square had withstood infantry, cavalry, artillery, then carried all before it.
1:48:02
Speaker 1: Yet these same soldiers, afloat in their huge fortresses, were
1:48:05
Speaker 1: utterly defeated by less than a fourth their number, And
1:48:09
Speaker 1: the reason because they were a spear without a head,
1:48:13
Speaker 1: an army without a leader. Riches and power without faith
1:48:17
Speaker 1: was ever a better example of the power of belief.
1:48:21
Speaker 1: Men go all through life like the Duke of Medina Sidonia,
1:48:24
Speaker 1: looking ever for the dark side of things, expecting trouble
1:48:27
Speaker 1: at every turn, and usually finding it. It is really
1:48:31
Speaker 1: lack of courage, courage to try for great things, courage
1:48:35
Speaker 1: to dare disappointment and ridicule to accomplish a worthy end.
1:48:39
Speaker 1: Have you ever sat in a train and watched another
1:48:41
Speaker 1: train passing you? You can look right on through its
1:48:44
Speaker 1: windows to the green fields and pleasant vistas beyond. Or
1:48:48
Speaker 1: you can gaze at the partitions between the windows and
1:48:51
Speaker 1: see nothing but their dingy drabness. So it is with
1:48:55
Speaker 1: everything in life. You can look for the good, the joyful,
1:48:58
Speaker 1: and happy, and not merely see only these, but manifest
1:49:02
Speaker 1: them in your daily life. Or you can look for trouble,
1:49:05
Speaker 1: for sickness and sorrow and find them awaiting you around
1:49:09
Speaker 1: every corner. Pessimists call this the Pollyanna age and ridicule
1:49:13
Speaker 1: such ideas as this, But ridicule or not, it works
1:49:18
Speaker 1: in one's personal life as well as in business, and
1:49:21
Speaker 1: thousands can testify to its efficacy. Perhaps one of the
1:49:25
Speaker 1: best examples of the difference that outlook makes is in
1:49:28
Speaker 1: the lives of Emerson and Thoreau. Emerson's philosophy of living
1:49:32
Speaker 1: can best be expressed in his own words, nerve us
1:49:35
Speaker 1: with incessant affirmatives, don't bark against the bad, but chant
1:49:40
Speaker 1: the beauties of the good, and his tranquil and serene
1:49:43
Speaker 1: life reflected that attitude throughout. Thorreau, on the other hand,
1:49:48
Speaker 1: was constantly searching out and denouncing evil with motives every
1:49:53
Speaker 1: whit as high as Emerson's. He believed in attacking the
1:49:55
Speaker 1: problem from the opposite angle, with the result that he
1:49:58
Speaker 1: was constantly in hot water, yet accomplished not a tenth
1:50:01
Speaker 1: of the good that Emerson did. Like the man in d.
1:50:05
Speaker 1: Nuncio's play l A Sidemorta, fascinated by the tombs, he
1:50:09
Speaker 1: forgot the beauty of the sky. It is necessary at
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Speaker 1: times to clean up evil conditions in order to start afresh.
1:50:16
Speaker 1: It is necessary to hunt out the source of pollution
1:50:19
Speaker 1: in order to purify a stream, but it should be
1:50:22
Speaker 1: merely a means to an end, and the end should
1:50:26
Speaker 1: always be not negative, like the mere destruction of evil,
1:50:29
Speaker 1: but the positive replacing of evil with good. If you
1:50:33
Speaker 1: have ever walked across a high trestle, you know that
1:50:36
Speaker 1: it doesn't pay to look down that way. Dizziness and
1:50:39
Speaker 1: destruction lie. You have to look forward, picking out the
1:50:43
Speaker 1: ties you are going to step on, ten or twenty
1:50:45
Speaker 1: feet ahead. If you are to progress. Life is just
1:50:49
Speaker 1: such a trestle, and looking downward too much is likely
1:50:53
Speaker 1: to make one lose his balance, stumble, and fall. You
1:50:57
Speaker 1: must gaze ever forward if you are to keep your
1:51:01
Speaker 1: There's a little poem by Edgar Guest from The Path
1:51:04
Speaker 1: to Home that exemplifies the idea. Somebody said that it
1:51:09
Speaker 1: couldn't be done, but he, with a chuckle, replied that
1:51:12
Speaker 1: maybe it couldn't, but he would be one who wouldn't
1:51:14
Speaker 1: say so till he tried. So he buckled right in,
1:51:18
Speaker 1: with the trace of a grin on his face. If
1:51:21
Speaker 1: he worried, he hid it. He started to sing as
1:51:24
Speaker 1: he tackled the thing that couldn't be done, and he
1:51:26
Speaker 1: did it. Most of the world's progress has been made
1:51:29
Speaker 1: by just such men as that, Men like wat who
1:51:33
Speaker 1: didn't know that steam could not be made to accomplish
1:51:36
Speaker 1: any useful purpose, and so invented the steam engine men
1:51:40
Speaker 1: like Fulton, who didn't know that it was foolish to
1:51:43
Speaker 1: try to propel a boat with wheels, and so invented
1:51:46
Speaker 1: the steamboat. Men like Belle Edison Wright, who didn't know
1:51:50
Speaker 1: how foolish it was to attempt the impossible, and so
1:51:53
Speaker 1: went ahead and did it. For God's sake, give me
1:51:57
Speaker 1: the young man who has brains enough to make a
1:51:59
Speaker 1: fool of h cried Stevenson, And when they succeed, the
1:52:04
Speaker 1: whole world echoes that cry. There is no limit upon
1:52:07
Speaker 1: you except the limit you put upon yourself. You are
1:52:11
Speaker 1: like the birds. Your thoughts can fly across all barriers
1:52:15
Speaker 1: unless you tie them down, or cage them, or clip
1:52:17
Speaker 1: their wings. By the limitations you put upon them. There
1:52:21
Speaker 1: is nothing that can defeat you except yourself. You are
1:52:25
Speaker 1: one with the Father, and the Father knows everything you
1:52:28
Speaker 1: will ever need to know on any subject. Why then
1:52:32
Speaker 1: try to repress any right desire, any high ambition? Why
1:52:36
Speaker 1: not put behind it every ounce of energy, every bit
1:52:39
Speaker 1: of enthusiasm of which you are capable. Mohammed established a
1:52:44
Speaker 1: larger empire than that of Rome on nothing but enthusiasm,
1:52:48
Speaker 1: and Mahomet was but a poor camel driver. What then,
1:52:52
Speaker 1: can you not do? Men repress their power for good,
1:52:56
Speaker 1: their capacity for success, by accepting suggestions of inferior by
1:53:00
Speaker 1: their timidity, or self consciousness, by fear by conservatism. Never
1:53:06
Speaker 1: mind what others think of you. It is what you
1:53:09
Speaker 1: think that counts. Never let another's poor opinion of you
1:53:13
Speaker 1: influence your decisions. Rather resolved to show him how unfounded
1:53:18
Speaker 1: is his opinion. People thought so poorly of Oliver Cromwell
1:53:22
Speaker 1: that he could not win permission to emigrate to the colonies.
1:53:25
Speaker 1: When he raised his regiment of cavalry that later won
1:53:28
Speaker 1: the name of Ironsides because of its practical invincibility, the
1:53:32
Speaker 1: old soldiers and the dandies of the day laughed at it.
1:53:36
Speaker 1: Seldom had a lot of more awkward looking countrymen been
1:53:39
Speaker 1: gathered together. Any soldier might have trained them, But the
1:53:43
Speaker 1: thing that made them invincible, the thing that enabled them
1:53:46
Speaker 1: to ride over and through all the legions of King Charles,
1:53:49
Speaker 1: was not their training, but their fervent belief in the
1:53:52
Speaker 1: justice of their cause, in their leader, and in their
1:53:55
Speaker 1: God Him singing hypocrites, their enemies called them, But here
1:54:00
Speaker 1: were no hypocrites. Here were men who were animated by
1:54:04
Speaker 1: a common faith that God was with them, as with
1:54:06
Speaker 1: the Israelites of old, and that with God on their side,
1:54:09
Speaker 1: nothing could withstand them. That was the faith of Cromwell,
1:54:14
Speaker 1: and he instilled that faith into every man in his regiment.
1:54:18
Speaker 1: And while Cromwell lived to keep that faith alive, nothing
1:54:22
Speaker 1: did withstand them. They made the man who was not
1:54:25
Speaker 1: good enough to emigrate to America ruler of England. Nothing
1:54:29
Speaker 1: worth while ever has been accomplished without faith, Nothing worth
1:54:33
Speaker 1: while ever will. Why do so many great organizations go
1:54:37
Speaker 1: to pieces after their founder's death, Why do they fail
1:54:41
Speaker 1: to outlive him by more than a few years, because
1:54:44
Speaker 1: the ones who take up his work lack the forward look,
1:54:47
Speaker 1: the faith to carry on. His idea was one of service.
1:54:52
Speaker 1: Theirs is to continue paying dividends. His thought was to
1:54:56
Speaker 1: build ever greater and greater theirs to hold what he won.
1:55:00
Speaker 1: The best defensive is a strong offensive. You can't just
1:55:04
Speaker 1: hold your own. You can't stand still. You've got to
1:55:08
Speaker 1: go forward. Or backward? Which is it with you? If forward,
1:55:13
Speaker 1: then avoid the pessimist as you would the plague enthusiasm.
1:55:18
Speaker 1: Optimism may make mistakes, but it will learn from them
1:55:21
Speaker 1: and progress. Pessimism, Conservatism, caution will die of dry rot
1:55:27
Speaker 1: if it is not sooner lost in the forward march
1:55:29
Speaker 1: of things. So be an optimist, cultivate the forward look
1:55:35
Speaker 1: the optimist and pessimist. The difference is droll. The optimist
1:55:39
Speaker 1: seize the doughnut, the pessimist the whole. The good is
1:55:44
Speaker 1: always there if you look for it hard enough, but
1:55:47
Speaker 1: you must look for it. You can't be content to
1:55:50
Speaker 1: take merely what happens to come into your line of vision.
1:55:54
Speaker 1: You have got to refuse to accept anything short of good.
1:55:57
Speaker 1: Disclaim it, say it is not yours, Say it and
1:56:02
Speaker 1: believe it. Then keep a seeking, and the first thing
1:56:06
Speaker 1: you know, the good you have been seeking, will be
1:56:08
Speaker 1: found to have been right under your nose all the time.
1:56:11
Speaker 1: What is the backbone of all business? Credit? And what
1:56:16
Speaker 1: is credit but faith? Faith in your fellow man, faith
1:56:19
Speaker 1: in his integrity, faith in his willingness and his ability
1:56:22
Speaker 1: to give you a square deal. What do you base credit?
1:56:26
Speaker 1: Faith upon upon hearsay? Upon what your prospective customer has
1:56:30
Speaker 1: done for others his promptness in paying them, his willingness
1:56:34
Speaker 1: to co operate with them. In many cases, you have
1:56:37
Speaker 1: never seen him. You can't be certain of your own
1:56:40
Speaker 1: personal knowledge that such a person exists, but you believe
1:56:43
Speaker 1: in him. You have faith, and having faith, your business
1:56:47
Speaker 1: grows and prospers. If you can have such faith in
1:56:51
Speaker 1: a man you have never seen, as to trust large
1:56:53
Speaker 1: portions of your earthly goods in his hands. Can you
1:56:56
Speaker 1: not put a little trust in the Father? Too? True,
1:57:00
Speaker 1: you have not seen him, but you have far greater
1:57:02
Speaker 1: proof of his being than of that of your customer
1:57:04
Speaker 1: thousands of miles away. You have far greater proof of
1:57:08
Speaker 1: his reliability, of his regard for you, of his ability,
1:57:11
Speaker 1: and his willingness at all times to come to your
1:57:14
Speaker 1: assistance in any right way you may ask. You don't
1:57:17
Speaker 1: need money with him, you don't need high standing in
1:57:20
Speaker 1: your community, you don't need credit. What is it makes
1:57:25
Speaker 1: a successful salesman Faith in his house, faith in the
1:57:30
Speaker 1: goods he is selling, faith in the service they will
1:57:33
Speaker 1: render his customers, faith in himself. Have you faith in
1:57:38
Speaker 1: your house, in your father, in the manifold gifts he
1:57:41
Speaker 1: offers you so freely. Men can sell for a little
1:57:45
Speaker 1: while solely on faith in their own ability. They can
1:57:48
Speaker 1: palm off anything that will show a profit to themselves,
1:57:51
Speaker 1: but they never make successful salesmen. The inevitable reaction comes.
1:57:57
Speaker 1: They grow cynical, lose all faith in others, and eventually
1:58:01
Speaker 1: lose faith in themselves as well. The successful salesman must
1:58:05
Speaker 1: have a fourfold faith. Faith in his house, faith in
1:58:08
Speaker 1: his product, faith in the good it will do his customer,
1:58:11
Speaker 1: faith in himself. Given such a faith, he can sell anything.
1:58:17
Speaker 1: Given such a faith in the Father, you can do anything.
1:58:21
Speaker 1: It wasn't superior courage or superior fighting ability that enabled
1:58:24
Speaker 1: Washington's half trained army to beat the British. English soldiers
1:58:29
Speaker 1: were showing all over the world that they were second
1:58:31
Speaker 1: to none in fighting qualities, and the American soldiers were,
1:58:35
Speaker 1: for the most part from the same sturdy stock. It
1:58:39
Speaker 1: was their faith in a greater power outside themselves. What
1:58:43
Speaker 1: is it differentiates the banker from the pawnbroker. Both make loans,
1:58:49
Speaker 1: both require security, But where the pawnbroker must have tangible
1:58:53
Speaker 1: material property that he can resell before he will lend assent,
1:58:57
Speaker 1: the really great banker bases his loans on something bigger
1:59:00
Speaker 1: than any security that may be offered him. His faith
1:59:03
Speaker 1: in the borrower America was built on faith. Those great
1:59:08
Speaker 1: railroad builders who span the continent new when they did
1:59:10
Speaker 1: it that there was not enough business immediately available to
1:59:13
Speaker 1: make their investment profitable for a long time to come.
1:59:17
Speaker 1: But they had faith, a faith that was the making
1:59:19
Speaker 1: of our country. That same faith is evident on every
1:59:23
Speaker 1: hand today. Men erect vast factories in the faith that
1:59:27
Speaker 1: the public will find need for and buy their products.
1:59:31
Speaker 1: They build offices, apartments, homes, in the faith that their
1:59:35
Speaker 1: cities will grow up to the need of them. They
1:59:38
Speaker 1: put up public utilities capable of serving twice the number
1:59:41
Speaker 1: of people in their territories, in the faith that the
1:59:44
Speaker 1: demand will not only grow with the population, but the
1:59:47
Speaker 1: availability of the supply will help to create new demands.
1:59:51
Speaker 1: Faith builds cities and businesses and men. In fact, everything
1:59:56
Speaker 1: of good, everything constructive in this old world of ours,
1:59:59
Speaker 1: is based on faith. So if you have it, not
2:00:02
Speaker 1: grow it as the most important thing you can do.
2:00:05
Speaker 1: And if you have it, tend it, water it, cultivate it,
2:00:09
Speaker 1: for it is the most important thing in life. When
2:00:12
Speaker 1: nothing seems to help, I go and look at a
2:00:14
Speaker 1: stonecutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times
2:00:18
Speaker 1: without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet
2:00:21
Speaker 1: at the one hundred and first blow it will split
2:00:23
Speaker 1: in two. And I know it was not that blow
2:00:26
Speaker 1: that did it, but all that had gone before. J.
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Speaker 1: Reese five. Talisman, Like the waves of the sea, are
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Speaker 1: the ways of fate as we voyage along through life.
2:00:39
Speaker 1: Tis the set of the soul which decides its goal,
2:00:41
Speaker 1: and not the calm or the strife. Ellow Wheeler Wilcox,
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Speaker 1: what is the eternal question which stands up and looks
2:00:49
Speaker 1: you and every sincere man squarely in the ie every morning?
2:00:53
Speaker 1: How can I better my condition? That is the real
2:00:56
Speaker 1: life question which confronts you and will haunt you every
2:00:59
Speaker 1: day until you solve it. The answer to that question
2:01:03
Speaker 1: lies first in remembering that the great business of life
2:01:06
Speaker 1: is thinking. Control your thoughts and you mold circumstance. Just
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Speaker 1: as the first law of gain is desire, so the
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Speaker 1: first essential to success is faith. Believe that you have
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Speaker 1: see the thing you want as an existent fact, and
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Speaker 1: anything you can rightly wish for is yours. Belief is
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Speaker 1: the substance of things hoped for. The evidence of things
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Speaker 1: not seen. You have seen men inwardly no more capable
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Speaker 1: than yourself, accomplished the seemingly impossible. You have seen others,
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Speaker 1: after years of hopeless struggle, suddenly win their most cherished dreams.
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Speaker 1: And you've often wondered, what is the power that gives
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Speaker 1: new life to their dying ambitions, that supplies new impetus
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Speaker 1: to their jaded desires, that gives them a new start
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Speaker 1: on the road to success. That power is belief. Faith.
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Speaker 1: Someone something gave them a new belief in themselves and
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Speaker 1: any new faith in their power to win, and they
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Speaker 1: leaped ahead and rested success from seemingly certain defeat. Do
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Speaker 1: you remember the picture Harold Lloyd was in some years
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Speaker 1: ago showing a country boy who was afraid of his shadow.
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Speaker 1: Every boy in the countryside bedeviled him, until one day
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Speaker 1: his grandmother gave him a talisman that she assured him
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Speaker 1: his grandfather had carried through the Civil War, in which,
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Speaker 1: so she said, had the property of making its owner invincible.
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Speaker 1: Nothing could hurt him, she told him. While he wore
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Speaker 1: this talisman, nothing could stand up against him. He believed her,
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Speaker 1: and the next time the bully of the town started
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Speaker 1: to cuff him around, he wiped up the earth with him,
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Speaker 1: and that was only the start. Before the year was out,
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Speaker 1: he had made a reputation as the most daring soul
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Speaker 1: in the community. Then, when his grandmother felt he was
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Speaker 1: thoroughly cured, she told him the truth that the talisman
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Speaker 1: was merely a piece of old junk she picked up
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Speaker 1: by the roadside. That she knew all he needed was
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Speaker 1: faith in himself, belief that he could do these things.
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Speaker 1: Stories like that are common. It is such a well
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Speaker 1: established truth that you can do only what you think
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Speaker 1: you can, that the theme is a favorite one with authors.
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Speaker 1: I remember reading a story years ago of an artist,
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Speaker 1: a mediocre sort of artist, who was visiting the field
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Speaker 1: of Waterloo and happened upon a curious lump of metal,
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Speaker 1: half buried in the dirt, which so attracted him that
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Speaker 1: he picked it up and put it in his pocket.
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Speaker 1: Soon thereafter, he noticed a sudden increase in confidence, an
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Speaker 1: absolute faith in himself, not only as to his own
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Speaker 1: chosen line of work, but in his ability to handle
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Speaker 1: any situation that might present itself. He painted a great
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Speaker 1: picture just to show that he could do it. Not
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Speaker 1: content with that, he visioned an empire with Mexico as
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Speaker 1: its basis, actually led a revolt that carried all before
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Speaker 1: it until one day he lost his talisman. Then the
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Speaker 1: bubble burst. It is your own belief in yourself that counts.
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Speaker 1: It is the consciousness of dominant power within you that
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Speaker 1: makes all things attainable. You can do anything you think
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Speaker 1: you can. This knowledge is literally the gift of the gods,
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Speaker 1: for through it you can solve every human problem. It
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Speaker 1: should make of you an incurable optimist. It is the
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Speaker 1: open door to welfare. Keep it open by expecting to
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Speaker 1: gain everything that is right. You are entitled to every
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Speaker 1: good thing. Therefore, expect nothing but good. Defeat does not
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Speaker 1: need to follow victory. You don't have to knockod every
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Speaker 1: time you congratulate yourself that things have been going well
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Speaker 1: with you. Victory should follow victory. Don't limit your channels
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Speaker 1: of supply. Don't think that riches or success must come
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Speaker 1: through some particular job or some rich uncle. It is
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Speaker 1: not for you to dictate to the creative force the
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Speaker 1: means through which it shall send its gifts to you.
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Speaker 1: There are millions of channels through which it can reach you.
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Speaker 1: Your part is to impress upon mind your need your
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Speaker 1: earnest desire, your boundless belief in the resources, and the
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Speaker 1: willingness of the creative force to help you. Plant the
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Speaker 1: seed of desire, nourish it with a clear visualization of
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Speaker 1: the ripened fruit. Water it with sincere faith, But leave
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Speaker 1: the means to the creative force. Open up your mind,
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Speaker 1: clear out the channels of thought, keep yourself in a
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Speaker 1: state of receptivity. Gain a mental attitude in which you
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Speaker 1: are constantly expecting good. You have the fundamental right to
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Speaker 1: all good you know, according to your faith. Be it
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Speaker 1: unto you. The trouble with most of us is that
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Speaker 1: we are mentally lazy. It is so much easier to
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Speaker 1: go along with the crowd than to break trail for ourselves.
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Speaker 1: But the great discoverers, the great inventors, the great geniuses
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Speaker 1: in all lines, have been men who dared to break
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Speaker 1: with tradition, who defied precedent, who believe that there is
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Speaker 1: no limit to what mind can do, and whose stuck
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Speaker 1: to that belief until their goal was won in spite
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Speaker 1: of all the sneers and ridicule of the wise acres,
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Speaker 1: and that it can't be donors. Not only that, but
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Speaker 1: they were never satisfied with achieving just one success. They
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Speaker 1: knew that the first success is like the first olive
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Speaker 1: out of the bottle. All the others come out the
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Speaker 1: more easily for it. They realized that they were a
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Speaker 1: part of the creative force and intelligence of the universe,
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Speaker 1: and that the part shares all the properties of the whole.
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Speaker 1: And that realization gave them the faith to strive for
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Speaker 1: any right thing, the knowledge that the only limit upon
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Speaker 1: their capabilities was the limit of their desires. Knowing that
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Speaker 1: they couldn't be satisfied with any ordinary success, they had
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Speaker 1: to keep on and on and on. Edison didn't sit
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Speaker 1: down and fold his hands when he gave us the
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Speaker 1: talking machine or the electric light. These great achievements merely
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Speaker 1: opened the way to new fields of accomplishment. Open up
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Speaker 1: the channels between your mon and the creative force, and
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Speaker 1: there is no limit to the riches that will come
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Speaker 1: pouring in. Concentrate your thoughts on the particular thing you
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Speaker 1: are most interested in, and ideas in abundance will come
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Speaker 1: flooding down, opening up a dozen ways of winning the
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Speaker 1: goal you are striving for. But don't let one success,
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Speaker 1: no matter how great, satisfy you. The law of life
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Speaker 1: you know is the law of growth. You can't stand still.
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Speaker 1: You must go forward or be passed by complacency. Self
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Speaker 1: satisfaction is the greatest enemy of achievement. You must keep
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Speaker 1: looking forward like Alexander. You must be constantly seeking new
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Speaker 1: worlds to conquer. Depend upon it, the power will come
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Speaker 1: to meet the need. There is no such thing as
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Speaker 1: failing powers if we look to the creative force for
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Speaker 1: our source of supply. The only failure of mind comes
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Speaker 1: from worry and fear and disuse. William James, the famous psychologist,
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Speaker 1: taught that the more mind does, the more it can
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Speaker 1: do for ideas, release energy. You can do more and
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Speaker 1: better work than you have ever done. You can know
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Speaker 1: more than you know now. You know from your own
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Speaker 1: experience that under proper mental conditions of joy or enthusiasm,
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Speaker 1: you can do three or four times the work without
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Speaker 1: fatigue that you can Ordinarily, tiredness is more boredom than
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Speaker 1: actual physical fatigue. You can work almost indefinitely when the
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Speaker 1: work is a pleasure. You've seen sickly persons, frail persons
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Speaker 1: who couldn't do an hour's light work without exhaustion, suddenly
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Speaker 1: buckle down when heavy responsibilities were thrown upon them and
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Speaker 1: grow strong and rugged under the load. Crises not only
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Speaker 1: draw upon the reserve power you have, but they help
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Speaker 1: to create new power. It t couldn't be done. It
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Speaker 1: may be that you have been deluded by the thought
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Speaker 1: of incompetence. It may be that you have been told
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Speaker 1: so often that you cannot do so certain things that
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Speaker 1: you've come to believe you can't remember that success or
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Speaker 1: failure is merely a state of mind. Believe you cannot
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Speaker 1: do a thing and you can't. Know that you can
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Speaker 1: do it, and you will. You must see yourself doing it.
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Speaker 1: If you think you are beaten, you are. If you
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Speaker 1: think you dare not, you don't. If you'd like to
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Speaker 1: win but you think you can't, it's almost a since
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Speaker 1: you won't. If you think you'll lose, you've lost. For
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Speaker 1: out in the world, you'll find success begins with a
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Speaker 1: fellow's will. It's all in a state of mind. Full
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Speaker 1: Many a race is lost air, even a race is run,
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Speaker 1: and many a coward fails ere even his work's begun.
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Speaker 1: Think big and your deeds will grow. Think small and
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Speaker 1: you fall behind. Think that you can and you will.
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Speaker 1: It's all in a state of mind. If you think
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Speaker 1: you are outclassed you are. You've got to think high
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Speaker 1: to rise. You've got to be sure of yourself before
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Speaker 1: you can ever win a prize. Life's battle doesn't always
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Speaker 1: go to the strong or faster man, but sooner or later,
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Speaker 1: the man who wins is the fellow who thinks he can.
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Speaker 1: There's a vast difference between a proper understanding of one's
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Speaker 1: own ability and a determination to make the best of it.
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Speaker 1: An offensive egotism, it is absolutely necessary for every man
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Speaker 1: to believe in himself before he can make the most
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Speaker 1: of himself. All of us have something to sell. It
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Speaker 1: may be our goods, it may be our abilities, it
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Speaker 1: may be our services. You've got to believe in yourself
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Speaker 1: to make your buyer take stock in you at par
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Speaker 1: and a crude interest. You've got to feel the same
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Speaker 1: personal solicitude over a customer lost as a revivalist over
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Speaker 1: a backslider, and hold special services to bring him over
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Speaker 1: into the fold. You've got to get up every morning
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Speaker 1: with determination if you're going to go to bed that
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Speaker 1: night with satisfaction. There's mighty sound sense in the saying
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Speaker 1: that all the world loves a booster. The one and
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Speaker 1: only thing you have to win success with his mind mind.
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Speaker 1: For your mind to function at its highest capacity, you've
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Speaker 1: got to be charged with good, cheer and optimism. No
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Speaker 1: one ever did a good piece of work while in
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Speaker 1: a negative frame of mind. Your best work is always
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Speaker 1: done when you are feeling happy and optimistic, and a
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Speaker 1: happy disposition is the result, not the cause, of happy
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Speaker 1: cheery thinking. Health and prosperity are the results primarily of
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Speaker 1: optimistic thoughts. You make the pattern. If the impress you
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Speaker 1: have left on the world about you seems faint and weak,
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Speaker 1: don't blame fate, blame your pattern. You will never cultivate
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Speaker 1: a brave, courageous demeanor by thinking cowardly thoughts. You cannot
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Speaker 1: gather figs from thistles. You will never make your dreams
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Speaker 1: come true by choking them with doubts and fears. You've
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Speaker 1: got to put foundations under your air castles, foundations of
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Speaker 1: understanding and belief. Your chances of success in any undertaking
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Speaker 1: can always be measured by your belief in yourself. Are
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Speaker 1: your surroundings discouraging? Do you feel that if you were
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Speaker 1: in another's place success would be easier. Just bear in
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Speaker 1: mind that your real environment is within you. All the
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Speaker 1: factors of success or failure are in your inner world.
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Speaker 1: You make that inner world, and through it your outer world.
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Speaker 1: You can choose the material from which to build it.
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Speaker 1: If you've not chosen wisely in the past, you can
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Speaker 1: choose again now the material you want to rebuild it.
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Speaker 1: The richness of life is within you. No one has
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Speaker 1: failed so long as he can begin again. For yesterday
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Speaker 1: is but a dream, and tomorrow is only a vision.
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Speaker 1: And to day well lived makes every yesterday a dream
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Speaker 1: of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Start
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Speaker 1: right in and do all the things you feel you
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Speaker 1: have it in you to do. Ask permission of no man.
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Speaker 1: Concentrating your thought upon any proper undertaking will make its
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Speaker 1: achievement possible. Your belief that you can do the thing
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Speaker 1: gives your thought forces their power. Fortune waits upon you.
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Speaker 1: Seize her boldly, hold her, and she is yours. She
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Speaker 1: belongs rightfully to you. But if you cringe to her,
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Speaker 1: if you go up to her doubtfully timidly, she will
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Speaker 1: pass you by in scorn. For she is a fickle jade,
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Speaker 1: who must be mastered, who loves boldness, who admires confidence.
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Speaker 1: Remember you can have what you want if you will
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Speaker 1: use what you have now, you can do what you want.
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Speaker 1: If you will do what there is to do right now,
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Speaker 1: take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all
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Speaker 1: its forces to your aid. But the first essential is
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Speaker 1: that you begin. Once the battle is started, all that
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Speaker 1: is within and without you will come to your assistance
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Speaker 1: if you attack in earnest and meet each obstacle with resolution.
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Speaker 1: But you have to start things. As the poet so
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Speaker 1: well expresses it, Then take this honey from the bitterest cup.
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Speaker 1: There is no failure save in giving up, no real fall,
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Speaker 1: so long as one still tries. For seeming setbacks make
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Speaker 1: the strong man wise. There's no defeat in truth save
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Speaker 1: from within. Unless you're beaten there, you're sure to win.
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Speaker 1: The men who have made their mark in this world
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Speaker 1: all had one trade in common. They believed in themselves.
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Speaker 1: But you may say, how can I believe in myself
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Speaker 1: when I have never yet done anything worth while, when
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Speaker 1: everything I put my hand to seems to fail. You can't,
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Speaker 1: of course, that is, you couldn't if you had to
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Speaker 1: depend upon your conscious mind alone. But just remember what
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Speaker 1: one far greater than you said, I can of mine
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Speaker 1: own self do nothing. The Father that is within me,
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Speaker 1: he doeth the works. That same Father is within you,
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Speaker 1: and back of him and of you is all the
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Speaker 1: creative force in the universe. It is by knowing that
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Speaker 1: He is in you, and that through him you can
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Speaker 1: do anything that is right, that you can acquire the
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Speaker 1: belief in yourself which is so necessary. Certainly, the mind
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Speaker 1: that image the heavens and the earth and all that
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Speaker 1: they contain, has all wisdom, all power, all abundance. With
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Speaker 1: this mind to call upon, you know there is no
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Speaker 1: problem too difficult to undertake. The knowing of this is
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Speaker 1: the first step faith. But Saint James tells us faith
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Speaker 1: without works is dead, and Emerson expressed it in the
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Speaker 1: modern manner when he said, he who learns and learns
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Speaker 1: and yet does not what he knows, is like the
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Speaker 1: man who plows and plows, yet never sows. So go
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Speaker 1: on to the next step. Decide on the one thing
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Speaker 1: you want most from life, no matter what it may be.
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Speaker 1: There is no limit, you know to mind. Visualize this
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Speaker 1: thing that you want, see it, feel it, believe in it.
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Speaker 1: Make your mental blueprint, and begin to build, and not
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Speaker 1: merely a mental blueprint, but make an actual picture of it.
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Speaker 1: If you can cut out pictures from magazines that symbolize
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Speaker 1: what you want, paste them on a large sheet of paper,
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Speaker 1: and pin them up where you can see them. Often
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Speaker 1: you'll be surprised how such pictures help you to form
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Speaker 1: the mental mold, and how quickly the creative force will
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Speaker 1: take shape in that mold. Suppose some people d o
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Speaker 1: laugh at your idea. Suppose reason does say it can't
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Speaker 1: be done. People laughed at Galileo, They laughed at Henry Ford.
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Speaker 1: Reason contended for countless ages that the earth was flat.
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Speaker 1: Reason said or so. Numerous automotive engineers argued that the
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Speaker 1: Ford motor wouldn't run, but the earth is round, and
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Speaker 1: some millions of Fords did run and are running. Let
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Speaker 1: us start right now putting into practice some of these
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Speaker 1: truths that you have learned. What do you want most
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Speaker 1: of life? Right now? Take that one desire, Concentrate on it,
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Speaker 1: Impress it upon your sub conscious mind in every way
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Speaker 1: you can, particularly with pictures. Visualizing what you want is essential,
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Speaker 1: and pictures make this visualizing easier. Psychologists have discovered at
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Speaker 1: the best time to make suggestions to your subconscious mind
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Speaker 1: is just before going to sleep, when the senses are quiet.
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Speaker 1: And the attention is lax. So let us take your
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Speaker 1: desire and suggest it to your sub conscious mind tonight.
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Speaker 1: The two prerequisites are the earnest desire and an intelligent
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Speaker 1: understanding belief. Some one has said, you know that education
2:17:30
Speaker 1: is three fourths encouragement, and the encouragement is the suggestion
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Speaker 1: that the thing can be done. You know that you
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Speaker 1: can have what you want if you want it badly
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Speaker 1: enough and can believe in it earnestly enough. So tonight,
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Speaker 1: just before you drop off to sleep, concentrate your thought
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Speaker 1: on this thing that you most desire from life. Believe
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Speaker 1: that you have it, See it in your mind's eye,
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Speaker 1: and see yourself possessing it, feel yourself using it. Do
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Speaker 1: that every night until you actually do believe that you
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Speaker 1: have the thing you want. When you reach that point,
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Speaker 1: you will have it. Do you accept the power within?
2:18:07
Speaker 1: Or do you say tomorrow or after that? I will
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Speaker 1: begin and try from time to time to borrow sweet
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Speaker 1: precious moments quickly sped on feudal paths by error lead.
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Speaker 1: Our God has willed a legacy to all of those believing,
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Speaker 1: so why not change her? It might be to just
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Speaker 1: I am receiving a guiding hand in every task and
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Speaker 1: full returns for all. I ask, do you desire success?
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Speaker 1: To win? Humbly accept the power within? John Graham six
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Speaker 1: The Perfect Pattern. In chapter four we quoted Bodwin to
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Speaker 1: show how a person can hypnotize himself into health, happiness, success.
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Speaker 1: This is not as foolish as it sounds. For self
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Speaker 1: hypnosis is nothing more nor less than deep concentration. And
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Speaker 1: it is a well known fact that we go in
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Speaker 1: the direction of our thoughts, what we long for or
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Speaker 1: dread or fear that we are headed towards. You see,
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Speaker 1: man is inseparable from the creative force. God has incarnated
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Speaker 1: himself in man, and God is dynamic, not static. He
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Speaker 1: cannot be shut up. He must be expressed in one
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Speaker 1: way or another. We put his power into all that
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Speaker 1: we do, whether towards failure or success. How then, can
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Speaker 1: we use this creative power for good? How can we
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Speaker 1: put it into our efforts towards success? First by convincing
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Speaker 1: ourselves that we are successful, that we are on the
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Speaker 1: road to riches or health or power. We must believe
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Speaker 1: that we receive, and the quickest, easiest, surest way to
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Speaker 1: do this is through repetition. It is now generally known
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Speaker 1: and accepted that one comes to believe whatever one repeats
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Speaker 1: to oneself sufficiently, Often, whether the statement be true or false,
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Speaker 1: it comes to be the dominating thought in one's mind.
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Speaker 1: Such thoughts, when mixed with a strong feeling of desire
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Speaker 1: or emotion, become a magnet which attracts from all about
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Speaker 1: similar or related thoughts. They attract a host of their relatives,
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Speaker 1: which they add to their own magnetic power, until they
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Speaker 1: become the dominating, motivating master of the individual. Then the
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Speaker 1: second law begins to work. All impulses of thought have
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Speaker 1: a tendency to clothe themselves in their physical equivalent. In
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Speaker 1: other words, if the dominating thought in your mind is riches,
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Speaker 1: that thought will tend to draw to you opportunities for
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Speaker 1: riches that you never dreamed of. Just as the magnet
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Speaker 1: attracts iron, so will you attract money in ways of
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Speaker 1: making more money. Or if health be your dominating thought,
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Speaker 1: ways and means of winning new health and strength will
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Speaker 1: come to you. The same is true of love, of happiness,
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Speaker 1: of anything you may greatly desire of life. On the
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Speaker 1: other hand, if you fill your mind with fear, doubt,
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Speaker 1: and unbelief in your ability to use the forces of
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Speaker 1: infinite intelligence. The ease, in turn, will become your dominating
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Speaker 1: thought and form the pattern for your life. You will
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Speaker 1: be lifted up or pulled down according to the pattern
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Speaker 1: of your thought. There are no limitations upon the creative
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Speaker 1: force working through you. The limitations are all in you,
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Speaker 1: and they are all self imposed. Riches and poverty are
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Speaker 1: equally the offspring of your thought. So if you desire
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Speaker 1: anything of good, the first and most important thing you
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Speaker 1: must do is to develop your faith that you can
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Speaker 1: have that good. Faith, like any other state of mind,
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Speaker 1: can be induced by suggestion, by repetition. Tell yourself often
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Speaker 1: enough that you have faith, and you will have it.
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Speaker 1: For any thought that is passed on to the subconscious
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Speaker 1: often enough and convincingly enough, is finally accepted and then
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Speaker 1: translated into its physical equivalent by the most practical method available.
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Speaker 1: You remember the story of the king who felt that
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Speaker 1: his child, if brought up in the court, would be
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Speaker 1: spoiled by over much attention. So he put him in
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Speaker 1: a family of an honest peasant and had him raised
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Speaker 1: as the peasant's own child. The boy had all the power,
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Speaker 1: all the riches of the kingdom at his disposal, yet
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Speaker 1: he knew it not he was a great prince. Yet
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Speaker 1: because he knew nothing of it, he worked and lived
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Speaker 1: as a lowly peasant. Most of us are like that
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Speaker 1: young prince, in that we are ignorant of our divine parentage.
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Speaker 1: We know nothing of the power that is ours, so
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Speaker 1: we get no good from it. God is working through us,
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Speaker 1: and there is nothing he cannot do. Yet, because we
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Speaker 1: know nothing of him, we are powerless. There is no
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Speaker 1: such thing as a human Nobody. All have the divine
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Speaker 1: spark in them. All can kindle it into a glowing
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Speaker 1: flame through faith. People let themselves be hypnotized by fear
2:22:46
Speaker 1: and anxiety, fear of poverty, of failure, of disease. They
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Speaker 1: continually visualize these and thus make them their dominant thought,
2:22:55
Speaker 1: using it as a magnet to draw these things to them.
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Speaker 1: Whatever form your thoughts and beliefs, take the creative force
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Speaker 1: working through you uses as a mold in which to
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Speaker 1: form your life and your surroundings. If you want to
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Speaker 1: be strong, think of yourself as perfect. If you want
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Speaker 1: to be prosperous, think not of debts and lacks, but
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Speaker 1: of riches and opportunity. We go in the direction of
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Speaker 1: our dominating thought it strikes the keynote of our life song,
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Speaker 1: the chief characteristic of the religion of the future, wrote
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Speaker 1: Doctor Eliot. Will be man's inseparableness from the great creative force.
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Speaker 1: We are in partnership with the fountain head of all good.
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Speaker 1: Emerson said that Christ alone estimated the greatness and the
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Speaker 1: divinity of man. Christ constantly emphasized man's unlimited possibilities. He
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Speaker 1: saw that God incarnated himself in man. Emerson goes on
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Speaker 1: to say that man is weak when he looks for
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Speaker 1: help outside himself. It is only as he throws himself
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Speaker 1: unhesitatingly upon the creative force within himself that he finds
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Speaker 1: the springs of success, the power that can accomplish all things.
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Speaker 1: It is only when he realizes that all outside help
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Speaker 1: amounts to nothing compared with the tremendous forces working through him,
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Speaker 1: that he stands erect and begins to work miracles. Nearly
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Speaker 1: every man has a habit of looking back and saying,
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Speaker 1: if I had that period of my life to live
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Speaker 1: over again, if I could go back and take advantage
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Speaker 1: of the chance at fortune I had, then I'd be
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Speaker 1: rich and successful to day. Yet a year from now,
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Speaker 1: or five or ten years from now, most of you
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Speaker 1: who read this will be saying the same thing of
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Speaker 1: to day. Why because your future depends upon the foundations
2:24:36
Speaker 1: your digging. Now, Yesterday is gone, there is no recalling it,
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Speaker 1: and tomorrow has not come. The only time you have
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Speaker 1: to work with is right now. And whether you will
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Speaker 1: go up or down tomorrow, whether you will be rich
2:24:50
Speaker 1: or a failure, depends upon your thoughts to day. It
2:24:53
Speaker 1: took mankind thousands of years to learn how to control matter,
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Speaker 1: how to provide comfort and safety and some degree financial security.
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Speaker 1: It has taken less than a generation to learn how
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Speaker 1: to control one's own future. The knowledge is so new
2:25:08
Speaker 1: that most people are not yet aware of it. As
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Speaker 1: David Seaberry put it in his book, they know that
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Speaker 1: science and mechanics have made over the face of the earth.
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Speaker 1: They do not know that psychology and its kindred sciences
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Speaker 1: are making a like change in man's handling of his
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Speaker 1: own nature. Do you know why so few people succeed
2:25:27
Speaker 1: in life? Because it is so easy that most people
2:25:31
Speaker 1: cannot believe in the methods that really make men successful.
2:25:34
Speaker 1: They prefer to look upon success as something arduous, something
2:25:38
Speaker 1: practically impossible for them to attain, and by looking upon
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Speaker 1: it that way make it so for themselves. You can
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Speaker 1: have what you want if you know how to plant
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Speaker 1: the seeds of it in your thought. To know that
2:25:50
Speaker 1: is the most important thing that anyone can learn. It
2:25:54
Speaker 1: is not fate that bars your path. It is not
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Speaker 1: lack of money or opportunity. It is yourself. Your attitude
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Speaker 1: towards life. Change it, and you change all. Ask yourself
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Speaker 1: this important question. Are you a victim of self pity?
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Speaker 1: Are you embittered at life and at those more successful
2:26:13
Speaker 1: than yourself? Do you think fortune has played you a
2:26:16
Speaker 1: scurvy trick? Or are you cheerfully, steadfastly, confidently working out
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Speaker 1: ways of meeting and bettering the situations that life presents
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Speaker 1: to you. Most people will dodge that question. They are
2:26:29
Speaker 1: more concerned in defending their ego and putting the blame
2:26:32
Speaker 1: for their failures on something outside themselves than they are
2:26:35
Speaker 1: in getting ahead. Failure comes from the inside first. It
2:26:40
Speaker 1: cannot be forced upon a resolute, dauntless soul. How about you?
2:26:45
Speaker 1: Will you give yourself an honest answer to this important question?
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Speaker 1: Are you a victim of self pity? Think of the
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Speaker 1: times when you have yearned for a future, when you
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Speaker 1: have grown impatient with the barriers that seem to hold
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Speaker 1: you down. When you have heard of the success of
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Speaker 1: some acquaintance whom you knew to be inwardly no more
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Speaker 1: capable than yourself, are you willing to keep on wishing
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Speaker 1: and envying and looking to the future for your success
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Speaker 1: or will you start that success in the only time
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Speaker 1: that will ever be yours to work with the everlasting.
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Speaker 1: Now remember what Emerson told us. There is one mind
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Speaker 1: common to all individual men. Every man is an inlet
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Speaker 1: to the same and to all of the same. He
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Speaker 1: that is once admitted to the right of reason is
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Speaker 1: a freeman of the whole estate. What Plato has thought,
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Speaker 1: he may think, what a saint has felt. He may
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Speaker 1: feel what has at any time befallen any man he
2:27:37
Speaker 1: can understand. Who hath access to this universal mind is
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Speaker 1: a party to all that is or can be done.
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Speaker 1: For this is the only and sovereign agent of this
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Speaker 1: universal mind. Each individual is one more incarnation. The creative
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Speaker 1: force of the universe is working through you. You can
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Speaker 1: be as great an outlet for it as anyone who
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Speaker 1: has ever lived. You have only to provide the mold
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Speaker 1: in which it is to take shape, and that mold
2:28:03
Speaker 1: is formed by your thoughts. What is your dominant desire?
2:28:07
Speaker 1: What do you want most? Believe in it and you
2:28:10
Speaker 1: can have it. Make it your dominating thought. Magnetize your
2:28:14
Speaker 1: mind with it, and you will draw to you everything
2:28:17
Speaker 1: you need for its accomplishment. There is not a dream
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Speaker 1: that may not come true, wrote Arthur Simons. If we
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Speaker 1: have the energy which makes or chooses our own fate,
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Speaker 1: we can always in this world get what we want
2:28:30
Speaker 1: if we will it intensely and persistently enough. So few
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Speaker 1: people succeed, because so few can conceive a great end
2:28:37
Speaker 1: and work towards it without deviating and without tiring. But
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Speaker 1: we all know that the man who works for money
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Speaker 1: day and night gets rich, and the man who works
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Speaker 1: day and night for no matter what kind of material power,
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Speaker 1: gets the power. It is only the dreams of those
2:28:51
Speaker 1: light sleepers who dream faintly that do not come true.
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Speaker 1: Knowing these things, can you ever again limit yourself when
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Speaker 1: you have such an unlimited possibilities. Sure, there are times
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Speaker 1: when you feel inferior. Everyone does. Just remember that and
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Speaker 1: realize that you are superior, one of the efficient few
2:29:12
Speaker 1: who take advantage of the infinite power inside them to
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Speaker 1: carry you on to the heights of success. Plato held,
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Speaker 1: you remember that in the divine mind are pure forms
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Speaker 1: or archetypes, according to which all visible beings are made,
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Speaker 1: and most of the great mystery schools of the older
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Speaker 1: world held similar opinions. They taught growth by intent rather
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Speaker 1: than by accident, a development from birth all through life
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Speaker 1: towards the perfect image or archetype of each of us
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Speaker 1: that is held in divine mind. They visioned each of
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Speaker 1: us growing into a destiny that had been imaged for
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Speaker 1: him long before he was born. Progress was movement in
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Speaker 1: the direction of the perfect archetype. Man became nobler as
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Speaker 1: the interval between him and his perfect pattern grew less.
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Speaker 1: To the Greeks, happiness meant peace between a man and
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Speaker 1: his pattern, whereas if you lived in a manner inconsistent
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Speaker 1: with your archetype, you suffered from in harmonies of various kinds.
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Speaker 1: They believe that it was not so much what you
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Speaker 1: do that causes you to suffer, as it is the
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Speaker 1: in harmony between what you do and what you should
2:30:14
Speaker 1: do to match your perfect pattern. There is a perfect
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Speaker 1: pattern for you in the divine mind, a perfect archetype
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Speaker 1: that you can match. It has perfect form perfect intelligence,
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Speaker 1: all power necessary to make your surroundings perfect, Why not
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Speaker 1: make yourself like it? You can just let your archetype
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Speaker 1: be your model, fill your mind with thoughts of its perfection,
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Speaker 1: make it your dominant thought, and you can draw to
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Speaker 1: yourself whatever elements you need to manifest that perfect image.
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Speaker 1: And not merely the perfect image of yourself, but all
2:30:47
Speaker 1: that goes to make your surroundings and circumstances just as perfect. Remember,
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Speaker 1: the only limit upon the power working through you is
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Speaker 1: the limit you impose. Bear these facts in mind. One,
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Speaker 1: your subconscious mind is constantly amenable to control by the
2:31:04
Speaker 1: power of suggestion. Two, its powertorious on deductive life from
2:31:09
Speaker 1: javen premise to correct conclusions, is practically perfect. Three it
2:31:14
Speaker 1: is endowed with a perfect memory. Four it is the
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Speaker 1: seed of your emotions. Five It has the power to
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Speaker 1: communicate and receive intelligence through other than the recognized channels
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Speaker 1: of the senses. Man contains all that is needful within himself,
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Speaker 1: wrote Emerson. He is made a law unto himself. All
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Speaker 1: real good or evil that can befall him must be
2:31:37
Speaker 1: from himself. The purpose of life seems to be to
2:31:41
Speaker 1: acquaint a man with himself. The highest revelation is that
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Speaker 1: God is in every man. Seven to him that hath.
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Speaker 1: Jesus gave us the fundamental law of increase when he
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Speaker 1: told us that unto every one that hath shall be given,
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Speaker 1: and he shall have abundance. But from him that hath
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Speaker 1: not shall be taken away. Even at which he sounds simple,
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Speaker 1: doesn't it? Yet? It is the basic law of all success,
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Speaker 1: all riches, all power. It is the way the whole
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Speaker 1: universe is run. You live by it, whether you like
2:32:13
Speaker 1: it or not, or you die by it. To many
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Speaker 1: this law seems unfair. But in this as in all things,
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Speaker 1: nature is logical. And when you understand exactly how the
2:32:23
Speaker 1: law works, you will agree that it is eminently just
2:32:26
Speaker 1: and right. You see, everything consists primarily of electricity, of
2:32:31
Speaker 1: tiny protons and electrons revolving about each other. It is
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Speaker 1: of these that your body is made. It is of
2:32:38
Speaker 1: these that all plant life is made. It is of
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Speaker 1: these that all so called inanimate life is made. Wherein, then,
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Speaker 1: is the difference between all these forms of life largely
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Speaker 1: in their rate of motion? Remember this, Starting with the
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Speaker 1: individual cell in your mother's womb, you attract to yourself
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Speaker 1: only those elements that are identical in quality and character
2:32:59
Speaker 1: with yourself and that are revolving at the same rate
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Speaker 1: of speed. Your selective ability is such that you are
2:33:06
Speaker 1: able to pick such material as will preserve your quality
2:33:09
Speaker 1: and identity. This is true of your body, of your circumstances,
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Speaker 1: of your environment. Like attracts like. If you are not
2:33:18
Speaker 1: satisfied with yourself as you are, if you want a
2:33:21
Speaker 1: healthier body, more attractive friends, greater riches, and success, you
2:33:25
Speaker 1: must start at the core within yourself. And the first
2:33:29
Speaker 1: essential to putting yourself in harmony with the infinite good
2:33:32
Speaker 1: all about you is to relax, to take off the breaks.
2:33:36
Speaker 1: For what is worry or fear or discouragement but a
2:33:39
Speaker 1: break on your thinking and on the proper functioning of
2:33:41
Speaker 1: your organs, a slowing down of your entire rate of activity.
2:33:46
Speaker 1: Get rid of your tensions, says the modern psychologist, by
2:33:50
Speaker 1: which he means think more about the agreeable things and
2:33:53
Speaker 1: less about the disagreeable ones. You know how martial music
2:33:58
Speaker 1: stirs your pulses, wakes even the tiredest man into action.
2:34:02
Speaker 1: Why because it tends to increase the rate of motion
2:34:06
Speaker 1: in every cell in your body. You know how good
2:34:09
Speaker 1: news has often cured sick people. How sudden excitement has
2:34:13
Speaker 1: enabled paralyzed people to leap from their beds. Why because
2:34:18
Speaker 1: good news makes you happy speeds up your rate of motion,
2:34:21
Speaker 1: even as sudden excitement stirs up the whole organism. You
2:34:25
Speaker 1: know how fear, hatred, and discouragement slow you down. Why
2:34:31
Speaker 1: because those feelings put a definite clamp upon your rate
2:34:34
Speaker 1: of motion. Remember this, hatred, anger, fear, worry, discouragement. All
2:34:40
Speaker 1: the negative emotions not only slow down your rate of
2:34:44
Speaker 1: motion and thus bring on sickness and make you old
2:34:46
Speaker 1: before your time, but they definitely keep the good from you.
2:34:50
Speaker 1: Like attracts like, and the good things you desire have
2:34:53
Speaker 1: a different rate of motion from these negative ones. Love,
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Speaker 1: on the other hand, attracts and binds to you the
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Speaker 1: things you love. As Drummond tells us, to love abundantly
2:35:04
Speaker 1: is to live abundantly, and to love forever is to
2:35:07
Speaker 1: live forever. And Emerson expresses the same idea, love and
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Speaker 1: you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just as
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Speaker 1: much as the two sides of an algebraic equation. Whatever
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Speaker 1: thou lovest man, that too become thou must God. If
2:35:25
Speaker 1: thou lovest God, dust, if thou lovest dust, And that
2:35:30
Speaker 1: again is strictly logical, strictly in accord with nature's law
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Speaker 1: that like attracts like. Whatever your rate of motion, the
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Speaker 1: elements of like quality, with that rate of emotion will
2:35:40
Speaker 1: be attracted to you. Which brings us back to the
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Speaker 1: law enunciated by Jesus. Unto every one that hath shall
2:35:47
Speaker 1: be given, and he shall have abundance. But from him
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Speaker 1: that hath not shall be taken away that which he hath.
2:35:53
Speaker 1: Read the parable of the talents which brought forth this
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Speaker 1: pronouncement of Jesus, and you will see that it is
2:35:59
Speaker 1: not mere money or possessions that attracts more money. It
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Speaker 1: is the use to which these are put. You can't
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Speaker 1: bury your talent and expect increase. You must put it
2:36:09
Speaker 1: to good use. It is the rate of motion that
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Speaker 1: attracts increase what the modern merchant would call the turnover
2:36:16
Speaker 1: the oftener he turns over his stock of goods, the
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Speaker 1: more money he makes on his invested capital. But if
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Speaker 1: he fails to turn it over, if his goods lie
2:36:25
Speaker 1: dormant on his shelves, they will gather dust or mold,
2:36:28
Speaker 1: and presently be worthless. The servant in the parable who
2:36:32
Speaker 1: had five talents, put them to work and attracted five more.
2:36:35
Speaker 1: The servant with two talents did likewise and increased his
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Speaker 1: by two more. But the servant with only one talent
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Speaker 1: buried his in a field and let it lie idle.
2:36:45
Speaker 1: He got nothing, and the talent he had was taken
2:36:48
Speaker 1: away from him. We see the same thing happening every day.
2:36:53
Speaker 1: Statistics show that of all those who inherit money, only
2:36:56
Speaker 1: one in seventeen dies with money. Of all those possessed
2:36:59
Speaker 1: of fortune at the age of thirty five, only seventeen
2:37:02
Speaker 1: percent have them when they reach sixty five. The old
2:37:06
Speaker 1: adage used to be three generations from shirt sleeves to
2:37:09
Speaker 1: shirt sleeves, but the modern tempo has speeded this up
2:37:12
Speaker 1: until now most fortunes hardly last out a single generation.
2:37:17
Speaker 1: Why is this because of the old law of the
2:37:20
Speaker 1: rate of motion. The man who makes the money has
2:37:23
Speaker 1: set in motion some idea of service that has attracted
2:37:26
Speaker 1: riches to him. More often than not, it is the
2:37:29
Speaker 1: idea or the service that is important in his mind.
2:37:33
Speaker 1: The money is incidental and is attracted to him with
2:37:36
Speaker 1: other things of good because he has set in motion
2:37:38
Speaker 1: an idea that is bringing good to others. But when
2:37:42
Speaker 1: he dies what happens too often the business is carried
2:37:46
Speaker 1: on solely with the thought of how much money can
2:37:48
Speaker 1: be made out of it, or the business is sold
2:37:51
Speaker 1: and the money put out at interest, with the sole
2:37:54
Speaker 1: idea of hanging on to the money in hand. Naturally,
2:37:58
Speaker 1: its rate of movement slows down. Naturally, it begins to disintegrate,
2:38:02
Speaker 1: and its parts are gradually drawn away by the stronger
2:38:05
Speaker 1: forces around it, until of that fortune there is nothing left.
2:38:09
Speaker 1: You see exactly the same thing in nature. Take any
2:38:13
Speaker 1: seed of plant life. Take an acorn, for instance, You
2:38:18
Speaker 1: put it in the ground, plant it. What happens. It
2:38:22
Speaker 1: first gives of all the elements it has within itself
2:38:25
Speaker 1: to put forth a chute, which in turn shall draw
2:38:27
Speaker 1: from the sun and the air the elements that they
2:38:29
Speaker 1: have to give. And at the same time it puts
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Speaker 1: out roots to draw from the earth the moisture and
2:38:35
Speaker 1: other elements it needs for growth. Its top reaches upward
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Speaker 1: to the sun and air. Its roots burrow deeply into
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Speaker 1: the ground for moisture and nourishment. Always it is reaching out.
2:38:47
Speaker 1: Always it is creating a vacuum, using up all the
2:38:49
Speaker 1: materials it has on hand, drawing to itself from all
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Speaker 1: about every element it needs for growth. Time passes, the
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Speaker 1: oak tree stops growing. What happens in that moment its
2:39:02
Speaker 1: attractive power ceases. Can it then live on the elements
2:39:06
Speaker 1: it has drawn to itself and made a part of
2:39:08
Speaker 1: itself through all those years? No, Indeed, the moment growth stops,
2:39:14
Speaker 1: disintegration starts, its component elements begin to feel the pull
2:39:19
Speaker 1: of the growing plants around them. First, the moisture drains
2:39:23
Speaker 1: out of the tree, Then the leaves fall, the bark
2:39:27
Speaker 1: peels off. Finally, the great trunk crashes down to decay
2:39:30
Speaker 1: and form soil to nourish the growing plants around. Soon,
2:39:35
Speaker 1: of that noble oak, nothing is left but the enriched
2:39:38
Speaker 1: soil and the well nourished plants that have sprung from it.
2:39:41
Speaker 1: The fundamental law of the universe is that you must
2:39:44
Speaker 1: integrate or disintegrate. You must grow or feed others who
2:39:48
Speaker 1: are growing. There is no standing still. You are either
2:39:53
Speaker 1: attracting to yourself all the unused forces about you, or
2:39:56
Speaker 1: you are giving your own to help build some other
2:39:58
Speaker 1: man's success. To him that hath shall be given to
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Speaker 1: him that is using his attractive powers, shall be given
2:40:07
Speaker 1: everything he needs for growth and fruition from him that
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Speaker 1: hath not shall be taken away, even at which he hath.
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Speaker 1: The penalty for not using your attractive powers is the
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Speaker 1: loss of them. You are demagnetized, and like a dead
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Speaker 1: magnet surrounded by live ones. You must be content to
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Speaker 1: see everything you have drawn to yourself taken by them,
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Speaker 1: until eventually even you are absorbed by their resistless force.
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Speaker 1: That is the first and fundamental law of the universe.
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Speaker 1: But how are you to become an attractor? How are
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Speaker 1: you to make your start in the same way that
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Speaker 1: it has been done from the beginning of time? Go
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Speaker 1: back to the first law of life, Go back to
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Speaker 1: the beginning of things. You will find nature logical in
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Speaker 1: all that she does. If you want to understand how
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Speaker 1: she works, study her in her simplest, most elementary forms.
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Speaker 1: The principles established their whole good throughout the universe. The
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Speaker 1: methods there used are used by all created things, from
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Speaker 1: the simplest to the most complicated. How, for instance, did
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Speaker 1: the earliest forms of cell life, either plant or animal,
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Speaker 1: get their food by absorbing it from the waters around them?
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Speaker 1: How does every cell in your body, every cell in
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Speaker 1: plant or tree or animal, get its food To day
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Speaker 1: in exactly the same way, by absorbing it from the
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Speaker 1: limph or water surrounding it. Nature's methods do not change.
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Speaker 1: She is logical in everything. She may build more complicated organisms,
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Speaker 1: she may go in for immense size or strange combinations,
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Speaker 1: but she uses the same principles throughout all of life. Now,
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Speaker 1: what is Nature's principle of increase? From the beginning of time,
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Speaker 1: it has been divide and grow. That principle, like every
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Speaker 1: other fundamental law of nature, is the same in all
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Speaker 1: of life. It has remained unchanged since the first single
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Speaker 1: celled organism floated on the surface of the primordial sea.
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Speaker 1: It is the fundamental law of increase. Take the lowest
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Speaker 1: form of cell life. How does it grow? It divides,
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Speaker 1: each part grows back to its original size. Then they
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Speaker 1: in turn divide and grow again. Take the highest form
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Speaker 1: of cell life. Man, the same principle works in him
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Speaker 1: in exactly the same way. In fact, it is the
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Speaker 1: only principle of growth that nature knows. How does this
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Speaker 1: apply to your circumstances, to the acquisition of riches, to
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Speaker 1: the winning of success. Look up any miracle of increase
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Speaker 1: in the Bible, and what do you find? First division
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Speaker 1: then increase. When Russell Conwell was building the famous Baptist
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Speaker 1: Temple in Philadelphia, his congregation was poor and greatly in
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Speaker 1: need of money. Through prayer and every other means known
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Speaker 1: to him, Conwell was constantly trying to help his flock.
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Speaker 1: One Sunday, it occurred to him that the old Jewish
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Speaker 1: custom had been, when praying to God, to first make
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Speaker 1: an offering of the finest lamb of the flock, or
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Speaker 1: of some other much prized possession. Then, after freely giving
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Speaker 1: to God, prayer was made for his good gifts. So
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Speaker 1: instead of first praying and then taking up the collection,
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Speaker 1: as was the custom, Conwell suggested that the collection be
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Speaker 1: taken first, and that all who had special favors to
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Speaker 1: ask if the Creator should give freely as a thank offering.
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Speaker 1: A few weeks afterwards, Conwell asked that those who had
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Speaker 1: made offerings on this occasion should tell their experiences. The
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Speaker 1: results sounded unbelievable. One woman who had an overdue mortgage
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Speaker 1: on her home found it necessary to call in a
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Speaker 1: plumber the following week to repair a leak. In tearing
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Speaker 1: up the boards, he uncovered a hiding place where her
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Speaker 1: late father had hidden all his money enough to pay
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Speaker 1: off the mortgage and leave plenty over. One man got
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Speaker 1: a mo much needed job, a servant some dresses she
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Speaker 1: badly needed. A student the chance to study for his
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Speaker 1: chosen vocation. While literally dozens had their financial needs met.
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Speaker 1: They had complied with the law. They had sown their
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Speaker 1: seed freely, and they reaped the harvest. Except a kernel
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Speaker 1: of wheat fall into the ground and die, said the master.
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Speaker 1: It abodeth alone. But if it die, it beareth much fruit.
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Speaker 1: You can't put strings on your seeds. You can't sow
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Speaker 1: them and say I'll give you a chance to sprout
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Speaker 1: and bring forth increase. But if you fail, I'll take
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Speaker 1: you back and use you to make bread. You must
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Speaker 1: give that seed freely fully. It must be dead to
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Speaker 1: you before you can hope to get back from it
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Speaker 1: a harvest of increase. Many people will tell you, I
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Speaker 1: don't see why God does not send me riches. I
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Speaker 1: have prayed for them and promised that if I get them,
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Speaker 1: I will use them to do good. God enters into
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Speaker 1: no bargain with man. He gives you certain gifts to start,
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Speaker 1: and upon the way you use these depends whether you
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Speaker 1: get more. You've got to start with what you have,
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Speaker 1: and the place to start is pointed out in a
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Speaker 1: little poem by Nina Styles. The land of opportunity is
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Speaker 1: anywhere we chance to be, just any place where people
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Speaker 1: live and need the help that we can give. The
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Speaker 1: basis of all work, all business, all manufacturing is service.
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Speaker 1: Every idea of success must start with that. Every nucleus
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Speaker 1: that is to gather to itself elements of good must
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Speaker 1: have as its basis service to your fellow man. Carlyle
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Speaker 1: defined wealth clearly when he said that the wealth of
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Speaker 1: a man is the number of things he loves and blesses,
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Speaker 1: which he is loved and blessed by. And that is
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Speaker 1: the only kind of wealth that endures love and blessing.
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Speaker 1: Speed up your rate of motion, Keep your nucleus active,
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Speaker 1: keep it drawing to you every element of good that
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Speaker 1: you need for its complete and perfect expression. They are, are,
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Speaker 1: in effect a constant prayer, the kind of prayer Coleridge
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Speaker 1: had in mind when he wrote, he prayeth well, who
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Speaker 1: loveth well, both man and bird and beast. He prayeth best,
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Speaker 1: who loveth best all things, both great and small, for
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Speaker 1: the dear God, who loveth us he made and loveth all.
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Speaker 1: Remember that the only word often used in the Old
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Speaker 1: Testament to signify prayer means, when literally translated, to sing
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Speaker 1: a song of joy and praise, in other words, to
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Speaker 1: speed up your rate of motion with joy and thanksgiving.
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Speaker 1: And you have only to read the Old Testament to
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Speaker 1: know how often the great characters of the Bible had
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Speaker 1: recourse to this method. What do you want from life?
2:46:42
Speaker 1: Speed up your rate of motion and overtake it? Is
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Speaker 1: it health you want? Then start by relaxing, by letting
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Speaker 1: go of all your fears and worries. In a recent
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Speaker 1: article I read, doctor Loring Swain, director of a famous
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Speaker 1: clinic in Massachusetts, has under observation two hundred and seventy
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Speaker 1: cases of arthritis which were cured when they became free
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Speaker 1: from worry, fear, and resentment. He has come to the
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Speaker 1: conclusion after some years that no less than sixty percent
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Speaker 1: of his cases are caused by moral conflict. In the
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Speaker 1: Reader's Digest some months ago, it was stated that personal
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Speaker 1: worry is one of the principal causes of physical ailments
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Speaker 1: which send people to hospitals. It is literally possible to
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Speaker 1: worry yourself sick. In fact, the chances are better than
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Speaker 1: even that if you are ill, worry is causing the symptoms.
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Speaker 1: That is not a modern discovery by any means. In
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Speaker 1: proverbs you will find the statement a merry heart causeth
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Speaker 1: good healing, but a broken spirit drieth up the bones
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Speaker 1: and Plato observed nineteen centuries ago. If the head and
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Speaker 1: the body are to be well, you must begin by
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Speaker 1: curing the soul. So the first essential in curing yourself
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Speaker 1: of any ailment would seem to be to let go
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Speaker 1: of your resentments, your worries, and fears. Make peace within yourself,
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Speaker 1: within your thoughts. Laugh a little, sing a little, dance
2:48:05
Speaker 1: a little if you can. Exercise speeds up your rate
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Speaker 1: of motion, but it should be joyous. Exercise. Do something
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Speaker 1: you enjoy, something that speeds up your mind as well
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Speaker 1: as your muscles. Dance if you like dancing, Swim, ride horseback,
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Speaker 1: play tennis. Do something exhilarating to the spirit as well
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Speaker 1: as the body. Mere routine exercises that soon become a
2:48:30
Speaker 1: chore do little good and often are harmful. Unless you
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Speaker 1: can get mental as well as physical exhilaration out of
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Speaker 1: your exercise, don't bother with it at all. Do you
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Speaker 1: want money riches, then use what you have no matter
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Speaker 1: how little it may be, speed up your rate of turnover.
2:48:47
Speaker 1: As the merchant speeds the turnover of his stocks. Money
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Speaker 1: is now your stock. Use it, pay it out joyfully
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Speaker 1: for any good purpose. And as you pay it, bless it.
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Speaker 1: Bless it in some such wise as this, I bless you,
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Speaker 1: and be thou a blessing. May you enrich all who
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Speaker 1: touch you. I thank God for you, but I thank
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Speaker 1: him even more that there is unlimited supply where you
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Speaker 1: came from. I bless that infinite supply. I thank God
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Speaker 1: for it, and I expand my consciousness to take in
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Speaker 1: as much of it as I can use. As I
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Speaker 1: release this money in my hand, I know that I
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Speaker 1: am opening the gates of infinite supply to flow through
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Speaker 1: my channels and through all that are open to receive it.
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Speaker 1: The spirit that multiplied the loaves and fishes for Jesus
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Speaker 1: is making this money attract to itself everything it needs
2:49:38
Speaker 1: for growth and increase. All of God's channels are open
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Speaker 1: and flowing freely for me, the best in myself for
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Speaker 1: the world, the best in the world for me. There
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Speaker 1: is no quicker way of speeding up your rate of
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Speaker 1: motion than by giving give of your time of your money,
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Speaker 1: of your services, whatever you have to give, give of
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Speaker 1: that you want to see increased. For your gift is
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Speaker 1: your seed, and everything increaseth after I T. S. Kind.
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Speaker 1: Solomon was the richest man of his day, and he
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Speaker 1: gave us the key to his riches and success when
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Speaker 1: he wrote, there is that scattereth and increaseth yet more,
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Speaker 1: and there is that withholdeth more than his meat. The
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Speaker 1: liberal soul shall be made fat, and he that watereth
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Speaker 1: shall be watered himself. And one even wiser than Solomon
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Speaker 1: told us, give and it shall be given unto you.
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Speaker 1: Good measure, pressed down and shaken together in running over
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Speaker 1: shall men give into your bosom. For with the same
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Speaker 1: measure that ye meet withal it shall be measured to
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Speaker 1: you again. Do you want power ability, greater skill in
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Speaker 1: what you are doing, then use what you have, use
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Speaker 1: it to the greatest extent of which you are capable.
2:50:50
Speaker 1: The Sunshine Bulletin had an excellent little piece along these lines.
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Speaker 1: There is a task for to day which can be
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Speaker 1: done now better than at any other time. It is
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Speaker 1: to Day's duty. And we are writing now a judgment
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Speaker 1: upon our lives, by our faithfulness or unfaithfulness at the
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Speaker 1: present moment. This moment has its own priceless value, and
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Speaker 1: if wasted, it can no more be recovered than jewels
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Speaker 1: that are cast into the depths of the ocean. Each
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Speaker 1: day has its share in the making of our tomorrow,
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Speaker 1: and the future will be nobler or meaner by reason
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Speaker 1: of what we now do or leave undone. What is
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Speaker 1: ambition but the inner urge that speeds up your rate
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Speaker 1: of motion and makes you work harder and longer, and
2:51:31
Speaker 1: more purposefully, to the end that you may accomplish something
2:51:33
Speaker 1: worth while. What is perseverance but the will to carry
2:51:37
Speaker 1: on in spite of all difficulties and discouragements. Given that
2:51:41
Speaker 1: ambition and that perseverance, there is nothing you cannot accomplish,
2:51:45
Speaker 1: nothing with a rate of motion so high that you
2:51:48
Speaker 1: cannot overtake it. It is in loving, not in being loved,
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Speaker 1: the heart is blessed. It is in giving, not in
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Speaker 1: seeking gifts. We find our quest. If thou art hungry,
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Speaker 1: lacking heavenly bread, give hope and cheer. If thou art
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Speaker 1: sad and wouldst be comforted, stay sorrows, tear whatever be
2:52:08
Speaker 1: thy longing or thy need, that do thou give, so
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Speaker 1: shall thy soul be fed, and thou indeed shalt truly live.
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Speaker 1: M Ella Russell yeate everything has its price. Dear God,
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Speaker 1: help me be wise enough to see that as I give,
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Speaker 1: so it is meted out to me. Help me to
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Speaker 1: know that with my every thought, the good or ill
2:52:30
Speaker 1: that's mine myself I've wrought. Help me to place all
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Speaker 1: blame of lack on me, not on my fellow man,
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Speaker 1: nor yet on me. Give me the courage God truly
2:52:40
Speaker 1: to know that, as I'd reap in life, thus must
2:52:43
Speaker 1: I sow vera m Crider. In his essay on compensation,
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Speaker 1: Emerson says, what will you have, quoth God? Pay for
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Speaker 1: it and take it? How can we buy the things
2:52:56
Speaker 1: we want at the counter of God? What pay can
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Speaker 1: we offer? Perhaps the answer lies in the ancient law
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Speaker 1: of karma. Karma is Sanskrit, you know, and means come back.
2:53:09
Speaker 1: It is one of the oldest laws known to man.
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Speaker 1: It is the law of the boomerang. Jesus quoted it
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Speaker 1: when he said, whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he
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Speaker 1: also reap. In the parlance of today, it is chickens
2:53:23
Speaker 1: come home to roost. Even in science we find it
2:53:27
Speaker 1: as Newton's third law of motion, action and reaction are
2:53:30
Speaker 1: equal to each other. Ella Wheeler Wilcox expressed the law
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Speaker 1: beautifully when she wrote, there are loyal hearts, there are
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Speaker 1: spirits brave, There are souls that are pure and true.
2:53:41
Speaker 1: Then give to the world the best you have, and
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Speaker 1: the best will come back to you. Give love, and
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Speaker 1: love to your heart will flow a strength in your
2:53:50
Speaker 1: utmost need have faith, and a score of hearts will
2:53:53
Speaker 1: show their faith in your word and deed. For life
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Speaker 1: is the mirror of king and slave tis just what
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Speaker 1: you are in dew. Then give to the world the
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Speaker 1: best you have, and the best will come back to you.
2:54:04
Speaker 1: One of the best illustrations of the working of the
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Speaker 1: law lies in the two seas of Palestine, the Sea
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Speaker 1: of Galilee and the Dead Sea. The Sea of Galilee
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Speaker 1: contains fresh water and is alive with fish. Green trees
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Speaker 1: adorn its banks, and farms and vineyards spread all around it.
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Speaker 1: The River Jordan flows into it, and all the little
2:54:25
Speaker 1: rivulets from the hills around feed its sparkling waters. The
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Speaker 1: Dead Sea, on the other hand, knows no splash of fish,
2:54:32
Speaker 1: has no vegetation around it, no homes, no farms or vineyards,
2:54:38
Speaker 1: travelers give it a wide berth. Unless forced by urgent
2:54:41
Speaker 1: business to use its shores, the air hangs heavy, and
2:54:45
Speaker 1: neither man nor beast will drink of the waters. What
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Speaker 1: makes the difference. The River Jordan empties the same good
2:54:52
Speaker 1: waters into both seas, so it is not the river,
2:54:57
Speaker 1: and it is not the soil or the country roundabout.
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Speaker 1: The difference lies in the fact that the Sea of
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Speaker 1: Galilee gives as it receives. For every drop of water
2:55:06
Speaker 1: that flows into it, another flows out. Whereas the dead
2:55:10
Speaker 1: sea holds on to all it receives, water leaves it
2:55:13
Speaker 1: only through evaporation and seepage. It hoards all it gets,
2:55:18
Speaker 1: and the result is that the water stagnates, turns salt,
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Speaker 1: and is good for naught unless a kernel of wheat
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Speaker 1: fall into the ground and die. Jesus told us it
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Speaker 1: abodeth alone. But if it die, it beareth much fruit.
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Speaker 1: In other words, if you put your kernel of wheat
2:55:35
Speaker 1: safely away to keep, you will never have anything but
2:55:38
Speaker 1: a kernel of wheat, and in time it will mold
2:55:40
Speaker 1: and rot away. But if you sow it freely, let
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Speaker 1: it die to you, it will bear much fruit. It
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Speaker 1: is another way of saying cast thy bread upon the waters,
2:55:49
Speaker 1: and it will return to you after many days, increased
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Speaker 1: an hundredfold. In all of nature, the only known law
2:55:56
Speaker 1: of increase is that you must give to get. If
2:55:59
Speaker 1: you want to re a harvest, you must first plant
2:56:02
Speaker 1: your seed. If you want to increase your strength, you
2:56:05
Speaker 1: must first break up the muscle cells and stimulate them
2:56:08
Speaker 1: to divide and grow. Division and growth is the way
2:56:12
Speaker 1: that all of life increases. Watch a single cell at
2:56:16
Speaker 1: work in your body, in a plant, or in any
2:56:18
Speaker 1: form of life. What happens. It first divides, then each
2:56:24
Speaker 1: half grows until it reaches its normal size. When it
2:56:27
Speaker 1: divides and starts growing again. Without division, there is no growth,
2:56:32
Speaker 1: only atrophy and decay. You must divide to grow, You
2:56:36
Speaker 1: must give to get. John Bunyan knew nothing of the
2:56:39
Speaker 1: law of cell growth, but he expressed it just as
2:56:42
Speaker 1: well when he wrote A man there was, and they
2:56:45
Speaker 1: called him mad. The more he gave, the more he had.
2:56:49
Speaker 1: And Moffatt had the same thought in his couplet. One
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Speaker 1: gives away, and still he grows the richer. Another keeps
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Speaker 1: what he should give, and is the poorer. Even the
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Speaker 1: thoughts we send forth return to us laden with a
2:57:02
Speaker 1: harvest of their kind. That which we put into our
2:57:05
Speaker 1: thought comes back into our own lives, because for every
2:57:08
Speaker 1: thought there is a response or return of the pendulum
2:57:11
Speaker 1: we have started swinging. It is the Einstein doctrine of
2:57:15
Speaker 1: the extended line, which must return to its source. There
2:57:19
Speaker 1: is no use saying you have not enough money or
2:57:21
Speaker 1: abilities to be worth starting with. Just remember the parable
2:57:25
Speaker 1: of the talents. The servant who was given five talents
2:57:29
Speaker 1: put them out at interest and made more, as did
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Speaker 1: the one who was given two talents. But the servant
2:57:35
Speaker 1: who received only one talent felt that it was too
2:57:37
Speaker 1: little to do much with, so he buried it. And
2:57:41
Speaker 1: you know what happened to him when the master came back.
2:57:44
Speaker 1: Start with what you have and plant your seed, no
2:57:47
Speaker 1: matter how small and unimportant it may seem. You remember
2:57:51
Speaker 1: Jesus told us that the kingdom of heaven or expansion,
2:57:54
Speaker 1: is like a mustard seed, which indeed is the least
2:57:57
Speaker 1: of all seeds, But when it is grown, it is
2:58:00
Speaker 1: the greatest among herbs and becometh a tree, so that
2:58:03
Speaker 1: the birds of the air come to lodge in the
2:58:05
Speaker 1: branches thereof what you have to start with can hardly
2:58:08
Speaker 1: be smaller than the tiny mustard seed, if it can
2:58:12
Speaker 1: grow into a tree. Think what your seed may grow into.
2:58:16
Speaker 1: Do the thing, and you shall have the power, says Emerson.
2:58:19
Speaker 1: But they that do not the thing have not the power.
2:58:23
Speaker 1: Everything has its price, And if the price is not paid,
2:58:26
Speaker 1: not that thing, but something else is obtained. And it
2:58:30
Speaker 1: is impossible to get anything without its price. For any
2:58:34
Speaker 1: benefit received, a tax is levied. In nature, nothing can
2:58:38
Speaker 1: be given. All things are sold power to him who
2:58:42
Speaker 1: power exerts. You are not higher than your lowest thought,
2:58:46
Speaker 1: or lower than the peak of your desire. And all
2:58:49
Speaker 1: existence has no wonder wrought to which ambition may not
2:58:52
Speaker 1: yet aspire. Oh man, there is no planet, sun or
2:58:58
Speaker 1: star could hold you if you but new what you are.
2:59:02
Speaker 1: The key to power lies in using what you have
2:59:04
Speaker 1: for use releases more power, just as using your muscles
2:59:08
Speaker 1: builds them into greater muscles, and failing to use them
2:59:10
Speaker 1: makes them weak and useless. The one condition coupled with
2:59:14
Speaker 1: the gift of truth, Emerson tells us, is its use.
2:59:19
Speaker 1: That man shall be learned who reduces his learning to practice.
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Speaker 1: And Gerda expressed it even more strongly when he wrote,
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Speaker 1: lose this day loitering. It will be the same story tomorrow,
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Speaker 1: and the rest more dilatory. Thus indecision brings its own delays,
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Speaker 1: and days are lost tormenting over other days. Are you
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Speaker 1: in earnest seize this very minute what you can do
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Speaker 1: or dream you can begin it. Boldness has genius, power
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Speaker 1: and magic in it. Only engage and then the mind
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Speaker 1: grows heated. Begin and then the work will be completed.