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  Speaker 1: I hope you enjoy this reading, which comes from a
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  Speaker 1: work in the public domain. The Power of Concentration by
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  Speaker 1: therein Q. Dumont Introductory. We all know that in order
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  Speaker 1: to accomplish a certain thing, we must concentrate. It is
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  Speaker 1: of the utmost value to learn how to concentrate. To
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  Speaker 1: make a success of anything, you must be able to
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  Speaker 1: concentrate your entire thought upon the idea you are working out.
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  Speaker 1: Do not become discouraged if you are unable to hold
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  Speaker 1: your thought on the subject very long. At first, there
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  Speaker 1: are very few that can. It seems a peculiar fact
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  Speaker 1: that it is easier to concentrate on something that is
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  Speaker 1: not good for us than on something that is beneficial.
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  Speaker 1: This tendency is overcome when we learn to concentrate consciously.
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  Speaker 1: If you will just practice a few concentration exercises each day,
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  Speaker 1: you will find you will soon develop this wonderful power.
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  Speaker 1: Success is assured when you are able to concentrate, for
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  Speaker 1: you are then able to utilize for your good all
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  Speaker 1: constructive thoughts and shut out all the destructive ones. It
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  Speaker 1: is of the greatest value to be able to think
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  Speaker 1: only that which will be beneficial. Did you ever stop
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  Speaker 1: to think what an important part your thoughts. Concentrated thoughts
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  Speaker 1: play in your life. This book shows their far reaching
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  Speaker 1: and all abiding effects. These lessons you will find very practical.
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  Speaker 1: The exercises I have thoroughly tested. They are arranged so
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  Speaker 1: that you will notice an improvement from the very start,
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  Speaker 1: and this will give you encouragement. They point out ways
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  Speaker 1: in which you can help yourself. Man is a wonderful creature,
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  Speaker 1: but he must be trained and developed to be useful.
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  Speaker 1: A great work can be accomplished by every man if
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  Speaker 1: he can be awakened to do his very best. But
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  Speaker 1: the greatest man would not accomplish much if he lacked
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  Speaker 1: concentration and effort. Dwarfs can often do the work of
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  Speaker 1: giants when they are transformed by the almost magic power
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  Speaker 1: of great mental concentration, but giants will only do the
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  Speaker 1: work of dwarfs when they lack this power. We accomplish
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  Speaker 1: more by concentration than by fitness. The man that is
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  Speaker 1: apparently best suited for a place does not always fill
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  Speaker 1: it best. It is the man that concentrates on its
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  Speaker 1: every possibility that makes an art of both his work
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  Speaker 1: and his life. All your real advancement must come from
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  Speaker 1: your individual effort. This course of lessons will stimulate and
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  Speaker 1: inspire you to achieve success. It will bring you into
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  Speaker 1: perfect harmony with the laws of success. It will give
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  Speaker 1: you a firmer hold on your duties and responsibilities. The
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  Speaker 1: methods of thought concentration given in this work, if put
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  Speaker 1: into practice, will open up interior avenues that will connect
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  Speaker 1: you with the everlasting laws of being and their exhaustless
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  Speaker 1: foundation of unchangeable truth. As most people are very different,
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  Speaker 1: it is impossible to give instructions that will be of
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  Speaker 1: the same value to all. The author has endeavored in
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  Speaker 1: these lessons to awaken that within the soul, which perhaps
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  Speaker 1: the book does not express. So study these lessons as
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  Speaker 1: a man means of awakening in training that which is
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  Speaker 1: within yourself. Let all your acts and thoughts have the
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  Speaker 1: intensity and power of concentration. To really get the full
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  Speaker 1: benefit of these lessons, you should read a page, then
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  Speaker 1: close the book and thoughtfully recall its ideas. If you
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  Speaker 1: will do this, you will soon cultivate a concentrated mental
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  Speaker 1: habit which will enable you to read with ordinary rapidity
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  Speaker 1: and remember all that you read. Lessen one concentration finds
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  Speaker 1: the way everyone has two natures one wants us to advance,
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  Speaker 1: and the other wants to pull us back. The one
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  Speaker 1: that we cultivate and concentrate on decides what we are
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  Speaker 1: at the end. Both natures are trying to gain control.
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  Speaker 1: The will alone decides the issue. A man, by one
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  Speaker 1: supreme effort of the will may change his whole career
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  Speaker 1: and almost accomplish miracles. You may be that man. You
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  Speaker 1: can be if you will to be. For will confine
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  Speaker 1: a way or make one. I could easily fill a
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  Speaker 1: book of cases where men plodding along in a matter
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  Speaker 1: of fact way were all at once aroused, and as
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  Speaker 1: if awakening from a slumber, they developed the possibilities within them,
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  Speaker 1: and from that time onward different persons. You alone can
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  Speaker 1: decide when the turning point will come. It is a
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  Speaker 1: matter of choice whether we allow our diviner self to
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  Speaker 1: control us, or whether we will be controlled by the
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  Speaker 1: brute within us. No man has to do anything he
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  Speaker 1: does not want to do. He is therefore the director
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  Speaker 1: of his life if he wills to be. What we
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  Speaker 1: are to do is the result of our training. We
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  Speaker 1: are like putty and can be completely controlled by our
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  Speaker 1: will power. Habit is a matter of acquirement. You hear
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  Speaker 1: people say he comes by this or that naturally a
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  Speaker 1: chip off the old block, meaning that he is only
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  Speaker 1: doing what his parents did. This is quite often the case,
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  Speaker 1: but there is no reason for it. For a person
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  Speaker 1: can break a habit just the moment he masters the
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  Speaker 1: I will. A man may have been a good for
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  Speaker 1: nothing all his life up to this very minute, but
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  Speaker 1: from this time on he begins to amount to something.
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  Speaker 1: Even old men have suddenly changed and accomplished wonders. I
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  Speaker 1: lost my opportunity, says one. That may be true, but
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  Speaker 1: by sheer force of will, we can find a way
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  Speaker 1: to bring us another opportunity. There is no truth in
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  Speaker 1: the saying that opportunity knocks at our door, but once
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  Speaker 1: in a lifetime. The fact is, opportunity never seeks us.
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  Speaker 1: We must seek it. What usually turns out to be
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  Speaker 1: one man's opportunity was another man's loss. In this day,
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  Speaker 1: one man's brain is matched against another's. It is often
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  Speaker 1: the quickness of brain action that determines the result. One
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  Speaker 1: man thinks I will do it, but while he procrastinates,
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  Speaker 1: the other goes ahead and does the work. They both
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  Speaker 1: have the same opportunity. The one will complain of his
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  Speaker 1: lost chance, but it should teach him a lesson, and
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  Speaker 1: it will if he is seeking the path that leads
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  Speaker 1: to success. Many persons read good books, but say they
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  Speaker 1: do not get much good out of them. They do
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  Speaker 1: not realize that all any book or any lesson course
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  Speaker 1: can do is to awaken them to their possibilities, to
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  Speaker 1: stimulate them to use their will power. You may teach
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  Speaker 1: a person from now until doomsday, but that person will
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  Speaker 1: only know what he learns himself. You can lead him
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  Speaker 1: to the fountain, but you can't make him drink. One
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  Speaker 1: of the most beneficial practices I know of is that
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  Speaker 1: of looking for the good and everyone in everything, for
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  Speaker 1: there is good in all things. We encourage a person
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  Speaker 1: by seeing his good qualities, and we also help ourselves
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  Speaker 1: by looking for them. We gain their good wishes, a
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  Speaker 1: most valuable asset. Sometimes we get back what we give out.
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  Speaker 1: The time comes when most all of us need encouragement,
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  Speaker 1: need booing up. So form the habit of encouraging others,
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  Speaker 1: and you will find it a wonderful tonic for both
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  Speaker 1: those encouraged and yourself, for you will get back in
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  Speaker 1: encouraging and uplifting thoughts. Life furnishes us the opportunity to improve,
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  Speaker 1: but whether we do it or not depends upon how
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  Speaker 1: near we live up to what is expected of us.
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  Speaker 1: The first of each month, a person should sit down
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  Speaker 1: and examine the progress he has made. If he has
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  Speaker 1: not come up to expectations, he should discover the reason, and,
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  Speaker 1: by extra exertion, measure up to what is demanded next time.
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  Speaker 1: Every time that we fall behind what we plan to do,
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  Speaker 1: we lose just so much for that time is gone forever.
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  Speaker 1: We may find a reason for doing it, but most
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  Speaker 1: excuses are poor substitutes for action. Most things are possible.
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  Speaker 1: Ours may be a hard task, but the harder the task,
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  Speaker 1: the greater the reward. It is the difficult things that
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  Speaker 1: really develop us. Anything that requires only a small effort
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  Speaker 1: utilizes very few of our faculties and yields a scanty
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  Speaker 1: harvest of achievement. So do not shrink from a hard task,
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  Speaker 1: for to accomplish one of these will often bring us
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  Speaker 1: more good than a dozen lesser triumphs. I know that
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  Speaker 1: every man that is willing to pay the price can
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  Speaker 1: be a success. The price is not in money, but
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  Speaker 1: in effort. The first essential quality for success is the
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  Speaker 1: desire to do, to be something. The next thing is
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  Speaker 1: to learn how to do it, the next to carry
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  Speaker 1: it into execution. The man that is the best able
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  Speaker 1: to accomplish anything is the one with a broad mind.
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  Speaker 1: The man that has acquired knowledge that may, it is true,
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  Speaker 1: be foreign to this particular case, but is nevertheless of
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  Speaker 1: some value in all cases. So the man that wants
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  Speaker 1: to be successful must be liberal. He must acquire all
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  Speaker 1: the knowledge that he can. He must be well posted,
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  Speaker 1: not only in one branch of his business, but in
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  Speaker 1: every part of it. Such a man achieves success. The
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  Speaker 1: secret of success is to try always to improve yourself,
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  Speaker 1: no matter where you are or what your position, learn
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  Speaker 1: all you can. Don't see how little you can do,
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  Speaker 1: but how much you can do. Such a man will
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  Speaker 1: always be in demand, for he establishes the reputation of
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  Speaker 1: being a hustler. There is always room for him, because
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  Speaker 1: progressive firms never let a hustler leave their employment if
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  Speaker 1: they can help it. The man that reaches the top
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  Speaker 1: is the gritty, plucky, hard worker, and never the timid, uncertain,
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  Speaker 1: slow worker. An untried man is seldom put in a
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  Speaker 1: position of responsibility and power. The man selected is one
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  Speaker 1: that has done something, achieved results, in some line or
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  Speaker 1: taken the lead in his department. He is placed there
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  Speaker 1: because of his reputation of putting vigor and virility into
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  Speaker 1: his efforts, and because he has previously shown that he
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  Speaker 1: has pluck and determination. The man that is chosen at
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  Speaker 1: the crucial time is not usually a genius. He does
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  Speaker 1: not possess any more talent than others, but he has
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  Speaker 1: learned that results can only be produced by untiring, concentrated effort.
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  Speaker 1: That miracles in business do not just happen. He knows
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  Speaker 1: that the only way they will happen is by sticking
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  Speaker 1: to a proposition and seeing it through. That is the
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  Speaker 1: only secret of why some succeed and others fail. The
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  Speaker 1: successful man gets used to seeing things accomplished and always
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  Speaker 1: feels sure of success. The man that is a failure
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  Speaker 1: gets used to seeing failure, expects it, and attracts it
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  Speaker 1: to him. It is my opinion that with the right
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  Speaker 1: kind of training, every man could be a success. It
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  Speaker 1: is really a shame that so many men and women
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  Speaker 1: rich in ability and talent are allowed to go to waste,
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  Speaker 1: so to speak. Some day I hope to see a
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  Speaker 1: millionaire philanthropist start a school for the training of failures.
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  Speaker 1: I am sure he could not put his money to
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  Speaker 1: a better use. In a year's time, the science of
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  Speaker 1: practical psychology could do wonders for him. He could have
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  Speaker 1: agencies on the lookout for men that had lost their
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  Speaker 1: grip on themselves, that had, through indisposition, weakened their will, that,
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  Speaker 1: through some sorrow or misforced, have become discouraged. At first,
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  Speaker 1: all they need is a little help to get them
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  Speaker 1: back on their feet, but usually they get a knock
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  Speaker 1: downwards instead. The result is that their latent powers never develop,
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  Speaker 1: and both they and the world are the losers. I
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  Speaker 1: trust that in the near future someone will heed the
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  Speaker 1: opportunity of using some of his millions in arousing men
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  Speaker 1: that have begun to falter. All they need to be
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  Speaker 1: shown is that there is within them an omnipotent source
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  Speaker 1: that is ready to aid them, providing they will make
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  Speaker 1: use of it. Their minds only have to be turned
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  Speaker 1: from despair to hope to make them regain their hold.
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  Speaker 1: When a man loses his grip today, he must win
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  Speaker 1: his redemption by his own will. He will get little
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  Speaker 1: encouragement or advice of an inspiring nature. He must usually
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  Speaker 1: regain the right road alone. He must stop dissipating his
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  Speaker 1: energies and turn his attention to building a useful career. Today,
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  Speaker 1: we must conquer our weakening tendencies alone. Don't expect anyone
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  Speaker 1: to help them. You just take one big brace, make
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  Speaker 1: firm resolutions, and resolve to conquer your weaknesses and vices. Really,
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  Speaker 1: none can do this for you. They can encourage you.
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  Speaker 1: That is all. I can think of, nothing but lack
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  Speaker 1: of health that should interfere with one becoming successful. There
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  Speaker 1: is no other handicap that you should not be able
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  Speaker 1: to overcome. To overcome a handicap, all that it is
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  Speaker 1: necessary to do is to use more determination than grit
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  Speaker 1: and will. The man with grit and will may be
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  Speaker 1: poor today and wealthy in a few years. While power
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  Speaker 1: is a better asset than money, will will carry you
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  Speaker 1: over chasms of failure if you but give it the chance.
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  Speaker 1: The men that have risen to the highest positions have
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  Speaker 1: usually had to gain their victories against big odds. Think
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  Speaker 1: of the hardships many of our inventors have gone through
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  Speaker 1: before they became a success. Usually they have been very
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  Speaker 1: much misunderstood by relatives and friends. Very often they did
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  Speaker 1: not have the bare necessities of life. Yet by sheer
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  Speaker 1: determination and resolute courage, they manage to exist somehow until
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  Speaker 1: they perfected their inventions, which afterwards greatly helped in bettering
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  Speaker 1: the condition of others. Everyone really wants to do something,
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  Speaker 1: but there are few that will put forward the needed
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  Speaker 1: effort to make the necessary sacrifice to secure it. There
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  Speaker 1: is only one way to accomplish anything, and that is
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  Speaker 1: to go ahead and do it. A man may accomplish
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  Speaker 1: almost anything today if he just sets his heart on
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  Speaker 1: doing it and lets nothing interfere with his progress. Obstacles
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  Speaker 1: are quickly overcome by the man that sets out to
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  Speaker 1: accomplish his heart's desire. The bigger the man, the smaller
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  Speaker 1: the obstacle appears. The smaller the man, the greater the
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  Speaker 1: obstacle appears. Always look at the advantage you gain by
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  Speaker 1: overcoming obstacles, and it will give you the needed courage
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  Speaker 1: for their conquest. Do not expect that you will always
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  Speaker 1: have easy sailing. Parts of your journey are likely to
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  Speaker 1: be Don't let the rough places put you out of commission.
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  Speaker 1: Keep on with the journey just the way you whether
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  Speaker 1: the storm shows what material you are made of. Never
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  Speaker 1: sit down and complain of the rough places. But think
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  Speaker 1: how nice the pleasant stretches were, view with delight the
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  Speaker 1: smooth plains that are in front of you. Do not
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  Speaker 1: let a setback stop you. Think of it as a
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  Speaker 1: mere incident that has to be overcome before you can
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  Speaker 1: reach your goal. Lesson two. The self mastery, self direction,
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  Speaker 1: power of concentration. Man from a psychological standpoint of development
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  Speaker 1: is not what he should be. He does not possess
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  Speaker 1: the self mastery, the self directing power of concentration that
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  Speaker 1: is his by right. He has not trained himself in
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  Speaker 1: a way to promote his self mastery. Every balanced mind
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  Speaker 1: possesses the faculties whose chief duties are to engineer, direct,
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  Speaker 1: and concentrate the operations of the mind, both in a
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  Speaker 1: mental and physical sense, must learn to control not only
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  Speaker 1: his mind but his bodily movements. When the controlling faculties
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  Speaker 1: autonomic are in an untrained condition, the impulses, passions, emotions, thoughts, actions,
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  Speaker 1: and habits of the person suffer from lack of regulation,
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  Speaker 1: and the procedure of mental concentration is not good. Not
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  Speaker 1: because the mind is necessarily weak in the autonomic department
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  Speaker 1: of the faculties, but because the mind is not properly trained.
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  Speaker 1: When the self regulating faculties are not developed, the impulses, appetites, emotions,
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  Speaker 1: and passions have full swing to do as they please,
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  Speaker 1: and the mind becomes impulsive, restless, emotional, and irregular in
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  Speaker 1: its action. This is what makes mental concentration poor. When
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  Speaker 1: the self guiding faculties are weak in development, the person
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  Speaker 1: always lacks the power of mental concentration. Therefore, you cannot
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  Speaker 1: learn to concentrate until you develop those very powers that
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  Speaker 1: qualify you to be able to concentrate. So, if you
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  Speaker 1: cannot concentrate, one of the following is the cause. One
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  Speaker 1: deficiency of the motor centers. Two an impulsive and emotional
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  Speaker 1: mind free an untrained mind. The last fault can soon
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  Speaker 1: be removed by systematic practice. It is easiest to correct.
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  Speaker 1: The impulsive and emotional state of mind can best be
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  Speaker 1: corrected by restraining anger, passion and excitement, hatred, strong impulses,
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  Speaker 1: intense emotions, fretfulness, et cetera. It is impossible to concentrate
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  Speaker 1: when you are in any of these excited states. These
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  Speaker 1: can be naturally decreased by avoiding such food and drinks
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  Speaker 1: as have nerve weakening or stimulating influences, or a tendency
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  Speaker 1: to stir up the passions, the impulses, and the emotions.
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  Speaker 1: It is a very good practice to watch and associate
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  Speaker 1: with those persons that are steady, calm, controlled, and conservative.
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  Speaker 1: Correcting the deficiency of the motor centers is hard because
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  Speaker 1: as the person's brain is undeveloped, he lacks will power
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  Speaker 1: to cure. This takes some time. Persons so afflicted may
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  Speaker 1: benefit by reading and studying my course The Master Mind
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  Speaker 1: Many have the idea that when they get into a
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  Speaker 1: negative state, they are concentrating, but this is not so.
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  Speaker 1: They may be meditating, though not concentrating. Those that are
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  Speaker 1: in a negative state a good deal of the time cannot,
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  Speaker 1: as a rule, concentrate very well. They develop instead abstraction
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  Speaker 1: of the mind or absence of mind. Their power of
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  Speaker 1: concentration becomes weaker, and they find it difficult to concentrate
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  Speaker 1: on anything. They very often injure the brain if they
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  Speaker 1: keep up this state. To be able to concentrate, you
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  Speaker 1: must possess strength of mind. The person that is feeble
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  Speaker 1: minded cannot concentrate his mind because of lack of will.
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  Speaker 1: The mind that cannot center itself on a special subject
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  Speaker 1: or thought is weak. Also, the mind that cannot draw
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  Speaker 1: itself from a subject or thought is weak. But the
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  Speaker 1: person that can center his mind on any problem, no
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  Speaker 1: matter what it is, and remove any unharmonious impressions has
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  Speaker 1: strength of mind. Concentration, first, last, and all the time
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  Speaker 1: means strength of mind. Through concentration, a person is able
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  Speaker 1: to collect and hold his mental and physical energies at work.
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  Speaker 1: A concentrated mind pays attention to thoughts, words, acts, and plans.
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  Speaker 1: The person who allows his mind to roam at will
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  Speaker 1: will never accomplish a great deal in the world. He
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  Speaker 1: wastes his energies. If you work, think, talk, and act aimlessly,
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  Speaker 1: and allow your brain to wander from your subject to
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  Speaker 1: foreign fields, you will not be able to concentrate. You
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  Speaker 1: concentrate at the moment when you say I want to,
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  Speaker 1: I can, I will. Some mistakes some people make. If
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  Speaker 1: you waste your time reading sensational stories or worthless newspaper items,
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  Speaker 1: you excite the impulsive and the emotional faculties, and this
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  Speaker 1: means you are weakening your power of concentration. You will
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  Speaker 1: not be a free engineer, able to pilot yourself to success.
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  Speaker 1: Concentration of the mind can only be developed by watching
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  Speaker 1: yourself closely. All kinds of development commence with close attention.
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  Speaker 1: You should regulate your every thought and feeling. When you
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  Speaker 1: commence to watch yourself and your own acts, and also
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  Speaker 1: the acts of other people, you use the faculties of autonomy,
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  Speaker 1: and as you continue to do so, you improve your
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  Speaker 1: faculties until in time you can engineer your every thought, wish,
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  Speaker 1: and plan. To be able to focalize the mind on
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: the object at hand in a conscious manner leads to concentration.
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: Only the trained mind can focalize to hold a thought
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: before it until all the faculties shall have had time
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: to consider that thought is concentration. The person that cannot
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: direct his thoughts, wishes, plans, resolutions, and studies cannot possibly
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: succeed to the fullest extent. The person that is impulsive
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: one moment and calm the next has not the proper
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: control over himself. He is not a master of his mind,
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: nor of his thoughts, feelings, and wishes. Such a person
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: cannot be a success. When he becomes irritated, he irritates
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: others and spoils all chances of any concern doing their best.
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: But the person that can direct his energies and hold
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: them at work in a concentrated manner controls his every
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: work in act, and thereby gains power to control others.
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: He can make his every move serve a useful end,
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: and every thought and noble purpose. In this day, the
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: man that gets excited and irritable should be looked upon
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: as an undesirable person. The person of good breeding now
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: speaks with slowness and deliberation. He is cultivating more and
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: more of a reposeful attitude. He is consciously attentive and
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: holds his mind to one thing at a time. He
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: shuts out everything else. When you are talking to any one,
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: give him your sole and undivided attention. Do not let
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  Speaker 1: your attention wander or be diverted. Give no heed to
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: anything else, but make your will and intellect act in unison.
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: Start out in the morning, and see how self poised
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: you can remain all day. At times, take an inventory
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: of your actions during the day, and see if you
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: have kept your determination. If not, see that you do tomorrow.
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: The more self poised you are, the better will your
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: concentration be. Never be in too much of a hurry.
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: And remember, the more you improve your concentration, the greater
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: are your possibilities. Concentration means success because you are better
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: able to govern yourself and centralize your mind. You become
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: more in earnest in what you do, and this almost
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: invariably improves your chances for success. When you are talking
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: to a person, have your own plans in mind. Concentrate
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: your strength upon the purpose you are talking about. Watch
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: his every move, but keep your own plans before you.
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  Speaker 1: Unless you do, you will waste your energy and not
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: accomplish as much as you should. I want you to
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: watch the next person you see that has the reputation
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: of being a strong character, a man of force. Watch
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: and see what a perfect control he has over his body.
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: Then I want you to watch just an ordinary person.
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: Notice how he moves his eyes, arms, fingers. Notice the
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: useless expenditure of energy. These movements all break down the
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: vital cells and lessen the person's power in vital and
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: nerve directions. It is just as important for you to
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: conserve your nervous forces as it is the vital forces.
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: As an example, we see an engine going along the
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: track very smoothly, some one opens all the valves and
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: the train stops. It is the same with you. If
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  Speaker 1: you want to use your full amount of steam, he
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: must close your valves and direct your power of generating
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: mental steam toward one end. Center your mind on one purpose,
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: one plan, one transaction. There is nothing that uses up
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: nerve force so quickly as excitement. This is why an
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: irritable person is never magnetic. He is never admired or loved.
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  Speaker 1: He does not develop those finer qualities that a real
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: gentleman possesses. Anger, sarcasm, and excitement weaken a person in
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: this direction. The person that allows himself to get excited
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: will become nervous in time because he uses up his
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: nerve forces and his vital energies. The person that cannot
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: control himself and keep from becoming excited cannot concentrate. When
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: the mind can properly concentrate, all the energy of every
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: microscopic cell is directed into one channel, and then there
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: is a powerful personal influence generated. Everyone possesses many millions
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: of little trembling cells, and each one of these has
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: a center where life and energy are stored up and generated.
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  Speaker 1: If this energy is not wasted, but conserved, and controlled.
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: This person is influential, but when it is the opposite,
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: he is not influential or successful. Just as it is
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  Speaker 1: impossible for a steam engine to run with all its
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: valves open, so is it impossible for you to waste
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: your energy and run at your top speed. Each neuron
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  Speaker 1: in the gray layers of the brain is a psychic
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: center of thought and action. Each one is pulsating an
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: intelligent force of some kind. And when this force your
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: thoughts and motions are kept in cheek by a conservative, systematic,
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: and concentrated mind, the result will be magnetism, vitality, and health.
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: The muscles, bones, ligaments, feet, hands, and nerves, et cetera,
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  Speaker 1: are agents for carrying out the mandates of the mind.
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: The sole purpose of the volitional faculties is to move
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  Speaker 1: the physical mechanism as the energy travels along the wires
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: of nerves and muscles. Just for that reason, if you
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: throw a voluntary control over these messages, impulses, thoughts, emotions,
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  Speaker 1: physical movements, and over these physical instruments, you develop your
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  Speaker 1: faculties of self mastery. And to the extent you succeed
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: here in proportion will you develop the power of concentration.
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  Speaker 1: The any exercise or work that excites the mind, stimulates
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: the senses, calls emotions and appetites into action, confuses, terrifies,
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: or emotionalizes, weakens the power of concentration. This is why
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: all kind of excitement is bad. This is the reason
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: why persons who drink strong drinks, who allow themselves to
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: get into fits of temper, who fight, who eat stimulating food,
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: who sing and dance and thus develop their emotions, who
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: are sudden, vehement, and emotional, lack the power to concentrate.
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: But those whose actions are slower and directed by their
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: intelligence develop concentration. Sometimes dogmatic, wilful, excitable persons can concentrate,
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  Speaker 1: but it is spasmodic erratic concentration instead of controlled and
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: uniform concentration. Their energy works by spells. Sometimes they have plenty,
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: other times very little. It is easily excited, easily wasted.
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  Speaker 1: The best way to understand it is to compare it
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  Speaker 1: with the discharge of a gun. If the gun goes
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: off when you want it to, it accomplishes the purpose.
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: But if it goes off before you are ready for it,
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: you will not only waste ammunition, but it is also
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: likely to do some damage. That is just what most
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: persons do. They allow their energy to explode, thus not
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: only wasting it, but endangering others. They waste their power,
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: their magnetism, and so injure their chance of success. Such
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: persons are never well liked, and never will be. Until
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: they gain control over themselves. It will be necessary for
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: them to practice many different kinds of concentration exercises, and
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: to keep them up for some time. They must completely
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: overcome their sudden erratic thoughts and regulate their emotions and movements.
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: They must, from morning to night, train the mind to
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: be steady and direct, and keep the energies at work.
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: The lower area of the brain is the storehouse of
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: the energy. Most all persons have all the dynamic energy
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: they need if they would concentrate it. They have the machine,
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: but they must also have the engineer, or they will
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: not go very far. The engineer is the self regulating,
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: directing power. The person that does not develop his engineering
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: qualities will not accomplish much in life. The good engineer
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: controls his every act. All work assists in development. By
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: what you do, you either advance or degenerate. This is
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: a good idea to keep always in mind when you
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: are uncertain whether you should do something or not. Just
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: think whether by doing it you will grow or deteriorate,
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: and act accordingly. I am a firm believer in work.
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: When you work and play when you play. When you
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: give yourself up to pleasure, you can develop concentration by
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: thinking of nothing else but pleasure. When your mind dwells
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: on love, think of nothing but this, and you will
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: find you can develop a more intense love than you
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  Speaker 1: ever had before. When you concentrate your mind on you
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: or real self and its wonderful possibilities, you develop concentration
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: and a higher opinion of yourself. By doing this systematically,
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: you develop much power, because you cannot be systematic without
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: concentrating on what you are doing. When you walk out
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: into the country and inhale the fresh air, studying vegetation, trees,
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: et cetera, you are concentrating. When you see that you
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: are at your place of business at a certain time
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: each morning, you are developing steadiness of habit and becoming systematic.
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: If you form the habit of being on time one morning,
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: a little late the next, and still later the following one,
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: you are not developing concentration. But whenever you fix your
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: mind on a certain thought and hold your mind on
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: it at successive inn You develop concentration. If you hold
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: your mind on some chosen object, you centralize your attention,
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: just like the lens of the camera centralizes on a
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: certain landscape. Therefore, always hold your mind on what you
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: are doing, no matter what it is. Keep a careful
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: watch over yourself, for unless you do, your improvement will
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: be very slow. Practice inhaling long, deep breaths not simply
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: for the improvement of health, although that is no small matter,
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: but also for the purpose of developing more power, more love,
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: more life. All work assists in development. You may think
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: it foolish to try to develop concentration by taking muscular exercises,
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: but you must not forget that the mind is associated
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: with muscle and nerve. When you steady your nerves and muscles,
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: you steady your mind. But let your nerves get out
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: of order, and your mind will become erratic, and you
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: will not possess the power of direction, which in other words,
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: is concentration. Therefore, you understand how important exercises that steady
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: the nerves and muscles are in developing concentration. Everyone is
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: continually receiving impulses that must be directed and controlled if
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: one is to lead a successful life. That is the
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: reason why a person must control the movements of his eyes, feet, fingers,
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: et cetera. This is another reason why it is important
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  Speaker 1: to control his breathing. The slow, deep, prolonged exhalations are
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: of wonderful value. They steady the circulation, the heart, action,
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: muscles and nerves of the mind. If the heart flutters,
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: the circulation is not regular, and when the lung action
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: is uneven, the mind becomes unsteady and not fit for concentration.
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: This is why controlled breathing is very important as a
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: foundation for physical health. You must not only concentrate your mind,
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: but also the action of the eyes, ears, and fingers.
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: Each of these contain miniature minds that are controlled by
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: the master engineer. You will develop much quick if you
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: thoroughly realize this. If you have ever associated with big
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: men or read their biographies, you will find that they
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: usually let the others do the talking. It is much
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: easier to talk than it is to listen. There is
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: no better exercise for concentration than to pay close attention
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: when someone is talking. Besides learning from what they have
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: to say, you may develop both mental and physical concentration.
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: When you shake hands with some one, just think of
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  Speaker 1: your hand as containing hundreds of individual minds, each having
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: an intelligence of its own. When you put this feeling
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: into your hand shake, it shows personality. When you shake
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: hands in a listless way, it denotes timidity, lack of
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: force and power of personality. When the hand grip is
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: very weak and stiff, the person has little love in
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: his nature, no passion, and no magnetism. When the hand
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: shake is just the opposite, you will find that the
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: nature is also. The loveless person is not magnetic, and
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: he shows that he is by his non magnetic hand shake.
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: When two developed souls shake hands, their clasps are never light.
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: There is a thrill that goes through both. When the
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: two currents meet, love arouses the opposite currents of the
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: positive and negative natures. When there is no love, life
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: loses its charm. The hand quickly shows when love is
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: being aroused. This is why you should study the art
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: of hand shaking and develop your social affections. A person
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: that loves his kind reflects love, but a person that
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: hates reflects hate. The person with a bad nature, a
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: hateful disposition evil thoughts and feeling is erratic, freakish, and fitful.
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: When you allow yourself to become irritable, watch how you breathe,
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: and you will learn a valuable lesson. Watch how you
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: breathe when you are happy. Watch your breathing when you
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: harbor hate. Watch how you breathe when you feel in
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: love with the whole world and noble emotion thrill you.
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: When filled with good thoughts, you breathe a plentiful supply
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: of oxygen into your lungs, and love fills your soul.
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: Love develops a person physically, mentally, and socially. Breathe deeply
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: when you are happy, and you will gain life and strength.
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: You will steady your mind, and you will develop your
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: power of concentration and become magnetic and powerful. If you
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: want to get more out of life, you must think
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: more of love. Unless you have real affection for something,
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: you have no sentiment, no sweetness, no magnetism. So arouse
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: your love affections by your will and enter into a
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: fuller life. The hand of love always magnetizes, but it
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: must be steady and controlled. Love can be concentrated in
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: your hand shake, and this is one of the best
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: ways to influence another. The next time you feel yourself
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: becoming irritable, use your will and be patient. This is
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: a very good exercise in self control. It will help
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: you to keep patient if you will breathe slowly and deeply.
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: If you find you are commencing to speak fast, just
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: control yourself and speak slowly and clearly. Keep from either
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: raising or lowering your voice, and concentrate on the fact
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: that you are determined to keep your poise, and you
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: will improve your power of concentration. When you meet people
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: of some consequence, assume a reposeful attitude before them. Do
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: this at all times, watch both them and yourself. Static
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: exercises develop the motor faculties and increase the power of concentration.
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: If you feel yourself getting irritable, nervous, or weak, stand
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: squarely on your feet with your chest up and inhale deeply,
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: and you will see that your irritability will disappear and
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: the silent calm will pass over you. If you are
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: in the habit of associating with nervous, irritable people, quit
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: it until you grow strong in the power of concentration.
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: Because irritable, angry, fretful, dogmatic and disagreeable people will weaken.
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: What powers of resistance you have. Any exercises that give
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: you better control of the ears, fingers, eyes, feet help
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: you to steady your mind. When your eye is steady,
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: your mind is steady. One of the best ways to
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: study a person is to watch his physical movements, for
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: when we study his actions, we are studying his mind.
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: Because actions are the expressions of the mind. As the
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: mind is, so is the action. If it is uneasy, restless, erratic, unsteady,
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: its actions are the same when it is composed. The
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: mind is composed. Concentration means control of the mind and body.
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: You cannot secure control over one without the other. Many
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: people who seem to lack ambition have sluggish minds. They
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: are steady, patient, and seemingly have good control, but this
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: does not say they are able to concentrate. These people
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: are indolent, inactive, slow, and listless because they lack energy.
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: They do not lose control because they have little force
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: to control. They have no temper and it therefore cannot
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: disturb them. Their actions are steady because they possess little energy.
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: The natural person is internally strong, energetic, and forceful, but
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: his energy force and strength, thoughts and physical movements are
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: well under his control. If a person does not have energy,
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: both mental and physical, he must develop it. If he
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: has energy which he cannot direct and hold to a point,
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: he must learn to do so. A man may be
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: very capable, but unless he wills to control his abilities,
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: they will not do him any good. We hear so
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: much talk about the benefit of physical culture, but the
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: real benefit of this is really lost sight of There
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: is nothing that holds the faculties at work in a
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: sustained and continuous manner, as static exercises do. For as
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: stated before, when you learn to control the body, you
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: are gaining control over the mind Lesson three, how to
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: gain what you want through concentration. The ignorant person may say,
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: how can you get anything by merely wanting it? I
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: say that through concentration you can get anything you want.
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: Every desire can be gratified, but whether it is will
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: depend upon you concentrating to have that desire fulfilled. Merely
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: wishing for something will not bring it. Wishing you had
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: something shows a weakness and not a belief that you
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: will really get it. So never merely wish, as we
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: are not living in a fairy age. You use up
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: just as much brain force in vain imaginings as you
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: do when you think of something worth while. Be careful
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: of your desires. Make a mental picture of what you want,
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: and set your will to this until it materializes. Never
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: allow yourself to drift without hell or rudder. Know what
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: you want to do, and strive with all your might
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: to do it, and you will succeed. Feel that you
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: can accomplish anything you undertake. Many undertake to do things,
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: but feel when they start they are going to fail,
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: and usually they do. I will give an illustration. A
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: man goes to a store for an article. The clerk says,
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: I am sorry, we have not it. But the man
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: that is determined to get that thing inquires if he
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: doesn't know where he can get it. Again, receiving an
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: unsatisfactory answer, the determined buyer consults the manager, and finally
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: he finds where the article can be bought. That is
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: the whole secret of concentrating on getting what you want,
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: and remember your soul is a center of all power,
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: and you can accomplish what you will to. I'll find
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: a way or make one. Is the spirit that wins.
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: I know a man that is now head of a
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: large bank. He started there as a messenger boy. His
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: father had a button made for him with a pea
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: on it, and put it on his coat. He said, son,
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: that P is a reminder that some day you are
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: to be the president of a bank. I want you
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: to keep this thought in your mind. Every day, do
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: something that will put you nearer your goal. Each night,
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: after supper he would say, son, what did you do today.
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: In this way, the thought was always kept in mind.
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: He concentrated on becoming president of that bank, and he did.
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: His father told him never to tell anyone what that
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: P stood for. A good deal of fun was made
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: of it by his associates, and they tried to find
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: out what it stood for, but they never did until
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  Speaker 1: he was made president. And then he told the secret.
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  Speaker 1: Don't waste your mental powers in wishes. Don't dissipate your
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  Speaker 1: energies by trying to satisfy every whim. Concentrate on doing
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  Speaker 1: something really worth while. The man that sticks to something
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  Speaker 1: is not the man that fails. Power to him who
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  Speaker 1: power exerts Emerson. Success today depends largely on concentrating on
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  Speaker 1: the interior law of force. For when you do this
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  Speaker 1: you awaken those thought powers or forces, which, when used
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  Speaker 1: in business, ensures permanent results. Until you are able to
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  Speaker 1: do this, you have not reached your limit in the
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  Speaker 1: use of your forces. This great universe is interwoven with
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  Speaker 1: myriads of forces. You make your own place, and whether
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  Speaker 1: it is important depends upon you. Through the indestructible and
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  Speaker 1: unconquerable law, you can in time accomplish all right things,
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  Speaker 1: and therefore do not be afraid to undertake whatever you
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  Speaker 1: really desire to accomplish and are willing to pay for
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  Speaker 1: an effort. Anything that is right is possible, that which
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  Speaker 1: is necessary will inevitably take place. If something is right,
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  Speaker 1: it is your duty to do it, though the whole
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  Speaker 1: world thinks it to be wrong. God and One are
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  Speaker 1: always a majority, or in plain words, that omnipotent interior law,
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  Speaker 1: which is God, and the organism that represents you, is
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  Speaker 1: able to conquer the whole world. If your cause is
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  Speaker 1: absolutely just don't say I wish I a great man.
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  Speaker 1: You can do anything that is proper and you want
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  Speaker 1: to do just say you can, you will. You must
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  Speaker 1: just realize this, and the rest is easy. You have
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  Speaker 1: the latent faculties and forces to subdue anything that tries
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  Speaker 1: to interfere with your plans. Let the troubles and responsibilities
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  Speaker 1: of life come thick and fass tea. I am ready
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  Speaker 1: for them. My soul is unconquerable. I represent the infinite
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  Speaker 1: law of force or of all power. This God within
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  Speaker 1: is my all sufficient strength than ever present. He lp
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  Speaker 1: in time of trouble. The more difficulties, the greater its
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  Speaker 1: triumphs through me. The harder my trials, the faster I
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  Speaker 1: go in the development of my inherent strength. Let all
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  Speaker 1: else fail me. This interior reliance is all sufficient. The
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  Speaker 1: right must prevail. I demand wisdom and power to know
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  Speaker 1: and follow the right. My higher self is all wise.
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  Speaker 1: I now draw nearer to it. Lesson four concentration, the
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  Speaker 1: silent force that produces results in all business. I want
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  Speaker 1: you first to realize how powerful thought is. A thought
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  Speaker 1: of fear has turned a person's hair gray. In a night,
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  Speaker 1: A prisoner condemned to die was told that if he
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  Speaker 1: would consent to an experiment and live through it, he
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  Speaker 1: would be freed. He consented. They wanted to see how
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  Speaker 1: much blood a person could lose and still live. They
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  Speaker 1: arranged that blood would apparently drop from a cut made
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  Speaker 1: in his leg. The cut made was very slight, from
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  Speaker 1: which practically no blood escaped. The room was darkened, and
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  Speaker 1: the prisoner thought the dropping he heard was really coming
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  Speaker 1: from his leg. The next morning he was dead through
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  Speaker 1: mental fear. The two above illustrations will give you a
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  Speaker 1: little idea of the power of thought. To thoroughly realize
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  Speaker 1: the power of thought is worth a great deal to you.
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  Speaker 1: Through concentrated thought power, you can make yourself whatever you please.
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  Speaker 1: By thought, you can greatly increase your efficiency and strength.
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  Speaker 1: You are surrounded by all kinds of thoughts, some good,
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  Speaker 1: others bad, and you are sure to absorb some of
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  Speaker 1: the latter if you do not build up a positive
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  Speaker 1: mental attitude. If you will study the needless moods of anxiety, worry, despondency, discouragement,
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  Speaker 1: and others that are the result of uncontrolled thoughts, you
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  Speaker 1: will realize how important the control of your thoughts are.
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  Speaker 1: Your thoughts make you what you are. When I walk
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  Speaker 1: along the street and study the different people's faces, I
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  Speaker 1: can tell how they spent their lives. It all shows
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  Speaker 1: in their faces, just like a mirror reflects their physical countenances.
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  Speaker 1: In looking in those faces, I cannot help thinking how
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  Speaker 1: most of the people you see have wasted their lives.
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  Speaker 1: The understanding of the power of thought will awaken possibilities
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  Speaker 1: within you that you never dreamed of. Never forget that
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  Speaker 1: your thoughts are making your environment your friends, and as
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  Speaker 1: your thoughts change, these will also Is this not a
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  Speaker 1: practical lesson to learn? Good thoughts are constructive, Evil thoughts
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  Speaker 1: are destructive. The desire to do right carries with it
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  Speaker 1: a great power. I want you to thoroughly realize the
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  Speaker 1: importance of your thoughts and how to make them valuable.
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  Speaker 1: To understand that your thoughts come to you over invisible
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  Speaker 1: wires and influence you. If your thoughts are of a
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  Speaker 1: high nature, you become connected with people of the same
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  Speaker 1: mental caliber, and you are able to help yourself. If
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  Speaker 1: your thoughts are tricky, you will bring tricky people to
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  Speaker 1: deal with you, who will try to cheat you. If
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  Speaker 1: your thoughts are right kind, you will inspire confidence in
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  Speaker 1: those with whom you are dealing. As you gain the
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  Speaker 1: good will of others, your confidence and strength will increase.
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  Speaker 1: You will soon learn the wonderful value of your thoughts
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  Speaker 1: and how serene you can become even when circumstances are
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  Speaker 1: the most trying. Such thoughts of right and good will
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  Speaker 1: bring you into harmony with people that amount to something
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  Speaker 1: in the world, and that are able to give you
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  Speaker 1: help if you should need it, as nearly everyone does
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  Speaker 1: at times. You can now see why it is so
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  Speaker 1: important to concentrate your thoughts in the proper channels. It
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  Speaker 1: is very necessary that people should have confidence in you.
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  Speaker 1: When two people meet, they have not the time to
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  Speaker 1: look each other up. They accept each other according to instinct,
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  Speaker 1: which can usually be relied on. You meet a person
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  Speaker 1: and his attitude creates a suspicion in you. The chances
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  Speaker 1: are you cannot tell why, but something tells you have
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  Speaker 1: no dealings with him, for if you do, you will
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  Speaker 1: be sorry. Thoughts produce actions. Therefore, be careful of your thoughts.
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  Speaker 1: Your life will be molded by the thoughts you have.
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  Speaker 1: A spiritual power is always available to your thought, and
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  Speaker 1: when you are worthy, you can attract all the good
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  Speaker 1: things without a great effort on your part. The sun's
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  Speaker 1: rays shine down on our gardens, but we can plant
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  Speaker 1: trees that will interfere with the sunlight. There are invisible
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  Speaker 1: forces ready to help you if you do not think
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  Speaker 1: and act to intercept these These forces work silently, You
• 46:05
  Speaker 1: reap what you sow. You have concentrated within powers that,
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  Speaker 1: if developed, will bring you happiness greater than you can
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  Speaker 1: even imagine. Most people go rushing through life, literally driving
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  Speaker 1: away the very things they seek. By concentration, you can
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  Speaker 1: revolutionize your life, accomplish infinitely more and without a great effort.
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  Speaker 1: Look within yourself and you will find the greatest machine
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  Speaker 1: ever made how to speak wisely. In order to speak wisely,
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  Speaker 1: you must secure at least a partial concentration of the
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  Speaker 1: faculties and forces upon the subject at hand. Speech interferes
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  Speaker 1: with the focusing powers of the mind as it withdraws
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  Speaker 1: the attention to the external, and therefore is hardly to
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  Speaker 1: be compared with that deep silence of the subconscious mind,
• 46:48
  Speaker 1: where deep thoughts and the silent forces of high potency
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  Speaker 1: are evolved. It is necessary to be silent before you
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  Speaker 1: can speak wisely. The person that is really alert and
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  Speaker 1: well poised and able to speak wisely under trying circumstances
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  Speaker 1: is the person that has practiced in the silence. Most
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  Speaker 1: people do not know what the silence is and think
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  Speaker 1: it is easy to go into the silence, but this
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  Speaker 1: is not so in the real silence. We become attached
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  Speaker 1: to that interior law, and the forces become silent because
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  Speaker 1: they are in a state of high potency, or beyond
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  Speaker 1: the vibratory sounds to which our external ears are attuned.
• 47:25
  Speaker 1: He who desires to become above the ordinary should open
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  Speaker 1: up for himself the interior channels which lead to the
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  Speaker 1: absolute law of the omnipotent. You can only do this
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  Speaker 1: by persistently and intelligently practicing thought concentration. Hold the thought
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  Speaker 1: in silence. I will allow my higher self to have
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  Speaker 1: complete control. I will be true to my higher self.
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  Speaker 1: I will live true to my conception of what is right.
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  Speaker 1: I realize that it is to my self interest to
• 47:53
  Speaker 1: live up to my best. I demand wisdom so that
• 47:56
  Speaker 1: I may act wisely for myself and others. In the
• 48:00
  Speaker 1: next chapter, one will tell you of the mysterious law
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  Speaker 1: which links all humanity together by the powers of cooperative thought,
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  Speaker 1: and chooses for us companionship and friends. Lessen thee How
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  Speaker 1: concentrated thought links all humanity together. It is within your
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  Speaker 1: power to gratify your every wish. Success is the result
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  Speaker 1: of the way you think. I will show you how
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  Speaker 1: to think to be successful. The power to rule and attract.
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  Speaker 1: Success is within yourself. The barriers that shut these off
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  Speaker 1: from you are subject to your control. You have unlimited
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  Speaker 1: power to think, and this is the link that connects
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  Speaker 1: you with your omniscient source. Success is the result of
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  Speaker 1: certain moods of mind or ways of thinking. These moods
• 48:44
  Speaker 1: can be controlled by you and produced at will. You
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  Speaker 1: have been evolved to what you are from a lowly
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  Speaker 1: atom because you possess the power to think. This power
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  Speaker 1: will never leave you, but will keep urging you on
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  Speaker 1: until you reach perfection. As you evolve, you create new desires,
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  Speaker 1: and these can be gratified. The power to rule lies
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  Speaker 1: within you. The barriers that keep you from ruling are
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  Speaker 1: also within you. These are the barriers of ignorance. Concentrated
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  Speaker 1: thought will accomplish seemingly impossible results and make you realize
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  Speaker 1: your fondest ambitions. At the same time that you break
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  Speaker 1: down barriers of limitation, new ambitions will be awakened. You
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  Speaker 1: begin to experience conscious thought constructions. If you will just
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  Speaker 1: realize that through deep concentration you become linked with thoughts
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  Speaker 1: of omnipotence, you will kill out entirely your belief in
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  Speaker 1: your limitations and at the same time will drive away
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  Speaker 1: all fear and other negative and destructive thought forces which
• 49:43
  Speaker 1: constantly work against you. In the place of these, you
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  Speaker 1: will build up a strong assurance that your every venture
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  Speaker 1: will be successful. When you learn thus how to concentrate
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  Speaker 1: and reinforce your thought, you control your mental creations. They
• 49:56
  Speaker 1: in turn help to mold your physical environment, and you
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  Speaker 1: become the the master of circumstances and the ruler of
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  Speaker 1: your kingdom. It is just as easy to surround your
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  Speaker 1: life with what you want as it is with what
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  Speaker 1: you don't want. It is a question to be decided
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  Speaker 1: by your will. There are no walls to prevent you
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  Speaker 1: from getting what you want, providing you want what is right.
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  Speaker 1: If you choose something that is not right, you are
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  Speaker 1: in opposition to the omnipotent plans of the universe and
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  Speaker 1: deserve to fail. But if you will base your desires
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  Speaker 1: on justice and good will, you avail yourself of the
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  Speaker 1: helpful powers of universal currents, and, instead of having a
• 50:32
  Speaker 1: handicap to work against, can depend upon ultimate success. Though
• 50:36
  Speaker 1: the outward appearances may not at first be bright, never
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  Speaker 1: stop to think of temporary appearances, but maintain an unfaltering
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  Speaker 1: belief in your ultimate success. Make your plans carefully and
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  Speaker 1: see that they are not contrary to the tides of
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  Speaker 1: universal justice. The main thing for you to remember is
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  Speaker 1: to keep at bay the destructive and opposing forces of
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  Speaker 1: fear and anger and their satellites. There is no power
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  Speaker 1: so great as the belief which comes from the knowledge
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  Speaker 1: that your thought is in harmony with the divine laws
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  Speaker 1: of thought, and the sincere conviction that your cause is right.
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  Speaker 1: You may be able seemingly to accomplish results for a time,
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  Speaker 1: even if your cause is unjust, but the results will
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  Speaker 1: be temporary, and in time you will have to tear
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  Speaker 1: down your thought edifice and build on the true foundation
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  Speaker 1: of right. Plans that are not built on truth produce
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  Speaker 1: discordant vibrations and are therefore self destructive. Never try to
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  Speaker 1: build until you can build right. It is a waste
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  Speaker 1: of time to do anything else. You may temporarily put
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  Speaker 1: aside your desire to do right, but its true vibrations
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  Speaker 1: will interfere with your unjust plans until you are forced
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  Speaker 1: back into righteous paths of power. All just causes succeed
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  Speaker 1: in time, though temporarily they may fail. So if you
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  Speaker 1: should face the time when everything seems against you, Quiet
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  Speaker 1: your fears, drive away all destructive thoughts, and uphold the
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  Speaker 1: dignity of your moral and spiritual life. Where there is
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  Speaker 1: a will, there is a way. The reason this is
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  Speaker 1: so is that the will can make a way if
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  Speaker 1: given the chance to secure the assistance of aiding forces.
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  Speaker 1: The more it is developed, the higher the way to
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  Speaker 1: which it will lead. When everything looks gloomy and discouraging,
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  Speaker 1: then is the time to show what you are made
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  Speaker 1: of by rejoicing that you can control your moods, by
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  Speaker 1: making them as calm, serene, and bright as if prosperity
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  Speaker 1: were yours. Be faithful in sowing the thought seeds of success,
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  Speaker 1: in perfect trust that the sun will not cease to
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  Speaker 1: shine and bring a generous harvest in one season. It
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  Speaker 1: is not always necessary to think of the success of
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  Speaker 1: a venture when you are actually engaged in it, for
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  Speaker 1: when the body is inactive, the mind is most free
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  Speaker 1: to catch new ideas that will further the opportunity you
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  Speaker 1: are seeking. When you are actually engaged in doing something,
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  Speaker 1: you are thinking in the channels you have previously constructed,
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  Speaker 1: and the work does not have to be done over again.
• 52:58
  Speaker 1: When you are in a negative mood, the intuitions are
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  Speaker 1: more active, for you are not then controlling your thoughts
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  Speaker 1: by the will. Everything we do should have the approval
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  Speaker 1: of the intuition. When you are in a negative mood,
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  Speaker 1: you attract thoughts of similar nature through the law of affinity.
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  Speaker 1: That is why it is so important to form thoughts
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  Speaker 1: of a success nature to attract similar ones. If you
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  Speaker 1: have never made a study of this subject, you may
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  Speaker 1: think this is all foolishness, but it is a fact
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  Speaker 1: that there are thought currents that unerringly bring thoughts of
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  Speaker 1: a similar nature. Many persons who think of failure actually
• 53:34
  Speaker 1: attract failure by their worries, their anxieties, their overactivity. These
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  Speaker 1: thoughts are bound to bring failure. When you once learn
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  Speaker 1: the laws of thought and think of nothing but good
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  Speaker 1: truth success, you will make more progress with less effort
• 53:50
  Speaker 1: than you ever made before. There are forces that can
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  Speaker 1: aid the mind that are hardly dreamed of by the
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  Speaker 1: average person. When you learn to believe more in the
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  Speaker 1: value of thought and its laws, you will be led
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  Speaker 1: aright and your business gains will multiply. The following method
• 54:05
  Speaker 1: may assist you in gaining better thought control. If you
• 54:09
  Speaker 1: are unable to control your fears. Just say to your
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  Speaker 1: faulty determination, do not falter or be afraid, for I
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  Speaker 1: am not really alone. I am surrounded by invisible forces
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  Speaker 1: that will assist me to remove the unfavorable appearances. Soon
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  Speaker 1: you will have more courage. The only difference between the
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  Speaker 1: fearless man and the fearful one is in his will,
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  Speaker 1: his hope. So if you lack success, believe in it,
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  Speaker 1: hope for it, claim it. You can use the same
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  Speaker 1: method to brace up your thoughts of desire, aspiration, imagination, expectation, ambition, understanding, trust,
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  Speaker 1: and assurance. If you get anxious, angry, discouraged, undecided, or worried,
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  Speaker 1: it is because you are not receiving the cooperation of
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  Speaker 1: the higher powers of your mind. By your will, you
• 54:57
  Speaker 1: can so organize the powers of the mind that your
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  Speaker 1: the moods change only as you want them to, instead
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  Speaker 1: of as circumstances affect you. I was recently asked if
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  Speaker 1: I advised concentrating on what you eat or what you
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  Speaker 1: see while walking. My reply was that, no matter what
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  Speaker 1: you may be doing when in practice, think of nothing
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  Speaker 1: else but that act at the time. The idea is
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  Speaker 1: to be able to control your unimportant acts. Otherwise you
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  Speaker 1: set up a habit that it will be hard to
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  Speaker 1: overcome because your faculties have not been in the habit
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  Speaker 1: of concentrating. Your faculties cannot be disorganized one minute and
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  Speaker 1: organized the next. If you allow the mind to wander
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  Speaker 1: while you are doing small things, it will be likely
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  Speaker 1: to get into mischief and make it hard to concentrate
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  Speaker 1: on the important act when it comes. The man that
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  Speaker 1: is able to concentrate is the happy, busy man. Time
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  Speaker 1: does not drag with him. He always has plenty to do.
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  Speaker 1: He does not have time to think over past mistakes,
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  Speaker 1: which would make him unhappy. If despite our discouragement and failures,
• 55:59
  Speaker 1: we claim our great heritage, life and truth and force,
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  Speaker 1: like an electric current, will permeate our lives until we
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  Speaker 1: enter into our birthright in eternity. The will does not
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  Speaker 1: act with clearness, decision, and promptness unless it is trained
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  Speaker 1: to do so. There are comparatively few that really know
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  Speaker 1: what they are doing every minute of the day. This
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  Speaker 1: is because they do not observe with sufficient orderliness and
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  Speaker 1: accuracy to know what they are doing. It is not
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  Speaker 1: difficult to know what you are doing all the time
• 56:29
  Speaker 1: if you will just practice concentration and with a reposeful deliberation,
• 56:33
  Speaker 1: and train yourself to think clearly, promptly, and decisively. If
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  Speaker 1: you allow yourself to worry or hurry in what you
• 56:40
  Speaker 1: are doing, this will not be clearly photographed upon the
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  Speaker 1: sensitized plate of the subjective mind, and you therefore will
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  Speaker 1: not be really conscious of your actions. So practice accuracy
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  Speaker 1: and concentration of thought, and also absolute truthfulness, and you
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  Speaker 1: will soon be able to concentrate lesson six the training
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  Speaker 1: of the will to do. The will to do is
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  Speaker 1: the greatest power in the world that is concerned with
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  Speaker 1: human accomplishment, and no one can in advance determine its limits.
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  Speaker 1: The things that we do now would have been a
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  Speaker 1: few ages ago impossibilities. Today the safe maxim is all
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  Speaker 1: things are possible. The will to do is a force
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  Speaker 1: that is strictly practical, yet it is difficult to explain
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  Speaker 1: just what it is. It can be compared to electricity
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  Speaker 1: because we know it only through its cause and effects.
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  Speaker 1: It is a power we can direct, and to just
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  Speaker 1: the extent we direct it, do we determine our future.
• 57:34
  Speaker 1: Every time you accomplish any definite act, consciously or unconsciously,
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  Speaker 1: you use the principle of the will. You can will
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  Speaker 1: to do anything, whether it is right or wrong, and
• 57:44
  Speaker 1: therefore the way you use your will makes a big
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  Speaker 1: difference in your life. Every person possesses some will to do.
• 57:52
  Speaker 1: It is the inner energy which controls all conscious acts.
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  Speaker 1: What you will to do directs your life forces. All habits,
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  Speaker 1: good or bad, are the result of what you will
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  Speaker 1: to do. You improve or lower your condition in life
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  Speaker 1: by what you will to do. Your will has a
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  Speaker 1: connection with all avenues of knowledge, all activities, all accomplishment.
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  Speaker 1: You probably know of cases where people have shown wonderful
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  Speaker 1: strength under some excitement, similar to the following. The house
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  Speaker 1: of a farmer's wife caught on fire. No one was
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  Speaker 1: around to help remove anything. She was a frail woman
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  Speaker 1: and ordinarily was considered weak. On this occasion, she removed
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  Speaker 1: things from the house that it later took three men
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  Speaker 1: to handle. It was the will to do that she
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  Speaker 1: used to accomplish her task. Genius is but a will
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  Speaker 1: to do little things with infinite pains. Little things well
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  Speaker 1: done open the door of opportunity for bigger things. The
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  Speaker 1: will accomplishes its greater results through activities that grow out
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  Speaker 1: of great concentration. In acquiring the power of voluntary attention
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  Speaker 1: to such an extent that we can direct it where
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  Speaker 1: we will and hold it steadily to its task until
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  Speaker 1: our aim is accomplished. When you learn so to use it,
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  Speaker 1: your will power becomes a mighty force. Almost everything can
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  Speaker 1: be accomplished through its proper use. It is greater than
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  Speaker 1: physical force because it can be used to control not
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  Speaker 1: only physical, but mental and moral forces. There are very
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  Speaker 1: few that possess perfectly developed and balance will power, but
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  Speaker 1: those who do easily crush out their weak qualities. Study
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  Speaker 1: yourself carefully, find out your greatest weakness, and then use
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  Speaker 1: your will power to overcome it. In this way, eradicate
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  Speaker 1: your faults one by one until you have built up
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  Speaker 1: a strong character and personality rules for improvement. A desire arises,
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  Speaker 1: Now think whether this would be good for you. If
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  Speaker 1: it is not, use your will power to kill out
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  Speaker 1: the desire. But on the other hand, if it is
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  Speaker 1: a righteous desire, summon all your will power to your aid.
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  Speaker 1: Crush all obstacle that confront you in secure possession of
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  Speaker 1: the coveted good. Slowness in making decisions this is a
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  Speaker 1: weakness of will power. You know you should do something,
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 1: but you delay doing it through lack of decision. It
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 1: is easier not to do a certain thing than to
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  Speaker 1: do it, but conscience says to do it. The vast
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 1: majority of persons are failures because of the lack of
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  Speaker 1: deciding to do a thing when it should be done.
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  Speaker 1: Those that are successful have been quick to grasp opportunities
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  Speaker 1: by making a quick decision. This power of will can
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  Speaker 1: be used to bring culture, wealth and health. Some special
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  Speaker 1: pointers for the next week, Try to make quicker decisions
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  Speaker 1: in your little daily affairs. Set the hour you wish
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  Speaker 1: to get up and arise exactly at the fixed time.
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  Speaker 1: Anything that you should accomplish, do on or ahead of time.
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  Speaker 1: You want, of course to give due deliberation to weighty matters.
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  Speaker 1: But by making quick decisions on little things you will
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 1: acquire the ability to make quick decisions in bigger things.
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  Speaker 1: Never procrastinate. Decide quickly one way or the other, even
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 1: at the risk of deciding wrong. Practice this for a
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  Speaker 1: week or two and notice your improvement. The lack of
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  Speaker 1: initiative this too, keeps many men from succeeding. They have
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 1: fallen into the way of imitating others in all that
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  Speaker 1: they do. Very often we hear the expression he seems
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  Speaker 1: clever enough, but he lacks initiative. Life for them is
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  Speaker 1: one continuous grind day after day. They go through the
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 1: same monotonous round of duties, while those that are getting
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 1: along are using their initiative to get greater fullness of life.
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  Speaker 1: There is nothing so responsible for poverty as this lack
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  Speaker 1: of initiative, this power to think and do for ourselves.
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  Speaker 1: You are as good as anyone. You have will power,
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  Speaker 1: and if you use it, you will get your share
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  Speaker 1: of the luxuries of life. So use it to claim
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  Speaker 1: your own. Don't depend on any one else to help you.
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  Speaker 1: We have to fight our own battles. All the world
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  Speaker 1: loves a fighter, while the coward is despised by all.
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  Speaker 1: Every person's problems are different, so I can only say,
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 1: analyze your opportunities and conditions and study your natural abilities,
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  Speaker 1: form plans for improvement, and then put them into operation. Now,
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  Speaker 1: as I said before, don't just say I am going
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  Speaker 1: to do so and so, but carry your plan into execution.
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  Speaker 1: Don't make an indefinite plan, but a definite one, and
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  Speaker 1: then don't give up until your object has been accomplished.
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  Speaker 1: Put these suggestions into practice with true earnestness, and you
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  Speaker 1: will soon note astonishing results, and your whole life will
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  Speaker 1: be completely changed. An excellent motto for one of pure
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  Speaker 1: motives is through my will power I dare do what
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  Speaker 1: I want to. You will find this affirmation has a
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  Speaker 1: very strengthening effect. The spirit of perseverance, the spirit of sticktoitiveness,
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  Speaker 1: is the one that wins. Many go just so far
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  Speaker 1: and then give up, whereas if they had persevered a
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 1: little longer, they would have won out. Many have much initiative,
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  Speaker 1: but instead of concentrating it into one channel, they diffuse
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  Speaker 1: it through several, thereby dissipating it to such an extent
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  Speaker 1: that its effect is lost. Develop more determination, which is
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  Speaker 1: only the will to do, and when you start out
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  Speaker 1: to do something, stick to it until you get results.
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 1: Of course, before starting anything, you must look ahead and
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 1: see what the finish leads to. You must select a
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  Speaker 1: road that will lead to somewhere rather than nowhere. The
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 1: journey must be productive of some kind of substantial results.
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  Speaker 1: The trouble with so many young men is that they
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 1: launch enterprises without any end in sight. It is not
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  Speaker 1: so much the start as the finish of a journey
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  Speaker 1: that counts. Each little move should bring you nearer the
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  Speaker 1: goal which you plan to reach before the enterprise began.
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  Speaker 1: Lack of perseverance is nothing but the lack of the
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  Speaker 1: will to do it. Takes the same energy to say
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  Speaker 1: I will continue as to say I give up. Just
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 1: the moment you say the latter, you shut off your dynamo,
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  Speaker 1: and your determination is gone. Every time you allow your
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  Speaker 1: determination to be broken, you weaken it. Don't forget this.
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  Speaker 1: Just the instant you notice your determination beginning to weaken,
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 1: concentrate on it, and by sheer will power make it continue.
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  Speaker 1: On the job. Never try to make a decision when
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 1: you are not in a calm state of mind. If
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 1: in a quick temper, you are likely to say things
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 1: you afterwards regret in anger. You follow impulse rather than reason.
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 1: No one can expect to achieve success if he makes
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 1: decisions when not in full control of his mental forces. Therefore,
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 1: make it a fixed rule to make decisions only when
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 1: at your best. If you have a quick temper, you
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 1: can quickly gain control over it by simple rule of counting.
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 1: To count backwards requires concentration, and you thus quickly regain
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  Speaker 1: a calm state. In this way you can break the
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  Speaker 1: temper habit. It will do you a lot of good
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  Speaker 1: to think over what you said and thought the last
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 1: time you were angry. Persevere until you see yourself as
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 1: others see you. It would do no harm to write
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  Speaker 1: the scene out in story form and then sit in
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 1: judgment of the character that played your part. Special instructions
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  Speaker 1: to develop the will to do this is a form
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  Speaker 1: of mental energy, but requires the proper mental attitude to
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  Speaker 1: make it manifest. We hear of people having wonderful will power,
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  Speaker 1: which really is wrong. It should be said that they
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  Speaker 1: use there will power, while with many it is a
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 1: latent force. I want you to realize that no one
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 1: has a monopoly on will power. There is plenty for all.
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 1: What we speak of as will power is but the
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 1: gathering together of mental energy, the concentration power at one point.
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  Speaker 1: So never think of that person as having a stronger
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 1: will than yours. Each person will be supplied with just
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 1: that amount of will power that he demands. You don't
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  Speaker 1: have to develop will power if you constantly make use
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  Speaker 1: of all you have, and remember the way in which
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  Speaker 1: you use it determines your fate. For your life is
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 1: molded to great extent by the use you make of
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 1: your will. Unless you make proper use of it. You
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 1: have neither independence nor firmness. You are unable to control
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 1: yourself and become a mere machine for others to use.
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 1: It is more important to learn to use your will
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 1: than to develop your intellect. The man that has not
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 1: learned how to use his will rarely decides things for himself,
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 1: but allows his resolutions to be changed by others. He
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 1: fluctuates from one opinion to another, and of course does
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 1: not accomplish anything out of the ordinary, while his brother
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  Speaker 1: with the trained will take his place among the world's leaders.
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  Speaker 1: Lesson seven. The concentrated mental demand. The mental demand is
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  Speaker 1: the potent force in achievement. The attitude of the mind
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  Speaker 1: affects the expression of the face, determines action, changes our
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 1: physical condition, and regulates our lives. I will not here
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  Speaker 1: attempt to explain the silent force that achieves results. You
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 1: want to develop your mental powers so you can affect
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  Speaker 1: the thing sought, and that is what I want to
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 1: teach you. There is wonderful power and possibility in the
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 1: concentrated mental demand. This, like all other forces, is controlled
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  Speaker 1: by laws. It can, like all other forces, be wonderfully
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  Speaker 1: increased by consecutive systematized effort. The mental demand must be
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 1: directed by every power of the mind, and every possible
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 1: element should be used to make the demand materialize. You
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  Speaker 1: can so intently desire a thing that you can exclude
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  Speaker 1: all distracting thoughts. When you practice this singleness of concentration
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  Speaker 1: until you attain the end sought, you have developed a
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  Speaker 1: will capable of accomplishing whatever you wish. As long as
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 1: you can only do the ordinary things, you will be
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 1: cake mounted in the mass of mediocrity. But just as
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 1: quick as you surpass others by even comparatively small measure,
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 1: you are classed as one of life's successes. So if
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 1: you wish to emerge into prominence, you must accomplish something
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 1: more than the ordinary man or woman. It is easy
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 1: to do this if you will but concentrate on what
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 1: you desire and put forth your best effort. It is
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  Speaker 1: not the runner with the longest legs or the strongest
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  Speaker 1: muscles that wins the race, but the one that can
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 1: put forth the greatest desire force. You can best understand
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 1: this by thinking of an engine. The engine starts up slowly,
• 1:08:37
  Speaker 1: the engineer gradually extending the throttle to the top notch.
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 1: It is then keyed up to its maximum speed. The
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 1: same is true of two runners. They start off together,
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  Speaker 1: and gradually they increase their desire to go faster. The
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 1: one that has the greatest intensity of desire will win.
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 1: He may outdistance the other by only a fraction of
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  Speaker 1: an inch, yet he gets the laurels. The men that
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  Speaker 1: are looked upon as the world's successes have not always
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 1: been men of great physical power, nor at the start
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 1: did they seem very well adapted to the conditions which
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 1: encompass them. In the beginning, they were not considered men
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  Speaker 1: of superior genius. But they won their success by their
• 1:09:17
  Speaker 1: resolution to achieve results in their undertakings. By permitting no
• 1:09:21
  Speaker 1: setback to dishearten them, no difficulties to daunt them, Nothing
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 1: could turn them more influence them against their determination, they
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 1: never lost sight of their goal. In all of us
• 1:09:33
  Speaker 1: there is this silent force of wonderful power. If developed,
• 1:09:37
  Speaker 1: it can overcome conditions that would seem insurmountable. It is
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 1: constantly urging us on to greater achievement. The more we
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  Speaker 1: become acquainted with it, the better strategists we become, the
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 1: more courage we develop, and the greater the desire within
• 1:09:51
  Speaker 1: us for self expression. In activity along many lines. No
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 1: one will ever be a failure if he becomes conscious
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 1: of this silent force within them that controls his destiny.
• 1:10:02
  Speaker 1: But without the consciousness of this inner force, you will
• 1:10:05
  Speaker 1: not have a clear vision, and external conditions will not
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 1: yield to the power of your mind. It is the
• 1:10:11
  Speaker 1: mental resolve that makes achievement possible. Once this has been formed,
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 1: it should never be allowed to cease to press its
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 1: claim until its object is attained. To make plans work
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 1: out at will, at times be necessary to use every
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 1: power of your mind, patience, perseverance, and all the indomitable
• 1:10:30
  Speaker 1: forces within one will have to be mustered and used
• 1:10:33
  Speaker 1: with the greatest effectiveness. Perseverance is the first element of success.
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 1: In order to persevere, you must be ceaseless in your application.
• 1:10:43
  Speaker 1: It requires you to concentrate your thoughts upon your undertaking
• 1:10:46
  Speaker 1: and bring every energy to bear upon, keeping them focused
• 1:10:49
  Speaker 1: upon it until you have accomplished your aim. To quit
• 1:10:52
  Speaker 1: short of this is to weaken all future efforts. The
• 1:10:56
  Speaker 1: mental demand seems an unreal power because it is intangible,
• 1:10:59
  Speaker 1: but it is the mightiest power in the world. It
• 1:11:03
  Speaker 1: is a power that is free for you to use.
• 1:11:06
  Speaker 1: No one can use it for you. The mental demand
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  Speaker 1: is not a visionary one. It is a potent force
• 1:11:13
  Speaker 1: which you can use freely without cost. When you are
• 1:11:16
  Speaker 1: in doubt, it will counsel you. It will guide you
• 1:11:19
  Speaker 1: when you are uncertain, when you are in fear, it
• 1:11:22
  Speaker 1: will give you courage. It is the motive power which
• 1:11:26
  Speaker 1: supplies the energies necessary to the achievement of the purpose.
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 1: You have a large storehouse of possibilities. The mental demand
• 1:11:34
  Speaker 1: makes possibilities realities. It supplies everything necessary for the accomplishment.
• 1:11:40
  Speaker 1: It selects the tools and instructs how to use them.
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 1: It makes you understand the situation. Every time you make
• 1:11:47
  Speaker 1: a mental demand, you strengthen the brain centers by drawing
• 1:11:50
  Speaker 1: to you external forces. Few realize the power of a
• 1:11:54
  Speaker 1: mental demand. It is possible to make your demand so
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 1: strong that you can impart what you have to say
• 1:12:00
  Speaker 1: to another without speaking to him. Have you, ever, after
• 1:12:04
  Speaker 1: planning to discuss a certain matter with a friend, had
• 1:12:06
  Speaker 1: the experience of having him broached the subject before you
• 1:12:09
  Speaker 1: had a chance to speak of it. Have you ever,
• 1:12:12
  Speaker 1: in a letter, made a suggestion to a friend that
• 1:12:15
  Speaker 1: he carried out before your letter reached him. Have you
• 1:12:18
  Speaker 1: ever wanted to speak to a person who just then
• 1:12:21
  Speaker 1: walked in or telephoned. I have had many such responses
• 1:12:25
  Speaker 1: to thought in. You and your friends have doubtless experienced
• 1:12:28
  Speaker 1: them too. These two things are neither coincidences nor accidents,
• 1:12:33
  Speaker 1: but are the results of mental demand launched by strong concentration.
• 1:12:37
  Speaker 1: The person that never wants anything gets little. To demand
• 1:12:41
  Speaker 1: resolutely is the first step toward getting what you want.
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  Speaker 1: The power of the mental demand seems absolute, the supply illimitable.
• 1:12:50
  Speaker 1: The mental demand projects itself and causes to materialize the
• 1:12:53
  Speaker 1: conditions and opportunities needed to accomplish the purpose. Do not
• 1:12:58
  Speaker 1: think I overestimate the value of the mental demand. It
• 1:13:02
  Speaker 1: brings the fuller life if used for only righteous purposes.
• 1:13:06
  Speaker 1: Once the mental demand is made, however, never let it falter.
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  Speaker 1: If you do, the current that connects you with your
• 1:13:12
  Speaker 1: desire is broken. Take all the necessary time to build
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  Speaker 1: a firm foundation so that there need not be even
• 1:13:19
  Speaker 1: an element of doubt to creep in. Just the moment
• 1:13:22
  Speaker 1: you entertain doubt, you lose some of the demand force,
• 1:13:26
  Speaker 1: and force, once lost is hard to regain. So whenever
• 1:13:29
  Speaker 1: you make a mental demand, hold steadfastly to it until
• 1:13:32
  Speaker 1: your need is supplied. I want to repeat again. That
• 1:13:36
  Speaker 1: power of mental demand is not a visionary one. It
• 1:13:40
  Speaker 1: is concentrated power only and can be used by you.
• 1:13:44
  Speaker 1: It is not supernatural power, but requires a development of
• 1:13:47
  Speaker 1: the brain centers. The outcome is sure when it is
• 1:13:51
  Speaker 1: given with a strong, resolute determination. No person will advance
• 1:13:55
  Speaker 1: to any great extent until he recognizes this force within him.
• 1:14:00
  Speaker 1: If you have not become aware of it, you have
• 1:14:02
  Speaker 1: not made very much of a success of your life.
• 1:14:05
  Speaker 1: It is this something that distinguishes that man from other men.
• 1:14:10
  Speaker 1: It is this subtle power that develops strong personality. If
• 1:14:14
  Speaker 1: you want a great deal, you must demand a great deal.
• 1:14:17
  Speaker 1: Once you make your demand, anticipate its fulfillment. It depends
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  Speaker 1: upon us. We are rewarded according to our efforts. The
• 1:14:27
  Speaker 1: power of mental demand can bring us what we want.
• 1:14:30
  Speaker 1: We become what we determine to be. We control our
• 1:14:34
  Speaker 1: own destiny. Get the right mental attitude. Then, in accordance
• 1:14:38
  Speaker 1: with your ability, you can gain success. And every man
• 1:14:42
  Speaker 1: of average ability, the ordinary man that you see about you,
• 1:14:46
  Speaker 1: can be really successful, independent, free of worry, his own master,
• 1:14:50
  Speaker 1: if he can manage to do just two things. First,
• 1:14:54
  Speaker 1: remain forever dissatisfied with what he ay as doing and
• 1:14:57
  Speaker 1: with what he has accomplished. Second, develop in his mind
• 1:15:01
  Speaker 1: of belief that the word impossible was not intended, or
• 1:15:04
  Speaker 1: him build up in his mind the confidence that enables
• 1:15:08
  Speaker 1: the mind to use its power. Many, especially the older men,
• 1:15:12
  Speaker 1: will ask, how can I build up that self confidence
• 1:15:15
  Speaker 1: in my brain? How can I, after months and years
• 1:15:19
  Speaker 1: of discouragement of dull plotting, suddenly conceive and carry out
• 1:15:23
  Speaker 1: a plan for doing something that will make life worth while?
• 1:15:26
  Speaker 1: In change the monotonous routine. How can a man get
• 1:15:29
  Speaker 1: out of a rut after he has been in it
• 1:15:31
  Speaker 1: for years and has settled down to the slow jog
• 1:15:33
  Speaker 1: trot that leads to the grave. The answer is the
• 1:15:37
  Speaker 1: thing can be done, and millions have done it. One
• 1:15:40
  Speaker 1: of the names most honored among the great men of
• 1:15:42
  Speaker 1: France is that of Lyttray, who wrote and compiled the
• 1:15:46
  Speaker 1: Great French Dictionary, a monument of learning. He is the
• 1:15:50
  Speaker 1: man whose place among the forty immortals of France was
• 1:15:52
  Speaker 1: taken by the great Pasteur when the latter was elected
• 1:15:55
  Speaker 1: to the Academy. Lyttrey began the work that makes him
• 1:15:59
  Speaker 1: famous when he was more than sixty years old. Less
• 1:16:03
  Speaker 1: An eight concentration gives mental poise, you will find that
• 1:16:07
  Speaker 1: the man that concentrates is well poised, whereas the man
• 1:16:10
  Speaker 1: that allows his mind to wander is easily upset. When
• 1:16:14
  Speaker 1: in this state, wisdom does not pass from the subconscious
• 1:16:17
  Speaker 1: storehouse into the consciousness. There must be mental quiet before
• 1:16:21
  Speaker 1: the two consciousnesses can work in harmony. When you are
• 1:16:25
  Speaker 1: able to concentrate, you have peace of mind. If you
• 1:16:28
  Speaker 1: are in the habit of losing your poise, form the
• 1:16:31
  Speaker 1: habit of reading literature that has a quieting power. Just
• 1:16:35
  Speaker 1: the second you feel your poise slipping, say peace, and
• 1:16:38
  Speaker 1: then hold this thought in mind, and you will never
• 1:16:40
  Speaker 1: lose your self control. There cannot be perfect concentration until
• 1:16:45
  Speaker 1: there is peace of mind. So keep thinking peace, acting
• 1:16:49
  Speaker 1: peace until you are at peace with all the world.
• 1:16:52
  Speaker 1: For when once you have reached this state, there will
• 1:16:55
  Speaker 1: be no trouble to concentrate on anything you wish. When
• 1:16:58
  Speaker 1: you have peace of mind, you are not not timid
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  Speaker 1: or anxious, or fearful or rigid, and you will not
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  Speaker 1: allow any disturbing thought to influence you. You cast aside all
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  Speaker 1: fears and think of yourself as a spark of the
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  Speaker 1: divine being, as a manifestation of the one universal principle
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  Speaker 1: that fills all space and time. Think of yourself thus,
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  Speaker 1: as a child of the infinite, possessing infinite possibilities, write
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  Speaker 1: on a piece of paper, I have the power to
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  Speaker 1: do and to be whatever I wish to do and be.
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  Speaker 1: Keep this mentally before you, and you will find the
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  Speaker 1: thought will be of great help to you. The mistake
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  Speaker 1: of concentrating on your business while away. In order to
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  Speaker 1: be successful to day, you must concentrate, but don't become
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  Speaker 1: a slave to concentration, and carry your business cares home.
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  Speaker 1: Just as sure as you do will be burning the
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  Speaker 1: life forces at both ends, and the fire will go
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  Speaker 1: out much sooner than was intended. Many men become so
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  Speaker 1: absorbed in their business that when they go to church
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  Speaker 1: they do not hear the preacher because their minds are
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  Speaker 1: on their business. If they go to the theater, they
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  Speaker 1: do not enjoy it because their business is on their minds.
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  Speaker 1: When they go to bed, they think about business instead
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  Speaker 1: of sleep, and wonder why they don't sleep. This is
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  Speaker 1: the wrong kind of concentration and is dangerous. It is involuntary.
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  Speaker 1: When you are unable to get anything out of your mind,
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  Speaker 1: it becomes unwholesome. As any thought held continuously causes weariness
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  Speaker 1: of the flesh. It is a big mistake to let
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  Speaker 1: a thought rule you instead of ruling it. He who
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  Speaker 1: does not rule himself is not a success. If you
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  Speaker 1: cannot control your concentration, your health will suffer. So never
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  Speaker 1: become so absorbed with anything that you cannot lay it
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  Speaker 1: aside and take up another. This is self control. Concentration
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  Speaker 1: is paying attention to a chosen thought. Everything that passes
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  Speaker 1: before the eye makes an impression on the subconscious mind.
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  Speaker 1: But unless you pay attention to some certain thing, you
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  Speaker 1: will not remember what you saw. For instance, if you
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  Speaker 1: walk down a busy street without seeing anything that attracted
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  Speaker 1: your particular attention, you could not recall anything you saw.
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  Speaker 1: So you see only what attracts your attention. If you work,
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  Speaker 1: you only see and remember what you think about. When
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  Speaker 1: you concentrate on something that absorbs your whole thought, self
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  Speaker 1: study valuable. Everyone has some habits that can be overcome
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  Speaker 1: by concentration. We will say, for instance, you are in
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  Speaker 1: the habit of complaining or finding fault with yourself or others,
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  Speaker 1: or imagining that you do not possess the ability of others,
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  Speaker 1: or feeling that you are not as good as someone else,
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  Speaker 1: or that you cannot rely on yourself or harboring any
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  Speaker 1: similar thoughts or thoughts of weakness. These should be cast aside,
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  Speaker 1: and instead thoughts of strength should be put in their place.
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  Speaker 1: Just remember, every time you think of yourself as being
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  Speaker 1: weak in some way, you are making yourself so by
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  Speaker 1: thinking you are. Our mental conditions make us what we are.
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  Speaker 1: Just watch yourself and see how much time you waste
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  Speaker 1: in worrying, fretting, and complaining. The more of it you do,
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  Speaker 1: the worse off you are. Just the minute you are
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  Speaker 1: aware of thinking a negative thought immediately changed to a
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  Speaker 1: positive one. If you start to think of failure, change
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  Speaker 1: to thinking of success. You have the germ of success
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  Speaker 1: within you. Care for it the same as the setting
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  Speaker 1: hen broods over the eggs, and you can make it
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  Speaker 1: a reality. You can make those that you come in
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  Speaker 1: contact with feel as you do, because you radiate vibrations
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  Speaker 1: of the way you feel, and your vibrations are felt
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  Speaker 1: by others. When you concentrate on a certain thing, you
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  Speaker 1: turn all the rays of your vibrations on. This thought
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  Speaker 1: is the directing power of all life's vibrations. If a
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  Speaker 1: person should enter a room with a lot of people
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  Speaker 1: and feel as if he were a person of no consequence.
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  Speaker 1: No one would know he was there unless they saw him,
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  Speaker 1: and even if they did, they would not remember seeing
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  Speaker 1: him because they were not attracted towards him. But let
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  Speaker 1: him enter the room feeling that he was magnetic and
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  Speaker 1: concentrating on this thought, others would feel his vibration. So
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  Speaker 1: remember the way you feel. You can make others feel.
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  Speaker 1: This is the law. Make yourself a concentrated dynamo from
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  Speaker 1: which your thoughts vibrate to others. Then you are a
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  Speaker 1: power in the world. Cultivate the art of feeling, For
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  Speaker 1: as I said before, you can only make others feel
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  Speaker 1: what you feel. If you will study all of the
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  Speaker 1: great characters of history, you will find that they were enthusiastic.
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  Speaker 1: First they were enthusiastic themselves, and then they could arouse
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  Speaker 1: others enthusiasm. It is latent in everyone. It is a
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  Speaker 1: wonderful force. When once aroused. All public men to be
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  Speaker 1: a success have to possess it, cultivate it by concentration.
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  Speaker 1: Set aside some hour of the day wherein to hold rapt,
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  Speaker 1: converse with the soul, meditate with sincere desire, and contrite heart,
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  Speaker 1: and you will be able to accomplish that which you
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  Speaker 1: have meditated on. This is the keyno of success. Think, speak,
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  Speaker 1: and act just as you wish to be, and you
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  Speaker 1: will be that which you wish to be. You are
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  Speaker 1: just what you think you are, and not what you
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  Speaker 1: may appear to be. You may fool others, but not yourself.
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  Speaker 1: You may control your life and actions, just as you
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  Speaker 1: can control your hands. If you want to raise your hand,
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  Speaker 1: you must first think of raising it. If you want
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  Speaker 1: to control your life, you must first control your thinking.
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  Speaker 1: Easy to do, is it not? Yes? It is if
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  Speaker 1: you will, but concentrate on what you think about. For
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  Speaker 1: he only can that says he will. How can we
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  Speaker 1: secure concentration to this question? The first and last answer
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  Speaker 1: must be by interest and strong motive. The stronger the motive,
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  Speaker 1: the greater the concentration that Eustace Miller m d. The
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  Speaker 1: successful lives are the concentrated lives. The utterly helpless multitude
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  Speaker 1: that sooner or later have to be cared for by
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  Speaker 1: charity are the those that were never able to concentrate
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  Speaker 1: and who have become the victims of negative ideas. Train
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  Speaker 1: yourself so you will be able to centralize your thought
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  Speaker 1: and develop your brain power and increase your mental energy.
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  Speaker 1: Or you can be a slacker, a drifter, a quitter,
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  Speaker 1: or a sleeper. It all depends on how you concentrate
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  Speaker 1: or centralize your thoughts. Your thinking then becomes a fixed power,
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  Speaker 1: and you do not waste time thinking about something that
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  Speaker 1: would not be good for you. You pick out the
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  Speaker 1: thoughts that will be the means of bringing you what
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  Speaker 1: you desire, and they become a material reality. Whatever we
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  Speaker 1: create in the thought world will some day materialize. That
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  Speaker 1: is the law. Don't forget this. In the old days,
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  Speaker 1: men drifted without concentration. But this is a day of efficiency,
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  Speaker 1: and therefore all of our efforts must be concentrated if
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  Speaker 1: we are to win any success worth the name. Why
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  Speaker 1: people often do not get what they concentrate on because
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  Speaker 1: they sit down in hopeless despair and expect it to
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  Speaker 1: come to them. But if they will just reach out
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  Speaker 1: for it with their biggest effort, they will find it
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  Speaker 1: is within their reach. No one limits us but ourselves.
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  Speaker 1: We are what we are today as the result of
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  Speaker 1: internal conditions. We can control the external conditions they are
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  Speaker 1: subject to our will. Through our concentration. We can attract
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  Speaker 1: what we want because we became enrappert with the universal
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  Speaker 1: forces from which we can get what we want. You
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  Speaker 1: have watched races, no doubt, they all line up together.
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  Speaker 1: Each has his mind set on getting to the goal
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  Speaker 1: before the others. This is one kind of concentration. A
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  Speaker 1: man starts to think on a certain subject, he has
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  Speaker 1: all kinds of thoughts come to him, but by concentration
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  Speaker 1: he shuts out all these but the one he has chosen.
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  Speaker 1: Concentration is just a case of willing to do a
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  Speaker 1: certain thing in doing it. If you want to accomplish anything,
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  Speaker 1: first put yourself in a concentrating, reposeful, receptive, acquiring frame
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  Speaker 1: of mind. In tackling unfamiliar work, make haste slowly and deliberately,
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  Speaker 1: and then you will secure that interior activity, which is
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  Speaker 1: never possible when you are in a hurry or under
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  Speaker 1: a strain. When you think hard or try to hurry
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  Speaker 1: results too quickly, you generally shut off the interior flow
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  Speaker 1: of thoughts and ideas. You have often, no doubt, tried
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  Speaker 1: hard to think of something but could not. But just
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  Speaker 1: as soon as you stop trying to think of it,
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  Speaker 1: it came to you. Lessen nine concentration can overcome bad habits.
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  Speaker 1: Habits make or break us to a far greater extent
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  Speaker 1: than we like to admit. Habit is both a powerful
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  Speaker 1: enemy and wonderful ally of concentration. You must learn to
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  Speaker 1: overcome habits which are injurious to concentration, and to cultivate
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  Speaker 1: those which increase it. The large majority of people are
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  Speaker 1: controlled by their habits and are buffeted around by them,
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  Speaker 1: like waves of the ocean tossing a piece of wood.
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  Speaker 1: They do things in a certain way because of the
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  Speaker 1: power of habit. They seldom ever think of concentrating on
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  Speaker 1: why they do them this or that way, or study
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  Speaker 1: to see if they could do them in a better way. Now,
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  Speaker 1: my object in this chapter is to get you to
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  Speaker 1: concentrate on your habits so you can find out which
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  Speaker 1: are good and which are bad for you. You will
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  Speaker 1: find that by making a few needed changes, you can
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  Speaker 1: make even those that are not good for you of service.
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  Speaker 1: The good habits you can make much better. The first
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  Speaker 1: thing I want you to realize is that all habits
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  Speaker 1: are governed consciously or unconsciously, by the will. Most of
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  Speaker 1: us are forming new habits all the time, very often.
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  Speaker 1: If you repeat something several times in the same way,
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  Speaker 1: you will have formed the habit of doing it that way.
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  Speaker 1: But the oftener you repeat it, the stronger that habit grows,
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  Speaker 1: and the more deeply it becomes embedded in your nature.
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  Speaker 1: After a habit has been in force for a long time,
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  Speaker 1: it becomes almost a part of you, and is therefore
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  Speaker 1: hard to overcome. But you can still break any habit
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  Speaker 1: by strong concentration on its opposite. All our life, so
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  Speaker 1: far as it has definite form, is but a mass
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  Speaker 1: of habits, practical, emotional, and intellectual, systematically organized for our
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  Speaker 1: weal or woe, and bearing us irresistibly toward our destiny,
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  Speaker 1: whatever the latter may be. We are creatures of habits,
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  Speaker 1: imitators and copiers of our past selves. We are liable
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  Speaker 1: to be bent or curved, as we can bend a
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  Speaker 1: piece of paper, and each fold leaves a crease, which
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  Speaker 1: makes it easier to make the fold there the next time.
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  Speaker 1: The intellect and will our spiritual functions. Still they are
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  Speaker 1: immersed in matter, and to every movement of theirs corresponds
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  Speaker 1: a movement in the brain that is in their material correlative.
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  Speaker 1: This is why habits of thought and habits of willing
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  Speaker 1: can be formed. All physical impressions are the carrying out
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  Speaker 1: of the actions of the will and intellect. Our nervous
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  Speaker 1: systems are what they are to day because of the
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  Speaker 1: way they have been exercised. As we grow older, most
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  Speaker 1: of us become more and more like automatic machines. The
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  Speaker 1: habits we have formed increase in strength. We work in
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  Speaker 1: our old, characteristic way. Your associates learned to expect you
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  Speaker 1: to do things in a certain way. So you see
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  Speaker 1: that your habits make a great difference in your life.
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  Speaker 1: And as it is just about as easy to form
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  Speaker 1: good habits as it is bad, you should form only
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  Speaker 1: the former. No one but yourself is responsible for your habits.
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  Speaker 1: You are free to form the habits that you should.
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  Speaker 1: And if everyone could realize the importance of forming the
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  Speaker 1: right kind of habits, what a different world this would be.
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  Speaker 1: How much happier every one would be, then all, instead
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  Speaker 1: of the few, might win success. Habits are formed more
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  Speaker 1: quickly when we are young, but if we have already
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  Speaker 1: passed the youthful plastic period, the time to start to
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  Speaker 1: control our habits is right now. As we will never
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  Speaker 1: be any younger. You will find the following maxims worth remembering.
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  Speaker 1: First maxim, we must make our nervous system our ally
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  Speaker 1: instead of our enemy. Second maxim. In the acquisition of
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  Speaker 1: a new habit, as in the leaving off of an
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  Speaker 1: old one, we must take care to launch ourselves with
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  Speaker 1: as strong and decided an initiative as possible. The man
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  Speaker 1: that is in the habit of doing the right thing
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  Speaker 1: from boyhood has only good motives. So it is very
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  Speaker 1: important for you that you concentrate assiduously on the habits
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  Speaker 1: that reinforce good motives. Surround yourself with every aid you can.
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  Speaker 1: Don't play with fire by forming bad habits. Make a
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  Speaker 1: new beginning today. Study why you have been doing certain things.
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  Speaker 1: If they are not for your good, shun them. Henceforth,
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  Speaker 1: don't give into a single temptation, for every time you do,
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  Speaker 1: you strengthen the chain of bad habits. Every time you
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  Speaker 1: keep a resolution, you break the chain that enslaves you.
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  Speaker 1: Third maxim, never allow an exception to occur till the
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  Speaker 1: new habit is securely rooted in your life. Here is
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  Speaker 1: the idea. You never want to give in until the
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  Speaker 1: new habit is fixed, else you undo all that has
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  Speaker 1: been accomplished by previous efforts. There are two opposing inclinations.
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  Speaker 1: One wants to be firm and the other wants to
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  Speaker 1: give in. By your will, you can become firm through repetition,
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  Speaker 1: fortify your will to be able to cope with any
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  Speaker 1: and all opposition. Fourth maxim sees the very first possible
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  Speaker 1: opportunity to act on every resolution you make and on
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  Speaker 1: every emotional prompting you may experience in the direction of
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  Speaker 1: the habits you aspire to gain. To make a resolve
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  Speaker 1: and not to keep it is of little value. So
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  Speaker 1: by all means, keep every resolution you make. For you
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  Speaker 1: not only profit by the resolution, but it furnishes you
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  Speaker 1: with an exercise that causes the brain, cells and physiological
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  Speaker 1: correlatives to form the habit of adjusting themselves to carry
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  Speaker 1: out resolutions. A tendency to act becomes effectively ingrained in
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  Speaker 1: us in proportion to the uninterrupted frequency with which the
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  Speaker 1: actions actually occur, and the brain grows to their use.
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  Speaker 1: When a resolve or a fine glow of feeling is
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  Speaker 1: allowed to evaporate without bearing fruit, it is worse than
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  Speaker 1: a chance lost. If you keep your resolutions, you form
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  Speaker 1: a most valuable habit. If you break them, you form
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  Speaker 1: a most dangerous one. So concentrate on keeping them, whether
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  Speaker 1: important or unimportant. And remember it is just as important
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  Speaker 1: for this purpose to keep the unimportant, for by so
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  Speaker 1: doing you are forming the habit fifth maxim Keep the
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  Speaker 1: faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous
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  Speaker 1: exercise every day. The more we exercise the will the
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  Speaker 1: better we can control our habits. Every few days, do
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  Speaker 1: something for no other reason than its difficulty, so that
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  Speaker 1: when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may
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  Speaker 1: find you not unnerved or untrained to stand the test.
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  Speaker 1: Asceticism of this sort is like the insurance which a
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  Speaker 1: man pays on his house and goods. The tax does
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  Speaker 1: him no good at the time, and possibly may never
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  Speaker 1: bring him a return, but if the fire does come,
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  Speaker 1: his having paid, it will be his salvation from ruin.
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  Speaker 1: So with the man who has daily insured himself to
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  Speaker 1: habits of concentrated attention, energetic volation, and self denial in
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  Speaker 1: unnecessary things, he will stand like a tower when everything
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  Speaker 1: rocks around him, and his softer fellow mortals are winnowed
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  Speaker 1: like chaff in the blast. The young should be made
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  Speaker 1: to concentrate on their habits and be made to realize
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  Speaker 1: that if they don't, they become walking bundles of injurious habits.
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  Speaker 1: Youth is the plastic state and should be utilized in
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  Speaker 1: laying the foundation for a glorious future. The great value
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  Speaker 1: of habit for good and evil cannot be overestimated. Habit
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  Speaker 1: is the deepest law of human nature. No man is
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  Speaker 1: stronger than his habits, because his habits either build up
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  Speaker 1: his strength or decrease it. Why we are creatures of habits.
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  Speaker 1: Habits have often been called a labor saving invention because
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  Speaker 1: when they are formed, they require less of both mental
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  Speaker 1: and material strength. The more deeply the habit becomes ingrained,
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  Speaker 1: the more automatic it becomes. Therefore, habit is an economizing
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  Speaker 1: tendency of our nature. For if it were not for habit,
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  Speaker 1: we should have to be more watchful we walk across
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  Speaker 1: a crowded street. The habit of stopping and looking prevents
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  Speaker 1: us from being hurt. The right kind of habits keeps
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  Speaker 1: us from making mistakes and mishaps. It is a well
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  Speaker 1: known fact that a chauffeur is not able to master
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  Speaker 1: his machine safely until he has trained his body in
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  Speaker 1: an habitual way. When an emergency comes, he instantly knows
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  Speaker 1: what to do. Where safety depends on quickness, the operator
• 1:33:36
  Speaker 1: must work automatically. Habits mean less risk, less fatigue, and
• 1:33:41
  Speaker 1: greater accuracy. You do not want to become a slave
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  Speaker 1: to habits of a trivial nature. For instance, Wagner required
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  Speaker 1: a certain costume before he could compose corresponding parts of
• 1:33:52
  Speaker 1: his operas. Schiller could never write with ease unless there
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  Speaker 1: were rotten apples in the drawer of his desk, from
• 1:33:58
  Speaker 1: which he could now and then and obtain an odor,
• 1:34:00
  Speaker 1: which seemed to him sweet. Gladstone had different desks for
• 1:34:04
  Speaker 1: his different activities, so that when he worked on Homer,
• 1:34:07
  Speaker 1: he never sat among habitual accompaniments of his legislative labors.
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  Speaker 1: In order to overcome undesirable habits, two things are necessary.
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  Speaker 1: You must have trained your will to do what you
• 1:34:18
  Speaker 1: wanted to do, and the stronger the will, the easier
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  Speaker 1: it will be to break a habit. Then you must
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  Speaker 1: make a resolution to do just the opposite of what
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  Speaker 1: the habit is. Therefore, one habit must replace another. If
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  Speaker 1: you have a strong will, you can tenaciously and persistently
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  Speaker 1: concentrate on removing the bad habit, and in a very
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  Speaker 1: short time the good habit will gain the upper hand.
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  Speaker 1: I will bring this chapter to a close by giving
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  Speaker 1: doctor Oppenheim's instructions for overcoming a habit. If you want
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  Speaker 1: to abolish a habit and its accumulated circumstances as well,
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  Speaker 1: you must grapple with the matter as earnestly as you
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  Speaker 1: would with a physical enemy. You must go into the
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  Speaker 1: encounter with all tenacity of determination, with all fierceness of resolve. Yea,
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  Speaker 1: even with a passion for success that may be called vindictive.
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  Speaker 1: No human enemy can be as insidious, so persevering, as
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  Speaker 1: unrelenting as an unfavorable habit. It never sleeps, it needs
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  Speaker 1: no rest. It is like a parasite that grows with
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  Speaker 1: the growth of the supporting body. And like a parasite,
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  Speaker 1: it can best be killed by violent separation and crushing.
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  Speaker 1: When life is stormy and all seems against us, that
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  Speaker 1: is when we often acquire wrong habits. And it is
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  Speaker 1: then that we have to make a gigantic effort to
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  Speaker 1: think and speak as we should. And even though we
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  Speaker 1: may feel the very reverse at that moment, the tiniest
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  Speaker 1: effort will be backed up by a tremendous power and
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  Speaker 1: will lift us to a realization never felt before. It
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  Speaker 1: is not in the easy, contented moments of our life
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  Speaker 1: that we make our greatest progress. For then it requires
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  Speaker 1: no special effort to keep in tune. But it is
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  Speaker 1: when we are in the midst of trials and misfortunes,
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  Speaker 1: when we think we are sinking, being overwhelm then it
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  Speaker 1: is important for us to realize that we are linked
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  Speaker 1: to a great power, and if we live as we should,
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  Speaker 1: there is nothing that can occur in life which could
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  Speaker 1: permanently injure us. Nothing can happen that should disturb us.
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  Speaker 1: So always remember you have within you unlimited power, ready
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  Speaker 1: to manifest itself in the form which fills our need
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  Speaker 1: at the moment. If when we have something difficult to solve,
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  Speaker 1: we would be silent like the child, we can get
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  Speaker 1: the inspiration when it comes, we will know how to act.
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  Speaker 1: We will find there is no need to hurry or
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  Speaker 1: disturb ourselves. That it is always wiser to wait for
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  Speaker 1: guidance from within than to act on impulse from without.
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  Speaker 1: Less an x business results through concentration. A successful business
• 1:36:43
  Speaker 1: is not usually the result of chance. Neither is a
• 1:36:47
  Speaker 1: failure the result of luck. Most failures could be determined
• 1:36:51
  Speaker 1: in advance. If the founders had been studied. It is
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  Speaker 1: not always possible to start a money making business at
• 1:36:57
  Speaker 1: the start. Usually an number of changes have to be made.
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  Speaker 1: Plans do not work out as their creators thought they would,
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  Speaker 1: They may have to be changed a little broadened. It
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  Speaker 1: may be here and there, And as you broaden your business,
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  Speaker 1: you broaden your power to achieve. You gain an intense
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  Speaker 1: and sustained desire to make your business a success. When
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  Speaker 1: you start a business, you may have but a vague
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  Speaker 1: notion of the way you will conduct it. You must
• 1:37:25
  Speaker 1: fill in the details as you go along. You must
• 1:37:28
  Speaker 1: concentrate on these details as you straighten out one after another.
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  Speaker 1: Others will require attention. In this way, you cover the
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  Speaker 1: field of the first endeavor, and new opportunities open up
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  Speaker 1: for you. When you realize one desire, another comes. But
• 1:37:45
  Speaker 1: if you do not fulfill the first desire, you will
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  Speaker 1: not the second. The person that does not carry his
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  Speaker 1: desires into action is only a dreamer. Desire is a
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  Speaker 1: great creative force if it is pure, intense, and sustained.
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  Speaker 1: It is our desires that keep stirring us up to action,
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  Speaker 1: and they will strengthen and broaden you if you make
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  Speaker 1: the materialize every man who achieved success deserves it. When
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  Speaker 1: he first started out, he did not understand how to
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  Speaker 1: solve the problems that afterwards presented themselves. But he did
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  Speaker 1: each thing as it came up in the very best
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  Speaker 1: way that he could, and this developed his power of
• 1:38:21
  Speaker 1: doing bigger things. We become masters of business by learning
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  Speaker 1: to do well whatever we attempt. The man that has
• 1:38:29
  Speaker 1: a thorough knowledge of his business can of course direct
• 1:38:31
  Speaker 1: it much more easily and skillfully than the man who
• 1:38:34
  Speaker 1: lacks that knowledge. The skilled business director can sit in
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  Speaker 1: his private office and still know accurately what is actually
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  Speaker 1: being done. He knows what should be done in any
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  Speaker 1: given time, and if it is not accomplished, he knows
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  Speaker 1: that his employees are not turning out the work that
• 1:38:49
  Speaker 1: they should. It is then easy to apply the remedy.
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  Speaker 1: Business success depends on well concentrated efforts. You must use
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  Speaker 1: every mental force you can mass. The more these are used,
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  Speaker 1: the more they increase. Therefore, the more you accomplish today,
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  Speaker 1: the more force you will have at your disposal with
• 1:39:08
  Speaker 1: which to solve your problems tomorrow. If you are working
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  Speaker 1: for someone else today and wish to start in a
• 1:39:14
  Speaker 1: business for yourself, think over carefully what you would like
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  Speaker 1: to do. Then when you have resolved what you want
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  Speaker 1: to do, you will be drawn towards it. There is
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  Speaker 1: a law that opens the way to the fulfillment of
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  Speaker 1: your desires. Of course, back of your desire, you must
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  Speaker 1: put forward the necessary effort to carry out your purpose.
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  Speaker 1: You must use your power to put your desires into force.
• 1:39:36
  Speaker 1: Once they are created and you keep up your determination
• 1:39:39
  Speaker 1: to have them fulfilled, you both consciously and unconsciously work
• 1:39:42
  Speaker 1: toward their materialization. Set your heart on your purpose, concentrate
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  Speaker 1: your thought upon it, direct your efforts with all your intelligence,
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  Speaker 1: and in due time you will realize your ambition. Feel
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  Speaker 1: yourself a success, Believe you are a success, and thus
• 1:39:57
  Speaker 1: put yourself in the attitude that demands recognition. In the
• 1:40:00
  Speaker 1: thought current draws to you what you need to make
• 1:40:02
  Speaker 1: you a success. Don't be afraid of big undertakings, go
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  Speaker 1: at them with grit, and pursue methods that you think
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  Speaker 1: will accomplish your purpose. You may not at first meet
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  Speaker 1: with entire success, but aim so high that if you
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  Speaker 1: fall a little short, you will still have accomplished much
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  Speaker 1: what others have done. You can do. You may even
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  Speaker 1: do what others have been unable to do. Always keep
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  Speaker 1: a strong desire to succeed in your mind. Be in
• 1:40:30
  Speaker 1: love with your aim and work, and make them as
• 1:40:32
  Speaker 1: far as possible, square with the rule of the greatest
• 1:40:35
  Speaker 1: good to the greatest number. In your life cannot be
• 1:40:37
  Speaker 1: a failure. The successful business attitude must be cultivated to
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  Speaker 1: make the most out of your life. The attitude of
• 1:40:44
  Speaker 1: expecting great things from both yourself and others. It alone
• 1:40:49
  Speaker 1: will often cause men to make good, to measure up
• 1:40:51
  Speaker 1: to the best that is in them. It is not
• 1:40:54
  Speaker 1: the spasmodic spurts that count on a long journey, but
• 1:40:57
  Speaker 1: the steady efforts fatigue and make it hard for you
• 1:41:01
  Speaker 1: to continue. Rely on your own opinion. It should be
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  Speaker 1: as good as anyone's. Else when once you reach a conclusion,
• 1:41:10
  Speaker 1: abide by it. Let there be no doubt or wavering
• 1:41:13
  Speaker 1: in your judgment. If you are uncertain about every decision
• 1:41:17
  Speaker 1: you make, you will be subject to harassing doubts and fears,
• 1:41:21
  Speaker 1: which will render your judgment of little value. The man
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  Speaker 1: that decides according to what he thinks right, and who
• 1:41:27
  Speaker 1: learns from every mistake, acquires a well balanced mind that
• 1:41:30
  Speaker 1: gets the best results. He gains the confidence of others,
• 1:41:34
  Speaker 1: he is known as the man that knows what he wants,
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  Speaker 1: and not as one that is as changeable as the weather.
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  Speaker 1: The man of today wants to do business with the
• 1:41:43
  Speaker 1: man that he can depend upon. Uncertainties in the business
• 1:41:47
  Speaker 1: world are meeting with more disfavor. Reliable firms want to
• 1:41:51
  Speaker 1: do business with men of known qualities, with men of firmness, judgment,
• 1:41:55
  Speaker 1: and reliability. So if you wish to start in business
• 1:41:59
  Speaker 1: for yourself, your gad greatest asset, with the single exception
• 1:42:02
  Speaker 1: of a sound physique, is that of a good reputation.
• 1:42:05
  Speaker 1: A successful business is not hard to build if we
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  Speaker 1: can concentrate all our mental forces upon it. It is
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  Speaker 1: the man that is unsettled because he does not know
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  Speaker 1: what he wants that goes to the wall. We hear
• 1:42:17
  Speaker 1: persons say that business is trying on the nerves, But
• 1:42:20
  Speaker 1: it is the unsettling elements of fret and worry and
• 1:42:23
  Speaker 1: suspense that are nerve exhausting, and not the business. Executing
• 1:42:27
  Speaker 1: one's plans may cause fatigue. Enjoyment comes with rest if
• 1:42:32
  Speaker 1: there has not been any unnatural strain. The recuperative powers
• 1:42:35
  Speaker 1: replace what energy has been lost by attending to each
• 1:42:39
  Speaker 1: day's work properly, you develop the capacity to do a
• 1:42:42
  Speaker 1: greater work tomorrow. It is this gradual development that makes
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  Speaker 1: possible the carrying out of big plans. The man that
• 1:42:50
  Speaker 1: figures out doing something each hour of the day gets somewhere.
• 1:42:54
  Speaker 1: At the end of each day, you should be a
• 1:42:55
  Speaker 1: step nearer your aim. Keep the idea in mind that
• 1:42:59
  Speaker 1: you mean to go forward, that each day must mark
• 1:43:02
  Speaker 1: an advance, and forward you will go. You do not
• 1:43:05
  Speaker 1: even have to know the exact direction, so long as
• 1:43:08
  Speaker 1: you are determined to find the way. But you must
• 1:43:11
  Speaker 1: not turn back once you have started. Even brilliant men's
• 1:43:15
  Speaker 1: conceptions of the possibilities of their mental forces are so
• 1:43:18
  Speaker 1: limited and below their real worth, that they are far
• 1:43:21
  Speaker 1: more likely to belittle their possibilities than they are to
• 1:43:23
  Speaker 1: exaggerate them. You don't want to think that an aim
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  Speaker 1: is impossible because it has never been realized in the past.
• 1:43:31
  Speaker 1: Every day someone is doing something that was never done before.
• 1:43:35
  Speaker 1: We are pushing ahead faster. Formerly it took decades to
• 1:43:39
  Speaker 1: build up a big business, but today it is only
• 1:43:42
  Speaker 1: but a matter of years, sometimes of months. Plan each
• 1:43:46
  Speaker 1: day's activities carefully, and you can reach any height you
• 1:43:48
  Speaker 1: aim at. If each thing you do is done with
• 1:43:52
  Speaker 1: concise and concentrated thought, you will be able to turn
• 1:43:54
  Speaker 1: out an excellent quality and a large quantity of work.
• 1:43:58
  Speaker 1: Plan to do so much work during the day, and
• 1:44:00
  Speaker 1: you will be astonished to see how much more you
• 1:44:02
  Speaker 1: will do than on other days when you had not
• 1:44:05
  Speaker 1: decided on any certain amount. I have demonstrated that the
• 1:44:09
  Speaker 1: average business working force could do the same amount of
• 1:44:12
  Speaker 1: work in six hours that they now do in eight
• 1:44:15
  Speaker 1: without using up any more energy. Never start to accomplish
• 1:44:19
  Speaker 1: anything in an indecisive, indefinite, uncertain way. Tackle everything with
• 1:44:24
  Speaker 1: a positiveness and an earnestness that will concentrate your mind
• 1:44:27
  Speaker 1: and attract the very best associated thoughts. You will in
• 1:44:31
  Speaker 1: a short time find that you will have extra time
• 1:44:34
  Speaker 1: for planning bigger things. The natural leader always draws to himself,
• 1:44:39
  Speaker 1: by the law of mental attraction, ideas in his chosen
• 1:44:42
  Speaker 1: subject that have ever been conceived by others. This is
• 1:44:45
  Speaker 1: of the greatest importance and help. If you are properly trained,
• 1:44:49
  Speaker 1: you benefit much by others thoughts, and providing you generate
• 1:44:53
  Speaker 1: from within yourself something of value, they will benefit from yours.
• 1:44:58
  Speaker 1: We are heirs of all the ages, but we must
• 1:45:00
  Speaker 1: know how to use our inheritance. The confident, pushing, hopeful,
• 1:45:05
  Speaker 1: determined man influences all with whom he associates and inspires
• 1:45:09
  Speaker 1: the same qualities in them. You feel that his is
• 1:45:13
  Speaker 1: a safe example to follow, and he rouses the same
• 1:45:15
  Speaker 1: force within you that is pushing him onward and upward.
• 1:45:19
  Speaker 1: One seldom makes a success of anything that he goes
• 1:45:22
  Speaker 1: at in a listless, spiritless way. To build up a business,
• 1:45:26
  Speaker 1: you must see it expanding in your mind before it
• 1:45:28
  Speaker 1: actually takes tangible shape. Every great task that has ever
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  Speaker 1: been accomplished has first been merely a vision in the
• 1:45:35
  Speaker 1: mind of its creator. Detail after detail has had to
• 1:45:39
  Speaker 1: be worked out in his mind from his first faint
• 1:45:41
  Speaker 1: idea of the enterprise. Finally a clear idea was formed,
• 1:45:45
  Speaker 1: and then the accomplishment, which was only the material result
• 1:45:49
  Speaker 1: of the mental concept, followed. The up to date business
• 1:45:53
  Speaker 1: man is not content to build only for the present,
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  Speaker 1: but is planning ahead. If he does not, he will
• 1:45:59
  Speaker 1: fall behind his com petitor, who is What we are
• 1:46:02
  Speaker 1: actually doing to day was carefully thought out and planned
• 1:46:05
  Speaker 1: by others in the past. All progressive businesses are conducted
• 1:46:10
  Speaker 1: this way. That is why the young business man of
• 1:46:13
  Speaker 1: to day is likely to accomplish more in a few
• 1:46:15
  Speaker 1: years than his father did in all his life. There
• 1:46:19
  Speaker 1: is no reason why your work or business should fag
• 1:46:21
  Speaker 1: you out. When it does, there is something wrong. You
• 1:46:26
  Speaker 1: are attracting forces and influence that you should not because
• 1:46:29
  Speaker 1: you are not in harmony with what you are doing.
• 1:46:32
  Speaker 1: There is nothing so tiring as to try to do
• 1:46:34
  Speaker 1: the work for which we are unfitted. Both by temperament
• 1:46:37
  Speaker 1: and training. Each one should be engaged in a business
• 1:46:41
  Speaker 1: that he loves. He should be furthering movements with which
• 1:46:44
  Speaker 1: he is in sympathy. He will then only do his
• 1:46:47
  Speaker 1: best work and take intense pleasure in his business. In
• 1:46:51
  Speaker 1: this way, while constantly growing developing his powers, he is
• 1:46:55
  Speaker 1: at the same time rendering through his work, genuine devoted
• 1:46:58
  Speaker 1: service to humanity. Business success is not the result of chance,
• 1:47:03
  Speaker 1: but of scientific ideas and plans carried out by an
• 1:47:06
  Speaker 1: aggressive and progressive management. Use your mental forces so that
• 1:47:10
  Speaker 1: they will grow and develop. Remember that everything you do
• 1:47:14
  Speaker 1: is the result of mental action. Therefore you can completely
• 1:47:17
  Speaker 1: control your every action. Nothing is impossible for you. Don't
• 1:47:23
  Speaker 1: be afraid to tackle a difficult proposition. Your success will
• 1:47:27
  Speaker 1: depend upon the use you make of your mind. This
• 1:47:30
  Speaker 1: is capable of wonderful development. See that you make full
• 1:47:34
  Speaker 1: use of it, and not only develop yourself but your associates.
• 1:47:38
  Speaker 1: Try to broaden the visions of those with whom you
• 1:47:40
  Speaker 1: come in contact, and you will broaden your own outlook
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  Speaker 1: of life. Are you afraid of responsibilities? In order for
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  Speaker 1: the individual soul to develop, you must have responsibilities. You
• 1:47:53
  Speaker 1: must manifest the omnipotence of the law of supply. The
• 1:47:57
  Speaker 1: whole world is your legitimate sphere of activity. How much
• 1:48:01
  Speaker 1: of a conqueror are you? What have you done? Are
• 1:48:04
  Speaker 1: you afraid of responsibility? Or are you ever dodging, flinching,
• 1:48:08
  Speaker 1: or side stepping it? If you are, you are not
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  Speaker 1: a real man. Your higher self never winces. So be
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  Speaker 1: a man and allow the powers of the higher self
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  Speaker 1: to manifest, and you will find you have plenty of strength,
• 1:48:21
  Speaker 1: and you will feel better when you are tackling difficult propositions.
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  Speaker 1: Lesson eleven. Concentrate on courage. Courage is the backbone of man.
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  Speaker 1: The man with courage has persistence. He states what he
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  Speaker 1: believes and puts it into execution. The courageous man has confidence.
• 1:48:40
  Speaker 1: He draws to himself all the moral qualities and mental
• 1:48:43
  Speaker 1: forces which go to make up a strong man, whereas
• 1:48:48
  Speaker 1: the man without courage draws to himself all the qualities
• 1:48:51
  Speaker 1: of a weak man, vacillation, doubt, hesitancy, and unsteadiness of purpose.
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  Speaker 1: You can therefore see the value of concentration on courage.
• 1:49:01
  Speaker 1: It is a most vital element of success. The lack
• 1:49:05
  Speaker 1: of courage creates financial, as well as mental and moral difficulties.
• 1:49:10
  Speaker 1: When a new problem comes, instead of looking upon it
• 1:49:13
  Speaker 1: as something to be achieved, the man or woman without
• 1:49:16
  Speaker 1: courage looks for reasons why it cannot be done. In
• 1:49:18
  Speaker 1: Failure is naturally the almost inevitable result. This is a
• 1:49:22
  Speaker 1: subject well worthy of your study. Look upon everything within
• 1:49:27
  Speaker 1: your power as a possibility instead of as merely a probability,
• 1:49:30
  Speaker 1: and you will accomplish a great deal more, because by
• 1:49:33
  Speaker 1: considering a thing as impossible, you immediately draw to yourself
• 1:49:36
  Speaker 1: all the elements that contribute to failure. Lack of courage
• 1:49:40
  Speaker 1: destroys your confidence in yourself. It destroys that forceful, resolute
• 1:49:45
  Speaker 1: attitude so important to success. The man without courage unconsciously
• 1:49:51
  Speaker 1: draws to himself all that is contemptible, weakening, demoralizing, and destructive.
• 1:49:56
  Speaker 1: He then blames his luck when he does not secure
• 1:49:59
  Speaker 1: the things he weakly desires. We must first have the
• 1:50:02
  Speaker 1: courage to strongly desire something. A desire to be fulfilled
• 1:50:07
  Speaker 1: must be backed by the strength of all our mental forces.
• 1:50:11
  Speaker 1: Such a desire has enough commanding force to change all
• 1:50:14
  Speaker 1: unfavorable conditions. The man with courage commands whether he is
• 1:50:18
  Speaker 1: on the battlefield or in business life. What is courage?
• 1:50:23
  Speaker 1: It is the will to do It. Takes no more
• 1:50:26
  Speaker 1: energy to be courageous than to be cowardly. It is
• 1:50:30
  Speaker 1: a matter of the right training in the right way.
• 1:50:33
  Speaker 1: Courage concentrates the mental forces on the task at hand.
• 1:50:37
  Speaker 1: It then directs them thoughtfully, steadily, deliberately, while attracting all
• 1:50:42
  Speaker 1: the forces of success toward the desired end. Cowardice, on
• 1:50:46
  Speaker 1: the other hand, dissipates both our mental and moral forces,
• 1:50:50
  Speaker 1: thereby inviting failure. As we are creatures of habits, we
• 1:50:54
  Speaker 1: should avoid persons that lack courage. They are easy to
• 1:50:58
  Speaker 1: discover because of their habits of fear in attacking new problems.
• 1:51:02
  Speaker 1: The man with courage is never afraid. Start out today
• 1:51:06
  Speaker 1: with the idea that there is no reason why you
• 1:51:08
  Speaker 1: should not be courageous. If any fear thoughts come to
• 1:51:12
  Speaker 1: you cast them off as you with the deadly viper
• 1:51:15
  Speaker 1: form the habit of never thinking of anything unfavorable to
• 1:51:18
  Speaker 1: yourself or anyone else. In dealing with difficulties new or old,
• 1:51:23
  Speaker 1: hold ever the thought I am courageous. Whenever a doubt
• 1:51:27
  Speaker 1: crosses the threshold of your mind, banish it. Remember you,
• 1:51:32
  Speaker 1: as master of your mind, control its every thought. And
• 1:51:35
  Speaker 1: here is a good one to often affirm. I have
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  Speaker 1: courage because I desire it, because I need it, because
• 1:51:40
  Speaker 1: I use it, and because I refuse to become such
• 1:51:43
  Speaker 1: a weakling as cowardice produces. There is no justification for
• 1:51:47
  Speaker 1: the loss of courage. The evils by which you will
• 1:51:50
  Speaker 1: almost certainly be overwhelmed without it are far greater than
• 1:51:53
  Speaker 1: those which courage will help you to meet and overcome. Right, then,
• 1:51:58
  Speaker 1: must be the moralist who says that the only thing
• 1:52:00
  Speaker 1: to fear is fear. Never let another's opinion affect you.
• 1:52:05
  Speaker 1: He cannot tell what you are able to do. He
• 1:52:07
  Speaker 1: does not know what you can do with your forces.
• 1:52:10
  Speaker 1: The truth is, you do not know yourself until you
• 1:52:13
  Speaker 1: put yourself to the test. Therefore, how can someone else know?
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  Speaker 1: Never let any one else put a valuation on you.
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  Speaker 1: Almost all wonderful achievements have been accomplished after it had
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  Speaker 1: been thoroughly demonstrated that they were impossibilities. Once we understand
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  Speaker 1: the law, all things are possible. If they were impossibilities,
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  Speaker 1: we could not conceive them. Just the moment you allow
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  Speaker 1: someone to influence you against what you think is right,
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  Speaker 1: you lose the confidence in yourself that inspires courage and
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  Speaker 1: carries with it all the forces which courage creates. Just
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  Speaker 1: the moment you begin to swerve in your plan, you
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  Speaker 1: begin to carry out another's thought and not your own.
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  Speaker 1: You become the directed and not the director. You forsake
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  Speaker 1: the courage and resolution of your own mind, and you
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  Speaker 1: therefore lack the very forces that you need to sustain
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  Speaker 1: and carry out your work. Instead of being self reliant,
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  Speaker 1: you become timid, and this invites failure. When you permit
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  Speaker 1: yourself to be influenced from your plan by another, you
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  Speaker 1: are unable to judge as you should, because you have
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  Speaker 1: allowed another's influence to deprive you of your courage and
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  Speaker 1: determination without absorbing any of his in return. So you
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  Speaker 1: are in much the same predicament as you would be
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  Speaker 1: in if you turned over all your worldly possessions to
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  Speaker 1: another without getting value received. Concentrate on just the opposite
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  Speaker 1: of fear, want, poverty, sickness, et cetera. Never doubt your
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  Speaker 1: own ability. You have plenty if you will just use it.
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  Speaker 1: A great many men are failures because they doubt their
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  Speaker 1: own capacity. Instead of building up strong mental forces, which
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  Speaker 1: would be of the greatest use to them, their fear
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  Speaker 1: thoughts tear them down. Fear paralyzes energy. It keeps us
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  Speaker 1: from attracting the forces that go to make up success.
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  Speaker 1: Fear is the worst enemy we have. There are few
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  Speaker 1: people that really know that they can accomplish much. They
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  Speaker 1: desire the full extent of their powers. But alas it
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  Speaker 1: is only occasionally that you find a man that is
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  Speaker 1: aware of the great possibilities within him. When you believe
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  Speaker 1: with all your mind and heart and soul that you
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  Speaker 1: can do something, you thereby develop the courage to steadily
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  Speaker 1: and confidently live up to that belief. You have now
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  Speaker 1: gone a long way towards accomplishing it. The chances are
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  Speaker 1: that there will be obstacles big and little in your way,
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  Speaker 1: but resolute courage will overcome them, and nothing else will.
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  Speaker 1: Strong courage eliminates the injurious and opposing forces by summoning
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  Speaker 1: their masters the yet stronger forces that will serve you.
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  Speaker 1: Courage is yours for the asking. All you have to
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  Speaker 1: do is to believe in it, claim it, and use
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  Speaker 1: it to succeed in business. Believe that it will be successful,
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  Speaker 1: assert that it is successful, and work life like a
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  Speaker 1: beaver to make it so. Difficulties soon melt away before
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  Speaker 1: the courageous one man of courage can fire with his
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  Speaker 1: spirit a whole army of men, whether it be military
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  Speaker 1: or industrial. Because courage, like cowardice, is contagious. The man
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  Speaker 1: of courage overcomes the trials and temptations of life. He
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  Speaker 1: commands success, he renders sound judgment, He develops personal influence
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  Speaker 1: and a forceful character, and often becomes the mentor of
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  Speaker 1: the community which he serves. How to overcome depression and melancholia.
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  Speaker 1: Both of the former are harmful and make you unhappy.
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  Speaker 1: These are states that can be quickly overcome through concentrating
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  Speaker 1: more closely on the higher self, for when you do,
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  Speaker 1: you cut off the connection with the harmful force currents.
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  Speaker 1: You can also drive away moods by simply choosing and
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  Speaker 1: fully concentrating on an agreeable subject through will, power and thought, control.
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  Speaker 1: We can accomplish anything we want to do. There is
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  Speaker 1: wonderful inherent power within us all, and there is never
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  Speaker 1: any sufficient cause for fear except ignorance. Every evil is
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  Speaker 1: but the product of ignorance, and everyone that possesses the
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  Speaker 1: power to think has the power to overcome ignorance and evil.
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  Speaker 1: The pain that we suffer from doing evil are but
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  Speaker 1: the lessons of experience, and the object of the pain
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  Speaker 1: is to make us realize our ignorance. When we become depressed,
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  Speaker 1: it is evidence that our thought faculties are combining improperly
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  Speaker 1: and thereby attracting the wrong force currents. All that it
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  Speaker 1: is necessary to do is to exercise the will and
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  Speaker 1: concentrate upon happy subjects. I will only think of subjects
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  Speaker 1: worthy of my higher self and its powers. Lesson twelve,
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  Speaker 1: concentrate on wealth. It was never intended that man should
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  Speaker 1: be poor. When wealth is obtained under the proper conditions,
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  Speaker 1: it broadens the life. Everything has its value, Everything has
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  Speaker 1: a good use and a bad use. The forces of mind,
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  Speaker 1: like wealth, can be directed, even for good or evil.
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  Speaker 1: A little rest will recreate forces. Too much rest degenerates
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  Speaker 1: into laziness and brainless dreamy longings. If you acquire wealth
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  Speaker 1: unjustly from others, you are misusing your forces. But if
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  Speaker 1: your wealth comes through the right sources, you will be blessed.
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  Speaker 1: Through wealth, we can do things to uplift ourselves and humanity.
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  Speaker 1: Wealth is many persons goal. It therefore stimulates their endeavor.
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  Speaker 1: They long for it in order to dress and live
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  Speaker 1: in such a way as to attract friends. Without friends,
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  Speaker 1: they would not be so particular of their surroundings. The
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  Speaker 1: fact is, the more attractive we make ourselves and our surroundings,
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  Speaker 1: the more inspiring are their influences. It is not conducive
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  Speaker 1: to proper thought to be surrounded by conditions that are
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  Speaker 1: uncongenial and unpleasant. So the first step toward acquiring wealth
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  Speaker 1: is to surround yourself with helpful influences, to claim for
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  Speaker 1: yourself an environment of culture, place yourself in it, and
• 1:58:00
  Speaker 1: be molded by its influences. Most great men of all
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  Speaker 1: ages have been comparatively rich. They have made or inherited money.
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  Speaker 1: Without money, they could not have accomplished what they did.
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  Speaker 1: The man engaged in physical drudgery is not likely to
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  Speaker 1: have the same high ideals as the man that can
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  Speaker 1: command comparative leisure. Wealth is usually the fruit of achievement.
• 1:58:24
  Speaker 1: It is not, however, altogether the result of being industrious.
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  Speaker 1: Thousands of persons work hard who never grow wealthy. Others
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  Speaker 1: with much less effort acquire wealth. Seeing possibilities is another
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  Speaker 1: step toward acquiring wealth. A man may be as industrious
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  Speaker 1: as he can possibly be, but if he does not
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  Speaker 1: use his mental forces, he will be a labor to
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  Speaker 1: be directed by the man that uses to good advantage
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  Speaker 1: his mental forces. No one can become wealthy in an
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  Speaker 1: ordinary lifetime by mere savings from earnings. Many scrimp and
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  Speaker 1: economize all their lives, but by so doing waste all
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  Speaker 1: their vitality and energy. For example, I know a man
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  Speaker 1: that used to walk to work. It took him an
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  Speaker 1: hour to go and an hour to return. He could
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  Speaker 1: have taken a car and gone in twenty minutes. He
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  Speaker 1: saved ten cents a day, but wasted an hour and
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  Speaker 1: a half. It was not a very profitable investment unless
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  Speaker 1: the time spent in physical exercise yielded him large returns
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  Speaker 1: in the way of health. The same amount of time
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  Speaker 1: spent in concentrated effort to overcome his unfavorable business environment
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  Speaker 1: might have firmly planted his feet in the path of prosperity.
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  Speaker 1: One of the big mistakes made by many persons of
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  Speaker 1: the present generation is that they associate with those who
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  Speaker 1: fail to call out or develop the best that is
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  Speaker 1: in them. When the social side of life is developed
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  Speaker 1: too exclusively, as it often is, and recreation or entertainment
• 1:59:52
  Speaker 1: becomes the leading motive of a person's life, he acquires
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  Speaker 1: habits of extravagance instead of economy, habits of wasting his
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  Speaker 1: resources physical, mental, moral, and spiritual instead of conserving them.
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  Speaker 1: He is, in consequence lacking in proper motivation. His God
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  Speaker 1: given powers and forces are undeveloped, and he inevitably brings
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  Speaker 1: poor judgment to bear upon all the higher relationships of life,
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  Speaker 1: while as to his financial fortunes, he is ever the leaner,
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  Speaker 1: often a parasite, and always, if opportunity affords, as heavy
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  Speaker 1: a consumer as he is a poor producer. It seems
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  Speaker 1: a part of the tragedy of life that these persons
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  Speaker 1: have to be taught such painful lessons before they can
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  Speaker 1: understand the forces and laws that regulate life. Few profit
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  Speaker 1: by the mistakes of others. They must experience them for
• 2:00:42
  Speaker 1: themselves and then apply the knowledge so gained in reconstructing
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  Speaker 1: their lives. Any man that has ever amounted to anything
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  Speaker 1: has never done a great deal of detail work for
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  Speaker 1: long periods. At any given time, he needs his time
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  Speaker 1: to reflect. He does not do his duties to day
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  Speaker 1: in the same way as yesterday, but as the result
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  Speaker 1: of deliberate and concentrated effort, constantly tries to improve his methods.
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  Speaker 1: The other day I attended a lecture on prosperity. I
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  Speaker 1: knew the lecturer had been practically broke for ten years.
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  Speaker 1: I wanted to hear what he had to say. He
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  Speaker 1: spoke very well. He no doubt benefited some of his hearers,
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  Speaker 1: but he had not profited by his own teachings. I
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  Speaker 1: introduced myself and asked him if he believed in his maxims.
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  Speaker 1: He said he did. I asked him if they had
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  Speaker 1: made him prosperous. He said not exactly. I asked him why.
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  Speaker 1: He answered that he thought he was fated not to
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  Speaker 1: experience prosperity. In half an hour I showed that man
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  Speaker 1: why poverty had always been his companion. He had dressed poorly,
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  Speaker 1: he held his lectures in poor surroundings. By his actions
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  Speaker 1: and beliefs, he attracted poverty. He did not realize that
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  Speaker 1: his thoughts and his surround exercised and unfavorable influence. I said,
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  Speaker 1: thoughts are moving forces, great powers. Thoughts of wealth attract wealth. Therefore,
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  Speaker 1: if you desire wealth, you must attract the forces that
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  Speaker 1: will help you to secure it. Your thoughts attract a
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  Speaker 1: similar kind of thoughts. If you hold thoughts of poverty,
• 2:02:20
  Speaker 1: you attract poverty. If you make up your mind you
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  Speaker 1: are going to be wealthy, you will instill this thought
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  Speaker 1: into all your mental forces, and you will, at the
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  Speaker 1: same time use every external condition to help you. Many
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  Speaker 1: persons are of the opinion that if you have money,
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  Speaker 1: it is easy to make more money. But this is
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  Speaker 1: not necessarily true. Ninety percent of the men that start
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  Speaker 1: in business fail. Money will not enable one to accumulate
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  Speaker 1: much more unless he is trained to seek and use
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  Speaker 1: good opportunities for its investment. If he inherits money, the
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  Speaker 1: chances are that he will lose it, while if he
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  Speaker 1: has made it, he not only knows its value, but
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  Speaker 1: has developed to use it as well as to make
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  Speaker 1: more if he loses it. Business success today depends on foresight,
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  Speaker 1: good judgment, grit, firm resolution, and settled purpose. But never
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  Speaker 1: forget that thought is as real a force as electricity.
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  Speaker 1: Let your thoughts be such that you will send out
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  Speaker 1: as good as you receive. If you do not, you
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  Speaker 1: are not enriching others, and therefore deserve not to be enriched.
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  Speaker 1: The man that tries to get all he can from
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  Speaker 1: others for nothing becomes so selfish and mean that he
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  Speaker 1: does not even enjoy his acquisitions. We see examples of
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  Speaker 1: this every day. What we take from others will in
• 2:03:37
  Speaker 1: turn be taken from us. All obligations have to be
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  Speaker 1: met fairly and squarely. We cannot reach perfection until we
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  Speaker 1: discharge every obligation of our lives. We all realize this,
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  Speaker 1: so why not willingly give a fair exchange for all
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  Speaker 1: that we receive? Again, I repeat that the first as
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  Speaker 1: well as the last step in acquiring wealth is to
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  Speaker 1: surround yourself with good influences, good thought, good health, good
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  Speaker 1: home and business environment, and successful business associates. Cultivate by
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  Speaker 1: every legitimate means the acquaintance of men of big caliber.
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  Speaker 1: Bring your thought vibrations in regard to business into harmony
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  Speaker 1: with theirs. This will make your society not only agreeable,
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  Speaker 1: but sought after. And when you have formed intimate friendships
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  Speaker 1: with clean, reputable men of wealth, in trust to them
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  Speaker 1: for investment your surplus earnings, however small, until you have
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  Speaker 1: developed the initiative and business acumen to successfully manage your
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  Speaker 1: own investments. By this time you will, through such associations,
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  Speaker 1: have found your place in life, which, if you have
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  Speaker 1: rightly concentrated upon and used your opportunities, will not be
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  Speaker 1: among men of small parts. With a competence secured, you
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  Speaker 1: will take pleasure in using a part of it, in
• 2:04:53
  Speaker 1: making the road you traveled, in reaching your position easier
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  Speaker 1: for those who follow you. There is somewhere in every
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  Speaker 1: brain the energy that will get you out of that
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  Speaker 1: rut and put you far up on the mountain of success,
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  Speaker 1: if you can only use the energy. You know that
• 2:05:07
  Speaker 1: gasoline in the engine of an automobile doesn't move the
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  Speaker 1: car until the spark comes to explode the gasoline. So
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  Speaker 1: it is with the mind of man. We are not
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  Speaker 1: speaking now of men of great genius, but of average
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  Speaker 1: able citizens. Each one of them has in his brain
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  Speaker 1: the capacity to climb over the word impossible and get
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  Speaker 1: into the successful country beyond and hope. Self confidence and
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  Speaker 1: the determination to do something supply the spark that makes
• 2:05:34
  Speaker 1: the energy work lesson thirteen. You can concentrate, But will
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  Speaker 1: you all have the ability to concentrate? But will you?
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  Speaker 1: You can? But whether you will or not depends on you.
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  Speaker 1: It is one thing to be able to do something,
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  Speaker 1: and another thing to do it. There is far more
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  Speaker 1: ability not used than is used. Why do not more
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  Speaker 1: men of ability make something of themselves? There are comparatively
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  Speaker 1: few successful men, but many ambitious ones. Why do not
• 2:06:05
  Speaker 1: more get along? Cases may differ, but the fault is
• 2:06:09
  Speaker 1: usually their own. They have had chances, perhaps better ones
• 2:06:14
  Speaker 1: than some others that have made good. What would you
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  Speaker 1: like to do that you are not doing? If you
• 2:06:20
  Speaker 1: think you should be getting on better, why don't you
• 2:06:23
  Speaker 1: study yourself carefully? Learn your shortcomings. Sometimes only a mere
• 2:06:29
  Speaker 1: trifle keeps one from branching out and becoming a success.
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  Speaker 1: Discover why you have not been making good the cause
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  Speaker 1: of your failure? Have you been expecting some one to
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  Speaker 1: lead you or to make a way for you? If
• 2:06:42
  Speaker 1: you have concentrate on a new line of thought. There
• 2:06:46
  Speaker 1: are two things absolutely necessary for success. Energy and the
• 2:06:50
  Speaker 1: will to succeed. Nothing can take the place of either
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  Speaker 1: of these. Most of us will not have an easy
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  Speaker 1: path to follow, so don't expect to find one. The
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  Speaker 1: hard knocks develop our courage and moral stamina. The persons
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  Speaker 1: that live in an indolent and slipshod way never have
• 2:07:07
  Speaker 1: any They have never faced conditions, and therefore don't know
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  Speaker 1: how the world is no better for their living. We
• 2:07:16
  Speaker 1: must make favorable conditions and not expect them to shape themselves.
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  Speaker 1: It is not the man that says it can't be done,
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  Speaker 1: but the man that goes ahead in spite of adverse
• 2:07:26
  Speaker 1: advice and shows that it can be done, that gets
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  Speaker 1: there to day. The Lord helps those that help themselves
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  Speaker 1: is a true saying. We climb the road to success
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  Speaker 1: by overcoming obstacles. Stumbling blocks are but stepping stones for
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  Speaker 1: the man that says I can and I will. When
• 2:07:45
  Speaker 1: we see cripples, the deaf and dumb, the blind, and
• 2:07:48
  Speaker 1: those with other handicaps amounting to something in the world,
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  Speaker 1: the able bodied man should feel ashamed of himself if
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  Speaker 1: he does not make good. There is nothing that can
• 2:07:58
  Speaker 1: resist the force of perseverance. The way ahead of all
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  Speaker 1: of us is not clear sailing, but all hard passages
• 2:08:05
  Speaker 1: can be bridged if you just think they can concentrate
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  Speaker 1: on how to do it. But if you think the
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  Speaker 1: obstacles are unsurmountable, you will not, of course try, and
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  Speaker 1: even if you do, it will be in only a
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  Speaker 1: half hearted way, a way that accomplishes nothing. Many men
• 2:08:20
  Speaker 1: will not begin an undertaking unless they feel sure they
• 2:08:23
  Speaker 1: will succeed in it. What a mistake. This would be
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  Speaker 1: right if we were sure of what we could and
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  Speaker 1: could not do. But who knows. There may be an
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  Speaker 1: obstruction there now that might not be their next week.
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  Speaker 1: There may not be an obstruction there now that will
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  Speaker 1: be their next week. The trouble with most persons is
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  Speaker 1: that just as soon as they see their way blocked,
• 2:08:45
  Speaker 1: they lose courage. They forget that usually there is a
• 2:08:49
  Speaker 1: way around the difficulty. It's up to you to find it.
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  Speaker 1: If you tackle something with little effort, when the conditions
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  Speaker 1: call for a big effort, you will of course not win.
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  Speaker 1: Tackle everything with a feeling that you will utilize all
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  Speaker 1: the power within you to make it a success. This
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  Speaker 1: is the kind of concentrated effort that succeeds. Most people
• 2:09:10
  Speaker 1: are beaten before they start. They think they are going
• 2:09:14
  Speaker 1: to encounter obstacles, and they look for them instead of
• 2:09:17
  Speaker 1: for means to overcome them. The result is that they
• 2:09:20
  Speaker 1: increase their obstacles instead of diminishing them. Have you ever
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  Speaker 1: undertaken something that you thought would be hard, but afterwards
• 2:09:27
  Speaker 1: found it to be easy? That is the way. A
• 2:09:30
  Speaker 1: great many times the things that look difficult in advance
• 2:09:34
  Speaker 1: turn out to be easy of conquest when once encountered.
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  Speaker 1: So start out on your journey with the idea that
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  Speaker 1: the road is going to be clear for you, and
• 2:09:43
  Speaker 1: that if it is not, you will clear the way.
• 2:09:45
  Speaker 1: All men that have amounted to anything have cleared their way,
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  Speaker 1: and they did not have the assistance that you will
• 2:09:50
  Speaker 1: have to day. The one great keynote of success is
• 2:09:54
  Speaker 1: to do whatever you have decided on. Don't be turned
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  Speaker 1: from your path, but resolve that you are going to
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  Speaker 1: and to accomplish what you set out to do. Don't
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  Speaker 1: be frightened at a few rebuffs, for they cannot stop
• 2:10:05
  Speaker 1: the man that is determined, the man that knows in
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  Speaker 1: his heart that success is only bought by tremendous resolution,
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  Speaker 1: by concentrated and wholehearted effort. He who has a firm will,
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  Speaker 1: says Gerda, molds the world to himself. People do not
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  Speaker 1: lack strength, says Victor Hugo, They lack will it is
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  Speaker 1: not so much skill that wins victories as it is
• 2:10:27
  Speaker 1: activity and great determination. There is no such thing as
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  Speaker 1: failure for the man that does his best. No matter
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  Speaker 1: what you may be working at at the present time,
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  Speaker 1: don't let this make you lose courage. The tides are
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  Speaker 1: continually changing, and tomorrow or some other day, they will
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  Speaker 1: turn to your advantage. If you are a willing and
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  Speaker 1: are an ambitious worker, there is nothing that develops you
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  Speaker 1: and increases your courage like work. If it were not
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  Speaker 1: for work, how monotonous life would at last become. So
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  Speaker 1: I say to the man that wants to advance, don't
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  Speaker 1: look upon your present position as your permanent one. Keep
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  Speaker 1: your eyes open and add those qualities to your make
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  Speaker 1: up that will assist you when your opportunity comes. Be
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  Speaker 1: ever alert and on the watch for opportunities. Remember, we
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  Speaker 1: attract what we set our minds on. If we look
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  Speaker 1: for opportunities, we find them. If you are the man
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  Speaker 1: you should be, some one is looking for you to
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  Speaker 1: fill a responsible position. So when he finds you, don't
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  Speaker 1: let your attention wander. Give it all to him. Show
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  Speaker 1: that you can concentrate your powers, that you have the
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  Speaker 1: make up of a real man show no signs of fear, uncertainty,
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  Speaker 1: or doubt. The man that is sure of himself is
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  Speaker 1: bound to get to the front. No circumstances can prevent him.
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  Speaker 1: Lesson fourteen. The art of concentrating by means of practical exercises.
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  Speaker 1: Select some thought and see how long you can hold
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  Speaker 1: your mind on it. It is well to have a
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  Speaker 1: clock at first and keep track of the time. If
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  Speaker 1: you decide to think about health, you can get a
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  Speaker 1: great deal of good from your thinking. Besides developing concentration,
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  Speaker 1: think of health as being the greatest blessing there is
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  Speaker 1: in the world. Don't let any other thought drift in.
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  Speaker 1: Just the moment one starts to obtrude, make it get out.
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  Speaker 1: Make it a daily habit of concentrating on this thought
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  Speaker 1: for say ten minutes. Practice until you can hold it
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  Speaker 1: to the exclusion of everything else. You will find it
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  Speaker 1: of the greatest value to centralize your thoughts on health,
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  Speaker 1: regardless of your present condition. See yourself as you would
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  Speaker 1: like to be, and be blind to everything else. You
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  Speaker 1: will find it hard at first to forget your ailments
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  Speaker 1: if you have any, but after a short while you
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  Speaker 1: can shut out these negative thoughts and see yourself as
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  Speaker 1: you want to be. Each time you concentrate, you form
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  Speaker 1: a more perfect image of health, and as you come
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  Speaker 1: into its realization, you become healthy, strong, and wholesome. I
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  Speaker 1: want to impress upon your mind that the habit of
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  Speaker 1: forming mental images is of the greatest value. It has
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  Speaker 1: always been used by successful men of all ages, but
• 2:13:07
  Speaker 1: few realize its full importance. Do you know that you
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  Speaker 1: are continually acting according to the images you form. If
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  Speaker 1: you allow yourself to mold negative images, you unconsciously build
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  Speaker 1: a negative disposition. You will think of poverty, weakness, disease, fear,
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  Speaker 1: et cetera. Just as surely as you think of these,
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  Speaker 1: will your objective life express itself in a like way,
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  Speaker 1: just what we think we will manifest in the external world.
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  Speaker 1: In deep concentration, you become linked with the great creative
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  Speaker 1: spirit of the universe, and the creative energy then flows
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  Speaker 1: through you, vitalizing your creations into form. In deep concentration,
• 2:13:46
  Speaker 1: your mind becomes attuned with the infinite and registers the
• 2:13:49
  Speaker 1: cosmic intelligence and receives its messages. You become so full
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  Speaker 1: of the cosmic energy that you are literally flooded with
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  Speaker 1: divine power. This is a most disas desired state. It
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  Speaker 1: is then we realize the advantages of being connected with
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  Speaker 1: the super consciousness. The super consciousness registers the higher cosmic vibrations.
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  Speaker 1: It is often referred to as the wireless station, the
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  Speaker 1: message recorded coming from the universal mind. There are very
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  Speaker 1: few that reach this stage of concentration. Very few even
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  Speaker 1: know that it is possible. They think concentration means limitation
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  Speaker 1: to one subject. But this deeper concentration that brings us
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  Speaker 1: into harmony with the infinite is that which produces and
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  Speaker 1: maintains health. When you have once come in contact with
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  Speaker 1: your super consciousness, you become the controller of your human thoughts.
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  Speaker 1: That which comes to you is higher than human thoughts.
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  Speaker 1: It is often spoken of as cosmic consciousness. Once it
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  Speaker 1: is experienced, it is never forgotten. Naturally, it requires a
• 2:14:53
  Speaker 1: good deal of training to reach this state, but once
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  Speaker 1: you do, it becomes easier each time to do, and
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  Speaker 1: in the course of time you can become possessed of
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  Speaker 1: power which was unknown to you before. You are able
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  Speaker 1: to direct the expression of almost infinite power while in
• 2:15:08
  Speaker 1: this deeper state of concentration, exercises in concentration. The rays
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  Speaker 1: of the sun when focused upon an object by means
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  Speaker 1: of a sun glass produce a heat many times greater
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  Speaker 1: than the scattered rays of the same source of light
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  Speaker 1: and heat. This is true of attention. Scatter it and
• 2:15:27
  Speaker 1: you get but ordinary results. But center it upon one thing,
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  Speaker 1: and you secure much better results. When you focus your
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  Speaker 1: attention upon an object, your every action, voluntary and involuntary,
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  Speaker 1: is in the direction of attaining that object. If you
• 2:15:43
  Speaker 1: will focus your energies upon a thing to the exclusion
• 2:15:46
  Speaker 1: of everything else, you generate the force that can bring
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  Speaker 1: you what you want. When you focus your thought, you
• 2:15:52
  Speaker 1: increase its strength. The exercises that follow are tedious and monotonous,
• 2:15:57
  Speaker 1: but useful. If you will perceus in them, you will
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  Speaker 1: find they are very valuable, as they increase your powers
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  Speaker 1: of concentration. Before proceeding with the exercises, I will answer
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  Speaker 1: a question that just comes to me. This person says,
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  Speaker 1: after he works all day, he is too tired to
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  Speaker 1: practice any exercise. But this is not true. We will
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  Speaker 1: say he comes home all tired out, eats his supper,
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  Speaker 1: and sits down to rest. If his work has been mental,
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  Speaker 1: the thought which has been occupying his mind returns to him,
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  Speaker 1: and this prevents him from securing the rest he needs.
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  Speaker 1: It is an admitted fact that certain thoughts call into
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  Speaker 1: operation a certain set of brain cells. The other cells,
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  Speaker 1: of course, are not busy at that time and are rested. Now.
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  Speaker 1: If you take up something that is just different from
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  Speaker 1: what you have been doing during the day, you will
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  Speaker 1: use the cells that have not done anything and give
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  Speaker 1: those that have had work to do a rest. So
• 2:16:52
  Speaker 1: you should regulate the evenings that you have and call
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  Speaker 1: forth an entirely different line of thoughts, or as not
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  Speaker 1: to use the cells which you have tired out during
• 2:16:59
  Speaker 1: the day. If you will center your attention on a
• 2:17:02
  Speaker 1: new thought, you relieve the old cells from vibrating with
• 2:17:05
  Speaker 1: excitement and they get their needed rest. The other cells
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  Speaker 1: that have been idle all day want to work, and
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  Speaker 1: you will find you can enjoy your evenings while securing
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  Speaker 1: needed rest. When once you have learned to master your thoughts,
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  Speaker 1: you will be able to change them just as easily
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  Speaker 1: as you change your clothes. Remember, the real requisite of
• 2:17:25
  Speaker 1: centering is to be able to shut out outside thoughts
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  Speaker 1: anything foreign to the subject. Now, in order to control
• 2:17:32
  Speaker 1: your intention, first gain control over the body. This must
• 2:17:36
  Speaker 1: be brought under direct control of the mind. The mind
• 2:17:39
  Speaker 1: under the control of the will. Your will is strong
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  Speaker 1: enough to do anything you wish, but you must realize
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  Speaker 1: that it is. The mind can be greatly strengthened by
• 2:17:48
  Speaker 1: being brought under the direct influence of the will. When
• 2:17:52
  Speaker 1: the mind is properly strengthened by the impulse of the will,
• 2:17:55
  Speaker 1: it becomes a more powerful transmitter of thought because it
• 2:17:58
  Speaker 1: has more force. The best time to concentrate is after
• 2:18:02
  Speaker 1: reading something that is inspiring, as you are then mentally
• 2:18:05
  Speaker 1: and spiritually exalted in the desired realm. Then is the
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  Speaker 1: time you are ready for deep concentration. If you are
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  Speaker 1: in your room, first, see that your windows are up
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  Speaker 1: and the air is good. Lie down flat on your
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  Speaker 1: bed without a pillow. See that every muscle is relaxed.
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  Speaker 1: Now breathe slowly, filling the lungs comfortably full of fresh air.
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  Speaker 1: Hold this as long as you can without straining yourself.
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  Speaker 1: Then exhale slowly. Exhale in an easy, rhythmic way. Breathe
• 2:18:36
  Speaker 1: this way for five minutes, letting the divine breath flow
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  Speaker 1: through you, which will cleanse and rejuvenate every cell of
• 2:18:42
  Speaker 1: brain and body. You are then ready to proceed. Now
• 2:18:47
  Speaker 1: think how quiet and relaxed you are, you can become
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  Speaker 1: enthusiastic over your condition. Just think of yourself as getting
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  Speaker 1: ready to receive knowledge that is far greater than you
• 2:18:58
  Speaker 1: have ever received before. Now relax and let the spirit
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  Speaker 1: work in and through you and assist you to accomplish
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  Speaker 1: what you wish. Don't let any doubts or fears enter.
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  Speaker 1: Just feel that what you wish is going to manifest.
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  Speaker 1: Just feel it already has. In reality it has for
• 2:19:16
  Speaker 1: just the minute you wish a thing to be done,
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  Speaker 1: it manifests in the thought world. Whenever you concentrate, just
• 2:19:22
  Speaker 1: believe it is a success. Keep up this feeling and
• 2:19:25
  Speaker 1: allow nothing to interfere, and you will soon find you
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  Speaker 1: have become the master of concentration. You will find that
• 2:19:32
  Speaker 1: this practice will be of wonderful value to you, and
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  Speaker 1: that rapidly you will be learning to accomplish anything that
• 2:19:37
  Speaker 1: you undertake. It will be necessary to first train the
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  Speaker 1: body to obey the commands of the mind. I want
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  Speaker 1: you to gain control of your muscular movements. The following
• 2:19:48
  Speaker 1: exercise is especially good in assisting you to acquire perfect
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  Speaker 1: control of the muscles. Exercise one sit in a comfortable
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  Speaker 1: chair and see how still you can keep. This is
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  Speaker 1: not a as easy as it seems. You will have
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  Speaker 1: to center your attention on sitting still. Watch and see
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  Speaker 1: that you are not making any involuntary muscular movements. By
• 2:20:10
  Speaker 1: a little practice, you will find you are able to
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  Speaker 1: sit still without a movement of the muscles for fifteen minutes.
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  Speaker 1: At first, I advise sitting in a relaxed position for
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  Speaker 1: five minutes. After you are able to keep perfectly still,
• 2:20:23
  Speaker 1: increase the time to ten minutes, and then to fifteen.
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  Speaker 1: This is as long as it is necessary, but never
• 2:20:31
  Speaker 1: strain yourself to keep still. You must be relaxed completely.
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  Speaker 1: You will find this habit of relaxing is very good.
• 2:20:40
  Speaker 1: Exercise to sit in a chair with your head up
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  Speaker 1: and your chin out, shoulders back. Raise your right arm
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  Speaker 1: until it is on the level with your shoulder pointing
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  Speaker 1: to your right. Look around with head only and fix
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  Speaker 1: your gaze on your fingers, and keep the arm perfectly
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  Speaker 1: still for one minute. Do the same exercise with left arm.
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  Speaker 1: When you are able to keep the arm perfectly steady,
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  Speaker 1: increase the time until you are able to do this
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  Speaker 1: five minutes. With each arm, turn the palm of the
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  Speaker 1: hand downward when it is outstretched as this is the
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  Speaker 1: easiest position. If you will keep your eyes fixed on
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  Speaker 1: the tips of the fingers, you will be able to
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  Speaker 1: tell if you are keeping your arm perfectly still. Exercise three.
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  Speaker 1: Fill a small glass full of water and grasp it
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  Speaker 1: by the fingers. Put the arm directly in front of you.
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  Speaker 1: Now fix the eyes upon the glass and try to
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  Speaker 1: keep the arm so steady that no movement will be noticeable.
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  Speaker 1: Do this first for one moment, and then increase it
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  Speaker 1: to five. Do the exercise with first one arm and
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  Speaker 1: then the other. Exercise four. Watch yourself during the day
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  Speaker 1: and see that your muscles do not become tense or strained.
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  Speaker 1: See how easy and relaxed you can keep yourself. See
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  Speaker 1: how poised you can be at all times. Cultivate a
• 2:21:56
  Speaker 1: self poised manner instead of a nervous, strained appearance. This
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  Speaker 1: mental feeling will improve your carriage and demeanor. Stop all
• 2:22:06
  Speaker 1: useless gestures and movements of the body. These mean that
• 2:22:09
  Speaker 1: you have not proper control over your body. After you
• 2:22:13
  Speaker 1: have acquired this control, notice how ill at ease people
• 2:22:17
  Speaker 1: are that have not gained this control. I have just
• 2:22:20
  Speaker 1: been sizing up a salesman that has just left me
• 2:22:23
  Speaker 1: part of his body kept moving all the time. I
• 2:22:27
  Speaker 1: just felt like saying to him, do you know how
• 2:22:29
  Speaker 1: much better appearance you would make if you would just
• 2:22:31
  Speaker 1: learn to speak with your voice instead of trying to
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  Speaker 1: express what you say with your whole body. Just watch
• 2:22:37
  Speaker 1: those that interview you and see how they lack poise.
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  Speaker 1: Get rid of any habit you have of twitching or
• 2:22:43
  Speaker 1: jerking any part of your body. You will find you
• 2:22:46
  Speaker 1: make many involuntary movements. You can quickly stop any of
• 2:22:50
  Speaker 1: these by merely centering your attention on the thought I
• 2:22:53
  Speaker 1: will not If you are in the habit of letting
• 2:22:56
  Speaker 1: noises upset you, just exercise control when the doors slams
• 2:23:00
  Speaker 1: or something falls, et cetera. Just think of these as
• 2:23:03
  Speaker 1: exercises in self control. You will find many exercises like
• 2:23:08
  Speaker 1: this in your daily routine. The purpose of the above
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  Speaker 1: exercises is to gain control over the involuntary muscular movement,
• 2:23:16
  Speaker 1: making your actions entirely voluntary. The following exercises are arranged
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  Speaker 1: to bring your voluntary muscles under the control of the will,
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  Speaker 1: so that your mental forces may control your muscular movements.
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  Speaker 1: Exercise five. Move your chair up to a table, placing
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  Speaker 1: your hands upon it. Clenching the fists, keeping the back
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  Speaker 1: of the hand on the table, the thumb doubled over
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  Speaker 1: the fingers. Now fix your gaze upon the fist for
• 2:23:41
  Speaker 1: a while, then gradually extend the thumb, keeping your whole
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  Speaker 1: attention fixed upon the act, just as if it was
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  Speaker 1: a matter of great importance. Then gradually extend your first finger,
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  Speaker 1: then your second, and so on until you open the rest.
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  Speaker 1: Then reverse the process, closing first the last one opened,
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  Speaker 1: and then the rest, And finally you will have the
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  Speaker 1: fist again in the original position, with the thumb closed
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  Speaker 1: over the finger. Do this exercise with the left hand.
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  Speaker 1: Keep up this exercise, first with one hand and then
• 2:24:11
  Speaker 1: the other, until you have done it five times with
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  Speaker 1: each hand. In a few days, you can increase it
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  Speaker 1: to ten times. The chances are that the above exercises
• 2:24:21
  Speaker 1: will at first make you tired, but it is important
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  Speaker 1: for you to practice these monotonous exercises so you can
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  Speaker 1: train your attention. It also gives you control over your
• 2:24:30
  Speaker 1: muscular movement. The attention, of course, must be kept closely
• 2:24:35
  Speaker 1: on each movement of the hand. If it is not, you,
• 2:24:38
  Speaker 1: of course lose the value of the exercise. Exercise six,
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  Speaker 1: put the right hand on me, both fingers and thumb
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  Speaker 1: closed except the first finger, which points out in front
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  Speaker 1: of you. Then move the finger slowly from side to side,
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  Speaker 1: keeping the attention fixed upon the end of the finger.
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  Speaker 1: You can make up a variety of exercises like these.
• 2:25:00
  Speaker 1: It is good training to plan out different ones. The
• 2:25:03
  Speaker 1: main point you should keep in mind is that the
• 2:25:05
  Speaker 1: exercise should be simple and that the attention should be
• 2:25:08
  Speaker 1: firmly fixed upon the moving part of the body. You
• 2:25:11
  Speaker 1: will find your attention will not want to be controlled
• 2:25:14
  Speaker 1: and will try to drift to something more interesting. This
• 2:25:17
  Speaker 1: is just where these exercises are of value, and you
• 2:25:20
  Speaker 1: must control your attention and see it is held in
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  Speaker 1: the right place and does not wander away. You may
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  Speaker 1: think these exercises very simple and of no value, but
• 2:25:29
  Speaker 1: I promise you in a short time you will notice
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  Speaker 1: that you have a much better control over your muscular movements,
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  Speaker 1: carriage and demeanor. And you will find that you have
• 2:25:37
  Speaker 1: greatly improved your power of attention and con center your
• 2:25:40
  Speaker 1: thoughts on what you do, which of course will be
• 2:25:44
  Speaker 1: very valuable no matter what you may be doing. Imagine
• 2:25:48
  Speaker 1: that it is your chief object in life. Imagine you
• 2:25:51
  Speaker 1: are not interested in anything else in the world but
• 2:25:53
  Speaker 1: what you are doing. Do not let your attention get
• 2:25:57
  Speaker 1: away from the work you are at. Your attention will
• 2:26:00
  Speaker 1: no doubt be rebellious, but control it, and do not
• 2:26:03
  Speaker 1: let it control you. When once you conquer the rebellious attention,
• 2:26:07
  Speaker 1: you have achieved a greater victory than you can realize
• 2:26:09
  Speaker 1: at the time. Many times afterwards you will be thankful
• 2:26:13
  Speaker 1: you have learned to concentrate your closest attention upon the
• 2:26:16
  Speaker 1: object at hand. Let no day go by without practicing
• 2:26:20
  Speaker 1: concentrating on some familiar object that is uninteresting. Never choose
• 2:26:24
  Speaker 1: an interesting object, as it requires less attention. The less
• 2:26:29
  Speaker 1: interesting it is, the better exercise will it be. After
• 2:26:32
  Speaker 1: a little practice, you will find you can center your
• 2:26:35
  Speaker 1: attention on uninteresting subjects at will. The person that can
• 2:26:39
  Speaker 1: concentrate can gain full control over his body and mind
• 2:26:42
  Speaker 1: and be the master of his inclinations, not their slave.
• 2:26:46
  Speaker 1: When you can control yourself, you can control others. You
• 2:26:50
  Speaker 1: can develop a will that will make you a giant
• 2:26:52
  Speaker 1: compared with the man that lacks will power. Try out
• 2:26:55
  Speaker 1: your will power in different ways until you have it
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  Speaker 1: under such control that just as soon as you decide
• 2:27:00
  Speaker 1: to do a thing, you go ahead and do it.
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  Speaker 1: Never be satisfied with the I did fairly well spirit,
• 2:27:06
  Speaker 1: but put forward your best efforts. Be satisfied with nothing else.
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  Speaker 1: When you have gained this, you are the man you
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  Speaker 1: were intended to be. Exercise seven. Concentration increases the sense
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  Speaker 1: of smell. When you take a walk or drive in
• 2:27:22
  Speaker 1: the country, or pass a flower garden, concentrate on the
• 2:27:25
  Speaker 1: odor of flowers and plants. See how many different kinds
• 2:27:29
  Speaker 1: you can detect. Then choose one particular kind and try
• 2:27:33
  Speaker 1: the sense only this. You will find that this strongly
• 2:27:36
  Speaker 1: intensifies the sense of smell. This differentiation requires, however, a
• 2:27:42
  Speaker 1: peculiarly attentive attitude. When sense of smell is being developed,
• 2:27:47
  Speaker 1: you should not only shut out from the mind every
• 2:27:49
  Speaker 1: thought but that of odor, but you should also shut
• 2:27:52
  Speaker 1: out cognizance of every odor save that upon which your
• 2:27:55
  Speaker 1: mind for the time is concentrated. You call find plenty
• 2:27:59
  Speaker 1: of opportunity for exercises for developing the sense of smell.
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  Speaker 1: When you are out in the air, be on the
• 2:28:06
  Speaker 1: alert for the different odors. You will find the air
• 2:28:09
  Speaker 1: laden with all kinds. But let your concentration upon the
• 2:28:12
  Speaker 1: one selected be such that a scent of its fragrance.
• 2:28:15
  Speaker 1: In after years will vividly recall the circumstances of this exercise.
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  Speaker 1: The object of these exercises is to develop concentrated attention,
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  Speaker 1: and you will find that you can, through their practice,
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  Speaker 1: control your mind and direct your thoughts just the same
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  Speaker 1: as you can your arm. Exercise eight, concentration on the within.
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  Speaker 1: Lie down and thoroughly relax your muscles. Concentrate on the
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  Speaker 1: beating of your heart. Do not pay any attention to
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  Speaker 1: anything else. Think how this great organ is pumping the
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  Speaker 1: blood to every part of the body. Try to actually
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  Speaker 1: picture the blood leaving the great reservoir and going in
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  Speaker 1: one stream right down to the toes. Picture another going
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  Speaker 1: down the arms to the tips of the fingers. After
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  Speaker 1: a little practice, you can actually feel the blood passing
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  Speaker 1: through your system. If at any time you feel weak
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  Speaker 1: in any part of the body, well that an extra
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  Speaker 1: supply of blood shall go there. For instance, if your
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  Speaker 1: eyes feel tired, picture the blood coming from the heart,
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  Speaker 1: passing up through the head and out to the eyes.
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  Speaker 1: You can wonderfully increase your strength by this exercise. Men
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  Speaker 1: have been able to gain such control over the heart
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  Speaker 1: that they have actually stopped it from beating for five minutes. This, however,
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  Speaker 1: is not without danger and is not to be practiced
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  Speaker 1: by the novice. I have found the following a very
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  Speaker 1: helpful exercise to take just before going to bed and
• 2:29:39
  Speaker 1: un rising in the morning. Say to yourself, every cell
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  Speaker 1: in my body thrills with life. Every part of my
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  Speaker 1: body is strong and healthy. I have known a number
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  Speaker 1: of people to greatly improve their health in this way.
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  Speaker 1: You become what you picture yourself to be. If your
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  Speaker 1: mind thinks of sickness in connection with self, you will
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  Speaker 1: be sick. If you imagine yourself in strong, vigorous health,
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  Speaker 1: the image will be realized. You will be healthy. Exercise
• 2:30:07
  Speaker 1: nine concentrating on sleep. What is known as the water
• 2:30:11
  Speaker 1: method is, although very simple, very effective in inducing sleep.
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  Speaker 1: Put a full glass of clear water on a table
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  Speaker 1: in your sleeping room. Sit in a chair beside the
• 2:30:22
  Speaker 1: table and gaze into the glass of water and think
• 2:30:25
  Speaker 1: how calm it is. Then picture yourself getting into just
• 2:30:29
  Speaker 1: as calm a state. In a short time, you will
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  Speaker 1: find the nerves becoming quiet, and you will be able
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  Speaker 1: to go to sleep. Sometimes it is good to picture
• 2:30:38
  Speaker 1: yourself becoming drowsy to induce sleep, and again the most
• 2:30:42
  Speaker 1: persistent insomnia has been overcome by one thinking of himself
• 2:30:45
  Speaker 1: as some inanimate object, for instance, a hollow log in
• 2:30:49
  Speaker 1: the depths of the cool quiet forest. Those who are
• 2:30:53
  Speaker 1: troubled with insomnia will find these sleep exercises that quiet
• 2:30:56
  Speaker 1: the nerves very effective. Just keep the idea in your
• 2:31:00
  Speaker 1: mind that there is no difficulty in going to sleep.
• 2:31:03
  Speaker 1: Banish all fear of insomnia. Practice these exercises, and you
• 2:31:07
  Speaker 1: will sleep. By this time, you should have awakened to
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  Speaker 1: the possibilities of concentration and have become aware of the
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  Speaker 1: important part it plays in your life. Exercise ten. Concentration
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  Speaker 1: will save energy and appearance. Watch yourself and see if
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  Speaker 1: you are not in the habit of moving your hands,
• 2:31:24
  Speaker 1: thumping something with your fingers, or twirling your mustache. Some
• 2:31:29
  Speaker 1: have the habit of keeping their feet going, as for instance,
• 2:31:32
  Speaker 1: tapping them on the floor. Practice standing before a mirror
• 2:31:36
  Speaker 1: and see if you are in the habit of frowning
• 2:31:38
  Speaker 1: or causing wrinkles to appear in the forehead. Watch others
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  Speaker 1: and see how they needlessly twist their faces in talking.
• 2:31:46
  Speaker 1: Any movement of the face that causes the skin to
• 2:31:48
  Speaker 1: wrinkle will eventually cause a permanent wrinkle. As the face
• 2:31:53
  Speaker 1: is like a piece of silk. You can make a
• 2:31:55
  Speaker 1: fold in it a number of times and it will
• 2:31:57
  Speaker 1: straighten out of itself. But if you continue to make
• 2:32:00
  Speaker 1: a fold in it, it will in time be impossible
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  Speaker 1: to remove it. By concentration, you can stop the worry habit.
• 2:32:07
  Speaker 1: If you are in the habit of worrying over the
• 2:32:09
  Speaker 1: merest trifles, just concentrate on this a few minutes and
• 2:32:12
  Speaker 1: see bow needless. It is if you are also in
• 2:32:15
  Speaker 1: the habit of becoming irritable or nervous at the least
• 2:32:17
  Speaker 1: little thing, check yourself instantly. When you feel yourself becoming
• 2:32:21
  Speaker 1: so start to breathe deeply, say I will not be
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  Speaker 1: so weak. I am master of myself, and you will
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  Speaker 1: quickly overcome your condition. Exercise eleven. By concentration, you can
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  Speaker 1: control your temper. If you are one of those that
• 2:32:36
  Speaker 1: flare up at the slightest provocation and never try to
• 2:32:39
  Speaker 1: control yourself. Just think this over a minute. Does it
• 2:32:43
  Speaker 1: do you any good? Do you gain anything by it?
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  Speaker 1: Doesn't it put you out of poise for some time?
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  Speaker 1: Don't you know that this grows on you and will
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  Speaker 1: eventually make you despised by all that have any dealings
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  Speaker 1: with you. Everyone makes mistakes, and instead of becoming angry
• 2:32:59
  Speaker 1: at their perpetrate, just say to them be more careful
• 2:33:02
  Speaker 1: next time. This thought will be impressed on them and
• 2:33:05
  Speaker 1: they will be more careful. But if you continually complain
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  Speaker 1: about their making a mistake, the thought of a mistake
• 2:33:12
  Speaker 1: is impressed on them, and they will be more likely
• 2:33:14
  Speaker 1: to make mistakes in the future. All lack of self
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  Speaker 1: control can be conquered if you will but learn to concentrate.
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  Speaker 1: Many of you that read this may think you are
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  Speaker 1: not guilty of either of these faults, but if you
• 2:33:26
  Speaker 1: will carefully watch yourself, you will probably find that you are,
• 2:33:29
  Speaker 1: and if so, you will be greatly helped by repeating
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  Speaker 1: this affirmation each morning. I am going to try to
• 2:33:35
  Speaker 1: day not to make a useless gesture, or to worry
• 2:33:38
  Speaker 1: over trifles, or become nervous or irritable. I intend to
• 2:33:43
  Speaker 1: be calm, and no difference what may be the circumstances,
• 2:33:47
  Speaker 1: I will control myself. Henceforth, I resolve to be free
• 2:33:51
  Speaker 1: from all signs that show lack of self control. At night,
• 2:33:55
  Speaker 1: quickly review your actions during the day and see how
• 2:33:58
  Speaker 1: fully you realize your aim. At first. You will of
• 2:34:01
  Speaker 1: course have to plead guilty of violation a few times.
• 2:34:05
  Speaker 1: But keep on and you will soon find that you
• 2:34:07
  Speaker 1: can live up to your ideal. After you have once
• 2:34:11
  Speaker 1: gained self control, however, don't relinquish it for some time.
• 2:34:15
  Speaker 1: It will still be necessary to repeat the affirmation in
• 2:34:18
  Speaker 1: the morning and square your conduct with it in the evening.
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  Speaker 1: Keep up the good work until at last the habit
• 2:34:24
  Speaker 1: of self control is so firmly fixed that you could
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  Speaker 1: not break it even though you tried. I have had
• 2:34:30
  Speaker 1: many persons tell me that this affirmation daily review made
• 2:34:33
  Speaker 1: a wonderful difference in their lives. You too, will notice
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  Speaker 1: the difference if you live up to these instructions. Exercise
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  Speaker 1: twelve practice talking before a glass. Make two marks on
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  Speaker 1: your mirror on a level with your eyes, and think
• 2:34:49
  Speaker 1: of them as two human eyes looking into yours. Your
• 2:34:53
  Speaker 1: eyes will probably blink a little at first. Do not
• 2:34:57
  Speaker 1: move your head, but stand erect concentrate all your thoughts on,
• 2:35:01
  Speaker 1: keeping your head perfectly still. Do not let another thought
• 2:35:05
  Speaker 1: come into your mind. Then, still keeping the head, eyes
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  Speaker 1: and body still, think that you look like a reliable
• 2:35:12
  Speaker 1: man or woman, should like a person that anyone would
• 2:35:15
  Speaker 1: of confidence in. Do not let your appearance be such
• 2:35:19
  Speaker 1: as to justify the remark I don't like his appearance.
• 2:35:23
  Speaker 1: I don't believe he can be trusted. While standing before
• 2:35:26
  Speaker 1: the mirror, practice deep breathing. See that there is plenty
• 2:35:30
  Speaker 1: of fresh air in the room, and that you are
• 2:35:32
  Speaker 1: literally feasting on it. You will find that as it
• 2:35:35
  Speaker 1: permeates every cell, your timidity will disappear. It has been
• 2:35:40
  Speaker 1: replaced by a sense of peace and power. The one
• 2:35:43
  Speaker 1: that stands up like a man and has control over
• 2:35:46
  Speaker 1: the muscles of his face and eyes always commands attention
• 2:35:50
  Speaker 1: in his conversation. He can better impress those with whom
• 2:35:53
  Speaker 1: he comes in contact. He acquires a feeling of calmness
• 2:35:57
  Speaker 1: and strength that causes opposition to melt away before it.
• 2:36:01
  Speaker 1: Three minutes a day is long enough for the practice
• 2:36:04
  Speaker 1: of this exercise. Look at the clock before you commence
• 2:36:07
  Speaker 1: the exercise, and if you find you can prolong the
• 2:36:10
  Speaker 1: exercise for more than five minutes, do so. The next day,
• 2:36:14
  Speaker 1: sit in a chair, and, without looking at the picture,
• 2:36:17
  Speaker 1: concentrate on it and see if you cannot think of
• 2:36:19
  Speaker 1: additional details concerning it. The chances or you will be
• 2:36:23
  Speaker 1: able to think of many more. It might be well
• 2:36:26
  Speaker 1: for you to write down all you thought of the
• 2:36:28
  Speaker 1: first day, and then add to the list each new discovery.
• 2:36:32
  Speaker 1: You will find that this is a very excellent exercise
• 2:36:35
  Speaker 1: in concentration. Exercise thirteen the control of sensations. Think how
• 2:36:41
  Speaker 1: you would feel if you were cool, Then how you
• 2:36:43
  Speaker 1: would feel if you were cold again, how you would
• 2:36:46
  Speaker 1: feel if it were freezing. In this state, you would
• 2:36:49
  Speaker 1: be shivering all over. Now, think of just the opposite conditions.
• 2:36:54
  Speaker 1: Construct such a vivid image of heat that you are
• 2:36:56
  Speaker 1: able to experience the sensation of heat even in the
• 2:36:59
  Speaker 1: coldest appamosphere. It is possible to train your imagination until
• 2:37:04
  Speaker 1: you do this, and it can then be turned to
• 2:37:06
  Speaker 1: practical account in making undesirable conditions bearable. You can think
• 2:37:11
  Speaker 1: of many very good exercises like this. For instance, if
• 2:37:15
  Speaker 1: you feel yourself getting hungry or thirsty, and for any
• 2:37:18
  Speaker 1: reason you do not wish to eat, do not think
• 2:37:20
  Speaker 1: of how hungry or thirsty you are, but just visualize
• 2:37:23
  Speaker 1: yourself as finishing a hearty meal. Again, when you experience pain,
• 2:37:28
  Speaker 1: do not increase it by thinking about it, but do
• 2:37:31
  Speaker 1: something to divert your attention, and the pain will seem
• 2:37:34
  Speaker 1: to decrease. If you will start practicing along this line systematically,
• 2:37:38
  Speaker 1: you will soon gain a wonderful control over the things
• 2:37:41
  Speaker 1: that affect your physical comfort. Exercise fourteen The Eastern Way
• 2:37:45
  Speaker 1: of concentrating. Sit in a chair with a high back
• 2:37:49
  Speaker 1: and upright position. Press one finger against the right nostril.
• 2:37:54
  Speaker 1: Now take a long, deep breath, drawing the breath in
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  Speaker 1: gently as you count ten. Then expel the through the
• 2:38:00
  Speaker 1: right nostril as you count ten. Repeat this exercise with
• 2:38:04
  Speaker 1: the opposite nostril. This exercise should be done at least
• 2:38:08
  Speaker 1: twenty times at each sitting. Exercise fifteen Controlling desires. Desire,
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  Speaker 1: which is one of the hardest forces to control, will
• 2:38:17
  Speaker 1: furnish you with excellent exercises in concentration. It seems natural
• 2:38:22
  Speaker 1: to want to tell others what you know, but by
• 2:38:25
  Speaker 1: learning to control these desires, you can wonderfully strengthen your
• 2:38:29
  Speaker 1: powers of concentration. Remember you have all you can do
• 2:38:33
  Speaker 1: to attend to your own business. Do not waste your
• 2:38:36
  Speaker 1: time in thinking of others or in gossiping about them.
• 2:38:40
  Speaker 1: If from your own observation you learn something about another
• 2:38:43
  Speaker 1: person that is detrimental, keep it to yourself. Your opinion
• 2:38:47
  Speaker 1: may afterwards turn out to be wrong anyway, but whether
• 2:38:51
  Speaker 1: right or wrong, you have strengthened your will by controlling
• 2:38:53
  Speaker 1: your desire to communicate your views. If you hear good news,
• 2:38:58
  Speaker 1: resist the desire to tell it to the first person
• 2:39:00
  Speaker 1: you meet, and you will be benefited thereby. It will
• 2:39:03
  Speaker 1: require the concentration of all your powers of resistance to
• 2:39:06
  Speaker 1: prohibit the desire to tell. After you feel that you
• 2:39:10
  Speaker 1: have complete control over your desires, you can then tell
• 2:39:12
  Speaker 1: your news, but you must be able to suppress the
• 2:39:16
  Speaker 1: desire to communicate the news until you are fully ready
• 2:39:19
  Speaker 1: to tell it. Persons that do not possess this power
• 2:39:22
  Speaker 1: of control over desires are apt to tell things that
• 2:39:25
  Speaker 1: they should not, thereby often involving both themselves and others
• 2:39:29
  Speaker 1: in needless trouble. If you are in the habit of
• 2:39:32
  Speaker 1: getting excited when you hear unpleasant news, just control yourself
• 2:39:35
  Speaker 1: and receive it without any exclamation of surprise. Say to yourself,
• 2:39:40
  Speaker 1: nothing is going to cause me to lose my self control.
• 2:39:44
  Speaker 1: You will find from experience that this self control will
• 2:39:47
  Speaker 1: be worth much to you in business. You will be
• 2:39:50
  Speaker 1: looked upon as a cool headed business man, and this
• 2:39:53
  Speaker 1: in time becomes a valuable business asset. Of course, circumstances
• 2:39:58
  Speaker 1: alter cases. At times it is necessary to become enthused,
• 2:40:03
  Speaker 1: but be ever on the lookout for opportunities for the
• 2:40:06
  Speaker 1: practice of self control. He that ruleth his spirit is
• 2:40:10
  Speaker 1: greater than he that ruleth. A city exercise sixteen. When
• 2:40:14
  Speaker 1: you read, no one can think without first concentrating his
• 2:40:18
  Speaker 1: thoughts on the subject in hand. Every man and woman
• 2:40:21
  Speaker 1: should train himself to think clearly. An excellent exercise is
• 2:40:26
  Speaker 1: to read some short story and then write just an
• 2:40:28
  Speaker 1: abridged statement. Read an article in a newspaper and see
• 2:40:32
  Speaker 1: in how few words you can express it. Reading an
• 2:40:36
  Speaker 1: article to get only the essentials requires the closest concentration.
• 2:40:40
  Speaker 1: If you are unable to write out what you read,
• 2:40:43
  Speaker 1: you will know you are weak in concentration. Instead of
• 2:40:46
  Speaker 1: writing it out, you can express it orally, if you wish,
• 2:40:50
  Speaker 1: go to your room and deliver it as if you
• 2:40:52
  Speaker 1: were talking to someone. You will find exercises like this
• 2:40:56
  Speaker 1: of the greatest value in developing concentration and learning to think.
• 2:41:01
  Speaker 1: After you have practiced a number of these simple exercises,
• 2:41:04
  Speaker 1: read a book for twenty minutes and then write down
• 2:41:06
  Speaker 1: what you have read. The chances are that at first
• 2:41:09
  Speaker 1: you will not remember very many details, but with a
• 2:41:12
  Speaker 1: little practice you will be able to write a very
• 2:41:14
  Speaker 1: good account of what you have read. The closer the concentration,
• 2:41:18
  Speaker 1: the more accurate the account will be. It is a
• 2:41:21
  Speaker 1: good idea when time is limited to read only a
• 2:41:24
  Speaker 1: short sentence and then try to write it down word
• 2:41:26
  Speaker 1: for word. When you are able to do this, read
• 2:41:30
  Speaker 1: two or more sentences and treat similarly. The practice will
• 2:41:34
  Speaker 1: produce very good results if you keep it up until
• 2:41:36
  Speaker 1: the habit is fixed. If you will just utilize your
• 2:41:40
  Speaker 1: spare time in practicing exercises like those suggested, you can
• 2:41:43
  Speaker 1: gain wonderful powers of concentration. You will find that in
• 2:41:47
  Speaker 1: order to remember every word in a sentence, you must
• 2:41:50
  Speaker 1: keep out every thought but that which you wish to remember,
• 2:41:52
  Speaker 1: and this power of inhibition alone will more than compensate
• 2:41:56
  Speaker 1: for the trouble of the exercise. Of course, success in
• 2:42:00
  Speaker 1: all of the above depends largely upon cultivating, through the
• 2:42:03
  Speaker 1: closest concentration, the power to image or picture what you
• 2:42:06
  Speaker 1: read upon the power, as one writer expresses it, of
• 2:42:10
  Speaker 1: letting the mountains of which we here loom before us,
• 2:42:12
  Speaker 1: and the rivers of which we read roll at our feet.
• 2:42:16
  Speaker 1: Exercise seventeen. Concentration overcomes bad habits. If you have a
• 2:42:21
  Speaker 1: habit that you want to get rid of, shut your
• 2:42:23
  Speaker 1: eyes and imagine that your real self is standing before you.
• 2:42:27
  Speaker 1: Now try the power of affirmation. Say to yourself, you
• 2:42:31
  Speaker 1: are not a weakling. You can stop this habit if
• 2:42:33
  Speaker 1: you want to. This habit is bad and you want
• 2:42:37
  Speaker 1: to break it, Just imagine that you are some one
• 2:42:40
  Speaker 1: else giving this advice. This is very valuable practice. You,
• 2:42:45
  Speaker 1: in time, see yourself as others see you. The habit
• 2:42:49
  Speaker 1: loses its power over you, and you are free. If
• 2:42:53
  Speaker 1: you will just form the mental image of controlling yourself
• 2:42:55
  Speaker 1: as another person might, you will take a delight in
• 2:42:58
  Speaker 1: breaking bad habits. I have known a number of men
• 2:43:02
  Speaker 1: to break themselves of drinking in this way. Exercise eighteen
• 2:43:06
  Speaker 1: watch concentration. Sit in a chair and place a clock
• 2:43:10
  Speaker 1: with a second hand on the table. Follow the second
• 2:43:13
  Speaker 1: hand with your eyes as it goes around. Keep this
• 2:43:17
  Speaker 1: up for five minutes, thinking of nothing else but the
• 2:43:20
  Speaker 1: second hand. This is a very good exercise when you
• 2:43:23
  Speaker 1: only have a few minutes to spare. If you are
• 2:43:25
  Speaker 1: able to keep every other thought in the stream of
• 2:43:27
  Speaker 1: consciousness subordinate to it, as there is little that is
• 2:43:31
  Speaker 1: particularly interesting about the second hand, It is hard to
• 2:43:34
  Speaker 1: do this, but in the extra effort of power required
• 2:43:37
  Speaker 1: to make it successful lies its value. Always try to
• 2:43:40
  Speaker 1: keep as still as possible during these exercises. In this
• 2:43:44
  Speaker 1: way you can gain control over nerves, and this quieting
• 2:43:47
  Speaker 1: effect is very good for them. Exercise nineteen Faith concentration.
• 2:43:53
  Speaker 1: A belief in the power to concentrate is of course
• 2:43:56
  Speaker 1: very important. I purposely did not put this excerpt size
• 2:44:00
  Speaker 1: in the beginning where it naturally belongs, because I wanted
• 2:44:03
  Speaker 1: you to know that you could learn to concentrate if
• 2:44:06
  Speaker 1: you have practiced the above exercises. You have now developed
• 2:44:09
  Speaker 1: this concentration power to a considerable extent, and therefore you
• 2:44:12
  Speaker 1: have faith in the power of concentration. But you can
• 2:44:15
  Speaker 1: still become a much stronger believer in it. We will
• 2:44:18
  Speaker 1: say that you have some desire or wish you want fulfilled,
• 2:44:21
  Speaker 1: or that you need some special advice. You first clearly
• 2:44:25
  Speaker 1: picture what is wanted, and then you concentrate on getting it.
• 2:44:29
  Speaker 1: Have absolute faith that your desires will be realized. Believe
• 2:44:33
  Speaker 1: that it will, according to your belief, be fulfilled. Never
• 2:44:37
  Speaker 1: at this time attempt to analyze the belief You don't
• 2:44:41
  Speaker 1: care anything about the whys and wherefores. You want to
• 2:44:45
  Speaker 1: gain the thing you desire, and if you concentrate on
• 2:44:47
  Speaker 1: it in the right way, you will get it. A caution,
• 2:44:51
  Speaker 1: never think you will not succeed, but picture what is
• 2:44:54
  Speaker 1: wanted as already yours, and yours it surely will be.
• 2:44:58
  Speaker 1: Self distrust Do you ever feel distrust in yourself? If
• 2:45:03
  Speaker 1: you do, just ask yourself, which self do I mistrust?
• 2:45:07
  Speaker 1: Then say, my higher self cannot be effected. Then think
• 2:45:12
  Speaker 1: of the wonderful powers of the higher self. There is
• 2:45:15
  Speaker 1: a way to overcome all difficulties, and it is a
• 2:45:18
  Speaker 1: delight for the human soul to do so. Instead of
• 2:45:22
  Speaker 1: wasting precious thought force by dreading or fearing a disagreeable
• 2:45:25
  Speaker 1: interview or event, instead devote the time and concentrated thought
• 2:45:29
  Speaker 1: in how to make the best of the interview or event,
• 2:45:31
  Speaker 1: and you will find that it will not be as
• 2:45:33
  Speaker 1: unpleasant as you thought it would be. Most of our
• 2:45:36
  Speaker 1: troubles are but imaginary, and it is the mental habit
• 2:45:39
  Speaker 1: of so dreading them that really acts as a magnet
• 2:45:42
  Speaker 1: in attracting those that really do come. Your evil circumstances
• 2:45:47
  Speaker 1: are created or attracted by your own negative fears and
• 2:45:50
  Speaker 1: wrong thoughts, and are a means of teaching you to
• 2:45:52
  Speaker 1: triumph over all evils. By discovering that which is inherent
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  Speaker 1: within yourself, you will find it helpful in overcoming self
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  Speaker 1: distrust to stop and think why you are concentrating your forces,
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  Speaker 1: and by so doing you become more closely attached to
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  Speaker 1: the higher self, which never distrusts. Lesson fifteen, concentrate, sir,
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  Speaker 1: you will not forget. A man forgets because he does
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  Speaker 1: not concentrate his mind on his purpose, especially at the
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  Speaker 1: moment he conceives it. We remember only that which makes
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  Speaker 1: a deep impression. Hence we must first deepen our impressions
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  Speaker 1: by associating in our minds certain ideas that are related
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  Speaker 1: to them. We will say a wife gives her husband
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  Speaker 1: a letter to mail. He does not think about it,
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  Speaker 1: but automatically puts it in his pocket and forgets all
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  Speaker 1: about it when the letter was given to him. Had
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  Speaker 1: he said to himself, I will mail this letter. The
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  Speaker 1: box is at the next corner, and when I pass it,
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  Speaker 1: I must drop this letter, it would have enabled him
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  Speaker 1: to recall the letter the instant he reached the mail box.
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  Speaker 1: The same rule holds good in regard to more important things.
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  Speaker 1: For example, if you are instructed to drop in and
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  Speaker 1: see mister Smith while out to luncheon today, you will
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  Speaker 1: not forget it if, at the moment the instruction is given,
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  Speaker 1: you say to yourself something similar to the following. When
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  Speaker 1: I get to the corner of blank Street on my
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  Speaker 1: way to luncheon, I shall turn to the right and
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  Speaker 1: call on mister Smith. In this way, the impression is made,
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  Speaker 1: the connection established, and the sight of the associated object
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  Speaker 1: recalls the errand the important thing to do is to
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  Speaker 1: deepen the impression at the very moment it enters your mind.
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  Speaker 1: This is made possible not only by concentrating the mind
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  Speaker 1: upon the idea itself, but by surrounding it with all
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  Speaker 1: possible association of ideas, so that each one will reinforce
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  Speaker 1: the others. The mind is governed by laws of association,
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  Speaker 1: such as the law that ideas which enter the mind
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  Speaker 1: at the same time emerge at the same time, one
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  Speaker 1: assisting in recalling the others. The reason why people cannot
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  Speaker 1: remember what they want to is that they have not
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  Speaker 1: concentrated their mind sufficiently on their purpose at the moment
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  Speaker 1: when it was formed. You can train yourself to remember
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  Speaker 1: in this way by the concentration of the attention on
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  Speaker 1: your purpose, in accordance with the laws of association. When
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  Speaker 1: once you form this habit, the attention is easily centered
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  Speaker 1: and the memory easily trained, then your memory, instead of
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  Speaker 1: failing you at crucial moments, becomes a valuable asset in
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  Speaker 1: your everyday work. Exercise in memory concentration. Select some picture,
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  Speaker 1: put it on a table, and then look at it
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  Speaker 1: for two minutes. Concentrate your attention on this picture. Observe
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  Speaker 1: every detail. Then shut your eyes and see how much
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  Speaker 1: you can recall about it. Think of what the picture represents,
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  Speaker 1: whether it is a good subject, whether it looks natural.
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  Speaker 1: Think of objects in foreground, middle ground, background, of details
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  Speaker 1: of color and form. Now open your eyes and hold
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  Speaker 1: yourself rigidly to the correction of each and every mistake.
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  Speaker 1: Close eyes again, and notice how much more accurate your
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  Speaker 1: picture is. Practice until your mental image corresponds in every
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  Speaker 1: particular to the original. Nature is a wonderful instructor, But
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  Speaker 1: there are very few who realize that when we get
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  Speaker 1: in touch with nature we discover ourselves that by listening
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  Speaker 1: to her voice with that curious inner sense of ours,
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  Speaker 1: we learn the oneness of life and wake up to
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  Speaker 1: our own latent powers. Few realize that the simple act
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  Speaker 1: of listening and concentrating is our best interior power, for
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  Speaker 1: it brings us into close contact with the highest, just
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  Speaker 1: as our other senses bring us into touch with the
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  Speaker 1: coarser side of human nature. The closer we live to nature,
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  Speaker 1: the more developed is this sense. So called civilization has
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  Speaker 1: overdeveloped our other senses at the expense of this one.
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  Speaker 1: Children unconsciously realize the value of concentration. For instance, when
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  Speaker 1: a child has a difficult problem to solve and gets
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  Speaker 1: to some knotty point which he finds himself mentally unable
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  Speaker 1: to do, though he tries his hardest, he will pause
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  Speaker 1: and keep quite still, leaning on his elbow, apparently listening.
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  Speaker 1: Then you will see, if you are watching, sudden illumination come,
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  Speaker 1: and he goes on happily and accomplishes his task. A
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  Speaker 1: child instinctively but unconsciously knows when he needs help, he
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  Speaker 1: must be quiet and concentrate. All great people concentrate and
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  Speaker 1: owe their success to it. The doctor thinks over the
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  Speaker 1: symptoms of his patient, waits listens for the inspiration, though
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  Speaker 1: quite unconscious perhaps of doing so. The one who diagnoses
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  Speaker 1: in this way seldom makes mistakes. An author thinks his plot,
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  Speaker 1: holds it in his mind, and then waits and illumination comes.
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  Speaker 1: If you want to be able to solve difficult problems,
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  Speaker 1: you must learn to do the same. Lesson sixteen. How
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  Speaker 1: concentration can fulfill your desire. It is a spiritual law
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  Speaker 1: that the desire to do necessarily implies the ability to do.
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  Speaker 1: You have all read of Aladdin's Lamp, which accomplished such
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  Speaker 1: wonderful things. This, of course, is only a fairy story,
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  Speaker 1: but it illustrates the fact that man has within him
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  Speaker 1: the power if he is able to use it to
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  Speaker 1: gratify his every wish. If you are unable to satisfy
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  Speaker 1: your deepest longings, it is time you learned how to
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  Speaker 1: use your God given powers. You will soon be conscious
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  Speaker 1: that you have latent powers within capable, when once developed,
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  Speaker 1: of revealing to you priceless knowledge and unlimited possibilities of success.
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  Speaker 1: Man should have plenty of everything, and not merely substance
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  Speaker 1: to live on, as so many have. All natural desires
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  Speaker 1: can be realized. It would be wrong for the infinite
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  Speaker 1: to create wants that could not be supplied. Man's very
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  Speaker 1: soul is in his power to think, and it therefore
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  Speaker 1: is the essence of all created things. Every instinct of
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  Speaker 1: man leads to thought, and in every thought there is
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  Speaker 1: great possibility. Because true thought development, when ally to those
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  Speaker 1: mysterious powers which perhaps transcend it, has been the cause
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  Speaker 1: of all the world's true progress. In the silence, we
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  Speaker 1: become conscious of that something which transcends thought, and which
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  Speaker 1: use is thought as a medium for expression. Many have
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  Speaker 1: glimpses of that something, but few ever reach the state
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  Speaker 1: where the mind is steady enough to fathom these depths.
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  Speaker 1: Silent concentrated thought is more potent than spoken words, for
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  Speaker 1: speech distracts from the focussing power of the mind. By
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  Speaker 1: drawing more and more attention to the without. Man must
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  Speaker 1: learn more and more to depend on himself to seek
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  Speaker 1: more for the infinite within. It is from this source
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  Speaker 1: alone that he ever gains the power to solve his
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  Speaker 1: practical difficulties. No one should give up when there is
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  Speaker 1: always the resources of infinity. The cause of failure is
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  Speaker 1: that men search in the wrong direction for success, because
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  Speaker 1: they are not conscious of their real powers, that, when used,
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  Speaker 1: are capable of guiding them. The infinite within is foreign
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  Speaker 1: to those persons who go through life without developing their
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  Speaker 1: spiritual powers. But the infinite helps only he who helps himself.
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  Speaker 1: There is no such thing as a special providence. Man
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  Speaker 1: will not receive help from the infinite except to the
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  Speaker 1: extent that he believes and hopes and prays for help
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  Speaker 1: from this great source. Concentrate on what you want and
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  Speaker 1: get it. The weakling is controlled by conditions. The strong
• 2:53:18
  Speaker 1: man controls conditions. You can be either the conqueror or
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  Speaker 1: the conquered. By the law of concentration, you can achieve
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  Speaker 1: your heart's desire. This law is so powerful that that
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  Speaker 1: which at first seems impossible becomes attainable. By this law,
• 2:53:35
  Speaker 1: what you at first see as a dream becomes a reality.
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  Speaker 1: Remember that the first step in concentration is to form
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  Speaker 1: a mental image of what you wish to accomplish. This
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  Speaker 1: image becomes a thought seed that attracts thoughts of a
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  Speaker 1: similar nature around this thought. When it is once planted
• 2:53:52
  Speaker 1: in the imagination or creative region of the mind, you
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  Speaker 1: group or build associated thoughts which continue to grow as
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  Speaker 1: long as your desired is keen enough to compel close.
• 2:54:01
  Speaker 1: Concentration form the habit of thinking of something you wish
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  Speaker 1: to accomplish, for five minutes each day, shut every other
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  Speaker 1: thought out of consciousness. Be confident that you will succeed.
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  Speaker 1: Make up your mind that all obstacles that are in
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  Speaker 1: your way will be overcome, and you can rise above
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  Speaker 1: any environment. You do this by utilizing the natural laws
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  Speaker 1: of the thought world, which are all powerful. A great
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  Speaker 1: aid in the development of concentration is to write out
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  Speaker 1: your thoughts on that which lies nearest your heart, and
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  Speaker 1: to continue little by little to add to it until
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  Speaker 1: you have as nearly as possible exhausted the subject. You
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  Speaker 1: will find that each day, as you focus your forces
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  Speaker 1: on this thought at the center of the stream of consciousness,
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  Speaker 1: new plans, ideas, and methods will flash into your mind.
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  Speaker 1: There is a law of attraction that will help you
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  Speaker 1: accomplish your purpose. An advertiser, for instance, gets to thinking
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  Speaker 1: along a certain line. He has formed his own ideas,
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  Speaker 1: but he wants to know what others think. He starts
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  Speaker 1: out to seek ideas, and he soon finds plenty of books, plans, designs,
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  Speaker 1: et cetera on the subject, although when he started he
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  Speaker 1: was not aware of their existence. The same thing is
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  Speaker 1: true in all lines. We can attract those things that
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  Speaker 1: will help us. Very often we seem to receive help
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  Speaker 1: in a miraculous way. It may be slow in coming,
• 2:55:25
  Speaker 1: but once the silent, unseen forces are put into operation,
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  Speaker 1: they will bring results. So long as we do our part.
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  Speaker 1: They are ever present and ready to aid those who
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  Speaker 1: care to use them. By forming a strong mental image
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  Speaker 1: of your desire, you plant the thought seed which begins
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  Speaker 1: working in your interest, and in time that desire, if
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  Speaker 1: in harmony with your higher nature, will materialize. It may
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  Speaker 1: seem that it would be unnecessary to caution you to
• 2:55:51
  Speaker 1: concentrate only upon achievement that will be good for you
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  Speaker 1: and work no harm to another. But there are many
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  Speaker 1: who forget others and their rights in their anxiety to
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  Speaker 1: its chief success. All good things are possible for you
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  Speaker 1: to have, but only as you bring your forces into
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  Speaker 1: harmony with that law that requires that we meet out
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  Speaker 1: justice to fellow travelers as we journey along life's road.
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  Speaker 1: So first think over the thing wanted, and if it
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  Speaker 1: would be good for you to have, Say I want
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  Speaker 1: to do this, I am going to work to secure it.
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  Speaker 1: The way will be open for me if you fully
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  Speaker 1: grasp mentally the thought of success and hold it in mind.
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  Speaker 1: Each day you gradually make a pattern or mold, which
• 2:56:30
  Speaker 1: in time will materialize. But by all means keep free
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  Speaker 1: from doubt and fear the destructive forces. Never allow these
• 2:56:38
  Speaker 1: to become associated with your thoughts. At last, you will
• 2:56:42
  Speaker 1: create the desired conditions and receive help in many unlooked
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  Speaker 1: for ways that will lift you out of the undesired environment.
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  Speaker 1: Life will then seem very different to you, for you
• 2:56:52
  Speaker 1: will have found happiness through awakening within yourself the power
• 2:56:55
  Speaker 1: to become the master of circumstances instead of their slave
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  Speaker 1: to the a dinner. In this line of thought, some
• 2:57:01
  Speaker 1: of the things stated in this book may sound strange,
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  Speaker 1: even absurd, But instead of condemning them, give them a trial.
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  Speaker 1: You will find they will work out. The inventor has
• 2:57:12
  Speaker 1: to work out his idea mentally before he produces it materially.
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  Speaker 1: The architect first sees the mental picture of the house
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  Speaker 1: he is to plan, and from this works out the
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  Speaker 1: one we see. Every object, every enterprise must first be
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  Speaker 1: mentally created. I know a man that started in business
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  Speaker 1: with thirteen cents and not a dollar's worth of credit.
• 2:57:34
  Speaker 1: In ten years, he has built up a large and
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  Speaker 1: profitable business. He attributes his success to two things. Belief
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  Speaker 1: that he would succeed in hard work. There were times
• 2:57:44
  Speaker 1: when it did not look like he could weather the storm.
• 2:57:47
  Speaker 1: He was being pressed by his creditors, who considered him bankrupt.
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  Speaker 1: They would have taken fifty cents on the dollar for
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  Speaker 1: his notes and considered themselves lucky. But by keeping up
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  Speaker 1: a bold front, he got an extension of time when needed.
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  Speaker 1: When absolutely necessary for him to raise a certain sum
• 2:58:05
  Speaker 1: at a certain time, he always did it. When he
• 2:58:08
  Speaker 1: had heavy bills to meet, he would make up his
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  Speaker 1: mind that certain people that owed him would pay by
• 2:58:12
  Speaker 1: a certain date, and they always did. Sometimes he would
• 2:58:16
  Speaker 1: not receive their check until the last mail of the
• 2:58:18
  Speaker 1: day of the extension. And I have known him to
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  Speaker 1: send out a check with the prospect of receiving a
• 2:58:23
  Speaker 1: check from one of his customers the following day. He
• 2:58:26
  Speaker 1: would have no reason other than his belief in the
• 2:58:29
  Speaker 1: power of affecting the mind of another by concentration of
• 2:58:31
  Speaker 1: thought for expecting that check. But rarely has he been disappointed.
• 2:58:36
  Speaker 1: Just put forth the necessary concentrated effort, and you will
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  Speaker 1: be wonderfully helped from sources unknown to you. Remember the
• 2:58:43
  Speaker 1: mystical words of Jesus the Master. Whatsoever thing ye desire
• 2:58:48
  Speaker 1: when ye pray, pray as if ye had already received,
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  Speaker 1: and ye shall have lesson seventeen ideals developed by concentration.
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  Speaker 1: Through our paltry, stir and strife glows the wished ideal
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  Speaker 1: and longing molds in clay what life carves in the marble.
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  Speaker 1: Real Dot Lowell. We often hear people spoken of as idealists.
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  Speaker 1: The fact is we are all idealists to a certain extent,
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  Speaker 1: and upon the ideals we picture depends our ultimate success.
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  Speaker 1: You must have the mental image if you are to
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  Speaker 1: produce the material thing. Everything is first created in the mind.
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  Speaker 1: When you control your thoughts, you become a creator. You
• 2:59:27
  Speaker 1: receive divine ideas and shape them to your individual needs.
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  Speaker 1: All things of this world are to you just what
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  Speaker 1: you think they are. Your happiness and success depend upon
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  Speaker 1: your ideals. You are responsible for every condition you go through,
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  Speaker 1: either consciously or unconsciously. The next step you take determines
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  Speaker 1: the succeeding step. Remember this it is a valuable lesson.
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  Speaker 1: By concentrating on each step as you go along, you
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  Speaker 1: can save a lot of waste steps and will be
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  Speaker 1: able to choose a straight path instead of a roundabout road.
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  Speaker 1: Concentrate upon your ideals and they will become material actualities.
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  Speaker 1: Through concentration, we work out our ideals. In physical life,
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  Speaker 1: your future depends upon the ideals you are forming now.
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  Speaker 1: Your past ideals are determining your present. Therefore, if you
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  Speaker 1: want a bright future, you must begin to prepare for
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  Speaker 1: it today. If persons could only realize that they can
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  Speaker 1: only injure themselves, that when they are apparently injuring others,
• 3:00:29
  Speaker 1: they are really injuring themselves, what a different world this
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  Speaker 1: would be. We say a man is as changeable as
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  Speaker 1: the weather. What is meant is his ideals change. Every
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  Speaker 1: time you change your ideal, you think differently. You become
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  Speaker 1: like a rudderless boat on an ocean. Therefore, realize the
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  Speaker 1: importance of holding to your ideal until it becomes a reality.
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  Speaker 1: You get up in the morning determined that nothing will
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  Speaker 1: make you lose your temper. This is your ideal of
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  Speaker 1: a person of real strength and point something takes place
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  Speaker 1: that upsets you completely, and you lose your temper for
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  Speaker 1: the time being. You forget your ideal. If you had
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  Speaker 1: just thought a second of what a well poised person implies,
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  Speaker 1: you would not have become angry. You lose your poise
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  Speaker 1: when you forget your ideal. Each time we allow our
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  Speaker 1: ideals to be shattered, we also weaken our will power.
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  Speaker 1: Holding to your ideals develops will power. Don't forget this.
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  Speaker 1: Why do so many men fail? Because they don't hold
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  Speaker 1: to their ideal until it becomes a mental habit. When
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  Speaker 1: they concentrate on it to the exclusion of all other things,
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  Speaker 1: it becomes a reality. I am that which I think
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  Speaker 1: myself to be. Ideals are reflected to us from the
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  Speaker 1: unseen spirit. The laws of matter and spirit are not
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  Speaker 1: the same. One can be broken, but not the other.
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  Speaker 1: To the extent that ideals are kept, is your future assured.
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  Speaker 1: It was never intended that man should suffer. He has
• 3:02:01
  Speaker 1: brought it upon himself by disobeying the laws of nature.
• 3:02:05
  Speaker 1: He knows them, so cannot plead ignorance. Why does he
• 3:02:08
  Speaker 1: break them? Because he does not pay attention to those
• 3:02:12
  Speaker 1: ideals flash to him from the infinite spirit. Life is
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  Speaker 1: but one continuous unfoldment, and you can be happy every
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  Speaker 1: step of the way or miserable as you please. It
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  Speaker 1: all depends upon how we entertain those silent whisperings that
• 3:02:25
  Speaker 1: come from we know not where we cannot hear them
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  Speaker 1: with mortal ear. But from the silence they come as
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  Speaker 1: if they were dreams. Not to you or me alone,
• 3:02:34
  Speaker 1: but to every one. In this way, the grandest thoughts
• 3:02:37
  Speaker 1: come to us to use or abuse. So search not
• 3:02:41
  Speaker 1: in treasured volumes for noble thoughts, but within, and bright
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  Speaker 1: and glowing vision will come to be realized. Now and hereafter.
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  Speaker 1: You must give some hours to concentrate it consistent, persistent thought.
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  Speaker 1: You must study yourself and your weaknesses. No man gets
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  Speaker 1: over a fence by wishing himself on the other side.
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  Speaker 1: He must climb. No man gets out of the rut
• 3:03:05
  Speaker 1: of dull, tiresome, monotonous life by merely wishing himself out
• 3:03:09
  Speaker 1: of the rut. He must climb. If you are standing
• 3:03:13
  Speaker 1: still or going backward, there is something wrong. You are
• 3:03:18
  Speaker 1: the man to find out what is wrong. Don't think
• 3:03:21
  Speaker 1: that you are neglected, or not understood, or not appreciated.
• 3:03:25
  Speaker 1: Such thoughts are the thoughts of failure. Think hard about
• 3:03:29
  Speaker 1: the fact that men who have got what you envy
• 3:03:31
  Speaker 1: got it by working for it. Don't pity yourself criticize yourself.
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  Speaker 1: You know that the only thing in the world that
• 3:03:38
  Speaker 1: you have got to count upon is yourself Lesson eighteen
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  Speaker 1: mental control through Creation, I attended a banquet of inventors recently.
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  Speaker 1: Each inventor gave a short talk on something he thought
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  Speaker 1: would be accomplished in the future. Many very much needed
• 3:03:55
  Speaker 1: things were spoken of. One inventor spoke of the possibilities
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  Speaker 1: of wireless telephone distance he said would shortly be annihilated.
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  Speaker 1: He thought we would soon be able to talk to
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  Speaker 1: the man in the submarine forty fathoms below the surface
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  Speaker 1: and a thousand miles away. When he got through, he
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  Speaker 1: asked if there were any that doubted what he said.
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  Speaker 1: No one spoke up. This was not a case of
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  Speaker 1: tactful politeness, as inventors like to argue, but a case
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  Speaker 1: where no one present really doubted that the inventor's vision
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  Speaker 1: would in the future materialize. These shrewd men, some real geniuses,
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  Speaker 1: all thought we would in time be able to talk
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  Speaker 1: to those a thousand miles away without media. Now, if
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  Speaker 1: we can make an instrument so wonderful that we can
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  Speaker 1: send wireless messages a thousand miles, is there any reason
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  Speaker 1: why we should not, through mental control, transmit messages from
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  Speaker 1: one person to another. The wireless message should not be
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  Speaker 1: as easy to send as the projected thought. The day
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  Speaker 1: will come when all business will employ highly developed persons
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  Speaker 1: to send out influences. These influences will be so dominating
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  Speaker 1: that employees will be partly controlled by them, And so
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  Speaker 1: you will profit more and more by your mental powers,
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  Speaker 1: and depend on them to draw to you all forces
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  Speaker 1: of a helpful nature. You will be constantly sending out
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  Speaker 1: suggestions to your employees and friends. They will receive these unconsciously,
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  Speaker 1: but in case yours is the stronger personality, they will
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  Speaker 1: carry them out the same as if you had spoken them.
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  Speaker 1: This is being done even to day. A finely organized
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  Speaker 1: company secures the combined effort of all its men. They
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  Speaker 1: may be each doing a different kind of work, but
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  Speaker 1: all work to bring about the very best results. The
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  Speaker 1: whole atmosphere is impregnated with a high standard of workmanship.
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  Speaker 1: Every one feels he must do his best. He could
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  Speaker 1: not be in such surroundings and be satisfied to do
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  Speaker 1: anything but his best work. A business will succeed only
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  Speaker 1: to the extent that the efforts of all are co
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  Speaker 1: ordinated towards one result. At least one person is need
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  Speaker 1: to direct all towards the desired end. The person at
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  Speaker 1: the head does not have to exactly outline to the
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  Speaker 1: others what steps to take, but he must possess the
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  Speaker 1: mental power of control over others. An up to date
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  Speaker 1: business letter is not written in a casual, commonplace way.
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  Speaker 1: To day, the writer tries to convey something he thinks
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  Speaker 1: the receiver will be interested to know. In this way,
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  Speaker 1: he awakens a responsive spirit. Sometimes just the addition of
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  Speaker 1: a word or two will change a letter of the
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  Speaker 1: matter of fact style to one that compels a response.
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  Speaker 1: It is not always what is actually in a letter,
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  Speaker 1: but the spirit which it breathes that brings results. That
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  Speaker 1: intangible something that defies analysis is the projected thought of
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  Speaker 1: the master that brings back the harvest that it claims.
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  Speaker 1: But we should not always claim success for ourselves. Only
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  Speaker 1: if you are anxious that some friend or relative should succeed,
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  Speaker 1: think of this person as becoming successful. Picture him in
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  Speaker 1: the position you would like to see him in. If
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  Speaker 1: he has a weakness, desire and command that it be strengthened,
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  Speaker 1: Think of his shortcomings, which belong to his negative nature,
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  Speaker 1: as being replaced by positive qualities. Take a certain part
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  Speaker 1: of the day to send him thoughts of an upbuilding nature.
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  Speaker 1: You can, in this way arouse his mental powers into activity,
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  Speaker 1: and once aroused, they will assert themselves and claim their
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  Speaker 1: own We can accomplish a great deal more than many
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  Speaker 1: of us are ready to believe by sending to another
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  Speaker 1: are direct, positive and controlling suggestions of leadership. But whether
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  Speaker 1: a man is a success or not as greatly determined
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  Speaker 1: by the way he acts on the suggestions he receives.
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  Speaker 1: We either advance or decline. We never stand still. Every
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  Speaker 1: time we accomplish something, it gives us ability to do
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  Speaker 1: greater things. The bigger the attempt undertaken, the greater the
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  Speaker 1: things accomplished in the future. As a business grows, the
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  Speaker 1: head of the business also has to grow. He must
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  Speaker 1: advance and be ever the guiding influence. By his power
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  Speaker 1: to control, he inspires confidence in those associated with him.
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  Speaker 1: Often employees are superior to their employers in some qualities,
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  Speaker 1: and if they had studied instead of neglected their development,
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  Speaker 1: they could have been employers of more commanding influence than
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  Speaker 1: those whom they serve. Through your mental power, you can
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  Speaker 1: generate in another enthusiasm and the spirit of success, which
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  Speaker 1: somehow furnishes an impetus to do something worth while. In
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  Speaker 1: concentrated mental control, there is a latent power, more potent
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  Speaker 1: than physical force. The person becomes aware that the attitude
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  Speaker 1: of the mind has a power of controlling, directing, and
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  Speaker 1: governing other forces. He has been placed in an attitude
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  Speaker 1: capable of acquiring that which he desires. All of us,
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  Speaker 1: no matter how strong we are, are affected by the
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  Speaker 1: mental forces of our environment. There is no one that
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  Speaker 1: can remain neutral to influences. The mind cannot be freed
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  Speaker 1: from the forces of a place. If the environment of
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  Speaker 1: your place of business is not helpful, it will be harmful.
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  Speaker 1: That is why a change of position will often do
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  Speaker 1: a person a great deal of good. No person was
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  Speaker 1: ever intended to live alone. If you are shut up
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  Speaker 1: with only your own thoughts, you suffer from mental starvation.
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  Speaker 1: The mind becomes narrow, the mental powers weaken. Living alone
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  Speaker 1: often causes some of the milder forms of insanity. If
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  Speaker 1: children do not play with those their own age, but
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  Speaker 1: associate with only older people, they will take on the
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  Speaker 1: actions of the older people. The same is true of
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  Speaker 1: older persons. If they associate with people younger than they are,
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  Speaker 1: they take on the spirit of youth. If you wish
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  Speaker 1: to retain your youth. You need the influences of youth
• 3:09:46
  Speaker 1: like attracts like all over the world. The thought element
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  Speaker 1: plays a great part in our lives. Every business must
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  Speaker 1: not only command physical effort, but it must also command
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  Speaker 1: thought effort. There must be coordination of thought. All employers
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  Speaker 1: should aim to secure employees that think along similar lines.
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  Speaker 1: They will work in fuller sympathy with each other. They
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  Speaker 1: will better understand each other. This enables them to help
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  Speaker 1: each other, which would be utterly impossible if they were
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  Speaker 1: not in sympathy with each other. It is this that
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  Speaker 1: goes to make up a perfect organization, which directs and
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  Speaker 1: influences them toward the one end. Instead of each person
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  Speaker 1: being a separate unit, each one is like a spoke
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  Speaker 1: in a big wheel. Each member carries his own load,
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  Speaker 1: and he would not think of shirking. Anyone working in
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  Speaker 1: such an atmosphere could not help turning out his best work.
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  Speaker 1: All great leaders must be able to inspire this cooperative spirit.
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  Speaker 1: They first secure assistance through their mental control. They then
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  Speaker 1: make their assistance realize the value of mental control. Soon
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  Speaker 1: there is a close bond between them. They are working
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  Speaker 1: toward a single purpose. They profit by their combined as effort.
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  Speaker 1: The result is that they accomplish much. If your business
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  Speaker 1: is conducted in the right spirit, you can instill your
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  Speaker 1: thoughts and your ideas into your employees. Your methods and
• 3:11:12
  Speaker 1: ideas become theirs. They don't know it, but your mental
• 3:11:15
  Speaker 1: forces are shaping their work. They are just as certain
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  Speaker 1: to produce results as any physical force in nature. The
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  Speaker 1: up to date business man of the future is going
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  Speaker 1: to take pains to get his employees to think and
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  Speaker 1: reason better. He will not want them to become depressed
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  Speaker 1: or discouraged. There is time that, instead of being wasted,
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  Speaker 1: he will endeavor to have them use in concentrated effort
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  Speaker 1: that will be profitable to both employer and employed. There
• 3:11:42
  Speaker 1: must be more of the spirit of justice enter into
• 3:11:44
  Speaker 1: the business of the future. There is a firm I
• 3:11:48
  Speaker 1: know that will not hire an employee until he has
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  Speaker 1: filled out an application blank. No doubt, those that fill
• 3:11:54
  Speaker 1: it out think it is foolishness, but it is not.
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  Speaker 1: A capable manager can look over this applicationation blank and
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  Speaker 1: pretty nearly tell if this person will fit into his management.
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  Speaker 1: The main thing he wants to know is the applicant's
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  Speaker 1: capacity for efficient cooperative effort. He wants persons that have
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  Speaker 1: faith in themselves. He wants them to realize that when
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  Speaker 1: they talk of misfortunes and become blue, they are likely
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  Speaker 1: to communicate the same depressing influence to others. The up
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  Speaker 1: to date manager wants to guard against hiring employees who
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  Speaker 1: will obstruct his success. You must realize that every moment
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  Speaker 1: spent in thinking of your difficulties of the past, every
• 3:12:32
  Speaker 1: moment spent in bad company, is attracting to you. All
• 3:12:35
  Speaker 1: that is bad is attracting influences that must be shaken
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  Speaker 1: off before you can advance. Many firms prefer to hire
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  Speaker 1: employees that never work before, so that they have nothing
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  Speaker 1: to unlearn. They are then not trained, but have no
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  Speaker 1: bad business habits to overcome. They are more easily guided
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  Speaker 1: and grasp the new methods more effectively because they are
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  Speaker 1: not contrary to what they have already learned. They are
• 3:13:00
  Speaker 1: are at once started on the right road, and as
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  Speaker 1: they co operate readily, they receive the mental support of
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  Speaker 1: the management in learning the methods that have been perfected.
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  Speaker 1: This inspires confidence in themselves and they soon become efficient
• 3:13:12
  Speaker 1: and finally skilled workers. Most big business firms today employ
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  Speaker 1: efficiency experts each day or week they are in a
• 3:13:21
  Speaker 1: different department. They earn their money because they familiarize persons
• 3:13:26
  Speaker 1: with very little business experience with plans that has taken
• 3:13:29
  Speaker 1: that expert years of training and much money to perfect.
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  Speaker 1: The attitude we take has a great deal more to
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  Speaker 1: do with our success than most of us realize. We
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  Speaker 1: must be able to generate those forces that are helpful.
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  Speaker 1: There is a wonderful power in the thought rightly controlled
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  Speaker 1: and projected, and we must, through concentration, develop this power
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  Speaker 1: to the fullest possible extent. We are surrounded by many
• 3:13:52
  Speaker 1: forces of which we know but little at present. Our
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  Speaker 1: knowledge of these is to be wonderfully increased each year
• 3:14:00
  Speaker 1: we learn more about these psychic forces, which are full
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  Speaker 1: of possibilities of which we are not even dimly conscious.
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  Speaker 1: We must believe in mental control, learn more about it,
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  Speaker 1: and use it if we want to command these higher
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  Speaker 1: powers and forces which will unquestionably direct the lives of
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  Speaker 1: countless future generations. Lesson nineteen. A Concentrated Will development new method.
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  Speaker 1: You will find in this chapter a most effective and
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  Speaker 1: most practical method of developing the will. You can develop
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  Speaker 1: a strong one if you want to. You can make
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  Speaker 1: your will a dynamo to draw to you untold power.
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  Speaker 1: Exercises are given, which will, if practiced, strengthen your will,
• 3:14:41
  Speaker 1: just as you would strengthen your muscles by athletic exercises.
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  Speaker 1: In starting to do anything, we must first commence with
• 3:14:48
  Speaker 1: elementary principles. Simple exercises will be given. It is impossible
• 3:14:54
  Speaker 1: to estimate the ultimate good to be derived from the
• 3:14:57
  Speaker 1: mental cultivation that comes through these attempts at concentrate. Even
• 3:15:01
  Speaker 1: the simple exercises are not to be thought useless in
• 3:15:05
  Speaker 1: no respect, writes doctor Oppenheim. Can a man show a
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  Speaker 1: finer quality of will power than in his own private,
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  Speaker 1: intimate life. We are all subjected to certain temptations. The
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  Speaker 1: will decides whether we will be just or unjust, pure
• 3:15:20
  Speaker 1: of thought, charitable in opinion, for bearing in overlooking other shortcomings,
• 3:15:25
  Speaker 1: whether we live up to our highest standard. Since these
• 3:15:29
  Speaker 1: are all controlled by the will, we should find time
• 3:15:31
  Speaker 1: for plenty of exercises for training of the will in
• 3:15:34
  Speaker 1: our daily life. You, of course realize that your will
• 3:15:38
  Speaker 1: should be trained. You must also realize that to do
• 3:15:42
  Speaker 1: this requires effort that you alone can command. No one
• 3:15:46
  Speaker 1: can call it forth for you. To be successful in
• 3:15:49
  Speaker 1: these exercises, you must practice them in a spirit of
• 3:15:52
  Speaker 1: seriousness and earnestness. I can show you how to train
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  Speaker 1: your will, but your success depends upon your mastery and
• 3:15:59
  Speaker 1: application of these methods. New methods of will training. Select
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  Speaker 1: a quiet room where you will not be interrupted. Have
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  Speaker 1: a watch to determine the time, and a notebook in
• 3:16:10
  Speaker 1: which to enter observations. Start each exercise with date and
• 3:16:14
  Speaker 1: time of day. Exercise one time decided on. Select some
• 3:16:19
  Speaker 1: time of the day when most convenient, Sit in a
• 3:16:23
  Speaker 1: chair and look at the doorknob for ten minutes. Then
• 3:16:27
  Speaker 1: write down what you experienced. At first, it will seem
• 3:16:30
  Speaker 1: strange and unnatural. You will find it hard to hold
• 3:16:34
  Speaker 1: one position for ten minutes, but keep as still as
• 3:16:37
  Speaker 1: you can. The time will seem long, for it will
• 3:16:41
  Speaker 1: probably be the first time you ever sat and did
• 3:16:43
  Speaker 1: nothing for ten minutes. You will find your thoughts wandering
• 3:16:47
  Speaker 1: from the doorknob, and you will wonder what there can
• 3:16:49
  Speaker 1: be in this exercise. Repeat this exercise for six days
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  Speaker 1: ten p m. Second day notes. You should be able
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  Speaker 1: to sit quieter and the time should pass more quickly.
• 3:17:03
  Speaker 1: You will probably feel a little stronger because of gaining
• 3:17:06
  Speaker 1: a better control of your will. It will brace you
• 3:17:09
  Speaker 1: up as you have kept your resolution ten p m.
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  Speaker 1: Third day notes. It may be a little harder for
• 3:17:18
  Speaker 1: you to concentrate on the doorknob, as perhaps you had
• 3:17:20
  Speaker 1: a very busy day and your mind kept trying to
• 3:17:23
  Speaker 1: revert to what you have been doing during the day.
• 3:17:26
  Speaker 1: Keep on trying, and you will finally succeed in banishing
• 3:17:29
  Speaker 1: all foreign thoughts. Then you should feel a desire to
• 3:17:32
  Speaker 1: gain still more control. There is a feeling of power
• 3:17:36
  Speaker 1: that comes over you when you are able to carry
• 3:17:38
  Speaker 1: out your will. This exercise will make you feel bigger,
• 3:17:42
  Speaker 1: and it awakens a sense of nobility and manliness. You
• 3:17:46
  Speaker 1: will say, I find that I can actually do what
• 3:17:48
  Speaker 1: I want to and can drive foreign thoughts out. The
• 3:17:51
  Speaker 1: exercise I can now see is valuable ten p m.
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  Speaker 1: Fourth Day notes. I found that I could look at
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  Speaker 1: the doorknob and concentrate my attention on it at once.
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  Speaker 1: Have overcome the tendency to move my legs. No other
• 3:18:08
  Speaker 1: thoughts try to enter. As I have established the fact
• 3:18:11
  Speaker 1: that I can do what I want to do and
• 3:18:12
  Speaker 1: do not have to be directed, I feel that I
• 3:18:15
  Speaker 1: am gaining in mental strength. I can now see the
• 3:18:18
  Speaker 1: wonderful value of being the master of my own will force.
• 3:18:22
  Speaker 1: I know now if I make a resolution, I will
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  Speaker 1: keep it. I have more self confidence and can feel
• 3:18:28
  Speaker 1: my self control increasing ten p m. Fifth Day notes.
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  Speaker 1: Each day I seem to increase the intensity of my concentration.
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  Speaker 1: I feel that I can center my attention on anything
• 3:18:42
  Speaker 1: I wish. Ten p m. Sixth Day notes. I can
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  Speaker 1: instantly center my whole attention on the doorknob. Feel that
• 3:18:52
  Speaker 1: I have thoroughly mastered this exercise, and that I am
• 3:18:54
  Speaker 1: ready for another. You have practiced this exercise enough, but
• 3:18:59
  Speaker 1: before you start another, whether I want you to write
• 3:19:01
  Speaker 1: a summary of just how successful you were in controlling
• 3:19:03
  Speaker 1: the flitting impulses of the mind, and will you will
• 3:19:06
  Speaker 1: find this in excellent practice. There is nothing more beneficial
• 3:19:11
  Speaker 1: to the mind than to pay close attention to its
• 3:19:13
  Speaker 1: own wonderful, subtle activities. Exercise too secure a package of
• 3:19:18
  Speaker 1: playing cards. Select some time to do the exercise. Each
• 3:19:23
  Speaker 1: day at the appointed time, take the pack in one hand,
• 3:19:26
  Speaker 1: and then start laying them down on top of each other,
• 3:19:29
  Speaker 1: just as slowly as you can with an even motion.
• 3:19:32
  Speaker 1: Try to get them as even as possible. Each card
• 3:19:35
  Speaker 1: laid down should completely cover the under one. Do this
• 3:19:39
  Speaker 1: exercise for six days. First day notes, task will seem
• 3:19:46
  Speaker 1: tedious and tiresome. Requires the closest concentration to make each
• 3:19:51
  Speaker 1: card completely cover the preceding one. You will probably want
• 3:19:55
  Speaker 1: to lay them down faster. It requires patience to lay
• 3:19:58
  Speaker 1: them down so slowly, but benefit is lost if not
• 3:20:02
  Speaker 1: so placed. You will find that at first your motions
• 3:20:05
  Speaker 1: will be jerky and impetuous. It will require a little
• 3:20:09
  Speaker 1: practice before you gain an easy control over your hands
• 3:20:12
  Speaker 1: and arms. You probably have never tried to do anything
• 3:20:16
  Speaker 1: in such a calm way. It will require the closest
• 3:20:19
  Speaker 1: attention of your will, but you will find that you
• 3:20:22
  Speaker 1: are acquiring a calmness you never had before. You are
• 3:20:26
  Speaker 1: gradually acquiring new powers. You recognize how impulsive and impetuous
• 3:20:31
  Speaker 1: you have been, and how by using your will you
• 3:20:34
  Speaker 1: can control your temperament. Second day notes, you start laying
• 3:20:41
  Speaker 1: the cards down slowly. You will find that by practice
• 3:20:44
  Speaker 1: you can lay them down much faster. But you want
• 3:20:47
  Speaker 1: to lay them down slowly, and therefore you have to
• 3:20:50
  Speaker 1: watch yourself. The slow, steady movement is wearisome. You have
• 3:20:56
  Speaker 1: to conquer the desire of wanting to hurry up. Soon
• 3:20:59
  Speaker 1: you will find that you can go slowly or fast
• 3:21:01
  Speaker 1: at will. Third day notes. You still find it hard
• 3:21:07
  Speaker 1: to go slowly. Your will urges you to go faster.
• 3:21:12
  Speaker 1: This is especially true if you are impulsive, as the
• 3:21:15
  Speaker 1: impulsive character finds it very difficult to do anything slowly
• 3:21:18
  Speaker 1: and deliberately. It goes against the grain. This exercise still
• 3:21:24
  Speaker 1: is tiresome, but when you do it, it braces you
• 3:21:27
  Speaker 1: up mentally. You are accomplishing something you do not like
• 3:21:31
  Speaker 1: to do. It teaches you how to concentrate on disagreeable tasks.
• 3:21:36
  Speaker 1: Writing these notes down you will find very helpful. Fourth
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  Speaker 1: day notes. I find that I am beginning to place
• 3:21:45
  Speaker 1: the cards in a mathematical way. I find one card
• 3:21:49
  Speaker 1: is not completely covering another. I am getting a little
• 3:21:52
  Speaker 1: careless and must be more careful. I command my will
• 3:21:56
  Speaker 1: to concentrate more. It does not seem so hard to
• 3:22:00
  Speaker 1: bring it under control. Fifth day notes. I find that
• 3:22:05
  Speaker 1: I am overcoming my jerky movements that I can lay
• 3:22:08
  Speaker 1: the cards down slowly and steadily. I feel that I
• 3:22:12
  Speaker 1: am rapidly gaining more poise. I am getting better control
• 3:22:16
  Speaker 1: over my will each day, and my will completely controls
• 3:22:19
  Speaker 1: my movements. I begin to look on my will as
• 3:22:22
  Speaker 1: a great governing power. I would not think of parting
• 3:22:25
  Speaker 1: with the knowledge of will I have gained. I find
• 3:22:28
  Speaker 1: it is a good exercise and know it will help
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  Speaker 1: me to accomplish my tasks. Sixth Day notes. I begin
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  Speaker 1: to feel the wonderful possibilities of the will. It gives
• 3:22:41
  Speaker 1: me strength to think of the power of will. I
• 3:22:44
  Speaker 1: am able to do so much more and better work
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  Speaker 1: now that I realize that I can control my will action.
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  Speaker 1: Whatever my task, my will is concentrated on it. I
• 3:22:54
  Speaker 1: am to keep my will centered there until the task
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  Speaker 1: is finished. The more closely, in definitely I determine what
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  Speaker 1: I shall do, the more easily the will carries it out.
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  Speaker 1: Determination imparts compelling force to the will, it exerts itself more.
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  Speaker 1: The will and the end act and react on each other.
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  Speaker 1: Seventh Day notes. Now try to do everything you do
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  Speaker 1: today faster. Don't hurry or become nervous. Just try to
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  Speaker 1: do everything faster, but in a steady manner. You will
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  Speaker 1: find that the exercises you have practiced in retardation have
• 3:23:31
  Speaker 1: steadied your nerves and thereby made it possible to increase
• 3:23:34
  Speaker 1: your speed. The will is under your command, make it
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  Speaker 1: carry out resolutions rapidly. This is how you build up
• 3:23:43
  Speaker 1: your self control and your self command. It is then
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  Speaker 1: that the human machine acts as its author dictates. You
• 3:23:50
  Speaker 1: certainly should now be able to judge of the great
• 3:23:53
  Speaker 1: benefit that comes from writing out your introspections each day.
• 3:23:57
  Speaker 1: Of course, you will not have the exact experiences give
• 3:24:00
  Speaker 1: and in these examples, but some of these will fit
• 3:24:02
  Speaker 1: your case. Be careful to study your experiences carefully and
• 3:24:07
  Speaker 1: make as true a report as you can. Describe your
• 3:24:10
  Speaker 1: feelings just as they seem to you. Allow your fancies
• 3:24:14
  Speaker 1: to color your report, and it will be worthless. You
• 3:24:17
  Speaker 1: have pictured conditions as you see them. In a few months,
• 3:24:21
  Speaker 1: if you again try the same exercises, you will find
• 3:24:24
  Speaker 1: your report very much better. By these introspections, we learn
• 3:24:28
  Speaker 1: to know ourselves better, and with this knowledge can wonderfully
• 3:24:31
  Speaker 1: increase our efficiency. As you become used to writing out
• 3:24:35
  Speaker 1: your report, it will be more accurate. You thus learn
• 3:24:39
  Speaker 1: how to govern your impulses, activities, and weaknesses. Each person
• 3:24:44
  Speaker 1: should try to plan exercises that will best fit his needs.
• 3:24:48
  Speaker 1: If not convenient for you to practice exercises every day,
• 3:24:52
  Speaker 1: take them twice or three times a week, but carry
• 3:24:55
  Speaker 1: out any plan you decide to try. If you cannot
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  Speaker 1: devote ten minutes a day to the experiment, start with
• 3:25:02
  Speaker 1: five minutes and gradually increase the time. The exercises given
• 3:25:06
  Speaker 1: are only intended for examples will training without exercise. There
• 3:25:12
  Speaker 1: are many people that do not want to take the
• 3:25:14
  Speaker 1: time to practice exercises, so the following instructions for training
• 3:25:18
  Speaker 1: the will are given to them. By willing and realizing,
• 3:25:21
  Speaker 1: the will grows. Therefore, the more you will, the more
• 3:25:25
  Speaker 1: it grows and builds up power. No matter whether your
• 3:25:29
  Speaker 1: task is big or small, make it a rule to
• 3:25:32
  Speaker 1: accomplish it in order to fortify your will. Form the
• 3:25:35
  Speaker 1: habit of focussing your will, in all its strength, upon
• 3:25:38
  Speaker 1: the subject to be achieved. You form in this way
• 3:25:41
  Speaker 1: the habit of getting a thing done, of carrying out
• 3:25:44
  Speaker 1: some plan. You acquire the feeling of being able to
• 3:25:48
  Speaker 1: accomplish that which lies before you, no matter what it is.
• 3:25:52
  Speaker 1: This gives you confidence and a sense of power that
• 3:25:54
  Speaker 1: you get in no other way. You know when you
• 3:25:57
  Speaker 1: make a resolution that you will keep it. You do
• 3:26:00
  Speaker 1: not tackle new tasks in a half hearted way, but
• 3:26:03
  Speaker 1: with a bold, brave spirit. We know that the will
• 3:26:07
  Speaker 1: is able to carry us over big obstacles. Knowing this,
• 3:26:10
  Speaker 1: despair never claims us for a victim. We have wills
• 3:26:14
  Speaker 1: and are going to use them with more and more intensity,
• 3:26:17
  Speaker 1: thus giving us the power to make our resolution stronger,
• 3:26:20
  Speaker 1: our actions freer, and our lives finer and better. The
• 3:26:24
  Speaker 1: education of the will should not be left to chance.
• 3:26:27
  Speaker 1: It is only definite tasks that will render it energetic, ready, persevering,
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  Speaker 1: and consistent. The only way it can be done is
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  Speaker 1: by self study and self discipline. The cost is effort, time,
• 3:26:40
  Speaker 1: and patience, but the returns are valuable. There are no
• 3:26:44
  Speaker 1: magical processes leading to will development, but the development of
• 3:26:47
  Speaker 1: your will works wonders for you because it gives you
• 3:26:50
  Speaker 1: self mastery, personal power, and energy of character. Concentration of
• 3:26:55
  Speaker 1: the will to win. The adaptability of persons to their
• 3:26:58
  Speaker 1: business environment is more a matter of determination than anything else.
• 3:27:03
  Speaker 1: In this age, we hear a good deal of talk
• 3:27:05
  Speaker 1: about a man's aptitudes. Some of his aptitudes, some of
• 3:27:10
  Speaker 1: his powers may be developed to a wonderful extent, but
• 3:27:13
  Speaker 1: he is really an unknown quality until all his latent
• 3:27:16
  Speaker 1: powers are developed to their highest possible extent. He may
• 3:27:20
  Speaker 1: be a failure in one line and a big success
• 3:27:22
  Speaker 1: in another. There are many successful men that did not
• 3:27:26
  Speaker 1: succeed well at what they first undertook, but they profited
• 3:27:30
  Speaker 1: by their efforts in different directions, and this fitted them
• 3:27:33
  Speaker 1: for higher things. Whereas had they refused to adjust themselves
• 3:27:36
  Speaker 1: to their environment, the tide of progress would have swept
• 3:27:39
  Speaker 1: them into oblivion. My one aim in all my works
• 3:27:42
  Speaker 1: is to try and arouse in the individual the effort
• 3:27:45
  Speaker 1: and determination to develop his full capacities, his highest possibilities.
• 3:27:50
  Speaker 1: One thing I want you to realize at the start
• 3:27:53
  Speaker 1: that it is not so much ability as it is
• 3:27:55
  Speaker 1: the will to do that counts. Ability is very plentiful,
• 3:27:59
  Speaker 1: but organizing, initiative and creative power are not plentiful. It
• 3:28:04
  Speaker 1: is easy to get employees, but to get someone to
• 3:28:07
  Speaker 1: train them is harder. Their abilities must be directed to
• 3:28:10
  Speaker 1: the work they can do. They must be shown how
• 3:28:14
  Speaker 1: while at this work to conserve their energy, and they
• 3:28:17
  Speaker 1: must be taught to work in harmony with others. For
• 3:28:19
  Speaker 1: most business concerns are dominated by a single personality concentrating
• 3:28:24
  Speaker 1: on driving force within. We are all conscious at times
• 3:28:29
  Speaker 1: that we have somewhere within us an active driving force
• 3:28:32
  Speaker 1: that is ever trying to push us onward to better deeds.
• 3:28:35
  Speaker 1: It is that force that makes us feel determined at
• 3:28:38
  Speaker 1: times to do something worth while. It is not thought, emotion,
• 3:28:43
  Speaker 1: or feeling. This driving force is something distinct from thought
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  Speaker 1: or emotion. It is a quality of the soul, and
• 3:28:50
  Speaker 1: therefore it has a consciousness all its own. It is
• 3:28:54
  Speaker 1: the I will do of the will. It is the
• 3:28:57
  Speaker 1: force that makes the will concentrate. Many have felt this
• 3:29:01
  Speaker 1: force working within them, driving them on to accomplish their tasks.
• 3:29:06
  Speaker 1: All great men and women become conscious that this supreme
• 3:29:09
  Speaker 1: and powerful force is their ally in carrying out great resolutions.
• 3:29:13
  Speaker 1: This driving force is within all, but until you reach
• 3:29:16
  Speaker 1: a certain stage, you do not become aware of it.
• 3:29:20
  Speaker 1: It is most useful to the worthy. It springs up naturally,
• 3:29:23
  Speaker 1: without any thought of training. It comes unprovoked and leaves unnoticed.
• 3:29:29
  Speaker 1: Just what this force is we do not know, but
• 3:29:32
  Speaker 1: we do know that it is what intensifies the will
• 3:29:34
  Speaker 1: in demanding just and harmonious action. The ordinary human being
• 3:29:39
  Speaker 1: merely as merchandise, if he could be sold as a slave,
• 3:29:42
  Speaker 1: would be worth ten thousand dollars. If somebody gave you
• 3:29:46
  Speaker 1: a five thousand dollar automobile, you would take very good
• 3:29:49
  Speaker 1: care of it. You wouldn't put sand in the carburetor,
• 3:29:53
  Speaker 1: or mix water with the gasoline, or drive it furiously
• 3:29:56
  Speaker 1: over rough roads, or leave it out to freeze at night.
• 3:30:00
  Speaker 1: Are you quite sure that you take care of your
• 3:30:02
  Speaker 1: own body, your own health, your only real property, as
• 3:30:05
  Speaker 1: well as you would take care of a five thousand
• 3:30:07
  Speaker 1: dollar automobile if it were given to you. The man
• 3:30:11
  Speaker 1: who mixes whisky with his blood is more foolish than
• 3:30:14
  Speaker 1: a man would be if he mixed water with gasoline
• 3:30:16
  Speaker 1: in his car. You can get another car, you cannot
• 3:30:20
  Speaker 1: get another body. The man who misses sleep lives irregularly
• 3:30:24
  Speaker 1: bolts his food so that his blood supply is imperfect.
• 3:30:28
  Speaker 1: That is a foolish man treating himself as he would
• 3:30:31
  Speaker 1: not treat any other valuable piece of property. Do you
• 3:30:34
  Speaker 1: try to talk with men and women who know more
• 3:30:37
  Speaker 1: than you do, and do you listen rather than try
• 3:30:39
  Speaker 1: to tell them what you know? There are a hundred
• 3:30:42
  Speaker 1: thousand men of fifty and men of sixty running along
• 3:30:45
  Speaker 1: in the old rut, any one of whom could get
• 3:30:47
  Speaker 1: out of it and be counted among the successful men,
• 3:30:50
  Speaker 1: if only the spark could be found to explode the
• 3:30:52
  Speaker 1: energy within them. Now going to waste, each man must
• 3:30:56
  Speaker 1: study and solve his own problem less an exact concentration reviewed.
• 3:31:02
  Speaker 1: In bringing this book to a close, I again want
• 3:31:05
  Speaker 1: to impress you with the inestimable value of concentration, because
• 3:31:08
  Speaker 1: those that lack this great power, or rather that fail
• 3:31:11
  Speaker 1: to develop it, will generally suffer from poverty in unhappiness,
• 3:31:15
  Speaker 1: and their life's work will most often be a failure,
• 3:31:18
  Speaker 1: while those that develop and use it will make the
• 3:31:21
  Speaker 1: most of life's opportunities. I have tried to make these
• 3:31:24
  Speaker 1: lessons practical, and I am sure that many will find
• 3:31:26
  Speaker 1: them so. Of course, the mere reading of them will
• 3:31:29
  Speaker 1: not do you a great deal of good. But if
• 3:31:32
  Speaker 1: the exercises are practiced and worked out and applied to
• 3:31:35
  Speaker 1: your own individual case, you should be able to acquire
• 3:31:38
  Speaker 1: the habit of concentration in such measure as to greatly
• 3:31:41
  Speaker 1: improve your work and increase your happiness. But remember, the
• 3:31:45
  Speaker 1: best instruction can only help you to the extent to
• 3:31:47
  Speaker 1: which you put it into practice. I have found it
• 3:31:50
  Speaker 1: an excellent idea to read a book through first and
• 3:31:53
  Speaker 1: then reread it. And when you come to an idea
• 3:31:56
  Speaker 1: that appeals to you, stop and think about it. Then,
• 3:31:59
  Speaker 1: if applicable to you, repeat it over and over that
• 3:32:02
  Speaker 1: you will be impressed by it. In this way you
• 3:32:05
  Speaker 1: can form the habit of picking out all the good
• 3:32:07
  Speaker 1: things you read, and these will have a wonderful influence
• 3:32:10
  Speaker 1: on your character. In this closing chapter, I want to
• 3:32:13
  Speaker 1: impress you to concentrate on what you do, instead of
• 3:32:16
  Speaker 1: performing most of your work unconsciously or automatically, until you
• 3:32:20
  Speaker 1: have formed habits that give you the mastery of your
• 3:32:22
  Speaker 1: work and your life powers and forces. Very often the
• 3:32:26
  Speaker 1: hardest part of work is thinking about it. When you
• 3:32:29
  Speaker 1: get right into it, it does not seem so disagreeable.
• 3:32:33
  Speaker 1: This is the experience of many when they first commence
• 3:32:36
  Speaker 1: to learn how to concentrate. So never think it a
• 3:32:39
  Speaker 1: difficult task, but undertake it with the I will spirit,
• 3:32:43
  Speaker 1: and you will find that its acquirement will be as
• 3:32:45
  Speaker 1: easy as its application will be useful. Read the life
• 3:32:48
  Speaker 1: of any great man, and you will generally find that
• 3:32:51
  Speaker 1: the dominant quality that made him successful was the ability
• 3:32:54
  Speaker 1: to concentrate. Study those that have been failures, and you
• 3:32:58
  Speaker 1: will often find that lack of concercentration was the cause
• 3:33:02
  Speaker 1: one thing at a time, and that done will is
• 3:33:04
  Speaker 1: a good rule. As I can tell, all men are
• 3:33:07
  Speaker 1: not born with equal powers but it is the way
• 3:33:10
  Speaker 1: they are used that counts. Opportunity knocks at every man's door.
• 3:33:15
  Speaker 1: Those that are successful hear the knock and grasp the chance.
• 3:33:19
  Speaker 1: The failures believe that luck and circumstances are against them.
• 3:33:24
  Speaker 1: They always blame someone else instead of themselves, for their
• 3:33:27
  Speaker 1: lack of success. We get what is coming to us,
• 3:33:30
  Speaker 1: nothing more or less. Anything within the universe is within
• 3:33:34
  Speaker 1: your grasp. Just use your latent powers, and it is yours.
• 3:33:39
  Speaker 1: You are aided by both visible and invisible forces when
• 3:33:43
  Speaker 1: you concentrate on either to do or to be. Every
• 3:33:46
  Speaker 1: one is capable of some concentration, for without it you
• 3:33:50
  Speaker 1: would be unable to say or do anything. People differ
• 3:33:53
  Speaker 1: in the power to concentrate because some are unable to
• 3:33:56
  Speaker 1: will to hold the thought in mind for the required time.
• 3:34:00
  Speaker 1: The amount of determination use determines who has the strongest will.
• 3:34:04
  Speaker 1: No one's is stronger than yours. Think of this whenever
• 3:34:08
  Speaker 1: you go against a strong opponent. Never say I can't
• 3:34:12
  Speaker 1: concentrate today. You can do it just the minute you
• 3:34:15
  Speaker 1: say I will. You can keep your thoughts from straying,
• 3:34:19
  Speaker 1: just the same as you can control your arms. When
• 3:34:22
  Speaker 1: once you realize this fact, you can train the will
• 3:34:25
  Speaker 1: to concentrate on anything you wish. If it wanders, it
• 3:34:29
  Speaker 1: is your fault. You are not utilizing your will. But
• 3:34:34
  Speaker 1: don't blame it on your will and say it is weak.
• 3:34:37
  Speaker 1: The will is just the same whether you act as
• 3:34:39
  Speaker 1: if it were weak or as if it were strong.
• 3:34:42
  Speaker 1: When you act as if your will is strong, you
• 3:34:44
  Speaker 1: say I can. When you act as if it were weak,
• 3:34:47
  Speaker 1: you say I can't. It requires the same amount of
• 3:34:51
  Speaker 1: effort in each case. Some men get in the habit
• 3:34:55
  Speaker 1: of thinking I can't and they fail. Others think I
• 3:34:59
  Speaker 1: can and succeed. So remember it is for you to
• 3:35:03
  Speaker 1: decide whether you will join the army of I can't
• 3:35:06
  Speaker 1: or I can. The big mistake with so many is
• 3:35:09
  Speaker 1: that they don't realize that when they say I can't,
• 3:35:12
  Speaker 1: they really say I won't try. You cannot tell what
• 3:35:16
  Speaker 1: you can do until you try. Can't means you will
• 3:35:19
  Speaker 1: not try. Never say you cannot concentrate, for when you do,
• 3:35:24
  Speaker 1: you are really saying that you refuse to try. Whenever
• 3:35:28
  Speaker 1: you feel like saying I can't, say instead, I possess
• 3:35:32
  Speaker 1: all will, and I can use as much as I wish.
• 3:35:35
  Speaker 1: You only use as much as you have trained yourself
• 3:35:37
  Speaker 1: to use an experiment to try before going to bed
• 3:35:42
  Speaker 1: to night, repeat, I am going to choose my own thoughts,
• 3:35:45
  Speaker 1: and to hold them as long as I choose, I
• 3:35:48
  Speaker 1: am going to shut out all thoughts that weaken or
• 3:35:51
  Speaker 1: interfere that make me timid. My will is as strong
• 3:35:54
  Speaker 1: as any one's else. While going to work the next morning,
• 3:35:58
  Speaker 1: repeat this over. Keep this up for a month, and
• 3:36:01
  Speaker 1: you will find you will have a better opinion of yourself.
• 3:36:05
  Speaker 1: These are the factors that make you a success. Hold
• 3:36:08
  Speaker 1: fast to them always. Concentration is nothing but willing to
• 3:36:13
  Speaker 1: do a certain thing. All foreign thoughts can be kept
• 3:36:16
  Speaker 1: out by willing that they stay out. You cannot realize
• 3:36:20
  Speaker 1: your possibilities until you commence to direct your mind. You
• 3:36:24
  Speaker 1: then do consciously what you have before done unconsciously. In
• 3:36:28
  Speaker 1: this way, you note mistakes, overcome bad habits, and perfect
• 3:36:32
  Speaker 1: your conduct. You have at times been in a position
• 3:36:35
  Speaker 1: that required courage, and you were surprised at the amount
• 3:36:38
  Speaker 1: you showed. Now, when once you arouse yourself, you have
• 3:36:42
  Speaker 1: this courage all the time, and it is not necessary
• 3:36:45
  Speaker 1: to have a special occasion. Reveal it to you. My
• 3:36:48
  Speaker 1: object in so strongly impressing this on your mind is
• 3:36:51
  Speaker 1: to make you aware that the same courage, the same
• 3:36:54
  Speaker 1: determination that you show at certain exceptionable times, you have
• 3:36:57
  Speaker 1: at your command at all times. It is as a
• 3:37:00
  Speaker 1: part of your vast resources. Use it often and well
• 3:37:04
  Speaker 1: in working out the highest destiny of which you are capable.
• 3:37:07
  Speaker 1: Final concentration instruction. You now realize that in order to
• 3:37:12
  Speaker 1: make your life worthy, useful, and happy, you must concentrate
• 3:37:17
  Speaker 1: a number of exercises. And all the needed instruction has
• 3:37:20
  Speaker 1: been given. It now remains for you to form the
• 3:37:23
  Speaker 1: highest ideal that you can in the present, and live
• 3:37:26
  Speaker 1: up to that ideal and try to raise it. Don't
• 3:37:29
  Speaker 1: waste your time in foolish reading. Select something that is
• 3:37:33
  Speaker 1: inspiring that you may become in rappert with those that
• 3:37:36
  Speaker 1: think thoughts that are worthwhile. Their enthusiasm will inspire and enlighten. You.
• 3:37:42
  Speaker 1: Read slowly and concentrate on what you are reading. Let
• 3:37:46
  Speaker 1: your spirit and the spirit of the author commune, and
• 3:37:49
  Speaker 1: you will then sense what is between the lines, those
• 3:37:51
  Speaker 1: great things which words cannot express. Pay constant attention to
• 3:37:56
  Speaker 1: one and one thing only for a given time, and
• 3:37:58
  Speaker 1: you will soon be able to concentrate. Hang on to
• 3:38:01
  Speaker 1: that thought ceaselessly until you have attained your object. When
• 3:38:05
  Speaker 1: you work, let your mind dwell steadily on your task.
• 3:38:09
  Speaker 1: Think before you speak, and direct your conversation to the
• 3:38:12
  Speaker 1: subject under discussion. Do not ramble, Talk slowly, steadily, and connectedly.
• 3:38:20
  Speaker 1: Never form the hurry habit, but be deliberate in all
• 3:38:22
  Speaker 1: you do. Assume static attitudes without moving a finger or
• 3:38:27
  Speaker 1: an eyelid or any part of your body. Read books
• 3:38:30
  Speaker 1: that treat of but one continuous subject. Read long articles
• 3:38:35
  Speaker 1: and recall the thread of the argument. Associate yourself with
• 3:38:39
  Speaker 1: people who are steady, patient, and tireless in their thought, action,
• 3:38:43
  Speaker 1: and work. See how long you can sit still and
• 3:38:46
  Speaker 1: think on one subject without interruption, concentrating on the higher self.
• 3:38:52
  Speaker 1: Father time keeps going on and on. Every day he
• 3:38:56
  Speaker 1: rolls around means one less day for you on this planet.
• 3:39:00
  Speaker 1: Most of us only try to master the external conditions
• 3:39:02
  Speaker 1: of this world. We think our success and happiness depends
• 3:39:06
  Speaker 1: on us doing so. These are, of course important, and
• 3:39:10
  Speaker 1: I don't want you to think they are not. But
• 3:39:12
  Speaker 1: I want you to realize that when death comes, only
• 3:39:15
  Speaker 1: those inherent and acquired qualities and conditions within the mentality,
• 3:39:19
  Speaker 1: your character, conduct, and sole growth will go with you.
• 3:39:23
  Speaker 1: If these are what they should be. You need not
• 3:39:25
  Speaker 1: be afraid of not being successful and happy, for with
• 3:39:28
  Speaker 1: these qualities you can mold external materials and conditions. Study yourself,
• 3:39:35
  Speaker 1: find your strong points and make them stronger, as well
• 3:39:37
  Speaker 1: as your weak ones and strengthen them. Study yourself carefully,
• 3:39:41
  Speaker 1: and you will see yourself as you really are. The
• 3:39:45
  Speaker 1: secret of accomplishment is concentration, or the art of turning
• 3:39:48
  Speaker 1: all your power upon just one point at a time.
• 3:39:52
  Speaker 1: If you have studied yourself carefully, you should have a
• 3:39:54
  Speaker 1: good line on yourself and should be able to make
• 3:39:56
  Speaker 1: the proper interior readjustments. Remember, first, last, and always, right
• 3:40:02
  Speaker 1: thinking and right living necessarily results in happiness, and it
• 3:40:06
  Speaker 1: is therefore within your power to obtain happiness. Any One
• 3:40:10
  Speaker 1: that is not happy does not claim their birthright. Keep
• 3:40:13
  Speaker 1: in mind that some day you are going to leave
• 3:40:15
  Speaker 1: this world, and think of what you will take with you.
• 3:40:18
  Speaker 1: This will assist you to concentrate on the higher forces.
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  Speaker 1: Now start from this minute to act according to the
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  Speaker 1: advice of the higher self in everything you do. If
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  Speaker 1: you do its, ever, harmonious forces will necessarily insure to
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  Speaker 1: you a successful fulfillment of all your life purposes. Whenever
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  Speaker 1: you feel tempted to disobey your higher promptings. Hold the
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  Speaker 1: thought my higher self ensures to me the happiness of
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  Speaker 1: doing that which best answers my true relations to all others.
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  Speaker 1: You possess latent talents that, when developed and utilized, are
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  Speaker 1: of assistance to you and others. But if you do
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  Speaker 1: not properly use them, you shirk your duty, and you
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  Speaker 1: will be the loser and suffer from the consequences. Others
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  Speaker 1: will also be worse off if you do not fulfill
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  Speaker 1: your obligations. When you have aroused into activity your thought powers,
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  Speaker 1: you will realize the wonderful value of these principles in
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  Speaker 1: helping you to carry out your plans. The right, in
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  Speaker 1: the end must prevail. You can assist in the working
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  Speaker 1: out of the great plan of the universe and thereby
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  Speaker 1: gain the reward, or you can work against the great
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  Speaker 1: plan and suffer the consequences. The all consuming fires are
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  Speaker 1: gradually purifying all discordant elements. If you choose to work
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  Speaker 1: contrary to the law, you will burn in its crucible.
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  Speaker 1: So I want you to learn to concentrate intelligently on
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  Speaker 1: becoming in harmony with your higher self. Hold the thought
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  Speaker 1: I will live for my best. I seek wisdom, self, knowledge, happiness,
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  Speaker 1: and power to help others. I act from the higher self. Therefore,
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  Speaker 1: only the best can come to me. The more we
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  Speaker 1: become conscious of the presence of the higher self, the
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  Speaker 1: more we should try to become a true representative of
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  Speaker 1: the human soul in all its wholeness and holiness. Instead
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  Speaker 1: of wasting our time dwelling on some trifling external quality
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  Speaker 1: or defect, we should try to secure a true conception
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  Speaker 1: of what we really are, so as not to overvalue
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  Speaker 1: the external furnishings. You will then not surrender your dignity
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  Speaker 1: or self respect when others ignorantly make a display of
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  Speaker 1: material things to show off. Only the person that realizes
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  Speaker 1: that he is a permanent being knows what the true
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  Speaker 1: self is. Dot Thanks for listening. The end.