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ARCANE TEACHING: Hidden Laws Behind Manifestation, Mental Power, Will & Law of Attraction – William Walker Atkinson · THE SECRET LAW OF ATTRACTION: Manifest Wealth, Success & Abundance

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  James Allen. As a man thinks Part two Effective thought on circumstances. Man's
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  mind may be likened to a garden, which may be intelligently cultivated or allowed
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  to run wild. But whether cultivated or neglected, it must and will bring
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  forth. If no useful seeds are put into it, then an abundance of
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  useless weed seeds will fall therein and will continue to produce their kind. Just
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  as a gardener cultivates his plot, keeping it free from weeds and growing the
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  flowers and fruits which he requires, so may a man tend the garden of
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  his mind, weeding out all the wrong, useless and impure thoughts, and
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  cultivating toward perfection the flowers and fruits of right, useful and pure thoughts.
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  By pursuing this process, a man sooner or later discovers that he is the
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  master gardener of his soul, the director of his life. He also reveals
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  within himself the laws of thought, and understands with ever increasing accuracy, how
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  the thought forces and mind elements operate in the shaping of his character. Circumstances
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  and destiny. Thought and character are one, and as character can only manifest
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  and discover itself through environment and circumstance. The outer conditions of a person's life
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  will always be found to be harmoniously related to his inner state. This does
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  not mean that a man's circumstances at any given time are an indication of his
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  entire character, but that those circumstances are so intimately connected with some vital thought
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  element within himself that for the time being they are indispensable to his development.
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  Every man is where he is by the law of his being. The thoughts
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  which he has built into his character have brought him there, And in the
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  arrangement of his life there is no element of chance, but all is the
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  result of a law which cannot err. This is just as true of those
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  who feel out of harmony with their surroundings as of those who are contented with
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  them. As a progressive and evolving being, man is where he is that
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  he may learn, that he may grow. And as he learns the spiritual
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  lesson which any circumstance contains for him, it passes away and gives place to
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  other circumstances. Man is buffeted by circumstances so long as he believes himself to
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  be the creature of outside conditions. But when he realizes that he is a
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  creative power, and that he may command the hidden soil and seeds of his
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  being, out of which circumstances grow. He then becomes the rightful master of
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  himself. That circumstances grow out of thought. Every man knows who has for
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  any length of time practiced self control and self purification, for he will have
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  noticed that the alteration in his circumstances has been in exact ratio with his altered
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  mental condition. So true is this, that when a man earnestly applies himself
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  to remedy the defects in his character and make swift and marked progress, he
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  passes rapidly through a succession of vicissitudes. The soul attracts that which it secretly
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  harbors, that which it loves, and also that which it fears. It
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  reaches the height of its cherished aspirations, it falls to the level of its
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  unchastened desires. And circumstances are the means by which the soul receives its own
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  Every thought seeds sown or allowed to fall into the mind, and to take
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  root there produces its own blossoming sooner or later into act, and bearing its
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  own fruitage of opportunity and circumstance. Good thoughts bear good fruit, Bad thoughts
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  bad fruit. The outer world of circumstance shapes itself to the inner world of
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  thought, and both pleasant and unpleasant external conditions are factors which make for the
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  ultimate good of the individual. As the reaper of his own harvest, man
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  learns both by suffering and bliss, following the inmost desires, aspirations, thoughts
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  by which he allows himself to be dominated. Pursuing the willow the whisps of
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  impure imaginings, or steadfastly walking the highway of strong and high endeavor, a
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  man at last arrives at their fruition and fulfillment in the outer conditions of his
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  life, the laws of growth and adjustment everywhere obtains. A man does not
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  come to the almshouse or the jail by the tyranny of fate or circumstance,
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  but by the pathway of groveling thoughts and base desires. Nor does a pure
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  minded man fall suddenly into crime by stress of any mere external force. The
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  criminal thought had long been secretly fostered in the heart, and the hour of
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  opportunity revealed its gathered power. Circumstance does not make the man, it reveals
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  him to himself. No such conditions can exist as descending into vice and its
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  attendant sufferings apart from vicious inclinations, or ascending into virtue and its pure happiness,
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  without the continued cultivation of virtuous aspirations. And man, therefore, as
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  the lord and master of thought, is the maker of himself, the shaper
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  and author of environment. Even at birth, the soul comes to its own,
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  and through every step of its earthly pilgrimage, it attracts those combinations of
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  conditions which reveal itself, which are the reflections of its own impurity and impurity,
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  its strength and weakness. Men do not attract that which they want,
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  but that which they are. Their whims, fancies, and ambitions are thwarted
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  at every step, but their inmost thoughts and desires are fed with their own
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  food, be it fell or clean. The divinity that shapes our ends is
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  in ourselves. It is our very self, only himself. Madicles man,
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  Thought and action are the jailers of fate. They imprison, being base,
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  they are also the angels of freedom, they liberate, being noble. Not
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  what he wishes and prays for does a man get, but what he justly
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  earns. His wishes and prayers are only gratified and answered when they harmonize with
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  his thoughts and actions. In the light of this truth, what then,
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  is the meaning of fighting against circumstances? It means that a man is continually
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  revolting against an effect without while all the time he is nourishing and preserving its
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  cause in his heart. That cause may take the form of a conscious vice
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  or an unconscious weakness, But whatever it is, it stubbornly retards the efforts
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  of its possessor, and thus calls aloud for remedy. Men are anxious to
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  improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves. They therefore remain bound.
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  The man who does not shrink from self crucifixion can never fail to accomplish
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  the object upon which his heart is set. This is as true of earthly
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  as of heavenly things. Even the man whose sole object is to acquire wealth
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  must be prepared to make great personal sacrifices before he can accomplish his object,
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  and how much more so he who would realize a strong and well poised life.
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  Here is a man who is wretchedly poor. He is extremely anxious that
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  his surroundings and home comforts should be improved, yet all the time he shirks
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  his work and considers he is justified in trying to deceive his employer on the
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  ground of the insufficiency of his wages. Such a man does not understand the
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  simplest rudiments of those principles which are the basis of true prosperity, and is
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  not only totally unfitted to rise out of his wretchedness, but is actually attracting
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  to himself a still deeper wretchedness by dwelling in and acting out indolent, deceptive,
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  and unmanly thoughts. Here is a rich man who is the victim of
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  a painful and persistent disease as the result of gluttony. He is willing to
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  give large sums of money to get rid of it, but he will not
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  sacrifice his gluttonous desires. He wants to gratify his taste for rich and unnatural
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  viands and have his health as well. Such a man is totally unfit to
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  have health because he has not yet learned the first principles of a healthy life.
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  Here is an employer of labor who adopts crooked measures to avoid paying the
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  regulation wage, and in the hope of making larger profits, reduces the wages
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  of his workpeople. Such a man is altogether unfitted for prosperity, and when
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  he finds himself bankrupt, both as regards reputation and riches, he blames circumstances,
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  not knowing that he is the sole author of his condition. I have
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  introduced these three cases merely as illustrative of the truth that man is the causer,
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  though nearly always, is unconsciously of his circumstances, and that, whilst
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  aiming at a good end, he is continually frustrating its accomplishment by encouraging thoughts
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  and desires which cannot possibly harmonize with that end. Such cases could be multiplied
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  and varied almost indefinitely, but this is not necessary, as the reader can,
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  if he so resolves, trace the action of the laws of thought in
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  his own mind and life, and until this is done, mere external facts
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  cannot serve as a ground of reasoning. Circumstances, however, are so complicated.
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  Thought is so deeply rooted, and the conditions of happiness very so vastly
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  with individuals, that a man's entire sole condition although it may be known to
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  himself, cannot be judged by another from the external aspect of his life alone.
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  A man may be honest in certain directions yet suffer privations. A man
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  may be dishonest in certain directions yet acquire wealth. But the conclusion usually formed
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  that the one man fails because of his particular honesty and that the other prospers
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  because of his particular dishonesty underscore is the result of a superficial judgment, which
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  assumes that the dishonest man is almost totally corrupt and the honest man almost entirely
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  virtuous. In the light of a deeper knowledge and wider experience, such judgment
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  is found to be erroneous. The dishonest man may have some admirable virtues which
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  the other does not possess, and the honest man obnoxious vices which are absent
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  in the other. The honest man reaps the good results of his honest thoughts
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  and acts, he also brings upon himself the sufferings which his vices produce.
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  The dishonest man, likewise garners his own suffering and happiness. It is pleasing
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  to human vanity to believe that one suffers because of one's virtue. But not
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  until a man has extirpated every sickly, bitter and impure thought from his mind,
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  and washed every sinful stain from his soul can he be in a position
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  to know and declare that his sufferings are the result of his good and not
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  of his bad qualities. And on the way too, Yet, long before
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  he has reached that supreme perfection, he will have found working in his mind
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  and life the great law which is absolutely jest, and which cannot therefore give
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  good for evil evil for good. Possessed of such knowledge, he will then
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  know, looking back upon his past ignorance and blindness, that his life is
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  and always was justly ordered, and that all his past experiences, good and
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  bad, were the equitable outworking of his evolving, yet unevolved self. Good
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  thoughts and actions can never produce bad results. Bad thoughts and actions can never
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  produce good results. This is but saying that nothing can come from corn but
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  corn, nothing from nettles but nettles. Men understand this law in the natural
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  world and work with it, but few understand it in the mental and moral
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  world, though its operation there is just as simple and undeviating, and they
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  therefore do not cooperate with it. Suffering is always the effect of wrong thought.
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  In some direction. It is an indication that the individual is out of
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  harmony with himself with the law of his being. The soul and supreme use
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  of suffering is to purify, to burn out all that is useless and impure.
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  Suffering ceases for him who is pure. There could be no object in
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  burning gold after the dross had been removed, and a perfectly pure and enlightened
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  being could not suffer. The circumstances which a man encounters with suffering are the
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  result of his own mental in harmony. The circumstances which a man encounters with
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  blessedness are the result of his own mental harmony. Blessedness, not material possessions,
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  is the measure of right thought. Wretchedness, not lack of material possessions,
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  is the measure of wrong thought. A man may be cursed and rich,
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  he may be blessed and poor. Blessedness and riches are only joined together
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  when the riches are rightly and wisely used, and the poor man only descends
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  into wretchedness when he regards his lot as a burden unjustly imposed indigence and indulgence
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  are the two extremes of wretchedness. They are both equally unnatural and the result
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  of mental disorder. A man is not rightly conditioned until he is a happy,
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  healthy, and prosperous being, and happiness, health, and prosperity are
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  the result of a harmonious adjustment of the inner with the outer of the man
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  with his surroundings. A man only begins to be a man when he ceases
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  to whine and revile and commences to search for the hidden justice which regulates his
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  life. And as he adapts his mind to that regulating factor, he ceases
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  to accuse others as the cause of his condition, and builds himself up in
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  strong and noble thoughts, ceases to kick against circumstances, but begins to use
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  them as aids to his more rapid progress and as a means of discovering the
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  hidden powers and possibilities within himself. Law, not confusion, is the dominating
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  principle in the universe. Justice, not injustice, is the soul and substance
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  of life, and righteousness, not corruption, is the molding and moving force
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  in the spiritual government of the world. This being so, man has but
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  to right himself to find that the universe is right. And during the process
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  of putting himself right, he will find that as he alters his thoughts towards
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  things and other people, things and other people will alter towards him. The
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  proof of this truth is in every person, and it therefore admits of easy
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  investigation by systematic introspection and self analysis. Let a man radically alter his thoughts,
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  and he will be astonished at the rap transformation it will affect in the
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  material conditions of his life. Men imagine that thought can be kept secret,
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  but it cannot. Irrapidly crystallizes into habit, and habits solidifies into circumstance.
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  Vestial thoughts crystallize into habits of drunkenness and sensuality, which solidify into circumstances of
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  destitution and disease. Impure thoughts of every kind crystallize into enervating and confusing habits,
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  which solidify into distracting and adverse circumstances. Thoughts of fear, doubt,
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  and indecision crystallize into weak, unmanly, and irresolute habits, which solidify into
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  circumstances of failure, indigence, and slavish dependence. Lazy thoughts crystallize into habits
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  of uncleanliness and dishonesty, which solidify into circumstances of foulness and beggary. Hateful
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  and condemnatory thoughts crystallize into habits of accusation and violence, which solidify into circumstances
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  of injury and persecution. Selfish thoughts of all kinds crystallize into habits of self
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  seeking, which solidify into circumstances more or less distressing. On the other hand,
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  beautiful thoughts of all kinds crystallize into habits of grace and kindliness, which
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  solidify into genial and sunny circumstances. Pure thoughts crystallize into habits of temperance and
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  self control, which solidify into circumstances of repose and peace. Thoughts of courage,
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  self reliance, and decision crystallize into manly habits, which solidify into circumstances
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  of success, plenty, and freedom. Energetic thoughts crystallize into habits of cleanliness
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  and industry, which solidify into circumstances of pleasantness. Gentle and forgiving thoughts crystallize
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  into habits of gentleness, which solidify into protective and preservative circumstances. Loving and
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  unselfish thoughts crystallize into habits of self forgetfulness for others, which solidify into circumstances
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  of sure and abiding prosperity and true riches. A particular train of thought persisted
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  in, be it good or bad, cannot fail to produce its results on
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  the character and circumstances. A man cannot directly choose his circumstances, but he
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  can choose his thoughts, and so indirectly yet surely shape his circumstances. Nature
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  helps every man to the gratification of the thoughts which he most encourages, and
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  opportunities are presented which will most speedily bring to the surface both the good and
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  evil thoughts. Let a man cease from his sinful thoughts, and all the
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  world will soften towards him and be ready to help him. Let him put
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  away his weakly and sickly thoughts, and lo opportunities will spring up on every
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  hand to aid his strong resolves. Let him encourage bid thoughts, and no
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  hard fate shall bind him down to wretchedness and shame. The world is your
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  kaleidoscope, and the varying combinations of colors which at every succeeding moment it presents
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  to you are the exquisitely adjusted pictures of your ever moving thoughts. So you
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  will be what you will to be. Let failure find its false content in
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  that poor word environment, But spirit scorns it and is free. It masters
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  time, it conquers space, It cows that boastful trickster chance, and bids
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  the tyrant circumstance on crown and fill a servant's place. The human will,
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  that force unseen, the offspring of a deathless soul, can hew a way
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  to any goal. The walls of granite intervene. Be not impatient and delays,
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  but wait as one who understands. When spirit rises and commands, the
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  gods are ready to obey.