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Speaker 1: Chapter one of the Science of Being Great. This is
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Speaker 1: Read by Daniel Sanchez. The Science of Being Great by
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Speaker 1: Wallace D. Waddles, Chapter one. Any person may become great.
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Speaker 1: There is a principle of power in every person. By
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Speaker 1: the intelligent use and direction of this principle, man can
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Speaker 1: develop his own mental faculties. Man has an inherent power
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Speaker 1: by which he may grow in whatsoever direction he pleases,
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Speaker 1: and there does not appear to be any limit to
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Speaker 1: the possibilities of his growth. No man has yet become
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Speaker 1: so great in any faculty, but that it is possible
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Speaker 1: for some one else to become greater. The possibility is
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Speaker 1: in the original substance from which man is made. Genius
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Speaker 1: is omniscience flowing into man. Genius is more than talent.
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Speaker 1: Talent may merely be one faculty developed out of proportion
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Speaker 1: to other faculties, but genius is the union of man
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Speaker 1: and God in the acts of the soul. Great men
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Speaker 1: are always greater than their deeds. They are in connection
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Speaker 1: with the reserve power, that is without limit. We do
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Speaker 1: not know where the boundary of the mental powers of
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Speaker 1: man is. We do not even know that there is
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Speaker 1: a boundary. The power of conscious growth is not given
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Speaker 1: to the lower animals. It is man's alone, and may
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Speaker 1: be developed and increased by him. The lower animals can,
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Speaker 1: to a great extent, be trained and developed by man.
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Speaker 1: But man can train and develop himself. He alone has
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Speaker 1: this power, and he has it to an apparently unlimited extent.
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Speaker 1: The purpose of life for man is growth, just as
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Speaker 1: the purpose of life for trees and plants is growth.
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Speaker 1: Trees and plants grow automatically and along fixed lines. Man
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Speaker 1: can grow as he will. Trees and plants can only
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Speaker 1: develop certain possibilities and characteristics. Man can develop any power
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Speaker 1: which is or has been shown by any person anywhere.
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Speaker 1: Nothing that is possible in spirit is impossible in flesh
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Speaker 1: and blood. Nothing that man can think is impossible in action.
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Speaker 1: Nothing that man can imagine is impossible of realization. Man
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Speaker 1: is formed for growth, and he is under the necessity
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Speaker 1: of growing. It is essential to his happiness that he
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Speaker 1: should continuously advance. Life without progress becomes unendurable, and the
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Speaker 1: person who ceases from growth must either become imbecile or insane,
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Speaker 1: and more harmonious and well rounded his growth, the happier
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Speaker 1: man will be. There is no possibility in any man
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Speaker 1: that is not in every man. But if they proceed naturally,
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Speaker 1: no two men will grow into the same thing or
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Speaker 1: be alike. Every man comes into the world with a
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Speaker 1: predisposition to grow along certain lines, and growth is easier
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Speaker 1: for him along those lines than in any other way.
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Speaker 1: This is a wise provision, for it gives endless variety.
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Speaker 1: It is as if a gardener would throw all his
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Speaker 1: bulbs into one basket. To the superficial observer, they would
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Speaker 1: look alike. But growth reveals a tremendous difference. So of
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Speaker 1: men and women they are like the basket of bulbs.
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Speaker 1: One may be a rose and add brightness and color
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Speaker 1: to some dark corner of the world. One may be
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Speaker 1: a lily and teach a lesson of love and purity
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Speaker 1: to every eye that sees. One may be a climbing
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Speaker 1: vine and hide the rugged outlines of some dark rock.
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Speaker 1: One may be a great oak, among whose boughs the
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Speaker 1: birds shall nest and sing, and beneath whose shade the
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Speaker 1: flocks shall rest at noon. But every one will be
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Speaker 1: something worth while, something rare, something perfect. There are undreamed
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Speaker 1: of possibilities in the common lives all around us. In
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Speaker 1: a large sense, there are no common people. In times
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Speaker 1: of national stress and peril, the cracker box loafer of
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Speaker 1: the corner store and the village drunkard become heroes and
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Speaker 1: statesmen through the quickening of the principle of power within them.
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Speaker 1: There is a genius in every man and woman waiting
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Speaker 1: to be brought forth. Every village has its great man
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Speaker 1: or woman, someone to whom all go for advice in
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Speaker 1: time of trouble, someone who is instinctively recognized as being
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Speaker 1: great in wisdom and insight. To such a one, the
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Speaker 1: minds of the whole community turn in times of local crisis.
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Speaker 1: He is tacitly recognized as being great. He does small
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Speaker 1: things in a great way. He could do great things
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Speaker 1: as well if he did. But undertake them, So can
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Speaker 1: any man, so can you. The principle of power gives
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Speaker 1: us just what we ask of it. If we only
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Speaker 1: undertake little things, it only gives us power for little things.
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Speaker 1: But if we try to do great things in a
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Speaker 1: great way, it gives us all the power there is.
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Speaker 1: But beware of undertaking great things in a small way.
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Speaker 1: Of that we shall speak farther on. There are two
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Speaker 1: mental attitudes a man may take. One makes him like
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Speaker 1: a football. It has resilience and reacts strongly when force
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Speaker 1: is applied to it, But it originates nothing. It never
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Speaker 1: acts of itself. There is no power within it. Men
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Speaker 1: of this type are contrayed by circumstances and environment. Their
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Speaker 1: destinies are decided by things external to themselves. The principle
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Speaker 1: of power within them is never really active at all.
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Speaker 1: They never speak or act from within. The other attitude
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Speaker 1: makes men like a flowing spring. Power comes out from
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Speaker 1: the center of him. He has within him a well
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Speaker 1: of water springing up into everlasting life. He radiates force,
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Speaker 1: he is felt by his environment. The principle of power
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Speaker 1: in him is in constant action. He is self active.
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Speaker 1: He hath life in himself. No greater good can come
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Speaker 1: to any man or woman than to become self active.
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Speaker 1: All the experiences of life are designed by providence to
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Speaker 1: force men and women into self activity, to compel them
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Speaker 1: to cease being creatures of circumstances and master their environment.
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Speaker 1: In his lowest stage, man is the child of chance
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Speaker 1: and circumstance, and the slave of fear. His acts are
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Speaker 1: all reactions resulting from the impingement upon him of forces
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Speaker 1: in his environment. He acts only as he has acted upon.
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Speaker 1: He originates. Nothing but the lowest savage has within him
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Speaker 1: a principle of power sufficient to master all that he fears,
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Speaker 1: And if he learns this and becomes self active, he
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Speaker 1: becomes as one of the gods. The awakening of the
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Speaker 1: principle of power in man is the real conversion, the
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Speaker 1: passing from death to life. It is when the dead
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Speaker 1: hear the voice of the Son of Man and come
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Speaker 1: forth and live. It is the resurrection and the life.
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Speaker 1: When it is awakened, man becomes a son of the highest,
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Speaker 1: and all power is given to him in heaven and
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Speaker 1: on earth. Nothing was ever in any man that is
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Speaker 1: not in you. No man ever had more spiritual or
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Speaker 1: mental power than you can attain, or did greater things
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Speaker 1: than you can accomplish. You can become what you want
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Speaker 1: to be. End of chapter one, Chapter two of the
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Speaker 1: Science of Being Great by Wallace D. Waddles. This LibriVox
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Speaker 1: recording is in the public domain. Read by Daniel Sanchez.
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Speaker 1: Heredity and opportunity. You are not barred from attaining greatness
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Speaker 1: by heredity. No matter who or what your ancestors may
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Speaker 1: have been, or how unlearned or lowly their station, the
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Speaker 1: upward way is open for you. There is no such
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Speaker 1: thing as inheriting a fixed mental position. No matter how
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Speaker 1: small the mental capital we receive from our parents, it
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Speaker 1: may be increased. No man is born incapable of growth.
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Speaker 1: Heredity counts for something. We are born with subconscious mental tendencies,
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Speaker 1: as for instance, a tendency to melancholy or cowardice, or
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Speaker 1: to ill temper. But all these subconscious tendencies may be
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Speaker 1: overcome when the real man awakens and comes forth. He
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Speaker 1: can throw them off very easily. Nothing of this kind
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Speaker 1: need keep you down. If you have inherited undesirable mental tendencies,
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Speaker 1: you can eliminate them and put desirable tendencies in their places.
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Speaker 1: An inherited mental trait is a habit of thought of
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Speaker 1: your father or mother impressed upon your subconscious mind. You
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Speaker 1: can substitute the opposite impression by forming the opposite habit
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Speaker 1: of thought. You can substitute a habit of cheerfulness for
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Speaker 1: attendancecy to despondency. You can overcome cowardice or ill temper.
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Speaker 1: Heredity may count for something too in an inherited confirmation
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Speaker 1: of the skull. There is something in phrenology, if not
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Speaker 1: so much as its exponents claim for it. It is
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Speaker 1: true that the different faculties are localized in the brain,
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Speaker 1: and that the power of a faculty depends upon the
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Speaker 1: number of active brain cells in its area. A faculty
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Speaker 1: whose brain area is large is likely to act with
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Speaker 1: more power than one whose cranial section is small. Hence,
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Speaker 1: persons with certain confirmations of the skull show talent as musicians, orators, mechanics,
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Speaker 1: and so on. It has been argued from this that
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Speaker 1: a man's cranial formation must, to a great extent decide
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Speaker 1: his station in life, but this is an error. It
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Speaker 1: has been found that a small brain section with many
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Speaker 1: fine and active cells it gives as powerful expression to
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Speaker 1: faculty as a larger brain with coarser cells. And it
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Speaker 1: has been found that by turning the principle of power
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Speaker 1: into any section of the brain with the will and
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Speaker 1: purpose to develop a particular talent, the brain cells may
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Speaker 1: be multiplied indefinitely. Any faculty, power or talent you possess,
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Speaker 1: no matter how small or rudimentary, may be increased you
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Speaker 1: can multiply the brain cells in this particular area until
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Speaker 1: it acts as powerfully as you wish. It is true
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Speaker 1: that you can act most easily through those faculties that
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Speaker 1: are now most largely developed. You can do with the
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Speaker 1: least effort the things which come naturally. But it is
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Speaker 1: also true that if you will make the necessary effort,
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Speaker 1: you can develop any talent. You can do what you
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Speaker 1: desire to do, and become what you want to be.
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Speaker 1: When you fix upon some ideal and proceed as hereinafter directed,
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Speaker 1: all the power of your being is turned into the
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Speaker 1: faculties required in the realization of that ideal. More blood
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Speaker 1: and nerve force go to the corresponding sections of the brain,
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Speaker 1: and the cells are quickened, increased, and multiplied in number.
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Speaker 1: The proper use of the mind of man will build
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Speaker 1: a brain capable of doing what the mind wants to do.
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Speaker 1: The brain does not make the man. The man makes
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Speaker 1: the brain. Your place in life is not fixed by heredity,
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Speaker 1: nor are you condemned to the lower levels by circumstances
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Speaker 1: or lack of opportunity. The principle of power in man
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Speaker 1: is sufficient for all the requirements of his soul. No
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Speaker 1: possible combination of circumstances can keep him down if he
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Speaker 1: makes his personal attitude right and determines to rise. The
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Speaker 1: power which formed man and purposed him for growth also
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Speaker 1: controls the circumstances of society, industry, and government. And this
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Speaker 1: power is never divided against itself. The power which is
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Speaker 1: in you is in the things around you, and when
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Speaker 1: you begin to move forward, the things will arrange themselves
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Speaker 1: for your advantage. As described in later chapters of this book,
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Speaker 1: man was formed for growth, and all things external were
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Speaker 1: designed to promote his growth. No sooner does a man
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Speaker 1: awaken his soul and enter on the advancing way than
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Speaker 1: he finds that not only is God for him, but nature, society,
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Speaker 1: and his fellow men are for him also, and all
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Speaker 1: things work together for his good if he obeys the law.
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Speaker 1: Poverty is no bar to greatness, for poverty can always
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Speaker 1: be removed. Martin Luther, as a child, sang in the
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Speaker 1: streets for bread. Linnaeus the naturalist, had only forty dollars
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Speaker 1: with which to educate himself. He mended his own shoes
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Speaker 1: and often had to beg meals from his friends. Hugh Miller,
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Speaker 1: apprenticed to a stonemason, began to study geology in a quarry.
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Speaker 1: George Stephenson, inventor of the locomotive engine and one of
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Speaker 1: the greatest of civil engineers, was a coal miner working
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Speaker 1: in a mine when he awakened and began to think.
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Speaker 1: James Watt was a sickly child and was not strong
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Speaker 1: enough to be sent to school. Abraham Lincoln was a
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Speaker 1: poor boy. In each of these cases we see a
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Speaker 1: principle of power in the man which lifts him above
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Speaker 1: all opposition and adversity. There is a principle of power
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Speaker 1: in you. If you use it and apply it in
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Speaker 1: a certain way, you can overcome all heredity, and master
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Speaker 1: all circumstances and conditions, and become a great and powerful personality.
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Speaker 1: End of chapter two, Chapter three of the Science of
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Speaker 1: Being Great by Wallace D. Waddles. This LibriVox recording is
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Speaker 1: in the public domain. Read by Daniel Sanchez. The source
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Speaker 1: of power man's brain, body, mind, faculties, and talents are
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Speaker 1: the mere instruments he uses in demonstrating greatness in themselves.
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Speaker 1: They do not make him great. A man may have
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Speaker 1: a large brain and a good mind, strong faculties, and
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Speaker 1: brilliant talents, and yet he is not a great man
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Speaker 1: unless he uses all these in a great way. That
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Speaker 1: quality which enables man to use his abilities in a
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Speaker 1: great way makes him great. And to that quality we
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Speaker 1: give the name of wisdom. Wisdom is the essential basis
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Speaker 1: of greatness. Wisdom is the power to perceive the best
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Speaker 1: ends to aim at and the best means for reaching
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Speaker 1: those ends. It is the power to perceive the right
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Speaker 1: thing to do. The man who is wise enough to
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Speaker 1: know the right thing to do, who is good enough
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Speaker 1: to wish to do only the right thing, and who
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Speaker 1: is able and strong enough to do the right thing,
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Speaker 1: is a truly great man. He will instantly become marked
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Speaker 1: as a personality of power in any community, and men
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Speaker 1: will delight to do him honor. Wisdom is dependent upon knowledge.
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Speaker 1: Where there is complete ignorance, there can be no wisdom,
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Speaker 1: no knowledge of the right thing to do. Man's knowledge
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Speaker 1: is comparatively limited, and so his wisdom must be small
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Speaker 1: unless he can connect his mind with a knowledge greater
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Speaker 1: than his own and draw from it by inspiration the
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Speaker 1: wisdom that his own limitations deny him. This he can do.
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Speaker 1: This is what the really great men and women have done.
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Speaker 1: Man's knowledge is limited and uncertain. Therefore he cannot have
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Speaker 1: wisdom in himself. Only God knows all truth. Therefore, only
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Speaker 1: God can have real wisdom or know the right thing
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Speaker 1: to do at all times, and man can receive wisdom
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Speaker 1: from God. I proceed to give an illustration. Abraham Lincoln
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Speaker 1: had limited education, but he had the power to perceive truth.
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Speaker 1: In Lincoln we see pre eminently apparent the fact that
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Speaker 1: real wisdom consists in knowing the right thing to do
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Speaker 1: at all times and under all circumstances, in having the
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Speaker 1: will to do the right thing, and in having talent
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Speaker 1: and ability enough to be competent and able to do
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Speaker 1: the right thing. Back in the days of the abolition
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Speaker 1: agitation and during the compromise period, when all other men
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Speaker 1: were more or less confused as to what was right
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Speaker 1: or as to what ought to be done, Lincoln was
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Speaker 1: never uncertain. He saw through the superficial arguments of the
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Speaker 1: pro slavery men. He saw also the impracticability and fanaticism
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Speaker 1: of the abolitionists. He saw the right ends to aim at,
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Speaker 1: and he saw the best means to attain those ends.
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Speaker 1: It was because men recognized that he perceived truth and
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Speaker 1: knew the right thing to do that they made him president.
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Speaker 1: Any man who develops the power to perceive truth, and
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Speaker 1: who can show that he always knows the right thing
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Speaker 1: to do, and that he can be trusted to do
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Speaker 1: the right thing, will be honored and advanced. The whole
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Speaker 1: world is looking eagerly for such men. When Lincoln became president,
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Speaker 1: he was surrounded by a multitude of so called able advisers,
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Speaker 1: hardly any two of whom were agreed. At times, they
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Speaker 1: were all opposed to his policies. At times, almost the
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Speaker 1: whole North was opposed to what he proposed to do.
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Speaker 1: But he saw the truth when others were misled by appearances.
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Speaker 1: His judgment was seldom or never wrong. He was at
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Speaker 1: once the ablest statesman and the best soldier of the period.
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Speaker 1: Where did he, a comparatively unlearned man, get this wisdom.
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Speaker 1: It was not due to some peculiar formation of his skull,
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Speaker 1: or to some fineness of texture of his brain. It
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Speaker 1: was not due to some physical characteristic. It was not
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Speaker 1: even a quality of mind due to superior reasoning power.
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Speaker 1: Knowledge of truth is not often reached by the processes
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Speaker 1: of reas. It was due to a spiritual insight. He
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Speaker 1: perceived truth. But where did he perceive it, and whence
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Speaker 1: did the perception come. We see something similar in Washington,
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Speaker 1: whose faith and courage, due to his perception of truth,
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Speaker 1: held the colonies together during the long and often apparently
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Speaker 1: hopeless struggle of the Revolution. We see something of the
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Speaker 1: same thing in the phenomenal genius of Napoleon, who always
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Speaker 1: knew in military matters the best means to adopt. We
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Speaker 1: see that the greatness of Napoleon was in nature rather
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Speaker 1: than in Napoleon, and we discover back of Washington and
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Speaker 1: Lincoln something greater than either Washington or Lincoln. We see
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Speaker 1: the same thing in all great men and women. They
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Speaker 1: perceive truth. But truth cannot be perceived until it exists,
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Speaker 1: and there can be no truth until there is a
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Speaker 1: mind to perceive it. Truth does not exist apart from mind.
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Speaker 1: Washington and Lincoln were in touch and communication with a
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Speaker 1: mind which knew all knowledge and contained all truth. So
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Speaker 1: of all who manifest wisdom, wisdom is obtained by reading
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Speaker 1: the Mind of God. End of chapter three, Chapter four
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Speaker 1: of the Science of Being Great by Wallace D. Waddles.
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Speaker 1: This LibriVox recording is in the public domain. Read by
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Speaker 1: Daniel Sanchez, the Mind of God, there is a cosmic intelligence,
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Speaker 1: which is in all things and through all things. This
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Speaker 1: is the one real substance. From it all things proceed.
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Speaker 1: It is intelligent substance or mind stuff. It is God.
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Speaker 1: Where there is no substance, there can be no intelligence.
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Speaker 1: For where there is no substance, there is nothing. Where
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Speaker 1: there is thought, there must be a substance which thinks.
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Speaker 1: Thought cannot be function, for function is motion, and it
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Speaker 1: is inconceivable that mere motion should think. Thought cannot be vibration,
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Speaker 1: for vibration is motion, and that motion should be intelligent
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Speaker 1: is not thinkable. Motion is nothing but the moving of substance.
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Speaker 1: If there be intelligence shown, it must be in the
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Speaker 1: substance and not in the motion. Thought cannot be the
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Speaker 1: result of motions in the brain. If thought is in
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Speaker 1: the brain, it must be in the brain's substance, and
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Speaker 1: not in the motions which brain substance makes. But thought
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Speaker 1: is not in the brain substance, for brain substance without
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Speaker 1: life is quite unintelligent and dead. Thought is in the
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Speaker 1: life principle which animates the brain, in the spirit substance,
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Speaker 1: which is the real man. The brain does not think.
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Speaker 1: The man thinks and expresses his thought through the brain.
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Speaker 1: There is a spirit substance which thinks. Just as the
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Speaker 1: spirit substance of man permeates his body and thinks and
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Speaker 1: knows in the body, so the original spirit substance, God
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Speaker 1: permeates all nature and thinks and knows in nature. Nature
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Speaker 1: is as intelligent as man, and knows more than man.
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Speaker 1: Nature knows all things. The all mind has been in
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Speaker 1: touch with all things from the beginning, and it contains
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Speaker 1: all knowledge. Man's experience covers a few things, and these
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Speaker 1: things man knows. But God's experience covers all the things
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Speaker 1: that have happened since the creation, from the wreck of
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Speaker 1: a planet or the passing of a comet to the
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Speaker 1: fall of a sparrow. All that is and all that
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Speaker 1: has been, are present in the intelligence, which is wrapped
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Speaker 1: about us and enfolds us and presses upon us from
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Speaker 1: every side. All the encyclopedias men have written are but
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Speaker 1: trivial affairs compared to the vast knowledge held by the
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Speaker 1: mind in which men live, move, and have their being.
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Speaker 1: The truths men perceive by inspiration are thoughts held in
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Speaker 1: this mind. If they were not thoughts, men could not
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Speaker 1: perceive them, for they would have no existence, and they
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Speaker 1: could not exist as thoughts unless there is a mind
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Speaker 1: for them to exist in, and a mind can be
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Speaker 1: nothing else than a substance which thinks Man is thinking.
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Speaker 1: Substance a portion of the cosmic substance. But man is limited,
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Speaker 1: while the cosmic intelligence from which he sprang, which Jesus
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Speaker 1: calls the Father, is unlimited. All intelligence, power, and force
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Speaker 1: come from the Father. Jesus recognized this and stated it
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Speaker 1: very plainly over and over again. He ascribed all his
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Speaker 1: wisdom and power to his unity with the Father and
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Speaker 1: to his perceiving the thoughts of God. My Father and
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Speaker 1: I are one. This was the foundation of his knowledge
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Speaker 1: and power. He showed the people the necessity of becoming
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Speaker 1: spiritually awakened, of hearing his voice and becoming like him.
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Speaker 1: He compared the unthinking man, who is the prey and
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Speaker 1: sport of circumstances, to the dead man in a tomb,
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Speaker 1: he said, be born again. Become spiritually awake, and you
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Speaker 1: may see His kingdom. Hear my voice, see what I
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Speaker 1: am and what I do, and come forth and live.
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Speaker 1: The words I speak are spirit and life. Accept them
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Speaker 1: and they will cause a well of water to spring up.
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Speaker 1: Within you, then you will have life within yourself. I
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Speaker 1: do what I see the Father do, he said, meaning
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Speaker 1: all things to the son. If any man has the
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Speaker 1: My teaching is not my own, but His that sent me.
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Speaker 1: You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make
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Speaker 1: you free. The Spirit shall guide you into all truth.
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Speaker 1: We are immersed in mind, and that mind contains all
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Speaker 1: this knowledge, for our Father delights to give good gifts
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Speaker 1: to his children. The prophets and seers and great men
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Speaker 1: and women past and present were made great by what
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Speaker 1: they received from God, not by what they were taught
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Speaker 1: by men. This limitless reservoir of wisdom and power is
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Speaker 1: open to you. You can draw upon it as you will,
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Speaker 1: according to your needs. You can make yourself what you
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Speaker 1: desire to be. You can do what you wish to do.
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Speaker 1: You can have what you want. To accomplish this, you
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Speaker 1: must learn to become one with the Father, so that
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Speaker 1: you may perceive truth, so that you may have wisdom
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Speaker 1: and know the right ends to seek and the right
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Speaker 1: means to use. To attain those ends, and so that
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Speaker 1: In closing this chapter, resolve that you will now lay
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Speaker 1: aside all else and concentrate upon the attainment of conscious
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Speaker 1: unity with God. Oh, when I am safe in my
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Speaker 1: Sylvan home, I tread on the pride of Greece and Rome.
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Speaker 1: And when I am stretched beneath the pines, where the
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Speaker 1: evening star so holy shines, I laugh at the lore
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Speaker 1: and pride of man at the sophist schools and the
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Speaker 1: learned clan. For what are they all in their high
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Speaker 1: conceit when man in the bush with God may meet
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Speaker 1: nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you.
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Speaker 1: If you become like God, you can read his thoughts,
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Speaker 1: and if you do not, you will find the inspirational
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Speaker 1: perception of truth impossible. You can never become a great
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Speaker 1: man or woman until you have overcome anxiety, worry, and fear.
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Speaker 1: It is impossible for an anxious person, a worried one,
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Speaker 1: or a fearful one to perceive truth. All things are
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Speaker 1: distorted and thrown out of their proper relations by such
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Speaker 1: mental states, and those who are in them cannot read
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Speaker 1: the thoughts of God. If you are poor, or if
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Speaker 1: you are anxious about business or financial matters, you are
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Speaker 1: recommended to study carefully the first volume of this series,
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Speaker 1: a solution for your problems of this nature. No matter
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Speaker 1: how large or how complicated they may seem to be,
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Speaker 1: there is not the least cause for worry about financial affairs.
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Speaker 1: Every person who wills to do so may rise above want,
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Speaker 1: have all he needs, and become rich. The same source
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Speaker 1: upon which you propose to draw for mental unfoldment and
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Speaker 1: spiritual power is that your sir, for the supply of
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Speaker 1: all your material wants. Study this truth until it is
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Speaker 1: fixed in your thoughts, and until anxiety is banished from
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Speaker 1: your mind, enter the certain way which leads to material riches. Again.
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Speaker 1: If you are anxious or worried about your health, realize
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Speaker 1: it is possible for you to attain perfect health, so
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Speaker 1: that you may have strength sufficient for all that you
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Speaker 1: wish to do. And more that intelligence which stands ready
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Speaker 1: to give you wealth, and mental and spiritual power will
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Speaker 1: rejoice to give you health. Also, perfect health is yours
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Speaker 1: for the asking, if you will only obey the simple
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Speaker 1: laws of life and live aright, conquer ill health, and
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Speaker 1: cast out fear. But it is not enough to rise
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Speaker 1: above financial and physical anxiety and worry. You must rise
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Speaker 1: above moral evil doing as well sound your inner condnighteousness.
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Speaker 1: Now for the motives which actuate you, and make sure
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Speaker 1: they are right. You must cast out lust and cease
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Speaker 1: to be ruled by appetite, and you must begin to
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Speaker 1: govern appetite. You must eat only to satisfy hunger, never
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Speaker 1: for gluttonous pleasure. And in all things you must make
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Speaker 1: the flesh obey the spirit. You must lay aside greed.
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Speaker 1: Have no unworthy motive in your desire to become rich
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Speaker 1: and powerful. It is legitimate and right to desire riches
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Speaker 1: if you want them for the sake of the soul,
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Speaker 1: but not if you desire them for the lusts of
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Speaker 1: the flesh. Cast out pride and vanity. Have no thought
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Speaker 1: of trying to rule over others, or of outdoing them.
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Speaker 1: This is a vital point. There is no temptation so
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Speaker 1: insidious as the selfish desire to rule over others. Nothing
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Speaker 1: so appeals to the average man or woman as to
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Speaker 1: sit in the uppermost places at feasts, to be respectfully
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Speaker 1: saluted in the marketplace, and to be called rabbi master.
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Speaker 1: To exercise some sort of control over others is the
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Speaker 1: secret motive of every selfish person. The struggle for power
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Speaker 1: over others is the battle of the competitive world. And
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Speaker 1: you must rise above that world and its motives and aspirations,
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Speaker 1: and seek only for life. Cast out envy. You can
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Speaker 1: have all that you want, and you need not envy
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Speaker 1: any man what he has above all things. See to
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Speaker 1: it that you do not hold malice or enmity toward anyone.
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Speaker 1: To do so cuts you off from the mind whose
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Speaker 1: treasures you seek to make your own. He that loveth
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Speaker 1: not his brother, loveth not God. Lay aside all narrow
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Speaker 1: personal ambition, and determine to seek the highest good, and
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Speaker 1: to be swayed by no unworthy selfishness. Go over all
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Speaker 1: the foregoing, and set these moral temptations out of your
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Speaker 1: heart one by one. Determine to keep them out. Then
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Speaker 1: resolve that you will not only abandon all evil thought,
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Speaker 1: but that you will forsake all deeds, habits, and courses
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Speaker 1: of action which do not commend themselves to your noblest ideals.
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Speaker 1: This is supremely important. Make this resolution with all the
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Speaker 1: next step toward greatness, which you will find explained in
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Speaker 1: The social point of view, Without faith, it is impossible
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Speaker 1: to please God, and without faith, it is impossible for
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Speaker 1: you to become great. The distinguishing characteristic of all really
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Speaker 1: great men and women is an unwavering faith. We see
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Speaker 1: this in Lincoln during the dark days of the war.
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Speaker 1: We see it in Washington at Valley Forge. We see
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Speaker 1: it in Livingstone, the crippled missionary threading the mazes of
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Speaker 1: the dark continent. His soul aflame with the determination to
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Speaker 1: let in the light upon the accursed slave trade which
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Speaker 1: his soul abhorred. We see it in Luther and in
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Speaker 1: Francis Willard, in every man and woman who has attained
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Speaker 1: a place on the muster roll of the great ones
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Speaker 1: of the world. Faith not a faith in one's self
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Speaker 1: or in one's own powers, but faith in principle in
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Speaker 1: the something great which upholds right, and which may be
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Speaker 1: relied upon to give us the vicarory in due time.
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Speaker 1: Without this faith, it is not possible for anyone to
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Speaker 1: rise to real greatness. The man who has no faith
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Speaker 1: in principle will always be a small man. Whether you
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Speaker 1: have this faith or not depends upon your point of view.
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Speaker 1: You must learn to see the world as being produced
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Speaker 1: by evolution, as a something which is evolving and becoming,
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Speaker 1: not as a finished work. Millions of years ago, God
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Speaker 1: worked with very low and crude forms of life, low
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Speaker 1: and crude, yet each perfect after its kind. Higher and
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Speaker 1: more complex organisms, animal and vegetable appeared. Through the successive ages.
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Speaker 1: The Earth passed through stage after stage in its unfoldment,
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Speaker 1: each stage perfect in itself and to be succeeded by
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Speaker 1: a higher one. What I wish you to note is
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Speaker 1: that the so called lower organisms are as perfect after
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Speaker 1: their kind as the higher ones. That the world in
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Speaker 1: the Eocene period was perfect for that period. It was perfect,
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Speaker 1: but God's work was not finished. This is true of
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Speaker 1: the world today, physically, socially, and industrially. It is all good,
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Speaker 1: and it is all perfect. It is not complete anywhere
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Speaker 1: or in any part, but so far as the handiwork
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Speaker 1: of God has gone, it is perfect. This must be
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Speaker 1: your point of view, that the world and all it
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Speaker 1: contains is perfect, though not completed. All's right with the world.
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Speaker 1: That is the great fact. There is nothing wrong with anything.
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Speaker 1: There is nothing wrong with anybody. All the facts of
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Speaker 1: life you must contemplate from this standpoint. There is nothing
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Speaker 1: wrong with nature. Nature is a great advancing presence, working
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Speaker 1: beneficently for the happiness of all. All things in nature
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Speaker 1: are good. She has no evil. She is not complete,
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Speaker 1: for creation is still unfinished, but she is going on
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Speaker 1: to give to man even more bountifully than she has
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Speaker 1: given to him in the past. Nature is a partial
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Speaker 1: expression of God, and God is love. She is perfect,
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Speaker 1: but not complete. So of human society and government. What
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Speaker 1: though there are trusts and combinations of capital, and strikes
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Speaker 1: and lockouts and so on, All these things are part
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Speaker 1: of the forward movement. They are incidental to the evolutionary
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Speaker 1: process of completing society. When it is complete, there will
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Speaker 1: be no more of these in harmonies. But it cannot
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Speaker 1: be completed without them. J. P. Morgan is as necessary
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Speaker 1: to the coming social order as the strange animals of
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Speaker 1: the age of reptiles were to the life of the
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Speaker 1: succeeding period. And just as these animals were perfect after
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Speaker 1: their kind, so Morgan is perfect after his kind. Behold,
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Speaker 1: it is all very good. See society, government, and industry
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Speaker 1: as being perfect now, and as advancing rapidly toward being complete.
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Speaker 1: no cause for anxiety, nothing to worry about. Never complain
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Speaker 1: of any of these things. They are perfect. This is
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Speaker 1: the very best possible world for the stage of development
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Speaker 1: man has reached. This will sound like rank folly to many,
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Speaker 1: perhaps to most people. What they will say are not
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Speaker 1: child labor and the exploitation of men and women in
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Speaker 1: filthy and unsanitary factories. Evil things, are not saloons evil.
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Speaker 1: these and call them good? Child labor and similar things
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Speaker 1: the habit and practices of the cave dweller were evil.
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Speaker 1: His ways were those of the savage stage of man's growth,
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Speaker 1: and for that stage they were perfect. Our industrial practices
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Speaker 1: they are also perfect. Nothing better is possible until we
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Speaker 1: cease to be mental savages in industry and business and
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Speaker 1: become men and women. This can only come about by
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Speaker 1: the rise of the whole race to a higher viewpoint.
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Speaker 1: And this can only come about by the rise of
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Speaker 1: such individuals here and there as are ready for the
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Speaker 1: higher viewpoint. The cure for all these in harmonies lies
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Speaker 1: not with the masters or employers, but with the workers themselves.
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Speaker 1: Whenever they reach a higher viewpoint, whenever they shall desire
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Speaker 1: to do so, they can establish complete brotherhood and harmony
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Speaker 1: in industry. They have the numbers and the power. They
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Speaker 1: are getting now what they desire. Whenever they desire more
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Speaker 1: in the way of a higher, purer, more harmonious life,
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Speaker 1: they will receive more. True, they want more now, but
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Speaker 1: they only want more of the things that make for
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Speaker 1: animal stage. When the workers begin to rise to the
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Speaker 1: things that make for the life of the mind and soul,
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Speaker 1: industry will at once be raised above the plane of
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Speaker 1: savagery and brutality. But it is perfect now upon its plane. Behold,
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Speaker 1: it is all very good, so of saloons and dens
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Speaker 1: of vice. If a majority of the people desire these things,
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Speaker 1: it is right and necessary that they should have them.
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Speaker 1: When a majority desire a world without such discords, they
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Speaker 1: will create such a world. So long as men and
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Speaker 1: women are on the plane of bestial thought, so long
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Speaker 1: the social order will be in part disorder, and will
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Speaker 1: show bestial manifestations. The people make society what it is,
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Speaker 1: and as the people rise above the beastial thought, society
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Speaker 1: will rise above the beastly in its manifestations. But a
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Speaker 1: society which thinks in a bestial way must have saloons
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Speaker 1: and dives. It is perfect after its kind, as the
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Speaker 1: world was in the Eocene period, and very good. All
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Speaker 1: You can work to complete an unfinished society instead of
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Speaker 1: to renovate a decaying one, and you can work with
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Speaker 1: a better heart and a more hopeful spirit. It will
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Speaker 1: make an immense difference with your faith and spirit whether
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Speaker 1: you look upon civilization as a good thing which is
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Speaker 1: becoming better, or a bad and evil thing which is decaying.
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Speaker 1: One viewpoint gives you an advancing and expanding mind, and
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Speaker 1: the other gives you a descending and decreasing mind. One
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Speaker 1: viewpoint will make you grow greater, and the other will
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Speaker 1: inevitably cause you to grow smaller. One will enable you
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Speaker 1: to work for the eternal things, to do large works
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Speaker 1: in a great way toward the completing of all that
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Speaker 1: is incomplete and inharmonious, and the other will make you
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Speaker 1: a mere patchwork reformer, working almost without hope, to save
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Speaker 1: a few lost souls from what you will grow to
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Speaker 1: makes a vast difference to you this matter of the
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Speaker 1: social viewpoint. All's right with the world. Nothing can possibly
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Speaker 1: be wrong but my personal attitude, and I will make
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Speaker 1: that right. I will see the facts of nature and
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Speaker 1: all the events, soircumstances and conditions of society, politics, government,
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Speaker 1: and industry from the highest viewpoint. It is all perfect,
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Speaker 1: though incomplete. It is all the handiwork of God. Behold,
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Speaker 1: viewpoint for your fellow men, for your acquaintances, friends, relatives,
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Speaker 1: your immediate family, and most of all yourself. You must
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Speaker 1: learn not to look upon the world as a lost
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Speaker 1: and decaying thing, but as a something perfect and glorious
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Speaker 1: which is going on to a most beautiful completeness. And
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Speaker 1: you must learn to see men and women not as
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Speaker 1: lost and accursed things, but as perfect beings advancing to
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Speaker 1: become complete. There are no bad or evil people. An
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Speaker 1: engine which is on the rails pulling a heavy train
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Speaker 1: is perfect after its kind, and it is good. The
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Speaker 1: power of steam which drives it is good. Let a
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Speaker 1: broken rail throw the engine into the ditch, and it
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Speaker 1: does not become bad or evil by being so displaced.
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Speaker 1: It is a perfectly good engine. But off the track
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Speaker 1: the power of steam which drives it into the ditch
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Speaker 1: and wrecks it is not evil, but a perfectly good power.
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Speaker 1: So that which is misplaced or applied in an incomplete
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Speaker 1: or partial way is not evil. There are no evil people.
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Speaker 1: There are perfectly good people who are off the track,
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Speaker 1: but they do not need condemnation or punishment. They only
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Speaker 1: need to get upon the rails again. That which is
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Speaker 1: undeveloped or incomplete often appears to us as evil because
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Speaker 1: of the way we have trained ourselves to think. The
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Speaker 1: root of a bulb, which shall produce a white lily
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Speaker 1: is an unsightly thing. One might look upon it with disgust.
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Speaker 1: for its appearance when we know the lily is within it.
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Speaker 1: The root is perfect after its kind. It is a
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Speaker 1: perfect but incomplete lily. And so we must learn to
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Speaker 1: look upon every man and woman, no matter how unlovely
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Speaker 1: in outward manifestation, They are perfect in their stage of being,
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Speaker 1: and they are becoming complete. Behold, it is all very good.
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Speaker 1: Once we come into a comprehension of this fact and
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Speaker 1: arrive at this point of view, we lose all desire
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Speaker 1: to find fault with people, to judge them, criticize them,
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Speaker 1: or condemn them. We no longer work as those who
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Speaker 1: are saving lost souls, but as those who are among
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Speaker 1: the angels working out the completion of a glorious heaven.
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Speaker 1: We are born of the spirit, and we see the
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Speaker 1: Kingdom of God. We no longer see men as trees walking,
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Speaker 1: But our vision is complete. We have nothing but good
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Speaker 1: words to say. It is all good, a great and
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Speaker 1: glorious humanity coming to completeness. And in our association with men,
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Speaker 1: this puts us into an expansive and enlarging attitude of mind.
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Speaker 1: We see them as great beings, and we begin to
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Speaker 1: deal with them and their affairs in a great way.
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Speaker 1: But if we fall to the other point of view
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Speaker 1: and see a lost and degenerate race, we shrink into
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Speaker 1: the contracting mind, and our dealings with men and their
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Speaker 1: affairs will be in a small and contracted way. Remember
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Speaker 1: to hold steadily to this point of view. If you do,
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Speaker 1: you cannot fail to begin at once to deal with
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Speaker 1: your acquaintances and neighbors, and with your own family. As
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Speaker 1: a great personality deals with men. This same viewpoint must
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Speaker 1: be the one from which you regard yourself. You must
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Speaker 1: always see yourself as a great, advancing soul. Learn to say,
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Speaker 1: there is that in me of which I am made,
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Speaker 1: which knows no imperfection, weakness, or sickness. The world is incomplete,
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Speaker 1: but God, in my own consciousness, is both perfect and complete.
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Speaker 1: Nothing can be wrong but my own personal attitude, and
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Speaker 1: my own personal attitude can be wrong only when I
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Speaker 1: disobey that which is within. I am a perfect manifestation
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Speaker 1: of God so far as I have gone, and I
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Speaker 1: will press on to be complete. I will trust and
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Speaker 1: not be afraid. When you are able to say this understandingly,
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Speaker 1: you will have lost all fear, and you will be
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Speaker 1: far advanced upon the road to the development of a
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Speaker 1: Daniel Sanchez. Consecration. Having attained to the viewpoint which puts
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Speaker 1: you into the right relations with the world and with
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Speaker 1: your fellow men, the next step is consecration. And consecration
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Speaker 1: in its true sense, simply means obedience to the soul
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Speaker 1: you have, that within you which is ever impelling you
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Speaker 1: toward the upward and advancing way. And that impelling something
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Speaker 1: is the divine principle of power. You must obey it
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Speaker 1: without question. No one will deny the statement that if
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Speaker 1: you are to be great, the greatness must be a
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Speaker 1: manifestation of something within. Nor can you question that this
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Speaker 1: something must be the very greatest and highest that is within.
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Speaker 1: It is not the mind, or the intellect or the reason.
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Speaker 1: You cannot be great if you go no farther back
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Speaker 1: for principle than to your reasoning power. Reason knows neither
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Speaker 1: principle nor morality. Your reason is like a lawyer in
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Speaker 1: that it will argue for either side. The intellect of
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Speaker 1: a thief will plan robbery and murder as readily as
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Speaker 1: the intellect of a saint will plan a great philanthropy.
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Speaker 1: Intellect helps us to see the best means and manner
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Speaker 1: of doing the right thing, but intellect never shows us
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Speaker 1: the right thing. Intellect and reason serve the selfish man
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Speaker 1: for his selfish ends as readily as they serve the
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Speaker 1: unselfish man for his unselfish ends. Use intellect and reason
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Speaker 1: without regard to principle, and you may become known as
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Speaker 1: a very able person, But you will never become known
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Speaker 1: as a person whose life shows the power of real greatness.
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Speaker 1: There is too much training of the intellect and reasoning powers,
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Speaker 1: and too little training in obedience to the soul. This
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Speaker 1: is the only thing that can be wrong with your
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Speaker 1: to the principle of power. By going back to your
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Speaker 1: For every relationship to be great and to have power,
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Speaker 1: it is only necessary to conform your life to the
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Speaker 1: pure idea as you find it in the great within.
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Speaker 1: Every compromise on this point is made at the expense
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Speaker 1: of a loss of power. This you must remember. There
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Speaker 1: are many ideas in your mind which you have outgrown,
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Speaker 1: and which, from force of habit, you still permit to
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Speaker 1: dictate the actions of your life. Cease all this, abandon
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Speaker 1: everything you have outgrown. There are many ignoble customs, social
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Speaker 1: and other which you still follow, although you know they
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Speaker 1: tend to dwarf and belittle you and keep you acting
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Speaker 1: in a small way. Rise above all this. I do
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Speaker 1: not say that you should absolutely disregard conventionalities or the
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Speaker 1: commonly accepted standards of right and wrong. You cannot do this,
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Speaker 1: but you can deliver your soul from most of the
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Speaker 1: narrow restrictions which bind the majority of your fellow men.
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Speaker 1: Do not give your time and strength to the support
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Speaker 1: of obsolete institutions, religious or otherwise. Do not be bound
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Speaker 1: by creeds in which you do not believe. Be free.
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Speaker 1: You have perhaps formed some sensual habits of mind or body,
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Speaker 1: abandon them. You still indulge in distrustful fears that things
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Speaker 1: will go wrong, or that people will betray you or
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Speaker 1: mistreat you. Get above all of them. You still act
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Speaker 1: selfishly in many ways and on many occasions. Cease to
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Speaker 1: in your mind. If you desire to advance and you
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Speaker 1: are not doing so, remember that it can be only
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Speaker 1: because your thought is better than your practice. You must
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Speaker 1: do as well as you think. Let your thoughts be
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Speaker 1: ruled by principle, and then live up to your thoughts.
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Speaker 1: Let your attitude in business, in politics, in neighborhood affairs,
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Speaker 1: and in your own home be the expression of the
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Speaker 1: best thoughts you can think. Let your manner toward all
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Speaker 1: men and women, great and small, and especially to your
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Speaker 1: own family circle, always be the most kindly, gracious, and
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Speaker 1: courteous you can picture in your imagination. Remember your viewpoint.
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Speaker 1: You are a god in the company of gods, and
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Speaker 1: must conduct yourself accordingly. The steps to complete consecration are
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Speaker 1: few and simple. You cannot be ruled from below If
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Speaker 1: you are to be great, you must rule from above.
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Speaker 1: Therefore you cannot be governed by physical impulses. You must
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Speaker 1: bring your body into subjection to the mind. But your
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Speaker 1: mind without principle, may lead you into selfishness and immoral ways.
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Speaker 1: You must put the mind into subjection to the soul.
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Speaker 1: And your soul is limited by the boundaries of your knowledge.
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Speaker 1: You must put it into subjection to that over soul,
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Speaker 1: which needeth no searching of the understanding, but before whose
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Speaker 1: eyes all things are spread. That constitutes consecration. Say I
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Speaker 1: surrender my body to be ruled by my mind. I
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Speaker 1: surrender my mind to be governed by my soul, and
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Speaker 1: I surrender my soul to the guidance of God. Make
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Speaker 1: this consecration complete and thorough. And you have taken the
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Speaker 1: second great step in the way of greatness and power.
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Speaker 1: recognized God as the advancing presence in nature, society, and
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Speaker 1: your fellow men, and harmonized yourself with all these, and
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Speaker 1: having consecrated yourself to that within you which impels towards
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Speaker 1: the greatest and the Highest. The next step is to
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Speaker 1: become aware of and recognize fully the fact that the
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Speaker 1: principle of power within you is God himself. You must
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Speaker 1: consciously identify yourself with the Highest. This is not some
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Speaker 1: false or untrue position to be assumed. It is a
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Speaker 1: fact to be recognized. You are already one with God.
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Speaker 1: You want to become consciously aware of it. There is
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Speaker 1: one substance, the source of all things, and this substance
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Speaker 1: has within itself the power which creates all things. All
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Speaker 1: power is inherent in it. This substance is conscious and
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Speaker 1: thinks it works with perfect understanding and intelligence. You know
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Speaker 1: that this is so because you know that substance exists,
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Speaker 1: and that consciousness exists, and that it must be substance
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Speaker 1: which is conscious. Man is conscious and thinks, Man is substance.
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Speaker 1: He must be substance, else he is nothing and does
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Speaker 1: not exist at all. If man is substance and thinks
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Speaker 1: and is conscious, then he is conscious substance. It is
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Speaker 1: not conceivable that there should be more than one conscious substance.
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Speaker 1: So man is the original substance, the source of all
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Speaker 1: life and power embodied in a physical form. Man cannot
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Speaker 1: be something different from God. Intelligence is one and the
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Speaker 1: same everywhere, and must be everywhere an attribute of the
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Speaker 1: same substance. There cannot be one kind of intelligence in
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Speaker 1: God and another kind of intelligence in man. Intelligence can
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Speaker 1: only be in intelligent substance. An intelligent substance is God.
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Speaker 1: Man is of one stuff with God, and so all
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Speaker 1: the talents, powers, and possibilities that are in God are
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Speaker 1: in man, not in a few exceptional men, but in
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Speaker 1: every man. All power is given to man in heaven
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Speaker 1: and on earth. Is it not written ye are gods?
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Speaker 1: The principle of power in man is man himself, and
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Speaker 1: man himself is God. But while man is original substance
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Speaker 1: and has within him all power and possibilities, his consciousness
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Speaker 1: is limited. He does not know all there is to know,
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Speaker 1: and so he is liable to error and mistake. To
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Speaker 1: save himself from these, he must unite his mind to
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Speaker 1: that outside him, which does know all. He must become
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Speaker 1: consciously one with God. There is a mind surrounding him
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Speaker 1: on every side, closer than breathing, nearer than hands and feet.
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Speaker 1: And in this mind is the memory of all that
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Speaker 1: has ever happened. From the greatest convulsions of nature in
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Speaker 1: prehisas historic days, to the fall of a sparrow in
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Speaker 1: this present time, and all that is in existence now
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Speaker 1: as well. Held in this mind is the great purpose
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Speaker 1: which is behind all nature, and so it knows what
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Speaker 1: is going to be. Man is surrounded by a mind
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Speaker 1: which knows all there is to know, past, present and
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Speaker 1: to come. Everything that men have said, or done or
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Speaker 1: written is present there. Man is of one identical stuff
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Speaker 1: with this mind. He proceeded from it, and he can
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Speaker 1: so identify himself with it that he may know what
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Speaker 1: it knows. My Father is greater than I said Jesus,
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Speaker 1: I come from him. I and my Father are one.
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Speaker 1: He showeth the sun all things. The Spirit shall guide
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Speaker 1: you into all truth. Your identification of your sin with
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Speaker 1: the infinite must be accomplished by conscious recognition on your part,
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Speaker 1: recognizing it as a fact that there is only God
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Speaker 1: and that all intelligence is in the one substance. You
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Speaker 1: must affirm somewhat after this, Wise, there is only one,
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Speaker 1: and that one is everywhere. I surrender myself to conscious
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Speaker 1: unity with the Highest, not I but the Father. I
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Speaker 1: will to be one with the Supreme and to lead
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Speaker 1: the Divine life. I am one with infinite consciousness. There
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Speaker 1: is but one mind, and I am that mind. I
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Speaker 1: that speak unto you am he. If you have been
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Speaker 1: thorough in the work as outlined in the preceding chapters,
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Speaker 1: if you have attained to the true viewpoint, and if
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Speaker 1: your consecration is complete, you will not find conscious identification
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Speaker 1: hard to attain. And once it is attained, the power
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Speaker 1: you seek is yours, for you have made yourself one
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Speaker 1: with all the power there is. End of chapter nine,
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Speaker 1: Daniel Sanchez. Idealization. You are a thinking center in original substance,
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Speaker 1: and the thoughts of original substance have creative power. Whatever
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Speaker 1: is formed in its thought and held as a thought
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Speaker 1: form must come into existence as a visible and so
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Speaker 1: called material form. And a thought form held in thinking
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Speaker 1: substance is a reality. It is a real thing, whether
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Speaker 1: it has yet become visible to mortal eye or not.
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Speaker 1: This is a fact that you should impress upon your
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Speaker 1: understanding that a thought held in thinking substance is a
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Speaker 1: real thing, a form, and has actual existence, although it
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Speaker 1: is not visible to you. You internally take the form
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Speaker 1: in which you think of yourself, and you surround yourself
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Speaker 1: with the invisible forms of those things with which you
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Speaker 1: associate in your thoughts. If you desire a thing, picture
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Speaker 1: it clearly, and hold the picture steadily in mind until
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Speaker 1: it becomes a definite thought form. And if your practices
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Speaker 1: are not such as to separate you from God, the
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Speaker 1: thing you want will come to you in material form.
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Speaker 1: It must do so in obedience to the law by
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Speaker 1: which the universe was created. Make no thought form of
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Speaker 1: yourself in connection with disease or sickness, but form a
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Speaker 1: conception of health. Make a thought form of yourself as
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Speaker 1: strong and hearty and perfectly well. Impress this thought form
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Speaker 1: on creative intelligence. And if your practices are not in
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Speaker 1: violation of the laws by which the physical body is built,
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Speaker 1: your thought form will become manifest in your flesh. This
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Speaker 1: also is certain. It comes by obedience to law. Make
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Speaker 1: a thought form of yourself as you desire to be,
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Speaker 1: and set your ideal as near to perfection as your
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Speaker 1: imagination is capable of forming. The conception. Let me illustrate.
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Speaker 1: If a young law student wishes to become great, let
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Speaker 1: him picture himself, while attending to the viewpoint consecration and identification,
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Speaker 1: as previously directed, as a great lawyer, pleading his case
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Speaker 1: with matchless eloquence and power before the judge and jury,
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Speaker 1: as having an unlimited command of truth, of knowledge, and
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Speaker 1: of wisdom. Let him picture himself as the great lawyer
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Speaker 1: in every possible situation and contingency, while he is still
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Speaker 1: only the student in all circumstances. Let him never forget
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Speaker 1: or fail to be the great lawyer in his thought
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Speaker 1: form of himself. As the thought form grows more definite
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Speaker 1: and habitual in his mind, the creative energies, both within
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Speaker 1: and without are set at work. He begins to manifest
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Speaker 1: the form from within, and all the essentials without which
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Speaker 1: go into the picture begin to be impelled toward him.
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Speaker 1: He makes himself into the image, and God works with him.
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Speaker 1: Nothing can prevent him from becoming what he wishes to be.
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Speaker 1: In the same general way, the musical student pictures himself
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Speaker 1: as performing perfect harmonies and as delighting vast audiences. The
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Speaker 1: actor forms the highest conception he is capable of in
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Speaker 1: regard to his art, and applies this conception to himself.
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Speaker 1: The farmer and the mechanic, do exactly the same thing.
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Speaker 1: Fix upon your ideal of what you wish to make
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Speaker 1: of yourself. Consider well, and be sure that you make
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Speaker 1: the right choice, that is the one which will be
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Speaker 1: the most satisfactory to you in a general way. Do
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Speaker 1: not pay too much attention to the advice or suggestions
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Speaker 1: of those around you. Do not believe that anyone can
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Speaker 1: know better than yourself what is right for you. Listen
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Speaker 1: to what others have to say, but always form your
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Speaker 1: own conclusions. Do not let other people decide what you
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Speaker 1: are to be. Be what you feel that you want
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Speaker 1: to be. Do not be misled by a false notion
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Speaker 1: of obligation or duty. You can owe no possible obligation
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Speaker 1: or duty to others which should prevent you from from
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Speaker 1: making the most of yourself. Be true to yourself, and
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Speaker 1: you cannot then be false to any man. When you
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Speaker 1: have fully decided what thing you want to be, form
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Speaker 1: the highest conception of that thing that you are capable
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Speaker 1: of imagining, and make that conception a thought form. Hold
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Speaker 1: that thought form as a fact as the real truth
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Speaker 1: about yourself, and believe in it. Close your ears to
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Speaker 1: all adverse suggestions. Never mind if people call you a
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Speaker 1: fool and a dreamer dream on. Remember that Bonaparte, the
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Speaker 1: half starved lieutenant, always saw himself as the general of
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Speaker 1: armies and the master of France, and he became in
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Speaker 1: outward realization what he held himself to be in mind.
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Speaker 1: So likewise, will you attend carefully to all that has
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Speaker 1: been said in the preceding chapters, and act as directed
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Speaker 1: in the following ones, and you will become what you
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Speaker 1: want to be. End of chapter ten, Chapter eleven of
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Speaker 1: Sanchez Realization. If you were to stop with the close
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Speaker 1: of the last chapter, however, you would never become great.
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Speaker 1: You would be, indeed a mere dreamer of dreams, a
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Speaker 1: castle builder. Too many do stop there. They do not
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Speaker 1: understand the necessity for present action. In realizing the vision
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Speaker 1: and bringing the thought form into manifestation. Two things are necessary,
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Speaker 1: first the making of the thought form, and second, the
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Speaker 1: actual appropriation to yourself of all that goes into and
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Speaker 1: around the thought form. We have discussed the first. Now
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Speaker 1: we will proceed to give directions for the second. When
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Speaker 1: you have made your thought form. You are already in
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Speaker 1: your interior what you want to be. Next, you must
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Speaker 1: become externally what you want to be. You are already
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Speaker 1: great within, but you are not yet doing the great things.
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Speaker 1: Without you cannot begin on the instant to do the
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Speaker 1: great things. You cannot be before the world the great
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Speaker 1: actor or lawyer, or musician, or personality you know yourself
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Speaker 1: to be. No one will entrust great things to you
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Speaker 1: as yet, for you have not made yourself known. But
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Speaker 1: you can always begin to do small things in a
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Speaker 1: great way. Here lies the whole secret. You can begin
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Speaker 1: to be great to day in your own home, in
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Speaker 1: your store or office, on the street, everywhere, you can
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Speaker 1: begin to make yourself known as great. And you can
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Speaker 1: do this by doing everything you do in a great way.
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Speaker 1: You must put the whole power of your great soul
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Speaker 1: into every act, however small and commonplace, and so reveal
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Speaker 1: to your family, your friends, and neighbors what you really are.
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Speaker 1: Do not brag or boast of yourself. Do not go
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Speaker 1: about telling people what a great personage you are. Simply
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Speaker 1: live in a great way. No one will believe you
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Speaker 1: if you tell him you are a great man, But
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Speaker 1: no one can doubt your greatness if you show it
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Speaker 1: in your actions in your domestic circle. Be so just,
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Speaker 1: so generous, so courteous, and kindly that your family, your wife, husband, children, brothers,
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Speaker 1: and sisters shall know that you are a great and
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Speaker 1: noble soul. In all your relations with men, be great, just, generous, courteous,
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Speaker 1: and kindly. The great are never otherwise this for your attitude. Next,
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Speaker 1: and most important, you must have absolute faith in your
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Speaker 1: own perceptions of truth. Never act in haste or hurry.
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Speaker 1: Be deliberate in everything. Wait until you feel that you
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Speaker 1: know the true way. And when you do feel that
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Speaker 1: you know the true way, be guided by your own faith,
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Speaker 1: though all the world shall disagree with you. If you
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Speaker 1: do not believe what God tells you in little things,
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Speaker 1: you will never draw upon His wisdom and knowledge in
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Speaker 1: larger things. When you feel deeply that a certain act
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Speaker 1: is the right act, do it and have perfect faith
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Speaker 1: that the consequences will be good. When you are deeply
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Speaker 1: impressed that a certain thing is true, no matter what
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Speaker 1: the appearances to the contrary may be, accept that thing
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Speaker 1: as true, and act accordingly. The one way to develop
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Speaker 1: a perception of truth in large things is to trust
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Speaker 1: absolute lutely to your present perception of truth in small things.
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Speaker 1: Remember that you are seeking to develop this very power
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Speaker 1: or faculty, the perception of truth. You are learning to
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Speaker 1: read the thoughts of God. Nothing is great and nothing
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Speaker 1: is small. In the sight of omnipotence. He holds the
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Speaker 1: sun in its place, but he also notes a sparrow's
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Speaker 1: fall and numbers the hairs of your head. God is
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Speaker 1: as much interested in the little matters of every day
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Speaker 1: life as he is in the affairs of nations. You
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Speaker 1: can perceive truth about family and neighborhood affairs, as well
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Speaker 1: as about matters of state craft, and the way to
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Speaker 1: begin is to have perfect faith in the truth in
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Speaker 1: these small matters, as it is revealed to you from
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Speaker 1: day to day. When you feel deeply impelled to take
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Speaker 1: a course which seems contrary to all reason and worldly judgment,
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Speaker 1: take that course. Listen to the suggestions and advice of others,
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Speaker 1: but always do what you feel deeply in the within
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Speaker 1: to be the true thing to do. Rely with absolute
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Speaker 1: faith at all times on your own perception of truth.
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Speaker 1: But be sure that you listen to God, that you
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Speaker 1: do not act in haste, fear, or anxiety. Rely upon
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Speaker 1: your perception of truth in all the facts and circumstances
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Speaker 1: of life. If you deeply feel that a certain man
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Speaker 1: will be in a certain place on a certain day,
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Speaker 1: go there with perfect faith to meet him. He will
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Speaker 1: be there, no matter how unlikely it may seem. If
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Speaker 1: you feel sure that certain people are making certain combinations
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Speaker 1: or doing certain things, act in the faith that they
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Speaker 1: are doing those things. If you feel sure of the
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Speaker 1: truth of any circumstance or happening near or distant, past present,
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Speaker 1: or to come, trust in your perception. You may make
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Speaker 1: occasional mistakes at first because of your imperfect understanding of
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Speaker 1: the within, but you will soon be guided almost invariably right.
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Speaker 1: Soon your family and friends will begin to defer more
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Speaker 1: and more to your judgment and to be guided by you.
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Speaker 1: Soon your neighbors and townsmen will be coming to you
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Speaker 1: for counsel and advice. Soon you will be recognized as
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Speaker 1: one who is great in small things, and you will
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Speaker 1: be called upon more and more to take charge of
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Speaker 1: larger things. All that is necessary is to be guided
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Speaker 1: absolutely in all things by your inner light, your perception
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Speaker 1: of truth, obey your soul, have perfect faith in yourself.
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Speaker 1: Never think of yourself with doubt or distrust, or as
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Speaker 1: one who makes mistakes. If I judge, my judgment is just,
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Speaker 1: for I seek not honor from men, but from the
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Speaker 1: Father only. End of chapter eleven, Section twelve of the
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Speaker 1: Hurry and habit no doubt. You have many problems domestic, social, physical,
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Speaker 1: and financial, which seem to you to be pressing for
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Speaker 1: instant solution. You have debts which must be paid, or
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Speaker 1: other obligations which must be met. You are unhappily or
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Speaker 1: inharmoniously placed, and feel that something must be done at once.
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Speaker 1: Do not get into a hurry and act from superficial impulses.
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Speaker 1: You can trust God for the solution of all your
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Speaker 1: personal riddles. There is no hurry. There is only God,
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Speaker 1: and all is well with the world. There is an
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Speaker 1: invincible power in you, and the same power is in
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Speaker 1: the things you want. It is bringing them to you
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Speaker 1: and bringing you to them. This is a thought that
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Speaker 1: you must grasp and hold continuously, that the same intelligence
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Speaker 1: which is in you is in the things you desire.
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Speaker 1: They are impelled towards you as strongly and decidedly as
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Speaker 1: your desire impels you towards them. The tendency, therefore, of
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Speaker 1: a steadily held thought must be to bring the things
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Speaker 1: you desire to you, and to group them around you.
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Speaker 1: So long as you hold your thought and your faith right,
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Speaker 1: all must go well. Nothing can be wrong but your
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Speaker 1: own personal attitude, and that will not be wrong if
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Speaker 1: you trust and are not afraid. Hurry is a manifestation
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Speaker 1: of fear. He who fears not has plenty of time.
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Speaker 1: If you act with perfect faith in your own perceptions
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Speaker 1: of truth, you will never be too late or too early,
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Speaker 1: and nothing will go wrong. If things appear to be
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Speaker 1: going wrong, do not get disturbed. In mind, it is
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Speaker 1: only in appearance. Nothing can go wrong in this world
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Speaker 1: but yourself, and you can go wrong only by getting
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Speaker 1: into the wrong mental attitude. Whenever you find yourself getting excited, worried,
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Speaker 1: or into the mental attitude of hurry, sit down and
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Speaker 1: think it over. Play a game of some kind, or
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Speaker 1: take a vacation, go on a trip, and all will
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Speaker 1: be right when you return. So surely as you find
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Speaker 1: yourself in the mental attitude of haste, just so surely
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Speaker 1: may you know that you are out of the mental
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Speaker 1: attitude of greatness. Hurry and fear will instantly cut your
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Speaker 1: connection with the universal mind. You will get no power,
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Speaker 1: no wisdom, and no information Until you are calm, and
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Speaker 1: to fall into the attitude of hurry will check the
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Speaker 1: action of the principle of power within you. Fear turns
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Speaker 1: strength to weakness. Remember that poise and power are inseparably associated.
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Speaker 1: The calm and balanced mind is the strong and great mind.
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Speaker 1: The hurried and agitated mind is the weak one. Whenever
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Speaker 1: you fall into the mental state of hurry, you may
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Speaker 1: know that you have lost the right viewpoint. You are
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Speaker 1: beginning to look upon the world or some part of it,
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Speaker 1: as going wrong. At such times, read chapter six of
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Speaker 1: this book. Consider the fact that this world is perfect
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Speaker 1: now with all that it contains. Nothing is going wrong,
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Speaker 1: nothing can be wrong. Be poised, be calm, be cheerful,
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Speaker 1: have faith in God. Next, as to habit, it is
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Speaker 1: probable that your greatest difficulty will be to overcome your
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Speaker 1: old habitual ways of thoughts and to form new habits.
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Speaker 1: The world is ruled by habit Kings, tyrants, masters, and
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Speaker 1: plutocrats hold their positions solely because the people have come
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Speaker 1: to habitually accept them. Things are as they are only
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Speaker 1: because people have formed the habit of accepting them as
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Speaker 1: they are. When the people change their habitual thought about governmental, social,
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Speaker 1: and industrial institutions, they will change the institutions habit rules
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Speaker 1: us all. You have formed, perhaps the habit of thinking
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Speaker 1: of yourself as a common person, as one of a
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Speaker 1: limited ability, or as being more or less of a failure.
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Speaker 1: Whatever you habitually think yourself to be that you are,
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Speaker 1: you must form now a greater and better habit. You
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Speaker 1: must form a conception of yourself as a being of
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Speaker 1: limitless power, and habitually think that you are that being.
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Speaker 1: It is the habitual, not the periodical thought, that decides
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Speaker 1: your destiny. It will avail you nothing to sit apart
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Speaker 1: for a few moments, several times a day to affirm
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Speaker 1: that you are great. If during all the balance of
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Speaker 1: the day, while you are about your regular vocation you
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Speaker 1: think of yourself as not great, no amount of praying
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Speaker 1: or affirmation will make you great. If you still habitually
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Speaker 1: regard yourself as being small. The use of prayer and
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Speaker 1: affirmation is to change your habit of thought. Any act,
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Speaker 1: mental or physical, often repeated, becomes a habit. The purpose
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Speaker 1: of mental exercises is to repeat certain thoughts over and over,
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Speaker 1: and so the thinking of those thoughts becomes constant and habitual.
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Speaker 1: The thoughts we continually repeat become convictions. What you must
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Speaker 1: do is to repeat the new thought of yourself until
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Speaker 1: it is the only way in which you think of yourself.
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Speaker 1: Habitual thought, and not environment or circumstance, has made you
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Speaker 1: what you are. Every person has some central idea or
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Speaker 1: thought form of himself, and by this idea he classifies
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Speaker 1: and arranges all his facts and external relationships. You are
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Speaker 1: classifying your facts either according to the idea that you
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Speaker 1: are a great and strong personality, or according to the
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Speaker 1: idea that you are limited, common, or weak. If the
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Speaker 1: latter is the case, you must change your central idea
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Speaker 1: get a new mental picture of yourself. Do not try
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Speaker 1: to become great by repeating mere strings of words or
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Speaker 1: superficial formulae, but repeat over and over the thought of
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Speaker 1: your own power and ability until you classify external facts
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Speaker 1: and decide your place everywhere by this idea. In another
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Speaker 1: chapter will be found an illustrative mental exercise and further
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Speaker 1: directions on this point. End of Chapter twelve. Chapter thirteen
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Speaker 1: of the Science of Being Great by Wallace D. Waddles.
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Speaker 1: Daniel Sanchez. Thought greatness is attained only by the thinking
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Speaker 1: of great thoughts. No man can become great in outward
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Speaker 1: personality until he is great internally, and no man can
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Speaker 1: be great internally until he thinks. No amount of education,
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Speaker 1: reading or study can make you great without thought, but
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Speaker 1: thought can make you great with very little study. There
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Speaker 1: are altogether too many people who are trying to make
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Speaker 1: something of themselves by reading books without thinking. All such
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Speaker 1: will fail. You are not mentally developed by what you read,
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Speaker 1: but by what you think about what you read. Thinking
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Speaker 1: is the hardest and most exhausting of all labor, and
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Speaker 1: hence many people shrink from it. God has so formed
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Speaker 1: us that we are continuously impelled to thought. We must
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Speaker 1: either think or engage in some activity to escape thought.
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Speaker 1: The headlong, continuous chase for pleasure in which most people
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Speaker 1: spend all their leisure time is only an effort to
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Speaker 1: escape thought. If they are alone, or if they have
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Speaker 1: nothing amusing to take their attention, as a novel to
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Speaker 1: read or a show to see, they must think and
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Speaker 1: to escape from thinking. They resort to novels, shows, and
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Speaker 1: all the endless devices of the purveyors of amusement. Most
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Speaker 1: people spend the greater part of their leisure time running
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Speaker 1: away from thought. Hence they are where they are. We
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Speaker 1: never move forward until we begin to think read less
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Speaker 1: and think more, read about great things, and think about
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Speaker 1: great questions and issues. We have at the present time
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Speaker 1: few really great figures in the political life of our country.
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Speaker 1: Our politicians are a petty lot. There is no Lincoln,
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Speaker 1: no Webster, no Clay, Calhoun or Jackson. Why because our
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Speaker 1: present statesmen deal only with sordid and petty issues, questions
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Speaker 1: of dollars and cents, of expediency and party success, of
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Speaker 1: material prosperity, without regard to ethical right. Thinking along these
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Speaker 1: lines does not call forth great souls. The statesmen of
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Speaker 1: Lincoln's time and previous times dealt with questions of eternal truth,
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Speaker 1: of human rights and justice. Men thought upon great themes,
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Speaker 1: They thought great thoughts, and they became great men. Thinking,
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Speaker 1: not mere knowledge or information, makes personality. Thinking is growth.
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Speaker 1: You cannot think without growing. Every thought engenders another thought.
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Speaker 1: Write one idea and others will follow. Until you have
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Speaker 1: written a page. You cannot fathom your own mind. It
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Speaker 1: has neither bottom nor boundaries. Your first thoughts may be crude,
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Speaker 1: but as you go on thinking, you will use more
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Speaker 1: and more of yourself. You will quicken new brain cells
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Speaker 1: into activity, and you will develop new faculties, heredity, environment, circumstances.
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Speaker 1: All things must give way before you if you practice
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Speaker 1: sustained and continuous thought. But on the other hand, if
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Speaker 1: you neglect to think for yourself and only use other
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Speaker 1: people's thoughts, you will never know what you are capable of,
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Speaker 1: and you will end by being incapable of anything. There
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Speaker 1: can be no real greatness without original thought. All that
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Speaker 1: a man does outwardly is the expression and completion of
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Speaker 1: his inward thinking. No action is possible without thought, and
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Speaker 1: no great action is possible until a great thought has
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Speaker 1: preceded it. Action is the second form of thought, and
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Speaker 1: personality is the materialization of thought. Environment is the result
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Speaker 1: of thought. Things group themselves or arrange themselves around you
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Speaker 1: according to your thought. There is, as Emerson says, some
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Speaker 1: central idea or conception of yourself by which all the
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Speaker 1: facts of your life are arranged and classified. Change this
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Speaker 1: central idea, and you change the arrangement or classification of
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Speaker 1: all the facts and circumstances of your life. You are
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Speaker 1: what you are because you think as you do. You
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Speaker 1: are where you are because you think as you do.
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Speaker 1: You see, then the immense importance of thinking about the
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Speaker 1: great essentials set forth in the preceding chapters. You must
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Speaker 1: not accept them in any superficial way. You must think
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Speaker 1: about them until they are a part of your central idea.
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Speaker 1: Go back to the matter of the point of view
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Speaker 1: and consider, in all its bearings, the tremendous thought that
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Speaker 1: you live in a perfect world among perfect people, and
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Speaker 1: that nothing can possibly be wrong with you but your
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Speaker 1: own personal attitude. Think about all this until you fully
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Speaker 1: realize all that it means to you. Consider that this
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Speaker 1: is God's world, and that it is the best of
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Speaker 1: all possible worlds, that He has brought it thus far
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Speaker 1: toward completion by the processes of organic, social, and industrial,
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Speaker 1: and that it is going on to greater completeness and harmony.
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Speaker 1: Consider that there is one great, perfect, intelligent principle of
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Speaker 1: life and power causing all the changing phenomena of the cosmos.
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Speaker 1: Think about all this until you see that it is true,
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Speaker 1: and until you comprehend how you should live and act
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Speaker 1: as a citizen of such a perfect whole. Next, think
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Speaker 1: of the wonderful truth that this great intelligence is in you.
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Speaker 1: It is your own intelligence. It is an inner light
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Speaker 1: impelling you toward the right thing and the best thing,
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Speaker 1: the greatest act, and the highest happiness. It is a
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Speaker 1: principle of power in you, giving you all the ability
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Speaker 1: and genius there is. It will infallibly guide you to
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Speaker 1: the best if you will submit to it and walk
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Speaker 1: in the light. Consider what is meant by your consecration
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Speaker 1: of yourself when you say I will obey my soul.
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Speaker 1: This is a sentence of tremendous meaning. It must revolutionize
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Speaker 1: the attitude and behavior of the average person. Then think
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Speaker 1: of your identification with this great supreme that all its
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Speaker 1: knowledge is yours, and all its wisdom is yours for
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Speaker 1: the asking. You are a god. If you think like
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Speaker 1: a god. If you think like a god, you cannot
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Speaker 1: fail to act like a god. Divine thoughts will surely
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Speaker 1: externalize themselves in a divine life. Thoughts of power will
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Speaker 1: end in a life of power. Great thoughts will manifest
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Speaker 1: in a great personality. Think well of all this, and
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Speaker 1: then you are ready to act. End of chapter thirteen,
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Speaker 1: Chapter fourteen of the Science of Being Great by Wallace D. Waddles.
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Speaker 1: Daniel Sanchez. Action at home. Do not merely think that
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Speaker 1: you are going to become great. Think that you are
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Speaker 1: great now. Do not think that you will begin to
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Speaker 1: act in a great way at some future time. Begin now.
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Speaker 1: Do not think that you will act in a great
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Speaker 1: way when you reach a different environment. Act in a
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Speaker 1: great way where you are now. Do not think that
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Speaker 1: you will begin to act in a great way when
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Speaker 1: you begin to deal with great things. Begin to deal
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Speaker 1: in a great way with small things. Do not think
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Speaker 1: that you will begin to be great when you get
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Speaker 1: among more intelligent people or among people who understand you.
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Speaker 1: Better Begin now to deal in a great way with
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Speaker 1: the people around you. If you are not in an
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Speaker 1: environment where there is scope for your best powers and talents,
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Speaker 1: you can move in due time. But meanwhile you can
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Speaker 1: be great where you are. Lincoln was as great when
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Speaker 1: he was a backwoods lawyer as when he was president.
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Speaker 1: As a backwoods lawyer, he did common things in a
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Speaker 1: great way, and that made him president. Had he waited
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Speaker 1: until he reached Washington to begin to be great, he
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Speaker 1: would have remained unknown. You are not made great by
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Speaker 1: the location in which you happen to be, nor by
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Speaker 1: the things with which you may surround yourself. You are
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Speaker 1: not made great by what you receive from others, and
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Speaker 1: you can never manifest greatness so long as you depend
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Speaker 1: on others. You will manifest greatness only when you begin
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Speaker 1: to stand alone. Dismiss all thought of reliance on externals,
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Speaker 1: whether things, books, or people. As Emerson said, Shakespeare will
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Speaker 1: never be made by the study of Shakespeare. Shakespeare will
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Speaker 1: be made by the thinking of Shakespearean thoughts. Never mind
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Speaker 1: how the people around you, including those of your own household,
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Speaker 1: may treat you. That has nothing at all to do
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Speaker 1: with your being great. That is, it cannot hinder you
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Speaker 1: from being great. People may neglect you and be unthankful
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Speaker 1: and unkind in their attitude towards you. Does that prevent
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Speaker 1: you from being great in your manner and attitude toward them?
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Speaker 1: Your father said, Jesus is kind to the unthankful and
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Speaker 1: the evil. Would God be great if he should go
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Speaker 1: away and sulk because people were unthankful and did not
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Speaker 1: appreciate him? Treat the unthankful and the evil in a
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Speaker 1: great and perfectly kind way, just as God does. Do
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Speaker 1: not talk about your greatness. You are really in essential nature,
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Speaker 1: no greater than those around you. You may have entered
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Speaker 1: upon a way of living and thinking which they have
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Speaker 1: not yet found, but they are perfect on their own
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Speaker 1: plane of thought and action. You are entitled to no
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Speaker 1: special honor or consideration for your greatness. You are a god,
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Speaker 1: but you are among gods. You will fall into the
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Speaker 1: boastful attitude if you see other people's shortcomings and failures
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Speaker 1: and compare them with your own virtues and successes. And
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Speaker 1: if you fall into the boastful attitude of mind, you
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Speaker 1: will cease to be great and become small. Think of
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Speaker 1: yourself as a perfect being among perfect beings, and meet
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Speaker 1: every person as an equal, not as either a superior
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Speaker 1: or an inferior. Give yourself no heirs. Great people never
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Speaker 1: do ask no honors and seek for no recognition. Honors
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Speaker 1: and recognition will come fast enough if you are entitled
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Speaker 1: to them. Begin at home. It is a great person
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Speaker 1: who can always be poised, assured, calm, and perfectly kind
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Speaker 1: and considerate at home. If your manner and attitude in
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Speaker 1: your own family are always the best you can think.
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Speaker 1: You will soon become the one on whom all the
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Speaker 1: others will rely. You will be a tower of strength
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Speaker 1: and a support in time of trouble. You will be
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Speaker 1: loved and appreciated. At the same time, Do not make
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Speaker 1: the mistake of throwing yourself away in the service of others.
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Speaker 1: The great person respects himself. He serves and helps, but
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Speaker 1: he is never slavishly servile. You cannot help your family
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Speaker 1: by being a slave to them, or by doing for
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Speaker 1: them those things which, by right they should do for themselves.
1:32:47
Speaker 1: You do a person an injury when you wait on
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Speaker 1: him too much. The selfish and exacting are a great
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Speaker 1: deal better off if their exactions are denied. The ideal
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Speaker 1: world is not one where there are a lot of
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Speaker 1: people being waited on by other people. It is a
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Speaker 1: world where everybody waits on himself. Meet all demands, selfish
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Speaker 1: and otherwise, with perfect kindness and consideration. But do not
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Speaker 1: allow yourself to be made a slave to the whims, caprices, exactions,
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Speaker 1: or slavish desires of any member of your family. To
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Speaker 1: do so is not great, and it works an injury
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Speaker 1: to the other party. Do not become uneasy over the
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Speaker 1: failures or mistakes of any member of your family and
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Speaker 1: feel that you must interfere. Do not be disturbed if
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Speaker 1: others seem to be going wrong and feel that you
1:33:41
Speaker 1: must step in and set them right. Remember that every
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Speaker 1: person is perfect on his own plane. You cannot improve
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Speaker 1: on the work of God. Do not meddle with the
1:33:53
Speaker 1: personal habits and practices of others, Though they are your
1:33:57
Speaker 1: nearest and dearest. These things are none of your business.
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Speaker 1: Nothing can be wrong but your own personal attitude. Make
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Speaker 1: that right, and you will know that all else is right.
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Speaker 1: You are a truly great soul when you can live
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Speaker 1: with those who do things which you do not do,
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Speaker 1: and yet refrain from either criticism or interference. Do the
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Speaker 1: things which are right for you to do, and believe
1:34:25
Speaker 1: that every member of your family is doing the things
1:34:28
Speaker 1: which are right for him. Nothing is wrong with anybody
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Speaker 1: or anything. Behold it is all very good. Do not
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Speaker 1: be enslaved by anyone else, but be just as careful
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Speaker 1: that you do not enslave anyone else to your own
1:34:44
Speaker 1: notions of what is right. Think and think deeply and continuously.
1:34:51
Speaker 1: Be perfect in your kindness and consideration. Let your attitude
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Speaker 1: be that of a god among gods, and not that
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Speaker 1: of a god among inferior beings. This is the way
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Speaker 1: to be great in your own home. End of chapter fourteen,
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Speaker 1: Chapter fifteen of the Science of Being Great by Wallace D. Waddles.
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Speaker 1: This LibriVox recording is in the public domain read by
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Speaker 1: Daniel Sanchez. Action abroad. The rules which apply to your
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Speaker 1: action at home must apply to your action everywhere. Never
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Speaker 1: forget for an instant that this is a perfect world,
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Speaker 1: and that you are a god among gods. You are
1:35:44
Speaker 1: as great as the greatest, but all are your equals.
1:35:48
Speaker 1: Rely absolutely on your perception of truth. Trust to the
1:35:52
Speaker 1: inner light rather than to reason. But be sure that
1:35:55
Speaker 1: your perception comes from the inner light. Act in poor
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Speaker 1: and calmness, Be still and attend on God. Your identification
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Speaker 1: of yourself with the all minds will give you all
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Speaker 1: the knowledge you need for guidance in any contingency which
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Speaker 1: may arise in your own life or in the lives
1:36:16
Speaker 1: of others. It is only necessary that you should be
1:36:20
Speaker 1: supremely calm and rely upon the eternal wisdom which is
1:36:24
Speaker 1: within you. If you act in poise and faith, your
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Speaker 1: judgment will always be right, and you will always know
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Speaker 1: exactly what to do. Do not hurry or worry. Remember
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Speaker 1: Lincoln in the dark days of the war. James Freeman
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Speaker 1: Clark relates that after the Battle of Fredericksburg, Lincoln alone
1:36:45
Speaker 1: furnished a supply of faith and hope for the nation.
1:36:49
Speaker 1: Hundreds of leading men from all parts of the country
1:36:52
Speaker 1: went sadly into his room and came out cheerful and hopeful.
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Speaker 1: They had stood face to face with the Highest and
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Speaker 1: had seen God in this lank, ungainly patient man, although
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Speaker 1: they knew it not. Have perfect faith in yourself and
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Speaker 1: in your own ability to cope with any combination of
1:37:13
Speaker 1: circumstances that may arise. Do not be disturbed if you
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Speaker 1: are alone. If you need friends, they will be brought
1:37:20
Speaker 1: to you at the right time. Do not be disturbed
1:37:23
Speaker 1: if you feel that you are ignorant. The information that
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Speaker 1: you need will be furnished you when it is time
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Speaker 1: for you to have it. That which is in you
1:37:32
Speaker 1: impelling you forward, is in the things and people you need,
1:37:36
Speaker 1: impelling them toward you. If there is a particular man
1:37:40
Speaker 1: you need to know, he will be introduced to you.
1:37:44
Speaker 1: If there is a particular book you need to read,
1:37:46
Speaker 1: it will be placed in your hands at the right time.
1:37:49
Speaker 1: All the knowledge you need will come to you from
1:37:52
Speaker 1: both external and internal sources. Your information and your talents
1:37:57
Speaker 1: will always be equal to the requirements of the occasion.
1:38:02
Speaker 1: Remember that Jesus told his disciples not to worry as
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Speaker 1: to what they should say when brought before the judges.
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Speaker 1: He knew that the power in them would be sufficient
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Speaker 1: for the needs of the hour. As soon as you
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Speaker 1: awaken and begin to use your faculties in a great way,
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Speaker 1: you will apply power to the development of your brain.
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Speaker 1: New cells will be created and dormant cells quickened into activity,
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Speaker 1: and your brain will be qualified as a perfect instrument
1:38:30
Speaker 1: for your mind. Do not try to do great things
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Speaker 1: until you are ready to go about them in a
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Speaker 1: great way. If you undertake to deal with great matters
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Speaker 1: in a small way, that is, from a low viewpoint,
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Speaker 1: or with incomplete consecration and wavering faith and courage, you
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Speaker 1: will fail. Do not be in a hurry to get
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Speaker 1: to the great things. Doing great things will not make
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Speaker 1: you great, but becoming great will certainly lead you to
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Speaker 1: the doing of great things. Begin to be great where
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Speaker 1: you are and in the things you do every day.
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Speaker 1: Do not be in haste to be found out or
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Speaker 1: recognized as a great personality. Do not be disappointed if
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Speaker 1: men do not nominate you for office within a month
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Speaker 1: after you begin to practice what you read in this book.
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Speaker 1: Great people never seek for recognition or applause. They are
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Speaker 1: not great because they want to be paid for being
1:39:28
Speaker 1: so greatness is reward enough for itself. The joy of
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Speaker 1: being something, and of knowing that you are advancing, is
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Speaker 1: the greatest of all joys possible to man. If you
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Speaker 1: begin in your own family as described in the preceding chapter,
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Speaker 1: and then assume the same mental attitude with your neighbors, friends,
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Speaker 1: and those you meet in business, you will soon find
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Speaker 1: that people are beginning to depend on you. Your advice
1:39:55
Speaker 1: will be sought, and a constantly increasing number of people
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Speaker 1: will look to you for strength and inspiration and rely
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Speaker 1: upon your judgment. Here, as in the home, you must
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Speaker 1: avoid meddling with other people's affairs. Help all who come
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Speaker 1: to you, but do not go about officiously endeavoring to
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Speaker 1: set other people right. Mind your own business. It is
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Speaker 1: no part of your mission in life to correct people's morals, habits,
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Speaker 1: or practices. Lead a great life, doing all things with
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Speaker 1: a great spirit, and in a great way, give to
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Speaker 1: him that asketh of thee as freely as ye have received.
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Speaker 1: But do not force your help or your opinions upon
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Speaker 1: any man. If your neighbor wishes to smoke or drink,
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Speaker 1: it is his business, it is none of yours until
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Speaker 1: he consults you about it. If you lead a great
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Speaker 1: life and do no preaching, you will save a thousand
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Speaker 1: times as many souls as one who leads a small
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Speaker 1: life and preaches continuous. If you hold the right viewpoint
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Speaker 1: of the world, others will find it out and be
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Speaker 1: impressed by it through your daily conversation and practice. Do
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Speaker 1: not try to convert others to your point of view,
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Speaker 1: except by holding it and living accordingly. If your consecration
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Speaker 1: is perfect, you do not need to tell anyone. It
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Speaker 1: will speedily become apparent to all that you are guided
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Speaker 1: by a higher principle than the average man or woman.
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Speaker 1: If your identification with God is complete, you do not
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Speaker 1: need to explain the fact to others. It will become
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Speaker 1: self evident. To become known as a great personality, you
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Speaker 1: have nothing to do but to live. Do not imagine
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Speaker 1: that you must go charging about the world like Don Quixote,
1:41:48
Speaker 1: tilting at windmills and overturning things in general, in order
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Speaker 1: to demonstrate that you are somebody. Do not go hunting
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Speaker 1: for big things to do. Live a great life where
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Speaker 1: you are and in the daily work you have to do,
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Speaker 1: and greater works will surely find you out. Big things
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Speaker 1: will come to you asking to be done. Be so
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Speaker 1: impressed with the value of a man that you treat
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Speaker 1: even a beggar or the tramp with the most distinguished consideration.
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Speaker 1: All is God, every man and woman is perfect. Let
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Speaker 1: your manner be that of a god addressing other gods.
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Speaker 1: Do not save all your consideration for the poor. The
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Speaker 1: millionaire is as good as the tramp. This is a
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Speaker 1: perfectly good world, and there is not a person or
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Speaker 1: thing in it but is exactly right. Be sure that
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Speaker 1: you keep this in mind in dealing with things and men.
1:42:46
Speaker 1: Form your mental vision of yourself with care, make the
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Speaker 1: thought form of yourself as you wish to be, and
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Speaker 1: hold this with the faith that it is being realized,
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Speaker 1: and with the purpose to realize it completely. Do every
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Speaker 1: common act as a God should do it. Speak every
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Speaker 1: word as a God should speak it. Meet men and
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Speaker 1: women of both low and high estate as a God
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Speaker 1: meets other Divine beings begin thus and continue thus, and
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Speaker 1: your unfoldment inability and power will be great and rapid.
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Speaker 1: End of chapter fifteen, Chapter sixteen of the Science of
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Speaker 1: Being Great by Wallace D. Waddles. This LibriVox recording is
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Speaker 1: in the public domain. Read by Daniel Sanchez some further explanations.
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Speaker 1: We go back here to the matter of the point
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Speaker 1: of view, for besides being vitally important, it is the
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Speaker 1: one which is likely to give the student the most trouble.
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Speaker 1: We have been trained, partly by mistakes religious teachers, to
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Speaker 1: look upon the world as being like a wrecked ship
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Speaker 1: storm driven upon a rocky coast. Utter destruction is inevitable
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Speaker 1: at the end, and the most that can be done
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Speaker 1: is to rescue perhaps a few of the crew. This
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Speaker 1: view teaches us to consider the world as essentially bad
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Speaker 1: and growing worse, and to believe that existing discords and
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Speaker 1: inharmonies must continue and intensify until the end. It robs
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Speaker 1: us of hope for society, government, and humanity, and gives
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Speaker 1: us a decreasing outlook and contracting mind. This is all wrong.
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Speaker 1: The world is not wrecked. It is like a magnificent
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Speaker 1: steamer with the engines in place and the machinery in
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Speaker 1: perfect order. The bunkers are full of coal, and the
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Speaker 1: ship is amply provisioned for the cruise. There is no
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Speaker 1: lack of any good thing. Every provision omniscience could devise
1:44:58
Speaker 1: has been made for this safety, comfort, and happiness of
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Speaker 1: the crew. The steamer is out on the high seas,
1:45:06
Speaker 1: tacking hither and thither, because no one has yet learned
1:45:09
Speaker 1: the right course to steer. We are learning to steer,
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Speaker 1: and in due time will come grandly into the harbor
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Speaker 1: of perfect harmony. The world is good and growing better.
1:45:22
Speaker 1: Existing discords and in harmonies are but the rollings of
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Speaker 1: the ship, incidental to our own imperfect steering. They will
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Speaker 1: all be removed in due time. This view gives us
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Speaker 1: an increasing outlook and an expanding mind. It enables us
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Speaker 1: to think largely of society and of ourselves, and to
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Speaker 1: do things in a great way. Furthermore, we see that
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Speaker 1: nothing can be wrong with such a world, or with
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Speaker 1: any part of it, including our own affairs. If it
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Speaker 1: is all moving on toward completion, then it is not
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Speaker 1: going wrong. And as our own personal affairs are a
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Speaker 1: part of the whole, they are not going wrong. You
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Speaker 1: and all that you are concerned with are moving on
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Speaker 1: toward completeness. Nothing can check this forward movement but yourself,
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Speaker 1: and you can only check it by assuming a mental
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Speaker 1: attitude which is at cross purposes with the mind of God.
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Speaker 1: You have nothing to keep right but yourself. If you
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Speaker 1: keep yourself right, nothing can possibly go wrong with you,
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Speaker 1: and you can have nothing to fear. No business or
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Speaker 1: other disaster can come upon you if your personal attitude
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Speaker 1: is right, For you are a part of that which
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Speaker 1: is increasing and advancing, and you must increase and advance
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Speaker 1: with it. Moreover, your thought form will be mostly shaped
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Speaker 1: according to your viewpoint of the cosmos. If you see
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Speaker 1: the world as a lost and ruined thing, you will
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Speaker 1: see yourself as a part of it, and as partaking
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Speaker 1: of its sins and weaknesses. If your outlook for the
1:47:00
Speaker 1: world as a whole is hopeless, your outlook for yourself
1:47:04
Speaker 1: cannot be hopeful. If you see the world as declining
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Speaker 1: toward its end, you cannot see yourself as advancing. Unless
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Speaker 1: you think well of all the works of God, you
1:47:15
Speaker 1: cannot really think well of yourself. And unless you think
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Speaker 1: well of yourself, you can never become great. I repeat
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Speaker 1: that your place in life, including your material environment is
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Speaker 1: determined by the thought form you habitually hold of yourself.
1:47:32
Speaker 1: When you make a thought form of yourself, you can
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Speaker 1: hardly fail to form in your mind a corresponding environment.
1:47:40
Speaker 1: If you think of yourself as an incapable, inefficient person,
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Speaker 1: you will think of yourself with poor or cheap surroundings.
1:47:49
Speaker 1: Unless you think well of yourself, you will be sure
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Speaker 1: to picture yourself in a more or less poverty stricken environment.
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Speaker 1: These thoughts habitually held become in visible forms in the
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Speaker 1: surrounding mind stuff, and are with you continually. In due
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Speaker 1: time by the regular action of the eternal creative energy,
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Speaker 1: the invisible thought forms are produced in material stuff, and
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Speaker 1: you are surrounded by your own thoughts made into material things.
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Speaker 1: See nature as a great, living and advancing presence, and
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Speaker 1: see human society in exactly the same way. It is
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Speaker 1: all one, coming from one source, and it is all good.
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Speaker 1: You yourself, are made of the same stuff as God.
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Speaker 1: All the constituents of God are parts of yourself. Every
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Speaker 1: power that God has is a constituent of man. You
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Speaker 1: can move forward as you see God doing. You have
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Speaker 1: within yourself the source of every power. End of Chapter sixteen,
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Speaker 1: Chapter seventeen of the Science of Being Great by Wallace D. Waddles.
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Speaker 1: This LibriVox recording is in the public domain. Read by
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Speaker 1: Daniel Sanchez. More about thought. I give place here to
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Speaker 1: some further consideration of thought. You will never become great
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Speaker 1: until your own thoughts make you great, and therefore it
1:49:26
Speaker 1: is of the first importance that you should think. You
1:49:30
Speaker 1: will never do great things in the external world until
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Speaker 1: you think great things in the internal world. And you
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Speaker 1: will never think great things until you think about truth
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Speaker 1: about the verities. To think great things, you must be
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Speaker 1: absolutely sincere, And to be sincere you must know that
1:49:49
Speaker 1: your intentions are right, insincere, or false. Thinking is never great,
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Speaker 1: however logical and brilliant it may be. The first and
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Speaker 1: most import shortant step is to seek the truth about
1:50:02
Speaker 1: human relations, to know what you ought to be to
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Speaker 1: other men and what they ought to be to you.
1:50:08
Speaker 1: This brings you back to the search for a right viewpoint.
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Speaker 1: You should study organic and social evolution. Read Darwin and
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Speaker 1: Walter Thomas Mills, and when you read think think the
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Speaker 1: whole matter over until you see the world of things
1:50:24
Speaker 1: and men in the right way. Think about what God
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Speaker 1: is doing until you can see what he is doing.
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Speaker 1: Your next step is to think yourself into the right
1:50:34
Speaker 1: personal attitude. Your viewpoint tells you what the right attitude is,
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Speaker 1: and obedience to the soul puts you into it. It
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Speaker 1: is only by making a complete consecration of yourself to
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Speaker 1: the highest that is within you that you can attain
1:50:49
Speaker 1: to sincere thinking. So long as you know you are
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Speaker 1: selfish in your aims, or dishonest or crooked in any
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Speaker 1: way in your intentions or practices, your thinking will be false,
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Speaker 1: and your thoughts will have no power. Think about the
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Speaker 1: way you are doing things, about all your intentions, purposes,
1:51:08
Speaker 1: and practices until you know that they are right. The
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Speaker 1: fact of his own complete unity with God is one
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Speaker 1: that no person can grasp without deep and sustained thinking.
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Speaker 1: Anyone can accept the proposition in a superficial way, but
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Speaker 1: to feel and realize a vital comprehension of it is
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Speaker 1: another matter. It is easy to think of going outside
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Speaker 1: of yourself to meet God, but it is not so
1:51:35
Speaker 1: easy to think of going inside yourself to meet God.
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Speaker 1: But God is there, and in the holy of holies
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Speaker 1: of your own soul you may meet Him face to face.
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Speaker 1: It is a tremendous thing. This fact that all you
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Speaker 1: need is already within you, that you do not have
1:51:52
Speaker 1: to consider how to get the power to do what
1:51:55
Speaker 1: you want to do or to make yourself what you
1:51:57
Speaker 1: want to be. You have only to consider how to
1:52:01
Speaker 1: use the power you have in the right way. And
1:52:04
Speaker 1: there is nothing to do but to begin use your
1:52:08
Speaker 1: perception of truth. You can see some truth today, live
1:52:12
Speaker 1: fully up to that, and you will see more truth tomorrow.
1:52:17
Speaker 1: To rid yourself of the old false ideas, you will
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Speaker 1: have to think a great deal about the value of men,
1:52:23
Speaker 1: the greatness and worth of a human soul. You must
1:52:28
Speaker 1: cease from looking at human mistakes and look at successes.
1:52:32
Speaker 1: Cease from seeing faults and see virtues. You can no
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Speaker 1: longer look upon men and women as lost and ruined
1:52:40
Speaker 1: beings who are descending into hell. You must come to
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Speaker 1: regard them as shining souls who are ascending toward heaven.
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Speaker 1: It will require some exercise of will power to do this,
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Speaker 1: but this is the legitimate use of the will to
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Speaker 1: decide what you will think about and how you will think.
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Speaker 1: Junction of the will is to direct thought, think about
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Speaker 1: the good side of men, the lovely, attractive part, and
1:53:08
Speaker 1: exert your will in refusing to think of anything else
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Speaker 1: in connection with them. I know of no one who
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Speaker 1: has attained to so much on this one point. As
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Speaker 1: Eugene V. Debs twice, the socialist candidate for President of
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Speaker 1: the United States, mister Deb's reverences humanity, No appeal for
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Speaker 1: help is ever made to him in vain. No one
1:53:32
Speaker 1: receives from him an unkind or censorious word. You cannot
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Speaker 1: come into his presence without being made sensible of his
1:53:40
Speaker 1: deep and kindly personal interest in you. No one, whether millionaire,
1:53:46
Speaker 1: grimy working man, or toil worn woman, meets him without
1:53:50
Speaker 1: receiving the radiant warmth of a brotherly affection that is
1:53:54
Speaker 1: sincere and true. No ragged child speaks to him on
1:53:58
Speaker 1: the street without receiving instant and tender recognition. Deb's love's men.
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Speaker 1: This has made him the leading figure in a great movement,
1:54:08
Speaker 1: the beloved hero of a million hearts, and will give
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Speaker 1: him a deathless name. It is a great thing to
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Speaker 1: love man so, and it is only achieved by thought.
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Speaker 1: Nothing can make you great but thought. We may divide
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Speaker 1: thinkers into those who think for themselves and those who
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Speaker 1: think through others. The latter are the rule, and the
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Speaker 1: former the exception. The first are original thinkers in a
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Speaker 1: double sense, and egotists in the noblest meaning of the word. Schopenhauer.
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Speaker 1: The key to every man is his thought, sturdy and
1:54:46
Speaker 1: defiant though he look, he has a helm which he obeys,
1:54:50
Speaker 1: which is the idea after which all his facts are classified.
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Speaker 1: He can only be reformed by showing him a new
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Speaker 1: idea which commands his own Emerson. All truly wise thoughts
1:55:05
Speaker 1: have been thought already thousands of times. But to make
1:55:09
Speaker 1: them really ours, we must think them over again, honestly,
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Speaker 1: till they take root in our personal expression. Goet. All
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Speaker 1: that a man is outwardly is but the expression and
1:55:22
Speaker 1: completion of his inward thought. To work effectively, he must
1:55:27
Speaker 1: think clearly. To act nobly, he must think nobly. Channing
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Speaker 1: great men are they that see that spirituality is stronger
1:55:40
Speaker 1: than any material force. That thoughts rule the world. Emerson.
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Speaker 1: Some people study all their lives, and at their death
1:55:52
Speaker 1: they have learned everything except to think. Domergue. It is
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Speaker 1: the habitual thing thought that frames itself into our life.
1:56:03
Speaker 1: It affects us even more than our intimate social relations do.
1:56:07
Speaker 1: Our confidential friends have not so much to do in
1:56:10
Speaker 1: shaping our lives as the thoughts have which we harbor
1:56:15
Speaker 1: J W. T O. When God lets loose a great
1:56:20
Speaker 1: thinker on this planet, then all things are at risk.
1:56:24
Speaker 1: There is not a piece of science but its flank
1:56:27
Speaker 1: may be turned tomorrow, nor any literary reputation, or the
1:56:32
Speaker 1: so called eternal names of fame that may not be
1:56:35
Speaker 1: refused and condemned. Emerson, Think, Think, Think, end of chapter seventeen.
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Speaker 1: Chapter eighteen of the Science of Being Great by Wallace D. Waddles.
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Speaker 1: This LibriVox recording is in the public domain read by
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Speaker 1: Daniel Sanchez. Jesus's idea of greatness in the twenty third
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Speaker 1: chapter of Matthew, Jesus makes a very plain distinction between
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Speaker 1: true and false greatness, and also points out the one
1:57:18
Speaker 1: great danger to all who wish to become great, the
1:57:21
Speaker 1: most insidious of temptations, which all must avoid and fight unceasingly,
1:57:27
Speaker 1: who desire to really climb in the world. Speaking to
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Speaker 1: the multitude and to his disciples, he bids them beware
1:57:35
Speaker 1: of adopting the principle of the Pharisees. He points out
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Speaker 1: that while the Pharisees are just and righteous men, honorable judges,
1:57:43
Speaker 1: true lawgivers, and upright in their dealings with men, they
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Speaker 1: love the uppermost seats at feasts and greetings in the marketplace,
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Speaker 1: and to be called master master. And in comparison with
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Speaker 1: this principle, he says, that will be great among you,
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Speaker 1: let him serve. The average person's idea of a great man,
1:58:07
Speaker 1: rather than of one who serves, is of one who
1:58:09
Speaker 1: succeeds in getting himself served. He gets himself in a
1:58:13
Speaker 1: position to command men, to exercise power over them, making
1:58:18
Speaker 1: them obey his will. The exercise of dominion over other people,
1:58:23
Speaker 1: to most persons is a great thing. Nothing seems to
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Speaker 1: be sweeter to the selfish soul than this. You will
1:58:32
Speaker 1: always find every selfish and undeveloped person trying to domineer
1:58:36
Speaker 1: over others, to exercise control over other men. Savage men
1:58:41
Speaker 1: were no sooner placed upon the earth than they began
1:58:44
Speaker 1: to enslave one another for ages. The struggle in war, diplomacy, politics,
1:58:51
Speaker 1: and government has been aimed at the securing of control
1:58:55
Speaker 1: over other men. Kings and princes have drenched the soil
1:59:00
Speaker 1: of the earth in blood and tears in the effort
1:59:03
Speaker 1: to extend their dominion and their power to rule more people.
1:59:08
Speaker 1: The struggle of the business world today is the same
1:59:11
Speaker 1: as that on the battle fields of Europe a century ago,
1:59:14
Speaker 1: so far as the ruling principle is concerned. Robert g.
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Speaker 1: Ingersoll could not understand why men like Rockefeller and Carnegie
1:59:23
Speaker 1: seek for more money and make themselves slaves to the
1:59:27
Speaker 1: business struggle when they already have more than they can
1:59:30
Speaker 1: possibly use. He thought it a kind of madness, and
1:59:34
Speaker 1: illustrated it as follows. Suppose a man had fifty thousand
1:59:39
Speaker 1: pairs of pants, seventy five thousand vests, one hundred thousand coats,
1:59:44
Speaker 1: and one hundred and fifty thousand neckties. What would you
1:59:48
Speaker 1: think of him if he arose in the morning before
1:59:50
Speaker 1: light and worked until after it was dark every day,
1:59:54
Speaker 1: rain or shine, in all kinds of weather, merely to
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Speaker 1: get another necktie. But it is not a good simile.
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Speaker 1: The possession of neckties gives a man no power over
2:00:06
Speaker 1: other men, while the possession of dollars does. Rockefeller, Carnegie
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Speaker 1: and their kind are not after dollars but power. It
2:00:16
Speaker 1: is the principle of the Pharisee. It is the struggle
2:00:19
Speaker 1: for the high place. It develops able men, cunning men,
2:00:24
Speaker 1: resourceful men, but not great men. I want you to
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Speaker 1: contrast these two ideas of greatness sharply in your minds.
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Speaker 1: He that will be great among you, let him serve.
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Speaker 1: Let me stand before the average American audience and ask
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Speaker 1: the name of the greatest American, and the majority will
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Speaker 1: think of Abraham Lincoln. And is this not because in Lincoln,
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Speaker 1: above all the other men who have served us in
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Speaker 1: public life, we recognize the spirit of service, Not servility,
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Speaker 1: but service. Lincoln was a great great man because he
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Speaker 1: knew how to be a great servant. Napoleon, able cold
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Speaker 1: selfish seeking the high places, was a brilliant man. Lincoln
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Speaker 1: was great, Napoleon was not. The very moments you begin
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Speaker 1: to advance and are recognized as one who is doing
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Speaker 1: things in a great way, you will find yourself in danger.
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Speaker 1: The temptation to patronize, advise, or take upon yourself the
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Speaker 1: direction of other people's affairs is sometimes almost irresistible avoid. However,
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Speaker 1: the opposite danger of falling into servility, or of completely
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Speaker 1: throwing yourself away in the service of others. To do
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Speaker 1: this has been the ideal of a great many people.
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Speaker 1: The completely self sacrificing life has been thought to be
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Speaker 1: the christ Like life. Because as I think of a
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Speaker 1: complete misconception of the character and teachings of Jesus. I
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Speaker 1: have explained this misconception in a little book, which I
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Speaker 1: hope you may all sometimes read, a New Christ. Thousands
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Speaker 1: of people imitating Jesus as they suppose, have belittled themselves
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Speaker 1: and given up all else to go about doing good,
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Speaker 1: practicing an altruism that is really as morbid and as
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Speaker 1: far from great as the rankest selfishness. The finer instincts
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Speaker 1: which respond to the cry of trouble or distress are not,
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Speaker 1: by any means all of you. They are not necessarily
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Speaker 1: the best part of you. There are other things you
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Speaker 1: must do besides helping the unfortunate, although it is true
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Speaker 1: that a large part of the life and activities of
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Speaker 1: every great person must be given to helping other people.
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Speaker 1: As you begin to advance, they will come to you.
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Speaker 1: Do not turn them away, But do not make the
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Speaker 1: fatal error of supposing that the life of complete self
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Speaker 1: abnegation is the way of greatness. To make another point here,
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Speaker 1: let me refer to the fact that Swedenborg's classification of
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Speaker 1: fundamental motives is exactly the same as that of Jesus.
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Speaker 1: He divides all men into two groups those who live
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Speaker 1: in pure love, and those who live in what he
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Speaker 1: calls the love of ruling for the love of self.
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Speaker 1: It will be seen that this is exactly the same
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Speaker 1: as the lust for place and power of the Pharisees.
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Speaker 1: Swedenborg saw this selfish love of power as the cause
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Speaker 1: of all sin. It was the only evil desire of
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Speaker 1: the human heart, from which all other evil desires sprang. Over.
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Speaker 1: Against this he places pure love. He does not say
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Speaker 1: love of God or love of man, but merely love.
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Speaker 1: Nearly all religionists make more of love and service to
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Speaker 1: God than they do of love and service to man.
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Speaker 1: But it is a fact that love to God is
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Speaker 1: not sufficient to save a man from the lust for power.
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Speaker 1: For some of the most ardent lovers of the deity
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Speaker 1: have been the worst of tyrants. Lovers of God are
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Speaker 1: often tyrants, and lovers of men are often meddlesome and officious.
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Speaker 1: End of chapter eighteen, Chapter nineteen of the Science of
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Speaker 1: Being Great by Wallace D. Waddles. This LibriVox recording is
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Speaker 1: in the public domain. Read by Daniel Sanchez A view
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Speaker 1: of evolution. But how shall we avoid throwing ourselves into
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Speaker 1: altruistic work? If we are surrounded by poverty, ignorance, suffering,
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Speaker 1: and every appearance of misery. As very many people are.
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Speaker 1: Those who live where the withered hand of want is
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Speaker 1: thrust upon them from every side, a appealingly for aid
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Speaker 1: must find it hard to refrain from continuous giving. Again,
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Speaker 1: there are social and other irregularities injustices done to the weak,
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Speaker 1: which fire generous souls with an almost irresistible desire to
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Speaker 1: set things right. We want to start a crusade. We
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Speaker 1: feel that the wrongs will never be righted until we
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Speaker 1: give ourselves wholly to the task. In all this, we
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Speaker 1: must fall back upon the point of view. We must
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Speaker 1: remember that this is not a bad world, but a
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Speaker 1: good world in the process of becoming. Beyond all doubt.
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Speaker 1: There was a time when there was no life upon
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Speaker 1: this earth. The testimony of geology to the fact that
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Speaker 1: the globe was once a ball of burning gas and
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Speaker 1: molten rock clothed about with boiling vapors is indisputable, and
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Speaker 1: we do not know how life could have existed under
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Speaker 1: such conditions That seems impossible. Geology tells us that later
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Speaker 1: on a crust formed, the globe cooled and hardened, the
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Speaker 1: vapors condensed and became mist or fell in rain, The
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Speaker 1: cooled surface crumbled into soil. Moisture accumulated, ponds and seas
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Speaker 1: were gathered together, and at last, somewhere in the water
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Speaker 1: or on the land, appeared something that was alive. It
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Speaker 1: is reasonable to suppose that this first life was in
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Speaker 1: single celled organisms. But behind these cells was the insistent
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Speaker 1: urge of spirit, the great one, life seeking expression. And
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Speaker 1: soon organisms, having too much life to express themselves with
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Speaker 1: one cell, had two cells, and then many, and still
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Speaker 1: more life was poured into them. Multiple celled organisms were formed, plants, trees, vertebrates,
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Speaker 1: and mammals, many of them with strange shapes, but all
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Speaker 1: were perfect after their kind, as everything is that God
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Speaker 1: makes no doubt. There were crude and almost monstrous forms
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Speaker 1: of both animal and plant life, but everything filled its
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Speaker 1: purpose in its day, and it was all very good.
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Speaker 1: Then another day came, the great day of the evolutionary process,
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Speaker 1: a day when the morning stars sang together and the
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Speaker 1: sons of God shouted for joy, to behold the beginning
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Speaker 1: of the end For man, the object aimed at from
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Speaker 1: the beginning, had appeared upon the scene, an ape like
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Speaker 1: being little different from the beasts around him in appearance,
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Speaker 1: but infinitely different in his capacity for growth and thought,
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Speaker 1: art and beauty, architecture and song, poetry and music. All
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Speaker 1: these were unrealized possibilities in that ape man's soul, and
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Speaker 1: for his time and kind he was very good. It
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Speaker 1: is God that worketh in you to will and to
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Speaker 1: do of his good pleasure, says Saint Paul. From the
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Speaker 1: day the first man appeared, God began to work in men,
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Speaker 1: putting more and more of himself into each succeeding generation,
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Speaker 1: urging them on to larger achievements and to better conditions social,
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Speaker 1: governmental and domestic. Those who looking back into ancient history
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Speaker 1: see the awful conditions which existed, the barbarities, idolatries and sufferings,
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Speaker 1: and reading about God in connection with these things, are
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Speaker 1: disposed to feel that He was cruel and unjust to
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Speaker 1: man should pause to think. From the ape man to
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Speaker 1: the coming christ Man. The race has had to rise,
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Speaker 1: and it could only be accomplished by the successive unfoldments
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Speaker 1: of the various powers and possibilities latent in the human brain. Naturally,
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Speaker 1: the cruder and more animal like part of man came
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Speaker 1: to its full development. First for ages, men were brutal.
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Speaker 1: Their governments were brutal, their religions were brutal, their domestic
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Speaker 1: institutions were brutal. And what appears to be an immense
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Speaker 1: amount of suffering resulted from this brutality. But God never
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Speaker 1: delighted in suffering, and in every age he has given
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Speaker 1: men a message telling them how to avoid it. And
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Speaker 1: all the while the urge of life, insistent, powerful compelling,
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Speaker 1: made the race keep moving forward. A little less brutality
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Speaker 1: in each age, and a little more spirituality in each age,
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Speaker 1: and God kept on working in man. In every age,
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Speaker 1: there have been some individuals who were in advance of
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Speaker 1: the mass, and who heard and understood God better than
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Speaker 1: their fellows. Upon these the inspiring hand of spirit was
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Speaker 1: laid and they were compelled to become interpreters. These were
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Speaker 1: the prophets and seers, sometimes the priests and kings, and
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Speaker 1: oftener still they were martyrs, driven to the stake, the block,
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Speaker 1: or the cross. It is to these who have heard God,
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Speaker 1: spoken his word, and demonstrated His truth in their lives
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Speaker 1: that all progress is really due. Again, considering for a
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Speaker 1: moment the presence of what is called evil in the world,
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Speaker 1: we see that that which appears to us to be evil,
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Speaker 1: is only undeveloped, and that the undeveloped is perfectly good
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Speaker 1: in its own stage and place. Because all things are
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Speaker 1: necessary to man's complete unfoldment, All things in human life
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Speaker 1: are the work of God. The graft rings in our cities,
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Speaker 1: the red light districts, and their unfortunate inmates. These he
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Speaker 1: consciously and voluntarily produced. Their part in the plan of
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Speaker 1: unfoldment must be played, and when their part has been played,
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Speaker 1: he will sweep them off the stage, as he did
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Speaker 1: the strange and poisonous monsters which filled the swamps of
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Speaker 1: the past ages. In concluding this vision of evolution, we
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Speaker 1: might ask why it was all done? What is it for?
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Speaker 1: This question should be easy for the thoughtful mind to answer.
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Speaker 1: God desired to express himself, to live in form, and
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Speaker 1: not only that, but to live in a form through
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Speaker 1: which he could express himself on the highest moral and
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Speaker 1: spiritual plane. God wanted to evolve a form in which
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Speaker 1: he could live as a God and manifest himself as
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Speaker 1: a God. This was the aim of the evolutionary force.
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Speaker 1: The ages of warfare, bloodshed, suffering, injustice, and cruelty were
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Speaker 1: tempered in many ways with love, and justice as time advanced,
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Speaker 1: and this was developing the brain of man to a
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Speaker 1: point where it should be capable of giving full expression
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Speaker 1: to the love and justice of God. The end is
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Speaker 1: not yet. God aims not at the perfection of a
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Speaker 1: few choice specimens for exhibition, like the large berries at
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Speaker 1: the top of the box, but at the glorification of
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Speaker 1: the race. The time will come when the Kingdom of
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Speaker 1: God shall be established on earth, the time foreseen by
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Speaker 1: the dreamer of the Isle of Patmos, when there shall
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Speaker 1: be no more crying, neither shall there be any more pain.
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Speaker 1: For the former things are all passed away, and there
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Speaker 1: shall be no night there. End of chapter nineteen, Chapter
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Speaker 1: Daniel Sanchez, Serving God, I have brought you thus far
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Speaker 1: through the two preceding chapters with a view to finally
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Speaker 1: settling the question of duty. This is one that puzzles
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Speaker 1: and perplexes very many people who are earnest and sincere,
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Speaker 1: and gives them a great deal of difficulty in its
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Speaker 1: solution when they start out to make something of themselves
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Speaker 1: and to practice the science of being great, they find
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Speaker 1: themselves necessarily compelled to rearrange many of their relationships. There
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Speaker 1: are friends who perhaps must be alienated. There are relatives
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Speaker 1: who misunderstand and who feel that they are in some
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Speaker 1: way being slighted. The really great man is often considered
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Speaker 1: selfish by a large circle of people who are connected
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Speaker 1: with him, and who feel that he might bestow upon
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Speaker 1: them more benefits than he does. The question at the
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Speaker 1: outset is is it my duty to make the most
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Speaker 1: of myself, regardless of everything else? Or shall I wait
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Speaker 1: until I can do so without any friction or without
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Speaker 1: causing loss to anyone. This is the question of duty
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Speaker 1: to self versus duty to others. One's duty to the
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Speaker 1: world has been thoroughly discussed in the preceding pages, and
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Speaker 1: I give some consideration now to the idea of duty
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Speaker 1: to God. An immense number of people have a great
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Speaker 1: deal of uncertainty, not to say anxiety, as to what
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Speaker 1: they ought to do for God. The amount of work
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Speaker 1: and service that is done for Him in these United States,
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Speaker 1: in the way of church work and so on, is enormous.
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Speaker 1: An immense amount of human energy is expended in what
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Speaker 1: is called serving God. I propose to consider briefly what
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Speaker 1: serving God is and how a man may serve God best,
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Speaker 1: and I think I shall be able to make plain
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Speaker 1: that the conventional idea as to what constitutes service to
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Speaker 1: God is all wrong. When Moses went down into Egypt
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Speaker 1: to bring out the Hebrews from bondage, his demand upon Pharaoh,
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Speaker 1: in the name of the Deity, was let the people go,
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Speaker 1: that they may serve me. He led them out into
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Speaker 1: the wilderness, and there instituted a new form of worship,
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Speaker 1: which has led many people to suppose that worship constitutes
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Speaker 1: the service of God, although later God himself distinctly declared
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Speaker 1: that he cared nothing for ceremony, burned offerings, or oblation,
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Speaker 1: and the teaching of Jesus, if rightly understood, would do
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Speaker 1: away with organized temple worship. Altogether. God does not lack
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Speaker 1: anything that men may do for Him with their hands
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Speaker 1: or bodies or voices. Saint Paul points out that man
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Speaker 1: can do nothing for God, for God does not need anything.
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Speaker 1: The view of evolution which we have taken shows God
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Speaker 1: seeking expression through man. Through all the successive ages in
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Speaker 1: which his spirit has urged man up the height. God
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Speaker 1: has gone on seeking expression every generation of men is
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Speaker 1: more Godlike than the preceding generation. Every generation of men
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Speaker 1: demands more in the way of fine homes, pleasant surroundings,
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Speaker 1: congenial work, rest, travel, and opportunity for study than the
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Speaker 1: preceding generation. I have heard some short sighted economists argue
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Speaker 1: that the working people today ought surely to be fully contented,
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Speaker 1: because their condition is so much better than that of
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Speaker 1: the working man two hundred years ago, who slept in
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Speaker 1: a windowless hut on a floor covered with rushes, in
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Speaker 1: company with his pigs. If that man had all that
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Speaker 1: he was able to use for the living of all
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Speaker 1: the life he knew how to live, he was perfectly content.
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Speaker 1: And if he had lack, he was not contented. The
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Speaker 1: man of today has a comfortable home and very many
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Speaker 1: things indeed that were unknown a short period back in
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Speaker 1: the past. And if he has all that he can
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Speaker 1: use for the living of all the life he can imagine,
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Speaker 1: he will be content. But he is not content. God
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Speaker 1: has lifted the race so far that any common man
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Speaker 1: can picture a better and more desirable life than he
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Speaker 1: is able to live under existing conditions. And so long
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Speaker 1: as this is true, so long as a man can
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Speaker 1: think and clearly picture to himself a more desirable life.
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Speaker 1: He will be discontent with the life he has to live,
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Speaker 1: and rightly so that discontent is the spirit of God,
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Speaker 1: urging men on to more desirable conditions. It is God
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Speaker 1: who seeks expression in the race. He worketh in us
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Speaker 1: to will and to do. The only service you can
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Speaker 1: render God is to give expression to what He is
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Speaker 1: trying to give the world through you. The only service
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Speaker 1: you can render God is to make the very most
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Speaker 1: of yourself in order that God may live in you
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Speaker 1: to the utmost of your possibilities. In a former work
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Speaker 1: of this series, The Science of Getting Rich, I refer
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Speaker 1: to the little boy at the piano the music in
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Speaker 1: whose soul could not find expression through his untrained hands.
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Speaker 1: This is a good illustration of the way the spirit
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Speaker 1: of God is over about, around and in all of us,
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Speaker 1: seeking to do great things with us. So soon as
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Speaker 1: we will train our hands and feet, our mind, brains,
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Speaker 1: and bodies to do his service. Your first duty to God,
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Speaker 1: to yourself, and to the world is to make yourself
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Speaker 1: as great a personality in every way as you possibly can.
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Speaker 1: And that, it seems to me, disposes of the question
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Speaker 1: of duty. There are one or two other things which
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Speaker 1: might be disposed of. In closing this chapter, I have
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Speaker 1: written of opportunity. In a preceding chapter, I have said
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Speaker 1: in a general way that it is within the power
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Speaker 1: of every man to become great, just as in the
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Speaker 1: Science of Getting Rich I declared that it is within
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Speaker 1: the power of every man to become rich. But these
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Speaker 1: sweeping generalizations need qualifying. There are men who have such
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Speaker 1: materialistic minds that they are absolutely incapable of comprehending the
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Speaker 1: philosophy set forth in these books. There is a great
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Speaker 1: mass of men and women who have lived and worked
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Speaker 1: until they are practically incapable of thought along these lines,
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Speaker 1: and they cannot receive the message. Something may be done
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Speaker 1: for them by demonstration, that is, by living the life
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Speaker 1: before them, But that is the only way they can
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Speaker 1: be aroused. The world needs demonstration more than it needs teaching.
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Speaker 1: For this mass of people, our duty is to become
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Speaker 1: as great in personality as possible, in order that they
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Speaker 1: may see and desire to do Likewise, it is our
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Speaker 1: duty to make ourselves great for their sakes, so that
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Speaker 1: we may help prepare the world that the next generation
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Speaker 1: shall have better conditions for thought. One other point I
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Speaker 1: am frequently written to by people who wish to make
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Speaker 1: something of themselves and to move out into the world,
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Speaker 1: but who are hampered by home ties, having others more
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Speaker 1: or less dependent upon them, whom they fear would suffer
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Speaker 1: if left alone. In general, I advise such people to
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Speaker 1: move out fearlessly, and to to make the most of themselves.
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Speaker 1: If there is a loss at home, it will be
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Speaker 1: only temporary and apparent for in a little while. If
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Speaker 1: you follow the leading of Spirit, you will be able
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Speaker 1: to take better care of your dependence than you have
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Speaker 1: ever done before. End of chapter twenty Chapter twenty one
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Speaker 1: Daniel Sanchez. A mental exercise. The purpose of mental exercises
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Speaker 1: must not be misunderstood. There is no virtue in charms
2:20:46
Speaker 1: or formulated strings of words. There is no shortcut to
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Speaker 1: development by repeating prayers or incantations. A mental exercise is
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Speaker 1: an exercise not in repeating words, but in the thinking
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Speaker 1: of certain thoughts. The phrases that we repeatedly hear become convictions,
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Speaker 1: as Goata says, and the thoughts that we repeatedly think
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Speaker 1: become habitual and make us what we are. The purpose
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Speaker 1: in taking a mental exercise is that you may think
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Speaker 1: certain thoughts repeatedly until you form a habit of thinking them.
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Speaker 1: Then they will be your thoughts all the time. Taken
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Speaker 1: in the right way and with an understanding of their purpose,
2:21:27
Speaker 1: mental exercises are of great value, but taken as most
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Speaker 1: people take them, they are worse than useless. The thoughts
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Speaker 1: embodied in the following exercise are the ones you want
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Speaker 1: to think. You should take the exercise once or twice daily,
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Speaker 1: but you should think the thoughts continuously. That is, do
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Speaker 1: not think them twice a day for a state of time,
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Speaker 1: and then forget them until it is time to take
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Speaker 1: the exercise again. The exercise is to impress you with
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Speaker 1: the material for continuous thought. Take a time when you
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Speaker 1: can have from twenty minutes to half an hour, secure
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Speaker 1: from interruption, and proceed. First to make yourself physically comfortable,
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Speaker 1: lie at ease in a Morris chair or on a
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Speaker 1: couch or in bed. It is best to lie flat
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Speaker 1: on your back. If you have no other time. Take
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Speaker 1: the exercise on going to bed at night and before
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Speaker 1: rising in the morning. First, let your attention travel over
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Speaker 1: your body, from the crown of your head to the
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Speaker 1: soles of your feet, relaxing every muscle as you go,
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Speaker 1: relax completely, and next get physical and other ills off
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Speaker 1: your mind. Let the attention pass down the spinal cord
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Speaker 1: and out over the nerves to the extremities. And as
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Speaker 1: you do so, think, my nerves are in perfect order
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Speaker 1: all over my body. They obey my will, and I
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Speaker 1: have great nerve force. Next, bring your attention to the
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Speaker 1: lungs and think, I am breathing deeply and quietly, and
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Speaker 1: the air goes into every cell of my lungs, which
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Speaker 1: are in perfect condition. My blood is purified and made clean.
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Speaker 1: Next to the heart, my heart is beating strongly and steadily,
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Speaker 1: and my circulation is perfect, even to the extremities. Next
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Speaker 1: to the digestive system, my stomach and bowels perform their
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Speaker 1: work perfectly. My food is digested and assimilated, and my
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Speaker 1: body rebuilt and nourished. My liver, kidneys, and bladder each
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Speaker 1: perform their several functions without pain or strain. I am
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Speaker 1: perfectly well. My body is resting, my mind is quiet,
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Speaker 1: and my soul is at peace. I have no anxiety
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Speaker 1: about financial or other matters. God, who is within me,
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Speaker 1: is also in all things I want, in paler, telling
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Speaker 1: them toward me. All that I want is already given
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Speaker 1: to me. I have no anxiety about my health, for
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Speaker 1: I am perfectly well. I have no worry or fear whatever.
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Speaker 1: I rise above all temptation to moral evil. I cast
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Speaker 1: out all greed, selfishness, and narrow personal ambition. I do
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Speaker 1: not hold envy, malice, or enmity toward any living soul.
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Speaker 1: I will follow no course of action which is not
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Speaker 1: in accord with my highest ideals. I am right, and
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Speaker 1: I will do right. Viewpoint. All is right with the world.
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Speaker 1: It is perfect and advancing to completion. I will contemplate
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Speaker 1: the facts of social, political, and industrial life only from
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Speaker 1: this high viewpoint. Behold, it is all very good. I
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Speaker 1: will see all human beings, all my acquaintances, friends, neighbors,
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Speaker 1: and the members of my own household in the same way.
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Speaker 1: They are all good. Nothing is wrong with the universe.
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Speaker 1: Nothing can be wrong but my own personal attitude, and
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Speaker 1: henceforth I keep that right. My whole trust is in
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Speaker 1: God consecration. I will obey my soul and be true
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Speaker 1: to that within me which is highest. I will search
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Speaker 1: within for the pure idea of right in all things,
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Speaker 1: and when I find it, I will express it in
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Speaker 1: my outward life. I will abandon everything I have outgrown
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Speaker 1: for the best I can think. I will have the
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Speaker 1: highest thoughts concerning all my relationships, and my manner and
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Speaker 1: action shall express these thoughts. I surrender my body to
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Speaker 1: be ruled by my mind. I yield my mind to
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Speaker 1: the dominion of my soul, and I give my soul
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Speaker 1: to the guidance of God identification. There is but one
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Speaker 1: substance and source, and of that I am made, and
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Speaker 1: with it I am one. It is my Father. I
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Speaker 1: proceeded forth and came from it. My father and I
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Speaker 1: are one, and my Father is greater than I, and
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Speaker 1: I do his will. I surrender myself to conscious unity
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Speaker 1: with pure spirit. There is but one, and that one
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Speaker 1: is everywhere. I am one with the eternal consciousness. Idealization.
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Speaker 1: Form a mental picture of yourself as you want to be,
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Speaker 1: and at the greatest height your imagination can picture. Dwell
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Speaker 1: upon this for some little time, holding the thought this
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Speaker 1: is what I really am. It is a picture of
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Speaker 1: my own soul. I am this now in soul, and
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Speaker 1: I am becoming this in outward manifestation realization. I appropriate
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Speaker 1: to myself the power to become what I want to
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Speaker 1: be and to do what I want to do. I
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Speaker 1: exercise creative energy. All the power there is is mine.
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Speaker 1: I will arise and go forth with power and perfect confidence.
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Speaker 1: I will do mighty works in the strength of the Lord,
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Speaker 1: my God. I will trust and not fear, for God
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Speaker 1: is with me. End of Chapter twenty one Chapter twenty
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Speaker 1: two of the Science of Being Great by Wallace D. Waddles.
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Speaker 1: This LibriVox recording is in the public domain. Read by
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Speaker 1: Daniel Sanchez, a summary of the Science of Being Great.
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Speaker 1: All men are made of the one intelligent substance, and
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Speaker 1: therefore all contain the same essential powers and possibilities. Greatness
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Speaker 1: is equally inherent in all and may be manifested by all.
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Speaker 1: Every person may become great. Every constituent of God is
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Speaker 1: a constituent of man. Man may overcome both heredity and
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Speaker 1: circumstances by exercising the inherent creative power of the soul.
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Speaker 1: If he is to become great, the soul must act
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Speaker 1: and must rule the mind and the body. Man's knowledge
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Speaker 1: is limited, and he falls into error through ignorance. To
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Speaker 1: avoid this, he must connect his soul with Universal Spirit.
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Speaker 1: Universal Spirit is the intelligent substance from which all things come.
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Speaker 1: It is in and through all things. All things are
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Speaker 1: known to this universal mind, and man can so unite
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Speaker 1: himself with it as to enter into all knowledge. To
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Speaker 1: do this, man must cast out of himself everything which
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Speaker 1: separates him from God. He must will to live the
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Speaker 1: divine life, and he must rise above all moral temptations.
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Speaker 1: He must forsake every course of action that is not
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Speaker 1: in accord with his highest ideals. He must reach the
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Speaker 1: right viewpoint, recognizing that God is all in all, and
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Speaker 1: that there is nothing wrong. He must see that nature, society, government,
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Speaker 1: and industry are perfect in their present stage and advancing
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Speaker 1: toward completion, and that all men and women everywhere are
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Speaker 1: good and perfect. He must know that all is right
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Speaker 1: with the world, and unite with God for the completion
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Speaker 1: of the perfect work. It is only as man sees
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Speaker 1: God as the great, advancing presence in all and good
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Speaker 1: in all, that he can rise to real greatness. He
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Speaker 1: must consecrate himself to the service of the highest that
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Speaker 1: is within himself, obeying the voice of the soul. There
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Speaker 1: is an inner light in every man which continuously impels
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Speaker 1: him toward the highest, and he must be guided by
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Speaker 1: this light. If he would become great. He must recognize
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Speaker 1: the fact that he is one with the Father and
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Speaker 1: consciously affirm this unity for himself and for all others.
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Speaker 1: He must know himself to be a god among gods
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Speaker 1: and act accordingly. He must have absolute faith in his
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Speaker 1: own perceptions of truth, and begin at home to act
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Speaker 1: upon these perceptions as he sees the true and right
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Speaker 1: course in small things, he must take that course. He
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Speaker 1: must cease to act unthinkingly and begin to think, and
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Speaker 1: he must be sincere in his thought. He must form
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Speaker 1: a mental conception of himself at the highest and hold
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Speaker 1: this conception until it is his habitual thought form of himself.
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Speaker 1: This thought form he must keep continuously in view. He
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Speaker 1: must outwardly realize and express that thought form in his actions.
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Speaker 1: He must do everything that he does in a great way.
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Speaker 1: In dealing with his family, his neighbors, acquaintances, and friends,
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Speaker 1: he must make every act an expression of his ideal.
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Speaker 1: The man who reaches the right viewpoint and makes full consecration,
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Speaker 1: and who fully idealizes himself as great, and who makes
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Speaker 1: every act, however trivial, an expression of the ideal has
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Speaker 1: already attained to greatness. Everything he does will be done
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Speaker 1: in a great way. He will make himself known and
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Speaker 1: will be recognized as a personality of power. He will
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Speaker 1: receive knowledge by inspiration and will know all that he
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Speaker 1: needs to know. He will receive all the material wealth
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Speaker 1: he forms in his thoughts, and will not lack for
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Speaker 1: any good thing. He will be given ability to deal
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Speaker 1: with any combination of circumstances which may arise, and his
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Speaker 1: growth and progress will be continuous and rapid. Great works
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Speaker 1: will seek him out, and all men will delight to
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Speaker 1: do him honor. Because of its peculiar value to the
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Speaker 1: student of the science of being great, I close this
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Speaker 1: book by giving a portion of Emerson's essay on the
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Speaker 1: Over Soul. This great essay is fundamental, showing the foundation
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Speaker 1: principles of monism and the science of greatness. I recommend
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Speaker 1: the student to study it most carefully in connection with
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Speaker 1: this book. What is the universal sense of want and ignorance?
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Speaker 1: But the fine innuendo by which the Great Soul makes
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Speaker 1: its enormous claim? Why do men feel that the natural
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Speaker 1: history of man has never been written? But always he
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Speaker 1: is leaving behind what you have said of him, and
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Speaker 1: it becomes old, and books of metaphysics worthless. The philosophy
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Speaker 1: of six thousand years has not searched the chambers and
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Speaker 1: magazines of the soul. In its experiments. There has always remained,
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Speaker 1: in the last analysis, a residuum. It could not man
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Speaker 1: is a stream whose source is hidden. Always our being
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Speaker 1: is descending into us from we know not. Whence the
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Speaker 1: most exact calculator has no prescience that somewhat incalculable may
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Speaker 1: not balk the very next moment. I am constrained every
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Speaker 1: moment to acknowledge a higher origin for events than the
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Speaker 1: will I call mine. As with events, so it is
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Speaker 1: with thoughts. When I watch that flowing river, which out
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Speaker 1: of regions I see not pours for a season, it
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Speaker 1: streams into me, I see that I am a pensioner,
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Speaker 1: not a cause, but a surprised spectator of this ethereal
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Speaker 1: water that I desire and look up and put myself
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Speaker 1: in the attitude for reception. But from some alien energy
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Speaker 1: the visions come the supreme critic on all the errors
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Speaker 1: of the past and present. And the only profit of
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Speaker 1: that which must be is that great nature in which
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Speaker 1: we rest, as the earth lies in the soft arms
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Speaker 1: of the atmosphere. That unity, that over soul with which
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Speaker 1: every man's particular being is contained and made one with
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Speaker 1: all other, That common heart of which all sincere conversation
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Speaker 1: is the worship to which all right action is submission,
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Speaker 1: That overpowering reality, which confutes our tricks and talents, and
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Speaker 1: constrains everyone to pass for what he is, and to
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Speaker 1: speak from his character and not from his tongue, and
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Speaker 1: which evermore tends and aims to pass into our thought
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Speaker 1: and hand and become wisdom and virtue and power and beauty.
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Speaker 1: We live in succession, in division, in parts, in particles. Meantime,
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Speaker 1: within man is the soul of the whole, the wise silence,
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Speaker 1: the universal beauty to which every part and particle is
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Speaker 1: equally related, The eternal one, and this deep power in
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Speaker 1: which we exist and whose beatitude is all accessible to us.
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Speaker 1: Is not only self sufficing and perfect in every hour.
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Speaker 1: But the act of seeing and the thing seen, the
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Speaker 1: seer and the spectacle, the subject and the object are one.
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Speaker 1: We see the world peace by peace, as the sun,
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Speaker 1: the moon, the animal, the tree. But the whole of
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Speaker 1: which these are the shining parts, is the soul. It
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Speaker 1: is only by the vision of that wisdom that the
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Speaker 1: horoscope of the ages can be read. And it is
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Speaker 1: only by falling back on our better thoughts, by yielding
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Speaker 1: to the spirit of prophecy, which is innate in every man,
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Speaker 1: that we know what it saith. Every man's words, who
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Speaker 1: speaks from that life must sound vain to these those
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Speaker 1: who do not dwell in the same thought. On their
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Speaker 1: own part, I dare not speak for it. My words
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Speaker 1: do not carry its august sense. They fall short and cold.
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Speaker 1: Only itself can inspire whom it will, and behold, their
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Speaker 1: speech shall be lyrical and sweet and universal as the
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Speaker 1: rising of the wind. Yet I desire even by profane words,
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Speaker 1: if sacred I may not use to indicate the heaven
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Speaker 1: of this deity, and to report what hints I have
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Speaker 1: collected of the transcendent simplicity and energy of the highest law.
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Speaker 1: If we consider what happens in conversation, in reveries, in remorse,
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Speaker 1: in times of passion, in surprises, in the instruction of dreams,
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Speaker 1: wherein often we see ourselves in masquerade, the droll disguises,
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Speaker 1: only magnifying and enhancing a real element and forcing it
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Speaker 1: on our distinct notice, we shall catch many hints that
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Speaker 1: will broaden, enlighten into knowledge of the secret of nature.
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Speaker 1: All goes to show that the soul in man is
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Speaker 1: not an organ, but animates and exercises all the organs.
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Speaker 1: Is not a function like the power of memory, of calculation,
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Speaker 1: of comparison, but uses these as hands and feet. Is
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Speaker 1: not a faculty, but a light. Is not the intellect
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Speaker 1: or the will, but the master of the intellect and
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Speaker 1: the will. Is the vast background of our being, in
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Speaker 1: which they lie, an immensity not possessed, and that cannot
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Speaker 1: be possessed from within or from behind. A light shines
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Speaker 1: through us upon things, and makes us aware that we
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Speaker 1: are nothing, But the light is all. A man is
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Speaker 1: the facade of a temple, wherein all wisdom and all
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Speaker 1: good abide. What we commonly call man, the eating, drinking, planting,
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Speaker 1: counting man does not, as we know him, represent himself,
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Speaker 1: but misrepresents himself. Him we do not respect. But the soul,
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Speaker 1: whose organ he is, would he let it appear through
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Speaker 1: his action, would make our knees bend When it breathes
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Speaker 1: through his intellect. It is genius. When it flows through
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Speaker 1: his affection, it is love after its own law. And
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Speaker 1: not by arithmetic is the rate of its progress to
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Speaker 1: be computed. The soul's advances are not made by gradation,
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Speaker 1: such as can be represented by motion in a straight line,
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Speaker 1: but rather by a sension of state, such as can
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Speaker 1: be represented by metamorphosis from the egg to the worm,
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Speaker 1: from the worm to the fly. The growths of genius
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Speaker 1: are of a certain total character that does not advance
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Speaker 1: the elect individual first over John, then Adam, then Richard,
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Speaker 1: and give to each the pain of discovered inferiority. But
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Speaker 1: by every throe of growth, the man expands there where
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Speaker 1: he works, passing at each pulsation classes populations of men.
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Speaker 1: With each divine impulse, the mind rends the thin rinds
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Speaker 1: of the visible and finite, and comes out into eternity
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Speaker 1: and inspires and expires its air. It converses with truths
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Speaker 1: that have always been spoken in the world, and becomes
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Speaker 1: conscious of a closer sympathy with Zeno and Aryan than
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Speaker 1: with persons in the house. This is the law of
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Speaker 1: moral and of mental gain. The simple rise as by
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Speaker 1: specific levity, not into a particular virtue, but into the
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Speaker 1: region of all the virtues. They are in the spirit
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Speaker 1: which contains them all the soul is superior to all
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Speaker 1: the particulars of merit. The soul requires purity, but purity
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Speaker 1: is not It requires justice, But justice is not that
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Speaker 1: requires beneficence, but is somewhat better, so that there is
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Speaker 1: a kind of dissent and accommodation felt when we leave
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Speaker 1: speaking of moral nature to urge a virtue which it enjoins.
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Speaker 1: For to the soul, in her pure action, all the
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Speaker 1: virtues are natural and not painfully acquired. Speak to his heart,
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Speaker 1: and the man becomes suddenly virtuous. Within the same sentiment
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Speaker 1: is the germ of intellectual growth, which obeys the same law.
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Speaker 1: Those who are capable of humility, of justice, of love,
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Speaker 1: of aspiration are already on a platform that commands the
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Speaker 1: sciences and arts, speech and poetry, action and grace. For
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Speaker 1: whoso dwells in this mortal beatitude does already anticipate those
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Speaker 1: special powers which men prize so highly, just as love
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Speaker 1: does justice to other all the gifts of the object beloved.
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Speaker 1: The lover has no talent, no skill, which passes for
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Speaker 1: quite nothing with his enamored maiden, however little she may
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Speaker 1: possess of related faculty, and the heart which abandons itself
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Speaker 1: to the Supreme Mind finds itself related to all its works,
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Speaker 1: and will travel a royal road to particular knowledge and powers.
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Speaker 1: For in ascending to this primary and aboriginal sentiment, we
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Speaker 1: have come from our remote station on the circumference instantaneously
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Speaker 1: to the center of the world. Where As in the
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Speaker 1: closet of God we see causes and anticipate the universe,
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Speaker 1: which is but a slow effect. End of Chapter twenty two,
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Speaker 1: end of the Science of Being Great by Wallace D.
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Speaker 1: Waddles