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The Science of Being Great - Wallace Wattles · Self-Help Library

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  Speaker 1: Any person may become great. There is a principle of
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  Speaker 1: power in every person. By the intelligent use and direction
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  Speaker 1: of this principle, man can develop his own mental faculties.
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  Speaker 1: Man has an inherent power by which he may grow
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  Speaker 1: in whatsoever direction he pleades, and there does not appear
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  Speaker 1: to be any limit to the possibilities of his growth.
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  Speaker 1: No man has yet become so great in any faculty,
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  Speaker 1: but that it is possible for someone else to become greater.
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  Speaker 1: The possibility is in the original substance from which man
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  Speaker 1: is made. Genius is omniscient flowing into man. Genius is
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  Speaker 1: more than talent. Talent may merely be one faculty developed
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  Speaker 1: out of proportion to other faculties. But genius is the
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  Speaker 1: union of man and God in the acts of the soul.
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  Speaker 1: Great men are always greater than their deeds. They are
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  Speaker 1: in connection with the reserve of the power that is
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  Speaker 1: without limit. We do not know where the boundary of
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  Speaker 1: the mental powers of man is. We do not even
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  Speaker 1: know that there is a bad The power of conscious
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  Speaker 1: growth is not given to the lower animals. It is
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  Speaker 1: man's alone, and may be developed and increased by him.
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  Speaker 1: The lower animals can to a great extent be trained
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  Speaker 1: and developed by man. But man can train and develop himself.
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  Speaker 1: He alone has this power, and he has it to
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  Speaker 1: an apparently unlimited extent. The purpose of life for man
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  Speaker 1: is growth, just as the purpose of life for trees
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  Speaker 1: and plants is growth. Trees and plants grow automatically and
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  Speaker 1: the long fixed lines. Man can grow as he will.
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  Speaker 1: Trees and plants can only develop certain possibilities and characteristics.
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  Speaker 1: Man can develop any power which is or has been
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  Speaker 1: shown by any person anywhere. Nothing that is possible in
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  Speaker 1: spirit is impossible in flesh and blood. Nothing that man
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  Speaker 1: can think is impossible in action. Nothing that man can
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  Speaker 1: imagine is impossible of realization. Man is formed for growth,
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  Speaker 1: and he is under the necessity of growing. It is
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  Speaker 1: essential to his happiness that he should continuously advance. Life
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  Speaker 1: without progress becomes unendurable, and the person who seeses from
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  Speaker 1: growth must either become imbecile or insane. The greater and
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  Speaker 1: more harmonious and well rounded his growth, the happier man
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  Speaker 1: will be. There is no possibility in any man that
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  Speaker 1: is not in every man. But if they proceed naturally,
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  Speaker 1: not 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 should 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 the tremendous difference. So if
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  Speaker 1: men and women they are like a 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 seeds. 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 those 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 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 so such a one
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  Speaker 1: the minds of the whole community turn in times of
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  Speaker 1: local crisis. He is tacitly recognized as being great. He
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  Speaker 1: does small things in a great way. He could do
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  Speaker 1: great things as well if he did, But undertake them.
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  Speaker 1: So can any man, so can you. The principle of
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  Speaker 1: power gives us just what we ask of it. If
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  Speaker 1: we only undertake little things, it only gives us power
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  Speaker 1: for little things. But if we try to do great
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  Speaker 1: things in a great way, it gives us all the
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  Speaker 1: power there is. But beware of undertaking great things in
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  Speaker 1: a small way. Of that we shall speak further on.
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  Speaker 1: There are two mental attitudes a man may take. One
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  Speaker 1: makes him like a football. It has resilience and reacts
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  Speaker 1: strongly when forces apply to it, but it originates nothing.
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  Speaker 1: It never acts of itself. There is no power within it.
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  Speaker 1: Men of this type are controlled by circumstances and environment.
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  Speaker 1: Their destinies are decided by things external to themselves. The
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  Speaker 1: principle 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 man 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: heighest felt by his environment. The principle of power in
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  Speaker 1: him is in constant action. He is self active. He
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  Speaker 1: hath life in himself. No greater good can come to
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  Speaker 1: any man or woman than to become self active. All
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  Speaker 1: the experiences of life are designed by providence to force
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  Speaker 1: men and women into self activity, to compel them to
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  Speaker 1: cease being creatures of circumstances and master their environment. In
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  Speaker 1: his lowest stage, man is the child of chance and
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  Speaker 1: circumstance and the slave of fear. His acts are all
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  Speaker 1: reactions resulting from the impingement upon him of forces in
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  Speaker 1: 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: he heard the voice of the Son of Man and
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  Speaker 1: come forth and live. It is the resurrection and the life.
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  Speaker 1: When it is awakened, man becomes the son of the
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  Speaker 1: Highest and all powers 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 made 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. Heredity and opportunity. You are not barred from
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  Speaker 1: attaining greatness by heredity. No matter who were, what your
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  Speaker 1: ancestors may have been, or how unlearned or lowly their station,
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  Speaker 1: the upward way is open for you. There is no
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  Speaker 1: such thing as inheriting a fixed mental position. No matter
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  Speaker 1: how small the mental capital we receive from our parents,
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  Speaker 1: it may be increased. No man is born incapable of growth.
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  Speaker 1: Heredity accounts 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 posite 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: a tendency to despondency. You can overcome cowardice or ill temper.
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  Speaker 1: Heredity may count for something too in an inherited conformation
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  Speaker 1: of the skull. There is something in phrenology, if not
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  Speaker 1: as much as its exponents claim. It is true that
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  Speaker 1: the different faculties are localized in the brain, and that
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  Speaker 1: the power of a faculty depends upon the number of
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  Speaker 1: active brain cells in its area. A faculty whose brain
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  Speaker 1: area is large is likely to act with more power
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  Speaker 1: than one whose cranial section is small. Hence, persons with
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  Speaker 1: 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 which many
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  Speaker 1: fine and active cells, gives as powerful expression to faculty
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  Speaker 1: as a larger brain which quarter cells. And it has
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  Speaker 1: been found that by turning the principle of power into
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  Speaker 1: any section of the brain with the will and purpose
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  Speaker 1: to develop a particular talent, the brain cells may be
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  Speaker 1: multiplied indefinitely. Any faculty, power or talent you possess, no
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  Speaker 1: matter how small or rudimentary, may be increased. You can
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  Speaker 1: multiply the brain cells in this particular area until it
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  Speaker 1: acts as powerfully as you wish. It is true that
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  Speaker 1: you can act most easily through those faculties that are
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  Speaker 1: now most largely developed. You can do with the least
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  Speaker 1: effort the things which come naturally. But it is also
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  Speaker 1: true that if you make the necessary effort, you can
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  Speaker 1: develop any talent. You can do what you desire to
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  Speaker 1: do and become what you want to be. When you
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  Speaker 1: fix upon some ideal and proceed as hereinafter directed, all
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  Speaker 1: the power of your being is turned into the faculties
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  Speaker 1: required in the realization of that ideal. More blood and
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  Speaker 1: 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
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  Speaker 1: Miller apprenticed to a Stonemaidson began to study geology in
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  Speaker 1: a quarry. George Stevenson invented of the locomotive engine, and
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  Speaker 1: one of the greatest of civil engineers, was a coal
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  Speaker 1: miner working in a mine when he awakened and began
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  Speaker 1: to think. James Watt was a sickly child and was
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  Speaker 1: not strong enough to be sent to school. Abraham Lincoln
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  Speaker 1: was a poor boy. In each of these cases, we
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  Speaker 1: see a principle of power in the man that lifts
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  Speaker 1: him above all opposition and adversity. There is a principle
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  Speaker 1: of power in you. If you use it and apply
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  Speaker 1: it in a certain way, you can overcome all heredity
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  Speaker 1: and master all circumstances and conditions, and become a great
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  Speaker 1: and powerful personality. The source of power man's brain, body, mind, faculties,
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  Speaker 1: and talents are the mere instruments he uses in demonstrating
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  Speaker 1: greatness in themselves. They do not make him great. A
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  Speaker 1: man may have a large brain and a good mind,
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  Speaker 1: strong faculties, and brilliant talents. Yet he is not a
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  Speaker 1: great man unless he uses all these in a great way.
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  Speaker 1: That quality which enables man to use his abilities in
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  Speaker 1: a great way makes him great. And to that quality
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  Speaker 1: we give the name of wisdom. Wisdom is the essential
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  Speaker 1: basis of greatness. Wisdom is the power to perceive the
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  Speaker 1: best ends to aim at and the best means for
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  Speaker 1: reaching those ends. It is the power to perceive the
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  Speaker 1: right thing to do. The man who is wise enough
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  Speaker 1: to know the right thing to do, who is good
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  Speaker 1: enough to wish to do only the right thing, and
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  Speaker 1: who 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 man
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  Speaker 1: will delight to do him honor. Wisdom is depended 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 knowledge greater than
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  Speaker 1: his own and draw from it by inspiration the wisdom
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  Speaker 1: that his own limitations deny him. This he can do.
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  Speaker 1: This is what the really great man 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 the right thing to
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  Speaker 1: do at all times, and man can receive wisdom from God.
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  Speaker 1: I proceed to give an illustration. Abraham Lincoln had limited education,
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  Speaker 1: but he had the power to perceive truth. In Lincoln
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  Speaker 1: we see pre eminently apparent the fact that real wisdom
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  Speaker 1: consists in knowing the right thing to do at all
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  Speaker 1: times and under all circumstances, in having the will to
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  Speaker 1: do the right thing, and in having talent and ability
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  Speaker 1: enough to be competent and able to do the right thing.
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  Speaker 1: Back in the days of the abolition agitation and she
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  Speaker 1: During the compromise period, when all other men were more
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  Speaker 1: or less confused as to what was right and as
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  Speaker 1: to what ought to be done, Lincoln was never uncertain.
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  Speaker 1: He so through the superficial arguments of the pro slavery man.
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  Speaker 1: He saw also the impracticability and fanatism of the abolitionists.
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  Speaker 1: He sawed the right ends to aim at, and he
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  Speaker 1: saw the best means to attain those ends. It was
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  Speaker 1: because men recognized that he perceived truth and knew the
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  Speaker 1: right thing to do, that they made him president. Any
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  Speaker 1: man who develops the power to perceive truth, and who
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  Speaker 1: can show that he always knows the right thing to do,
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  Speaker 1: and that he can be trusted to do the right thing,
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  Speaker 1: will be honored and advanced. The whole world is looking
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  Speaker 1: eagerly for such men. When Lincoln became president, he was
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  Speaker 1: surrounded by a multitude of so called able advisers, hardly
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  Speaker 1: any two of whom were agreed. At times, they were
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  Speaker 1: all opposed to his policies. At times, almost the whole
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  Speaker 1: North was opposed to what he proposed to do. But
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  Speaker 1: 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 unlured 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 characteristics. 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: Processes of reason do not often reach knowledge of truth.
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  Speaker 1: It was due to spiritual insight. He perceived truth. But
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  Speaker 1: where did he perceive it? And whence did the perception come.
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  Speaker 1: We see something similar in Washington, whose faith and courage,
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  Speaker 1: due to his perception of truth, held the colonies together
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  Speaker 1: during the long and often apparently hopeless struggle of the Revolution.
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  Speaker 1: We see something of the same thing in the phenomenal
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  Speaker 1: genius of Napoleon, who always knew in military matters the
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  Speaker 1: best means to adopt. We see that the greatness of
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  Speaker 1: Napoleon was in nature, rather than in Napoleon, and we
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  Speaker 1: discover back of Washington and Lincoln something greater than either
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  Speaker 1: Washington or Lincoln. We see the same thing in all
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  Speaker 1: great men and women. They perceive truth. But truth cannot
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  Speaker 1: be perceived until it exists, and there can be no
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  Speaker 1: truth until there is a mind to perceive it. Truth
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  Speaker 1: does not exist apart from mind. Washington and Lincoln were
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  Speaker 1: in touch and communication with a mind that knew all
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  Speaker 1: knowledge and contained all truth. The same is true for
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  Speaker 1: all who manifest wisdom. Wisdom is obtained by reading the
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  Speaker 1: mind of God. The mind of God, there is a
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  Speaker 1: cosmic intelligence that is in all things and through all things.
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  Speaker 1: This 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 a function, for function is motion, and
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  Speaker 1: it is unconceivable that mere motion should think. Thought cannot
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  Speaker 1: be vibration, for vibration is motion, and that motion should
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  Speaker 1: be intelligent is not thinkable. Motion is nothing but the
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  Speaker 1: moving of substance. If there be intelligence shown, it must
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  Speaker 1: be in the substance and not in the motion. Thought
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  Speaker 1: cannot be the result of motions in the brain. If
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  Speaker 1: thought is in the brain, it must be in the
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  Speaker 1: brain substance, and not in the motions which brain substance makes.
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  Speaker 1: But thought is not in the brain substance, For brain
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  Speaker 1: substance without life is quite unintelligent and dead. Thought is
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  Speaker 1: in the life principle that animates the brain. In the
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  Speaker 1: spirit substance, which is the real man. The brain does
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  Speaker 1: not think. The man thinks and expresses his thought through
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  Speaker 1: the brain. There is a spirit substance that thinks. Just
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  Speaker 1: as the spirit substance of man permits his body and
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  Speaker 1: thinks and knows in the body, so the original spirit substance,
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  Speaker 1: God permits all nature and things and knows in nature.
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  Speaker 1: Nature is as intelligent as man, and knows more than man.
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  Speaker 1: Nature knows all things. The whole 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 that is wrapped
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  Speaker 1: about us and infolds us and presses upon us from
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  Speaker 1: every side. All the Encyclopedia's 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 truth. Men perceived by inspiration are thoughts held in
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  Speaker 1: this mind. If they were not thoughts, man 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 the mind can be
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  Speaker 1: nothing else than a substance which thinks. Man is a
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  Speaker 1: thinking substance, a portion of the cosmic substance. But man
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  Speaker 1: is limited, while the cosmic intelligence from which he sprang,
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  Speaker 1: which Jesus calls the Father, is unlimited. All intelligence, power,
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  Speaker 1: and force comes from the Father. Jesus recognized this and
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  Speaker 1: stated it very plainly, over and over again. He ascribed
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  Speaker 1: all his wisdom and power to his unity with the
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  Speaker 1: Father and to his perceiving the thoughts of God. My
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  Speaker 1: Father and I are one. This was the foundation of
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  Speaker 1: his knowledge and power. He showed the people the necessity
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  Speaker 1: of becoming spiritually awakened, of hearing his voice and becoming
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  Speaker 1: like him. He compared the unthinking man, who is the
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  Speaker 1: prey and sport of circumstances to the dead man in
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  Speaker 1: a tomb, and besought him to hear and come forth.
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  Speaker 1: God is spirit, he said, be born again. Become spiritually awake,
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  Speaker 1: and you may see His kingdom. Hear my voice, see
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  Speaker 1: what I am and what I do, and come forth
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  Speaker 1: and live. The words I speak are spirit and life.
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  Speaker 1: Accept them and they will cause a well of water
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  Speaker 1: to spring up within you. Then you will have life
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  Speaker 1: within yourself. I do what I see the Father do,
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  Speaker 1: he said, meaning that he read the thoughts of God.
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  Speaker 1: The Father shows all things to the son. If any
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  Speaker 1: man has the will to do the will of God,
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  Speaker 1: he shall know truth. My teaching is not my own,
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  Speaker 1: but His that sent me. You shall know the truth,
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  Speaker 1: and the truth shall make you free. The spirit shall
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  Speaker 1: guide you into all truth. We are immersed in mind,
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  Speaker 1: and that mind contains all knowledge and old truth. It
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  Speaker 1: is seeking to give us this knowledge, for our Father
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  Speaker 1: delights to give good gifts to his children. The prophets
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  Speaker 1: and seers and great men and women past and present
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  Speaker 1: were made great by what they received from God, not
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  Speaker 1: by what they were taught by man. This limitless reservoir
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  Speaker 1: wisdom and power is open to you. You can draw
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  Speaker 1: upon it as you will. According to your needs. You
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  Speaker 1: can make yourself what you desire to be. You can
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  Speaker 1: do what you wish to do, You can have what
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  Speaker 1: you want. To accomplish this, you must learn to become
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  Speaker 1: one with the Father, so that you may perceive truth,
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  Speaker 1: so that you may have wisdom and know the right
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  Speaker 1: ends to seek and the right means to use to
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  Speaker 1: attain those ends, and so that you may secure power
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  Speaker 1: and ability to use the means. In closing this chapter,
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  Speaker 1: resolve that you will now lay aside all else and
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  Speaker 1: concentrate upon the attainment of conscious unity with God. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: when I am safe in my stillborn home, I tread
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  Speaker 1: on the pride of Greece and Rome. And when I
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  Speaker 1: am stretched beneath the pines, where the evening star so
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  Speaker 1: holy shines, I laugh at the lore and pride of man,
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  Speaker 1: at the Sophist schools and the learned clan. For what
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  Speaker 1: are they, in all their high conceit. When man in
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  Speaker 1: the bush with God may meet preparation, draw nigh to God,
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  Speaker 1: and he will draw nigh to you. If you become
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  Speaker 1: like God, you can reach his thoughts. And if you
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  Speaker 1: do not, you will find the inspirational perception of truth impossible.
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  Speaker 1: You can never become a great man or woman until
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  Speaker 1: you have overcome anxiety, worry, and fear. It is impossible
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  Speaker 1: for an anxious man, a worried one, or a fearful
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  Speaker 1: one to put receive truth. All things are distorted and
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  Speaker 1: thrown out of their proper relations by such mental states,
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  Speaker 1: and those who are in them cannot read the thoughts
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  Speaker 1: of God. If you are poor, or if you are
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  Speaker 1: anxious about business or financial matters, you are recommended to
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  Speaker 1: study carefully the first volume of this series, The Science
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  Speaker 1: of Getting Rich, that will present to you a solution
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  Speaker 1: for your problems of this nature, no matter how large
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  Speaker 1: or how complicated they may seem to be, there is
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  Speaker 1: not the least cause for worry about financial affairs. Every
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  Speaker 1: 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 proposed to draw for mental unfolding and
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  Speaker 1: spiritual power is at your service 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 a certain way which leads to material riches. Again.
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  Speaker 1: If you you are anxious or worried about your health.
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  Speaker 1: Realize it is possible for you to attain perfect health,
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  Speaker 1: so that you may have strength sufficient for all that
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  Speaker 1: you wish to do. And more, that intelligence that stands
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  Speaker 1: ready to give you wealth and mental and spiritual power
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  Speaker 1: will rejoice to give you health. Also. Perfect health is
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  Speaker 1: yours for the asking, if you will only obey the
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  Speaker 1: simple laws of life and live aright, conquer ill health,
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  Speaker 1: and cast out fear. But it is not enough to
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  Speaker 1: rise above financial and physical anxiety and worry. You must
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  Speaker 1: rise above moral evil, doing as well sound your inner consciousness.
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  Speaker 1: Now for the motives that 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: forglottenous pleasure. And in all things you must make the
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  Speaker 1: flesh obey the spirit. You must lay aside greed. Have
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  Speaker 1: no unworthy motive in your desire to become rich and powerful.
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  Speaker 1: It is legitimate and right to desire riches if you
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  Speaker 1: want them for the sake of the soul, but not
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  Speaker 1: if you desire them for the lusts of the flesh.
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  Speaker 1: Cast out pride and vanity, have no thought of trying
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  Speaker 1: to rule over others or without doing them. This is
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  Speaker 1: a vital point. There is no temptation so insidious as
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  Speaker 1: the selfish desire to rule over others. Nothing so appeals
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  Speaker 1: to the average man or woman as to sit in
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  Speaker 1: the uppermost places at feasts, to be respectfully saluted in
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  Speaker 1: the marketplace, and to be called rabbi master. To exercise
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  Speaker 1: some sort of control over others is the secret motive
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  Speaker 1: of every selfish person. The struggle for power over others
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  Speaker 1: is the battle of the competitive world. And you must
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  Speaker 1: rise about that world and its motives and aspirations, and
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  Speaker 1: seek only for life. Cast out envy. You can have
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  Speaker 1: all that you want, and you need not envy any
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  Speaker 1: man what he has above all things. See to it
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  Speaker 1: that you do not hold malice or enmity toward any one.
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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 loves
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  Speaker 1: not his brother loves 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 where all
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  Speaker 1: the foregoing, and set these moral temptations out of your heart,
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  Speaker 1: one by one, determined to keep them out. Then resolve
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  Speaker 1: that you will not only abandon all evil thought, but
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  Speaker 1: that you will forsake all deeds, habits, and courses of
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  Speaker 1: action which do not recommend 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: power of your soul, and you are ready for the
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  Speaker 1: next step towards greatness, which is explained in the following chapter.
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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 characteristics 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 delight upon the accursed slave trade which his
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  Speaker 1: soul abhorred. We see it in Luther and in Francis Willard,
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  Speaker 1: in every man and woman who has attained a place
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  Speaker 1: on the master roll of the great ones of the world.
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  Speaker 1: Faith not a faith in one's self or in one's
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  Speaker 1: own powers, but faith in principle, in the something great
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  Speaker 1: which upholds right, and which may be relied upon to
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  Speaker 1: give us the victory in due time. Without this faith,
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  Speaker 1: it is not possible for any one to rise to
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  Speaker 1: real greatness. The man who has no faith in principle
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  Speaker 1: will always be a small man. Whether you have this
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  Speaker 1: faith or not depends upon your point of view. You
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  Speaker 1: must learn to see the world as being produced by evolution,
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  Speaker 1: as something that is evolving and becoming, not as a
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  Speaker 1: finished work. Millions of years ago, God worked with very
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  Speaker 1: low and crude forms of life, low and crude, yet
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  Speaker 1: each perfect after its kind. Higher and more complex organisms,
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  Speaker 1: animal and vegetable appeared. Through the successive ages. The Earth
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  Speaker 1: passed through stage after stage in its unfolding, each stage
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  Speaker 1: perfect in itself and to be succeeded by a higher one.
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  Speaker 1: What I wish you to note is that the so
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  Speaker 1: called lower organisms are as perfect after their kind as
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  Speaker 1: the higher ones. That the world in the Eocene period
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  Speaker 1: was perfect for that period. It was perfect, but God's
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  Speaker 1: work was not finished. This is true of the world
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  Speaker 1: to day, 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 handwork
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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 present, 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 completed,
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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 it is of human society and government.
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  Speaker 1: But though there are trust and combinations of capital, and
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  Speaker 1: strikes and lockouts and so on, all these things are
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  Speaker 1: part of the forward movement. They are incidential to the
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  Speaker 1: evolutionary process of completing society. When it is complete, there
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  Speaker 1: will be harmony, but it cannot be completed without them. J. P.
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  Speaker 1: Morgan is as necessary to the coming social order as
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  Speaker 1: the strange animals of the age of reptiles were to
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  Speaker 1: the life of the succeeding period. And just as these
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: animals were perfect after their kind, so Morgan is perfect
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  Speaker 1: after his kind. Behold, it is all very good. See
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  Speaker 1: government and industry as being perfect now, and as advancing
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  Speaker 1: rapidly toward being complete. Then you will understand that there
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  Speaker 1: is nothing to fear, no cause for anxiety, nothing to
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  Speaker 1: worry about. Never complain of any of these things. They
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  Speaker 1: are perfect. This is the very best possible word for
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  Speaker 1: the stage of development man has reached. This will sound
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  Speaker 1: like rank folly to many, perhaps to most people. What
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  Speaker 1: they will say are not child labor and the exploitation
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  Speaker 1: of men and women in filthy and unsanitary factories. Evil
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  Speaker 1: things are in saloons evil. Do you mean to say
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  Speaker 1: that we shall accept all these and call them good?
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  Speaker 1: Child labor and similar things are no more evil than
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  Speaker 1: the way of living, and the habits and practices of
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: the cave dweller were evil. His ways were those of
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  Speaker 1: the savage stage of man's growth, and for that stage
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  Speaker 1: they were perfect. Our industrial practices are those of the
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  Speaker 1: savage stage of industrial development, and they are also perfect.
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  Speaker 1: Nothing better is possible until we cease to be mental
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  Speaker 1: savages in industry and business and become man and will.
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  Speaker 1: This can only come about by the rise of the
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  Speaker 1: whole race to a higher viewpoint. And this can only
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  Speaker 1: come about by the rise of such individuals here and
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  Speaker 1: there as are ready for the higher viewpoint. The cure
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  Speaker 1: for all this inharmoniousness lies not with the masters or employers,
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  Speaker 1: but with the workers themselves. Whenever they reach a higher viewpoint,
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  Speaker 1: whenever they shall desire to do so, they can establish
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  Speaker 1: complete brotherhood and harmony in industry. They have the numbers
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  Speaker 1: and the power. They are getting now what they desire.
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  Speaker 1: Whenever they desire more in the way of a higher, purer,
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  Speaker 1: more harmonious life, they will receive more. True, they want
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  Speaker 1: more now, but they only want more of the things
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: that make for animal enjoyment. And so industry remains in
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: the savage, brutal animal stage. When the workers begin to
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  Speaker 1: rise to the mental plane of living and ask for
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  Speaker 1: more of the things that make for the life of
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  Speaker 1: the mind, and so industry will at once be raised
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  Speaker 1: above the plane of savagery and brutality. But it is
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  Speaker 1: perfect now upon its plane behold. In fact, it is
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  Speaker 1: all very good. So it is true of saloons and
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  Speaker 1: dens of vice. If the majority of the people desire
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  Speaker 1: these things, it is right and necessary that they should
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  Speaker 1: have them. When the majority desires a world without such discords,
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: they will create such a world. So long as men
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  Speaker 1: and women are on the plane of bestial thought, so
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  Speaker 1: long the social order will be in part disorder and
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: will show bestial manifestations. The people make society what it is,
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: and as the people rise above the bestial thought, society
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: will rise above the beastly and 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
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: world was in the Ucene period, and very good. All
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  Speaker 1: this does not prevent you from working for better things.
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  Speaker 1: You can work to complete an unfinished society instead of
• 35:04
  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 that is
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  Speaker 1: becoming better or as a bad and evil thing that
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  Speaker 1: is decaying. One viewpoint gives you an advancing and expanding mind,
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  Speaker 1: and the other gives you a descending and decreasing mind.
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  Speaker 1: One viewpoint will make you grow greater, and the other
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  Speaker 1: will inevitably cause you to grow smaller. One will enable
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  Speaker 1: you to work for the eternal things, to do large
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: works in a great way, toward the completing of all
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: that is incomplete and inharmonious, and the other will make
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  Speaker 1: you a mere petwork reformer, working almost without hope, to
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: save a few lost souls from what you will grow
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: to consider a lost and doomed world. So you see,
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: it makes the vast difference to you this matter of
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  Speaker 1: the social viewpoint. All's right with the world. Nothing can
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  Speaker 1: possibly be wrong but my personal attitude, and I will
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: make that right. I will see the facts of nature
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  Speaker 1: and all the events, circumstances, 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,
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: it is all very good. The individual point of view
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: important as the matter of your point of view for
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: the facts of social life is. It is of less
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: moment than your 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
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: learn not to look upon the world as a lost
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: and decaying thing, but as a something perfect and glorious
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: which is going on to a most beautiful completeness. And
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: you must learn to see men and women not as
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: lost and accursive things, but as perfect being advancing to
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: become complete. There are no bad or evil people. An
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: engine which is on the rails pulling a heavy train
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: is perfect after its kind, and it is good. The
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: power of steam which drives it is good. Let a
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: broken rail throw the engine into the ditch, and it
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: does not become bad or evil by being so displaced.
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: It is a perfectly good engine. But of the track,
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: the power of steam that drives it into the ditch
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: and racks 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
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: or partial way is not evil. There are no evil people.
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: There are perfectly good people who are of the track,
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: but they do not need condemnation or punishment. They only
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: need to get upon the rails. Again, that which is
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: undeveloped or incomplete often appears to us as evil because
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: of the way we have trained ourselves to think. The
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: root of a bulb that shall produce a white lily
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: is an unsightly thing. One might look upon it with disgust.
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: But how foolish we should be to condemn the bulb
• 38:07
  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
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: perfect but incomplete lily. And so we must learn to
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: look upon every man and woman, no matter how unlovely
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: an outward manifestation, They are perfect in their stage of being,
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: and they are becoming complete. Behold, it is all very good.
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: Once we come into a comprehension of this fact and
• 38:32
  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
• 38:43
  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.
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: We are born of the spirit, and we see the
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: Kingdom of God. We no longer see man as trees walking,
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: but our vision is complete. We have nothing but good
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: words to say. It is all good, a great and
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: glorious humanity coming to completeness, and in our association with
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: man This puts us into an expensive and enlarging gratitude
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  Speaker 1: of mind. We see them as great beings, and we
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: begin to deal with them and their affairs in a
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: great way. But if we fall to the other point
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: of view and see a lost and degenerate race, we
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: shrink into the contracting mind, and our dealings with men
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: and their affairs will be in a small and contracted way.
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: Remember to hold steadily to this point of view. If
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: you do, you cannot fail to begin at once to
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: deal with your acquaintances and neighbors, and with your own
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: family as a great personality deals with men. This same
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: viewpoint must be the one from which you regard yourself.
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: You must always see yourself as a great advancing soul.
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: Learn to say, there is that in me of which
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: I am made, which knows no imperfection, weakness, or sickness.
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: World is incomplete, but God, in my own consciousness, is
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: both perfect and complete. Nothing can be wrong but my
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: own personal attitude, and my own personal attitude can be
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: wrong only when I disobey that which is within. I
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: am a perfect manifestation of God so far as I
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: have gone, and I will press on to be complete,
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: I will trust and not be afraid. When you are
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  Speaker 1: able to say this understandingly, you will have lost all fear,
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  Speaker 1: and you will be far advanced upon the road to
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  Speaker 1: the development of a great and powerful personality. Consecration. Having
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  Speaker 1: attained to the viewpoint that puts you into the right
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  Speaker 1: relations with the world and with your fellow men, the
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  Speaker 1: next step is consecration. And consecration in its true sense,
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: simply means obedience to the soul you have, that within you,
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  Speaker 1: that which is always impelling you toward the upward and
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: advancing way. And that impelling something is the divine principle
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  Speaker 1: of power. You must obey it without question. No one
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  Speaker 1: will deny the statement that if you are to be great,
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  Speaker 1: the greatness must be a manifestation of something within. Nor
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  Speaker 1: can you question that this something must be the very
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  Speaker 1: greatest and highest that is within. It is not the mind,
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  Speaker 1: or the intellect, or the reason. You cannot be great
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  Speaker 1: if you go no farther back for principle than to
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  Speaker 1: your reasoning power. Reason knows neither principle nor morality. Your
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  Speaker 1: reason is like a lawyer in that it will argue
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  Speaker 1: for either side. The intellect of a thief will plan
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: robbery and murder as readily as the intellect of a
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: saint will plan a great philanthropy. Intellect helps us to
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: see the best means and manner of doing the right thing,
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: but intellect never shows us the right thing. Intellect and
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: reason serve the selfish man for his selfish ends as
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  Speaker 1: readily as they serve the unselfish man for his unselfish ends.
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  Speaker 1: Use intellect and reason without regard principle, and you may
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: become known as a very able person. But you will
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: never become known as a person whose life shows the
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: power of real greatness. There is too much training of
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  Speaker 1: the intellect and reasoning powers, and too little training in
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: obedience to the soul. This is the only thing that
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: can be wrong with your personal attitude when it fails
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  Speaker 1: to be one of obedience to the principle of power.
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  Speaker 1: By going back to your own center, you can always
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: find the pure idea of right For every relationship to
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  Speaker 1: be great and to have power, It is only necessary
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  Speaker 1: to confirm your life to the pure idea as you
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: find it in the great within. Every compromise on this
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: point is made at the expense of a loss of power.
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: This you must remember. There are many ideas in your
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: mind that you have outgrown, and which from force of
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: habit you still permit to dictate the actions of your life.
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  Speaker 1: Seize all this, Abandon everything you have outgrown. There are
• 42:59
  Speaker 1: many egos, noble, customs, social, and other which you still follow,
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  Speaker 1: although you know they tend to dwarf and belitter you,
• 43:06
  Speaker 1: and keep you acting in a small way. Rise above
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  Speaker 1: all this. I do not say that you should absolutely
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  Speaker 1: disregard conventionalities or the commonly accepted standards of right and wrong.
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  Speaker 1: You cannot do this, but you can deliver your soul
• 43:21
  Speaker 1: from most of the narrow restrictions that bind the majority
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: of your fellow men. Do not give your time and
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: strength to the support of the obsolete institutions, religious or otherwise.
• 43:33
  Speaker 1: Do not be bound by creeds in which you do
• 43:35
  Speaker 1: not believe. Be free. You have perhaps formed some sensual
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: habits of mind or body. Abandon them. You still indulge
• 43:44
  Speaker 1: in distrustful fears that things will go wrong, or that
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: people will betray you or mistreat you. Get above all
• 43:51
  Speaker 1: of them. You still act selfishly in many ways, and
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: on many occasions. Cease to do so. Abandon all these,
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: and in place of them, put the best actions you
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  Speaker 1: can form a conception of in your mind. If you
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: desire to advance and you are not doing so, remember
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  Speaker 1: that it can be only because your thought is better
• 44:11
  Speaker 1: than your practice. You must do as well as you think.
• 44:15
  Speaker 1: Let your thoughts be ruled by principle, and then live
• 44:18
  Speaker 1: up to your thoughts. Let your attitude in business, in politics,
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  Speaker 1: in neighborhood affairs, and in your own home be the
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: expression of the best thoughts you can think. Let your
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: manner toward all men and women, great and small, and
• 44:33
  Speaker 1: especially to your own family circle, always be the most kindly, gracious,
• 44:38
  Speaker 1: and courteous you can picture in your imagination. Remember your viewpoint.
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: You are a god in the company of gods, and
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: must conduct yourself accordingly. The steps to complete consecration are
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: few and simple. You cannot be ruled from below. If
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: you are to be great, you must rule from above. Therefore,
• 44:58
  Speaker 1: you cannot be governed by physical impulses. You must bring
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  Speaker 1: your body into subjection to the mind. But your mind
• 45:05
  Speaker 1: 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 our soul,
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  Speaker 1: which needs no searching of the understanding, but before whose
• 45:22
  Speaker 1: eye 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
• 45:32
  Speaker 1: surrender my mind to be governed by my soul, and
• 45:35
  Speaker 1: I surrender my soul to the guidance of God. Make
• 45:39
  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 identification.
• 45:51
  Speaker 1: Having recognized God as the advancing presence in nature, society,
• 45:55
  Speaker 1: and your fellow man, and harmonize yourself with all these,
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: and having consecrated yourself to death within you, which impels
• 46:03
  Speaker 1: you toward the greatest and the highest. The next step
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  Speaker 1: is to become aware of and recognize fully the fact
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  Speaker 1: that the principle of power within you is God himself.
• 46:13
  Speaker 1: You must consciously identify yourself with the Highest. This is
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  Speaker 1: not some fault or untrue position to be assumed. It
• 46:21
  Speaker 1: is a fact to be recognized. You are already one
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  Speaker 1: with God. You want to become consciously aware of it.
• 46:28
  Speaker 1: There is one substance, the source of all things, and
• 46:32
  Speaker 1: this substance has within itself the power that creates all things,
• 46:36
  Speaker 1: all power is inherent in it. This substance is conscious
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  Speaker 1: and thinks it works with perfect understanding and intelligence. You
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: know that it is so because you know that substance exists,
• 46:49
  Speaker 1: and that consciousness exists, and that it must be substance
• 46:52
  Speaker 1: that is conscious. Man is conscious and thinks man is substance.
• 46:58
  Speaker 1: He must be substance, as he is nothing and does
• 47:01
  Speaker 1: not exist at all. If man is substance and things
• 47:05
  Speaker 1: and is conscious, then he is conscious substance. It is
• 47:09
  Speaker 1: not conceivable that there should be more than one conscious substance.
• 47:13
  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
• 47:25
  Speaker 1: same everywhere, and must be everywhere and attribute of the
• 47:29
  Speaker 1: same substance. There cannot be one kind of intelligence in
• 47:32
  Speaker 1: God and another kind of intelligence in Man. Intelligence can
• 47:36
  Speaker 1: only be an intelligent substance, and intelligent substance is God.
• 47:41
  Speaker 1: Man is of one and the same, stuck with God,
• 47:44
  Speaker 1: and so all the talents, powers and possibilities that are
• 47:47
  Speaker 1: in God are in Man, not just in a few
• 47:50
  Speaker 1: exceptional men, but in every one. All power is given
• 47:54
  Speaker 1: to man in heaven and on earth. Is it not
• 47:57
  Speaker 1: written ye are gods. The principle of power in man
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  Speaker 1: is man himself, and man himself is God. But while
• 48:05
  Speaker 1: man is original substance and has within him all power
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  Speaker 1: and possibilities, his consciousness is limited. He does not know
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  Speaker 1: all there is to know, and so he is liable
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  Speaker 1: to error and mistake. To save himself from these, he
• 48:20
  Speaker 1: must unite his mind to that outside him, which does
• 48:23
  Speaker 1: know all. He must become consciously one with God. There
• 48:27
  Speaker 1: is a mind surrounding him on every side, closer than breathing,
• 48:31
  Speaker 1: nearer than hands and feet. And in this mind is
• 48:34
  Speaker 1: the memory of all that has ever happened, from the
• 48:37
  Speaker 1: greatest convulsions of nature in prehistoric days to the fall
• 48:41
  Speaker 1: of a sparrow in this present time, and all that
• 48:44
  Speaker 1: is in existence now as well. How in this mind
• 48:48
  Speaker 1: is the great purpose that is behind all nature, so
• 48:51
  Speaker 1: it knows what is going to be. Man is surrounded
• 48:54
  Speaker 1: by a mind that knows all there is to know, past,
• 48:57
  Speaker 1: present and to come. Everything that men have said, or
• 49:01
  Speaker 1: down or written is present. There. Man is of the
• 49:05
  Speaker 1: same one, identical stuff with this mind. He proceeded from it,
• 49:10
  Speaker 1: and he can so identify himself with it. That he
• 49:12
  Speaker 1: may know what it knows. My Father is greater than
• 49:16
  Speaker 1: I said Jesus, I come from him. I and my
• 49:21
  Speaker 1: Father are one. He shows the Son all things. The
• 49:25
  Speaker 1: spiritual guide you into all truth. Your identification of yourself
• 49:30
  Speaker 1: with the infinite must be accomplished by conscious recognition on
• 49:33
  Speaker 1: your part. Recognizing it is a fact that there is
• 49:37
  Speaker 1: only God and that all intelligence is in the one's substance.
• 49:41
  Speaker 1: You must affirm some what after this wise, there is
• 49:45
  Speaker 1: only one, and that one is everywhere. I surrender myself
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  Speaker 1: to conscious unity with the Highest, not I but the Father.
• 49:54
  Speaker 1: I will to be one with the Supreme and to
• 49:56
  Speaker 1: lead the divine life. I am one with infant that consciousness.
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  Speaker 1: There is but one mind, and I am that mind.
• 50:05
  Speaker 1: I that speak unto you am he. If you have
• 50:08
  Speaker 1: been 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
• 50:15
  Speaker 1: your consecration is complete, you will not find conscious identification
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  Speaker 1: and heart to attain. And once it is attained, the
• 50:23
  Speaker 1: power you seek is yours, for you have made yourself
• 50:26
  Speaker 1: one with all the power there is idealization. You are
• 50:32
  Speaker 1: a thinking center in original substance and the thoughts of
• 50:35
  Speaker 1: original substance have creative power. Whatever is formed in its
• 50:40
  Speaker 1: thought and held as a thought form must come into
• 50:43
  Speaker 1: existence as a visible and so called material form. And
• 50:46
  Speaker 1: a thought form held in thinking substance is a reality.
• 50:50
  Speaker 1: It is a real thing, whether it has yet become
• 50:53
  Speaker 1: visible to mortal lie or not. This is a fact
• 50:56
  Speaker 1: that you should impress upon your understanding, that as thought
• 51:00
  Speaker 1: held in thinking substance is a real thing, a form,
• 51:04
  Speaker 1: and has actual existence, although it is not visible to you.
• 51:09
  Speaker 1: You internally take the form in which you think of yourself,
• 51:12
  Speaker 1: and you surround yourself with the invisible forms of those
• 51:15
  Speaker 1: things with which you associate in your thoughts. If you
• 51:19
  Speaker 1: desire a thing, picture it clearly, and hold the picture
• 51:22
  Speaker 1: steadily in mind until it becomes a definite thought form.
• 51:26
  Speaker 1: And if your practices are not such as to separate
• 51:29
  Speaker 1: you from God, the thing you want will come to
• 51:31
  Speaker 1: you in material form. It must do so in obedience
• 51:35
  Speaker 1: to the law by which the universe was created. Make
• 51:39
  Speaker 1: no thought form of yourself in connection with disease or sickness,
• 51:43
  Speaker 1: but form a conception of health. Make a thought form
• 51:46
  Speaker 1: of yourself as strong and hearty and perfectly well impress
• 51:50
  Speaker 1: this thought form on creative intelligence, and if your practices
• 51:54
  Speaker 1: are not in violation of the laws by which the
• 51:56
  Speaker 1: physical body is built, your thought form will become manifest
• 52:00
  Speaker 1: in your flesh. This also is certain. It comes by
• 52:04
  Speaker 1: obedience to law. Make a thought form of yourself as
• 52:08
  Speaker 1: you desire to be, and set your ideal as near
• 52:11
  Speaker 1: to perfection as your imagination is capable of forming. The conception.
• 52:15
  Speaker 1: Let me illustrate. If a young law student wishes to
• 52:19
  Speaker 1: become great. Let him picture himself, while attending to the
• 52:22
  Speaker 1: viewpoint consecration and identification, as previously directed, as a great lawyer,
• 52:28
  Speaker 1: pleading his case with much less eloquence and power before
• 52:31
  Speaker 1: the judge and jury, as having an unlimited command of truth,
• 52:35
  Speaker 1: of knowledge, and of wisdom. Let him picture himself as
• 52:39
  Speaker 1: the great lawyer in every possible situation and contingency, while
• 52:43
  Speaker 1: he is still only the student in all circumstances. Let
• 52:46
  Speaker 1: him never forget or fail to be the great lawyer
• 52:49
  Speaker 1: in his thought form of himself. As the thought form
• 52:52
  Speaker 1: grows more definite and habitual in his mind, the creative energies,
• 52:56
  Speaker 1: both within and without are set at work. He begins
• 53:00
  Speaker 1: to manifest the form from within and all the essentials
• 53:03
  Speaker 1: without which go into the picture begin to be impelled
• 53:06
  Speaker 1: toward him. He makes himself into the image, and God
• 53:10
  Speaker 1: works with him. Nothing can prevent him from becoming what
• 53:13
  Speaker 1: he wishes to be. In the same general way, the
• 53:17
  Speaker 1: musical student pictures himself as performing perfect harmonies and as
• 53:21
  Speaker 1: delighting vast audiences. The actor forms the highest conception he
• 53:26
  Speaker 1: is capable of in regard to his art, and applies
• 53:29
  Speaker 1: this conception to himself. The farmer and the mechanic do
• 53:32
  Speaker 1: exactly the same thing. Fix upon your ideal of what
• 53:36
  Speaker 1: you wish to make of yourself, Consider well, and be
• 53:40
  Speaker 1: sure that you make the right choice, that is the
• 53:43
  Speaker 1: one that will be the most satisfactory to you. In
• 53:45
  Speaker 1: a general way, do not pay too much attention to
• 53:48
  Speaker 1: the advice and suggestions of those around you. Do not
• 53:52
  Speaker 1: believe that any one can know better than yourself what
• 53:55
  Speaker 1: is right for you. Listen to what others have to say,
• 53:58
  Speaker 1: but always form your own codes conclusions. Do not let
• 54:02
  Speaker 1: other people decide what you are to be. Be what
• 54:05
  Speaker 1: you feel that you want to be. Do not be
• 54:08
  Speaker 1: misled by a false notion of obligation or duty. You
• 54:11
  Speaker 1: can owe no possible obligation or duty to others that
• 54:14
  Speaker 1: should prevent you from making the most of yourself. Be
• 54:18
  Speaker 1: true to yourself, and you cannot then be false to
• 54:21
  Speaker 1: any man. When you have fully decided what thing you
• 54:24
  Speaker 1: want to be, form the highest conception of that thing
• 54:27
  Speaker 1: that you are capable of imagining, and make that conception
• 54:30
  Speaker 1: a thought form. Hold that thought form as a fact,
• 54:34
  Speaker 1: as the real truth about yourself, and believe in it.
• 54:38
  Speaker 1: Close your ears to all adverse suggestions. Never mind if
• 54:42
  Speaker 1: people call you a fool or a dreamer. Dream on.
• 54:46
  Speaker 1: Remember that Bonaparte, the half starred lieutenant, always saw himself
• 54:50
  Speaker 1: as the general of armies and the master of France,
• 54:54
  Speaker 1: and he became in out or realization what he held
• 54:57
  Speaker 1: himself to be in mind. So likewise, will you attend
• 55:01
  Speaker 1: carefully to all that has been said in the preceding chapters,
• 55:04
  Speaker 1: and act as directed in the following ones, and you
• 55:07
  Speaker 1: will become what you want to be realization. If you
• 55:13
  Speaker 1: were to stop in the close of the last chapter, however,
• 55:16
  Speaker 1: you would never become great. You would be indeed a
• 55:19
  Speaker 1: mere dreamer of dreams, a costop builder. Too many do
• 55:23
  Speaker 1: stop there. They do not understand the necessity for present action.
• 55:27
  Speaker 1: In realizing the vision and bringing the thought form into manifestation,
• 55:32
  Speaker 1: two things are necessary, firstly the making of the thought form,
• 55:37
  Speaker 1: and secondly the actual appropriation to yourself of all that
• 55:41
  Speaker 1: goes into and around the thought form. We have discussed
• 55:45
  Speaker 1: the first. Now we will proceed to give directions for
• 55:48
  Speaker 1: the second. When you have made your thought form, you
• 55:51
  Speaker 1: are already in your interior what you want to be. Next,
• 55:56
  Speaker 1: you must become externally what you want to be. You
• 55:59
  Speaker 1: are already great within, but you are not yet doing
• 56:01
  Speaker 1: the great things. Without you cannot begin on the instant
• 56:05
  Speaker 1: to do the great things. You cannot be before the
• 56:08
  Speaker 1: world the great actor or lawyer, or musician or personality
• 56:12
  Speaker 1: you know yourself to be. No one will entrust great
• 56:15
  Speaker 1: things to you as yet, for you have not made
• 56:18
  Speaker 1: yourself known. But you can always begin to do small
• 56:21
  Speaker 1: things in a great way. Here lies the whole secret.
• 56:26
  Speaker 1: You can begin to be great to day in your
• 56:28
  Speaker 1: own home, in your store or office, on the street, everywhere.
• 56:33
  Speaker 1: You can begin to make yourself known as great. And
• 56:36
  Speaker 1: you can do this by doing everything you do in
• 56:38
  Speaker 1: a great way. You must put the whole power of
• 56:41
  Speaker 1: your great soul into every act, however small or commonplace,
• 56:46
  Speaker 1: and so reveal to your family, your friends, and neighbors
• 56:48
  Speaker 1: what you really are. Do not brag or boast of yourself.
• 56:53
  Speaker 1: Do not go about telling people what a great personage
• 56:55
  Speaker 1: you are. Simply live in a great way. No one
• 56:59
  Speaker 1: will believe you if you tell him you are a
• 57:01
  Speaker 1: great man, but no one can doubt your greatness if
• 57:04
  Speaker 1: you show it in your actions in your domestic circle.
• 57:08
  Speaker 1: Be so just, so generous, so courteous, and kindly, that
• 57:12
  Speaker 1: your family, your wife, husband, children, brothers, and sisters shall
• 57:16
  Speaker 1: know that you are a great and noble soul. In
• 57:20
  Speaker 1: all your relations with man, be great, just, generous, courteous,
• 57:24
  Speaker 1: and kindly. The great are never otherwise. This is your attitude. Next,
• 57:30
  Speaker 1: and most important, you must have absolute faith in your
• 57:33
  Speaker 1: own perceptions of truth. Never act in haste or hurry.
• 57:38
  Speaker 1: Be deliberate in everything. Wait until you feel that you
• 57:42
  Speaker 1: know the true way. And when you do feel that
• 57:45
  Speaker 1: you know the true way, be guided by your own faith,
• 57:48
  Speaker 1: though the entire world shall disagree with you. If you
• 57:52
  Speaker 1: do not believe what God tells you in little things,
• 57:55
  Speaker 1: you will never draw upon His wisdom and knowledge in
• 57:57
  Speaker 1: larger things. When you feel deeply that a certain act
• 58:01
  Speaker 1: is the right act, Do it, and have perfect faith
• 58:05
  Speaker 1: that the consequences will be good. When you are deeply
• 58:08
  Speaker 1: impressed that a certain thing is true, no matter what
• 58:11
  Speaker 1: the appearances to the contrary may be, except that things
• 58:15
  Speaker 1: true and act accordingly, the one way to develop a
• 58:18
  Speaker 1: perception of truth in large things is to trust absolutely
• 58:22
  Speaker 1: to your present perception of truth in small things. Remember
• 58:26
  Speaker 1: that you are seeking to develop this very power or faculty,
• 58:30
  Speaker 1: the perception of truth. You are learning to read the
• 58:33
  Speaker 1: thoughts of God. Nothing is great and nothing is small.
• 58:37
  Speaker 1: In the sight of omnipotence. He holds the sun in
• 58:40
  Speaker 1: its place, but he also notes as perrow's fall, and
• 58:44
  Speaker 1: numbers the hairs of your head. God is as much
• 58:48
  Speaker 1: interested in the little matters of every day life as
• 58:51
  Speaker 1: he is in the affairs of nations. You can perceive
• 58:54
  Speaker 1: truth about family and neighborhood affairs, as well as about
• 58:58
  Speaker 1: matters of state craft, and the way to begin is
• 59:01
  Speaker 1: to have perfect faith in the truth in these small matters,
• 59:05
  Speaker 1: as it is revealed to you from day to day.
• 59:07
  Speaker 1: When you feel deeply impelled to take a course that
• 59:10
  Speaker 1: seems contrary to all reason and worthy judgment, take that course.
• 59:14
  Speaker 1: Listen to the suggestions and advice of others, But always
• 59:18
  Speaker 1: do what you feel deeply in the within to be
• 59:20
  Speaker 1: the true thing to do. Rely with absolute faith at
• 59:24
  Speaker 1: all times on your own perception of truth. But be
• 59:28
  Speaker 1: sure that you listen to God, that you do not
• 59:30
  Speaker 1: act in haste, fear, or anxiety. Rely upon your perception
• 59:35
  Speaker 1: of truth in all the facts and circumstances of life.
• 59:39
  Speaker 1: If you feel deeply that a certain man will be
• 59:41
  Speaker 1: in a certain place on a certain day, go there
• 59:44
  Speaker 1: with perfect faith to meet him. He will be there,
• 59:47
  Speaker 1: no matter how unlikely it may seem. If you feel
• 59:50
  Speaker 1: sure that certain people are making certain combinations or doing
• 59:54
  Speaker 1: certain things, act in the faith that they are doing
• 59:57
  Speaker 1: those things. If you fear sure of the truth of
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 1: any circumstance or happening near or distant, past present, or
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 1: to come, trust in your perception. You may make occasional
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 1: mistakes at first because of your imperfect understanding of the within,
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 1: but you will soon be guided almost invariably right. Soon
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 1: your family and friends will begin to differ more and
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 1: more to your judgment and to be guided by you. Soon,
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 1: your neighbors and townsmen will be coming to you for
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 1: counsel and advice. Soon, you will be recognized as one
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  Speaker 1: who is great in small things, and you will be
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  Speaker 1: called upon more and more to take charge of larger things.
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  Speaker 1: All that is necessary is to be guided absolutely in
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  Speaker 1: all things by your inner light, your perception of truth,
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  Speaker 1: Obey your soul. Have perfect faith in yourself. Never think
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  Speaker 1: of yourself with doubt or distrust, or as one who
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  Speaker 1: makes mistakes. If I judge, my judgment is just, for
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  Speaker 1: I seek not honor from men, but from the Father. Only.
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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 that must be paid or
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  Speaker 1: other obligations that 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
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 1: personal riddles. There is no hurry. There is only God
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  Speaker 1: and always well with the world. There is an invincible
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  Speaker 1: power in you, and the same power as in the
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  Speaker 1: things you want. It is bringing them to you and
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  Speaker 1: bringing you to them. This is a thought that you
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 1: must grasp and hold continuously that the same intelligence that
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  Speaker 1: is in you is in the things you desire. They
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 1: are impelled toward you as strongly and decidedly as your
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  Speaker 1: desire impels you toward them. The tendency therefore, of as
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 1: steadily held thought must be to bring the things you
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 1: desire to you, and to group them around you. So
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  Speaker 1: 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
• 1:02:12
  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 acted perfect faith in your own perceptions of truth,
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  Speaker 1: you will never be too late or too early, and
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 1: nothing will go wrong. If things appear to be going wrong,
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 1: do not get disturbed. In mind, it is only an appearance.
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 1: Nothing can go wrong in this world but yourself, and
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  Speaker 1: you can go wrong only by getting into the wrong
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  Speaker 1: mental attitude. Whenever you find yourself getting excited, worried, or
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  Speaker 1: into the mental attitude of hurry, sit down and think
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 1: it owhere, play a game of some kind, or take
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 1: a vacation, go on a trip, and all will be right.
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  Speaker 1: When you return. So surely as you find yourself in
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  Speaker 1: the mental attitude of haste, just so surely may you
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  Speaker 1: know that you are out of the mental attitude of greatness.
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  Speaker 1: Hurry and fear will instantly cut your connection with the
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  Speaker 1: universal mind. You will get no power, no wisdom, and
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  Speaker 1: no information until you are calm, and to fall into
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 1: the attitude of hurry will check the action of the
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 1: principle of power within you. Fear turns strength to weakness.
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  Speaker 1: Remember that poise and power are inseparably associated. The calm
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  Speaker 1: and balanced mind is the strong and great mind. The
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  Speaker 1: hurried and the agitated mind is the weak one. Whenever
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  Speaker 1: you fall into the mental state of hurry, you may
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 1: know that you have lost the right to view point.
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 1: You are beginning to look upon the world or some
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  Speaker 1: part of it, as going wrong. At such times, read
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  Speaker 1: chapter six of this book. Consider the fact that this
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  Speaker 1: work is perfect now with all that it contains. Nothing
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 1: is going wrong, nothing can be wrong. Be poised, be calm,
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 1: be cheerful, have faith in God. Next, as to habit,
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  Speaker 1: it is probable that your greatest difficulty will be to
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  Speaker 1: overcome your old habitual ways of thought and to form
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 1: new habits. The world is ruled by habit Kings, tyrants, masters,
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 1: and plutocrats hold their positions solely because the people have
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 1: come to habitually accept them. Things are as they are
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 1: only because people have formed the habit of accepting them
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  Speaker 1: as they are. When the people change their habitual thought
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 1: about governmental, social, and industrial institutions, they will change the
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 1: institutions habit rules us. All. You have formed, perhaps the
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  Speaker 1: habit of thinking of yourself as a common person, as
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  Speaker 1: one of a limited ability, or as being more or
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 1: less of a failure. Whatever you habitually think yourself to
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 1: be that you are, you must form now a greater
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  Speaker 1: and better habit. You must form a conception of yourself
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 1: as a being of limitless power, and habitually think that
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  Speaker 1: you are dead being. It is the habitual, not the
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 1: periodical thought, that decides your destiny. It will avail you
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  Speaker 1: nothing to sit apart for a few moments several times
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  Speaker 1: a day to affirm that you are great. If during
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  Speaker 1: all the balance of the day, while you are about
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 1: your regular vocation you think of yourself as not great,
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  Speaker 1: no amount of praying or affirmation will make you great.
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 1: If you still habitually regard yourself as being small. The
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  Speaker 1: use of prayer and affirmation is to change your habit
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  Speaker 1: of thought. Any act, mental or physical, often repeated, becomes
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  Speaker 1: a habit. The purpose of mental exercises is to repeat
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  Speaker 1: certain thoughts over and over until the thinking of those
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 1: thoughts becomes constant and habitual. The thoughts we continually repeat
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 1: become convictions. What you must do is to repeat the
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  Speaker 1: new thought of yourself until it is the only way
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  Speaker 1: in which you think of yourself. Habituar ill thought, and
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 1: not environment or circumstance, has made you what you are.
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 1: Every person has some central idea or thought form of himself,
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  Speaker 1: and by this idea he classifies and arranges all his
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 1: facts and external relationships. You are classifying your facts either
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  Speaker 1: according to the idea that you are a great and
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 1: strong personality, or according to the idea that you are limited, common,
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 1: or weak. If the latter is the case, you must
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 1: change your central idea get a new mental picture of yourself.
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 1: Do not try to become great by repeating mere strings
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  Speaker 1: of words or superficial formulas, but repeat over and over
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  Speaker 1: the thought of your own power and ability until you
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  Speaker 1: classify external facts and decide you are placed everywhere by
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  Speaker 1: this idea in another chapter will be found in illustrative
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 1: mental exercise, and further directions on this point. Thought greatness
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  Speaker 1: is only attained by the constant thinking of great thoughts.
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  Speaker 1: No man can become great in outward personality until he
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 1: is great internally, and no man can be great internally
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  Speaker 1: until he thinks. No amount of education, reading, or study
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  Speaker 1: can make you great without thought, but thought can make
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  Speaker 1: you great with every little study. There are altogether too
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  Speaker 1: many people who are trying to make something of themselves
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  Speaker 1: by reading books without thinking. All such will fail. You
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 1: are not mentally developed by what you read, but by
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 1: what you think about what you read. Thinking is the
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 1: hardest and most exhausting of all labor, and hence many
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 1: people shrink from it. God has so formed us that
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 1: we are continuously impelled to thought. We must either think
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 1: or engage in some activity to escape thought. The headlong,
• 1:07:48
  Speaker 1: continuous chase for pleasure in which most people spend all
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 1: their leisure time, is only an effort to escape thought.
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 1: If they are alone, or if they have nothing amusing
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 1: to take their attention, as novel to read or a
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 1: show to see, they must think, and to escape from thinking,
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 1: they resort to novels, shows and all the endless devices
• 1:08:08
  Speaker 1: of the purveyors of amusement. Most people spend the greater
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 1: part of their leisure time running away from thought. Hence
• 1:08:16
  Speaker 1: they are what they are. We never move forward until
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 1: we began to think, read less and think more, read
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 1: about great things, and think about great questions and issues.
• 1:08:28
  Speaker 1: We have at the present time few really great figures
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 1: in the political life of our country. Our politicians are
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 1: a petty lot. There is no Lincoln, no Webster, no Clay,
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 1: no Calhoun, no Jackson. Why because our present statesmen deal
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 1: only with sordid and petty issues, questions of dollars and cents,
• 1:08:48
  Speaker 1: of expediency and party success, of material prosperity without regard
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 1: to ethical right. Thinking along these lines does not call
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 1: forth great souls. The state smell of Lincoln time and
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 1: previous times dealt with questions of eternal truth, of human
• 1:09:04
  Speaker 1: rights and justice. Men thought upon great themes, They thought
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  Speaker 1: great thoughts, and they became great men. Thinking, not mere
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 1: knowledge or information, makes personality. Thinking is growth. You cannot
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 1: think without growing. Every thought engenders another thought. Write one
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 1: idea and others will follow. Until you have written a page.
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  Speaker 1: You cannot fathom your own mind. It has neither bottom
• 1:09:31
  Speaker 1: nor boundaries. Your first thoughts may be crude, but as
• 1:09:35
  Speaker 1: you go on thinking, you will use more and more
• 1:09:37
  Speaker 1: of yourself. You will quicken new brain cells into activity,
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 1: and you will develop new faculties, heredity, environment, circumstances. All
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 1: things must give way before you if you practice sustained
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 1: and continuous thought. But on the other hand, if you
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 1: neglect to think for yourself and only use other people's thoughts,
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 1: you will never know what you are capable of, and
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 1: you will end by being incapable of anything. There can
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 1: be no real greatness without original thought. All that Amand
• 1:10:07
  Speaker 1: does outwardly is the expression and completion of his inward thinking.
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 1: No action is possible without thought, and no great action
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  Speaker 1: is possible until a great thought has preceded it. Action
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  Speaker 1: is the second form of thought, and personality is the
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 1: materialization of thought. Environment is the result of thought. Things
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 1: group themselves or arrange themselves around you according to your thought.
• 1:10:32
  Speaker 1: There is, as Emerson says, some central idea or conception
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  Speaker 1: of yourself by which all the facts of your life
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 1: are arranged and classified. Change this central idea, and you
• 1:10:42
  Speaker 1: change the arrangement or classification of all the facts and
• 1:10:46
  Speaker 1: circumstances of your life. You are what you are because
• 1:10:49
  Speaker 1: you think as you do. You are where you are
• 1:10:52
  Speaker 1: because you think as you do. You see, then the
• 1:10:55
  Speaker 1: immense importance of thinking about the great essentials set forth
• 1:10:58
  Speaker 1: in the preceding chapters. You must not accept them in
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  Speaker 1: any superficial way. You must think about them until they
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 1: are a part of your central idea. Go back to
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 1: the matter of the point of view and consider, in
• 1:11:11
  Speaker 1: all its bearings the tremendous thought that you live in
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 1: a perfect word among perfect people, and that nothing can
• 1:11:17
  Speaker 1: possibly be wrong with you but your own personal attitude.
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  Speaker 1: Think about all this until you fully realize all that
• 1:11:24
  Speaker 1: it means to you. Consider that this is God's world,
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  Speaker 1: and that it is the best of all possible worlds,
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  Speaker 1: that He has brought it thus far toward completion by
• 1:11:34
  Speaker 1: the processes of organic, social, and industrial evolution, and that
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 1: it is going on to greater completeness and harmony. Consider
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 1: that there is one great, perfect, intelligent principle of life
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 1: 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,
• 1:11:53
  Speaker 1: and until you comprehend how you should live and act
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 1: as a citizen of such a perfect whole. Next, think
• 1:11:59
  Speaker 1: of the wonder full truth that this great intelligence is
• 1:12:02
  Speaker 1: in you. It is your own intelligence. It is an
• 1:12:05
  Speaker 1: inner light impelling you toward the right thing and the
• 1:12:08
  Speaker 1: best thing, the greatest act, and the highest happiness. It
• 1:12:12
  Speaker 1: is a principle of power in you, giving you all
• 1:12:15
  Speaker 1: the ability and genius there is. It will infallibly guide
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  Speaker 1: you to the best if you will submit to it
• 1:12:21
  Speaker 1: and walk in the light. Consider what is meant by
• 1:12:24
  Speaker 1: your consecration of yourself when you say I will obey
• 1:12:27
  Speaker 1: my soul. This is a sentence of tremendous meaning. It
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 1: must revolutionize the attitude and behavior of the average person.
• 1:12:36
  Speaker 1: Then think of your identification with this great supreme that
• 1:12:39
  Speaker 1: all its knowledge is yours, and all its wisdom is
• 1:12:42
  Speaker 1: yours for the asking. You are a god if you
• 1:12:45
  Speaker 1: think like a god. If you think like a god,
• 1:12:48
  Speaker 1: you cannot fail to act like a god. Divine thoughts
• 1:12:52
  Speaker 1: will surely externalize themselves in a divine life. Thoughts of
• 1:12:56
  Speaker 1: power will end in a life of power. Great thoughts
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  Speaker 1: will manifest as in a great personality. Think well of
• 1:13:03
  Speaker 1: all this, and then you are ready to act action
• 1:13:08
  Speaker 1: at home. Do not merely think that you are going
• 1:13:11
  Speaker 1: to become great. Think that you are great now. Do
• 1:13:15
  Speaker 1: not think that you will begin to act in a
• 1:13:17
  Speaker 1: great way at some future time. Begin now. Do not
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  Speaker 1: think that you will act in a great way when
• 1:13:23
  Speaker 1: you reach a different environment. Act in a great way
• 1:13:26
  Speaker 1: where you are now. Do not think that you will
• 1:13:29
  Speaker 1: begin to act in a great way when you begin
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  Speaker 1: to deal with great things. Begin to deal in a
• 1:13:34
  Speaker 1: great way with small things. Do not think that you
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  Speaker 1: will begin to be great when you get among more
• 1:13:40
  Speaker 1: intelligent people, or among people who understand you better. Begin
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  Speaker 1: now to deal in a great way with the people
• 1:13:47
  Speaker 1: around you. If you are not in an environment where
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  Speaker 1: there is scope for your best powers and talents, you
• 1:13:53
  Speaker 1: can move in due time. But meanwhile you can be
• 1:13:57
  Speaker 1: great where you are. Lincoln was as great when he
• 1:14:00
  Speaker 1: was a backwoods lawyer as when he was president. As
• 1:14:03
  Speaker 1: a backwood's lawyer, he did come and thinks in a
• 1:14:05
  Speaker 1: great way, and that made him president. Had he waited
• 1:14:09
  Speaker 1: until he reached Washington to begin to be great, he
• 1:14:12
  Speaker 1: would have remained unknown. You are not made great by
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  Speaker 1: the location in which you happened to be, nor by
• 1:14:19
  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
• 1:14:25
  Speaker 1: you can never manifest greatness so long as you depend
• 1:14:27
  Speaker 1: on others. You will manifest greatness only when you begin
• 1:14:31
  Speaker 1: to stand alone. Dismiss all thought of reliance on externals,
• 1:14:35
  Speaker 1: whether things, books, or people. As Emerson said, Shakespeare will
• 1:14:41
  Speaker 1: never be made by the study of Shakespeare. Shakespeare will
• 1:14:45
  Speaker 1: be made by the thinking of Shakespearean thoughts. Never mind
• 1:14:49
  Speaker 1: how the people around you, including those of your own household,
• 1:14:52
  Speaker 1: may treat you. That has nothing at all to do
• 1:14:55
  Speaker 1: with your being great. That is, it cannot hinder you
• 1:14:58
  Speaker 1: from being great. People may neglect you and be unthankful
• 1:15:02
  Speaker 1: and unkind in their attitude toward you, Does that prevent
• 1:15:06
  Speaker 1: you from being great in your manner and attitude to
• 1:15:08
  Speaker 1: wardom your father said, Jesus is kind to the unthankful
• 1:15:13
  Speaker 1: and the evil. Would God be great if he should
• 1:15:17
  Speaker 1: go away and sulk because people were unthankful and did
• 1:15:20
  Speaker 1: not appreciate him. Treat the unthankful and the evil in
• 1:15:24
  Speaker 1: a great and perfectly kind way, just as God does.
• 1:15:27
  Speaker 1: Do not talk about your greatness. You are really, in
• 1:15:30
  Speaker 1: essential nature, no greater than those around you. You may
• 1:15:34
  Speaker 1: have entered upon a way of living and thinking which
• 1:15:36
  Speaker 1: they have not yet found. But they are perfect on
• 1:15:39
  Speaker 1: their own plane of thought and action. You are entitled
• 1:15:42
  Speaker 1: to no special honor or consideration for your greatness. You
• 1:15:46
  Speaker 1: are a god, but you are among gods. You will
• 1:15:49
  Speaker 1: fall into the boastful attitude if you see other people's
• 1:15:52
  Speaker 1: shortcomings and failures and compare them with your own virtues
• 1:15:56
  Speaker 1: and successes. And if you fall into the boastful alatitude
• 1:15:59
  Speaker 1: of mind, you will cease to be great and become small.
• 1:16:03
  Speaker 1: Think of yourself as a perfect being among perfect beings,
• 1:16:07
  Speaker 1: and meet every person as an equal, not as either
• 1:16:09
  Speaker 1: superior or an inferior. Give yourself no heirs. Great people
• 1:16:14
  Speaker 1: never do ask no honors and seek no recognition. Honors
• 1:16:19
  Speaker 1: and recognition will come fast enough if you are entitled
• 1:16:22
  Speaker 1: to them. Begin at home. It is a great person
• 1:16:26
  Speaker 1: who can always be poised, assured, calm, and perfectly kind
• 1:16:30
  Speaker 1: and considerate at home. If your manner and attitude in
• 1:16:33
  Speaker 1: your own family are always the best you can think of,
• 1:16:36
  Speaker 1: you will soon become the one on whom all the
• 1:16:38
  Speaker 1: others will rely. You will be a tower of strength
• 1:16:41
  Speaker 1: and a support in time of trouble. You will be
• 1:16:44
  Speaker 1: loved and appreciated at the same time. Do not make
• 1:16:47
  Speaker 1: the mistake of throwing yourself away in the service of others.
• 1:16:51
  Speaker 1: The great person respects himself. He serves and helps, but
• 1:16:55
  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
• 1:17:01
  Speaker 1: them those things that, by right they should do for themselves.
• 1:17:05
  Speaker 1: You do a personal injury when you wait on him
• 1:17:07
  Speaker 1: too much. The selfish and exacting are a great deal
• 1:17:11
  Speaker 1: better off if their exactions are denied. The ideal word
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  Speaker 1: is not one where there are a lot of people
• 1:17:17
  Speaker 1: being waited on by other people. It is a world
• 1:17:20
  Speaker 1: where everybody waits on himself. Meet all demands, selfish and otherwise,
• 1:17:25
  Speaker 1: with perfect kindness and consideration. But do not allow yourself
• 1:17:29
  Speaker 1: to be made a slave to the whims, caprices, exactions,
• 1:17:33
  Speaker 1: or slavish desires of any member of your family. To
• 1:17:37
  Speaker 1: do so is not great, and it works an injury
• 1:17:39
  Speaker 1: to the other party. Do not become uneasy over the
• 1:17:43
  Speaker 1: failures or mistakes of any member of your family and
• 1:17:46
  Speaker 1: feel that you must interfere. Do not be disturbed if
• 1:17:49
  Speaker 1: others seem to be going wrong, and feel that you
• 1:17:52
  Speaker 1: must step in and set them right. Remember that every
• 1:17:55
  Speaker 1: person is perfect on his own plane. You cannot improve
• 1:17:59
  Speaker 1: on the work of God. Do not meddle with the
• 1:18:01
  Speaker 1: personal habits and practices of others, though they are your
• 1:18:04
  Speaker 1: nearest and dearest. These things are none of your business.
• 1:18:08
  Speaker 1: Nothing can be wrong but your own personal attitude. Make
• 1:18:12
  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 that you do not do,
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  Speaker 1: and yet refrain from either criticism or interference. Do the
• 1:18:25
  Speaker 1: things that are right for you to do, and believe
• 1:18:28
  Speaker 1: that every member of your family is doing the things
• 1:18:30
  Speaker 1: that are right for him. Nothing is wrong with anybody
• 1:18:34
  Speaker 1: or anything. Behold it is all very good. Do not
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  Speaker 1: be enslaved by any one else, But be just as
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  Speaker 1: careful that you do not enslave any one else to
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  Speaker 1: your own notions of what is right. Think and think
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  Speaker 1: deeply and continuously. Be perfect in your kindness and consideration.
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  Speaker 1: Let your attitude be that of a God among gods,
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  Speaker 1: and not that of a god among inferior beings. This
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  Speaker 1: is the way to be great in your own home
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  Speaker 1: action abroad. The rules that apply to your action at
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  Speaker 1: home must apply to your action everywhere. Never forget for
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  Speaker 1: an instant that this is a perfect world, and that
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  Speaker 1: you are a god among gods. You are as great
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  Speaker 1: as the greatest, but all are your equals. Rely absolutely
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  Speaker 1: on your perception of truth. Trust to the inner light
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  Speaker 1: rather than to reason. But be sure that your perception
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  Speaker 1: comes from the inner light. Act in poise and calmness.
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  Speaker 1: Be still and attend on God. Your identification of yourself
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  Speaker 1: with the ol mind will give you all the knowledge
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  Speaker 1: you need for guidance in any contingency that may arise
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  Speaker 1: in your own life or in the lives of the others.
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  Speaker 1: It is only necessary that you should be supremely calm
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  Speaker 1: and rely upon the eternal wisdom that is within you.
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  Speaker 1: If you act in poison faith, your judgment will always
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  Speaker 1: be right, and you will always know exactly what to do.
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  Speaker 1: Do not hurry or worry. Remember Lincoln in the dark
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  Speaker 1: days of the war. James Freeman Clark relates that after
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  Speaker 1: the Battle of Fredericksburg, Lincoln alone furnished a supply of
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  Speaker 1: faith and hope for the nation. Hundreds of leading men
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  Speaker 1: from all parts of the country went sadly into his
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  Speaker 1: room and came out cheerful and hopeful they had stood
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  Speaker 1: face to face with the Highest and had seen God
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  Speaker 1: in this slank, ungainly patient man, although they knew it not.
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  Speaker 1: Have perfect faith in yourself and in your own ability
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  Speaker 1: to cope with any combination of circumstances that may arise.
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  Speaker 1: Do not be disturbed if you are alone. If you
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  Speaker 1: need friends, they will be brought to you at the
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  Speaker 1: right time. Do not be disturbed if you feel that
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  Speaker 1: you are ignorant. The information that you need will be
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  Speaker 1: furnished you when it is time for you to have it.
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  Speaker 1: That which is in you, impelling you forward, is in
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  Speaker 1: the things and people you need, impelling them toward you.
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  Speaker 1: If there is a particular men you need to know,
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  Speaker 1: he will be introduced to you. If there is a
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  Speaker 1: particular book you need to read, it will be placed
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  Speaker 1: in your hands at the right time. All the knowledge
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  Speaker 1: you need is coming to you from both external and
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  Speaker 1: internal sources. Your information and your talents will always be
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  Speaker 1: equal to the requirements of the occasion. Remember that Jesus
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  Speaker 1: taught his disciples not to worry as to what they
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  Speaker 1: should say when brought before the judges. He knew that
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  Speaker 1: the power in them would be sufficient for the needs
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  Speaker 1: of the hour. As soon as you awaken and begin
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  Speaker 1: to use your faculties in a great way, you will
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  Speaker 1: apply power to the development of your brain. New cells
• 1:21:39
  Speaker 1: will be created and dormant cells quickened into activity, and
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  Speaker 1: your brain will be qualified as a perfect instrument for
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  Speaker 1: your mind. Do not try to do great things until
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  Speaker 1: you are ready to go about them in a great way.
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  Speaker 1: If you undertake to deal with great matters in a
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  Speaker 1: small way, that is from a low viewpoint, or with
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  Speaker 1: incomplete consecration and wavering faith and courage, you will fail.
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  Speaker 1: Do not be in a hurry to get to the
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  Speaker 1: great things. Doing great things will not make you great,
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  Speaker 1: but becoming great will certainly lead you to the doing
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  Speaker 1: of great things. Begin to be great where you are
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  Speaker 1: and in the things you do every day. Do not
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  Speaker 1: be in haste to be found out or recognized a
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  Speaker 1: great personality. Do not be disappointed if men do not
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  Speaker 1: nominate you for office within a month after you begin
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  Speaker 1: to practice what you read in this book. Great people
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  Speaker 1: never seek for recognition or applause. They are not great
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  Speaker 1: because they want to be paid for being so greatness
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  Speaker 1: is reward enough for itself. The joy of being something,
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  Speaker 1: and of knowing that you are advancing is the greatest
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  Speaker 1: of all joys possible to man. If you begin in
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  Speaker 1: your own family as described in the preceding chapter, and
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  Speaker 1: 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
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  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 asks of you as freely as you 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 continuously. 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 any one.
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  Speaker 1: It will speedily become a parent to all that you
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  Speaker 1: are guided by a higher principle than the average man
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  Speaker 1: or woman. If your identification with God is complete, you
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  Speaker 1: do not need to explain the fact to others. It
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  Speaker 1: will become self evident. To become known as a great personality,
• 1:24:29
  Speaker 1: you have nothing to do but to live. Do not
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  Speaker 1: imagine that you must go charging about the world like
• 1:24:34
  Speaker 1: don Quixote, tilting at windmills and overturning things in general,
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  Speaker 1: in order to demonstrate that you are somebody. Do not
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  Speaker 1: go hunting for big things to do. Live a great
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  Speaker 1: life where you are and in the daily work you
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  Speaker 1: have to do, and greater works will surely find you out.
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  Speaker 1: Big things will come to you asking to be done.
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  Speaker 1: Be so impressed with the value of a man that
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  Speaker 1: you treat even a bag or the tramp with the
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  Speaker 1: most distinguished consideration. All is God, every man and woman
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  Speaker 1: is perfect. Let your manner be that of a God
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  Speaker 1: addressing other gods. Do not save all your consideration for
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  Speaker 1: the poor. The millionaire is as good as the tramp.
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  Speaker 1: This is a perfectly good world, and there is not
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  Speaker 1: a person or thing in it but is exactly right.
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  Speaker 1: Be sure that you keep this in mind in dealing
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  Speaker 1: with things and men. Form your mental vision of yourself
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  Speaker 1: with care, make the thought form of yourself as you
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  Speaker 1: wish to be, and hold this with the faith that
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  Speaker 1: it is being realized, and with the purpose to realize
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  Speaker 1: it completely. Do every common act as a God should
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  Speaker 1: do it. Speak every word as a God should speak it.
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  Speaker 1: Meet men and women of both low and high estate,
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  Speaker 1: as a God meets other divine beings. Begin thus and
• 1:25:50
  Speaker 1: continue thus, and your unfolding in ability and power will
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  Speaker 1: be great and rapid. Some further explanations. We go back
• 1:26:00
  Speaker 1: here to the matter of the point of view, for
• 1:26:03
  Speaker 1: besides being vitally important, it is the one that is
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  Speaker 1: likely to give the student the most trouble. We have
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  Speaker 1: been trained, partly by mistaken religious teachers, to look upon
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  Speaker 1: the world as being like a wrecked ship storm driven
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  Speaker 1: upon a rocky coast. Utter destruction is inevitable at the end,
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  Speaker 1: and the most that can be done is to rescue
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  Speaker 1: perhaps a few of the crew. This view teaches us
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  Speaker 1: to consider the world as essentially bad and growing worse,
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  Speaker 1: and to believe that existing discord and inharmoniousness must continue
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  Speaker 1: and intensify until the end. It robs us of hope
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  Speaker 1: for society, government, and humanity, and gives us a decreasing
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  Speaker 1: outlook and contracting mind. This is all wrong. The world
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  Speaker 1: is not wrecked. It is like a magnificent steamer, with
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  Speaker 1: the engines in place and the machinery in perfect order.
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  Speaker 1: The bunkers are full of coal, and the ship is
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  Speaker 1: amply provisioned for the crews. There is no lack of
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  Speaker 1: any good thing. Every provision omniscience could device has been
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  Speaker 1: made for the safety, comfort, and happiness of the crew.
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  Speaker 1: The steamer is out on the high seas, checking hither
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  Speaker 1: and thither because no one has yet learned the right
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  Speaker 1: course to steer. We are learning to steer, and in
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  Speaker 1: due time will come grandly into the harbor of perfect harmony.
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  Speaker 1: The world is good and growing better. Existing discords and inharmoniousness,
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  Speaker 1: are but the pitching of the ship incidental to our
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  Speaker 1: own imperfect steering. They will all be removed in due time.
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  Speaker 1: This view gives us an increasing outlook and an expanding mind.
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  Speaker 1: It enables us to think largely of society and of ourselves,
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  Speaker 1: and to do things in a great way. Furthermore, we
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  Speaker 1: see that nothing can be wrong with such a world,
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  Speaker 1: or with any part of it, including our own affairs.
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  Speaker 1: If it is all moving on toward completion, then it
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  Speaker 1: is not going wrong. And as our own personal affairs
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  Speaker 1: are a part of the whole, they are not going wrong.
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  Speaker 1: You and all that you are concerned with are moving
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  Speaker 1: on 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 that 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
• 1:28:31
  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
• 1:28:39
  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
• 1:28:44
  Speaker 1: see yourself as a part of it, and as partaking
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  Speaker 1: in its sins and weaknesses. If your outlook for the
• 1:28:50
  Speaker 1: world as a whole is hopeless, your outlook for yourself
• 1:28:53
  Speaker 1: cannot be hopeful. If you see the world as inclining
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  Speaker 1: toward its end, you cannot see yourself as advancing. Unless
• 1:29:01
  Speaker 1: you think well of all the works of God, you
• 1:29:04
  Speaker 1: cannot really think well of yourself. And unless you think
• 1:29:07
  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.
• 1:29:18
  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.
• 1:29:24
  Speaker 1: If you think of yourself as an incapable, inefficient person,
• 1:29:28
  Speaker 1: you will think of yourself with poor or cheap surroundings.
• 1:29:32
  Speaker 1: Unless you think well of yourself, you will be sure
• 1:29:35
  Speaker 1: to picture yourself in a more or less poverty stricken environment.
• 1:29:39
  Speaker 1: These thoughts habitually held become invisible forms in the surrounding
• 1:29:44
  Speaker 1: mind stuff, and are with you continually in due time,
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  Speaker 1: by the regular action of the eternal creative energy, the
• 1:29:51
  Speaker 1: invisible thought forms are produced in material stuff, and you
• 1:29:55
  Speaker 1: are surrounded by your own thoughts made into material things.
• 1:29:59
  Speaker 1: See nature a great, living and advancing presence, and see
• 1:30:02
  Speaker 1: human society in exactly the same way. It is all one,
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  Speaker 1: coming from one source, and it is all good. You yourself,
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  Speaker 1: are made of the same stuff as God. All the
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  Speaker 1: constituents of God are parts of you. Every power that
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  Speaker 1: God has is a constituent of man. You can move
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  Speaker 1: forward as you see God doing. You have within yourself
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  Speaker 1: the source of every power. More about thought, give place
• 1:30:30
  Speaker 1: here to some further consideration of thought. You will never
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  Speaker 1: become great until your own thoughts make you great, And
• 1:30:37
  Speaker 1: therefore it is of the first importance that you should think.
• 1:30:42
  Speaker 1: You will never do great things in the external world
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  Speaker 1: until you think great things in the internal world. And
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  Speaker 1: you will never think great things until you think about
• 1:30:51
  Speaker 1: truth about the verities. To think great things, you must
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  Speaker 1: be absolutely sincere, And to be sincere, you must know
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  Speaker 1: that your intentions are right, insincere or false. Thinking is
• 1:31:04
  Speaker 1: never great, however logical and brilliant it may be. The
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  Speaker 1: first and most important step is to seek the truth
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  Speaker 1: about human relations, to know what you ought to be
• 1:31:14
  Speaker 1: to other men and what they ought to be to you.
• 1:31:18
  Speaker 1: This brings you back to the search of a right viewpoint.
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  Speaker 1: You should study organic and social evolution. Read Darwin and
• 1:31:26
  Speaker 1: Walter Thomas Mills, and when you read think, think the
• 1:31:30
  Speaker 1: whole matter over until you see the world of things
• 1:31:33
  Speaker 1: and men in the right way. Think about what God
• 1:31:36
  Speaker 1: is doing until you see what He is doing. Your
• 1:31:39
  Speaker 1: next step is to think yourself into the right personal attitude.
• 1:31:43
  Speaker 1: Your viewpoint tells you what the right attitude is, and
• 1:31:46
  Speaker 1: obedience to the soul puts you into it. It is
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  Speaker 1: only by making a complete consecration of yourself to the
• 1:31:53
  Speaker 1: highest that is within you that you can attain to
• 1:31:56
  Speaker 1: sincere thinking. So long as you know you are selfish
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  Speaker 1: in your or dishonest or crooked in any way in
• 1:32:02
  Speaker 1: your intentions or practices, your thinking will be false and
• 1:32:06
  Speaker 1: your thoughts will have no power. Think about the way
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  Speaker 1: you are doing things, about all your intentions, purposes, and
• 1:32:14
  Speaker 1: practices until you know that they are right. The fact
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  Speaker 1: of his own complete unity with God is one that
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  Speaker 1: no person can grasp without deep and sustained thinking. Anyone
• 1:32:25
  Speaker 1: can accept the proposition in a superficial way, but to
• 1:32:28
  Speaker 1: feel and realize a vital comprehension of it is another matter.
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  Speaker 1: It is easy to think of going outside of yourself
• 1:32:35
  Speaker 1: to meet God, but it is not easy to think
• 1:32:38
  Speaker 1: of going inside yourself to meet God. But God is there,
• 1:32:42
  Speaker 1: and in the holy of holies of your own soul
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  Speaker 1: you may meet Him face to face. It is a
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  Speaker 1: tremendous thing, this fact that all you need is already
• 1:32:50
  Speaker 1: within you, that you do not have to consider how
• 1:32:53
  Speaker 1: to get the power to do what you want to do,
• 1:32:55
  Speaker 1: or to make yourself what you want to be. You
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  Speaker 1: only have to consider how to use the power you
• 1:33:00
  Speaker 1: have in the right way. And there is nothing to
• 1:33:03
  Speaker 1: do but to begin use your perception of truth. You
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  Speaker 1: can see some truth to day, live fully up to that,
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  Speaker 1: and you will see more truth tomorrow. To rid yourself
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  Speaker 1: of the old false ideas, you will have to think
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  Speaker 1: a great deal about the value of man, the greatness
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  Speaker 1: and worth of a human soul. You must cease from
• 1:33:23
  Speaker 1: looking at human mistakes and look at successes. Cease from
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  Speaker 1: seeing faults and see virtues. You can no longer look
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  Speaker 1: upon men and women as lost and ruined beings that
• 1:33:33
  Speaker 1: are descending into hell. You must come to regard them
• 1:33:37
  Speaker 1: as shining souls who are ascending toward heaven. It will
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  Speaker 1: require some exercise of will power to do this, but
• 1:33:44
  Speaker 1: this is the legitimate use of the will. To decide
• 1:33:47
  Speaker 1: what you will think about and how you will think.
• 1:33:50
  Speaker 1: The function of the will is to direct thought. Think
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  Speaker 1: about the good side of man, the lovely, attractive part,
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  Speaker 1: and exert your will in refusing to think of anything
• 1:34:00
  Speaker 1: else in connection with them. I know of no one
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  Speaker 1: who has attained to so much on this one point.
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  Speaker 1: As Eugene we Debs twice, the socialist candidate for President
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  Speaker 1: of the United States, mister Deb's reverence is humanity. No
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  Speaker 1: appeal for help is ever made to him in vain
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  Speaker 1: No one receives from him an unkind or censorious word.
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  Speaker 1: You cannot come into his presence without being made sensible
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  Speaker 1: of his deep and kindly personal interest in you. Every person,
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  Speaker 1: be he millionaire, grimy working man, or toil worn woman,
• 1:34:34
  Speaker 1: receives the radiant warmth of a broaderly affection that is
• 1:34:38
  Speaker 1: sincere and true. No rugged child speaks to him on
• 1:34:41
  Speaker 1: the street without receiving instant and tender recognition. Deb's loves man.
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  Speaker 1: This has made him the leading figure in a great movement,
• 1:34:50
  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 is only achieved by thought. No
• 1:35:00
  Speaker 1: think can make you great but thought. Quote. You may
• 1:35:05
  Speaker 1: divide thinkers into those who think for themselves and those
• 1:35:08
  Speaker 1: who think through others. The latter are the rule, and
• 1:35:11
  Speaker 1: the former the exception. The first original thinkers in a
• 1:35:15
  Speaker 1: double sense, and egoists in the noblest meaning of the word.
• 1:35:19
  Speaker 1: Schopenhauer quote. The key to every man is his thought,
• 1:35:26
  Speaker 1: sturdy and defiant though he look, he has a ham
• 1:35:29
  Speaker 1: which he obeys, which is the idea after which all
• 1:35:31
  Speaker 1: his facts are classified. He can only be reformed by
• 1:35:35
  Speaker 1: showing him a new idea, which commands his own Emerson quote.
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  Speaker 1: All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times.
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  Speaker 1: But to make them really ours, we must think them
• 1:35:48
  Speaker 1: over again, honestly, till they take root in our personal expression.
• 1:35:53
  Speaker 1: Gothe quote. All that a man is outwardly is but
• 1:35:58
  Speaker 1: the expression and completion of his inverse thoughts. To work effectively,
• 1:36:02
  Speaker 1: he must think clearly. To act nobly, he must think nobly.
• 1:36:07
  Speaker 1: Channing quote. Great men are they who see that spirituality
• 1:36:14
  Speaker 1: is stronger than any material force, that thoughts rule the world.
• 1:36:18
  Speaker 1: Emerson quote. Some people study all their lives, and that
• 1:36:25
  Speaker 1: their death they have learned everything except to think. Domerg quote.
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  Speaker 1: It is the habitual thought that frames itself into our life.
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  Speaker 1: It affects us even more than our intimate social relations do.
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  Speaker 1: Our confidential friends have not so much to do in
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  Speaker 1: shaping our lives as the thoughts have which we harbor. J. W.
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  Speaker 1: Tl quote. When God lets lose a great thinker on
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  Speaker 1: this planet, then all things are at risk. There is
• 1:36:56
  Speaker 1: not a piece of science but its flank may be
• 1:36:58
  Speaker 1: turned tomorrow, or any literary reputation, or the so called
• 1:37:02
  Speaker 1: eternal names of fame that may not be refused and
• 1:37:05
  Speaker 1: condemned Emerson, Think, Think, Think. Jesus' idea of greatness in
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  Speaker 1: the twenty third chapter of Matthew, Jesus makes a very
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  Speaker 1: plain distinction between true and false greatness, and also points
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  Speaker 1: out the one great danger to all who wish to
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  Speaker 1: become great, the most insidious of temptations, which all must
• 1:37:29
  Speaker 1: avoid and fight unceasingly. Who desire to really climb in
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  Speaker 1: the world. Speaking to the multitude and to his disciples,
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  Speaker 1: he bids them beware of adopting the principle of the Pharisees.
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  Speaker 1: He points out that while the Pharisees are just and
• 1:37:45
  Speaker 1: righteous men, honorable judges, true lawgivers, and upright in their
• 1:37:49
  Speaker 1: dealings with men, they love the uppermost seats at feasts
• 1:37:53
  Speaker 1: and greetings in the marketplace, and to be called master master.
• 1:37:58
  Speaker 1: And in comparison with this prince, he says, he that
• 1:38:02
  Speaker 1: will be great among you, let him serve. The average
• 1:38:06
  Speaker 1: person's idea of a great man, rather than of one
• 1:38:09
  Speaker 1: who serves, is of one who succeeds in getting himself served.
• 1:38:14
  Speaker 1: He gets himself in a position to command man, to
• 1:38:17
  Speaker 1: exercise power over them, making them obey his will. The
• 1:38:21
  Speaker 1: exercise of dominion over other people, to most persons is
• 1:38:24
  Speaker 1: a great thing. Nothing seems to be sweeter to the
• 1:38:27
  Speaker 1: selfish soul than this. You will always find every selfish
• 1:38:31
  Speaker 1: and undeveloped person trying to domineer over others, to exercise
• 1:38:36
  Speaker 1: control over other men. Savage men were no sooner placed
• 1:38:40
  Speaker 1: upon the earth than they begin to enslave one another
• 1:38:43
  Speaker 1: for ages. The struggle in war, diplomacy, in politics, and
• 1:38:47
  Speaker 1: government has been aimed at the securing of control over
• 1:38:50
  Speaker 1: other men. Kings and princes have drenched the soil of
• 1:38:54
  Speaker 1: the earth in blood and tears in the effort to
• 1:38:56
  Speaker 1: extend their dominions and their power to rule more people.
• 1:39:00
  Speaker 1: The struggle of the business were to day is the
• 1:39:02
  Speaker 1: same as the one on the battlefields of Europe a
• 1:39:04
  Speaker 1: century ago, so far as the ruling principle is concerned.
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  Speaker 1: Robberts oh Ingersoll could not understand why men like Rockefeller
• 1:39:13
  Speaker 1: and Carnegie seek for more money and make themselves slaves
• 1:39:17
  Speaker 1: to the business struggle when they already have more than
• 1:39:20
  Speaker 1: they can possibly use. He thought it a kind of madness,
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  Speaker 1: and illustrated it as follows. Suppose a man had fifty
• 1:39:27
  Speaker 1: thousand pairs of pants, seventy five thousand vests, one hundred
• 1:39:31
  Speaker 1: thousand coats, and one hundred and fifty thousand neckties. What
• 1:39:35
  Speaker 1: would you think of him if he arose in the
• 1:39:37
  Speaker 1: morning before light and worked until it was dark every day,
• 1:39:41
  Speaker 1: rain or shine, in all kinds of weather, merely to
• 1:39:44
  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
• 1:39:52
  Speaker 1: other men, but the possession of dollars does Rockefeller, Carnegie
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  Speaker 1: and other kind are not after dollars but power. It
• 1:40:01
  Speaker 1: is the principle of the Pharisee. It is the struggle
• 1:40:04
  Speaker 1: for the high place. It develops able man, cunning man,
• 1:40:08
  Speaker 1: resourceful man, but not great man. I want you to
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  Speaker 1: contrast these two ideas of greatness. Sharply in your mind.
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  Speaker 1: He that will be great among you, let him serve.
• 1:40:20
  Speaker 1: Let me stand before the average American audience and ask
• 1:40:23
  Speaker 1: the name of the greatest American, and the majority will
• 1:40:25
  Speaker 1: think of Abraham Lincoln. And is this not because in Lincoln,
• 1:40:29
  Speaker 1: above all the other men who has served us in
• 1:40:31
  Speaker 1: public life, we recognize the spirit of service, Not servility,
• 1:40:36
  Speaker 1: but service. Lincoln was a great man because he knew
• 1:40:40
  Speaker 1: how to be a great servant. Napoleon, able, cold, selfish
• 1:40:44
  Speaker 1: seeking the high places, was a brilliant man. Lincoln was great,
• 1:40:49
  Speaker 1: Napoleon was not. The very moment you begin to advance
• 1:40:53
  Speaker 1: and are recognized as one who is doing things in
• 1:40:55
  Speaker 1: a great way, you will find yourself in danger. The
• 1:40:59
  Speaker 1: temptation to pitchronize advice, or take upon yourself the direction
• 1:41:03
  Speaker 1: of other people's affairs is sometimes almost irresistible avoid. However,
• 1:41:08
  Speaker 1: the opposite danger of falling into servility, or of completely
• 1:41:12
  Speaker 1: throwing yourself away in the service of others. To do
• 1:41:16
  Speaker 1: this has been the ideal of a great many people.
• 1:41:19
  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
• 1:41:25
  Speaker 1: complete misconception of the character and teachings of Jesus, I
• 1:41:29
  Speaker 1: have explained this misconception in a little book that I
• 1:41:32
  Speaker 1: hope you may all sometimes read, a New Christ. Thousands
• 1:41:36
  Speaker 1: of people imitating Jesus as they suppose, have belittled themselves
• 1:41:40
  Speaker 1: and given up all else to go about doing good,
• 1:41:44
  Speaker 1: practicing an altruism that is really as morbid and as
• 1:41:47
  Speaker 1: far from great as the rankest selfishness. The finer instincts
• 1:41:51
  Speaker 1: which respond to the cry of trouble or distress are not,
• 1:41:55
  Speaker 1: by any means all of you. They are not necessarily
• 1:41:58
  Speaker 1: the best part of you. There are other things you
• 1:42:01
  Speaker 1: must do besides helping the unfortunate, Although it is true
• 1:42:05
  Speaker 1: that a large part of the life and activities of
• 1:42:07
  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
• 1:42:16
  Speaker 1: fatal error of supposing that the life of complete self
• 1:42:20
  Speaker 1: abnegation is the way of greatness. To make another point here,
• 1:42:24
  Speaker 1: let me refer to the fact that Swedenborg's classification of
• 1:42:28
  Speaker 1: fundamental motives is exactly the same as that of Jesus.
• 1:42:32
  Speaker 1: He divides all men into two groups, those who live
• 1:42:35
  Speaker 1: in pure love and those who live in what he
• 1:42:38
  Speaker 1: calls the love of ruling for the love of self.
• 1:42:41
  Speaker 1: It will be seen that this is exactly the same
• 1:42:43
  Speaker 1: as the loss for place and power of the Pharisees.
• 1:42:47
  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
• 1:42:53
  Speaker 1: the human heart, from which all other evil desires sprang. Over.
• 1:42:58
  Speaker 1: Against this he places love. He does not say love
• 1:43:02
  Speaker 1: of God or love of man, but merely love. Nearly
• 1:43:05
  Speaker 1: all religionists make more of love and service to God
• 1:43:09
  Speaker 1: than they do of love and service to man. But
• 1:43:12
  Speaker 1: it is a fact that love to God is not
• 1:43:14
  Speaker 1: sufficient to save a man from the lust for power.
• 1:43:17
  Speaker 1: For some of the most ardent lovers of the deity
• 1:43:19
  Speaker 1: have been the worst of tyrants. Lovers of God are
• 1:43:22
  Speaker 1: often tyrants, and lovers of man are often meddlesome and officious.
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  Speaker 1: A view of evolution, but how shall we avoid throwing
• 1:43:32
  Speaker 1: ourselves into altruistic work if we are surrounded by poverty, ignorance, suffering,
• 1:43:38
  Speaker 1: and every appearance of misery as very many people are.
• 1:43:42
  Speaker 1: Those who live where the withered hand of want is
• 1:43:45
  Speaker 1: thrust upon them from every side, appealingly for aid, must
• 1:43:48
  Speaker 1: find it hard to refrain from continuous giving. Again, there
• 1:43:52
  Speaker 1: are social and other irregularities in justices done to the weak,
• 1:43:56
  Speaker 1: which fire generous souls with an almost irresistible death desire
• 1:44:00
  Speaker 1: to set things right. We want to start a crusade.
• 1:44:03
  Speaker 1: We feel that the wrongs will never be righted until
• 1:44:06
  Speaker 1: we give ourselves wholly to the task. In all this,
• 1:44:10
  Speaker 1: we must fall back upon the point of view. We
• 1:44:13
  Speaker 1: must remember that this is not a bad world, but
• 1:44:16
  Speaker 1: a good world in the process of becoming beyond all doubt.
• 1:44:20
  Speaker 1: There was a time when there was no life upon
• 1:44:22
  Speaker 1: this earth. The testimony of geology to the fact that
• 1:44:25
  Speaker 1: the globe was once a bowl of burning gas and
• 1:44:28
  Speaker 1: molten rock clothed about with boiling vapors is indisputable, and
• 1:44:33
  Speaker 1: we do not know how life could have existed under
• 1:44:35
  Speaker 1: such conditions that seems impossible. Geology tells us that later
• 1:44:40
  Speaker 1: on a crust formed, the globe cooled and hardened, The
• 1:44:44
  Speaker 1: vapors condensed and became missed or fell in rain. The
• 1:44:49
  Speaker 1: cooled surface crumbled into soil, moisture accumulated, ponds and seas
• 1:44:54
  Speaker 1: were gathered together, and at last, somewhere in the water
• 1:44:57
  Speaker 1: or on the land, appeared something that was alive. It
• 1:45:01
  Speaker 1: is reasonable to suppose that this first life was in
• 1:45:04
  Speaker 1: single celled organisms. But behind these cells was the insistent
• 1:45:08
  Speaker 1: urge of spirit, the great one, life seeking expression. And
• 1:45:13
  Speaker 1: soon organisms, having too much life to express themselves with
• 1:45:16
  Speaker 1: one cell, had two cells, and then many, and still
• 1:45:19
  Speaker 1: more life was poured into them. Multiple cell organisms were formed, plants, trees, vertebrates,
• 1:45:27
  Speaker 1: and mammals, many of them with strange shapes. Was all
• 1:45:31
  Speaker 1: were perfect after their kind, as everything is that God
• 1:45:34
  Speaker 1: makes no doubt. There were crude and almost monstrous forms
• 1:45:38
  Speaker 1: of both animal and plant life, but everything filled its
• 1:45:41
  Speaker 1: purpose on its day, and it was all very good.
• 1:45:45
  Speaker 1: Then another day came, the great day of the evolutionary process,
• 1:45:49
  Speaker 1: a day when the morning stars sang together and the
• 1:45:52
  Speaker 1: sounds of God shouted for joy. To behold the beginning
• 1:45:55
  Speaker 1: of the end. For men, the object aimed at from
• 1:45:58
  Speaker 1: the beginning had appeared upon the scene, an ape like being,
• 1:46:03
  Speaker 1: little different from the beasts around him in appearance, but
• 1:46:06
  Speaker 1: infinitely different, capacity for growth and thought, art and beauty,
• 1:46:11
  Speaker 1: architecture and song, poetry and music. All these were unrealized
• 1:46:16
  Speaker 1: possibilities in that ape man's soul, and for his time
• 1:46:19
  Speaker 1: and kind he was very good. It is God that
• 1:46:22
  Speaker 1: works in you to will and to do of his
• 1:46:25
  Speaker 1: good pleasure, says Saint Paul. From the day the first
• 1:46:29
  Speaker 1: man appeared, God began to work in man, putting more
• 1:46:32
  Speaker 1: and more of himself into each succeeding generation, urging them
• 1:46:36
  Speaker 1: on to larger achievements and to better conditions social, governmental,
• 1:46:40
  Speaker 1: and domestic. Those who looking back into ancient history see
• 1:46:45
  Speaker 1: the awful conditions which existed, the barbarities, idolatries, and sufferings,
• 1:46:50
  Speaker 1: and reading about God in connection with these things, are
• 1:46:54
  Speaker 1: disposed to feel that He was cruel and unjust to
• 1:46:56
  Speaker 1: man should pause and think. From the ape man to
• 1:46:59
  Speaker 1: the becoming christ Men. The race has had to rise,
• 1:47:03
  Speaker 1: and it could only be accomplished by the successive unfolding
• 1:47:06
  Speaker 1: of the various powers and possibilities latent in the human brain.
• 1:47:11
  Speaker 1: God desired to express himself, to live in form, and
• 1:47:14
  Speaker 1: not only that, but to live in a form through
• 1:47:16
  Speaker 1: which he could express himself on the highest moral and
• 1:47:19
  Speaker 1: spiritual plane. God wanted to evolve a form in which
• 1:47:23
  Speaker 1: he could live as a God and manifest himself as
• 1:47:26
  Speaker 1: a God. This was the aim of the evolutionary force.
• 1:47:30
  Speaker 1: The ages of warfare, bloodshed, suffering injustice, and cruelty were
• 1:47:35
  Speaker 1: tempered in many ways with love and justice as time advanced,
• 1:47:39
  Speaker 1: and this was developing the brain of man to a
• 1:47:42
  Speaker 1: point where it should be capable of giving full expression
• 1:47:44
  Speaker 1: to the love and justice of God. The end is
• 1:47:47
  Speaker 1: not yet. God aims not at the perfection of a
• 1:47:50
  Speaker 1: few choice specimens for exhibition, like the large berries at
• 1:47:54
  Speaker 1: the top of the box, but at the glorification of
• 1:47:56
  Speaker 1: the race. The time will come when the Kingdom of
• 1:47:59
  Speaker 1: God God shall be established on earth, the time foreseen
• 1:48:03
  Speaker 1: by the dreamer of the Isle of Patmos, when there
• 1:48:06
  Speaker 1: shall be no crying, neither shall there be any more pain,
• 1:48:09
  Speaker 1: for the former things are all passed away, and there
• 1:48:12
  Speaker 1: shall be no night there. Serving God. I have brought
• 1:48:19
  Speaker 1: you thus far through the two preceding chapters with a
• 1:48:22
  Speaker 1: view to finally settling the question of duty. This is
• 1:48:26
  Speaker 1: one that puzzles and perplexes very many people who are
• 1:48:29
  Speaker 1: earnest and sincere, and gives them a great deal of
• 1:48:32
  Speaker 1: difficulty in its solution. When they start out to make
• 1:48:36
  Speaker 1: something of themselves and to practice the science of being great,
• 1:48:39
  Speaker 1: they find themselves necessarily compelled to re arrange many of
• 1:48:43
  Speaker 1: their relationships. There are friends who perhaps must be alienated.
• 1:48:47
  Speaker 1: There are relatives who misunderstand and who feel that they
• 1:48:50
  Speaker 1: are in some way being slighted. The really great man
• 1:48:54
  Speaker 1: is often considered selfish by a large circle of people
• 1:48:56
  Speaker 1: who are connected with him, and who feel that he
• 1:48:59
  Speaker 1: might bestow upon the more benefits than he does. The
• 1:49:02
  Speaker 1: question at the outset is is it my duty to
• 1:49:06
  Speaker 1: make the most of myself, regardless of everything else? Or
• 1:49:09
  Speaker 1: shall I wait until I can do so without any
• 1:49:11
  Speaker 1: friction or without causing loss to anyone. This is the
• 1:49:15
  Speaker 1: question of duty to self versus duty to others. One's
• 1:49:19
  Speaker 1: duty to the world has been thoroughly discussed in the
• 1:49:22
  Speaker 1: preceding pages, and I give some consideration now to the
• 1:49:25
  Speaker 1: idea of duty to God. An immense number of people
• 1:49:29
  Speaker 1: have a great deal of uncertainty, not to say anxiety,
• 1:49:32
  Speaker 1: as to what they ought to do for God. The
• 1:49:36
  Speaker 1: amount of work and service that is done for Him
• 1:49:38
  Speaker 1: in these United States, in the way of church work
• 1:49:41
  Speaker 1: and so on, is enormous. An immense amount of human
• 1:49:44
  Speaker 1: energy is expanded in what is called serving God. I
• 1:49:48
  Speaker 1: propose to consider briefly what serving God is and how
• 1:49:51
  Speaker 1: a man may serve God best, and I think I
• 1:49:54
  Speaker 1: shall be able to make plain that the conventional idea
• 1:49:57
  Speaker 1: as to what constitutes service to God is all wrong.
• 1:50:01
  Speaker 1: When Moses went down into Egypt to bring out the
• 1:50:04
  Speaker 1: Hebrews from bondage, his demand upon Pharaoh, in the name
• 1:50:08
  Speaker 1: of the Deity, was let the people go, that they
• 1:50:11
  Speaker 1: may serve me. He led them out into the wilderness,
• 1:50:15
  Speaker 1: and there instituted a new form of worship, which has
• 1:50:18
  Speaker 1: had many people to suppose that worship constitutes the service
• 1:50:21
  Speaker 1: of God, although later God himself distinctly declared that he
• 1:50:25
  Speaker 1: cared nothing for ceremonies, burnt offerings, or oblation, and the
• 1:50:29
  Speaker 1: teaching of Jesus, if rightly understood, would do away with
• 1:50:33
  Speaker 1: organized temple worship altogether. God does not lack anything that
• 1:50:37
  Speaker 1: man may do for him with their hands or bodies
• 1:50:40
  Speaker 1: or voices. Saint Paul points out that man can do
• 1:50:44
  Speaker 1: nothing for God, for God does not need anything. The
• 1:50:48
  Speaker 1: view of evolution that we have taken shows God seeking
• 1:50:51
  Speaker 1: expression through man. Through all the successive ages in which
• 1:50:55
  Speaker 1: his spirit has urged man up to the height, God
• 1:50:58
  Speaker 1: has gone on seeking expression. Every generation of man is
• 1:51:01
  Speaker 1: more Godlike than the preceding generation. Every generation of man
• 1:51:06
  Speaker 1: demands more in the way of fine homes, pleasant surroundings,
• 1:51:09
  Speaker 1: congenial work, rest, travel, and opportunity for study than the
• 1:51:14
  Speaker 1: preceding generation. I have heard some short sighted economists argue
• 1:51:19
  Speaker 1: that the working people of to day ought surely to
• 1:51:21
  Speaker 1: be fully contented, because their condition is so much better
• 1:51:25
  Speaker 1: than that of the working man two hundred years ago,
• 1:51:27
  Speaker 1: who slept in a window less hot on a floor
• 1:51:30
  Speaker 1: covered with rushes, in company with his pigs. If that
• 1:51:34
  Speaker 1: man had all that he was able to use for
• 1:51:36
  Speaker 1: the living of all the life he knew how to live,
• 1:51:38
  Speaker 1: he was perfectly content, And if he had lack, he
• 1:51:41
  Speaker 1: was not contented. The man of to day has a
• 1:51:44
  Speaker 1: comfortable home and very many things indeed that were unknown
• 1:51:47
  Speaker 1: a short period back in the past. And if he
• 1:51:50
  Speaker 1: has all that he can use for the living of
• 1:51:52
  Speaker 1: all the life he can imagine, he will be content.
• 1:51:56
  Speaker 1: But he is not content. God has lifted the race
• 1:51:59
  Speaker 1: so far that any common man can picture a better
• 1:52:01
  Speaker 1: and more desirable life than he is able to live
• 1:52:04
  Speaker 1: under existing conditions. And so long as this is true,
• 1:52:08
  Speaker 1: so long as a man can think and clearly picture
• 1:52:10
  Speaker 1: to himself a more desirable life, he will be discontented
• 1:52:14
  Speaker 1: with the life he has to live. And rightly so
• 1:52:17
  Speaker 1: that discontent is the spirit of God urging man to
• 1:52:20
  Speaker 1: do more desirable conditions. It is God who seeks expression
• 1:52:24
  Speaker 1: in the race. He works in us to will and
• 1:52:26
  Speaker 1: to do. The only service you can render God is
• 1:52:30
  Speaker 1: to give expression to what He is trying to give
• 1:52:33
  Speaker 1: the world through you. The only service you can render
• 1:52:36
  Speaker 1: God is to make the very most of yourself in
• 1:52:39
  Speaker 1: order that God may live in you to the utmost
• 1:52:41
  Speaker 1: of your possibilities. In a former work of this series,
• 1:52:45
  Speaker 1: The Science of Getting Rich, I refer to the little
• 1:52:48
  Speaker 1: boy at the piano the music in whose soul could
• 1:52:50
  Speaker 1: not find expression through his untrained hands. This is a
• 1:52:54
  Speaker 1: good illustration of the way the spirit of God is
• 1:52:56
  Speaker 1: over about, around and in all of us, seking to
• 1:53:00
  Speaker 1: do great things with us. So soon as we will
• 1:53:02
  Speaker 1: train our hands and feet, our minds, brains, and bodies
• 1:53:06
  Speaker 1: to do his service. Your first duty to God, to yourself,
• 1:53:10
  Speaker 1: and to the world is to make yourself as great
• 1:53:13
  Speaker 1: a personality in every way as you possibly can. And that,
• 1:53:17
  Speaker 1: it seems to me, disposes of the question of duty.
• 1:53:21
  Speaker 1: There are one or two other things that might be
• 1:53:23
  Speaker 1: disposed of. In closing this chapter, I have written of opportunity.
• 1:53:27
  Speaker 1: In a preceding chapter, I have said in a general
• 1:53:30
  Speaker 1: way that it is within the power of every man
• 1:53:33
  Speaker 1: to become great, just as in the Science of Getting Rich,
• 1:53:37
  Speaker 1: I declare that it is within the power of every
• 1:53:39
  Speaker 1: man to become rich. But these sweeping generalizations need qualifying.
• 1:53:44
  Speaker 1: There are men who have such materialistic minds that they
• 1:53:47
  Speaker 1: are absolutely incapable of comprehending the philosophy set forth in
• 1:53:51
  Speaker 1: these books. There is a great mass of men and
• 1:53:54
  Speaker 1: women who have lived and worked until they are practically
• 1:53:57
  Speaker 1: incapable of thought along these lines, and they cannot receive
• 1:54:00
  Speaker 1: the message. Something may be done for them by demonstration,
• 1:54:04
  Speaker 1: that is, by living the life before them, but that
• 1:54:07
  Speaker 1: is the only way they can be aroused. The world
• 1:54:10
  Speaker 1: needs demonstration more than it needs teaching. For this mass
• 1:54:14
  Speaker 1: of people, our duty is to become as great in
• 1:54:17
  Speaker 1: personality as possible, in order that they may see and
• 1:54:20
  Speaker 1: desire to do. Likewise, it is our duty to make
• 1:54:23
  Speaker 1: ourselves great for their sakes, so that we may help
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  Speaker 1: prepare the world that the next generation shall have better conditions.
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  Speaker 1: For thought, one other point, I am frequently written to
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  Speaker 1: by people who wish to make something of themselves and
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  Speaker 1: to move out into the world, but who are hampered
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  Speaker 1: by home ties, having others more or less dependent upon them,
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  Speaker 1: whom they fear would suffer if left alone. In general,
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  Speaker 1: I advise such people to move out fearlessly and to
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  Speaker 1: make the most of themselves. If there is a loss
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  Speaker 1: at home, it will be only temporary, and the parent
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  Speaker 1: for in a little while. If you follow the leading
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  Speaker 1: of spirit, you will be able to take better care
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  Speaker 1: of your dependence than you have ever done before. A
• 1:55:05
  Speaker 1: mental exercise. The purpose of mental exercises must not be misunderstood.
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  Speaker 1: There is no virtue in charms or formulated strings of words.
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  Speaker 1: There is no shortcut to development by repeating prayers or incantations.
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  Speaker 1: A mental exercise is an exercise not in repeating words,
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  Speaker 1: but in the thinking of certain thoughts. The phrases that
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  Speaker 1: we repeatedly here become convictions, as good, they says, and
• 1:55:32
  Speaker 1: the thoughts that we repeatedly think become habitual and make
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  Speaker 1: us what we are. The purpose in taking a mental
• 1:55:38
  Speaker 1: exercise is that you may think certain thoughts repeatedly until
• 1:55:42
  Speaker 1: you form a habit of thinking them. Then they will
• 1:55:45
  Speaker 1: be your thoughts all the time. Taken in the right
• 1:55:49
  Speaker 1: way and with an understanding of their purpose, mental exercises
• 1:55:53
  Speaker 1: are of great value, but taken as most people take them,
• 1:55:56
  Speaker 1: they are worse than useless. The thoughts embodied in the
• 1:55:59
  Speaker 1: following exercise are the ones you want to think. You
• 1:56:03
  Speaker 1: should take the exercise once or twice daily, but you
• 1:56:05
  Speaker 1: should think the thoughts continuously. That is, do not think
• 1:56:09
  Speaker 1: them twice a day for a stated time and then
• 1:56:11
  Speaker 1: forget them until it is time to take the exercise again.
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  Speaker 1: The exercise is to impress you with the material for
• 1:56:18
  Speaker 1: continuous thought. Take a time when you can have from
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  Speaker 1: twenty minutes to half an hour, secure from interruption, and proceed.
• 1:56:25
  Speaker 1: First to make yourself physically comfortable, lie at ease in
• 1:56:29
  Speaker 1: a Morris chair or on a couch or in bed.
• 1:56:32
  Speaker 1: It is best to lie flat on your back. If
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  Speaker 1: you have no other time, take the exercise, and going
• 1:56:38
  Speaker 1: to bed at night and before rising in the morning. First,
• 1:56:42
  Speaker 1: let your attention travel over your body from the crown
• 1:56:44
  Speaker 1: of your head to the soles of your feet, relaxing
• 1:56:47
  Speaker 1: every muscle as you go. Relax completely. And next get
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  Speaker 1: physical and other ills off your mind. Let the attention
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  Speaker 1: pass down the spinal cord and out over the nerves
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  Speaker 1: to the extremities. And as you do so, think, my
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  Speaker 1: nerves are in perfect order all over my body. They
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  Speaker 1: obey my will, and I have great nerve force. Next,
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  Speaker 1: bring your attention to the lungs and think, I am
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  Speaker 1: breathing deeply and quietly, and the air goes into every
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  Speaker 1: cell of my lungs, which are in perfect condition. My
• 1:57:19
  Speaker 1: blood is purified and made clean. Next to the heart,
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  Speaker 1: my heart is beating strongly and steadily, and my circulation
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  Speaker 1: is perfect, even to the extremities. Next to the digestive system,
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  Speaker 1: my stomach and bowels perform their work perfectly. My food
• 1:57:37
  Speaker 1: is digested and assimilated, and my body rebuilt andnourished. My liver, kidneys,
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  Speaker 1: and bladder each perform their several functions without pain or strain.
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  Speaker 1: I am perfectly well. My body is resting, my mind
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  Speaker 1: is quiet, and my soul is at peace. I have
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  Speaker 1: no anxiety about financial or other matters. God, who is
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  Speaker 1: within me, is also in all things I want, impelling
• 1:58:00
  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
• 1:58:06
  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
• 1:58:28
  Speaker 1: I will do right. Viewpoint. All is right with the world.
• 1:58:34
  Speaker 1: It is perfect in advancing to completion. I will contemplate
• 1:58:38
  Speaker 1: the facts of social, political, and industrial life only from
• 1:58:41
  Speaker 1: this high viewpoint. Behold, it is all very good. I
• 1:58:45
  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 get wrong with the universe.
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  Speaker 1: Nothing can be wrong but my own personal attitude, and
• 1:59:00
  Speaker 1: henceforth I keep that right. My whole trust is in
• 1:59:03
  Speaker 1: God consecration. I will obey my soul and be truth
• 1:59:09
  Speaker 1: that within me that is highest. I will search within
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  Speaker 1: for the pure idea of right in all things, and
• 1:59:15
  Speaker 1: when I find it, I will express it in my
• 1:59:17
  Speaker 1: outward life. I will abandon everything I have outgrown for
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  Speaker 1: the best I can think. I will have the highest
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  Speaker 1: thoughts concerning all my relationships, and my manner and action
• 1:59:28
  Speaker 1: shall express these thoughts. I surrender my body to be
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  Speaker 1: ruled by my mind. I yield my mind to the
• 1:59:34
  Speaker 1: dominion of my soul, and I give my soul to
• 1:59:37
  Speaker 1: the guidance of God identification. There is but one substance
• 1:59:42
  Speaker 1: and source, and of that I am made, and with
• 1:59:45
  Speaker 1: it I am one. It is my Father. I proceeded
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  Speaker 1: forth and came from it. My father and I are one,
• 1:59:52
  Speaker 1: and my Father is greater than I, and I do
• 1:59:54
  Speaker 1: his will. I surrender myself to conscious unity with pure spirit.
• 1:59:59
  Speaker 1: There is but one, and that one is everywhere. I
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  Speaker 1: am one with the eternal consciousness. Idealization. Form a mental
• 2:00:09
  Speaker 1: picture of yourself as you want to be, and at
• 2:00:11
  Speaker 1: the greatest height your imagination can picture. Dwell upon this
• 2:00:15
  Speaker 1: for some little time, holding the thought this is what
• 2:00:18
  Speaker 1: I really am. This is a picture of my own
• 2:00:21
  Speaker 1: perfect in advancing to completion, I will contemplate the facts
• 2:00:25
  Speaker 1: of social, political, and industrial life only from this high viewpoint. Behold,
• 2:00:30
  Speaker 1: it is all very good. I will see all human beings,
• 2:00:33
  Speaker 1: all my acquaintances, friends, neighbors, and the members of my
• 2:00:37
  Speaker 1: own household in the same way. They are all good.
• 2:00:40
  Speaker 1: Nothing is wrong with the universe. Nothing can be wrong
• 2:00:43
  Speaker 1: but my own personal attitude, and henceforth I keep that right.
• 2:00:47
  Speaker 1: My whole trust is in God realization. I appropriate to
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  Speaker 1: myself the power to become what I want to be,
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  Speaker 1: and to do what I want to do. I exercise
• 2:00:58
  Speaker 1: creative energy. All the power there is is mine. I
• 2:01:02
  Speaker 1: 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,
• 2:01:08
  Speaker 1: my God. I will trust and not fear, for God
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  Speaker 1: is with me. A summary of the science of being great.
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  Speaker 1: All men are made of the one intelligent substance, and
• 2:01:20
  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.
• 2:01:29
  Speaker 1: Every person may become great. Every constituent of God is
• 2:01:34
  Speaker 1: a constituent of man. Man may overcome both heredity and
• 2:01:38
  Speaker 1: circumstances by exercising the inherent creative power of the soul.
• 2:01:43
  Speaker 1: If he is to become great, the soul must act
• 2:01:46
  Speaker 1: and must rule the mind and the body. Man's knowledge
• 2:01:50
  Speaker 1: is limited, and he falls into error through ignorance. To
• 2:01:54
  Speaker 1: avoid this, he must connect his soul with the universal Spirit.
• 2:01:58
  Speaker 1: Universal Spirit is the intelligent substance from which all things come.
• 2:02:03
  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
• 2:02:09
  Speaker 1: himself with it as to enter into all knowledge. To
• 2:02:13
  Speaker 1: do this, man must cast out of himself everything that
• 2:02:16
  Speaker 1: separates him from God. He must will to live the
• 2:02:19
  Speaker 1: divine life, and he must rise above all moral temptations.
• 2:02:23
  Speaker 1: He must forsake every course of action that is not
• 2:02:26
  Speaker 1: in accord with his highest ideals. He must reach the
• 2:02:30
  Speaker 1: right viewpoint, recognizing that God is all in all, and
• 2:02:34
  Speaker 1: that there is nothing wrong. He must see that nature, society, government,
• 2:02:38
  Speaker 1: and industry are perfect in their present stage and advancing
• 2:02:42
  Speaker 1: toward completion, and that all man and women everywhere are
• 2:02:46
  Speaker 1: good and perfect. He must know that all is right
• 2:02:49
  Speaker 1: with the world, and unite with God for the completion
• 2:02:52
  Speaker 1: of the perfect work. It is only as man sees
• 2:02:55
  Speaker 1: God as the great advancing presence in all and good
• 2:02:58
  Speaker 1: in all that he can rise to real greatness. He
• 2:03:01
  Speaker 1: must consecrate himself to the service of the highest that
• 2:03:04
  Speaker 1: is within himself, obeying the voice of the soul. There
• 2:03:08
  Speaker 1: is an inner light in every man that continuously impels
• 2:03:11
  Speaker 1: him toward the highest, and he must be guided by
• 2:03:14
  Speaker 1: this light if he would become great. He must recognize
• 2:03:17
  Speaker 1: the fact that he is one with the Father and
• 2:03:20
  Speaker 1: continuously affirm this unity for himself and for all others.
• 2:03:24
  Speaker 1: He must know himself to be a god among gods
• 2:03:26
  Speaker 1: and act accordingly. He must have absolute faith in his
• 2:03:30
  Speaker 1: own perceptions of truth, and begin at home to act
• 2:03:33
  Speaker 1: upon these perceptions. As he sees the true and right
• 2:03:37
  Speaker 1: course in small things, he must take that course. He
• 2:03:40
  Speaker 1: must cease to act unthinkingly and begin to think, and
• 2:03:44
  Speaker 1: he must be sincere in his thought. He must form
• 2:03:47
  Speaker 1: a mental conception of himself at the highest and hold
• 2:03:51
  Speaker 1: this conception until it is his habitual thought form of himself.
• 2:03:55
  Speaker 1: This thought form he must keep continuously in view. He
• 2:03:59
  Speaker 1: must outwardly real and express that thought form in his actions.
• 2:04:03
  Speaker 1: He must do everything that he does in a great way.
• 2:04:06
  Speaker 1: In dealing with his family, his neighbors, acquaintances, and friends,
• 2:04:10
  Speaker 1: he must make every act an expression of his ideal.
• 2:04:13
  Speaker 1: The man who reaches the right viewpoint and makes full consecration,
• 2:04:18
  Speaker 1: and who fully idealizes himself as great, and who makes
• 2:04:21
  Speaker 1: every act, however trivial, an expression of the ideal, has
• 2:04:25
  Speaker 1: already attained to greatness. Everything he does will be done
• 2:04:29
  Speaker 1: in a great way. He will make himself known and
• 2:04:32
  Speaker 1: will be recognized as a personality of power. He will
• 2:04:35
  Speaker 1: receive knowledge by inspiration and will know all that he
• 2:04:39
  Speaker 1: need to know. He will receive all the material wealth
• 2:04:42
  Speaker 1: he forms in his thoughts, and will not lack for
• 2:04:45
  Speaker 1: any good thing. He will be given ability to deal
• 2:04:48
  Speaker 1: with any combination of circumstances that may arise, and his
• 2:04:51
  Speaker 1: growth and progress will be continuous and rapid. Great works
• 2:04:56
  Speaker 1: will seek him out, and all men will delight to
• 2:04:59
  Speaker 1: do him honor. Because of its particular value to the
• 2:05:02
  Speaker 1: students of the science of being great, I close this
• 2:05:05
  Speaker 1: book by giving a portion of Emberson's essay on the
• 2:05:08
  Speaker 1: over Soul. This great essay is fundamental, showing the foundation
• 2:05:12
  Speaker 1: principles of monism and the science of greatness. I recommend
• 2:05:16
  Speaker 1: the student to study it most carefully. In connection with
• 2:05:19
  Speaker 1: this book, What is the universal sense of wanted ignorance,
• 2:05:24
  Speaker 1: but the fine innuendo by which the great Soul makes
• 2:05:26
  Speaker 1: its enormous claim. Why do men feel that the natural
• 2:05:30
  Speaker 1: history of man has never been written? But always he
• 2:05:33
  Speaker 1: is leaving behind what you have said of him, and
• 2:05:36
  Speaker 1: it becomes old and books of metaphysics worthless. The philosophy
• 2:05:41
  Speaker 1: of six thousand years has not surged the chambers and
• 2:05:44
  Speaker 1: magazines of the soul in its experiments, there has always remained,
• 2:05:49
  Speaker 1: in the last analysis, a residuum. It could not resolve.
• 2:05:53
  Speaker 1: Man is a stream whose source is hidden. Always our
• 2:05:56
  Speaker 1: being is descending into us from we know not. Whence
• 2:06:00
  Speaker 1: the most exact calculator has no prescience that somewhat incalculable
• 2:06:05
  Speaker 1: may not bulk the very next moment. I am constrained
• 2:06:08
  Speaker 1: at every moment to acknowledge a higher origin for events
• 2:06:12
  Speaker 1: than the will I call mine. As with events, it
• 2:06:16
  Speaker 1: is so with thoughts. When I watch that flowing river,
• 2:06:19
  Speaker 1: which out of regions I see not pours for a season,
• 2:06:22
  Speaker 1: it streams into me, I see that I am a pensioner,
• 2:06:26
  Speaker 1: not a cause, but a surprised spectator of this ethereal
• 2:06:29
  Speaker 1: water that I desire and look up and put myself
• 2:06:32
  Speaker 1: in the attitude of reception. But from some alien energy
• 2:06:36
  Speaker 1: divisions come the supreme critic on all the errors of
• 2:06:39
  Speaker 1: the past and present. And the only profit of that
• 2:06:42
  Speaker 1: which must be is that great nature in which we
• 2:06:45
  Speaker 1: rest as the earth lines in the soft arms of
• 2:06:48
  Speaker 1: the atmosphere. That unity, that oversaul with which every man's
• 2:06:53
  Speaker 1: particular being is contained and made one with all the other,
• 2:06:57
  Speaker 1: That common heart of which all sincere conversation is the
• 2:07:00
  Speaker 1: worship to which all right action is submission, That overpowering reality,
• 2:07:05
  Speaker 1: which confutes our tricks and talents, and constrains every one
• 2:07:09
  Speaker 1: to pass for what he is, and to speak from
• 2:07:11
  Speaker 1: his character and not from his tongue, and which ever
• 2:07:15
  Speaker 1: more tends and aims to pass into our thoughts and
• 2:07:17
  Speaker 1: hand and become wisdom and virtue and power and beauty.
• 2:07:22
  Speaker 1: We live in succession, in division, imparts, in particles. Meantime
• 2:07:27
  Speaker 1: within man is the soul of the whole, the wise silence,
• 2:07:31
  Speaker 1: the universal beauty to which every part and particle is
• 2:07:34
  Speaker 1: equally related, the eternal one. And this deep power in
• 2:07:38
  Speaker 1: which we exist and whose beetitude is all accessible to us,
• 2:07:43
  Speaker 1: is not only self sufficing and perfect in every hour,
• 2:07:46
  Speaker 1: but the act of seeing and the thing seen, the
• 2:07:49
  Speaker 1: seer and the spectacle. The subject and the object are one.
• 2:07:53
  Speaker 1: We see the world peace by peace, as the sun,
• 2:07:56
  Speaker 1: the moon, the animal, the tree. But the whole of
• 2:07:59
  Speaker 1: which these these are the shining parts, is the soul.
• 2:08:02
  Speaker 1: It is only by the vision of that wisdom that
• 2:08:05
  Speaker 1: the horoscope of the ages can be read. And it
• 2:08:08
  Speaker 1: is only by falling back on our better thoughts, by
• 2:08:10
  Speaker 1: yielding to the spirit of prophecy, which is innate in
• 2:08:13
  Speaker 1: every man, that we know what it saith. Every man's words,
• 2:08:17
  Speaker 1: who speaks from that life must sound. Wey into those
• 2:08:21
  Speaker 1: who do not dwell in the same thought. On their
• 2:08:23
  Speaker 1: own part. I dare not speak for it. My words
• 2:08:27
  Speaker 1: do not carry its august sense. They fall short and cold.
• 2:08:32
  Speaker 1: Only itself can aspire whom it will, and behold, their
• 2:08:36
  Speaker 1: speech shall be lyrical and sweet and universal as the
• 2:08:40
  Speaker 1: rising of the wind. Yet I desire even by profane words,
• 2:08:45
  Speaker 1: if sacred I may not use to indicate the heaven
• 2:08:48
  Speaker 1: of this deity, and to report what hints I have
• 2:08:51
  Speaker 1: collected of the transcendent simplicity and energy of the Highest Law.
• 2:08:55
  Speaker 1: If we consider what happens in conversation, in reveries, in remorse,
• 2:09:00
  Speaker 1: in times of passion, in surprises, in the instruction of dreams,
• 2:09:04
  Speaker 1: wherein often we see ourselves in masquerade. The drawl disguises
• 2:09:08
  Speaker 1: only magnifying and enhancing a real element and forcing it
• 2:09:11
  Speaker 1: on our distinct notice. We shall catch many hints that
• 2:09:15
  Speaker 1: will broaden and lighten into knowledge of the secret of nature.
• 2:09:19
  Speaker 1: All goes to show that the soul in man is
• 2:09:21
  Speaker 1: not an organ, but animates and exercises all the organs,
• 2:09:25
  Speaker 1: is not a function like the power of memory, of
• 2:09:28
  Speaker 1: calculation of comparison, but uses these as hands and feet.
• 2:09:33
  Speaker 1: Is not a faculty, but a light. Is not the
• 2:09:36
  Speaker 1: intellect or the will, but the master of the intellect
• 2:09:39
  Speaker 1: and the will. Is the vast background of our being,
• 2:09:41
  Speaker 1: in which they lie, an immensity not possessed, and that
• 2:09:45
  Speaker 1: cannot be possessed from within or from behind. A light
• 2:09:49
  Speaker 1: shines through us upon things, and makes us aware that
• 2:09:53
  Speaker 1: we are nothing, but the light is all. A man
• 2:09:56
  Speaker 1: is the facade of a temple, wherein all wisdom and
• 2:09:58
  Speaker 1: all good abide. What we commonly call man, the eating, drinking, planting,
• 2:10:04
  Speaker 1: counting man does not, as we know him, represent himself,
• 2:10:08
  Speaker 1: but misrepresents himself. Him we do not respect, but the soul,
• 2:10:13
  Speaker 1: whose organ he is, Would he let it appear through
• 2:10:15
  Speaker 1: his action, would make our knees bend when it breathes
• 2:10:19
  Speaker 1: through his intellect. It is genius when it flows through
• 2:10:23
  Speaker 1: his affection. It is love after its own law, and
• 2:10:27
  Speaker 1: not by arithmetic. Is the rate of its progress to
• 2:10:30
  Speaker 1: be computed. The soul's advances are not made by gradation,
• 2:10:34
  Speaker 1: such as can be represented by motion in a straight line,
• 2:10:37
  Speaker 1: but rather by a sansion of state, such as can
• 2:10:40
  Speaker 1: be represented by metamorphosis, from the act to the worm,
• 2:10:44
  Speaker 1: from the warm to the fly. The growths of genius
• 2:10:47
  Speaker 1: are of a certain total character that does not advance
• 2:10:51
  Speaker 1: the elect individual. First over John, then Adams and Richard,
• 2:10:54
  Speaker 1: and give to each the pain of discovered inferiority. But
• 2:10:58
  Speaker 1: by every throw of gron the man expands there where
• 2:11:01
  Speaker 1: he works, passing at each pulsation classes populations of man.
• 2:11:07
  Speaker 1: With each divine impulse. The mind runs the thin rinds
• 2:11:10
  Speaker 1: of the visible and finite, and comes out into eternity
• 2:11:14
  Speaker 1: and inspires and expires its air. This is the law
• 2:11:18
  Speaker 1: of moral and of mental gain. The simple rise as
• 2:11:22
  Speaker 1: by specific levity, not into a particular virtue, but into
• 2:11:26
  Speaker 1: the region of all the virtues. There in the spirit.
• 2:11:29
  Speaker 1: This contains them all. The sole is superior to all
• 2:11:33
  Speaker 1: the particulars of merit. The soul requires purity, but purity
• 2:11:37
  Speaker 1: is not It requires justice. But justice is not that
• 2:11:42
  Speaker 1: requires beneficence, but is somewhat better, so that there is
• 2:11:46
  Speaker 1: a kind of dissent and accommodation felt. When we leave
• 2:11:49
  Speaker 1: speaking of moral nature to urge a virtue which it enjoins.
• 2:11:53
  Speaker 1: For to the soul, in her pure action, all the
• 2:11:56
  Speaker 1: virtues are natural and not painfully acquired. Speak to his heart,
• 2:12:01
  Speaker 1: and the man becomes suddenly virtuous. Within the same sentiment
• 2:12:06
  Speaker 1: is the germ of intellectual growth, which obeys the same law.
• 2:12:10
  Speaker 1: Those who are capable of humility, of justice, of love,
• 2:12:14
  Speaker 1: of aspiration are already on a platform that commands the
• 2:12:18
  Speaker 1: sciences and arts, speech and poetry, action and grace. For
• 2:12:23
  Speaker 1: whoso dwells in this moral beatitude does already anticipate those
• 2:12:27
  Speaker 1: special powers which men prides so highly. Justice love does
• 2:12:31
  Speaker 1: justice to all the gifts of the object beloved. The
• 2:12:35
  Speaker 1: lover has no talent, no skill which passes for quiet.
• 2:12:38
  Speaker 1: Nothing with his enamored maiden, however little she may possess
• 2:12:42
  Speaker 1: of related faculty, and the heart that abandons itself to
• 2:12:46
  Speaker 1: the Supreme Mind, finds itself related to all its works,
• 2:12:50
  Speaker 1: and will travel a royal road to particular knowledge and powers.
• 2:12:54
  Speaker 1: For in ascending to this primary and aboriginal sentiment, we
• 2:12:58
  Speaker 1: have come from our remote state under circumference instantaneously to
• 2:13:02
  Speaker 1: the center of the world. Where As in the closet
• 2:13:05
  Speaker 1: of God we see causes and anticipate the universe, which
• 2:13:09
  Speaker 1: is but a slow effect.