TRAVELING TO HIMALAYA'S

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                 ON THE BANKS OF THE RIVER SARASWATHI, NEAR THE VILLAGE OF SONAR LINGA, LIVE A SAGE. IN THIS FAR-OFF REGION OF NORTH CENTRAL HIMALAYA, AMIDST SNOW-PEAKED MOUNTAINS, THE SAGE GAZED DOWN ACROSS THE SARASWATHI AT THIS LAST OUTPOST OF THE HIMALAYAN ROUTE. PERCHED HIGH ON THE SLOPES AT ABOUT 8000 FEET, SONAR VILLAGE APPEARED AS NOTHING MORE THANA FEW BROWN HUTS CLESTERED TOGETHER.  A VILLAGER OR TWO CUT WOOD IN THE TALL PINE FOREST, A FEW BIRDS CHIRPED HERE AND THERE. MEADOWS DOTTED WITH PINES ROLLED OVER THE SLOPES, SILENT, LUSH AND LOVELY. GRAY BOULDERS OF VARIOUS SIZES LAY ALL AROUND THE VALLEY. SARASWATHI KUND, THE SOURCE OF THE SARASWATHI RIVER, WAS ONLY ONE DAY'S GIKE AWAY. THE WEATHER WAS COLD, WET, FRESH AND INVIGORATING.

              DAWN VANISHED INTO THE RISING SUN ON THE EASTERN PEAKS OF THE RANGES. THE SAGE EMERGED FROM HIS WOODEN HUT CARRYING A BEGGING BOWL IN HIS HAND AND PROCEEDED TO THE RIVER. HE WALKED ERECT WITH A BEARING WORTHY OF A SAGE. HE STOOD TALL, WITH A BROAD FOREHAND AND MATTED HAIR FLOWING DOWN TO HIS WAIST, SCANTLY CLOTHING COVERED HIS LEARN BODY. HIS SERENE AND PLEASANT COUNTENANCE DISPERSED ALL DOUBTS WITH ITS GUESS HIS AGE, BUT JUDGING BY HIS PHYSICAL APPEARANCE, HE WAS ABOUT SIXTY. 

            AFTER FINISHING HIS BATH IN THE COLD RIVER, THE SAGE RETURNED TO THE HUT AND PUT THE WATER-FILLED BOWL INSIDE. AS HE CAME OUT OF THE DOOR, A YOUNG MAN DESCENDED THE SLOPES AT THE BACK OF THE HUT. IN A SHORT WHILE, THE STRANGER REVERENTLY APPROACHED THE HOLY MAN, AND WITH AWE TOUCHED HIS FOREHEAD TO THE SAGE'S BARE FEET. FROM HIS CLOSED LIPS THE HOLY MAN UTTERED A SIMPLE HNU-A SORT OF RELAXED ACKNOWLEDGMENT. THE YOUNG MAN STOOP UP, HIS FACE BEAMING, EYE SHINING AND SWEET SMILE DANCING ON HIS LIPS. IN NO TIME HIS FATIGUE, SEEMINGLY FROM A LONG JOURNEY ON FOOT, VANISHED. WITH A LITTLE IMPATIENCE HE WAITED FOR THE NEXT MOVE FROM THE HOLY MAN.

          THE SAGE SAT DOWN ON A NEARLY FLAT STONE AND BABE THE STRANGER TO SIT IN THE ONE OPPOSITE.

         SO YOU HAVE COME "SATYAKAM" ASSERTED THE SAGE WITH SATISFACTION. HOW DO YOU KNOW MY NAME SIR? YOU SEEMED TO KNOW I WAS COMING, DIDN'T YOU?

       WITHOUT REPLYING DIRECTLY TO THE QUESTIONS, AS IF TAKING THEM FOR GRANTED, THE SAGE CONTINUED, AFTER YOU TAKE A BATH, EAT AND REST FOR TODAY, TOMORROW YOU'LL RECEIVE YOUR FIRST LESSONS ON THE SPIRITUAL PATH.

         BUT SIR, I WANTEDTO SAY SO MUCH ABOUT MY SEARCH, MY DIFFICULTIES, YOUR WHEREABOUTS, MY ASPIRATIONS...'

       CUTTING HIM OFF IN MID-SENTENCE, THE SEER SAID ABRUPTLY WITH A FIRM AND MEASURED TONE, "THERE NEEDN'T BE ANY FORMALITIES OR INTRODUCTION BETWEEN A DISCIPLE AND A GURU OF BIRTH ACQUAINTANCE.'

       SO YOU ARE MY GURU FROM BIRTH TO BIRTH! SAYING THIS WITH ASTONISHMENT AND SATISFACTION, HE BECAME CHOKED WITH EMOTION. HIS EYES BRIMMED WITH TEARS. HE CLOSED HIS EYES SLOWLY WITH UNSPEAKABLE JOY, AND TEARS ROLLED DOWN HIS CHEEKS AS HIS HANDS INVOLUNTARILY FOLDED IN THE MANNER OF RESPECTFUL GREETING. HIS FOREHEAD BENT DOWN A LITTLE, BUT HE COULD NOT HOLD HIMSELF FURTHER AND FELL SPONTANEOUSLY AT THE FEET OF THE MASTER.

              THE MASTER TOUCHED SATYAKAM'S HEAD WITH HIS RIGHT HAND AND SLOWLY LET THE PLACE.

                THE DAY MOVED ON, RYTHMIC IN AGELESS SPLENDOR, THE SKY WAS CLEAR BLUE, SNOW GLIMMERED ON THE PEAKS, A CROW OR TWO FLEW FROM ONE END OF THE VALLEY TO THE OTHER. WATER RUSHED IN THE RIVER, MAKING THE ONLY SOUND IN THE VALLEY. THE LURE AND ENCHANTMENT OF THE UNSPOILED WATERS BECKONED SATYAKAM TO RELAX AND ABSORB THE NATURAL BEAUTY.

             SMOOTHLY AND METHODICALLY, SATYAKAM WENT ON FINISHING HIS CHORES, RESPECTFULLY TAKING, ON OCCASION, NECESSARY INSTRUCTIONS FROM HIS MENTOR, TILL THE DAY ENDED IN PEACEFUL DUSK.

           CALLING HIM WITH A LITTLE INDIFFERENCE, THE HOLY MAN SAID, 'I'LL SEE YOU TOMARROW MORNING. YOU MAY RETIRE TO YOUR HUT NOW'. POINTING A LITTLE FARTHER SOUTH.

           NEXT MORNING A FEW PATCHES OF CLOUD FILLED THE SKY, BUT SUNSHINE BROKE THROUGH - A BLESSING IN THIS REGION OF SNOW. THE RAINY SEASON WAS STILL TWO MONTHS AWAY. THE TWO SOLITARY FIGURES SILENTLY ASCENDED THE MOUNTAINSIDE BEHING THE MASTER'S HUT WHERE SATYAKAM HAD APPEARED THE DAY BEFORE. A SHORT WHILE AFTER, ON FAIRLY LEVEL GROUND ON THE SLOPE, THE MASTER SAT DOWN FACING THE RIVER. ON SLIGHTLY LOWER GROUND SAT SATYAKAM, LOOKING AT HIS MASTER AND WAITING ANXIOUSLY.

              SATYAKAM WAS OF AVERAGE BUIL, RELATIVELY FAIR AND IN HIS EARLY TWENTIES. AN UNEVEN SCANTY BEARD HAD GROWN ON HIS FACE, GIVING HIM THE LOOK OF AN ASPIRANT, HIS HAIR HAD NEARLY GROWN DOWN THE BACK OF HIS NECK, BUT WAS NOT QUITE FLOWING YET. HE HAD A MORE OR LESS ROUND FACE, AND ON IT ONE COULD EASILY READ HIS TRANSPARENT SINCERITY, DEVOTION AND SELF-CONTROL. TRUTH WAS READY ON HIS LIPS ANYTIME. EVEN THOUGH HE WAS FATIFUED AND SOMEWHAT UNDERNOURISHED, HE APPEARED RATHER HEALTHY.

            THE GURU LOOKED AT HIM AND SAID, "SATYAKAM, WE'LL START WHERE WE ENDED IN THE PREVIOUS BIRTH".

             BUT I DON'T REMEMBER MY LAST BIRTH, SIR! RESPONDED SATYAKAM INNOCENTLY.

            YOU'LL COME TO KNOW IT AS THE DAYS TO BY. THERE IS NO USE IN JUST TELLING YOU AND SATISFYING ONLY YOUR CURIOSITY. BETTER THAT YOU KNOW IT RATHER THAN SIMPLY BE INFORMED. SUFFICE IT TO SAY IT WON'T TAKE YOU LONG TO SEE YOUR PREVIOUS INCARNATION. YOUR PRESENT BALANCE OF MIND AND MERIT ARE WHAT REALLY MATTER. AND YOU HAVE THESE SUFFICIENTLY-TRUTHFULNESS,  SELF-CONTROL AND SINCERITY. 

           FROM TODAY ONWARD FORGET CALCULATING TIME MEASUREMENTS OF DAYS, MONTHS AND YEARS OR EVEN BIRTHS. JUST WATCH THE SUN RISING AND SETTING. LET EACH DAY BE SIMPLY AND DAY AND EACH NIGHT A NIGHT. LET THE DAY FLOW WITH YOUR LIVING. BY THIS, A NEWNESS-EVER NEWNESS-WILL BE PRESENT WITH YOU. PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE WILL MINGLE INTO ONE, AND YOU'LL FLOAT INTO INDESCRIBABLE JOY-LIGHT,  RELAXED AND FREE.

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KNOW THIS ADVANTAGES

                                   CHANGE YOUR HABITS AND SEE ADVANTAGES

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             ❤ THE HABIT OF GOING THE EXTRA MILE GIVES ONE THE BENEFIT OF THE LAW OF INCREASING RETURNS, IN A VARIETY OF WAYS TOO NUMEROUS TO BE DESCRIBED HERE.

            ❤  THIS HABIT PLACES ONE IN A POSITION TO BENEFIT BY THE LAW OF COMPENSATION, THROUGH WHICH NO ACT OR DEED WILL OR CAN BE EXPRESSED WITHOUT AN EUIVALENT RESPONSE (AFTER ITS OWN NATURE)

            ❤  IT GIVES ONE THE BENEFIT OF GROWTH THROUGH RESISTENCE AND USE, THEREBY LEADING TO MENTAL DEVELOPMENT AND INCREASED SKILL IN THE USE OF THE BODY. (IT IS WELL-KNOWN FACT THAT BOTH BODY AND MIND ATTAIN EFFICIENCY AND SKILL THROUGH SYSTEMATIC DISCIPLINE AND USE WHICH CALL FOR THE REDERING OF SERVICE THAT TEMPORARILY IS NOT PAID FOR).

             ❤  THE HABIT DEVELOP THE IMPORTANT FACTOR OF INITIATIVE, WITHOUT WHICH NO INDIVIDUAL EVER RISES ABOVE MEDIOCRITY IN ANY CALLING.

             ❤  IT DEVELOP SELF-RELIANCE, WHICH IS LIKEWISE AN ESSENTIAL IN ALL FORMS OF PERSONAL ACHIEVEMENT.

             ❤  IT ENABLES AN INDIVIDUAL TO PROFIT BY THE LAW OF CONTRAST, SINCE OBVIOUSLY A MAJORITY OF THE PEOPLE DO NOT FOLLOW THE HABIT OF DOING MORE THAN THEY ARE PAID FOR. ON THE CONTRARY, THEY ENDEAVOR TO "GET" WITH A MINUMUM AMOUNT OF SERVICE.

            ❤ IT HELPS ONE TO MASTER THE HABIT OF DRIFTING AIMLESSLY, THEREBY CHECKING THE HABIT WHICH STANDS AT THE HEAD OF THE MAJOR CAUSES OF FAILURE.

           ❤  IT DEFINITELY AIDS IN DEVELOPMENT OF THE HABIT OF DEFITENESS OF PURPOSE, WHICH IS THE FIRST PRINCIPLE OF INDIVIDUAL ACHIEVEMENT.

           ❤  IT TENDS STRONGLY TO AID IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF ATTRACTIVENESS OF PERSONALITY, THEREBY FIXING HIS OWN PRICE ON HIS SERVICES. 

           ❤  IT OFTEN GIVES AN INDIVIDUAL A PREFERRED POSITION OF RELATIONSHIP WITH OTHERS THROUGH WHICH HE MAY BECOME INDESPENSABLE, THEREBY FIXING HIS OWN PRICE ON HIS SERVICES. 

           ❤  IT INSURES CONTINUES EMPLOYMENT, THEREBY SERVING AS INSURANCE AGAINST WANT IN CONNECTION WITH THE NECESSITIES OF LIFE.

           ❤  IT IS THE GREATEST OF ALL THE KNOWN METHODS BY WHICH THE MAN WHO WORKS FOR WAGES MAY PROMOTE HIMSELF TO HIGHER POSITIONS AND BETTER WAGES, AND SERVES AS A PRACTICAL MEANS BY WHICH A MAN MAY ATTAIN THE POSITION OF OWNERSHIP OF A BUSINESS OR INDUSTRY.

          ❤  IT DEVELOP ALERTNESS OF THE IMAGINATION, THE FACULTY THROUGH ONE MAY CREATE PRACTICAL PLAN FO THE ATTAINMENT OF ONE'S AIMS AND PURPOSE IN ANY CALLING.

           ❤  IT DEVELOP A POSITIVE "MENTAL ATTITUDE" WHICH IS ONE OF THE MORE IMPORTANT QUALITIES THAT ARE ESSENTIAL IN ALL HUMAN RELATIONSHIPS.

           ❤  IT SERVES TO BUIL THE CONFIDENCE OF OTHERS IN ONE'S INTEGRITY AND GENERAL ABILITY, WHICH IS AN INDISPENSABLE ESSENTIAL FOR NOTEWORTHY ACHIEVEMENT IN EVERY CALLING.

            ❤  FINALLY, IT IS A HABIT WHICH ONE MAY ADOPT AND FOLLOW ON HIS OWN INITIATIVE, WITHOUTBEING UNDER THE NECESSITY OF ASKING THE PERMISSION OF ANYONE TO DO SO.

             COMPARE THESE SIXTEEN DEFINITE ADVANTAGES THAT ARE AVAILABLE TO MAN, IN RETURN FOR DOING MORE THAN HE IS PAID FOR, WITH THE ONE SOLE BENEFIT (THAT OF ACQUIRING FOOD NECESSARY FOR EXISTENCE) THAT IT AVAILABLE TO THE OTHER CREATURES OF THE EARTH THROUGH THE SAME HABIT, AND YOU WILL BE FORED TO THE CONCLUSION THAT OVERWHELMINGLY THE GREATER NUMBER OF BENEFITS ENJOYED BY MAN SERVE AS ADEQUATE COMPENSATION FOR HIS DEVELOPMENT AND USE OF THIS HABIT. THIS COMPARISON SUBSTANTIATES YOUR STATEMENT THAT IT IS AN IMPOSSIBILITY FOR ONE TO DO MORE THAN ONE IS PAID FOR, AND FOR THE VERY OBVIOUS REASON THAT IN THE MERE ACT OF DOING THAT WHICH IS CONSTRUCTIVE ONE ACQUIRES  POWER THAT CAN BE CONVERTED INTO WHATEVER ONE DESIRES.

                   THIS ANALYSIS GIVES GREATER MEANING TO EMERSON,S STATEMENT, DO THE THING AND YOU SHALL HAVE THE POWER.

            THIS IS THE IDEA YOU SHOULD EMPHASIZE THROUGHOUT THE PHILOSOPHY OF INDIVIDUAL ACHIEVEMENT. NO ONE WHO FOLLOWS THIS ANALYSIS CAREFULLY CAN HELP DISCOVERING THE TRUTH THAT IT IS IMPOSSIBLE FOR ONE TO DO MORE THAN ONE IS PAID FOR. THE PAY CONSISTS IN THE SELF DISCIPLINE AND SELF-DEVELOPMENT ONE ATTAINS THROUGH THE RENDERING OF SERVING, AS WELL AS IN THE MATERIAL EFFECTS OF THE SERVICES, IN THE FORM OF ECONOMIC COMPENSATION.

            

                                                     ORGANIZE YOUR THINKING

 

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           1. ORGANIZED THINKING ENABLES ONE TO BECOME THE MASTER OF HIS OWN MIND. THIS HE ACCOMPLISHES BY TRAINING HIS FACULTY OF WILL TO CONTROL HIS EMOTIONS, TURNING THEM ON AND OFF AS OCCASION MAY REQUIRE.

          2. ORGANIZED THINKING FORCES ONE TO WORK WITH DEFITENESS OF PURPOSE, THEREBY ENABLING HIS TO SET UP A HABIT THAT PROHIBITS PROCRASTINATION.

         3. IT DEVELOPS THE HABIT OF WORKING WITH DEFINITE PLANS INSTEAD OF BLUNDERING AHEAD BY THE HIT OR MISS METHOD.

         4. IT  ENABLES ONE TO STIMULATE THE SUBCONSCIOUS MIND TO GREATER ACTION AND MORE READY RESPONSE, IN THE ATTAINMENT OF DESIRED ENDS, INSTEAD OF ALLOWING THE SUBCONSCIOUS MIND TO RESPOND TO THE TRAMP THOUGHTS AND DESTRUCTIVE INFLUENCES OF ONE'S ENVIRONMENT.

         5. IT DEVELOP SELF-RELIANCE.

        6. IT GIVES ONE THE BENEFIIT OF THE KNOWLEDGE, EXPERIENCE AND EDUCATION OF OTHERS, THROUGH THE MEDIUM OF THE MASTER MIND ALLIANCE, WHICH IS AN IMPORTANT MEDIUM USED BY ALL ABLE THINKERS.

       7. IT ENABLES ONE TO CONVERT HIS EFFORTS INTO GREATER MATERIAL RESOURCES AND LARGER INCOME, SINCE AN ORGANIZED MIND CAN PRODUCE MORE THAN ONE THAT IS NOT ORGANIZED.

       8. IT DEVELOP THE HABIT OF ACCURATE ANALYSIS, THROUGH WHICH ONE MAY FIND THE SOLUTION TO HIS PROBLEMS INSTEAD OF WORRYING OVER THEM.

       9. IT AIDS IN MAINTAINING SOUND HEALTH, BECAUSE MIND POWER THAT IS ORGANIZED AND DIRECTED TOWARD THE ATTAINMENT OF DESIRABLE ENDS HAS NOT TIME TO BE WASTED IN CONNECTION WITH SELF-PITY OR IMAGINARY AILMENTS. IDLE MINDS TEND TO DEVELOP AILING BODIES.

   10.LAST, BUT BY NO MEAN LEAST, ORGANIZED THINKING LEADS TO PEACE OF MIND AND THAT FORM OF PERMANENT HAPPINESS WHICH IS KNOWN ONLY TO THE MAN WHO KEEPS HIS MIND FULLY OCCUPIED. NO ONE CAN BE EITHER HAPPY OR SUCCESSFUL WITHOUT A PLANNED PROGRAM FOR THE USE OF HIS TIME. PLANNED PROGRAMS ARE BASED ON ORGANIZED THINKING.

                  AS I HAVE STATED BEFORE, THE BRAIN SOMETHING LIKE A RICH GARDEN SPOT IN THAT IT WILL VOLUNTARILY GROW A FINE CROP OF WEEDS IF IT IS NOT ORGANIZED AND KEPT BUSY GROWING A MORE DESIRABLE CROP. THE WEES ARE REPRESENTED BY THE STRAY THOUGHTS THAT TAKE POSSESSION OF THE UNORGANIZED, IDLE MIND, AS THE RESUL OF ONE'S DAILY ENVIRONMENT.

              STUDY THIS LIST OF BENEFITS CAREFULLY AND YOU WILL REACH THE CONCLUSION THAT ANY ONE OF THEM OFFERS SUFFICIENT REWARD TO JUSTIFY ALL THE EFFORT ONE PUTS INTO ORGANIZING HIS THINKING HABITS. THE SUM TOTAL OF ALL THESE BENEFITS REPRESENTS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN SUCCESS AND FAILURE. SUCCESS IS ALWAYS THE RESULT OF AN ORDERED LIFE. AN ORDERED LIFE COMES THROUGH ORGANIZED THINKING AND CAREFULLY CONTROLLED HABITS.

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ATTRACTIVE PERSONALITY

                                           DEVELOP SELF CONFIDENT

                                                      HILL AND THE CARNEGIE

                          HILL : MR. CARNEGIE, WE COME NOW TO THE THIRD OF THE SEVENTEEN PRINCIPLES OF INDIVIDUAL ACHIEVEMENT, WHICH YOU HAVE NAMED "ATTRACTIVE PERSONALITY". I UNDERSTAND THAT YOU HAVE SEPERATED THE FACTORS BEHIND PERSONALITY INTO DISTINCT TRAITS, ALL BUT ONE OF WHICH MAY BE DEVELOPED ANY NORMAL PERSON. NOW, SIR, WILL YOU DESCRIBE THESE CHARACTERISTICS OF PERSONALITY, WITH SPECIAL EMPHASIS ON THOSE WHICH YOU CONSIDER OF GREATEST IMPORTANCE TO AN INDIVIDUAL IN SELLING HIS WAY THROUGH LIFE SUCCESSFULLY?

                         CARNEGIE  : I WILL NOT ONLY DESCRIBE THE TRAITS OF AN ATTRACTIVE PERSONALITY, BUT BEFORE I HAVE FINISHED, I WILL ALSO GIVE YOU A SIMPLE FORMULA WITH WHICH ALL BUT ONE OF THESE TRAITS MAY BE DEVELOPED AND MAINTAINED. THE MERE NAMING OF THESE PERSONALITY TRAITS WILL BE OF LITTLE VALUE TO ANYONE UNLESS HE APPROPRIATES AND USES THEM.WE WILL BEGIN THE OUTLINE OF THE FACTORS WITH A DESCRIPTION OF THE MOST IMPORTANT OF THESE, WHICH IS POSITIVE MENTAL ATTITUDE. ONE MAY GET A FAIR IDEA OF THE IMPORTANT PART MENTAL ATTITUDE PLAYS IN THE AFFAIRS OF AN INDIVIDUAL'S LIFE BY CONSIDERING THE FACT THAT IT INFLUENCES THE TONE OF VOICE, THE EXPRESSION OF THE FACE, THE POSTURE OF THE BODY, AND MODIFIES EVERY WORD THAT IS SPOKEN AS WELL AS DETERMINING MODIFIES EVERY THOUGHT ONE RELEASE, THEREBY EXTENDING ITS INFLUENCE TO ALL WITHING ITS RANGE, THROUGH THE PRINCIPLE OF TELEPATHY.

                    FOR THE SAKE OF CONTRAST, LET US LIST SOME OF THE DISAGREEABLE THINGS THAT A BAD MENTAL ATTITUDE CAUSES. IT DAMPENS A MAN'S ENTHUSIAM, CURTAILS HIS INITIATIVE, OVERTHROWS HIS SELF-CONTROL, SUBDUES HIS IMAGINATION, UNDERMINES HIS DESIRE TO BE COOPERATIVE, MAKES HIM SULLEN AND INTOLERANT, AND AS IF THESE WERE NOT ENOUGH DAMAGE TO INSURE A MAN'S IT PUTS ON THE FINISHING TOUCH BY THROWING HIS REASONING POWER OUT OF GEAR. THERE ARE BUT A FEW OF THE WAYS IN WHICH NEGATIVE MENTAL ATTITUDE MAY DAMAGE THE INDIVIDUAL HIMSELF, QUITE APART FROM THE DAMAGE HE DOES TO OTHERS, THROUGH HIS NEGATIVE INFLUENCES.

             

❤   HERE SOME POINTS  ❤

1. CARELESSNESS IN THE TONE OF THE VOICE, OFTEN SPEAKING IN GRUFF, ANTAGONISTIC TONES THAT OFFEND.

2. SPEAKING OUT OR TURN, WHEN SILENCE WOULD BE MORE APPROPRIATE.

3. INTERRUPTING OTHERS WHO ARE SPEAKING.

4. OVERWORKING THE PERSONAL PRONOUN.

5. ASKING IMPERTINENT QUESTIONS, GENERALLY TO IMPRESS OTHERS WITH THE QUESTIONER'S OWN IMPORTANCE.

6. INJECTING INTIMATELY PERSONAL SUBJECTS INTO THE CONVERSATION WHERE SUCH ACTION IS EMBARRASSING TO OTHERS.

7. GOING WHERE ONE HAS NOT BEEN INVITED.

8. BOASTFULNESS.

9. FLAUNTING THE RULES OF SOCIETY IN MATTERS OF PERSONAL ADORNMENT.

10. MAKING PERSONAL CALLS AT INCONVENIENT HOURS.

11. HOLDING PEOPLE ON THE TELEPHONE WITH NEEDLESS CONVERSATION.

12.WRITING LETTERS TO PEOPLE WHOM ONE HAS NO REASONABLE EXCUSE FOR ADDRESSING.

13. VOLUNTEERING OPINIONS WHEN NOT REQUESTED, ESPECIALLY ON SUBJECTS WITH WHICH THEY ARE NOT FAMILIAR.

14. OPENLY QUESTIONING WHEN NOT REQUESTED, ESPECIALLY ON SUBJECTS WITH WHICH THEY ARE NOT FAMILIAR.

15. DECLINING REQUESTS FROM OTHERS IN AN ARROGANT MANNER.

16. SPEAKING DISPARAGINGLY OF PEOPLE IN FRONT OF THEIR FRIENDS.

17. REBUKING PEOPLE WHO DISAGREE WITH ONE ON ANY SUBJECT.

18. SPEAKING OF PEOPLE'S PHYSICAL AFFLICTIONS IN THEIR PRESENCE.

19. CORRECTING SUBORDINATES AND ASSOCIATES IN THE PRESENCE OF OTHERS.

20. COMPLAINING WHEN REQUESTS FOR FAVORS ARE REFUSED.

21. PRESUMING UPON FRIENDSHIP IN ASKING FAVORS.

22. USING PROFANCE OR OFFENSIVE LANGUAGE.

                    23. EXPRESSING DISLIKES TOO FREELY.

     24. SPEAKING OF ILLS AND MISFORTUNES.

 25. CRITICIZING OUR FORM OF GOVERNMENT OR SOME 

PERSON'S RELIGION.

26. OVER - FAMILIARITY ON ALL OCCASIONS WITH PEOPLE.

HILL  : THE PERSON WHO CHECKS HIS PERSONALITY AGAINST THAT LIST AND FINDS HIMSELF NOT TO BE A VIOLATOR IN ANY OF THOSE WAYS, IS INDEED FORTUNATE AND HE IS A RARE INDIVIDUAL. I CAN SEE THAT TACTFULNESS IS ANOTHER TRAIT OF PERSONALITY WHICH IS RELATED TO MENTAL ATTITUDE. NOW, MR.CARNEGIE, WHAT IS COMING UP AS NUMBER TEN?

CARNEGIE  : TENTH PLACE GOES TO TOLERANCE. LET US DEFINE TOLERANCE SIMPLY AS OPEN - MINDEDNESS. THE TOLERANT PERSON IS ONE WHO HOLDS MIND OPEN FOR NEW FACTS AND NEW KNOWLEDGE AND NEW VIEWPOINTS ON ALL SUBJECTS. I HAZARD THE GUESS THAT THIS DEFINITION CLASSIFIES MOST OF US BEING INTOLERANT.

OBSERVE, TOO, BEFORE WE GET TOO FAR INTO THE ANALYSIS OF THIS SUBJECT, HOW CLOSELY RELATED ARE TOLERANCE AND TACTFULNESS, AND ALSO HOW DEFINITELY HOTH ARE RELATED ARE TOLERANCE AND TACFULNESS, AND ALSO HOW DEFINITELY BOTH ARE RELATED TO MENTAL ATTITUDE. TRY AS YOU MAY, THERE IS NO ESCAPE FROM CONSIDERATION OF THE SUBJECT OF MENTAL ATTITUDE. IT CROPS UP EVERYWHERE, IN EVERY HUMAN RELATIONSHIP!

BEFORE LEAVING THIS SUBJECT, I WISH TO ENUMERATE A FEW OF THE SPECIFIC HANDICAPS WHICH MEN SET UP FOR THEMSELVES THROUGH THEIR INTOLERANCE.

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1. IT MAKES ENEMIES OF THOSE WHO WOULD LIKE TO BE FRIENDS.

        2. IT STOPS THE GROWTH OF THE MIND, BY LIMITING THE SEARCH FOR

KNOWLEDGE.

3. IT DISCOURAGE IMAGINATION.

4. IT PROHIBITS SELF-DISCILINE.

5. IT PREVENTS ACCURACY IN THINKING AND REASONING.

 

 

 

GOOD THOUGHT BECOME HABIT

                                                           OUR HABIT

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              NO DOUBT YOU HAVE MANY PROBLEMS, DOMESTIC, SOCIAL PHYSICAL, AND FINANCIAL WHICH SEEM TO YOU TO BE PRESSING FOR INSTAND SOLUTION. YOU HAVE DEBTS THAT MUST BE PAID, OR OTHER OBLIGATIONS THAT MUST BE MET, YOU ARE UNHAPPILY OR INHARMONIOUSLY PLACED, AND FEEL THAT SOMETHING MUST BE DONE AT ONCE. DO NOT GET INTO A HURRY AND ACT FROM SUPERFICIAL  IMPULSES. YOU CAN TRUST GOD FOR THE SOLUTION OF ALL YOUR PERSONAL RIDDLES. THERE IS NO HURRY. THERE IS ONLY GOD, AND ALL IS WELL WITH THE WORLD.

              THERE IS AN INVINCIBLE POWER IN YOU, AND THE SAME POWER IS IN THE THINGS YOU WANT. IT IS BRINGING THEM TO YOU AND BRINGING YOU TO THEM. THIS IS A THOUGHT THAT YOU MUST GRASP, AND HOLD CONTINUOSLY THAT THE SAME INTELLIGENCE THAT IS IN YOU IS IN THE THINGS YOU DESIRE. THEY ARE IMPELLED TOWARD YOU AS STRONGLY AND DECIDEDLY AS YOUR DESIRE IMPELS YOU TOWARD THEM. THE TENDENCY, THEREFORE, OF A STEADILY HELD THOUGHT  MUST BE TO BRING THE THINGS YOU DESIRE TO YOU AND TO GROUP THEM AROUND YOU. SO LONG AS YOU HOLD YOUR THOUGHT AND YOUR FAITH RIGHT ALL MUST GO WELL. NOTHING CAN BE WRONG BUT YOUR OWN PERSONAL ATTITUDE, AND THAT WILL NOT BE WRONG IF YOU TRUST AND ARE NOT AFRAID.

             HURRY IS A MANIFESTATION OF FEAR. ONE WHO DOES NOT FEAR. ONE WHO DOES NOT FEAR HAS PLENTY OF TIME. IF YOU ACT WITH PERFECT FAITH IN YOUR OWN PERCEPTION OF TRUTH, YOU WILL NEVER BE TOO LATE OR TOO EARLY AND NOTHING WILL GO WRONG. IF THINGS APPEAR TO BE GOING WRONG, DO NOT GET DISTURBED, IT IS ONLY IN APPEARANCE. NOTHING CAN GO WRONG IN THIS WORLD BUT YOURSELF.

             YOU CAN DO WRONG ONLY BY GETTING INTO THE WRONG MENTAL ATTITUDE.  WHEEVER YOU FIND YOURSELF GETTTING EXCITED, WORRIED, OR INTO THE MENTAL ATTITUDE OF HURRY, SIT DOWN AND THINK IT OVER. PLAY A GAME OF SOME KIND, OR TAKE A VACATION. GO ON A TRIP, AND ALL WILL BE RIGHT WHEN YOU RETURN. AS SURELY AS YOU FIND YOURSELF IN THE MENTAL ATTITUDE OF HASTE, JUST AS SURELY MAY YOU KNOW THAT YOU ARE OUT OF THE MENTAL ATTITUDE OF GREATNESS. HURRY AND FEAR WILL INSTANTLY CUT YOUR CONNECTION WITH THE INIVERSAL MIND, YOU WILL GET NO POWER, NO WISDOM, AND NO INFORMATION UNTIL YOU WILL GET NO POWER, NO WISDOM, AND NO INFORMATION UNTIL YOU ARE CALM. AND TO FALL INTO THE ATTITUDE OF HURRY WILL CHECK THE ACTION OF THE PRINCIPLE OF POWER WITHIN YOU. FEAR TURNS STRENGTH TO WEAKNESS.

          

REMEMBER THAT POISE AND POWER ARE INSEPERABLY ASSOCIATED. THE CALM AND BALANCED MIND IS THE STRONG AND GREAT MIND, THE HURRIED AND AGITATED MIND IS THE WEAK ONE. WHENEVER YOU FALL INTO THE MENTAL STATE OF HURRY YOU MAY KNOW THAT YOU HAVE LOST THE RIGHT VIEWPOINT, YOU ARE BEGINING TO LOOK UPON THE WORLD, OR SOME PART OF IT, AS GOING WRONG. CONSIDER THE FACT THAT THIS WORLD IS PERFECT NOW, WITH ALL THAT IT CONTAINS. NOTHING IS GOING WRONG, NOTHING CAN BE WRONG, BE POISED, BE CALM, BE CHEERFUL, HAVE FAITH IN GOD.

NEXT, EXAMINE YOUR HABITS. IT IS PROBABLE THAT YOUR GREATEST DIFFICULTY WILL BE TO OVERCOME YOUR OLD HABITUAL WAYS OF THOUGHT, AND TO FORM NEW HABITS. THE WORLD IS RULED BY HABIT. DICTATORS, TYRANTS, MASTERS, AND PLUTOCRATS HOLD THEIR POSITIONS SOLELY BECAUSE THE PEOPLE HAVE COME TO HABITUALLY ACCEPT THEM. THINGS ARE AS THEY ARE. WHEN THE PEOPEL HAVE FORMED THE HABIT OF ACCEPTING THEM AS THEY ARE. WHEN THE PEOPLE CHANGE THEIR ,HABITUAL THOUGHT ABOUT GOVERNMENTAL, SOCIAL AND INDUSTRIAL INSTITUTIONS, THEY WILL CHANGE THE INSTITUTIONS. HABIT RULES US ALL.

YOU HAVE FORMED, PERHAPS, THE HABIT OF THINKING OF YOURSELF AS A COMMON PERSON, AS ONE OF A LIMITED ABILITY, OR A BEING MORE OR LESS OF A FAILURE. WHATEVER YOU HABITUALLY THINK YOURSELF TO BE, THAT YOU ARE.  YOU MUST FORM, NOW, A GREATER AND BETTER HABIT. YOU MUST FORM A CONCEPTION OF YOURSEFL AS A BEING OF LIMITLESS POWER, AND HABITUALLY THINK THAT YOU ARE THAT BEING, IT IS THE HABITUAL, NOT THE PERIODICAL THOUGHT THAT DECIDES YOUR DESTINY. IT WILL AVAIL YOU NOTHING TO SIT APART FOR A FEW MOMENTS SEVERAL TIMES A DAY TO AFFIRM THAT YOU ARE GREAT, IF DURING ALL THE BALANCE OF THE DAY, WHILE YOU ARE ABOUT YOUR REGULAR VOCATION, YOU THINK OR YOURSELF AS NOT GREAT. NO AMOUNT OF PRAIYING OR AFFIRMATION WILL MAKE YOU GREAT IF YOU STILL HABITUALLY REGARD YOURSELF AS BEING SMALL.

THE USE OF PRAYER, AND AFFIRMATION IS TO CHANGE YOUR HABIT OR THOUGHT. ANY ACT, MENTAL OR PHYSICAL OFTEN REPEATED, BECOMES A HABIT. THE PURPOSE OF MENTAL EXERCISES IS TO REPEAT CERTAIN THOUGHTS OVER AND OVER UNTIL THE THINKING OF THOSE THOUGHTS BECOMES CONSTANT AND HABITUAL. THE THOUGHTS WE CONTINUALLY REPEAT CONSTANT AND HABITUAL. THE THOUGHTS WE CONTINUALLY REPEAT BECOME CONVICTIONS. WHAT YOU MUST DO IS TO REPEAT THE NEW THOUGHT OF YOURSELF UNTIL IT IS THE ONLY WAY IN WHICH YOU THINK OF YOURSELF. HABITUAL THOUGHT, AND NOT ENVIRONMENT OR CIRCUMSTANCE HAS MADE YOU WHAT YOU ARE, AND BY THIS IDEA WE CLASSIFY AND ARRAGES ALL OUR FACTS AND EXTERNAL RELATIONSHIPS. YOU ARE CLASSIFYING YOUR FACTS EITHER ACCORDING TO THE IDEA THAT YOU ARE A GREAT AND STRONG PERSONALITY, OR ACCORDING TO THE IDEA THAT YOU ARE LIMITED, COMMON, OR WEAK. IF THE LATTER IS THE CASE YOU MUST CHANGE YOUR CENTRAL IDEA. GET NEW MENTAL PICTURE OF YOURSELF. DO NOT TRY TO BECOME GREAT BY REPEATING MERE STRINGS OF WORDS OR SUPERFICIAL FORMULA, BUT REPEAT OVER AND OVER THE THOUGHT OF YOUR OWN POWER AND ABILITY UNTIL YOU CLASSIFY EXTERNAL FACTS, AND DECIDE YOUR PLACE EVERYWHERE BY THIS IDEA.

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THINK DIFFERENT

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           TURN BACK TO CHAPTER 6 AND READ AGAIN THE STORY OF THE MAN WHO FORMED A MENTAL IMAGE OF HIS HOUSE, AND YOU WILL GET A FAIR IDEA OF THE INITIAL STEP TOWARD GETTING RICH, YOU MUST FORM A CLEAR AND DEFINITE MENTAL PICTURE OF WHAT YOU WANT, YOU CANNOT TRANSMIT AN IDEA UNLESS YOU HAVE IT YOURSELF.

            YOU MUST HAVE IT BEFORE YOU CAN GIVE IT, AND MANY PEOPLE FAIL TO IMPRESS THINKING SUBSTANCE BECAUSE THEY HAVE THEMSELVES ONLY A VAGUE AND MISTY CONCEPT OF THE THINGS THEY WANT TO DO, TO HAVE, OR TO BECOME.

          IT IS NOT ENOUGHT THAT YOU SHOULD HAVE A GENERAL DESIRE FOR WEALTH TO DO GOOD WITH, EVERYBODY HAS THAT DESIRE.

          IT IS NOT ENOUGH THAT YOU SHOULD HAVE A WISH TO TRAVEL, SEE THINGS, LIVE MORE, AND ENJOY LIFE. EVERYBODY HAS THOSE DESIRES ALSO. IF YOU WERE GOING TO SEND A MESSAGE TO A FRIEND, YOU WOULD NOT SEND THE LETTERS OF THE ALPHABET IN THEIR ORDER, AND LET YOUR FRIEND CONSTRUCT THE MESSAGE FOR HIM OR HERSELF, NOR WOULD YOU TAKE WORDS AT RANDOM FROM THE DICTIONARY. YOU WOULD SEND A COHERENT SENTENCES, ONE WHICH MEANT SOMETHING. WHEN YOU TRY TO IMPRESS YOUR WANTS UPON SUBSTANCE, REMEMBER THAT IT MUST BE DONE BY A COHERENT STATEMENT, YOU MUST KNOW WHAT YOU WANT, AND BE DEFINITE. YOU CAN NEVER GET RICH, OR START THE CREATIVE POWER INTO ACTION, BY SENDING OUT UNFORMED LONGINGS AND VAGUE DESIRES.

           GO OVER YOUR DESIRES JUST AS THAT MAN WENT OVER HIS HOUSE, SEE WHAT YOU WANT, AND GET CLEAR MENTAL PICTURE OF IT AS YOU WISH IT LOOK WHEN YOU GET IT.

         THAT CLEAR MENTAL PICTURE YOU MUST HAVE CONTINUALLY IN MIND, AS THE SAILOR HAS IN MIND THE PORT TOWARD WHICH THE SHIP IS SAILING. YOU MUST KEEP YOUR FACE TOWARD IT ALL THE TIME. YOU MUST NO MORE LOSE SIGHT OF IT THAN THE STEERSMAN LOSES SIGHT OF THE COMPASS.

             IT IS NOT NECESSARY TO TAKE EXERCISE IN CONCENTRATION OR SET APART SPECIAL TIMES FOR PRAYER AND AFFIRMATION, OR TO GO INTO THE SILENCE, OR TO DO OCCULT STUNTS OF ANY KIND. THESE THINGS ARE WELL ENOUGH, BUT ALL YOU NEED IS TO KNOW WHAT YOU WANT, AND TO WANT IT BADLY ENOUGH SO THAT IT WILL STAY IN YOUR THOUGHTS.

            SPEND AS MUCH OF YOUR LEISURE TIME AS YOU CAN IN CONTEMPLATING YOUR PICTURE, BUT IT IS NOT NECESSARY TO TAKE EXERCISE TO CONCENTRATE YOUR MIND ON A THING THAT YOU REALLY WANT. HOWEVER, IT REQUIRES REAL EFFORT TO FIX YOUR ATTENTION UPON THE THINGS YOU DO NOT REALLY CARE ABOUT.

          UNLESS YOUR DESIRE TO GET RICH IS STRNG ENOUGH TO HOLD YOUR THOUGHTS DIRECTED TO THE PURPOSE IT WILL HARDLY BE WORTHWHILE FOR YOU TO TRY TO CARRY OUT THE INSTRUCTIONS GIVEN IN THIS CHAPTER. THE  METHODS SET FORTH ARE FOR PEOPLE WHOSE DESIRE FOR RICHES IS STRONG ENOUGH TO OVERCOME MENTAL LAZINESS AND THE LOVE OF EASE, AND MAKE THEM WORK.

         THE MORE CLEAR AND DEFINITE YOU MAKE YOUR PICTURE  THEN, AND THE MORE YOU DWELL UPON IT, BRINGING OUT ALL ITS DELIGHTFUL DETAILS, THE STRONGER YOUR DESIRE WILL BE. THE STRONGER YOUR DESIRE, THE EASIER IT WILL BE GOLD YOUR MIND FIXED UPON THE PICTURE OF WHAT YOU WANT.

          ENGAGE YOUR SUBCONSCIOUS MIND. KEEP SAYING, I AM PROSPERING EVERY DAY, I AM GROWING WEALTH AND IN WISDOM EVERY DAY, EVERY DAY WEALTH IS MULTIPLYING, I AM ADVANCING, GROWING, AND MOVING FORWARD FINANCIALLY, OUR SUBCONSCIOUS MIND ACCEPT AS TRUE.

           

SOMETHING MORE IS NECESSARY, HOWEVER, THAN MERELY TO SEE THE PICTURE CLEARLY. IF THAT IS ALL YOU DO, YOU ARE ONLY A DREAMER, AND WILL HAVE LITTLE OR NO POWER FOR ACCOMPLISHMENT. BEHIND YOUR CLEAR VISION MUST BE THE PURPOSE TO REALIZE IT- TO BRING IT OUT IN TANGIBLE EXPRESSION. 

 

AND BEHIND THIS PURPOSE MUST BEAN INVINCIBLE  AND UNWAVERING FAITH THAT THE THING IS ALREADY YOURS, THAT IT IS AT HAND AND YOU HAVE ONLY TO TAKE POSSESSION OF IT. LIVE IN THE NEW HOUSE, MENTALLY, UNTIL IT TAKES FORM AROUND YOU PHYSICALLY. IN THE MENTAL REALM, ENTE AT ONCE INTO FULL ENJOYMENT OF THE THINGS YOU WANT. 

SEE THE THINGS YOU WANT AS IF THEY WERE ACTUALLY AROUND YOU ALL THE TIME, SEE YOURSELF AS OWNING AND USING THEM. MAKE USE OF THEM IN IMAGINATION JUST AS YOU WILL USE THEM WHEN THEY ARE YOUR TANGIBLE POSSESSIONS. DWELL UPON YOUR MENTAL ATTITUDE OF OWNERSHIP TOWARD EVERYTHING IN THAT PICTURE. TAKE POSSESSION OF IT, IN MIND, IN THE FULL FAITH THAT IT IS ACTUALLY YOURS. HOLD TO THIS MENTAL OWNERSHIP, DO NOT WAIVER FOR AN INSTANT  IN THE FAITH THAT IT IS REAL.

THE STORY IS TOLD OF JOHN W.GATES AND HIS PERFECT MANIFESTATION OF THIS PRINCIPLE. HE CAME TO SAN ANTONIO AS THE AGENT OF A BARBED WIRE COMPANY, AND SAW THE GREAT POSSIBILITIES IN TEXAS. HE EXPRESSED HIS BELIEF TO AN OLD RESIDENT OF SAN ANTONIO THIS OLD CITIZEN WAS COMPLAINING THAT HE COULD ONLY JUST MAKE A LIVING HERE. MAKE A LIVING,! SAID GATES. ANY MAN CAN GET RICH HERE IN TEN YEARS AND I HAVE NOT GOT RICH, PERHAPS NOT, REMARKED GATES WEALTH DOES NOT HUNT ONE UP AND SPRING FROM SOME UNSEEN ANGLE. ONE HAS TO KEEP COSTANTLY ON THE TRAIL, AND SINCE THER ARE SO MANY TRAILS LEADING IN THE RIGHT DERECTION IN TEXAS, AND SINCE THERE ARE SO MANY TRAILS LEADING IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION IN TEXAS IF YOU WILL KEEP AN EYE ON ME I'LL SHOW YOU HOW THE TRICKS IS TURNED.

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GREAT THINGS ARE HAPPEN

                  GREAT THINGS ARE HAPPEN ONLY OUR THOUGHTS

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                 GREATNESS IS ATTAINED ONLY BY THE THINKING OF GREAT THOUGHTS. WE CAN NEVER BECOME GREAT IN OUTWARD PERSONALITY UNLESS WE ARE GREAT INTERNALLY, AND WE CANNOT BE GREAT INTERNALLY UNTIL WE THINK. NO AMOUNT OF EDUCATION, READING, OR STUDY CAN MAKE YOU GREAT WITHOUT THOUGHT, BUT THOUGHT CAN MAKE GREAT WITH VERY LITTLE STUDY. THERE ARE ALTOGETHER TOO MANY PEOPLE WHO ARE TRYING TO MAKE SOMETHING OF THEMSELVES BY READING BOOKS WITHOUT THINKING. ALL SUCH WILL FAILL. YOU ARE NOT MENTALLY DEVELOPED BY WHAT YOU READ, BUT BY WHAT YOU THINK ABOUT WHAT YOU READ.

                 THINKING IS THE HARDEST AND MOST EXHAUSTING OF ALL LABOR AND HENCE MANY PEOPLE SHRINK FROM IT. GOD HAS SO FORMED US THAT WE ARE CONTINUOUSLY IMPELLED TO THOUGHT.  WE MUST EITHER THINK OR ENGAGE IN SOME ACTIVITY TO ESCAPE THOUGHT. THE HEADLONG, CONTINUOS CHASE FOR PLEASURE IN WHICH MOST PEOPLE SPEND ALL THEIR LEISURE TIME IS ONLY AN EFFORT TO ESCAPE THOUGHT. IF THEY ARE ALONE, OR IF THEY HAVE NOTHING AMUSING TO TAKE THEIR ATTENTION, AS A NOVEL TO READ OR A SHOW TO SEE, THEY MUST THINK, AND TO ESCAPE FROM THINKING THEY RESORT TO SEE, THEY MUST THINK, AND TO ESCAPE FROM THINKING THEY RESORT TO NOVELS, TELEVISIONS SIT-COMS, AND ALL THE ENDLESS DEVICES OF THE PURVEYORS OF AMUSEMENT. MOST PEOPLE SPEND THE GREATER PART OF THEIR LEISURE TIME RUNNING AWAY FORM THOUGHT, HENCE THEY ARE WHERE THEY ARE. WE NEVER MOVE FORWARD UNTIL WE BEGIN TO THINK.

THINKING, NOT MERE KNOWLEDGE OR INFORMATION MAKES PERSONALITY. THINKING IS GROWTH, YOU CANNOT THINK WIHOUT GROWING. EVERY THOUGHT ENGENDERS ANOTHER THOUGHT. WRITE ONE IDEA AND OTHERS WILL FOLLOW UNTIL YOU HAVE WRITTEN A PAGE, YOU CANNOT FATHOM YOUR OWN MIND, IT HAS NEITHER BOTTOM A PAGE. YOU CANNOT FATHOM YOUR OWN MIND, IT HAS NEITHER BOTTOM NOR BOUNDARIES. YOUR FIRST THOUGHT MAY BE CRUDE, BUT AS YOU GO ON THINKING YOU WILL USE MORE AND MORE OF YOURSELF, YOU WILL QUIKEN NEW BRAIN CELLS INTO ACTIVITY AND YOU WILL DEVELOP NEW FACULTIES. HEREDITY, ENVIRONMENT, CIRCUMSTANCE - ALL THINGS MUST GIVE WAY BEFORE YOU IF YOU PRACTICE SUSTAINED AND CONTINUED THOUGHT. BUT, ON THE OTHER HAND, IF YOU NEGLACE TO THINK FOR YOURSELF AND ONLY USE OTHER PEPLE'S THOUGHT, YOU WILL NEVER KNOW WHAT YOU ARE CAPABLE OF, AND YOU WILL END BY BEING INCAPABLE OF ANYTHING.

THERE CAN BE NO REAL GREATNESS WITHOUT ORIGINAL THOUGHT. ALL THAT WE DO OUTWARDLY IS THE EXPRESSION AND COMPLETION OF OUR INWARD THINKING. NO ACTION IS POSSIBLE WITHOUT THOUGHT, AND NO GREAT ACTION IS POSSIBLE UNTIL A GREAT THOUGHT HAS PRECEEDED IT. ACTION IS THE SECOND FORM OF THOUGHT, AND PERSONALITY IS THE MATERIALIZATION OF THOUGHT. ENVIRONMENT IS THE RESULT OF THOUGHT, THINGS GROUP THEMSELVES OR ARRAGE THEMSELVES AROUND YO ACCORDING TO YOUR THOUGHT. THERE IS SOME CONTRAL IDEA OR CONCEPTION OF YOURSELF BY WHICH ALL THE FACTS OF YOUR LIFE ARE ARRANGED AND CLASSIFIED. CHANGE THIS CENTRAL IDEA AND YOU CHANGE THE ARRAGEMENT AND CLASSIFICATION OF ALL THE FACTS AND CIRCUMSTANCES OF YOUR LIFE. YOU ARE WHAT YOU ARE BECAUSE YOU THINK AS YOU DO. YOU ARE WHERE YOU ARE BECAUSE YOU THINK AS YOU DO.

YOU SEE THEN THE IMMENSE IMPORTANCE OF THINKING ABOUT THE GREAT ESSENTIALS SET FORTH IN THE PRECEDING CHAPTERS. YOU MUST NOT ACCEPT THEM IN ANY SUPERFICIAL WY, YOU MUST THINK ABOUT THEM UNTIL THEY ARE A PART OF YOUR CENTRAL IDEA. GO BACK TO THE MATTE OF THE POINT OF VIEW AND CONSIDER, IN ALL ITS BEARINGS, THE TREMENDOUS THOUGHT THAT YOU LIVE IN A PERFECT WORLD AMONG PERFECT PEOPLE, AND THAT NOTHING, CAN POSSIBLY BE WRONG WITH YOU BUT YOUR OWN PERSONAL ATTITUDE. THINK ABOUT ALL THIS UNTIL YOU FULLY REALIZE ALL THAT IT MEANS TO YOU. CONSIDER THAT THIS IS GOD'S WORLD AND THAT IT IS THE BEST OF ALL POSSIBLE WORLDS. HE HAS BROUGHT IT THUS FAR TOWARD COMPLETION BY THE PROCESSESS OF ORGANIC, SOCIAL, AND INDUSTRIAL EVOLUTION, AND THAT IT IS GOING ON TO GREATER COMPLETENESS AND HARMONY. CONSIDER THAT THERE IS ONE GREAT, PERFECT, INTELLIGENT PRINCIPLES OF LIFE AND POWER, CAUSING ALL THE CHANGING PHENOMENA OF THE COSMOS. THINK ABOUT ALL THIS UNTIL YOU SEE THAT IT IS TRUE, AND UNTIL YOU COMPREHEND HOW YOU SHOULD LIVE AND ACT AS A CITIZEN OF SUCH A PERFECT WHOLE.

NEXT, THINK OF THW WONDERFUL TRUTH THAT THIS GREAT INTELLIGENCE IS IN YOU.  IT IS YOUR OWN INTELLEGENCE, IT IS AN INNER LIGHT IMPELLING YOU TOWARD THE RIGHT THING AND THE BEST THING, THE GREATEST ACT, AND THE HIGHEST HAPPINESS. IT IS A PRINCIPLE OF POWER INYOU, GIVING YOU ALL THE ABILITY AND GENIUS THERE IS. I WILL INFALLIBLY GUIDE YOU TO THE BEST IF YOU WILL SUBMIT TO IT AND WALK IN THE LIGHT. CONSIDER WHAT IS MEANT BY YOUR CONSECRATION OF YOURSELF WHEN YOU SAY, I WILL OBEY MY SOUL, THIS IS A  SENTENCES OF TREMENDOUS MEANING, IT MUST REVOLUTIONIZE THE ATTITUDE AND BEHAVIOUR OF THE AVERAGE PERSON.

                            HENRY FORD WAS ONE OF THE GREAT INNOVATORS OF MODERN TIMES. NOT ONLY DID HE MAKE IT POSSIBLE FOR MOST EVERYONE TO OWN AN AUTOMOBILE, BUT BY MAKING THE MOST OF THE INTELLIGENCE GOD GAVE HIM, HE REVOLUTIONIZED THE ENTIRE SYSTEM OF MANUFACTURING BY INTRODUCING THE MASS PRODUCTION SYSTEM.

                  JUST AS FORD REVOLUTIONIZED MANUFACTURING, STEVE JOBS REVOLUTIONEZED THE COMPUTER INDUSTRY, WHEN HE FOUNDED APPLE COMPUTER, HIS IDEA TO CREATE A PERSONAL COMPUTER THAT WOULD BE USED BY SMALL BUSINESS AND BY INDIVIDUALS IN THEIR HOMES. MOST EXPERTS IN THE FIELD SCOFFED AT THIS IDEA. AFTER ALL, COMPUTER WERE TOO COMPLEX FOR ANY BUT TECHNOCRATS TO UNDERSTAND AND OPERATE. BUT STEVE LISTENED TO HIS "INNER LIGHT" AND PERSISTED, OPENING A WHOLE NEW VISTA IN THE COMPUTER FIELD.

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THINK NOW

                                       YOUR ARE ALREADY REACHED 

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            DO NOT MERELY THINK THAT YOU ARE GOING TO BECOME GREAT, THINK THAT YOU ARE GREAT NOW. DO NOT THINK THAT YOU WILL BEGIN TO ACT IN A GREAT WAY AT SOME FUTURE TIME, BEGIN NOW. DO NOT THINK THAT YOU WILL ACT IN A GREAT WAY WHEN YOU REACH IN DIFFERENT ENVIRONMENT, ACT IN A GREAT WAY WHERE YOU ARE NOW. DO NOT THINK THAT YOU WILL BEGIN TO ACT IN A GREAT WAY WHEN YOU BEGIN TO DEAL WITH GREAT THINGS, BEGIN TO DEAL IN A GREAT WAY WITH SMALL THINGS. DO NOT THINK THAT YOU WILL BEGIN TO BE GREAT WHEN YOU GET AMONG MORE INTELLIGENT PEOPLE, OR AMONG PEOPLE WHO UNDERSTAND YOU BETTER, BEGIN NOW TO DEAL IN A GREAT WAY WITH THE PEOPLE AROUND YOU.

              IF YOU ARE NOT IN AN ENVIRONMENT WHERE THERE IS SCOPE FOR YOUR BEST POWERS AND TALENTS YOU CAN MOVE IN DUE TIME, BUT MEANWHILE YOU CAN BE GREAT WHERE YOU ARE. LINCOLN WAS AS GREAT WHEN HE WAS A BACKWOODS LAWYER AS WHEN HE WAS PRESIDENT. AS A BACKWOODS LAWYER HE DID COMMON THINGS IN A GREAT WAY, AND THAT MADE HIM PRESIDENT. HAD HE WAITED UNTIL HE REACHED WASHINGTON TO BEGIN TO BE GREAT, HE WOULD HAVE REMAINED UNKNOWN, YOU ARE NOT MADE GREAT BY THE LOCATION IN WHICH YOU HAPPEN TO BE, OR BY THE THINGS WITH WHICH YOU MAY  SURROUND YOURSELF. YOU ARE NOT MADE GREAT BY WHAT YOU RECEIVE FROM OTHERS, AND YOU CAN NEVER MANIFEST GREATNESS SO LONG AS YOU DEPEND ON OTHERS. YOU WILL MANIFEST GREATNESS SO LONG AS YOU DEPEND ON OTHERS. YOU WILL MANIFEST GREATNESS ONLY WHEN YOU BEGIN TO STAND ALONE. DISMUSS ALL THOUGHT OF RELIANCE ON EXTERNALS, WHETHER THINGS, BOOKS, OR PEOPLE. AS EMERSON SAID, SHAKEPEARE WILL NEVER BE MADE BY THE STUDY OF SHAKEPEARE, SHAKEPEARE WILL MADE ONLY BE THE THINKING OF SHAKEPEAREAN THOUGHTS.

              NEVER MIND HOW THE PEOPLE AROUND YOU, INCLUDING THOSE OF YOUR OWN HOUSEHOLD, MAY TREAT YOU. THAT HAS NOTHING AT ALL TO DO WITH YOUR BEING, THAT IS, IT CANNOT HINDER YOU FROM BEING GREAT. PEOPLE MAY NEGLECT YOU AND BE UNTHANKFUL AND UNKIND IN THEIR ATTITUDE TOWARD YOU. DOES THAT PREVENT  YOU FROM BEING GREAT IF IN YOUR MANNER AND ATTITUDE TOWARD THEM? WOULD GOD BE GREAT IF HE SHOULD GO AWAY AND SULK BECAUSE PEOPLE WERE UNTHANKFUL AND DID NOT APPRECIATE HIM? TREAT THE UNTHANKFUL AND THE EVIL IN A GREAT AND PERFECTLY KIND WAY, JUST AS GOD DOES.

              DO NOT TALK ABOUT YOUR GREATNESS. YOU ARE REALLY, IN ESSENTIAL NATURE, NO GREATER THAN THOSE GREATNESS. YOU MAY HAVE ENTERED UPON A WAY OF LIVING AND THINKING WHICH THEY HAVE NOT YET FOUND, BUT THEY ARE PERFECT ON THEIR OWN PLANE OF THOUGHT AND ACTION. YOU ARE ENTITLED TO NO SPECIAL HONOR OR CONDISERATION FOR YOUR GREATNESS. YOUR ARE A GOD, BUT YOU ARE AMONG GODS. YOU WILL FALL INTO THE BOATFUL ATTITIDE IF YOU SEE OTHER PEOPLE'S SHORTCOMINGS AND FAILURES AND COMPARE THEM WITH YOUR OWN VIRTUES AND SUCCESSES. IF YOU FALL INTO THE BOASTFUL OF MIND, YOU WILL CEASE TO BE GREAT, AND BECOME AND MEET EVERY PERSON AS AS EQUAL, NOT AS EITHER A SUPERIOR OR AN INFERIOR. GIVE YOURSELF NO AIRS, GREAT PEOPLE NEVER DO. ASK NO HONORS AND SECK FOR NO RECOGNITION, HONORS AND RECOGNITION WILL COME FAST ENOUGH IF YOU ARE ENTITLED TO THEM.

BEGIN AT HOME. IT IS A GREAT PERSON WHO CAN ALWAYS BE POISED, ASSURED, CALM, AND PERFECTLY KIND AND CONSIDERATE AT HOME. IF YOUR MANNER AND ATTITUDE IN YOUR OWN FAMILY ARE ALWAYS THE BEST YOU CAN THINK, YOU WILL SOON BECOME THE ONE OF WHOM ALL THE OTHERS WILL RELY. YOU WILL SOON BECOME THE ONE ON WHOM ALL THE OTHERS WILL RELY. YOU WILL BE A TOWER OF STRENGTH AND A SUPPRT IN TIME OF TROUBLE. YOU WILL BE LOVED AND APPRECIATED. AT THE SAME TIME DO NOT MAKE THE MISTAKE OF THROWING YOURSELF AWAY IN THE SERVICE OF OTHERS. GREAT PEOPLE RESPECT THEMSELVES, THEY SERVE AND HELP, BUT ARE NEVER SLAVISHLY SERVILE. YOU CANNOT HELP YOUR FAMILY BY BEING A SLAVE TO THEM, OR BY DOING FOR THEM THOSE THINGS THAT BY RIGHT THEY ON THEM TOO MUCH. THE SELFISH AND EXACTING ARE A GREAT DEAL BETTER OFF IF THEIR EXACTIONS ARE DENIED. THE IDEAL WORLD IS NOT ONE WHERE THERE ARE A LOT OF PEOPLE BEING WAITED ON BY OTHER PEOPLE. IT IS A WORLD WHERE ALL OF US MUST WAIT ON OURSELVES. MEET ALL DEMANDS, SELFISH AND OTHERWISE, WITH PERFECT KINDNESS AND CONSIDERATION, BUT DO NOT ALLOW YOURSELF TO BE MADE A SLAVE TO THE WHIMS, CAPRICES, EXACTIONS, OR SLAVISH DESIRES OF ANY MEMBER OF YOUR FAMILY. TO DO SO IS NOT GREAT, AND IT INJURES THE OTHER PARTY.

DO NOT BECOME UNEASY OVER THE FAILURES OR MISTAKES OF ANY MEMBER OF YOUR FAMILY AND FEEL THAT YOU MUST INTERFERE. DO NOT BE DISTURBED IF OTHERS SEEM TO BE GOING WRONG, AND FEEL THAT YOU MUST STEP IN AND SET THEM RIGHT. REMEMBER THAT EVERY PERSON IS PERFECT ON HIS OR HER OWN PLANE. YOU CANNOT IMPROVE ON THE WORK OF GOD. DO NOT MEDDLE WITH THE PERSONAL HABITS AND PRACTICES OF OTHERS, THOUGH THEY ARE YOUR NEAREST AND DEAREST, THESE THINGS ARE NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS.  NOTHING CAN BE WRONG BUT YOUR OWN PERSONAL ATTITUDE, MAKE THAT RIGHT AND YOU WILL KNOW THAL ALL ELSE IS RIGHT. 

YOU ARE A TRULY GREAT SOUL WHEN YOU CAN LIVE WITH THOSE WHO DO THINGS THAT YOU DO NOT DO, AND YET REFRAIN FORM EITHER CRITISM OR INTERFERENCE. DO THE THINGS THAT ARE RIGHT FOR YOU TO DO, AND BELIEVE THAT ALL MEMBERS OF YOUR FAMILY ARE DOING THE THINGS THAT ARE RIGHT FOR THEM. DO NOT BE ENSLAVE BY ANYONE ELSE, BUT BE JUST AS CAREFUL THAT YOU DO NOT ENSLAVE ENYONE ELSE TO YOUR OWN NOTIONS OF WHAT IS RIGHT.

THINK, AND THINK DEEPLY AND CONTINUOUSLY, BE PERFECT IN YOUR KINDNESS AND CONSIDERATION. LET YOUR ATTITUDE BE THAT OF A GOD AMONG GODS, AND NOT THAT OF A GOD AMONG INFERIOR BEINGS. THIS IS THE WAY TO BE GREAT IN YOUR OWN HOME.

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