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.

             

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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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GRATITUDE

                                                    STAY GRATITUDE

                THE WHOLE PROCESS OF MENTAL ADJUSTMENT AND ATONEMENT CAN BE SUMMED UP IN ONE WORD, GRATITUDE.

                FIRST, YOU BELIEVE THAT THERE IS ONE INTELLIGENT SUBSTANCE, FROM WHICH ALL THINGS PROCEED, SECOND, YOU BELIEVE THAT THIS SUBSTANCE GIVES YOU EVERYTHING YOU DESIRE, AND THIRD, YOU RELATE YOURSELF TO IT BY A FEELING OF DEEP AND PROFOUND GRATITUDE.

              MANY PEOPLE WHO ORDER THEIR LIVES RIGHTLY IN ALL OTHER WAYS ARE KEPT IN POVERTY BY THEIR LACK OF GRATITUDE. HAVING RECEIVED ONE GIFT FROM GOD, THEY CUT THE WIRES THAT CONNECT THEM WITH HIM BY FAILING TO MAKE ACKNOWLEDGEMENT.

              IT IS EASY TO UNDERSTAND THAT THE NEARER WE LIVE TO THE SOURCE OF WEALTH, THE MORE WEALTH WE SHALL RECEIVE. IT IS ALSO EASY TO UNDERSTAND THAT THE SOUL THAT IS ALWAYS GRATEFUL LIVES IN CLOSER TOUCH WITH GOD THAN THE ONE THAT NEVER LOOKS TO HIM IN THANKFUL ACKNOWLEDGMENT. 

             THE MORE GRATEFULLY WE FIX OUR MINDS ON THE SUPREME WHEN GOOD THINGS COME TO US, THE MORE GOOD THINGS WE WILL RECEIVE, AND THE MORE RAPIDLY THEY WILL COME. THE REASON SIMPLY IS THAT THE MENTAL ATTITUDE OF GRATITUDE DRAWS THE MIND INTO CLOSER TOUCH WITH THE SOURCE FROM WHICH THE BLESSINGS COM.

              IF IT IS A NEW THOUGHT TO YOU THAT GRATITUDE BRINGS YOUR WHOLE MIND INTO CLOSER HARMONY WITH THE CREATIVE ENERGIES OF THE UNIVERSE, CONSIDER IT WELL, AND YOU WILL SEE THAT IT IS TRUE. THE GOOD THINGS YOU ALREADY POSSESS HAVE COME TO YOU ALONG THE LINE OF OBEDIENCE TO CERTAIN LAWS. GRATITUDE WILL LEAD YOUR MIND OUT ALONG THE WAYS BY WHICH THINGS COME, AND IT WILL KEEP YOU IN CLOSE HARMONY WITH CREATIVE THOUGHT AND PREVENT YOU FROM FAILING INTO COMPETITIVE THOUGHT.

           

GRATITUDE ALONE CAN KEEP YOU LOOKING TOWARD THE ALL, AND PREVENT YOU FROM FALLING INTO THE ERROR OF THINKING OF THE SUPPLY AS LIMITED, AND TO DO THAT WOULD BE FATAL TO YOUR HOPES. THERE IS A LAW OF GRATITUDE IS THE NATURAL PRINCIPLE THAT ACTION AND REACTION ARE ALWAYS EQUAL, AND IN OPPOSITE DIRECTIONS. THE GRATEFUL OUTREACHING OF YOUR MIND IN THANKFUL PRAISE TO THE SUPREME IS A LIBERATION OR EXPENDITURE OR FORCE. IT CANNOT FAIL TO REACH THAT TO WHICH IT ADDRESSED, AND THE REACTION IS AN INSTANTANEOUS MOVEMENT TOWARD YOU.

DRAW NIGH UNTO GOD, AND HE WILL DRAW NIGH UNTO YOU, THAT IS A STATEMENT OF PSYCHOLOGICAL TRUTH. AND IF YOUR GRATITUDE IS STRONG AND CONSTANT, THE REACTION IN DIVINE SUBSTANCE WILL BE STRONG AND CONTINUOUS, THE MOVEMENT OF THE THINGS YOU WANT WILL BE ALWAYS TOWARD YOU. YOU CANNOT EXERCISE MUCH POWER WITHOUT GRATITUDE, FOR IT IS GRATITUDE THAT KEEPS YOU CONNECTED WITH POWER.

BUT THE VALUE OF GRATITUDE DOES NOT CONSIST SOLELY IN GETTING YOU MORE BLESSSINGS IS THE FUTURE. WITHOUT GRATITUDE YOU CANNOT LONG KEEP FROM DISSATISFIED THOUGHT REGARDING THINGS AS THEY ARE. THE MOVEMENT YOU PERMIT YOUR MIND TO DWELL WITH DISSATISFACTION UPON THINGS AS THEY ARE, YOU BEGIN TO LOE GROUND. YOU FIX  ATTENTION UPON THE COMMON, THE ORDINARY, THE POOR, AND THE SQUALID AND MEAN, AND YOUR MIND TAKES THE FORM OF THESE THINGS. THEN YOU WILL TRANSMIT THESE FORMS OR MENTAL IMAGES TO THE DIVINE, AND THE COMMON, THE POOR, THE SQUALID, THE MEAN WILL COME TO YOU.

TO PERMIT YOUR MIND TO DWELL UPON THE INFERIOR IS TO BECOME INFERIOR AND TO SURROUND YOURSELF WITH INDERIOR THINGS. ON THE OTHER HAND, TO FIX YOUR ATTENTION ON THE BEST IS TO SURROUND YOURSELF WITH THE BEST, AND TO BECOME THE BEST, THE CREATIVE POWER WITHING US MAKES US INTO IMAGE OF THAT TO WHICH WE GIVE OUR ATTENTION. WE ARE THINKING SUBSTANCE, AND THINKING SUBSTANCE ALWAYS TAKES THE FORM OF THAT WHICH IT THINKS ABOUT. THE GRATEFUL MIND IS CONSTANTLY FIXED UPON THE BEST, THEREFORE IT TENDS TO BECOME THE BEST, IT TAKES THE FORM OR CHARACTER OF THE BEST, AND WILL RECEIVE THE BEST.

ALSO, FAITH IS BORN OF GRATITUDE. THE GRATEFUL MIND CONTINUALLY EXPECTS GOOD THINGS, AND EXPECTATION BECOMES FAITH. THE REACTION OF GRATITUDE UPON ONE'S OWN MIND PRODUCES FAITH, AND EVERY OUTGOING WAVE OF GRATEFUL THANKSGIVING INCREASES FAITH. AND EVERY OUTGOING WAVE OF GRATEFUL THANKSGIVING INCREASES FAITH. IF YOU HAVE NO FEELING OF GRATITUDE, YOU CANNOT GET RICH BY THE CREATIVE METHOD, AS WE SHALL SEE IN THE FOLLOWING CHAPTERS.

IT IS NECESSARY, THEN, TO CULTIVATE THE HABIT OF BEING GRATEFUL FOR EVERY GOOD THING THAT COMES TO YOU AND TO GIVE THANKS CONTINUOUSLY. AND BECAUSE ALL THINGS HAVE CONTRIBUTED TO YOUR ADVANCEMENT, YOU SHOULD INCLUDE ALL THINGS IN YOUR GRATITUDE. DO NOT WAST TIME THINKING OR TALKING ABOUT THE SHORTCOMINGS ORGANISATION OF THE WORLD HAS MADE YOUR OPPORTUNITY, ALL YOU GET REALLY COMES TO YOU BECAUSE OF THEM. 

DO NOT RAGE AGAINST, CORRUPT POLITICIANS, IF IT WERE NOT FOR POLITICIANS WE SHOULD FALL INTO ANARCHY, AND YOUR OPPORTUNITY WOULD BE GREATLY LESSENTED. GOD HAS WORKED A LONG TIME AND VERY PATIENTLY TO BRING US UP TO WHERE WE ARE IN INDUSTRY AND GOVERNMENT, AND HE IS GOING RIGHT ON WITH HIS WORK. THERE IS NOT THE LEAST DOUBT THAT HE WILL DO AWAY WITH PLUTOCRATS, CAPTAINS OF INDUSTRY, AND POLITICIANS AS SOON AS THEY CAN BE SPARED, BUT IN THE MEANTIME, BEHOLD THEY ARE ALL VERY GOOD. REMEMBER THAT THEY ARE ALL HELPING TO ARRAGE THE LINES OF TRANSMISSION ALONG WHICH YOUR RICHES WILL COME TO YOU, AND BE GRATEFUL TO THEM ALL. THIS WILL BRING YOU INTO HARMONIOUS RELATIONS WITH THE GOOD IN EVERYTHING, AND  THE GOOD IN EVERYTHING WILL MOVE TOWARD YOU.

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THE WAY TO GETTING RICH

                                                  THINK CERTAIN WAY

                     THOUGHT IS THE CREATIVE POWER, OR THE IMPELLING FORCE THAT CAUSES THE CREATIVE POWER TO ACT. THINKING IN A CERTAIN WAY WILL BRING RICHES TO YOU, BUT YOU MUST NOT RELY UPON THOUGHT ALONE, PAYING NO ATTENTION TO PERSONAL ACTION. THAT IS THE ROCK UPON WHICH MANY OTHERWISE SCIENTIFIC METAPHYSICAL THINKERS MEET SHIPWRECK-THE FAILURE TO CONNECT THOUGHT WITH PERSONAL ACTION.

                 WE HAVE NOT YET REACHED THE STAGE OF DEVELOPMENT, EVEN SUPPOSING SUCH A STAGE TO BE POSSIBLE, IN WHICH WE CAN CREATE DIRECTLY FROM DIVINE SUBSTANCE WITHOUT NATURE'S PROCESSESS OR THE WORK OF HUMAN HANDS. WE MUST NOT ONLY THINK, BUT OUR PERSONAL ACTION MUST SUPPLEMENT OUR THOUGHT.

              BY THOUGHT YOU CAN CAUSE THE GOLD IN THE HEARTS OF THE MOUNTAINS TO BE IMPELLED TOWARD YOU, BUT IT WILL NOT MINE ITSELF, REFINE ITSELF, COIN ITSELF INTO DOUBLE EAGLES, AND COME ROLLING ALONG THE ROADS SEEKING ITS WAY INTO YOUR POCKET.

          UNDER THE IMPELLING POWER OF THE SUPREME SPIRIT, YOUR AFFAIRS WILL BE SO ORDERED THAT SOMEONE WILL BE LET TO MINE THE GOLD FOR YOU. OTHER PEOPLE'S BUSINESS TRANSACTIONS WILL BE SO DIRECTED THAT THE GOLD WILL BE BROUGHT TOWARD YOU, AND YOU MUST SO ARRAGE YOUR OWN BUSINESS AFFAIRS THAT YOU MAY BE ABLE TO RECEIVE IT WHEN IT COMES TO YOU. YOUR THOUGHTS MAKES ALL THINGS, ANIMATE AND INANIMATE, WORK TO BRING YOU WHAT YOU WANT, HOWEVER, YOUR PERSONAL ACTIVITY MUST BE SUCH THAT YOU CAN RIGHTLY RECEIVE WHAT YOU WANT IT REACHES YOU. YOU ARE NOT TO TAKE IT AS CHARITY, NOR TO STEAL IT.YOU MUST GIVE OTHERS MORE IN USE VALUE THAN THEY GIVE YOU IN CASH VALUE.

THE SCIENTIFI USE OF THOUGHT CONSISTS IN FORMING A CLEAR AND DISTINCT MENTAL IMAGE OF WHAT YOU WANT BY HOLDING FAST TO THE PURPOSE TO GET WHAT YOU WANT, AND IN REALIZING WITH GRATEFUL FAITH THAT YOU DO GET WHAT YOU WANT.

DO NOT  TRY TO "PROJECT" YOUR THOUGHT IN ANY MYSTERIOUS OR OCCULT WAY, WITH THE IDEA OF HAVING IT GO OUR AND DO THINGS FOR YOU. THAT IS WASTED EFFORT, AND WILL WEAKEN YOUR POWER TO THINK WITH SANITY. THE ACTION OS THOUGHT IN GETTING RICH IS FULLY EXPLAINED IN THE PRECEDING CHAPTERS. YOUR FAITH AND PURPOSE POSITIVELY IMPRESS YOUR VISION UPON DIVINE SUBSTANCE, WHICH HAS THE SAME DESIRE FOR MORE LIFE THAT YOU HAVE,AND THIS VISION, RECEIVED FROM YOU, SETS ALL THE CREATIVE FORCES AT WORK IN AND THROUGH THEIR REGULAR CHANNELS OF ACTION, BUT DIRECTED TOWARD YOU.

IT IS NOT YOUR PART TO GUIDE OR SUPERVISE THE CREATIVE PROCESS. ALL YOU HAVE TO DO WITH THAT IS TO RETAIN YOUR VISION, STICK TO YOUR PURPOSE, AND MAINTAIN YOUR FAITH AND GRATITUDE. BUT YOU MUST ACT IN A CERTAIN WAY, SO THAT YOU CAN APPROPRIATE WHAT IS YOUR WHEN IT COMES TO YOU,  SO THAT YOU CAN MEET THE THINGS YOU HAVE IN YOUR PICTURE, AND PUT THEM IN THEIR PROPER PLACES AS THEY ARRIVE.

YOU CAN REALLY SEE THE TRUTH OF THIS. WHEN THINGS REACH YOU, THEY WILL BE IN THE HANDS OF OTHER PEOPLE, WHO WILL ASK AN EQUIVALENT FOR THEM. AND YOU CAN ONLY GET WHAT IS YOURS BY GIVING OTHERS WHAT IS THEIRS. YOUR POCKET BOOK IS NOT GOING TO BE TRANSFORMED INTO A MAGIC PURSE, WHICH SHALL BE ALWAYS FULL OF MONEY WITHOUT EFFORT ON YOUR PART. THIS IS THE CRUCIAL POINT IN THE SCIENCE OF GETTING RICH - RIGHT HERE, WHERE THOUGHT AND PERSONAL ACTION MUST BE COMBINED. THERE ARE VERY MANY PEOPLE WHO, CONSCIOUSLY, SET THE CREATIVE FORCES IN ACTION BY THE STRENGTH AND PERSISTENCE OF THEIR DESIRES, BUT WHO REMAIN POOR BECAUSE THEY DO NOT PROVIDE FOR THE RECEPTION OF THE THING THEY WANT WHEN IT COMES.

BY THOUGHT, THE THING YOU WANT IS BROUGHT TO YOU, BY ACTION YOU RECEIVE IT NOW. YOU CANNOT ACT IN THE PAST, AND IT IS ESSENTIAL TO THE CLEARNESS OF YOUR MENTAL VISION THAT YOU DISMISS THE PAST FROM YOUR MIND. YOU CANNOT ACT IN THE FUTURE, FOR THE FUTURE IS NOT HERE YET. AND YOU CANNO TELL HOW YOU WILL WANT TO ACT IN ANY FUTURE CONTINGENCY UNTIL  THAT CONTINGENCY HAS ARRIVED.

BECAUSE YOU ARE NOT IN THE RIGHT BUSINESS OR THE RIGHT ENVIRONMENT NOW, DO NOT THINK THAT YOU MUST POSTPONE ACTION UNTIL YOU GET INTO THE RIGHT BUSINESS OR ENVIRONMENT. AND DO NOT SPEND TIME IN THE PRESENT TAKING THOUGHTS AS TO THE BEST COURSE IN POSSIBLE FUTURE EMERGENCIES. HAVE FAITH IN YOUR ABILITY TO MEET ANY EMERGENCY WHEN IT ARRIVES. IF YOU ACT IN THE PRESENT WITH YOUR MIND ON THE FUTURE, YOUR PRESENT ACTION WILL BE WITH A DIVIDED MIND, AND WILL NOT BE EFFECTIVE. 

PUT YOUR WHOLE MIND INTO PRESENT ACTION.

DO NOT GIVE YOUR CREATIVE IMPULSE TO DIVINE SUBSTANCE, AND THEN SIT DOWN AND WAIT FOR RESULTS, IT YOU DO, YOU WILL NEVER GET THEM. THERE IS NEVER ANY TIME BUT NOW,AND THERE NEVER WILL BE ANY TIME BUT NOW. IF YOU ARE EVER TO BEGIN TO MAKE READY FOR THE RECEPTION OF WHAT YOU WANT, YOU MUST BEGIN NOW. AND YOUR ACTION, WHATEVER IT IS, MUST MOST LIKELY BE IN YOUR PRESENT BUSINESS OR EMPLOYMENT, AND MUST BE UPON THE PERSONS AND THINGS IN YOUR PRESENT ENVIRONMENT.

YOU CANNOT ACT WHERE YOU ARE NOT, YOU CANNOT ACT WHERE YOU HAVE BEEN, AND YOU CANNOT ACT WHERE YOU ARE GOING TO BE, YOU CAN ACT ONLY WHERE YOU ARE. DO NOT BOTHER AS TO WHETHER YESTERDAY'S WORK WAS WELL DONE OR ILL DONE, DO TODAY'S WORK WELL.

DO NOT TRY TO DO TOMORROW'S WORK NOW, THERE WILL BE PLENTY OF TIME TO DO THAT WHEN YOU GET TO IT.  DO NOT TRY, OCCULT OR MYSTICAL MEANS, TO ACT ON PEOPLE OR THINGS THAT ARE OUT OF YOUR REACH. DO NOT WAIT FOR A CHANGE OF ENVIRONMENT, BEFORE YOU ACT. GE A CHANGE OF ENVIROMENT BY ACTION. 

 

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❤ THERE IS A THINKING STUFF FROM WHICH ALL THINGS ARE MADE, AND WHICH,

 IN ITS ORIGINAL STATE, PERMEATES, PENETRATES, AND FILLS THE INTERSPACES

OF THE UNIVERSE.

❤ A THOUGHT, IN THIS SUBSTANCE, PRODUCES THE THING THAT IS IMAGED BY THE 

THOUGHT

  ❤ WE CAN FORM THINGS IN OUR THOUGHT, AND, BY IMPRESSIN OUR THOUGHT UPON

DIVINE SUBSTANCE, CAN CAUSE THE THING WE THINK ABOUT TO BE CREATED.

❤ IN ORDER TO DIE THIS, WE MUST PASS FROM THE COMPETITIVE TO THE CREATIVE

MIND, WE MUST FORM A CLEAR MENTAL PICTURE OF THE THINGS WE WANT, AND HOLD THIS PICTURE IN OUR THOUGHTS WITH FIXED PURPOSE TO GET WHAT WE

WANT, CLOSING OUR MIND TO ALL THAT MAY TEND TO SHAKE OUR PURPOSE, DIM OUR VISION, OR QUENCH OUR FAITH.

 ❤ THAT WE MAY RECEIVE WHAT WE WANT WHEN IT COMES, WE MUST ACT NOW UPON THE PEOPLE AND THINGS IN OUR PRESENT ENVIRONMENT.

 

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