The GREATEST Journey | The Journey of the MIND Earl Nightingale (Reprogram your mind for greatness)

Hello, I'm Earl Nightingale. Some time ago I did a radio broadcast called The Best Things designed to help us remember what's important and what's not in life. It was an attempt to put the ideas of various philosophers into a very simple form. life's

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mistake giving up the greatest comfort a job well done and so on as a radio show it was a success thousands of people wrote to get printed copies of the script but then, as I often do, I wish I had mentioned one more in In this case the greatest

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I decided that the greatest

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since this is what determines the Journey of Life. Have you ever had the feeling that

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is on a journey, a journey? of discovery? that sometimes he has to make long voyages in dark Unexplored seas and at other times he discovers brilliant islands of beauty or Islands of Truth that he will know from this day on that he can always sail and find in the storm while the gales of Life blow. . They calm down and the enormous seas of misfortune, pain, sadness or doubt calm down.

Well, if you want to come, I would like to take you with me on a journey of Mind that was laid out for me many years ago by an obscure English Editor and poet called James Allen in a little book called As a man thinketh now James Allen, although he published 17 books, one of which appeared in at least 10 editions and sold over a million copies, was not a famous man, why well

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If my guess is as good as mine, it may be because James Allen was a supposed Victorian Englishman included in a group who, due to the writings of certain historians, are more or less generally regarded as complacent and self-satisfied products of a comfortable age that produced fat bellies with heads to match.

I've never felt that way about late Victorians. There is too much evidence that they were not at all complacent. I think they considered themselves Running Scared, just as we often do. They didn't have an h-bomb, but they did have one. Following a population explosion and a rush to the cities, its population increased by more than a third in the last generation of the 19th century and its cities almost doubled. The tension, nervousness and social unrest engendered by the rapidly changing times were so great that the government created a special group. Commission on Madness and there were a series of quasi-religious movements of the kind that almost always flow into the gaps of social dilemma.

Now the language of Victorians like Tennyson and Kipling may have been somewhat flowery by our standards, but their life and times were no better. Roses Another reason why James Allen is not in Webster's biography may be the justified or unjustified inclusion of him in another group variously labeled as exponents of 19th century individualism and the so-called mind cure. This group ran the gamut from Horatio Aler to Ralph Waldo Tran. James Alan was a journalist, a reporter was the most appropriate term for his time and I think he was imbued with a kind of World Consciousness and I suspect that, like Kipling, he was interested in the religious writings of other races and cultures, the Hindu Upanishads and probably Confucian Buddhists. and Muhammad's books too, but I'm not sure and we may never know.

I wrote to his publishers and to the village of Ilram on the Devon coast, where he lived, in an effort to learn more about him, but the sum of my factual knowledge at this time is quite small. He was born in 1864 and died in 1912. A true late Victorian, he was a reporter and later editor of a magazine called The Epic. He was primarily an essayist, a sort of writer of instructional books, and a poet. and sometimes, as an essayist, he seems very good to me; In fact, I should qualify that opinion by renouncing any pretense of literary criticism.

My literary tastes are often decidedly anti-literary, unlike critical ones. I am often, happily, unaware of flaws in style and language if the author's ideas hit me where I live. I consider James Allen's most popular book. As a man thinks, an excellent piece of writing, a beautiful essay on an important topic, is more significant. I believe it represents one of the most effective types of verbal communication. He often speaks in a very poetic manner. to some mystical quality in each of us, a quality that seems to discern the Truth. Listen to these little poems that are the beginning and the end of how a man thinks that the mind is the master power that shapes and makes and man is mind and more and more he takes.

The tool of thinking and shaping what you want produces a thousand joys, a thousand evils, you think in secret and it happens that the environment is nothing more than your mirror and, finally, the souls thrown by the storm, wherever you are and under any Whatever condition you live in, you should know this. the ocean of life the halls of bliss are smiling the sunny shore of your ideal awaits your coming keep your hand firmly on the rudder of thought in the cortex of your soul the dominant Master reclines he does it but sleep awakens him self-control is the thought of strength is mastery calm is power tell your heart peace stay still now you can say that is very good I appreciate poetry and I believe in the truth but it is relevant the truths that interest me are those that speak about my personal situation or at least to the times in which I live, what does an obscure 19th century philosopher have to do with me?

Well, consider this, some of our important contemporary philosophers tell us that man today is entering a new era which they call the era of unity, they say. that now, for the first time, the barriers between thought and reality are beginning to disappear; For the last 2 or 3,000 years, great philosophers and teachers have been showing their fellow human beings how life could be improved on this small planet Earth, but for most of this period man's control of his environment has been very limited today. in day. This is no longer true. If man thinks that he would like to dismantle the atom, if he thinks about living in the depths of the oceans, going to the Moon or traveling to outer space, he solves the problem. then it is no longer what man can do, it becomes what man can think.

The words you will hear are essentially those of J. Allens. As a man thinks, thought and character. The aphorism. As a man thinks in his heart. A man's being is so complete that it encompasses every condition and circumstance of his life. A man is literally what he thinks. His character is the complete sum of all his thoughts. Just as the plant sprouts from the seed and could not exist without it. The acts of a man arise from the hidden seeds of thought and could not have appeared without them. This applies both to those acts called spontaneous and unpremeditated and to those that are carried out deliberately.

The act is the flower of thought and joy and suffering are its fruits. Does a man reap the sweet and bitter fruit of his own agriculture? The thought in the mind has made us what we are by the thought it was forged and built if a man's mind has evil thoughts the pain comes upon him as the wheel comes upon the ox if the man endures in purity of thought Joy the sure man follows him like his own shadow. He grows by law, not by artifice, and cause and effect are as absolute and invariable in the hidden realm of thought as in the world of visible and material things, a noble character is not a thing of favor or chance but is the natural result of continuous effort and thought the effect of a long-cherished association with high ideals an ignoble and vestal character by the same process is the result of continually harboring humiliating thoughts man becomes or he undoes himself in the Armory of thought he forges the weapons with which he destroys himself, he also creates the tools with which he builds himself heavenly mansions of joy, strength and peace through the right choice and true application of the thought, man ascends towards Divine Perfection through abuse. and the incorrect application of thought, descends below the level of the Beast, between these two extremes are all the degrees of character and man is its maker and teacher of all the beautiful truths belonging to the soul that have been restored and brought to light. light. more joyous or fruitful of divine promise and confidence than this that man is the master of thought, the shaper of character and the creator and shaper of condition, environment and Destiny as a being of power, intelligence and love and the Lord of his own thoughts, man has the key.

Man is always the master even in his weakest and most abandoned state, but in weakness and degradation he is the foolish master who badly governed his house when he begins to reflect on his condition and diligently seek the law on which his being is established. , then he becomes the wise Master who directs his energies intelligently and shapes his thoughts towards fruitful matters. Such is the conscious master and man can only become so by discovering within himself the laws of thought, the discovery of which is entirely a matter of application, self-analysis and experience, only through much searching and mining are gold and diamonds obtained, and man can find every truth related to his being if he goes deep into the mind of his being. soul and that he is the maker of your character, the shaper of your life and the builder of your destiny, you can demonstrate this infallibly by monitoring, controlling and altering your thoughts, tracking their effects on yourself, on others and on your life and the circumstances that link cause and effect through patient practice and investigation and using each of your experiences, even the most trivial everyday event, as a means of obtaining that knowledge of yourself which is the understanding of wisdom.

In this direction, as in no other, it is the absolute law that he who seeks finds and he who knocks will open because only through the practice of patience and incessant importunity can a man enter the door of the Temple of the knowledge of which The body is a servant of the mind and obeys the orders of the Mind, whether deliberate or automatic at the same time. At the behest of evil and miserable thoughts, the body can quickly sink into disease and decay. At the command of joyful and beautiful thoughts, it can be clothed in youth and beauty.

Illness-like circumstances in health are often ingrained in thinking. Sick thoughts can be expressed through a sick body. In Aboriginal societies it is known that fearful thoughts kill a man as quickly as a bullet and are continually killing thousands of people in our society, just as surely, though less rapidly, as people living with fear of diseases tend to get sick. Anxiety quickly demoralizes. the whole body and leaves it open to illness and disease, while evil thoughts, even if they are nothing more than that, will soon destroy the nervous system. Strong, pure and happy thoughts build Vigor and Grace.

The body is a sensitive plastic instrument that responds easily to Thoughts. by which it is governed and the habits of thought will produce their own effects, good or bad, from a clean mind comes a clean life and a clean body from a contaminated mind comes a contaminated life and a corrupt body thought is the Source of Action, life and manifestation make the source pure and the stream of life will flow with greater purity. diet change. Little can help a man who does not change his thoughts when a man makes his thoughts healthy, he no longer craves unhealthy foods, clean thoughts make them clean and healthy. habits the so-called Saint who does not wash his body He may well not be a saint if you perfected your body you kept your mind if you renewed your body you beautified your mind thoughts of malice Envy disappointment discouragement can rob your body of its health and Grace a bitter face does not arise by chance it is made by bitter thoughts the wrinkles that Mar are drawn by madness pride and passion I know a 96-year-old woman who has the bright and innocent face of a girl I know a middle-aged man whose face is drawn to contours inharmonious, one is the result of a sweet and sunny disposition, the other is the result of bad mood and discontent, for you cannot have a sweet and healthy abode unless you let air and sunlight freely enter your rooms, so a strong body and a bright, happy and serene face can only result from the free entry into the mind of thoughts of joy, good will and serenity.

On the faces of the elderly there are wrinkles made by sympathy, others by strong and pure thoughts and others are carved by arrogance and resentment that cannot distinguish them from those who have lived thoughtfully. Age is calm, peaceful and gently softened like the setting sun. I recently saw a philosopher on his deathbed, he was not old except with the years, he died as sweetly and peacefully as he lived, there is no doctor like a cheerful thought to dispel the evils of malale content there is no consolation comparable with good will to disperse the shadows of pain and sadness to livecontinually in thoughts of ill will, cynicism, suspicion and envy must be confined in a self-made prison hole but to think well of everyone to be happy with everyone to patiently learn to find the good in everyone is to live in their sight. portals of heaven and daily thoughts of Peace towards Every Creature will bring abundant peace to the thought and circumstances of its possessor.

A man's mind may be compared to a garden which may be intelligently cultivated or left to grow wild, but, whether cultivated or neglected, it must and will produce, if useful seeds are not put into it, then it will fall into it. an abundance of useless weed seeds and it will disappear. continue to produce your species just as a gardener cultivates his plot, keeping it free of weeds and cultivating the flowers and fruits he needs, so can a man tend the garden of his mind by eliminating all incorrect and useless thoughts and cultivating the flowers towards perfection. and fruits of correct, useful and pure thoughts.

By following this process, man, sooner or later, discovers that he is the master gardener of his soul, the director of his life; he also reveals within himself the laws of thought and understands with increasing precision how his mind works. It operates in the configuration of the circumstances of your character and Destiny. Thought and character are one and as character can only be manifested and discovered through the environment and circumstances, the external conditions of a person's life will always be related. with its internal state. This does not mean that a man's circumstances at any given time are an indication of his entire character, but that those circumstances are so intimately connected with some vital thought within him that they are for the moment indispensable to his development.

Each man is where he is by the law of his being, the thoughts that he has built into his character have taken him there and in the ordering of his life there is no lasting element of chance, but everything is the result of a law that He can not do it. This is as true for those who are dissatisfied with his surroundings as it is for those who are happy with him. They as a being in evolution, man is where he is so that he can learn so he can grow and as he learns the lesson that any circumstance contains for him, it passes and gives rise to other circumstances.

Man is whipped by circumstances while he believes himself. . To be a creature entirely subject to external conditions, but when he realizes that he is a creative power and that he can master the hidden soil and seeds of his being from which circumstances grow, then he becomes the rightful master of himself. same from where circumstances grow. This is known to every man who has for some time practiced self-control of his mind and his thoughts, for he will have noticed that the alteration of his circumstances has been in exact proportion to his altered mental condition. This is so true that when a man seriously applies himself to remedy the defects of his character and to make rapid and marked progress, he quickly goes through a succession of vicissitudes.

The soul attracts what is secretly harbors what it loves and also what it fears reaches the The height of its dearest aspirations falls to the level of its unpunished desires, and circumstances are the means by which the soul receives its own thought. Every seed of thought sown or allowed to fall into the mind and take root there produces its own flowering, sooner or later, in action and bearing its own fruits. fruit of opportunity and circumstances good thoughts bear good fruit bad thoughts bad fruit the outer world of circumstances is shaped by the inner world of thought and external conditions both pleasant and unpleasant are factors that contribute to the ultimate good of the individual as a reaper of his Man learns through suffering and joy, following the most intimate desires, aspirations, thoughts by which he allows himself to be dominated, following the will of the wisps of vaporized imaginations or walking firmly along the road of strong effort and elevated, a man finally reaches his goal. fruition and plenitude in the external conditions of his life, the laws of growth and adaptation obtain everywhere a man does not come to prison or prison by the tyranny of fate or circumstances, but by the path of humiliating thoughts and vile desires , nor a high-minded man suddenly falls into crime from the stress of any mere external force.

The criminal thought had long been secretly fostered in the heart when the hour of opportunity revealed the accumulated power of it. The circumstance does not convert the man who reveals it. There can be no such conditions as descending into vice and its attendant sufferings without vicious inclinations or ascending to virtue and its happiness without the continuous cultivation of virtuous aspirations, and man, therefore, as Lord and Master of thought, is the maker of himself, the shaper and author of the environment to which the soul arrives. through every step of his earthly pilgrimage he attracts those combinations of conditions which are revealed and which are the reflection of his own virtue and vice;

His strength and weakness do not attract what they say they want but rather what his whims and fantasies are. Ambitions are thwarted at every turn, but his innermost thoughts and desires are fed with the food they themselves choose. The Divinity that shapes our ends is in ourselves, it is our self. The man is handcuffed only by himself. Thought and action are the jailers of Destiny. imprison being vile are also the angels of Liberty liberate being Noble it is not what he desires and prays that a man obtains but what he justly earns. His desires and prayers are only gratified and answered when they agree with his thoughts and actions in the A In the light of this truth, what then is the meaning of fighting against circumstances?

It means that a man continually rebels against an effect, but while he is all the time nourishing and preserving its cause in his heart, that cause may take the form of a conscious vice or vice. an unconscious weakness, but whatever it is, it obstinately retards the efforts of the possessor of it, and therefore loudly demands a remedy. Men are eager to improve their circumstances but are unwilling to improve themselves; therefore they remain bound; the man who does not shy away from self-sacrifice will never be able to do so. They fail to achieve the goal on which their heart is set, this is as true for material things as it is for spiritual things, even the man whose only goal is to acquire wealth must be prepared to make great personal sacrifices before he can achieve his goal and how much more.

He who would like to live a happy and joyful life here is a miserably poor man. He is extremely eager to improve his environment and his comfort at home, but all the time he avoids his work and considers it justified to try to deceive his employer. Due to the insufficiency of his wages, such a man does not understand the simplest rudiments of those principles which are the basis of true prosperity, and he is not only totally unable to extricate himself from his misery, but is actually attracting to himself even more misery. deeper by living in it.

Here is a rich man who is the victim of a painful and persistent illness as a result of gluttony. He is willing to give large sums of money to get rid of her, but he will not give up his gluttony. He wants to satisfy his taste for rich and harmful wines and also have his health. Such a man is totally incapable of health because he has not yet learned the first principles of healthy living. Here is a Labor businessman who takes crooked measures to avoid paying the statutory wage and, in the hope of making higher profits, reduces the wages of his workers.

Such a man is totally unsuited for prosperity and when he finds himself bankrupt both in terms of reputation and wealth, he blames circumstances without knowing that he is the only one. author of his condition, I have presented these three cases merely as illustrative of the truth that man is the cause, although almost always unconsciously, of his circumstances and that, while he aspires to a good end, he can continually frustrate its achievement with thoughts that they want in an impossible way. harmonize to that end such cases could be multiplied and varied almost indefinitely, but this is not necessary, for if you so choose, you can trace the action of the laws of thought in your own mind and life until you do so, it is unlikely that mere external facts.

However, circumstances are so complicated, thought is so deeply rooted, and the conditions of happiness vary so much among individuals, that the whole condition of a man, though it may be known by himself, cannot be judged. on the other from the external aspect of his life. honest in certain directions but suffers deprivation a man may be dishonest in certain directions but acquires wealth the conclusion usually formed, however, that one man fails because of his particular honesty and that the other prospers because of his particular dishonesty is the The result of a superficial judgment which assumes that the dishonest man is almost entirely corrupt and the honest man almost entirely virtuous, in the light of deeper knowledge and broader experience, such a judgment is held to be erroneous;

The dishonest man may have some admirable virtues that the other does not possess and the dishonest man may have some admirable virtues that the other does not possess and the honest man unpleasant vices that are absent in the other. The honest man reaps the good results of his thoughts. and honest acts also bring upon themselves the sufferings produced by their vices and the dishonest man also reaps his own sufferings Sources and happiness is pleasant It is human vanity to believe that one suffers because of his virtue, but until a man has extirpated of his mind, all vicious, bitter and resentful thoughts, will not be able to know and declare that his sufferings are the result of his good and not of his good. of his bad qualities and on the way to long before having reached that Supreme Perfection, he will have found working in his mind and in his life the Great Law that is absolutely just and that, therefore, cannot give good for evil, evil for good, possessing such knowledge.

Then you will know, looking back on your past ignorance and blindness, that his life is and always was justly ordered and that all his past experiences, good and bad, were the equitable result of his evolving but unevolved self. Good thoughts and actions can never be good in the long run. produce bad results bad thoughts and actions can never produce good results this is nothing more than saying that nothing can come from corn but nothing can come from corn but nettle men understand this law in the natural world and work with it but few understand it in the mental and moral world.

Although its operation there is just as simple and invariable and, therefore, they do not cooperate with it, mental suffering is always the effect of error in some direction, it is an indication that the individual is not in harmony with itself with the law of its being the The only and supreme use of such suffering is to correct and teach that mental suffering ceases for him who is wise, there can be no object in Burning Gold after it has been removed the druze and the mind of a perfectly enlightened being cannot agonize in the circumstances that a man faces. with suffering are the result of his own gloomy outlook the circumstances a man encounters with the blessed are again the result of his own attitude blessedness, not material possessions, is the measure of good.

Misery, not lack of material possessions, is the measure of the evil a man can commit. Cursed and rich can be blessed and poor, blessedness and riches only come together when riches are used wisely, and the poor only descends into misery when they consider that they guard their lot as an unjustly imposed burden. Destitution and indulgence are the two extremes. of misery both are equally unnatural a man is not properly conditioned until he is a happy, healthy and prosperous being and happiness, health and prosperity are the result of a harmonious adjustment of the inside with the outside of the man with his environment a man only begins to be a man when he stops complaining and insulting and begins to seek the hidden Justice that regulates his life and when he adapts his mind to that Regulating Factor he stops accusing others as the cause of his condition and builds himself up in strong and noble thoughts.

He stops fighting against circumstances, but begins to use them as an aid to his faster progress and as a means to discover the powers and possibilities hidden within himself. Law, not confusion, is the dominant principle in the universe. Justice, not injustice, is the only substance of life. and justice, not corruption, is the force that shapes and moves the spiritual government of the world. This being so, man only has to write himself to discover that the universe is right and during the process of correcting it he will find that as he alters his thoughts. towardsituations and other people situations and other people will change towards him the proof of this truth is in each person and therefore admits of easy investigation through systematic introspection and self-analysis, if a man radically alters his thoughts and he will be surprised at the rapid transformation that will affect the material conditions of their lives, men imagine that thought can be kept secret but this is not the case;

It quickly crystallizes into habit and the habit solidifies in circumstances. Thoughts of fear, doubt and indecision crystallize into weak, unmanly and irresolute habits that solidify in Circumstances of failure, indigence and servile dependence. Lazy and apathetic thoughts crystallize into habits of disorder. Impurity and dishonesty that solidify in circumstances of confusion. On the other hand, beautiful thoughts of all kinds crystallize into habits of grace and kindness that solidify into brilliant and joyful circumstances. Selfless thoughts crystallize into habits of temperance and self-control that solidify in circumstances of rest and peace. Thoughts of courage, self-sufficiency, and determination crystallize into manly habits that solidify in circumstances of strength and freedom.

Energetic thoughts crystallize into habits of industriousness that solidify into circumstances of achievement. Kind and loving thoughts crystallize into habits of consideration for others that solidify into circumstances of permanent comfort. a good bed cannot fail to produce results in character and circumstances a man cannot directly choose his circumstances but he can choose his thoughts and indirectly but surely mold his circumstances nature helps every man to the gratification of the thoughts he The more it encourages you and the more opportunities it offers you, the more quickly it will bring both good and bad thoughts to the surface. Let a man choose his thoughts wisely and the whole world will soften towards him and be ready to help him.

Let go of bad thoughts and bad opportunities will arise. every hand to aid his firm resolutions, let him encourage good thoughts, and no difficult fate shall bind him to misery and shame. The world is your kaleidoscope, the various combinations of which it presents to you at each successive moment as exquisitely adjusted images of your eternal life. moving thoughts you will be what you want to be let failure find its false content in that poor word environment, but the Spirit despises it and is free, dominates time, conquers space, intimidates that boastful trickster of chance and orders circumstances T dethrone and take the place of a servant, the human will, that invisible Force, although the offspring of an immortal soul can achieve any goal. granite walls intervene, do not be impatient of delay, but wait like one who understands when the Spirit rises and commands the gods are ready to obey the thought, the purpose and the achievement until the thought is linked with the purpose, there is no intelligent achievement with the majority, the thought cortex is allowed. drifting aimlessly in the ocean of life is a vice and that drift should not continue for those who want to stay away from catastrophe and destruction;

Those who do not have a central purpose in their life fall easy prey to petty worries, fears, problems and self-confrontations. of which are signs of weakness that lead as surely as a deliberate bad action down a different route to failure. Unhappiness and loss through weakness cannot persist in a powerful evolving Universe. A man must conceive a worthy purpose in his heart and set out to achieve it. You must make this purpose the central point of your thoughts, it may take the form of a spiritual ideal or it may be a worldly object according to your nature at that moment, but whichever it is, you must firmly focus your thoughts on the object at hand.

Has fixed. before him he must make this purpose his Supreme Duty and must dedicate himself to achieving it, without allowing his thoughts to stray into vague and ephemeral fantasies. This is the Royal Path to self-control and true concentration of thought, even if it fails again and again. To achieve your purpose as you must necessarily do until weakness is overcome, the strength of character you gain will be the measure of your true success and this will form a new starting point for the future power and triumph of those who are not prepared to conceive and dedicate yourself to it.

A great purpose must fix your thoughts on the impeccable performance of your duty, no matter how insignificant your tasks may seem, only in this way can you gather and focus your thoughts and develop resolution and energy, and once done, there is nothing that cannot be achieved. The weaker will, knowing its own weakness and believing this truth that strength can only be developed through effort and practice, believing thus will immediately begin to exert effort and adding effort to effort, patience to patience and strength to strength, will never cease to develop. and in the end he will. Lastly, to become strong as the physically weak man can become strong by careful and patient exercise, so the weak thinking man can become strong by training himself in thought to let go of aimlessness and weakness and begin to think with a The purpose is to enter the ranks of those strong who only recognize failure as one of the paths to achievement, who make all conditions work for them and who think intensely, try without fear and achieve masterfully.

Having conceived this purpose, a man must prudently mark a straight path towards the achievement of it without looking towards the neither the right nor the left. Doubts and fears must be rigorously excluded, they are disintegrating. Elements that break the straight line of effort, making it crooked and ineffective. Unhelpful thoughts of doubt and fear never achieve anything and can never always lead to failure. Purpose and energy weaken when Doubt and fear creep into the will to do. They arise from the knowledge of what we can do. Doubt and fear are the great enemies of this knowledge and the one who encourages them at every step, the one who has defeated doubt and fear, has defeated failure in each of his thoughts.

It is full of power. Its difficulties are faced and overcome wisely and courageously. Its purposes are planted in a timely manner and flourish and bear fruit that does not fall prematurely to the ground. Thought bravely allied to the purpose. It becomes a creative force. He who knows this is ready to become something higher. y Stronger than a mere bundle of wavering thoughts and fluctuating sensations, he who does this has become the conscious and intelligent bearer of his mental powers. Everything that a man achieves and everything that he does not achieve is the direct result of his own thoughts in a just order.

Universe where loss of balance means destruction individual responsibility must be absolute the weakness and strength of a man wisdom and madness are his and not another man's they are the product of himself and not another and can only be altered by him himself Never for another his circumstances are also his and not another man's his suffering and his happiness revolve from within as he thinks this is how he is while he continues to think this way he remains a strong man he cannot help a weaker man unless the weaker one be willing to be helped and yet the weak man must become strong by himself he must develop by his own efforts the strength he admires in another no one but himself can alter his condition it has been common among men to think and say many men are slaves because one is an oppressor let us hate the oppressor however there is among a few more and more a tendency to reverse this judgment and say that a man is an oppressor because many are slaves let us despise slaves the truth is that the oppressor and the slave are Cooperators in ignorance and although they seem to grieve each other are in reality grievous perfect knowledge perceives the action of the law in the weakness of the oppressed and the misapplied power of the oppressor a perfect love seeing the suffering that both states entail nor condemns a perfect compassion embraces to the oppressor and the oppressed he who has overcome weakness and has put aside selfish thoughts belongs neither to the oppressor nor to the oppressed he is free a man can only rise, conquer and achieve by elevating his thoughts he can only remain weak, abject and miserable by refusing to elevate his thoughts before a man can achieve anything even in worldly things he must live his thoughts above the animal level;

To be successful, he cannot give up all animality and selfishness by any means, but at least he must sacrifice a part of them; A man whose first thought is complacency, neither can he think cl

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y nor plan methodically, cannot find and develop his latent resources and must fail in any undertaking. If he has not courageously begun to control his thoughts, he is not in a position to control matters and adopt serious responsibilities he is not capable of acting independently and being alone is limited by the thoughts he chooses, there can be no progress or achievement without sacrifice and the worldly success of a man will be to the extent that he sacrifices his confused animal thoughts and fixes his mind in developing your plans and strengthening your resolve. and self-confidence and the higher you raise your thoughts, the more manly and upright you will become, the greater your success, the more blessed and lasting your achievements, the universe does not favor the greedy, the dishonest, the vicious, although on the mere surface it may sometimes appear that it does his continuous incitement is for the honest the magnanimous The virtuous all the great teachers of all time have declared this in various forms and approve of it and know it a man has only to persist in elevate your thoughts intellectual achievements are the results of thought devoted to the pursuit of knowledge or the beautiful and true in life and nature, such achievements may sometimes be connected with vanity and ambition, but they are not the result of These characteristics are the natural consequence of a long and sustained effort and arduous searching thought, spiritual achievement is the consummation of aspiration.

He who constantly lives in the conception of wise and noble thoughts, who concentrates on all that is high and selfish, as surely as the Sun reaches its zenith and the moon full, he becomes knowing and noble. and Rising to a position of wisdom and bliss, any kind of achievement is the crown of effort, the diadem of thought through self-control, resolution, erudition and well-directed thought, a man ascends by animality, indolence, corruption and confusion of thought, a man descends, a man may rise to great success in the world and to high altitudes in the spiritual realm and again descends into weakness and misery by allowing arrogant, selfish and corrupt thoughts to take over. of the.

Victories achieved by thought can only be maintained through vigilance. Many give in when success. is assured and quickly falls back into failure, achievement, whether in the intellectual or spiritual world, is the result of definitely directed thought, is governed by the same law and depends on the same method, the only difference lies in the object of achievement, one who would achieve little. He who wishes to achieve much needs to sacrifice little, he who wishes to achieve much must sacrifice much, he who wishes to achieve much must sacrifice much vision and ideals. Visionaries are the saviors of the world, just as the visible world is supported by the invisible, so men throughout all Their trials, sins and selected vocations are fed by the beautiful visions of their lonely dreamers humanity cannot forget its dreamers it cannot let their ideals fade and die live in them feel in them the realities that one day it will see and know composer sculptor painter poet Wise Prophet these are the architects of Paradise The world is beautiful because they have lived without them working Humanity would perish he who appreciates a beautiful Vision a high ideal in his heart one day he will realize it Columbus caressed a vision of another world and discovered cernus fostered the vision of a multiplicity of worlds in a larger universe and revealed it Buddha beheld the vision of a spiritual world SP of immaculate beauty and perfect peace and entered it treasure your visions treasure your ideals treasure the music that stirs in your heart the beauty that forms in your mind the beauty that surrounds your purest thoughts, because from them will arise all the delicious conditions of all the heavenly surroundings of these, if you remain faithful to them, your world will finally be built to desire is to obtain , to aspire is to achieve man's goals.

The lowest desires receive the fullest measure of gratification and Their highest aspirations starve for lack of sustenance. Such is not the law. Such a condition of things can never be obtained. Ask and receive. Dream lofty dreams and as you dream, so you will become. Your vision is the promise of what one day you will be, your ideal is the prophecy of what you will finally reveal. The greatest achievement was in the beginning and for a time a dream.The oak sleeps in the acorn The bird waits in the egg and in the highest vision of the Soul An awake angel wakes up Dreams are the seedlings of realities Your circumstances may be unpleasant but they will not long for me So if you perceive an ideal and strive to reach it you cannot travel inside and stay still outside here is a young man pressed by poverty and he works confined for long hours in an unhealthy workshop, he has no education and lacks all the arts, but he dreams of better things, he thinks of intelligence, refinement, grace and beauty, mentally conceive, build an ideal life, take possession of broader freedom and broader scope.

Restlessness urges him to act and he uses all his time and means, however small, for the development of his latent powers and resources. Very soon his mind has become so altered that the workshop can no longer hold him, he has become so out of place. harmony with the mentality of him that falls from his life like a discarded garment and with the growth of opportunities that fit the scope of his expanding capacity, disappears forever years later, we see this young man as a adult man. We find him a master of certain forces that he wields with global influence and almost unequal power in his hands, he holds the ropes of gigantic responsibilities, he speaks and lives change, men and women cling to his words and reshape their characters and become returns like the sun. the fixed and luminous center around which innumerable Fates revolve he has realized the vision of his youth, he has become one with his ideal and you too will realize the vision, not the vain desire of your heart, whether base or beautiful or a mixture from both. because you will always gravitate towards that which you secretly love most, in your hands will be placed the exact results of your own thoughts, you will receive what you earn, no more and no less, whatever your current environment, you will fall, you will remain or you will rise. your thoughts your vision your ideal you will become as small as your controlling desire as large as your dominant aspiration in the beautiful words of Stanton Davis you may be keeping score and soon you will walk out the door that for so long has seemed the barrier to your ideals and you will find yourself before an audience the pen still behind your ear the ink stains on your fingers and at that moment the torrent of your inspiration will pour out you can be herding sheep and you will wander towards the bucolic city and the open mouth will wander under the intrepid guidance of the spirit towards the study of the teacher and after a while he will say: I have nothing more to teach you and now you have become the teacher who recently dreamed of great things while shepherding sheep.

The thoughtless, the ignorant and the indolent, see only the apparent effects of things and not the things themselves. They speak of the luck of fortune and chance when they see a man become rich. They say how fortunate he is when he watches another become intellectual. They exclaim how favored he is. and they observe the character and wide influence of another, they observe how chance helps him at every turn, they do not see the trials, the failures and the struggles that these men have willingly faced to gain experience, they have no knowledge of the sacrifices they have made for the good of others.

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ess efforts through the faith they have exercised to overcome the seemingly insurmountable and realize their heart's vision. They do not know the darkness and the pains of the heart. They only see light and joy and call it luck. They do not see the long and arduous Journey but only contemplate the present goal and call it good fortune. They do not understand the process but only perceive the result and call it opportunity. In all human affairs there are efforts and there are results and the strength of the effort is the measure of the result chance are not gifts Material powers intellectual and spiritual possessions are the fruits of effort they are thoughts completed visions realized the vision that you glorify in your mind the ideal that you enthrone in your heart this you will build your life with this you will become Serenity mental calm is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom is the result of a long and patient effort at self-control its presence is an indication of a renewed experience and of a more than ordinary knowledge of the laws and operations of thought a man becomes calm to the extent that he understands himself as a being of evolved thought, for such knowledge he needs the understanding of others as a result of thought and as he develops a correct understanding and sees more and more clearly the internal relationships of things by the action of cause and effect , he stops complaining and getting angry and worries and grieves and remains firm Serene the calm man Having learned to govern himself he knows how to adapt to others and they in turn revere his spiritual strength and feel that they can learn from him and trust In it the calmer a man becomes the greater his success, his influence, his power for good, even the most common merchant will find that the prosperity of his business increases as he develops greater self-control and fairness, as the People will always prefer to deal with a man whose demeanor is strongly equanimous, strong calm. man is always loved and revered is like a tree that bears shad in a thirsty land or a protective rock in an unloving storm a calm heart a balanced life of sweet temperament no matter if it rains or shines or what changes come upon those who They possess these blessings because they are always happy, serene, calm, that exquisite poise of character that we call serenity is the last lesson of culture, it is the flowering of life, the fruit of the soul, it is precious as wisdom, more desirable than gold , even the fine one. gold, how insignificant mere money seems in comparison with a serenely happy life, a life that dwells in the ocean of truth, beyond the waves, out of the reach of the storms in the Blessed Cal, how many people we know who bitter their lives and ruin everything that is sweet. and Beautiful by explosive temperaments that destroy their poise of character and create ill will is a question of whether the vast majority of people do not ruin their lives and spoil their happiness by lack of self-control, how few people we find in life who are well . balanced having the Exquisite Balance that is characteristic of the finished person yes Humanity arises with uncontrolled emotions is tumultuous with ungovernable pain is carried away by anxiety and doubt only the wise man only he whose thoughts are controlled makes the winds and the storms obey him Tempest Souls thrown wherever you are under whatever condition you live in, live, know this in the ocean of Life, the halls of bliss are smiling and the Sunny Shore of your ideal awaits your arrival.

Keep your hand firmly on the Helm of Thought on the bark of your ship. The soul claims the dominant Master, but sleep awakens it. Self-control is strength. Thought is mastery. Calm is power. Tell your heart that peace be still.