 
January, 2004
We will always attract
to us, in our lives and conditions, according to our thought.
Things are but outer manifestations
of inner mental concepts. Thought is not only power; it is also
the form of all things. The conditions that we attract will correspond
exactly to our mental pictures. It is quite necessary, then,
that the successful businessman should keep his mind on thoughts
of happiness, which produce cheerfulness instead of depressions;
he should radiate joy, and should be filled with faith, hope
and expectancy. These cheerful, hopeful attitudes of mind are
indispensable to the one who really wants to do things in life.
Put every negative thought out of your mind once
and for all. Declare your freedom. Know that no matter what others
may say,
think or do, you are a success, now, and nothing can hinder you
from accomplishing your good.
All the Power of the Universe is with you; feel
it, know it, and then act as though it were true. This mental
attitude alone
will draw people and things to you.
See only what you wish
to experience, and look at nothing else. No matter how many
times the old thought returns,
destroy it
by knowing that it has no power over you; look it squarely in
the face and tell it to go; it does not belong to you, and you
must know—and stick to it—that you are now free.
Rise up in all the faith of one who knows what
he is dealing with, and declare that you are one with Infinite
Mind. Know that
you cannot get away from this One Mind; that wherever you may
go, there, right beside you, waiting to be used, is all the power
there is in the whole universe. When you realize this you will
know that in union with this, the only power, you are more than
all else, you are more than anything that can ever happen to
you.
Always remember that Spirit makes things out of
itself; it manifests in the visible world by becoming the thing
that it wills to become.
In the world of the individual the same process takes place.
It is given to man to use creative Power, but with the using
of this Power comes the necessity of using it as it is made to
be used. If God makes things out of His thought before they come
into manifestation, then we must use the same method.
You can attract only that
which you first mentally become and feel yourself to be in
reality, without any doubting.
A steady
stream of consciousness going out into creative mind will attract
a steady manifestation of conditions; a fluctuating stream of
consciousness will attract the corresponding manifestation or
condition in your life. We must be consistent in our attitude
of mind, never wavering. James says, “Ask in faith, nothing
doubting, for he that doubteth is like a surge of the sea driven
by the wind and tossed. For let not that man think that he shall
receive anything of the Lord.”
We are all immersed in an aura of our own thinking.
This aura is the direct result of all that we have ever said,
thought or
done; it decides what is to take place in our life; it attracts
what is like itself and repels what is unlike itself. We are
drawn toward those things that we mentally embody. Most of the
inner processes of thought have been unconscious; but when we
understand the Law all that we have to do is embody consciously
what we wish, and think of that only, and then we shall be drawn
silently toward it.
We have this Law in our
hands to do with as we will. We can draw what we want only
as we let go of the oldorder
and take up the
new; and this we must do to the exclusion of all else. This is
no weak man’s job but an undertaking for a strong, self-reliant
soul; and the end is worth the effort. The person who can keep
his thoughts one-pointed is the one who will obtain the best
results.
But this does not imply
the necessity of strain or anything of a strenuous nature;
on the contrary, strain is
just what we must
avoid. When we know that there is but one Power we shall not
struggle, we shall know, and in calmness we shall see only what
we know must be the Truth. This means a persistent, firm determination
to think what we want to think, regardless of all outer evidence
to the contrary. We look not to the seen but to the unseen. The
king of Israel understood this when, looking upon the advancing
host of the enemy, he said, “We have no might against this
great company, but our eyes are upon Thee”—upon the
One Power.
Suppose you wish to draw friends and companions
to you; that you wish to enlarge your circle of friendships.
There are too
many people in the world who are lonesome because they have a
sense of separation from people. The thing to do is not to try
to unify with people, but with the Principle of Life behind all
people and things. This is working from the center and not the
circumference; in this One Mind are the minds of all people.
When you unite your thought with the whole you will be united
with the parts of the whole.
The first thing to do, then, is to realize that
Life is your friend and companion; feel the divine companionship;
feel that
you are one with all life; declare that, as this thought awakens
within your mind, so does it awaken within the mind of the whole
race; feel that the world is being drawn to you; love the world
and everyone who is in it; include all, if you would be included
in all. The world seeks strength; be strong. The world loves
love; embody it; see the good in all people; let go of all else.
People will feel your love and will be drawn into it. Become
a real friend and you will have many friends.
Declare unto Mind that
you are now linked with all people and that all people are
linked with you: see yourself
surrounded
with hosts of friends; mentally feel their presence and rejoice
that all good is yours now. Do this no matter what seems to happen,
and it will not be long before you will meet wonderful friends
and will be brought into touch with the great of the world. •
Adapted from the book Creative Mind and Success by Ernest Holmes
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