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If you find yourself lacking in ability to reach your ideals along any line of endeavor, it shows that your mind needs a greater flow of Spirit. Form a picture in your mind of what you wish to do, or state it in words, and then hold the thought that Spirit is flowing in the direction of your desire.

Spirit is not only Life, but all that constitutes Life, so that it contains the very essence of Art, Music, Literature, Philosophy, Invention, Mechanics, Manufacture, Commerce, Metaphysics, or any of the myriad forms of human activity. You can take from the stream of Life what you want very much as a tree on the bank of a river can absorb through its roots the chemicals in the water that enable it to grow and branch out. Your ability, in like manner, grows and branches through what you receive from the stream of Life.

Do not get tense or excited in trying to help yourself or others, for that tends to pinch the channel and restrict the flow of Life. The more you realize that God's inexhaustible Power is yours, because of your oneness with God-Substance, the more you will see that there is nothing for you to fear or be anxious about. You need not even fear holding the wrong mental picture in giving treatments, for since you fervently desire the right one, the Infinite Power, working through you, will help you to form it. The wrong picture of today will change its outlines