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The Miracle of Right Thought

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The Divinity of Desire - Success and Happiness Are for You - Working for One Thing and Expecting Something Else - Expect Great Things of Yourself - Self-Encouragement by Self-Suggestion - The Crime of the "Blues" - Change the Thought, Change the Man - The Paralysis of Fear - One With the Divine - Getting in Tune - The Great Within - A New Way of Bringing Up Children - Training for Longevity - As a Man Thinketh - Mental Self-Thought Poisoning - Contents -

is what gives power, and that to develop some particular faculty or faculties — and allow others, which are perhaps equally as important, to atrophy and shrivel from disuse — is not scientific education, and that this one-sided development is a curse to our civilization and a menace to sanity.

If you wish to cultivate or to improve a weak or deficient faculty, just hold the picture of it in its perfect form. Do not hold the defective, faulty image. Think of it and live it in your thoughts as you would like to have it, and try in every way to exercise it so that new and better brain cells will be formed and the weak ones strengthened.

Not only can we strengthen mental weaknesses and deficiencies, but it is perfectly possible to increase the general ability through the power of suggestion. Indeed, the susceptibility of all the mental faculties to improvement, to enlargement, is something remarkable.

Sometimes very strong faculties are latent until especially aroused. There are many people who pass for cowards; who are humiliated because they apparently have so little courage, when, if they only knew how, they could strengthen this deficient faculty wonderfully by holding the courageous ideal; by thinking

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