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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 -

many people never outgrow their influence, and their whole lives are shadowed by them.

What a curious contradiction of human nature it is which causes people to put so much emphasis upon the great power of destiny or fate, but makes them believe they can circumvent or get around it by resorting to such silly devices as carrying rabbits' feet, wishbones, or horse-chestnuts in their pockets! Think of intelligent people bearing the stamp of divinity doing such insane things as spitting on the right shoe before putting it on, picking up every hairpin and hanging it upon the first rusty nail they see; picking up every pin that is pointed toward them, in order to ward off misfortunes!

We often hear intellectual people say that superstitions are harmless; but nothing is harmless which makes a man believe that he is a puppet at the mercy of signs and symbols, omens and inanimate relics, that there is a power in the world outside of Omnipotent Intelligence working in opposition, trying to do harm to mortals.

While many great men have had superstitions, they would have been much greater without them, for superstition tends to weaken the mind. Anything which makes us believe

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