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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 -

XIII. TRAINING FOR LONGEVITY

If the mind holds the old age pattern, the old age conviction, it will be out-pictured in the body.

If the mind holds the youthful pattern it will be faithfully copied in the body.

ONE of the richest men in the United States says that he would give ten million dollars to prolong his life ten years. No doubt he would be willing to give a hundred millions.

How precious life is to all of us! It is a rare thing for even a criminal, the most dejected creature serving a life sentence, to wish to shorten his existence an hour if he could.

Whatever our ambition may be, nothing else can be quite so precious to most of us as life, and we want that life at its best. Every normal person dreads to see the marks of old age, the symptoms of decrepitude, and wants to remain fresh, buoyant, robust, as long as possible. Yet most people do not take sensible precautions to preserve their youth and vigor. They violate the health laws, longevity laws; sap their vitality in foolish, unnatural living, in deteriorating habits, and then wonder why

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