There are three motives for which we live; we live for the body, we live for the mind, we live for the soul. (Location 77)
The Formless Stuff is intelligent; it is stuff which thinks. It is alive, and is always impelled toward more life. It is the natural and inherent impulse of life to seek to live more; it is the nature of intelligence to enlarge itself, and of consciousness to seek to extend its boundaries and find fuller expression. (Location 199)
THOUGHT is the only power which can produce tangible riches from the Formless Substance. The stuff from which all things are made is a substance which thinks, and a thought of form in this substance produces the form. (Location 210)
Man is a thinking center, and can originate thought. All the forms that man fashions with his hands must first exist in his thought; he cannot shape a thing until he has thought that thing. (Location 228)
Man can form things in his thought, and, by impressing his thought upon formless substance, can cause the thing he thinks about to be created. (Location 244)
A man’s way of doing things is the direct result of the way he thinks about things. (Location 255)
To do things in a way you want to do them, you will have to acquire the ability to think the way you want to think; this is the first step toward getting rich. To think what you want to think is to think TRUTH, regardless of appearances. (Location 257)
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To think health when surrounded by the appearances of disease, or to think riches when in the midst of appearances of poverty, requires power; but he who acquires this power becomes a MASTER MIND. He can conquer fate; he can have what he wants. (Location 270)
There is a thinking stuff from which all things are made, and which, in its original state, permeates, penetrates, and fills the interspaces of the universe. A thought, in this substance, produces the thing that is imaged by the thought. Man can form things in his thought, and, by impressing his thought upon formless substance, can cause the thing he thinks about to be created. (Location 278)
Every living thing must continually seek for the enlargement of its life, because life, in the mere act of living, must increase itself. (Location 294)
Intelligence is under this same necessity for continuous increase. Every thought we think makes it necessary for us to think another thought; consciousness is continually expanding. Every fact we learn leads us to the learning of another fact; knowledge is continually increasing. Every talent we cultivate brings to the mind the desire to cultivate another talent; we are subject to the urge of life, seeking expression, which ever drives us on to know more, to do more, and to be more. (Location 298)
every desire is the effort of an unexpressed possibility to come into action. (Location 304)
The universe desires you to have everything you want to have. Nature is friendly to your plans. Everything is naturally for you. Make up your mind that this is true. (Location 311)
You want to get rich in order that you may eat, drink, and be merry when it is time to do these things; in order that you may surround yourself with beautiful things, see distant lands, feed your mind, and develop your intellect; in order that you may love men and do kind things, and be able to play a good part in helping the world to find truth. (Location 326)
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You must get rid of the thought of competition. You are to create, not to compete for what is already created. (Location 338)
You are to become a creator, not a competitor; you are going to get what you want, but in such a way that when you get it every other man will have more than he has now. (Location 344)
Riches secured on the competitive plane are never satisfactory and permanent; they are yours to-day, and another’s tomorrow. Remember, if you are to become rich in a scientific and certain way, you must rise entirely out of the competitive thought. (Location 356)
Give every man more in use value than you take from him in cash value; then you are adding to the life of the world by every business transaction. (Location 391)
Your part is to focalize and express the desire to God. (Location 434)
First, you believe that there is one Intelligent Substance, from which all things proceed; second, you believe that this Substance gives you everything you desire; and third, you relate yourself to it by a feeling of deep and profound gratitude. (Location 457)
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The more gratefully we fix our minds on the Supreme when good things come to us, the more good things we will receive, and the more rapidly they will come; and the reason simply is that the mental attitude of gratitude draws the mind into closer touch with the source from which the blessings come. (Location 464)
Gratitude alone can keep you looking toward the All, and prevent you from falling into the error of thinking of the supply as limited; and to do that would be fatal to your hopes. (Location 470)
On the other hand, to fix your attention on the best is to surround yourself with the best, and to become the best. (Location 488)
The grateful mind is constantly fixed upon the best; therefore it tends to become the best; it takes the form or character of the best, and will receive the best. (Location 492)
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It is necessary, then, to cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you; and to give thanks continuously. (Location 497)
You must form a clear and definite mental picture of what you want; you cannot transmit an idea unless you have it yourself. (Location 510)
Behind your clear vision must be the purpose to realize it; to bring it out in tangible expression. And behind this purpose must be an invincible and unwavering FAITH that the thing is already yours; that it is “at hand” and you have only to take possession of it. (Location 537)
The man who can sincerely thank God for the things which as yet he owns only in imagination, has real faith. He will get rich; he will cause the creation of whatsoever he wants. (Location 547)
And by prayer I mean holding steadily to your vision, with the purpose to cause its creation into solid form, and the faith that you are doing so. (Location 563)
“Believe that ye receive them.” (Location 564)
Do not spend your time in charitable work, or charity movements; all charity only tends to perpetuate the wretchedness it aims to eradicate. (Location 622)
Do not read anything which fills your mind with gloomy images of want and suffering. (Location 628)
Every man who becomes rich by competition throws down behind him the ladder by which he rises, and keeps others down; but every man who gets rich by creation opens a way for thousands to follow him, and inspires them to do so. (Location 642)
If you lack for physical health, you will find that the attainment of it is conditional on your getting rich. (Location 678)
an ounce of doing things is worth a pound of theorizing. (Location 697)
The very best thing you can do for the whole world is to make the most of yourself. (Location 698)
The scientific use of thought consists in forming a clear and distinct mental image of what you want; in holding fast to the purpose to get what you want; and in realizing with grateful faith that you do get what you want. (Location 742)
By thought, the thing you want is brought to you; by action you receive it. (Location 760)
Whatever your action is to be, it is evident that you must act NOW. You cannot act in the past, and it is essential to the clearness of your mental vision that you dismiss the past from your mind. You cannot act in the future, for the future is not here yet. And you cannot tell how you will want to act in any future contingency until that contingency has arrived. (Location 761)
Hold the vision of yourself in the job you want, while you ACT with faith and purpose on the job you have, and you will certainly get the job you want. (Location 798)
Every day is either a successful day or a day of failure; and it is the successful days which get you what you want. If everyday is a failure, you can never get rich; while if every day is a success, you cannot fail to get rich. (Location 825)
If there is something that may be done today, and you do not do it, you have failed in so far as that thing is concerned; and the consequences may be more disastrous than you imagine. (Location 828)
your neglect or failure to do some small thing may cause a long delay in getting what you want. (Location 832)
It is really not he number of things you do, but the EFFICIENCY of each separate action that counts. (Location 839)
The cause of failure is doing too many things in an inefficient manner, (Location 846)
Every act can be made strong and efficient by holding your vision while you are doing it, and putting the whole power of your FAITH and PURPOSE into it. (Location 856)
There is a thinking stuff from which all things are made, and which, in its original state, permeates, penetrates, and fills the interspaces of the universe. A thought, in this substance, Produces the thing that is imaged by the thought. Man can form things in his thought, and, by impressing his thought upon formless substance, can cause the thing he thinks about to be created. In order to do this, man must pass from the competitive to the creative mind; he must form a clear mental picture of the things he wants, and do, with faith and purpose, all that can be done each day, doing each separate thing in an efficient manner. (Location 875)
A day or two spent in contemplating the vision of what you want, and in earnest thanksgiving that you are getting it, will bring your mind into such close relationship with the Supreme that you will make no mistake when you do act. (Location 928)
Do all that you can do in a perfect manner every day, but do it without haste, worry, or fear. Go as fast as you can, but never hurry. (Location 935)
Do everything that you do in the firm conviction that you are an advancing personality, and that you are giving advancement to everybody. (Location 968)
Do not boast or brag of your success, or talk about it unnecessarily; true faith is never boastful. (Location 971)
Look out for the temptation to seek for authority, to become a “master,” to be considered as one who is above the common herd, to impress others by lavish display, and so on. (Location 995)
The mind that seeks for mastery over others is the competitive mind; and the competitive mind is not the creative one. (Location 996)
“What I want for myself, I want for everybody.” (Location 1001)
No matter whether you are a physician, a teacher, or a clergyman, if you can give increase of life to others and make them sensible of the fact, they will be attracted to you, and you will get rich. (Location 1005)
Do all the work you can do, every day, and do each piece of work in a perfectly successful manner; put the power of success, and the purpose to get rich, into everything that you do. (Location 1030)
The man who is certain to advance is the one who is too big for his place, and who has a clear concept of what he wants to be; who knows that he can become what he wants to be and who is determined to BE what he wants to be. (Location 1037)
Do not try to more than fill your present place with a view to pleasing your employer; do it with the idea of advancing yourself. Hold the faith and purpose of increase during work hours, after work hours, and before work hours. Hold it in such a way that every person who comes in contact with you, whether foreman, fellow workman, or social acquaintance, will feel the power of purpose radiating from you; (Location 1039)
Do not wait for an opportunity to be all that you want to be; when an opportunity to be more than you are now is presented and you feel impelled toward it, take it. It will be the first step toward a greater opportunity. (Location 1056)
The more men who get rich on the competitive plane, the worse for others; the more who get rich on the creative plane, the better for others. (Location 1074)
You are concerned with doing today’s work in a perfectly successful manner, and not with emergencies which may arise tomorrow; you can attend to them as they come. (Location 1085)
Guard your speech. Never speak of yourself, your affairs, or of anything else in a discouraged or discouraging way. (Location 1096)
Never admit the possibility of failure, or speak in a way that infers failure as a possibility. (Location 1097)
Go on in the certain way, and if you do not receive that thing, you will receive something so much better that you will see that the seeming failure was really a great success. (Location 1108)
When you make a failure, it is because you have not asked for enough; keep on, and a larger thing then you were seeking will certainly come to you. Remember this. (Location 1117)