The Science of Getting Rich

by Wallace D. Wattles

You can make the most of yourself only by getting rich; so it is right and praiseworthy that you should give your first and best thought to the work of acquiring wealth.

creating large amount of fragments of truth is better than trying to describe the core of truth in concise form. Correlates with why artists who create more are more successful

Remember, however, that the desire of Substance is for all, and its movements must be for more life to all; it cannot be made to work for less life to any, because it is equally in all, seeking riches and life. Intelligent Substance will make things for you, but it will not take things away from some one else and give them to you.

所以说嫉妒是反自然的

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but the same Power which produced them will dispose of them.

Riches secured on the competitive plane are never satisfactory and permanent; they are yours today, and another's tomorrow.

This is a key difference

Never look at the visible supply; look always at the limitless riches in Formless Substance, and know that they are coming to you as fast as you can receive and use them.

you will lose what you want because some other person "beats you to it."

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.

but can give to every man more than you take from him.

and so that each employee who wishes to do so may advance a little every day.

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It will be brought to you by the power of the Supreme Intelligence, acting upon the minds of men.

God, the One Substance, is trying to live and do and enjoy things through humanity. He is saying "I want hands to build wonderful structures, to play divine harmonies, to paint glorious pictures; I want feet to run my errands, eyes to see my beauties, tongues to tell mighty truths and to sing marvelous songs," and so on.

Gratitude requires so much work though

Without gratitude you cannot long keep from dissatisfied thought regarding things as they are.

To permit your mind to dwell upon the inferior is to become inferior and to surround yourself with inferior things.

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.

The reaction of gratitude upon one's own mind produces faith; and every outgoing wave of grateful thanksgiving increases faith.

You must form a clear and definite mental picture of what you want; you cannot transmit an idea unless you have it yourself.

When you try to impress your wants upon Substance, remember that it must be done by a coherent statement; you must know what you want, and be definite.

拜神灵是拜自己

That clear mental picture you must have continually in mind, as the sailor has in mind the port toward which he is sailing the ship; you must keep your face toward it all the time.

overcome mental laziness and the love of ease, and make them work.

faith that the thing is already yours; that it is "at hand"

See the things you want as if they were actually around you all the time; see yourself as owning and using them.

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The man who can sincerely thank God for the things which as yet he owns only in imagination, has real faith.

You do not make this impression by repeating strings of words; you make it by holding the vision with unshakable purpose to attain it, and with steadfast faith that you do attain it.

but it is not your oral petitions which get you what you want.

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you need to "pray without ceasing." 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.

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To set about getting rich in a scientific way, you do not try to apply your will power to anything outside of yourself. Your have no right to do so, anyway. It is wrong to apply your will to other men and women, in order to get them to do what you wish done. It is as flagrantly wrong to coerce people by mental power as it is to coerce them by physical power.

good"; for you do not know what is for his good.

To get rich, you need only to use your will power upon yourself.

The picture of your desires, held with faith and purpose, is taken up by the Formless, and permeates it to great distances-throughout the universe, for all I know. As this impression spreads, all things are set moving toward its realization; every living thing, every inanimate thing, and the things yet uncreated, are stirred toward bringing into being that which you want. All force begins to be exerted in that direction; all things begin to move toward you. The minds of people, everywhere, are influenced toward doing the things necessary to the fulfilling of your desires; and they work for you, unconsciously.

是真的。一个人的梦想可以激发好多人的梦想

It is by not understanding this that most people who try to make use of "mental science" in getting rich make their failure. Every hour and moment you spend in giving heed to doubts and fears, every hour you spend in worry, every hour in which your soul is possessed by unbelief, sets a current away from you in the whole domain of intelligent Substance.

Get rich; that is the best way you can help the poor.

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getting pictures of wealth into the minds of the poor.

by increasing the number of poor people who purpose with faith to get rich.

The poor do not need charity; they need inspiration.

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.

Do not tell of your past troubles of a financial nature, if you have had them, do not think of them at all. Do no tell of the poverty of your parents, or the hardships of your early life; to do any of these things is to mentally class yourself with the poor for the time being, and it will certainly check the movement of things in your direction.

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Why give time and attention to things which are being removed by evolutionary growth, when you can hasten their removal only by promoting the evolutionary growth as far as your part of it goes?

To become really rich is the noblest aim you can have in life, for it includes everything else.

On the competitive plane, the struggle to get rich is a Godless scramble for power over other men; but when we come into the creative mind, all this is changed.

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occult

After you have made good and become rich, you may study other systems as much as you please;

A thought, in this substance, Produces the thing that is imaged by the thought.

you must give every man more in use value than he gives you in cash value.

It is not your part to guide or supervise the creative process; all you have to do with that is to retain your vision, stick to your purpose, and maintain your faith and gratitude.

You can really see the truth of this. When things reach you, they will be in the hands of other men, who will ask an equivalent for them.