The Edinburgh Lectures on Mental Science

by Thomas Troward

If we regard the fulfilment of our purpose as contingent upon any circumstances, past, present, or future, we are not making use of first cause; we have descended to the level of secondary causation, which is the region of doubts, fears, and limitations, all of which we are impressing upon the universal subjective mind with the inevitable result that it will build up corresponding external conditions.

An ideal, as such, cannot be formed in the future. It must either be formed here and now or not be formed at all;

Yourself, more yourself, and yet more yourself is what you want;