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June 14 - July 8, 2019
“Those who do little or no thinking for themselves are drifters. A drifter is one who permits himself to be influenced and controlled by circumstances outside of his own mind.”
“The first duty of every human being is to himself. Every person owes himself the duty of finding how to live a full and happy life.”
“Unearned gifts of every nature may become a curse instead of a blessing.”
Definiteness is in effect the only sort of prayer upon which one can rely. It places one in the way of using hypnotic rhythm to attain definite ends .
definiteness of purpose is the only sort of prayer upon which one can rely.
“Children are sent to school to make credits and to learn how to memorize, not to learn what they want of life.”
Modern public education is designed to create drones, example is STEM.
“Faith is definiteness of purpose backed by belief in the attainment of the object of that purpose.”
Accurate thinking is aided by properly controlled and directed sex emotion because sex emotion is the same energy as that with which one thinks.
Intetesting.
The habit of expressing loosely organized opinions is one of the most destructive of habits. Its destructiveness consists in its tendency to influence people to guess instead of searching for the facts when they form opinions, create ideas, or organize plans. The habit develops a grasshopper mind—one that jumps from one thing to another but never completes anything.
That's me, how sad for me :(
One of the worst pests on earth is the person who writes uninvited letters to people of prominence.
“The proper relationship is one that brings to all connected with it, or affected by it, some form of benefit.”
Life gives no one immunity against adversity, but life gives to everyone the power of positive thought, which is sufficient to master all circumstances of adversity and convert them into benefits. The
the law of hypnotic rhythm forces every human being to form thought-habits which harmonize with the dominating influences of his environment, particularly that part of his environment created by his association with other minds.
Stating this truth in another way, one may submit himself to any environmental influence desired, whether positive or negative, and the law of hypnotic rhythm will make the influence permanent when it assumes the magnitude of thought-habit. Is that the way the law works? A That is correct. Be careful of all forces which inspire thought; those are the forces which constitute environment and determine the nature of one’s earthly destiny.
“People are not born with wisdom, but they are born with the capacity to think, and they may, through the lapse of time, think their way into wisdom.”
The answer is not hard to find. There is no use looking toward high heaven for it. For my part I would prefer to seek the answer from the Devil, for he would tell me quickly enough that victory goes to the people who know what they want and are determined to have it.
They have mastered the habit of drifting. They have definite policies, definite plans, and definite objectives. Their opposition, which may outnumber them very greatly, has no chance against them because the opposition has no plan, no purpose, no policy except that of drifting along, hoping that something may turn up to help them.
Just "puttering around" is a form of drifting that my false selves enjoy.
One’s dominating desires can be crystallized into their physical equivalents through definiteness of purpose backed by definiteness of plans, with the aid of nature’s law of hypnotic rhythm and time!
