The Miracle Club: How Thoughts Become Reality

by Mitch Horowitz

Therapists have observed that the commitment itself, and the willingness it represents to charge at a problem with all available resources, is therapeutically meaningful. The sense of moral agency that arises when you cross a threshold, when you commit to withholding nothing in pursuit of a solution, can amount to the solution that is sought. The mental act is catalyzing.

YES.

in order to be happy, human beings must exercise their fullest range of abilities—including the exertions of outer achievement.

I’d weighed it all, over and over again: What have I got? No looks, no money, no education. Just talent. Where do I want to go? I want to be treated well. I want people to like me, and to be decent to me. How do I get there? There’s only one way I can do it with what I have to work with. I’ve got to be a star! I have to be a star like another man has to breathe.

Would his attainment of fame ease his inner anguish? I think he owed it to his existence, as you do to yours, to find out. Whatever your goal may be, you cannot renounce what you haven’t attained.

Whatever your aim in life, it must be acknowledged that money is necessary. Without it you can do nothing—you will be forced to spend all your time and attention getting it, while anxiously yearning to enact your plans in the world.

affirming, visualizing, meditating, and praying. Historically, these are seen as the core methods for harnessing the mind’s formative energies.

At times of both drifting to sleep and awakening, the state of hypnagogia presents us with what might be considered prime time for channeling the energies of thought.

Unless you are trained in the art of method acting (which is actually a good tool for a New Thoughter), you may have no idea how to summon emotions.

Writing down an affirmation, goal, or intent has special potency. The physical act of writing—not on a device but with a pen or pencil to produce a tangible document—not only helps fix something in your awareness but is, in effect, the first step to actualizing the thought. Committing an idea to paper, in however nascent a form, brings something concrete into your world.

Never limit your sense of possibilities or experimentation, especially when searching for a way out of a crisis or difficulty.

Bill wanted it with his whole soul. That is the key. Within the parameters of physical possibilities, you receive what you “want with your whole soul”—whether inner truth, a personal accomplishment, relationships, or whatever it is.

At our best, we are made to act. It is agony to live otherwise, quiet agony, perhaps, but the kind that fuels chronic reliance on gossip, food, booze, or other compulsions and means of escapism,

Courage is something you must do all by yourself. If you go your own way, you may have to face an occasional loss. But you cannot call yourself courageous while also insisting that others, regardless of their needs, pay or service you, when and how much you want.

Neville maintains that desire is God speaking to us. And God is us. To walk away from a deep personal yearning is to walk away from God within yourself.

We are called upon to perform in both worlds: the seen and the unseen.