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It is a pity that people should let themselves be defeated by the problems, cares, and difficulties of human existence, and it is also quite unnecessary.
A sense of inferiority and inadequacy interferes with the attainment of your hopes,
self-confidence leads to self-realisation and successful achievement.
“God is with me; God is helping me; God is guiding me.” Spend several minutes each day visualising His presence. Then practise believing that affirmation. Go about your business on the assumption that what you have affirmed and visualised is true. Affirm it, visualise it, believe it, and it will actualise itself. The release of power which this procedure stimulates will astonish you.
Practise confidence and faith and your fears and insecurities will soon have no power over you.
“If God be for us, who can be against us?”
can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.”
Watch your manner of speech then if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind.
The words we speak have a direct and definite effect upon our thoughts.
“No man or woman of my acquaintance who knows how to practise silence and does it has ever been sick to my knowledge. I
Fill your mind with all peaceful experiences possible, then make planned and deliberate excursions to them in memory.
Frequently I find that people who are lacking in inner peace are victims of a self-punishment mechanism.
It is not hard work that drains off energy, but emotional upheaval, and this man is entirely free from that.”
our physical condition is determined very largely by our emotional condition,
He declares that if a worker will work in harmony with the rhythm of his machine he will not be tired at the end of the
People who lack energy are disorganised to one degree or another by their deep, fundamental emotional and psychological conflicts.
“Prayer is the greatest power available to the individual in solving his personal problems. Its power astonishes me.”
You need not lose your basic energy or vital power or become weak and listless merely as a result of accumulating years.
“What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them.”
He declared that hard work, positive thinking, fair dealing, right treatment of people, and the proper kind of praying always get results.
foolish to manufacture personal unhappiness to add to all the other difficulties over which you have little or no control!
make it a habit to be happy.”
he that is of a merry heart hath a continual feast.”
“The way to happiness: keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Fill your life with love.
The Bible advises us to ‘Fret not thyself...’
To help reduce this tension which seems to dominate our people everywhere, you can start by reducing your own pace. To do that you will need to slow down, quiet down. Do not fume. Do not fret. Practise being peaceful. Practise “the peace of God which passeth all understanding.” (Philippians iv.7.)
But “muddied water”, says Lao-tse, ‘let stand, will become clear.’”
If you miss it, perhaps you should have missed it.
Do not fume. Do not fret. Practise being peaceful.
“Our belief at the beginning of a doubtful undertaking is the one thing (now get that—is the one thing) that insures the successful outcome
of your venture.”
