Path to Prosperity - No: 12

Lesson Twelve - As A Man Thinketh

When you are suffering from fear or worry, you may be sure you have endowed something with this power over you, otherwise it could not have gained such a hold. The very fact that you fear it shows that you have established between it and yourself a relation which you could break if you only knew how to apply your mental chemistry. Whenever you are unhappy, distressed, "blue," worried, it is due to some mental poison, which ought to be as easy to antidote as it is to destroy fire with water.

What you allow to live in your heart, harbor in your mind, dwell upon in your thoughts, are seeds which will develop in your life and produce things like themselves. Hate seed in the heart can not produce a love flower in the life.

Discord of every kind, whether it is expressed in suffering, in disease, in poverty, in failure, in happiness, simply means that one is out of harmony with their better self, that they do not harmonize with their divinity.

All thoughts which suggest weakness, failure, unhappiness, or poverty, are destructive, negative, tearing-down thoughts. They are our enemies. Brand them whenever they try to gain an entrance into your mind. Avoid them as you would thieves for they are thieves, -- thieves of our comfort, thieves of harmony, of power, of happiness, of success.

The mind must be kept f^r^e^e from bitterness, jealousy, hatred, envy, and uncharitable thoughts; from everything which trammels it, or there must be a penalty paid in impaired efficiency and inferior work as well as loss of peace of mind.

There must be good-will in the heart or we can not do good work with head or hand.

No one can carry secret hatreds and grudges, jealousies, and revengeful feelings, without seriously impairing their own reputation. Many people wonder why they are not popular, why they are disliked generally, why they stand for so little in their community, when it is really because of their bitter, revengeful, discordant radiations.

On the other hand, those who send out kindly, loving, helpful, sympathetic thoughts, those who feel friendly toward everybody, and who carry no bitterness, hatred, or jealousy in their hearts, are attractive, helpful and sunny.

Mankind will reach the millennium when we have learned to hold the right attitude of mind towards our fellow man. The time will come when it will be found infinitely easier to do right than to do wrong, when people will eagerly follow the Golden Rule, because it will produce harmony and universal well-being.