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choose, pleasant thoughts of health, success and happiness. VOLUNTARY CONCENTRATION is the secret of personal power; is the secret of all who have won in life's battles. These victors decided to think success, and nothing but success, and to never give up, thus from the very jaws of defeat, to win the mead of victory.

Concentration is but sticking as Will to the thought you have chosen. It is thinking "I will. I am asked, "Shall I affirm all the time?" I answer,-Should you spend all your time thinking or saying I can!" and "I will," you would do nothing else. Think "I can," and I will" whenever opposite thoughts would enter the mind. Sit quietly a few minutes each day, by yourself with the chosen thought and hold it because you choose to hold it. While you thus concentrate voluntarily, keep all other thoughts out of your mind by willing them out. I will to think thus. This is not easy. You little realize how you have encouraged tramp thoughts, unwelcome thoughts, uncalled thoughts, "calling thoughts, superficial thoughts, until you begin to direct your mind. You then find how unstable you are as Will. You find as one of my pupils said when she first tried to enter the Silence, "Every other thought, I ever had, came calling!" We have not been trained to choose our thoughts, and are too much of the time subject to wandering, vagabond, tramp thoughts that finding us undirected, pick us up and abide with us. It is important that you fully comprehend what is meant by "Going into the Silence!" It is voluntary concentration. It is wilful concentration. It is concentration upon a chosen thought. It is doing voluntarily and with