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Auto-Suggestion. This Auto-Suggestion is received by the Sub-conscious and creates the spiritual condition desired, and that condition produces the desired objective results. Therefore when one says, "I cannot concentrate," I reply-Each time you sincerely desire you are concentrated. Each time a wish becomes desire you are praying; you are concentrating. The thought of this section is beautifully expressed by a poem translated from the Arabian, by James Freeman Clarke:

"Allah! Allah!"
cried the sick man, racked with pain the long night through,
Till with prayer his heart grew tender, and his lips like honey grew.
But at morning came the tempter, said,"Call louder, child of pain!
See if Allah ever answers, 'Here am I, again'
Like a stab the cruel cavil through his brain and pulses went.
To his heart an icy coldness, to his brain a 'darkness sent.
Then before him stands Elias, says,"My child why thus dismayed
Dost repent thy former fervor? Is thy soul of prayer, afraid
Ah! he cried,"I've called so often; never heard the `Here am I
And I thought, 'God will not pity! Will not turn on me his eye!
Then the grave Elias answered,"God said, 'Rise Elias, Go!
Speak to him the sorely tempted; lift him from his gulf of woe.
Tell him that his very longing, is itself my answering cry.
That his prayer, 'Come gracious Allah!' is my answer, `Here am I'
Every inmost aspiration is God's answer undefiled;
And in every '0, My Father!' slumbers deep a 'Here my child.'"