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Then aside with wishing, day-dreaming, absent-minded hours, where we drift without helm or rudder; and in their stead, select that thing, or that condition, which will satisfy desire; lop off all others; give away one more delusion and go home through this concentration of desire to more faithful, because more earnest, work. Be sincere in your desire for things; be persistent in your desire for any one thing; then you must win. Desire things less, and desire growth, unfoldment, and expression more. It is not the thing that is of benefit, but the power to thus express:

"I've found some wisdom in my quest
That's richly worth retailing;
I've learned when one has done his best,
There is no harm in failing.
I may not reach what I pursue
Still will I keep pursuing;
Nothing is vain that I can do,
Since soul-growth comes of doing."

Desire less things in number but desire those less things tremendously, but not anxiously nor nervously. Keep at it with as steady a pull as do the crack crew of the college. Jesus gave the law which is never failing:

Seek first the kingdom of God and its righteousness and all things will be added. I think if I state the law thus you will understand it:

Seek first the consciousness of Power within your soul where All-power centers; live in accordance with soul laws, then things become subject to you.

Before you can make effort to the attainment of anything, you must feel it is possible for you to attain it.

There must be the Affirmation first of all --- I desire this.

Then there must arise the sense of power to have, to do, and to be, which finds expression in, I can! Then