We
are all immersed in an aura of our thinking.
This aura is the direct result of all
that we have ever said, thought or done;
it decides what is to take place in our
life; it attracts what is like itself
and repels what is unlike itself. We are
drawn towards those things that we mentally
embody. Most of the inner processes of
thought have been unconscious; but when
we understand the law all that we have
to do is to embody consciously what we
wish, and think of that only, and then
we shall be drawn silently toward it.
We
have this law in our hands to do with
as we will. We can draw what we want only
as we let go of the old order and take
up the new; and this we must do to the
exclusion of all else. This is no weak
man's job but an undertaking for the strong,
self reliant soul; and the end is worth
the effort. The person who can hold his
thought one-pointed is the one who will
obtain the best results.
But
this does not imply the necessity of strain
or anything of a strenuous nature; on
the contrary, strain is just what we must
avoid. When we know that there is but
one power we shall not struggle, we shall
know, and in calmness we shall see only
what we know must be the Truth. This means
a persistent, firm determination to think
what we want to think, regardless of all
outer evidence to the contrary. We look
not to the seen but the unseen. The King
of Israel understood this when, looking
upon the advancing host of the enemy,
he said, "We have no might against
this great company, but our eyes are upon
Thee"-- upon the One Power.
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