law, when he allows his thoughts to take out into larger fields of action, his conditions come up to his thought; when he stops enlarging his thought he stops growing. If he would keep on in thought, realizing more and still more, he would find that in the outer form of things he would be doing greater things.
There are many reasons why a man stops thinking larger things. One of them is lack of imagination. He cannot conceive of anything more to follow that that which has already happened. Another thought works like this: "This is as far as any one can go in my business." right here he signs his own death warrant. Often a person will say, "I am too old to do bigger things." There he stops. Some one else will say, "Competition is too great"; and here is where this man stops; he can go no further than his thought will carry him.
All this is unnecessary when we realize that life is first of all Consciousness, and then conditions follow. We see no reason why a man should not go on and on and never stop growing. No matter what age or what circumstance, if life is thought, we can keep thinking bigger things. There is no reason why a man who is already doing well should not be able mentally to conceive of a better condition. What if we are active? There is always a greater activity possible. We can still see a little beyond what has come before. This is just what we should do, see, even though it be but a little beyond our former thought. If we always practice this, we will find that every year we shall be growing, every month we shall be advancing; and as time goes on we shall become really great. As there is no stopping in that power which is
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