Getting to Know Yourself - p.18

Last week we started out as though we were all very new in this, on the premise that we knew nothing of Metaphysics. We saw that we live in a mental world, a world that is controlled by our thinking. And if we want to control our lives, we must learn to control our thinking.

We have to learn to keep our minds open, and to give positive thinking an honest trial.

Today we are going on to the next step:

What is it that makes us tick?

Here we will turn to the greatest textbook ever written --the Bible. From time to time we will use texts from the Bible - texts that apply to the particular lectures, and that will be a guide for us to explain the thing we are trying to understand, and to accomplish.

Today our text is from Proverbs, Chapter 4, Verse 23:

"Keep thy heart with all diligence, for out of it are the issues of life."

Now in the Bible, the heart is another name for the soul, and the soul, in turn, is a synonym for the conscious and subconscious mind, but particularly the subconscious.

Your subconscious is the impetus behind everything you say or do. It is the thing that makes you what you are, where you are, and why you are. If you think of it as your individual storehouse and powerhouse, that is as good a way of expressing it as any other.

We said last week that "thoughts are things," and you saw that you can think things into existence, and by the same token, you can think them out of existence.

But don't misunderstand me. Don't be deceived into believing that you can do it by simply saying "I am well, and that's that."