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The Miracle of Right Thought

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The Divinity of Desire - Success and Happiness Are for You - Working for One Thing and Expecting Something Else - Expect Great Things of Yourself - Self-Encouragement by Self-Suggestion - The Crime of the "Blues" - Change the Thought, Change the Man - The Paralysis of Fear - One With the Divine - Getting in Tune - The Great Within - A New Way of Bringing Up Children - Training for Longevity - As a Man Thinketh - Mental Self-Thought Poisoning - Contents -

or solid can be built with these nightmare fears in the mind. The doleful, perpetual preparation for imminent death is abnormal and fatal to all growth; fatal to achievement; fatal to happiness.

What is fear? Whence comes its power to strangle and render weak, poor, and inadequate the lives of so many? It has absolutely no reality. It is purely a mental picture, a bogy of the imagination, and the moment we realize this it ceases to have power over us. If we were all properly trained and were large enough to see that nothing outside of ourselves can work us harm, we would have no fear of anything.

I differ from a physician who has recently stated that the emotion of fear is as normal to the human mind as that of courage. Nothing is normal which destroys one's ability, blights self-confidence or strangles ambition. This physician evidently confuses the faculties of caution, prudence, and forethought with the fear thought which blights, destroys, and kills. The former were given us for our protection, to keep us from doing things which would be injurious, but there is not a saving virtue in fear, in the sense in which the word is ordinarily used. Its presence cripples the

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