Between reachings do you retire into the world I AM for inspiration and power for further reaching?

This alternation from Being to Doing—from I AM to I DO —is the secret of power and progress and success. It is the soul’s breathing. You inhale in the world I AM; you exhale in the world I DO. The more easily and regularly you vibrate between these two the more complete is your realization of health and success.

When you have that tired and unsuccessful feeling due to too much exhaling in the world I DO, just rise into the realm I AM and by imagination and affirmation pump yourself full of— I AM power.

I AM wisdom.
I AM love.
I AM what I desire to be.
ALL Things work together for the manifestation of what l AM.

Then rise again and express your regenerated self in Doing. There was one man who talked back at me for that “Good Morning” article. I received from him an unsigned note which began by acquainting me with his opinion that he is “a very old man” and therefore entitled to assume authority and correct pert, little, young and conceited things like me, for the good of their souls; and it closed with calling my attention to a small attached card bearing in a little black frame this admonition:

“Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.”

In my Bible, which is well thumbed by the way, and copiously underlined and annotated, these lines are underscored with red ink. If the sender of that card had dug the verses out of his own Bible instead of finding them where somebody else had put them, his eyes might have traveled down another line where they would have rested upon this:

“Be not wise in thine own eyes.”

And he would not have found after that any clause to the effect that he is entitled to become wise in his own eyes when he

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