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"If one advances confidently
in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live
which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected
in common hours."
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Thoughts are energy; thoughts are magnets that attract to us
the various things we think. The greatest shortcut to prosperity
is to believe in it. Prosperity attracts; poverty repels. This
is the operation of the law which says, "For whosoever
hath, to him shall be given, and he shall have more abundance:
but whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken away even that
he hath." (Matthew 13:12.) In one way, failure is like
success. Both are "inside" jobs. People live in poverty
and want because they are so wrapped up in their suffering that
they give out thoughts of poverty and unhappiness. Thoughts
attract in kind, and when we think poverty, nothing else is
possible. All of our lives we have known in a vague sort of
way that developing our faith, like getting money, is the result
of earning it, but most of us never get a very good vision of
that very powerful idea. Summed up, the result of all experience
is that man gets back exactly what he gives out, except it is
multiplied.
The essence of the law of abundance is that we must believe
in abundance. We must think abundance. We must raise our sights
for greater accomplishments and let no thought of failure or
limitation enter our minds. We must think success and feel success
and work for success. Our boundaries should be expanded. "Man
was intended to be rich," said Emerson.
Nature is rich, and it was intended that every man, woman, and
child should be rich likewise. To be in want is a sin. Plutarch
said that while poverty may not be dishonorable in itself, it
is usually the manifestation of laziness, intemperance, carelessness,
lack of planning, and lack of courage. In contrast, upon a person
who is temperate, industrious, just, and valiant and who uses
all of his virtues and develops a great, lofty mind and an active
body, fortune will pour her whole cornucopia of wealth, honor,
and worldly goods.
—Sterling W Sill
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