The miracle of right thought / by Orison Swett Marden.

  • Orison Swett Marden
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[1910]
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    lives sublime; that no matter how disagreeable or unfriendly our surroundings may be, we can lift ourselves into the ideal conditions which we see in our vision. There is a divinity behind our legitimate desires. By the desires that have divinity in them, I do not refer to the things that we want but do not need; I do not refer to the desires that turn to dead-sea fruit on our lips or to ashes when eaten, but to the legitimate desires of the soul for the realization of those ideals, the longing for full, complete self-expression, for the time and opportunity for the weaving of the pattern shown us in the moment of our highest trans- figuration. “ A man will remain a ragpicker as long as he has only a ragpicker’s vision.” Our mental attitude, our heart’s desire, is our perpetual prayer which Nature answers. She takes it for granted that we desire what our heart asks for — that what we want we are headed toward, and she helps us to it. People little realize that their desires are their perpetual prayers — not head prayers, but heart prayers — and that they are granted. We are all conscious that there accompanies us through life a divine messenger, given to
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