The miracle of right thought / by Orison Swett Marden.

  • Marden, Orison Swett, 1848-1924.
Date:
[1910]
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Credit: The miracle of right thought / by Orison Swett Marden. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    thought channels. They must be created men- tally first. We must think prosperity before we can come to it. How many take it for granted that there are plenty of good things in this world for others, comforts, luxuries, fine houses, good clothes, opportunity for travel, leisure, but not for them! They settle down into the conviction that these things do not belong to them, but are for those in a very different class. But why are you in a different class ? Simply because you think yourself into another class; think yourself into inferiority; because you place limits for yourself. You put up bars between yourself and plenty. You cut off abundance, make the law of supply inopera- tive for you, by shutting your mind to it. And hy what law can you expect to get what you believe you can not get? By what philos- ophy can you obtain the good things of the world when you are thoroughly convinced that they are not for you? The limitation is in ourselves, and not in the Creator. He wants His children to have all of the good things of the universe, because He has fashioned them for His own. If we do not take them, it is because we limit ourselves. One of the greatest curses of the world is the