引爆心中的TNT

附錄 《引爆你心中的TNT》英文原文（1 / 3）

附錄 《引爆你心中的TNT》英文原文

TNT: The Power Within You

1 “THAT SOMETHING”WITHIN CALLED TNT

For those of you who seek to learn and make progress, I gently lay this message in your laps. I do so without the slightest fear but that it will turn your world entirely up—side down—bringing you health, wealth, success and happiness, provided you understand and accept it.

Remember, T N T is a dangerously high explosive; so when you gather it closely, handle it carefully. Down through the centuries its power has destroyed those who sought to misuse it. Therefore exercise great caution that it is used only for good.

This power can be proved by the teachings of the Bible, certain well-established laws of physics, and, last but not least, just plain common sense. Read and deter—mine for yourself whether or not the proofs I offer stand by themselves.

Some of you may see only the spiritual side, others recognize the scientific truths, and still others may accept it as just a practical operating device to put you on the road to success. No matter: many know the truth, and for you who will open your minds the light will pour in with dazzling white brilliancy.

I'm indebted to an old friend of mine, an expert on X-ray and electrical high frequency apparatus, who, when I was a boy experimenting with electricity, called to my attention the first bit of powerful TNT in my pocket. Then I didn't know what it was and didn't understand, but fortunately it has remained there all through the years.

As I look back, I realize why he didn't force me to understand what it was. He believed in me, and knew that when I was ready to accept it, I would. It's taken nearly thirty years, during which time I sought up and down the highways, looking, seeking and searching for“something” —the secret—T N T.

All the time there was some in my pocket, mine for the mere reaching. However, I've got a firm grip on it now, and I will divide it graciously, knowing that if used wisely it will blow away all obstacles and straighten out the road on which you've been wanting to travel all your life.

Why are you blocked？

For many years I was a newspaper man, frequently behind the scenes. I met great men and women, interviewed famous people. Naturally, I studied them and tried to understand what peculiar qualities they possessed that placed them above the others. But their secret evaded me.

Then came the First World War and I wondered why others made progress while I seemed to be blocked in my own ambitions. The war did teach me, however, that I could sleep in the mud, eat moldy bread and live to laugh about it. This is part of my T N T, so remember what I learned. It helped me to give Old Man Fear a solar-plexus blow, and I believe it will help you.

Hoping to find a royal road to fortune, I read hundreds of the so-called“success” books, but they took me nowhere. I did the same with books on philosophy, psychology, and still the great secret kept just a jump ahead of me. I joined secret fraternal organizations, hoping that I might find that which I sought. However, just like the bit of TNT in my pocket, the secret was in every book, in the great orders, everywhere, in fact, right under my very nose, but something kept me from it.

You will have to determine for yourself what keeps you from it if you don't get it from T N T. It's there. If you don't find it in the printed word, look between the lines—as I've done my best to present it to you.

Are you afraid？

Following the war, I became a member of a coast—wide investment banking organization, and during the years I cherished quite a dream—as did thousands of others in all lines of business—only to discover that the air castles which I built were on an unstable foundation.

That cataclysmic happening which turned the world upside down financially obliterated my air castles entirely, and I became afraid. I got lost in the fog. Everywhere I turned, something fell in on me.

As an executive of the organization, my responsibilities multiplied. Our business, owing to the economic changes which were taking place in the world, faced a crisis. Many people, failing to understand the catastrophe which had overtaken business everywhere, were critical. All of this brought worry and many sleepless nights. I found myself dreading to go to work, fearing that each day would bring added misery.

The weeks went on and conditions got worse and worse. I was baffled. Several times I talked about getting out of the business; and one day, in the latter part of June, 1931,I made up my mind to leave. I mentioned this to one of the women with whom I had been associated in business for several years and saw nothing but reproach in her eyes.

That night I tried to sleep. Again, I found it impossible. I paced the floor for hours—when at about 3:30 in the morning I suddenly stopped and sat down. I was face to face with myself. I could follow the inclination to run and leave the others to carry on by themselves, or I could stay and do my share; a duty which I knew was mine.

I caught myself saying, almost aloud:

“Right is right. It's always been right. It can't be otherwise.” This was something I had been taught since infancy.

Suddenly there appeared to be an unfoldment!

Out of the air!

Out of the air came a voice saying:

“What have you been looking for all these years？ What were you taught？ What did you learn？ Where have you been？ Where are you going？"

I jumped to my feet, crying: "I know it. I've got it now, It's the secret. That's what they tried to teach me. It is the Royal Secret, too!"

Something told me that I would find those identical words in a book which had been given me many years before and which I had tried to read, failed to understand and had put aside. It was written by a great man, Albert Pike, a mystic, a poet and a scholar. Pulling it from the shelf, feverishly I ran through the pages. The words were there and I understood immediately.

Open your mind

I now had the key. I could see a broad smooth highway and at the end of that highway, a perfect flood of gorgeously beautiful radiance:

"That's the road you are on now. What a simpleton you have been! They tried to teach you, they tried to help you and you kept your mind closed—thinking that you alone could find the road and stay on it."

I was nearly overcome with the sheer joy of it all. My fears, my worries had disappeared. I smiled. I knew that I was right and that everything would be right for me from then on. I slept like a baby.

There was a different atmosphere in the office that day. The oppressive black clouds which hung over us began to fade away. I told the woman—she with the reproachful eyes—what had happened, and she smiled a knowing smile. She helped me get back on the track, and I can never repay her.

As one learned man said: “All of us are born with the ability to differentiate between right and wrong, and with the ability to achieve, but some of us must run head-on into a stone wall, smash ourselves to bits before we really know what it's all about.”

I hit the wall with a terrific crash and it was the greatest thing, the finest thing, that ever happened to me.

Many, noting the transformation, asked for an explanation. I told some of my closest friends. Knowing it will help, I give it to all of you.

Tap—Tap—Tap!

Take a little at a time. Like a little drop of water, tap—tap—tap, T N T will wear away your old fears and doubts and prejudices, making room for new ideas, new concepts, new truths.

Tap—tap—tap: it is opportunity knocking at the door of your mind. Open up your mind and let this knowledge in.

From the day I decided to pass on this charge of TNT to others, it has been put to use by thousands of individuals, firms and organizations. In addition, I have talked and lectured, in person and over the radio, to many additional thousands; and I am very happy to say that, without exception, phenomenal results have been obtained by those who have understood and applied the principles and mechanics outlined herein.

Tap—Tap—Tap!

You may get it all at once, or it may take you a little time to prepare your mind so that the power you've always had can work through you. But don't work at it too hard ,don't try to force it. Be assured, the power is there and you can learn to use it.

At the time my awakening came, the morale of our whole organization was at its lowest ebb. Everyone was discouraged. Afraid. By the very necessity of things, we had to do an about-face.

Right is right

My job was doing everything I could to help the other fellow because I knew it was right. At first I was perplexed as to the methods I should employ to help others, but I used my own system in calling upon the subconscious, and the inner voice said that I should talk to them.

Some were skeptical, but I said to myself: "I can prove that I am right!" And during the week that followed I spent every waking hour reviewing the books that I had studied through the years. Naturally, the Bible came first; then followed studies in Yogism, the philosophies of the old Greek and Roman masters and of the later-day teachers and students. Again I deliberated over the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, reread Thomas Jay Hudson's Law of Psychic Phenomena and another book, The Gist of It, written by a brilliant physician, Haydon Rochester. Once more, I studied my books on physics, electricity, and those on the vibrations of light, and discovered that not only was I right, as I knew I would be, but that peculiarly the same general basic principles ran through them all. I reread numerous books on psychology and found the same story everywhere. Subsequently, I quoted excerpts, and lo and behold, things began to move!

Where is your nichel？

As I looked about me I made the significant observation that men and women who use this power are showmen, or to use the words of my newspaper days, headliners those who hit the front page. Something causes them to toss away the bushel basket under which they hide their heads, and they rise above the commonplace.

Not that you may ever want to become a headliner in this sense , but you will surely agree that such people who have developed the power within to the nth degree have become headliners, or they would never have gotten their niche in the hall of fame. It doesn't follow that they are newspaper publicity-seekers, because some of them are very reticent—and possibly by their very reticence are showmen.（Page Greta Garbo!） Others adopt certain peculiarities or use certain devices to make them stand out from their fellow men. Some wear an efficacious smile（Dwight D. Eisenhower, for one!）, others scowl（John L. Lewis!）, some command attention by critical barbs at peoples and customs（George Bernard Shaw!）, and still others have a certain charm of manner（Eleanor Roosevelt）. Long hair（many musicians and conductors such as Leopold Stokowski）, whiskers and sideburns（the Smith Brothers!）, monocles（Charles Coburn） play their part. Flowing robes and distinctive dress are worn by others（Mark Twain and his famous white suits!）. The showmanship of some is evidenced by red neckties, others by spats, affected manners, and some even by their number of marriages and divorces（such as Tommy Manville!）

The world takes note of the unorthodox, the unconventional, the uninhibited individuals, and most headliners come under these classifications. They are different in some one or more particulars. Some deliberately flaunt and dramatize their differences. Others are not concerned with what people think about them. They are too busy being themselves and doing what they want in life, whether or not it is making right use of their power of T N T.

Many master the art of oratory, the science of warfare, banking, statesmanship, politics, the arts; but all of them stand out in the full glare of the spotlight—as headliners.

The number is legion. I mention a few of those of history and today: Demosthenes, Nero, Julius Caesar, Christopher Columbus, Galileo, Cleopatra, Balzac, de Maupassant, Sir Isaac Newton, Joan of Arc, Cromwell, Edgar Allan Poe, Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, Bismarck, Alexander Graham Bell, General Grant, Abraham Lincoln, Cecil Rhodes, P. T. Barnum, Clemenceau, Lord Kitchener, Woodrow Wilson, Sir Thomas Lipton, Mussolini, Hitler, Winston Churchill, Joseph Stalin, Lenin, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Charles E. Hughes, Lloyd George, Mahatma Gandhi, Will Rogers, Douglas Fairbanks, Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, John Burroughs, Charles Lindbergh, Alfred E. Smith, Jane Addams, George Washington Carver, Al Jolson, Eleanor Roosevelt, Marion Anderson, Ralph Bunche, Harry Truman, Jawaharlal Nehru, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Ezio Pinza, Bernard Baruch, Jimmy Stewart, Jane Froman, Cecil B. DeMille, Albert Einstein and Dr.Albert Schweitzer.

You could go on and on, each name calling to mind a personality, living or dead, who has been unique in expression and achievement. Such individuals have been and are found in every walk of life. It will always be so, as their use of the power within elevates them to the top in their profession or endeavor.

You will note the inclusion of such names as Nero, Julius Caesar, Mussolini, Hitler, Stalin and Lenin in this list. They were all brilliant in their way, and attained their positions of great power through use of "that something” within—but they trampled humanity in the dust doing it. As history evaluates them, it must weigh the evil they have done against the good. You can become a headliner by using this inner power wrongly as well as rightly. That's why it's so wonderful and so dangerous at the same time! That's why you must learn how to control it, in a way helpful to you and to others—and（if you become a headliner）, to the world!

Gandhi used this power, I am sure, and I think he was perhaps the greatest headliner of modern times. You can find many pictures showing him in the civilized garb of present-day man, but in his later years he kept his hair cropped short, wore only a loincloth and a pair of huge spectacles. I have no right to say that Gandhi affected this attire for any specific purpose, but I believe he did it with the realization that this appearance helped focus the world's attention upon himself for India's cause.

I make no attempt to explain why those who use this power are showmen. But you'll notice, as you begin to exercise this power in your own life, that it will make you stand out among your friends and loved ones. They will immediately detect a difference in you, the way you express yourself, the way you act. This doesn't mean that you will be showing off or trying to attract attention. It just means that you are starting, for the first time, perhaps, to be really yourself, to take advantage of the opportunities that are all about you, to cut loose from your old hidebound ideas and limitations, and to claim that which is rightfully yours—which you might have attained long ago, had you understood how to release the power of T N T m your life.

Remember: you can't be a shrinking violet and win any recognition or respect for yourself in this world.

"A city that is set upon a hill cannot be hid. Neither do men light a candle and place it under a bushel…"

Again:

"The great truths of life become known only to those who are prepared to accept them…"

Thousands who used the power within for evil brought on their own destruction. Look back through history and you can pick these men and women out for yourself.

We get out of life exactly what we put into it—no more, no less. This is an old truism, but it cannot be emphasized enough. When we put in good thoughts, constructive efforts, and do good, then we receive like in return, for

"Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap."

What is “that something"—the T N T that rocks the earth？The power within every and any individual which he has to use, if he is to amount to anything in life!

Have you figured it out yet？It's you, your real self, the hidden power of your own inner mind, released under purposeful control, and directed to serve you in the meeting of any experience, the removal of any obstacle and the overcoming of any condition, economic, physical, mental or spiritual.

Picture the force!

It is the explosive force of a mental picture of what you want in life, given by you to your subconscious, touched off by faith in yourself and faith in God.

Whatever you picture, within reason, can come true in your life if you have sufficient faith in the power within!

That's your TNT—a mental image of what you want and the faith that you can and will get it!

It's as simple as that: so simple that millions of men and women won't believe it, won't take the time to learn about this power, would rather go on beating their heads against stone walls of willful blindness, ignorance and stubbornness, and keep on creating all manner of misery, economic loss and ill health for themselves through wrong thinking.

Remember, I stumbled along for thirty years with a bit of T N T in my pocket. All I had to do was reach for it, and I had hold of a power which could have saved me worlds of grief. But I knew more than the happy, successful men and women around me who were using this power and who were inviting me to share it. I thought I could do it all myself, that this success business was largely luck, that you couldn't depend on faith or any God Power. I was exposed to this truth, time and time again, but it didn't take. I had vaccinated myself against it by my skeptical, scoffing attitude.

Let's hope you don't get as sick of life and as despondent and despairing as I was before you clean out the pockets of your mind and find the TNT that's waiting for you there.

What's that？ You say you've come across a detonating cap already？Good, Get it set. Put out the caution signals. Proceed carefully and prepare yourself for the first explosion in your consciousness which is going to blast away you wrong thinking and open up a new pathway that will change the course of your entire life—for the better!

2 WHAT “THAT SOMETHING” HAS DONE FOR OTHERS

Nothing in this world is so powerful as an idea whose time has come.

VICTOR HUGO

The time has come for the greatest idea in the world to take possession of your consciousness. It is a simple idea, but when you open up your mind and let it in, you'll never be the same again. Like TNT it will rock the earth around you and beneath you. It will shake you to the foundations of your being. It will destroy old false concepts and replace them with new ones. It will eventually remove fear and worry from your life. It will release you from chronic nervous tensions, chase the butterflies out of your stomach, restore your self-confidence, give you a more positive attitude, and enable you to face things you've been running away from, for years!

All the great, successful men and women in this world have made use of this idea. It has been the dominant idea in their lives. Without it they could never have been great, in their way, or successful.

What is this idea？

It is the realization that what you picture in your mind, if you picture it clearly and confidently and persistently enough, will eventually come to pass in your life!

That's it! Oh, of course, there's a little more to it than that. But boiled down to the very essence, the wise men said it all when they said: "As a Man thinketh in his mind and in his heart so is he!"

Get it？"As a man pictures in his mind and in his heart—so is he!"

When this idea first hit me it knocked me down for the count. It was a real haymaker, because I had been blaming the other fellow, circumstances beyond my control, for the mess I was in. I just knew I hadn't been responsible for all the unhappy experiences I had undergone. Well, anyway, it helped salve my many hurts to pretend that I hadn't been to blame. But deep down within, I think I had finally begun to realize that the way I thought and felt about things had some connection with what was happening to me.

If I got up in the morning, depressed and convinced it was going to be a bad day, it more often than not turned out a bad day. At first I thought I was "psychic," that I could tell in advance what was going to happen. It took a long time and I took a lot of unnecessary punishment before it dawned on me that there is a universal law in the mental realm, "like always attracts like," and that I had been creating what happened to me by wrong thinking.

Looking around me, I saw happy men and women to whom happy things were happening. They got up in the morning expecting good things to come to them—and good things did!

Sometimes these happy people had unhappy experiences, but I noticed that they didn't let these experiences get them down. They got up the next day expecting more good things to happen, and sure enough more good things did!

Before my awakening came, this always amazed me. I even resented it. Why should just a different mental attitude make so much different？

I didn't know then that there is a mighty force in the world which scientists call electro-magnetism. I didn't know that everything in the universe is electro-magnetic in nature, that the laws of attraction and repulsion operate electro-magnetically; that when you assume a positive or negative attitude of mind, you get a positive or negative result; that there is no such thing as an accident in life—that everything happens in direct accordance with the laws of cause and effect!

Read and reread the above paragraph! Let these facts soak in till you never forget them—because they have the power to change your life!

There is nothing new to what I am telling you, except as it may be new to you. This same message has been written and delivered thousands of times. It runs through the Bible; you find it in the great fraternal orders; it led the Three Wise Men; the Crusaders carried it; every outstanding character of history has used it. Moses, Alexander the Great, Napoleon, Shakespeare, Washington, Lincoln, Benjamin Franklin, Edison, Dr. Steinmetz, Barnum, F. D. Roosevelt and numberless others had a grasp of "that something.”

The wisest men of all ages, the "medicine men," religious leaders, great teachers, the Mayan priests, the Yogis, healers and miracle men—all of them knew this secret. Some worked it one way, some another.

They pictured in their minds and hearts what they wanted—and what they pictured eventually came true!

Moses pictured leading his people to the Promised Land; Alexander the Great and Napoleon pictured great conquests; Shakespeare pictured the creation of his immortal writings; Washington pictured the winning of independence for the Thirteen Colonies; Lincoln pictured the freeing of the slaves and the preservation of the Union; Benjamin Franklin pictured the capturing of lightning through a kite, as a means of proving that electricity and lightning are the same force; Edison pictured the electric light, moving pictures, the phonograph, the electric train and countless other great inventions; Steinmetz pictured new uses for electric power; Barnum pictured "the greatest show on earth," a circus that would travel around the world by train; Roosevelt pictured leading his country out of its worst depression.

These were great pictures by great and inspired men, and all these pictures, held resolutely in mind and converted into action, were brought to pass by the faith and energy and vision and courage and steadfastness of each individual.

These, and many like them, were just human beings like yourself. If they knew and could achieve, so can you.

Halt! Think! Ponder!

What made these people great? It was that they pictured themselves attaining! They dared to picture great achievement. And the power within, given these pictures to work on, finally brought them into being.

You have to think big to be big. A small man is made up of small thoughts. He cannot remain small and think big.

Reflect for a moment!

Where did the steamboat, the locomotive, the automobile, the electric light, the sewing machine, the radio, the typewriter and a million other objects and conveniences come from? All were thoughts or mental pictures in the minds of men before they became realities. Everything on this earth, except that which nature creates or has provided, is the result of sustained thought.

Take out of this world everything that has been created by thought alone, and you would have nothing left but the primitive jungle. This is the quickest, most graphic way to give you a comprehension of what the mind of man has done.

When the real history of the evolution of mind is written it will make the greatest, most thrilling story of all time because it will cover all time and every phase of human experience.

This story will tell how man required thousands upon thousands of years to emerge from the depths of ignorance, superstition, fear, prejudice, mythology and wrong concepts.

It will tell of great minds like Galileo, who believed with Copernicus that the earth moves around the sun, and was compelled by the Inquisition to take back his statement and was forbidden to publish his learned books. With what shame we look back upon such persecutions by the early Church of men who dared pursue the truth despite existing doctrines and decrees.

The history of the human mind will give honor to Charles Darwin, whose profound study of plants and animals led to his famous, world-shaking, The Origin of Species, in which he advanced the theory of evolution. To the credit of modern-day theology, God's handiwork in and through evolution is now being recognized by many religious sects.

Time's majestic march through the ages has seen man's mind develop powers he little dreamed of in the early days of his residence on this earth.

Proof that man is more than animal

The fact that the creature man has been able to survive all these centuries in the struggle against all forms of 1ife and in spite of the inhumanities of his fellow man is proof that he possesses superior powers within. Man is a veritable God in the making although he reveals, still too often, devilish tendencies.

It is that inner power which man possesses, beyond and apart from any other living creature on this earth, which has made it possible for him to advance to his present state of development and awareness.

The power within has lifted man above all other animals. While there are probably higher intelligences on other planets and in higher realms of being, it is now evident that man has unlimited potentialities for further development within him. He is just in the kindergarten of his opportunities for unfoldment and achievement, once he learns how to live peacefully and co-operatively with his fellow man. He is in the midst of learning this painful lesson now. But I have faith he is going to learn it. I have a faith in this vast inner power, greater than man, of which man is becoming more and more conscious—"that something" which can and will eventually free man from his fears and hates and prejudices—and give him such understanding of his own self that he will, in turn, be able to understand others.

You always know when a man or woman is using the power within his or her life. Such people walk in the consciousness of this power which is in and behind their every thought and act. They are poised, self-assured, courageous, uninhibited and magnetic in expression. They know where they are going and how to get there. They have pictured their future and are moving with resoluteness and conviction into that future. There is a spirit about them which is contagious. They tend to carry you along with them, to spur you on to greater efforts in your own behalf. These people are the planners and the doers of the world. The great mass of unthinking human beings follow in their wake.

Do you lead the pack, or are you one of the pack? If you are a follower of others, you have not yet discovered "that something" within you. To be a leader, to be able to step out ahead of the pack in your line of work or human interest or expression, you must know how to draw upon the power within. It is absolutely essential. You cannot be anything without it.

The law of attraction will only bring to you what your picture. The creative power within must be magnetized by what you visualize for it to do.

Picture! Picture! Picture!

This is the simple command which leads to attainment. Picture! Picture! Picture! But be sure you are picturing what you really want and not developing pictures of fear and worry which will cause that inner power to create for you what you don't want!

If Edison, when he was trying to invent the electric light, had pictured failure instead of success, he would never have made ten thousand experiments before he developed the filament which would carry the electric current and produce light. Think of it! Edison failed 9,999 times before he succeeded once! But each failure taught him what would not work, and through the laborious process of elimination finally led him to the discovery of something that would work!

How long could you persist in the face of such colossal failure？ Edison is credited with saying, "Success is ninety-nine per cent perspiration and one per cent inspiration."

When you know you are working with the power within, as Edison did, your faith will never falter. You will continue the struggle against all obstacles and seeming setbacks, in the unshakeable conviction that you will eventually succeed.

Sometimes, failure to attain a certain goal has led unexpectedly and even more rewardingly to another. Consider the famous case of Columbus. His studies convinced him that the world is round, and he believed that by sailing westward he could reach Cathay and the Indies. It took him five years before he was able to get the ships necessary for such a journey. Even then, his crew was so doubtful of his ideas that they mutinied and almost turned back. Still Columbus never lost faith. The power within him kept him going, and when he finally sighted some islands he called them the "West Indies." Even after making three more trips to American, Columbus died without realizing he had discovered a new world! History, however, does not record Columbus as a failure. No good effort is ever lost!

What you picture must come to pass if you picture it long enough, clearly enough and confidently enough. I am going to repeat many of these statements again and again, in different ways, because I want them to be indelibly impressed upon your consciousness.

The successful men and women of the world never lost sight of their pictures. They keep on reminding their creative power of what they desire in life so that it will keep on attracting everything they need to materialize what they have pictured.

Example of picture power

Irma and Farley O'Brien are a young couple now living in North Hollywood, California, in " the home of their dreams. " It is just the home that they pictured, which they testify came to them as a direct result of visualization.

For months they had tried to find the right home, had looked in many sections and had enlisted the aid of many real-estate agents. They had seen a number of attractive houses and yards but none possessed that indescribable appeal, that heart-warming something they were seeking in a place they would wish to buy.

Finally, despairing of finding what they wanted by they routine methods, Irma and Farley decided to stop searching. They had learned of a new way to attract to them what they desired—a magical way.

All they had to do was to sit quietly and picture together the exact house that they wanted, in the faith that this home existed somewhere and already belonged to them.

Irma drew out the floor plans for the house. She visualized the surrounding landscape, The garden, the flowers, the patio—everything. Farley and she discussed these plans, agreed upon them, become enthused over them. They had little money to invest in such a home, but they had faith that resources would also be made available if they pictured what they desired strongly enough and clearly enough and put forth every effort in the direction of their objective.

Irma said to Farley: "I don't want just a house. I want a home that has been built by a couple who loved it as we will love it, the instant we see it. I want a place that has the atmosphere of love in it and around it. I want to feel this love in every room, in the garden, among the flowers. Do you suppose there is such a place？"

"I'm sure there is, " said Farley. "There has to be—or you couldn't feel about it as you do. "

And so each night, before retiring, Irma and Farley pictured themselves being led to such a home, wherever it might be. They dropped off to sleep, dreaming of this home, with the expectation of being led to it when the time and conditions were right. They let go of all previous apprehensions that they would not find what they desired. Somehow, some way, they knew that what they were picturing would materialize for them.

One day, some weeks later, Irma and Farley were at a friend's house and Irma felt impelled to tell this friend of "their dream." The friend listened with interest and then said: "You have just described the home of a friend of mine—a man by the name of Mr. Davies, whose wife died a few months ago, shortly after their 'dream home' was completed. Mr. Davies is still living in the home. He has been offered twice what it cost him but he says that he won't sell until he finds a couple who will love this home as much as his wife and he did."

"Please take us to this man," Irma and Farley requested.

When they arrived outside the home in North Hollywood, they stopped and stared, unbelievingly.

"This is it!" they both cried, even before they had stepped across the threshold…the house, the yard, the garden, the flowers, the patio . . . their picture had come to life!

And when they met Mr. Davies at the door, the love of this home was in their eyes, and he saw it, and said to them: "I see that you already like this place. Just make yourselves at home. I won't go with you. Take your time. Go wherever you wish. When you have finished, I'll be waiting."

For an hour Irma and Farley lost themselves in their breathless examination of the beautiful premises. It seemed to them as though they had already moved in…as though they had been living in this "home of their dreams," as perhaps they had, in the higher, mental sense.

But now, it was time to face reality. It was obvious that this home would cost far more than they could pay, that any down payment would be in excess of their entire resources.

"What shall we do？" Irma said to Farley. "We've found the home we have pictured—but how can it be ours？"

"Our faith has taken us this far," said Farley. "Let's not doubt that it can take us the rest of the way."

They were out in the backyard and now they turned to enter the house. As they did so, Mr. Davies opened the door. He stood quietly, eyeing them.

"Oh, it's wonderful…wonderful!" they exclaimed. "Just what we have been wanting! But it appears to be beyond our means."

"Perhaps it may not be," said Mr. Davies. "I have been requesting a large down payment of people to whom I am not interested in selling. But you love this home as my wife and I did. Somehow, I can feel that she would never forgive me if I sold our beautiful home to a couple who did not share our deep feeling for it. You folks know what you can pay—make your own terms.”

A deal was arranged and the O'Briens left with the assurance that the "home of their dreams" would now become their real life home.

Even so, the down payment would take all their available finances, with no resources in sight to complete the purchase.

"Have we let our feelings run away with us？" Irma questioned. "Should we have assumed this big obligation？"

"Everything has worked out so perfectly," said Farley, “'I have faith it will keep on working out this way."

And it did! Today their lovely home is bought and paid for.

Yes, that power within always works when you have learned how to utilize it. It works in ways you cannot possibly imagine, when you place your faith in it and do what you fell is right to do in any situation.

In the case of Irma and Farley, like had attracted like. They had been picturing the kind of a home Mr. Davies owned and he had been picturing selling this home to the kind of a couple they were. Such visualizing had drawn them magnetically together through the medium of the friend to whom Irma felt impelled to confess her desire for "the home of her dreams."

The channels through which you may reach your goal are always provided in much the same manner by the power within, when you have pictured what you want, clearly and confidently and persistently, with faith that what you picture can and will be attained.

All that is good and right for you in life can be drawn to you by right thinking. What "that something" has done for others, it can just as easily do for you.

Positive thoughts attract—negative thoughts repel

Check your thinking! Do you believe what has been told you thus far？ Does it begin to ring a bell？ Can you look back on your life and see how you have attracted good things to you by positive thinking and bad things by negative thinking？ If you can, then you are ready to learn what this creative power can do for you!

3 WHAT “THAT SOMETHI G” CAN DO FOR YOU

There are thousands, yes, millions of people seeking the secret—the key to health, riches, happiness, contentment and a solution of their problems.

Through the ages many men and women had the secret, used the power; and I am positive you can acquire it too if you'll think as you read, accept and apply the ideas contained herein.

What do you want？

Where are you going？

Answer these two questions and you will give your life purpose and direction. If you don't know what you want or where you are going, you will get next to nothing and end up nowhere. The person who is unsettled in mind is surrounded with unsettled conditions.

Never forget: like always attracts like!

How you are thinking today determines what you will be and where you will be tomorrow!

Have you ever noticed the indecisive individual？ If he is behind the wheel of a car, he is first in one lane and then in another; he slows down to make a turn, then changes his mind and speeds up; he is over-cautious one minute and reckless the next; he doesn't know where he's at or why—and no one else does, either.

That is no way to get any place or do anything worthwhile. If you are unsettled, uncertain, undecided in your thoughts and actions, it is a sure sign that you are not in complete control of your mind and emotions. It is evidence that you have not yet been introduced to this creative power within which can transform your life.

Today there is a superabundance of talk about atomic power. You may notice they always compare what an atom bomb or a hydrogen bomb or a cobalt bomb can do in terms of so many thousand tons of T NT.

When I first discovered this power in me, the power that best described it was T N T. If you have a force in you equal to TN T, you don't need any greater power than that to move the mountains of fear and doubt and worry and tension and inferiority and frustration and hate and greed and prejudice which have been holding you back and weighing you down.

Just light the fuse, by picturing right things happening to you. Then step back and let "that something"— the magnetic creative power within you—take over.

What can it do for you？

You name it—and it can do it! Name it, believe in it, picture it, work at it, and this power will attract to you everything you need to accomplish what you desire.

Overcoming handicaps

A friend of mine who stuttered when a boy wanted to be a preacher. He grew up still wanting to be a preacher, but when he confided his desires to friends and loved ones, they either laughed at him or tried to discourage his ambition.

"Better pick up some vocation where you don't have to appear in public," they recommended. "No one will ever listen to you. Why, you can't speak a sentence without difficulty and when you start stammering, it's embarrassing. It takes you half a minute, sometimes, to get a word out.”

"But I don't have to be this way all my life, " this man insisted. "One of these days I'm going to speak as well as anyone else. I can see myself doing it and I will do it! "

Today this man has a big church on the West coast. He is one of the most convincing and forceful speakers I have ever heard, and you would never know that there was a time when he had such a serious impediment in his speech.

How did he overcome this drawback？ By picturing! By calling upon that God-given creative power to help him out.

He told me he used to go out into the farmyard and talk for hours to the chickens. He imagined they were people and that he was addressing them. He said, "I seemed to scare them at first, and I guess I did go through a great many contortions, trying to speak without distortion. Sometimes they would eye me curiously, stopping their eating to do it, and I would imagine I was holding their attention by my oratory. Occasionally, they would act as if they were mesmerized, as chickens often do, and I would pretend I was spellbinding them. Gradually, I obtained better and better control of myself, partly through this practice, and partly through gaining an understanding of what had caused me to stutter.

"You see, my father had been a very dominating man. He believed in the old adage, 'a child should be seen but not heard.' He criticized me, as a boy, when I would speak or express my ideas. It made me self-conscious. I became afraid that I would be ridiculed every time I opened my mouth. This caused me to start stuttering. After that, I was reluctant to speak in the presence of anyone, and people didn't want me to try because it distressed them to see me struggle to say what I wanted to say.

"When I found that I could speak, without stammering, in the presence of the chickens and livestock, I developed the confidence that I could speak just as well in the presence of people. This confidence came as the result of a funny idea which occurred to me. I got the idea that all I had to do was to picture people as so many chickens and cows and horses—and, by doing that, I would lose my fear of them.

"It was a boyish concept but it worked. It helped me not to take myself too seriously, to overcome my sense of inferiority and my feeling of self-consciousness. I realized, too, that I had been picturing myself unable to talk in the presence of others because I had been afraid of my father's rebukes. As soon as I changed this picture, and asked for the power to express myself without fear, 'that something' took hold of me. I then attracted the experiences and the training which developed me into the preachers I am today—just as I had visualized so many years ago!"

No matter what your seeming handicap, this creative power is ready and waiting to help you overcome it!

Are you preparing your mind for the manifestation of this power in and through you？

How can you believe？

You first have to be convinced that this power isn't freakish, that it is real and dependable, that you'll be able to recognize it when you discover it within you and that You will know how to go about using it.

That's the purpose, of course, of this book—to reveal that creative power to you and to give you the know-how to make it work successfully for you, as it has for thousands of others.

But you who are reading these lines can't sit on the outside looking in and expect to experience the explosive force of this tremendous power in your consciousness. You've got to open up your inner mind and make it receptive, so the T N T you've hidden away there, through wrong thinking and perhaps ignorance of its existence, can come out and start banging away at your self-made obstacles and drawbacks and difficulties and problems.

You lick whatever you're up against in life…not from without in—but from within out!

Things first happen in the mind before they can happen in the world without!

This is a wallop, the first time you realize it. You don't make a move, except through your free will choose so to do. You can't lay this book down unless you make up your mind to do it first. And you can't enlist the aid of "that something" within until you remove the restrictions you have placed upon it through your wrong thinking.

Don't be discouraged

A good friend of mine, named Jones, had not been getting anywhere in his chosen field of advertising. He was just a run-of-the-mill operator. He decided, one day, that he would have to change all this. He hadn't known what he really wanted in his line or where he was going, so he looked around him.

Was there an advertising position that he felt he was especially qualified to fill？ Yes, there was. The advertising managership of a national publication similar to the National Geographic—let's call it the World Travel Monthly.

My friend had been a world traveler. He had a "feeling" for this position, he began to "see himself" acting as advertising manager. He could put real enthusiasm into such a visualization. As his interest grew in the possible landing of this job, he made inquiries of the magazine's owner.

"Sorry. We are well satisfied with our present advertising manager, Mr. Haley. He has been with us many years and is doing fine work. As far as we are concerned, he has a life-time position with us."

Such information would have been enough to discourage nine out of ten men—but not Mr. Jones. He felt himself impelled to say: "That's all right, but I'm so tremendously interested in your publication, and it would give me so much personal satisfaction to be associated with it, even in an unofficial capacity, would you mind if I sat in on your editorial and advertising conferences whenever I can, and made my recommendations from time to time, as though I were a member of your staff, but without pay？"

The proposal was so unusual that it caught the interest of the magazine owner.

“I, personally, would have no objection, if you are that much interested," he told Mr. Jones. “However, you would have to sell this idea to Mr. Haley. He might not like to have a man who is interested in his position associating with him in this manner. But if he is willing to have you devote such spare time as you have to our interests, without any obligation on our part, you are welcome to do so. "

Mr. Jones called upon Mr. Haley. The two men took an immediate liking to each other. A warm friendship sprang up, which continued through eight years, during which time Mr. Jones made himself of great value to the World Travel Monthly and became conversant with every phase of its operation while he occupied himself with other advertising interests which made him a living.

Finally, there came a day when Mr. Haley was offered a position in California and decided for health and personal reasons, having always wished to reside in this state in his later life, that he would resign from the World Travel Monthly and go West.

Mr. Jones is today the advertising manager of the World Travel Monthly, having stepped into Mr. Haley's position with full knowledge of it—a position he pictured himself occupying for eight years and worked at all that time!

You still think that inner power can't bring you what you want？

What inspiration can do

Do you feel despondent, hopeless, like ending it all？ That's how H. C. Mattern felt, some years ago. He had come to New York City from his home in Pennsylvania which he had left because of family and economic troubles. He had hoped to get back on his feet in New York but things, as they often do, when you are upset, mentally and emotionally, had gone from bad to worse.

Mattern finally decided, since he owed seven weeks' room rent, was down to his last couple of dollars, and had exhausted prospects and resources, that the only way out was suicide. But there were several little errands he was intent on doing first, and one of them led him through the book department on the ground floor of Macy's department store. As he passed a booktable the title of a book caught his eye and challenged him. The title was Your Key to Happiness, by Harold Sherman.

In Mattern's disturbed state of mind, this title acted as a red rag is supposed to react upon a bull. Mattern raged to himself: "There's no such thing as a key to happiness!" But the title stayed with him as he reached the sidewalk, like the lance of a bullfighter stuck in his side .On impulse, he wheeled about, retraced his steps, went back to the booktable, took up the book. and bought it with his last remaining dollars.

Returning to his room, with the poison he had also purchased to take his life, Mattern thumbed through the book in a defiant mood. One of the first passages he came across spoke to him in these words:

"Whether you realize it or not, you are directly or indirectly responsible for everything that happens to you!”

Mattern almost threw the book out the window. He had been blaming his unhappy experiences in life upon others, telling himself that circumstances beyond his control had brought these desperate conditions upon him. The last person he wanted to face was himself, least of all to have to admit that he may have been the cause of any of his shortcomings or problems.

To prove that the author of Your Key to Happiness didn't know what he was talking about, Mattern read further. But, the further he read, the harder he found himself being hit.

"You may be wondering, at this very moment, whether there is any real way out of the difficulties which surround you. And, if you are, my answer to you is: Don't lose hope! There is a way to solve your problems—to relieve the conditions which may now be pressing in upon you; a way that will enable you to achieve the things in life which mean most to you…"

Mattern picked up interest. His thoughts of suicide began to recede into the background of his mind. What was this way？ How could he ever pull himself out of the tailspin he was in？

There it was, in plain black and white:

"You must develop the ability to picture clearly in your mind whatever success you desire."

Remember, I've told you that this message isn't new to develop a chemical formula for cleaning and preserving leather upholstered furniture. He had mixed different ingredients together and had come close to a satisfactory solution, but had finally given up the project. Perhaps, if he renewed his efforts in this direction…!

Then—wham—it happened. Out of the blue, straight from his subconscious, as though handed him on a platter, came the formula he had been seeking! The instant he received it, he knew it would work! This was it!

At two o'clock in the morning, H. C. Mattern shelved all plans for leaving this world! Instead, he began making plans for getting hold of the necessary chemicals as soon as the stores opened later in the day, for preparing the solution and finding a buyer for his services in cleaning and preserving leather upholstered furniture!

All doubts were gone and new faith in himself and God had been born. There was a key to happiness and he had found it!

Mattern knew in that moment that this formula had been prepared for him by "that something," the creative power within, in answer to his previous desires and efforts. The only mistake he had made was giving up too soon. But this formula, once created, had been held for him, in his subconscious.

Later in the morning, a new and vitalized Mattern visited the nearest hardware store and talked the owner into extending him some eight dollars' worth of credit so he could obtain the ingredients he needed to mix the formula. He hurried back to his room on which he owed the seven weeks' rent, and put the chemicals together. Then he sat down to let the power within tell him where to go to sell his product and himself.

The name W. & J. Sloane, a big Fifth Avenue furniture store, came to mind. This company obviously had an extensive leather upholstered furniture department. Mattern phoned and got the man in charge on the wire. He said: "I'm H. C. Mattern. I've developed a solution for cleaning and preserving all leather goods, especially leather furniture. I'd like to come up and demonstrate it for you."

"Come ahead," the executive invited. “If you've got something like that, we could certainly use it!"

When Mattern arrived with his solution, he was escorted to a storeroom and shown a leather upholstered divan in a sad state of disrepair. The leather was dried and cracked and soiled. It looked like a hopeless job, and the severest kind of a test for this chemical formula. But Mattern accepted the challenge. After one hour of hard, hard work, he called the executive back to look at the result. What that executive saw caused him to gasp in amazement, in utter disbelief.

"It looks as if you've substituted a new divan for me," he said. "This can't be the old one! Why, the cracks are softened up and smoothed out, the leather is pliable and alive again, and the soiled spots are all gone. Mr. Mattern—you've just earned yourself a contract to clean and preserve all of our leather upholstered furniture."

H. C. Mattern left the W. & J. Sloane company that morning with a check for $400.00, advance payment for the work he was to do for them.

"That something," the creative power you are going to learn how to operate for you, had done it! It would have rendered Mattern the same service years before, had he only called upon it, in the right way.

And what did Mattern do, in an effort to return thanks to God for the release of this power in and through him？ He took a vow, that night, that he would never pass by another human being who needed help, that he would always take time to counsel with these persons, whoever they might be.

Don't read a book—study it!

Today, H. C. and his wife, Mary Mattern, are widely known from coast to coast, as the champion do-gooders of the country. They have given away thousands of copies of self-help books, which they have placed in the hands of bank presidents, leading industrialists and businessmen, congressmen, senators, governors, waitresses, porters, laborers, farmers, hotel clerks and maids, newsboys, housewives, people of all races, classes, professions and colors.

In the front of each book the Matterns write: “Do not read this book—study it!" Then they underline different paragraphs throughout with three different colored pencils, for emphasis. To make certain that the contents are studied, they staple the pages of different chapters or parts of chapters together, with the written instruction: "Do not remove these staples until you are sure you understand and practice what has. gone before." Or: "Do not study this section for a month. It will take you that long to digest what you are now studying."

Mattern states that it takes them on the average an hour to fix each book, but "It's worth it—it makes all the difference in the world in what the individual gets from any book. Most people have the habit of reading, not studying, and they don't apply themselves. That's why they don't get anywhere."

Concerning the problems that various human beings are up against, Mattern declares: "Their problems are all fundamentally the same and can be solved only by calling upon the creative power within."

As for H. C. Mattern and his equally dynamic helpmate, Mary, their "Keep Smiling Always" salutation radiates constantly from them, and their indomitable spirit is best expressed by the slogan on their business card:

Domg the impossible—because we know how !

Well, what do you think of the creative power now? Are you getting ready to accept its operation in your life? If you are, you'd better start using Mattern's method, and underline every statement in this book that hits you between the eyes, that you feel can mean something special to you, so each thought will be hammered into your consciousness, and made a part of your thinking.

But, first, before you can release this power, you will have to rid your mind of a lot of wrong thoughts and feelings. This may be somewhat painful in the doing but it'll pay you tremendous dividends! Are you game? Can you face yourself? All right—let's go!

4 STOP—THINK—AND ANALYZE YOURSELF!

A man's true greatness lies in the consciousness of an honest purpose in life, founded on a just estimate of himself and everything else, on frequent self-examinations, and a steady obedience to the rule which he knows to be right, without troubling himself about what others may think or say, or whether they do or do not do that which he thinks and says and does.

MARCUS AURELIUS

I take it there isn't an intelligent man or woman who isn't really interested in getting ahead, but I have often wondered if there isn't a negative quality or some inertia in most of us which precludes us from getting started.

It repeat an old story:

Down on a levee in Mississippi, two Negroes were dozing. One of them yawned, stretched his arms and sighed:

"Gee, I wish I had a million watermelons."

The other Negro asked:

"Rastus, if you had a million watermelons. would you give me half of them？"

"No, sir!"

"Would you give me a quarter of them？"

"No, I wouldn't give you a quarter of them."

"Rastus, if you had a million watermelons, wouldn't you give me even ten of them？"

"No, sir! I wouldn't give you ten of them."

"Well, wouldn't you give me one lousy water—melon？"

"Say, Sam, I wouldn't give you even a bite of one if I had a million watermelons."

"Why not, Rastus？"

"Because you're too lazy to wish for yourself!"

There's much to be gleaned from that story. You'll understand as I proceed.

I am fully cognizant that some will scoff. There have always been scoffers, but scoffers never succeed. They never get any place in life, but simply become envious, while the doer or the person who is moving forward has to jump over or go around them. They have nothing but a nuisance value in life. Some of you may dismiss all of this as you have done before—as you always will—but for those of you who are interested, are still willing to learn, I promise you can learn and make progress for yourself.

It is easier to go with the current than fight against it, but you must harmonize with others, with everything around you.

In the words of a great philosopher:

"No longer let thy breathing only act in concert with the air which surrounds thee, but let thy intelligence also now be in harmony with the intelligence which embraces all things. "

It requires little effort to breathe but it does require the expenditure of energy to think. It shouldn't be necessary for me to explain further that I am suggesting that you put yourself in tune with the very stream of life itself. You who understand will appreciate that nature provides ways and means for all things to grow rightly.

Meditate for a moment and you'll realize I am giving truths which many may have forgotten. There's the great fundamental law of compensation which makes all things right.

There's no set rule for doing anything, because some of us perform one way and some another, just as two people might go across the river . . . one goes by one bridge and one by another...but they both ultimately get to their destination. In other words, after all is said and done, it's results that count, and, if you will make up your mind to exactly what you want and follow the simple rules which are given herein, everything you are after will be yours.

The time has come for you to stop and think and analyze yourself!

Just what do you believe about yourself—and why？

Do you believe you are getting out of life what you should? Do you believe you are giving to life what you should? Life, you know, is not a one-way street. It's a gift to you from God, the Great Creator, But from the moment you are born, you are basically on your own. You have to draw the first breath to live—and you have to keep on breathing, if you wish to remain on earth. You have to take reasonable care of your body or you will suffer some form of ill health. You have to use your head and what is inside it for something more than a hatrack. If you don't, you won't get very far with either your mind or your body.

The condition you are in right now largely depends upon what you have been thinking and doing to and for yourself—all your life. Nothing just happened to you by accident. You are the sum total of all the causes and effects you have set up in yourself through your mental and emotional attitudes. Their end result is the you that you are right this minute!

Take a look in the mirror. Study every physical movement. It tells a story. Each move you make marks your personality, in outer expression.

Examine that look on your face: it indicates the way you think. Your eyes—how do they appear to you? Are they clear, steady and direct? The person you see in the mirror is the one the other person sees. What kind of an impression do you wish to make on him? That's entirely up to you.

You know whether or not you have personality. If it is absent or undeveloped, make up your mind to get it. You can and you will, when you make up your mind and do as suggested herein.

What is personality? What is it, when you get in the presence of another person who has personality, that grips you? What is it that causes you to feel his very presence—that overshadows you？

It's nothing more than a dynamic force coupled with will power which he is drawing from that huge reservoir of the subconscious. There are millions of people who have this personality（some say it's natural with them, and perhaps it is, but they are unconsciously using this power）. It has been thrust upon them, or they have developed it without realizing, early in life, and when that thing called personality is backed up with will power, things move.

The appealing personality belongs to that man or woman who possesses self-confidence, self-assurance. These are people with a purpose; they know where they are going and how to get there; and this intensity of purpose shows in their faces. They have poise. They attract others to them as a magnet attracts iron filings. Everyone just groups around a radiant personality.

When you get to know yourself, you can develop this same intensity of purpose, this determination to get ahead. And, shortly, this determination will show in your eyes, your speech, your actions.

You have heard people say that a certain person has a penetrating gaze, that he looks right through one. What is it？ Nothing more than that fire from within—intensity—or whatever you wish to call it, which means that the person who has that gaze usually gets what he wants, He compels, commands, attracts.

Remember, the eyes are the windows of the soul. Look at the photographs of successful men. Study their eyes and you will find that every one of them has that intensity. Therefore, I say, let it be reflected in the way you walk, in the way you carry yourself, and it will not be long before people will feel your presence when you walk through a crowd—and an individual prospect will feel that personality when you talk with him.

To my way of thinking, selling bonds, books, clothes, insurance, electric service, washing machines, is no different from selling any other commodity . . . selling yourself or selling ideas. I have found that in trying to put over an idea, first I have had to believe in myself, then in the idea and my ability to sell both myself and the idea! I have also found that you have got to know what you are talking about and only hard, personal, persistent, intelligent study will enable you to do this.

How much do you know about yourself, about others, and the world you live in？ The kind of personality you are expressing depends upon this knowledge. You can't express yourself with ease and assurance and authority unless you possess an awareness of self, of others and of the world!

Awaken! Know what is going on about you!

Get understanding!

You can develop and expand your personality by keeping step with the world's affairs. Keep informed. Find out all you can that is of interest about the people you have met or are to meet, so you'll have much more in common to talk about. You never know what a new friend or prospect may be interested in, and it's sometimes necessary to get his attention or your "break" through entirely irrelevant subjects. You can't always start a conversation about the weather or your aches and pains. Read the newspapers, current periodicals, listen to important radio newscasts and television commentators. Use your eyes and ears. Be sure you're up-to-date. I don't mean to cover every detail of a murder or a suicide, but get a digest of the day's activities, at home and abroad. It will enlarge your perspective.

Never forget—knowledge is power! That may sound like an old bromide, but, brother, it's true!

Who wants to listen to an uninformed, ignorant, self-centered individual？

Increase your knowledge, and the scope of your activities and interests will be greatly increased, as will the desire for greater things—larger things. As your desire expands, the things which you previously thought you wanted will become to your mind trivial and will be disregarded, which is another way of saying that you ultimately will hitch your wagon to a star and, when you do, you'll move with lightning-like speed!

Study, learn and work. Develop a keenness of observation. Step on the gas. Do better than that: get jet propulsion. Become alive for yourself, and you'1l pass on this aliveness to the other fellow. You'll pep him up just by your being in his presence. Some of your magnetism will rub off on him and he will like you for it. You've heard people say: "I get a big kick out of being with so-and-so. He always gives me a lift! "

Get confidence, enthusiasm, let loose some of that inner fire—"that something"—and you'll set up like vibrations all around you. That's the theory of all life, as old as the world itself. Like begets like—tap, tap, tap! I'm repeating that statement, and I don't care how many times you've heard it before. Perhaps if I repeat it often enough—tap, tap, tap!—you'll never forget it. Like begets like. A laugh brings a laugh, a good deed calls for a good deed, riches beget riches, love, love—you go on from there! It works! It's contagious! The old law of attraction never fails.

But don't get the idea that I am giving you an over-size wishbone and all you have to do is sit down and start talking to yourself, and by using repetition, get what you want. It's not that easy! You've got to have the wishbone backed up with a backbone. And that isn't all. The wishbone and the backbone must be coordinated and synchronized to a point where they are operating in perfect harmony. When they are in tune, you will find personality developing. Then put action, energy into your scheme and everything will move before you.

I take it that all of us have admired that intense type of person. I mean by that, one whose shoulders are back, whose chest is out, whose head is up and whose eyes are alert. It is easy to pick out in any organization those whose feet lag, whose shoulders droop, whose chins sag and whose eyes are a blank. Drifters, loafers, quitters.

Discover your faults

First, measure yourself. Then study those with whom you are associated, and you can tell, at almost a glance, those who will make progress and those doomed to failure.

Are you close to that category？ If you are, snap out of it!

The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars,

But in ourselves, that we are underlings.

William Shakespeare wrote that, as you know, and it's plain to be seen, in his writings, that he knew and used this inner power in his life. He rose high above the commonplace and won for himself an immortal niche in the literary hall of fame, through reliance upon the creative power within.

Yes, the fault is in yourself, if you are not what you want to be and where you want to be.

If you are timid, backward, in a rut and an underling, it is because of yourself. Blame not the stars. Blame not society. Blame not the world. Blame yourself. Again I say, change gears. Get out of low and shift into high. Start picturing what you really want to be and you'll start to move.

Take warning that thought can operate in reverse. You can go backward through wrong thinking just as fast as you can go forward through right thinking.

This kind of "reverse thinking" has brought on depressions, and can bring on depressions again. If the mind of man becomes panicky, if enough individuals become obsessed with fear and greed, if the psychology of scarcity sweeps through the land, if great numbers of people become too demanding or move too strongly in a certain direction, stock markets can become upset and the economy of the world can be affected.

You know, when you are depressed you tend to depress those around you. When the barometer falls, it's a sign of storm conditions. A turned-down mouth has led to many turndowns. Don't carry your griefs and troubles around with you. No one wants to share them. People have griefs and troubles enough of their own.

Stop your moping!

Picture yourself wrapping up your griefs and troubles in a nice little neat bundle and leaving them by the roadside. Better yet, see yourself dropping them off a bridge so they'll float away on the stream and never come back again.

You say, "But it can't be done!” and I answer, "Is it helping you solve your problems and your heartaches, letting them weigh you down in mind and body all the time？"

Get out from under! You can't be yourself, it is impossible to make the right impression on others, to attract good things to you, when you are staggering under a load of things that have already happened, which can no longer be helped and which cannot be cured by moping about.

If worry had the power to solve a problem, I would worry twenty-four hours a day, and I'd ask you to help me. But worry, unhappily, only multiplies your troubles.

Line up all the chronic worriers in the world, and they would reach almost to the moon and back. You've seen many men and women who look as if they were going to cloud up and rain any minute. They belong to the Loyal Order of Sad Sacks and Crepe-Hangers. Everything that happens to them is bad or going to be bad. They've temporarily lost the capacity to see good in anything. They can't enjoy the present because they are bemoaning the past and afraid of the future.

One of the wisest men I ever knew, a man high in mental and spiritual development, said to me: "Never for one moment forget this: life is an individual proposition. No matter how much you may wish, at times, to shift responsibility for your thoughts and acts to others, or to escape from the consequences of certain experiences in which you have become involved, you are living in a world of cause and effect—a world in which nothing actually happens by accident—and you, yourself, set up the causes by your own thinking, good or bad, for the things that happen to you!"

I have proved this, time and again, in my own life, and so have you, if you will only admit it to yourself. But when I've made this statement to some men and women, they've said to me: "That's a frightening thought. Do you mean that I have attracted failure, economic need, ill health, dislike, loss of friends, unhappiness…？" And when I have told such people: "Yes, if any of these conditions have come upon you, you have your own self to blame," they said, "But we didn't picture these things!"

No, perhaps they didn't—directly. They didn't see themselves failing, running short of funds, suffering a nervous breakdown, growing unpopular, losing friends, ending up unhappy. But their mental attitudes were expressed in this kind of thoughts:

"Wouldn't you just know this would happen to me？"

“There's no use trying—I just can't do it!"

“I don't want to meet him or her. . . . I know I won't like them!"

“It's just my luck to have this happen. I'm always getting the worst of it."

"Oh, I feel so bad, I wish I could die."

“I'm going broke—there's no way out."

"Yes, I'm feeling fairly well today—but this doesn't mean anything. I'll probably feel worse tomorrow!"

Aren't these wonderful suggestions? Can you possibly picture, with the knowledge of mind you have now gained, how any of these thoughts could attract good？

On the contrary, this kind of thinking can only bring one result. Yet, many of us, carelessly, in moments of emotional depression, give voice to such thoughts and then wonder why so many things go wrong in our lives.

Prepare yourself to face anything!

So: take stock of yourself! We are living, as you know, in a terrific age—an amazing age. To many whose minds are unprepared, it is a bewildering, frightening age.

The tempo of life and developments is increasing at a rapid rate. Things are unfolding almost too fast for the mind of man to grasp. More and more earth-shaking developments are on the way. Much that was considered impossible a few years ago has already been accomplished. Anything may happen from now on—and probably will!

You must train yourself to be mentally alert, to maintain an open mind, to make contact with your creative power within, so you can adapt yourself to the changes that are coming; so you will have the insight, the understanding and the courage to meet them.

You must learn how to perceive the truth—to accept what appeals to your past experience, your reason and your intuition—and to reserve judgment on all things with which you are unfamiliar, until you can prove them out or test them in your own life.

It is not enough for you to learn the laws of mind. You must learn how to use your mind in accordance with these laws.

You've heard the old, old adage: "Faith without works is dead." You must work with yourself if you would develop the creative power within, so it can do what it has done and is doing for others.

The fortunate men and women of the world are those who know how to visualize, how to eliminate their fears and worries, how to remain inwardly calm and poised, no matter what the circumstances, how to assume a positive mental attitude, and how to retain emotional stability under pressure.

This should be your great goal in life, to realize a like attainment. It will be your only guidance and protection in this fast-moving world of today.

Abandon all limited thinking!

Prepare your mind now by putting aside all narrow and limited thinking. Never say again that anything is impossible, no matter how impossible it may seem at the moment. Don't restrict and shackle your mind by small and prejudiced thinking. Free your consciousness of feelings of resentment, antagonism, hate and like emotional reactions toward others. This kind of thoughts is keeping you from thinking straight, from getting the right perspective toward others and yourself. They are holding you back from progress, preventing your creative power from working through you.

You can overcome the effects that wrong thinking has had upon you. But to do this, you must gain emotional control; you must learn how to relax your physical body, how to make your conscious mind passive, and how to place the right pictures of what you desire in mind. You must learn how to release the hold that past mistakes, now stored in consciousness, have upon you.

Since like attracts like（tap, tap, tap—I'm repeating this again!）, good attracts good and bad attracts bad. It's as simple as that, but you can't straighten yourself out, without facing your past.

Men and women say to me, "But I'm trying to forget my past!"

Alas, the mind doesn't operate that way. What it takes into consciousness, it hangs onto, unless you, through an act of recognition, resolution and will, change the picture—or let go of it!

How often do you let yourself be upset about something someone does or says？ You store the picture of each incident and feeling in mind.

When you think of this person, you call up the same feelings against him, until you have overcome them. If you don't change them, they exist as irritations in consciousness. Irritations eventually find their reflection in some disturbed body condition or illness, or an unhappy human experience.

Do you want to permit these past irritations to attract similar disturbances in your future? Then get busy and eliminate them from your consciousness.

Stop kidding yourself!

You will have to do your own analyzing. You know yourself better than any close friend or relative can ever know you. You may have been able to mask your real feelings and thoughts from others; but you can tell, deep down within, what you really think and feel about anything or anybody. If these thoughts and feelings are not good, get busy and make them good!

Forgive others for what they've done to you. Assume your share of the blame. Don't hold resentments or grudges or hates. They are poisoning your mind and your body, upsetting the chemistry of your physical organism, making you susceptible to all manner of possible diseases and illnesses. Doctors now attribute such afflictions as arthritis, rheumatism, shingles, some forms of epilepsy and many other illnesses to nervous and emotional disturbances. It has even been found that many who have cancer can retard its progress if they can control their emotions and maintain an optimistic, fearless attitude toward it.

"That something" in mind has unlimited power—to overcome, to heal, to create, to attract—once you learn how to use it.

The development of this power is up to you. Are you willing to put forth the effort？ If you are, go with me, from chapter to chapter, studying and applying . . . studying and applying . . . and when we reach the end of this journey together—you will have the answer to your problems, and will be on your successful, happy way—alone.

5 HOW TO CREATE MIND PICTURES

Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.

AN ANCIENT SAYING

Before you can really reach and control and direct "that something," you need to know just how your mind functions. This creative power is the most important part of your mind, but it is elusive and intangible and difficult to contact, consciously, until you have gained an understanding of your inner consciousness.

Did you know, for instance, that you actually do not think in words . . . you think in pictures! And, because you think in pictures, and not in words, your mind, in its "mechanical" functioning, operates no differently from that of Primitive Man, who lived thousands of years ago.

He, too, thought in pictures, before language was evolved. When he was gone from his cave home, on the hunt, and returned to his tribe, the only way he could convey to them what had happened to him was to draw crude pictures in charcoal or chisel them on the stone walls of his cave.

Gradually, as primitive man drew pictures of similar experiences over and over again, and associated sounds with certain objects and happenings, he had only to start a familiar picture and onlookers knew instantly what he meant. These early pictures eventually reduced themselves to symbols, the symbols grouped together became letters, then words, and finally sentences . . .and first language was born.

But with all our vaunted civilization of today, with all the languages that have evolved, with the enormous vocabulary of words that modern man possesses to describe his feelings and ideas and the world about him, he still thinks basically in mental pictures. I can easily prove this to you.

Take your time, and think of some little unusual experience you have had this day. As you recall it to mind, you see, in your mind's eye, pictures of your doing something, being somewhere, meeting someone—whatever the incident may have been. But, you are powerless to convey to me what happened to you until you grope for words, the symbols of this happening, so you can tell me about it. I, in turn, as I listen to your words, have to translate these words into pictures in my own mind's eye, in order to see and comprehend what you experienced.

So it is clearly evident that you think basically, as I have said, in pictures. This is one of the most important facts you can ever learn about your mind. And the next important fact is this: what you picture in your mind, if it unites with the creative power within, can attract to you whatever you fear or desire.

The creative power is like a magnet

This is true because this creative power operates like a magnet. Give it a strong, clear picture of what you want and this creative power starts to work magnetizing conditions about you—attracting to you the things, resources, opportunities, circumstances and even the people you need, to help bring to pass in your outer life what you have pictured!

You don't believe it? Think back over your life! Recall the times you lived in fear something would happen and eventually it came to pass. You perhaps didn't realize it—but those fear pictures had so impressed "that something" within that you caused it to attract wrong conditions to you and made you susceptible to the very thing you feared.

You see, this creative power within doesn't reason. It just produces for you what you order in the form of a mental picture, with strong feelings of fear or desire behind it. That's why that inner power is T N T, either for or against you, depending on whether your thinking is constructive or destructive.

Now you can understand how certain good, as well as bad, things have happened throughout your life. "That something" has been serving you, and the kind of results you have obtained has depended on the kind of mental pictures you have presented to it.

How does your life add up on this basis？ Has it been filled, thus far, with about as many unhappy experiences as happy ones？ If so, you'll want to change that in a hurry! And you can change it, at once, by a fundamental change in your mental attitude, by overcoming your fears and worries and replacing them with positive, confident, courageous thinking.

There is no longer any doubt about it（and there never has been to those who have understood the operation of consciousness） that "as you picture in your mind and heart, so are you!"

Keep this great fact always before you. Let it dominate your every-day thinking. Check yourself each time you tend to become disturbed, mentally and emotionally, and to store unhappy, destructive mental pictures in your mind. Do you want to pass on such pictures for your creative power to work upon？ Do you wish these fears or desires to be magnetized so that they attract similar experiences to you？ If not, let go of this kind of pictures at once. Change them for the better. Drop all feelings of fear or resentment or hate or jealousy—whatever these feelings may be—and substitute the right kind of feelings and mental attitudes. The moment you do so, you destroy the power these wrong pictures would eventually have over you.

Beware of the wrong use of T N T!

T N T is wonderful when you use it right—but it can "mow you down" if you set up the wrong charge in yourself.

Once you have cleared your mind of wrong mental pictures and emotional reactions, you are ready to picture, with faith and confidence, the achievement of good things.

Faith is the energizer of the creative power, "that something" within. I'll have more to say about that later, but you must believe that what you picture can come to pass. Doubt will destroy your picture and demagnetize the creative power so that you will get a half-result or no result at all, or even a wrong result.

Picture whatever you desire as though it has already been achieved in mind. See yourself having something, being something, or doing something as an accomplished fact. Don't try to picture the individual steps that you think you should take to get where you want to go. Your conscious mind is so limited in its operation—limited by your five physical senses—that it cannot know what is the best move for you to make or the best direction to take. But your subconscious mind, "that something" within, is not limited by time or space. It can function on all levels and in all directions at once, and put you in touch with all manner of opportunities and people that you do not even know of, consciously, as yet.

Whatever you need to fit into the pattern of achievement that you have pictured, will be attracted to you by the power within if you persist in your visualizing, day after day, and put forth every effort in support of your heartfelt desire.

This is the simple technique to follow. It will produce infallible results, in due course of time, if you master the art of picturization.

But I should make clear that there are two types of minds, the visualizing type and the feeling type! If you find it difficult to create a picture in your mind's eye of what you want in life, don't strain in an attempt to do it. You are probably the feeling type . . . and all you then have to do is to concentrate on an imaginary focal point in the dark room of your inner mind and let yourself feel that what you desire has been accomplished in consciousness—that all that remains is for it to be materialized by the magnetic creative power in your outer world. You will get the same results as those who find it easy to visualize.

You must know how to relax!

Of course, it should go without saying that before you can concentrate upon what you desire, you have to know how to relax your physical body and make your conscious mind passive.

Can you relax？ Can you let go of your body with your mind so that it loses all tenseness, so that you can become "un-self-conscious" of your body while you are meditating or visualizing？

Many men and women have told me that they have great difficulty becoming "still" in body and in mind. They feel a tightness in the back of the neck, across the eyes, in the solar plexus—in one or all of these places. They say they hadn't realized how tense and nervous they really are until they had tried to become quiet, physically and mentally. Some tell me that their conscious mind is filled with all sorts of fragmentary fears and worries and jumbled thoughts, that they just can't make it a blank and get ready to picture what they really want.

Well, I don't wonder. So many of us live such hectic every-day lives. We've formed such bad habits in our thinking, and few of us have attained any dependable emotional control. All sorts of little things upset us and we carry these upsets around with us all day. They are still with us at night when we try to relax and do some constructive thinking for a change. The result is that when we do quiet down, we are even more conscious of the disturbances of the day which dramatize themselves in the forefront of our minds.

How can we get rid of them？ That's a $64.oo question! It's worth a lot more than that to you, if you can get the answer. You've got to get the answer if you are ever to picture clearly and confidently your objectives in mind.

Have you ever heard that it is impossible to have any more than one thought in your conscious mind at one time？ It's true! At any given moment, you can be conscious of but one thought. The secret of concentration is fixing the attention of the conscious mind upon an imagined focal point in consciousness—such as a mental screen. Visualize that screen as stretched across the dark room of your inner mind, and as long as you hold your attention on it, other stray thoughts and fears and worries can't chase across that screen.

Project your own picture!

Take your time, quietly, relaxedly, ana throw your own mental picture on that screen. Don't try to hold it too long. The instant you feel that the creative power within has received this picture, say to yourself, "It is finished... it has been created"—whatever you feel like saying which adds conviction to your visualization or your feelings, and let go.

If you took a picture with a camera, you wouldn't keep opening up the camera and looking at the negative to see if the picture was developed, would you？ Have faith that the creative power— "that something" within—will do the developing for you. Go about your life activities with the happy expectation that what you have pictured is in the process of materialization. But repeat the picturization every day, several times a day, and at night before retiring, until what you have pictured or felt yourself having achieved in mind has become a fact in real life.

Now, the question is, how do you go to work to help make what you have pictured come true？ You can't just sit around, expecting this creative power to do the whole job for you. The best way to prove to the creative power within that you mean business is to go to work on your own and do everything you can toward the reaching of your objective. Sometimes you won't reach the objective you think you are aiming at—but will accomplish something even better.

Bill McDaniel was one of New York City's finest insurance salesmen. He believed in the higher powers of mind and attributed his success to his developed use of them. He operated in the absolute faith that when he pictured a sale of a policy or an annuity as accomplished in mind, it was all but wrapped up. However, he didn't indulge in any wishful thinking or pollyannish affirmations. He did plenty of leg work, made the personal contacts and set the stage for the consummation of each deal. There were times when his intuition told him he shouldn't press, that he should sit tight and wait till he had the hunch to move in for the kill.

One of these times was when he had been trying to sell a Wall Street broker a fifty-thousand-dollar annuity. This man had been a hard nut to crack. He had one idiosyncrasy well known to his business associates. He was a crank on punctuality. When he made an appointment with a man, if this man was so much as five minutes late, he wouldn't see him. He had a great sense of his own importance and the value of time. Because he was out of the city a great deal, it was even difficult to make a date with him.

This particular morning, Bill McDaniel was lucky. He had given his man a ring and the prospect said he would see him at eleven A.M. sharp. Bill took the subway, allowing himself plenty of leeway to get to his appointment on time. At Times Square he had to change trains for Wall Street, and as he was hurrying through the crowd, he passed a little old lady of foreign extraction who was clutching an old-fashioned handbag, and sobbing from fright and be wilderment. No one was paying any attention to her. She was just one of the many minor tragedies that occur practically unnoticed any day in a big city like New York. But the mental image of this pathetic old woman stuck in Bill's mind as he ran down the subway steps toward his train which was pulling in. He glanced at his wrist watch. It was twenty minutes to eleven. There would be another train along in a few minutes. He could still make it. Bill turned about, ran back up the steps and approached the little old woman.

"Hello, Mother," he greeted her. "What's the matter？ You lost？"

She looked up at him, hopefully. “Yah," she said.

"What's your name, Mother—where do you live？" asked Bill.

She shook her head. “I don't know."

"Do you have any relatives—a son or daughter？"

“I don't know!" she said, piteously.

The poor woman was so upset and dazed she couldn't think.

"Mother," said Bill, "do you mind if I look in your pocketbook？"

He took hold of it and she handed it to him. Bill opened the tattered handbag and rummaged among its assortment of odds and ends. He came across a piece of paper with an address scribbled on it. There was a woman's name and a street number in Brooklyn.

Bill read this to the little old woman and asked: "Is this your daughter？"

"Yah, yah!" said the woman, her face lighting up." My daughter!"

“Is that where you're going？" asked Bill.

"Yah, yah!"

Bill took her by the arm. "Come with me, Mother. Don't worry. Everything's going to be all right. I'll put you on the right train."

He led her down the stairs. A train to Brooklyn was just about to pull out. Bill waved at the guard on the nearest car.

"Hold it!" he cried. “This woman's lost. I've her address here. She's trying to get to her daughter in Brooklyn. Will you see that she gets off at the right stop and have the station master put her in a cab or phone her daughter, so she can come and get her？"

"Sure will, Mister!" said the guard, taking the slip of paper with the address. "Step in, Mother. We'll take care of you!”

Bill saw the little old woman safely on the train. She turned, as the door was closing on her and said in a broken voice, filled with gratitude: "God bless you!"

How opportunity sometimes knocks!

Then Bill glanced again at his wrist watch. Seven minutes to eleven. He had missed his appointment. No use going on down to Wall Street. His prospect wouldn't see him. If it had been almost anyone else but Bill he would have said: "That's what I get for being a Good Samaritan . . . lost a chance to sell a fifty-thousand-dollar annuity." He confessed to having felt a stab of bitter disappointment. He had planned on making this contact for weeks, and it was hard to understand why he had been waylaid. No doubt someone else would eventually have come to this old lady's rescue, someone who hadn't been so pressed for time. But for some reason he couldn't figure out, he just hadn't been able to continue on his way without doing what he could for her. Perhaps it was because the thought had occurred to him, "That's someone's mother. If it were my mother, wouldn't I appreciate any help that might be extended to her？"

Oh, well, it was all over now—and he was glad he had done what he did. He would always have been haunted by that appealing look she had cast at him as he passed, that desperate, poignant reaching out for human aid . . . if he had gone on about his business. Still, you didn't line up good prospects like this man every day. . . .

As he was about to board a subway train for his uptown office, it suddenly occurred to Bill that he was in the vicinity of Fifth Avenue and Forty-Second Street, the business address of another prospect, with whom he had left the figures on a hundred-thousand annuity six weeks before. This man had been in Europe and Bill had read in the papers that he had recently returned. Wouldn't hurt, since he was so near, to drop in on the chance of saying " hello."

The prospect's reception room was jammed with people waiting to see him and Bill turned away. He didn't have an appointment, and it wouldn't do him any good to wait, with a line-up like that ahead of him. But as he stepped toward the elevator, he noticed that the man's private office door was open into the corridor. It was a hot August day and he apparently needed cross-ventilation.

Acting on impulse, Bill walked down the hall and looked in. To his amazement, the man was seated in his office alone, studying some papers on his desk. He looked up and both men saw each other at the same moment.

"Bill McDaniel!" exclaimed the man. "Come on in! . . . This is a coincidence! I was just going to phone you! I've been studying your annuity proposition. I was in a car accident last night and I decided I'd like to have some more coverage."

"But you've got an office full of people!" said Bill.

"Let them wait," said the man, "this is more important."

Forty minutes later, Bill McDaniel walked out with a hundred-thousand-dollar annuity sale under his belt. Had it not been for this little old lady. . . . Yes, you get the point...."

"That taught me one of the biggest lessons of my life," Bill said to me, as he related this experience. "'Cast your bread upon the waters'—and it comes back cake？"

There is a lesson in this for you. Visualize, as best you can, what you desire; do your darndest to help bring what you are picturing to pass through your own efforts, when things seemingly go bad have faith that they will lead to something just as good or better—and they often will!

Thought, contacting "that something," brings everything, with nature's exceptions, into manifestation. A single thought not followed up—a flash dismissed or lost—may be compared to a bobbing cork, aimless and without purpose. However, the same thought, the picture of the thing you want, kept constant, will attract its object, just as a magnet attracts. The larger and more powerful the magnet, the greater its drawing force, and so it is with sustained thought. The more powerful it becomes the more it attracts.

Just as a huge magnifying glass drawing the sun's rays and kept focused on a certain spot will burn a hole, so will powerful sustained thought（the vivid mental picture） directed to or on its object correlate. However, you must mentally see the picture of your object or ideal as a reality . . . see every detail of. the picture as being in existence just as you want the object or ideal actually to be . . . then, as if by magic, the chain will link itself together.

Now go back and reread this again until it is permanently impressed upon you.

6 HOW "PIPE DREAMS "CAN BECOME REALITIES

There is an oft-repeated phrase with which you must be familiar. It is, "I can dream, can't I？" But this exclamation usually has the tone of futility in it, as though the person making it had no faith that his dreams will come true.

Actually, he who dares dream and believe in his dreams is the creator, to a great extent, of his future.

You would not be a normal, average human being if you did not have hidden desires and so-called "pipe dreams." While you may not confess them to anyone, you do build air castles on occasion, seeing yourself doing something or going somewhere or having something—and you take a certain joy just imagining, for the moment, that these air castles are real. It's seldom, however, that you put the power of your own feeling and conviction behind your dreams. You've never had the faith that they could be converted into actual happenings, if you took them seriously instead of fancifully.

"Oh, I never expect to do anything like this," a woman said to me once, who had been day-dreaming about a trip to Europe. "But it's fun to imagine doing it, anyway."

When I assured her that she could go to Europe if she really wanted to do so, she laughed and said: "I don't see how. I'd never have money enough to do that!"

"You certainly won't as long as you continue that negative thinking," I pointed out. "Every other statement you make about yourself is 'I never expect . . . I never will have . . .' and so on. What you are doing is instructing the creative power within not to do anything for you—to keep you from having enough money to do things—and you are getting just what you are picturing."

It took her a little while to get onto what she was doing to herself. Then she said: "All right. From now on I'm going to think positive thoughts, But I still can't see how I'm ever going to get to Europe."

"Leave that to your subconscious—to the power within," I advised. "Just picture yourself making the trip to Europe and let the creative power work out the way you are going to get to go—and the means!"

"It sounds pretty screwy to me," she said, "but I'll try it."

"You've got to have faith," I warned, "You just can't go through the motions of picturing yourself in Europe, without faith, and ever get there."

"Okay! I'11 give it everything I've got!" she said. "And we'll see what happens."

"Hold on—you're expressing doubt," said I. "You're not going to see what happens—you're going to see it happen!"

"I'll never get the hang of this kind of thinking," she laughed.

Eight months later I received a letter from this woman—from Europe—but I didn't recognize her by name, until she identified herself.

"I'm here," she reported. "It worked, just as you said it would. Only I had to get married to do it! "

How wonderful, thought I, "that something" within brought her not only a trip to Europe, but a husband, too! When you start picturing good things coming your way, you may get more than you bargain for!

Start your mind pumping!

Clarence Saunders, now 67, is on his way to his third fortune. Before he was 35, he had his first fortune. His colossal "pipe dream" of the famous Piggly Wiggly super market chain had paid off. Saunders maintains it's easy to think" million-dollar ideas" once you gear your mind to it. "My mind is pumping all the time," he declares, "and I can never tell what the pump is going to bring up—but I just give the creative power free rein and it comes up with something of value, time after time." Today, Saunders is launching his new chain grocery idea which he calls the "Foodelectric." The store operates so automatically that the customer can collect her groceries herself, wrap them and act as her own cashier. "It eliminates the check-out crush, cuts overhead expenses and enables a small staff to handle a tremendous volume, " says Saunders. "I can handle a $2,000,000 volume a year with only eight employees, whereas any other supermarket of the same size would employ at least forty, perhaps sixty-five people. I've made and lost millions in my life—but I'm on my way to my next million now!"

How can you stop a man like that？ Is your mind functioning on all cylinders at 67？ Or will it be？ It won't, unless you've trained it to operate. You are carrying a potential fortune around in your head at all times. “Start your mind pumping," Saunders suggests, "and you may strike oil!"

"Pipe dreams," you say. "Nothing like this could ever happen to me." Watch that negative thinking! You can't conceive of the possibilities within you, once you give the creative power within an opportunity to be of service.

Did the Wright brothers have a "pipe dream" when they pictured themselves building and flying the first airplane？ Many "unseeing" people thought so and heaped ridicule upon them, but this didn't stop the Wrights. They had the courage and the faith to keep on dreaming and working, in the face of, skepticism, and brought a new mode of travel to the world.

So few of us have vision. We cannot see beyond the present moment. We become so immersed in our current difficulties and problems that we can visualize no way out.

"Pipe dreaming" is a way of escape into the future—a way of freeing yourself from the present and creating new opportunities and developments. I don't mean that you can sidestep present responsibilities and problems . . . but the cure for many of them lies in your future, as does your hope for self-betterment.

"Look forward—never backward," has been the admonition of wise men. They have known that the past can do nothing for you, but the future always holds promise if, in the words of Peter Ibbetson, you "dream true."

How great is your faith？

How long could you persist in a dream, something you very much wanted, if it took some years to come true？ Would your faith waver？ Would your enthusiasm die out？ Would you decide that the apparent obstacles were too many, that they could never be overcome？ Would you compromise with yourself, and settle for something less than you had originally visualized？

Ask yourself these questions as I let Zora Adler, of Glendale, California, tell of her pipe dream which she carried in mind and heart for twenty-two years—and which she and her husband, Dan, have just brought to fruition! It is one of the most remarkable and inspiring demonstrations of visualization and faith and never- give-up spirit and harmony and co-operation, and the perfect working of the power within, that has ever come to my attention.

Here is Mrs. Adler's thrilling story in her own words:

"I suppose my dream really started twenty-two years ago when I would look up at the hills above our home in Glendale and would say to Dan, my husband, 'Some day, let's build a house up there. '

"We did build one, nine years later, half-way between there and my real objective. But I still had my heart set on the heights. Some day we would have our home where I had originally seen it. And, because I noticed that most people walk worriedly and look at the ground, I decided that the answer to that was to take my two little girls for hikes into the hills where there were trees and clouds to make them look up. Somehow, there is so much to see when the chin and eyes are lifted.

"It was on such a hike into the hills that I walked out onto a plateau, overlooking the whole San Fernando Valley, on into Los Angeles, Long Beach and even Santa Monica Palisades—and I felt an immediate attachment for the location.

"Impulsively, ecstatically, I said to the girls: 'Let's build a house here!' They were very excited for, little as they were, they loved it, too! But, imagine my saying a thing like that—getting such an idea—when we had just completed a new home, scarcely three years before!

"Well, we hurried home fast, almost afraid the place might be gone before we could come back with their Daddy to show him this new location for a home. I didn't stop to think that he might be upset by such a show of interest in another building site—and wonder if his wife was the sort of woman who just never would be satisfied. But instead, to my surprise and delight, he went right back with us, and as soon as he saw the hilltop and the view, he said: 'Find out who owns it.' That was thirteen years ago!

"The next morning, I went to the City Hall in Glendale and found it was owned by a Mr. and Mrs. Jennings who lived in San Diego. I wrote the usual letter of inquiry and sent it on its way—holding the thought that the lot was for sale and that we could have it! Somehow, from the very beginning, I never doubted that the lot would be ours.

"I was not at all surprised when Mr. Jennings wrote and told us we could buy it—but the miracle was yet to come. The price was over our heads since we were buying our present home and business, and with prospects of more children, we felt we should not take the big step. But every Sunday afternoon we would walk up to 'our lot 'and draw house plans in the dirt.

"On such a Sunday, I was literally dancing around with the girls and my husband for I had hit on a perfect plan for the house and could just see it standing there all finished!

"An elderly couple had come up on the hill while we were there and I noticed they had been eyeing us. After a while they sauntered over to where we were preoccupied with our 'blueprint' in the dirt, and this was our conversation:

"The Elderly Gentleman: I see you are drawing house plans!