| "IF YOU HAVE THE FAITH THAT CREATES, the faith that believes the best is coming to you, you can reach out mentally into this great stream of plenty – the universal supply – and get material aid to build what you will. The supply is there. It rests with you to make the connection that will draw it to you.
If all of the poverty-stricken people in the world today would quit thinking of poverty, quit dwelling on it, worrying about it and fearing it; if they would wipe the poverty thought out of their minds, if they would cut off mentally all relations with poverty and substitute the opulent thought, the prosperity thought, the mental attitude that faces toward prosperity, they would soon begin to change conditions.
It is the dwelling on the thing, fearing it, the worrying about it, the anxiety about it, the terror of it, that attracts us to it and attracts it to us. We cut off our supply current and establish relations with want, with poverty-stricken conditions.
Many people who have become interested in the new philosophy are greatly disappointed that they are not making any appreciable demonstration over poverty, that they are advancing their position in life, not improving their conditions as they had expected they would.
Now, my friend, the law of abundance, of opulence, is as definite as the law of gravitation, and works just as unerringly. If you are not demonstrating as you expected to, you are probably still held under the bond of mental limitation, for there is not lack in “Him in whom all fullness lies.” There is no limitation in the all-supply. The trouble is you try to tap it with a miserable little half or quarter-inch pipe instead of a great big one, and the supply cannot flow through and flood your life with abundance.
If you pinch your supply pipe with your doubts and fears, your anxiety, the terror of coming to want, if you do not believe you can demonstrate abundance, you will get but a meager, limited supply instead of the inexhaustible flow you might have. In other words, the supply pipe is pinched only by your own mental limitations. By your doubts and fears and worries and unbeliefs, you can cut off all the supply and starve or, by a great magnetizing faith, a superb confidence in the all-supply, you can flood your life with all good things."
- Orison Swett Marden |