| "THE AUTHOR BELIEVES that there is no habit which will bring so much of value to the life as that of always carrying an optimistic, hopeful attitude of really 'expecting' that things are going to succeed and not fail, are going to be happy and not miserable.
He points out that most people neutralize a large part of their efforts because their mental attitudes does not correspond with their endeavor, so that although working for one thing, they are really expecting something else, and what we expect we tend to get; that there is no philosophy or science by which a man can arrive at the success goal when he is facing the other way, when every step he takes is on the road to failure, when he talks like a failure, acts like a failure, for prosperity begins in the mind and is impossible while the mental attitude is hostile to it.
The book tells us that fear is the great human curse, that is blights more lives, makes more people unhappy and unsuccessful than any other one thing; that thoughts of worry and fear are so malignant, they poison the very sources of life, destroying harmony, ruining efficiency, while the opposite thoughts heal, soothe and encourage us. 'The Gods we worship write their names on our faces.' The face is carved from within by invisible tools; our thoughts, our moods, our emotions are the chisels. It is the table of contents of our life history; a bulletin board upon which is advertise what has been going on inside of us.
No one can become prosperous while he really expects or half expects to be always poor, for holding the poverty-thought keeps him in touch with poverty-producing conditions.
The book teaches that everybody ought to be happier than the happiest of us are now; that our lives were intended to be infinitely richer and more abundant than at present; that we should have plenty of everything which is good for us; that the lack of anything which is really necessary and desirable does not fit the constitution of any right-living human being, and that we shorten our lives very materially through our own false thinking, our bad living, and our old-age convictions, and that to be happy and attain the highest efficiency, one must harmonize with the best, the highest thing to him."
- Author, Orison Swett Marden Miracle Of Right Thought |