Posts Tagged: convergent thinking

Sleep Intelligently

“Next in importance is the mental attitude in which you go to sleep. It is well to sleep intelligently, purposefully, knowing what you do it for. Lie down thinking that sleep is an infallible vitalizer, and go to sleep with a confident faith that your strength is to be renewed; that you will awake full […]

The Victory In Due Time

“Faith—not a faith in one’s self or in one’s own powers but faith in principle; in the Something Great which upholds right, and which may be relied upon to give us the victory in due time. Without this faith it is not possible for any one to rise to real greatness.” Wallace D. Wattles

The First Principle in The Science of Getting Rich

“There is a thinking stuff from which all things are made, and which, in its original state, permeates, penetrates, and fills the interspaces of the universe. A thought, in this substance, produces the thing that is imaged by the thought. Man can form things in his thought,  and, by impressing his thought upon formless substance, can cause the thing he […]

One Original Formless Stuff

“We assert that there is one original formless stuff, or substance, from which all things are made. All the seemingly many elements are but different presentations of one element; all the many forms found in organic and inorganic nature are but different shapes, made from the same stuff. And this stuff is thinking stuff; a […]

You and All that You are Concerned with are Moving on Toward Completeness

“We go back here to the matter of the point of view, for. besides being vitally important, it is the one which is likely to give the student the most trouble. We have been trained. partly by mistaken religious teachers, to look upon the world as being like a wrecked ship, storm-driven upon a rocky […]

The Purpose of Life for Man is Growth

“The purpose of life for man is growth, just as the purpose of life for trees and plants is growth. Trees and plants grow automatically and along fixed lines; man can grow, as he will. Trees and plants can only develop certain possibilities and characteristics; man can develop any power, which is or has been […]

Eat What You Want, When You Are Hungry

“You cannot build and maintain a perfectly healthy body by mental action alone, or by the performance of the unconscious or involuntary functions alone. There are certain actions, more or less voluntary, which have a direct and immediate relation with the continuance of life itself; these are eating, drinking, breathing, and sleeping. No matter what […]