The attractive power desire force we
have discussed the necessity of getting
rid of fear that your desire may have
full strength with which to work
supposing that you've mastered this part
of the task or at least started on the
road to mastery I will now call your
attention to another important branch of
the subject I allude to the subject of
mental leaks no I don't mean the leakage
arising from your failure to keep your
own secrets that is also important but
forms another story the leakage I am now
referring to is in that occasion by the
habit of having attention attracted to
and distracted by every passing fancy in
order to attain a thing it is necessary
that the mind should fall in love with
it and be conscious of its existence
almost to the exclusion of everything
else you must get in love with the thing
you wish to attain just as much as you
would if you were to make the girl or
man you wished to marry I do not mean
that you should become a monomaniac upon
the subject and should lose all interest
in everything else in the world that
won't do for the mind must have
recreation and change but I do mean that
you must be so set upon the desired
thing that all else will seem of
secondary importance a man in love may
be pleasant to everyone else and they go
through the duties and pleasures of life
with good spirit but underneath it all
he is humming to himself just one girl
and every one of his actions is bent
toward getting that girl and making a
comfortable home for her do you see what
I mean he must get in love with the
thing you want and you must get in love
with it in earnest
none of this latter-day flirting on
today and off tomorrow sort of love but
the good old-fashioned kind that used to
make it impossible for a young man to
get to sleep unless he took a walk
around his best girl's house just to be
sure it was still there
that's the real kind and the man a
woman in search of success must make of
that desired thing his ruling passion he
must keep his mind on the main chance
success is jealous that's why we speak
of her as feminine she demands a man's
whole affection and if he begins
flirting with other fair charmers she
soon turns her back upon him if a man
allows his strong interest in the main
chance to be sidetracked he will be the
loser mental force operates best when it
is concentrated he must give to the
desired thing your best and the most
earnest thought just as the man who was
thoroughly in love will think out plans
and schemes whereby he may please the
fair one so will a man who is in love
with his work or business give it his
best thought and the result will be that
a hundred and one plans will come into
his field of consciousness many of which
are very important the mind works on the
subconscious plane remember and almost
always along the lines of the ruling
passion or desire it will fix up things
and patch together plans and schemes and
when you need them the most
it will pop them into your consciousness
and you'll feel like hoorah-ing just as if
you had received some valuable aid from
outside but if you scatter your thought
force the subconscious mind will not
know just how to please you and the
result is that you're apt to be put off
from this source of Aid and assistance
beside this you will miss the powerful
result of concentrated thought in the
conscious working out of the details of
your plans and then again the man whose
mind is full of a dozen interests fails
to exert the attracting power that is
manifested by the man of one ruling
passion and he fails to draw to him
persons things and results that will aid
in working out of his plans and will
also fail to place himself in the
current of Attraction whereby he's
brought into contact with those who will
be glad to help him because of
harmonious interests I have noticed in
my own affairs that when I would allow
myself to be sidetracked by anything outside of
my regular line of work it would only be
a short time before my receipts dropped
off and my business showed signs of a
lack of vitality now many say that this
was because I had left undone some
things that I would have done if my mind
had been centered on the business this
is true but I have noticed like results
in cases where there was nothing to be done
cases in which the seed was sown and the
crop was awaited and in just such cases
as soon as I directed my thought to the
matter the seed began to sprout I do not
mean that I had to send out great mental
waves with the idea of affecting people
not a bit of it I simply began to
realize what a good thing I had and how
much people wanted it and how glad they
would be to know of it and all that sort
of thing and lo my thoughts seemed to
vitalize the work and the seed began to
sprout this is no mere fancy for I've
experienced it on several occasions I've
spoken to many others on the subject and
I find that our experiences tally
perfectly so don't get into the habit of
permitting these mental leaks keep your
desire fresh and active and let it get
in its work without interference from
conflicting desires keep in love with
the thing you wish to attain feed your
fancy with it see it is accomplished
already but don't lose your interest
keep your eye on the main chance and
keep your one ruling passions strong and
vigorous don't be a mental polygamist
one mental love is all that a man needs
that is one at a time some scientists
have claimed that something that might
as well be called love is at the bottom
of the whole of life they claim that
love of the plant for water causes the
send forth its roots until the loved
thing is found they say that the love of
the flower for the Sun causes it to grow
away from the dark places so that it may
receive the light the so called chemical
affinities are really a form of love and
desire is a manifestation of this
universal life love so I'm not using a
mere figure of speech when I tell you
that you must love the thing
wish to attain nothing but intense love
will enable you to surmount the many
obstacles placed in your path nothing
but that love will enable you to bear
the burdens of the task the more desire
you have for a thing the more you love
it and the more you love it the greater
will be the attractive force exerted
towards its attainment both within
yourself and outside of you so love but
one thing at a time don't be a mental Mormon
chapter 14 the great dynamic forces
you have noticed the difference
between the successful and strong men in
any walk of life and the unsuccessful
weak men around them you are conscious
of the widely differing characteristics
of the two classes but somehow find it
difficult to express just in what the
difference lies let us take a look at
the matter Merton said the longer I live
the more certain I am that the great
difference between men the feeble and
the powerful the great and the
insignificant is energy and invincible
determination a purpose once fixed and
then death or victory that quality will
do anything that can be done in this
world and no talents no circumstances no
opportunities will make a two-legged
creature a man without it I do not see
how the idea could be more clearly
expressed than Burton has spoken he has
put his finger right in the center of
the subject his eye has seen into the
heart of it energy and invincible
determination these two things will slip
away mighty barriers and will surmount
the greatest obstacles and yet they must
be used together energy without
determination will go to waste
lots of men have plenty of energy
therefore to overflowing with it and yes
they lack concentration they lack the
concentrated force that enables him to
bring their power to bear upon the right
spot energy is not nearly so rare a
thing as many imagine it to be I can
look around me at any time and pick out
a number of people I know who are full
of energy many of them energy plus
and yet somehow they do not seem to make
any headway they are wasting their
energy all the time now they are filling
with this thing now meddling with that
now take up some trifling thing of no
real interest or importance and waste
enough energy and nervous force to carry
them through a hard day's work and yet
when they are through nothing has been
accomplished others who have plenty of
energy failed and directed by the power
of the will toward the desired end
invisible determination those are the
words do they not thrill you with their
power if you have something to do get to
work and do it marshal your energy and
then guide and direct it by your will
the star upon it that invincible
determination and you will do the thing
everyone has within him a giant will but
the majority of us are too lazy to use
it we cannot get ourselves nerved up to
the point at which we can say truthfully
I will if we can but pluck up our
courage to that point and will then pin
it in place so that it will not slip
back we will be able to call into play
that wonderful power the human will man
as a rule has but the faintest
conception of the power of the will but
those who were studied along the occult
teachings know that the will is one of
the great dynamic forces of the universe
and if harnessed and directed properly
it is capable of accomplishing almost
miraculous things
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