We are all human magnets. Just as an iron magnet pulls out from a pile of materials only the objects that have an affinity for it, so we are constantly drawing to us things and people that respond to our thoughts and ideas. Our environment, our associates and our general condition are the result of our mental attraction. These things have come to us on the physical plane because we have concentrated upon them, have related ourselves to them mentally. They remain as long as we have affinity in our mind.

Think the things you want. The profoundest philosophy is locked up in these few words. When we are not thinking right, we are not attracting the right things. Think of the things you want clearly, persistently, concentrating upon them with all the force and might of your mind and move mentally toward them with all your energy. This is the way to make yourself a magnet for the things you want. But the moment you begin to doubt, to worry, to fear, you demagnetize yourself, and desired things flee from you.
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The things you desire cannot come near you when you are deliberately separating yourself from them. You are going in one direction and the things you want are going in the opposite direction. Understanding how a magnet works allows us to know that our thoughts function the same way. Things that repel cannot come together. Fear is a repelling force while focus is an attracting force. All you need to do is to think the things you want, let them go and live in the moment without thinking of their opposites.

A desire in the heart for anything is God’s sure promise sent beforehand to indicate that it is yours already in the limitless realm of supply. There is no desire in the heart that exists without its fulfillment. The reason a desire exist is because there is a creative urge for its manifestation. All things exist in the realm of unlimited ideas and all ideas have their corresponding manifestations. Thoughts are things. It is the nature of The Creator to express itself. You can have all that you desire if you believe and live.

No matter how discouraging your present outlook, how apparently unpromising your future, cling to your desire and you’ll realize it. Picture the ideal conditions. Visualize the success which you long to attain. Imagine yourself already in the position you are aiming to reach. Do not acknowledge limitations, do not allow any other suggestion to lodge in your mind than the success you long for, the conditions you aspire to. Picture your desires as actually realized, and hold fast to your vision with great tenacity.

This is the way out of your difficulties. This is the way to open the door ahead of you to the place higher up, to better and brighter conditions. No matter how unfortunate your environment, or how unpromising your present condition, if you cling to your vision and keep struggling toward its realization, you are mentally building, enlarging your ideal, increasing the power of your mental magnet to attract your own. Think about what you want and ignore all else. This is the secret to changing reality with divine will.

Why has the heart restless yearnings for heights and steps untrod? Some call it the voice of God. That something within you which longs to be brought out and to be expressed is the voice of God calling to you. Don’t disregard it. Don’t be afraid of your longings, there is divinity in them. Don’t try to strangle them because you think they are much too extravagant, too extreme. The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do. You’re here to do the work of God that is within.

The reason why many live small lives is because they are afraid to fling out their desires and afraid to visualize them. We believe in the physical and find it hard to realize the force that does things resides in the mind. Instead of believing in our possession of the things we desire, we believe in our limitations and restrictions. We demagnetize ourselves by wrong thinking and lack of faith. We see only the obstacles, and forget that man, working with God is greater than any obstacle that can oppose his own will.

The men who have climbed up in the world have seen themselves climbing, have pictured themselves actually in the position they longed to be in. They have climbed up mentally first. They have kept a vision of themselves as ever climbing to higher and higher things. They have continually affirmed their ability to climb, to grow up to their ideal. If we want to make our dreams come true, we must actually live in the conscious realization of our ideal. This power will open the doors that shut you from your own.

By persistent right thinking, backed by the steady exercise of your will, you can remake yourself and your environment. You can for one transcendent moment be the thing you long for. Every time we visualize the thing we long for, every time we see ourselves in imagination in the position we long to fill, we are forming a habit which will tend to make our highest moments permanent, to bring our vision out of the ideal into the actual. You can use your divine power to make yourself what you long to be now.

Doors always open, opportunities always come, to the man or woman who trusts and works, but nothing comes to the weak, doubting heart, the faint endeavor. Nothing comes to those who do not believe in their divinity, their power to overcome. The limit of your faith in your vision and in yourself is the limit of your achievement. Faith is the greatest magnetic power we know of for the attraction of the things that belong to us. Keep having transcendent moments to transcend the rules of this realm into eternity.[/hidepost]