But always the prison is in our thought and not in the nature of things.

“The door of the soul opens inward.” And pray to God that you may remember that truth every time you turn to Him in prayer.

If you pray and meditate from the outside just because you think it is a duty or because you will feel guilty if you do not, your prayers will be dead. You will get no demonstration and make no spiritual progress, and you will get no joy. But if you feel that when you are praying and meditating you are visiting with God, and that these moments are

A false action means deadlock; a true action is always fruitful.

Getting your mental equivalent may take you a week or a month or a year. Charge it with interest, like an electric charge, or it is dead. Love is the only way. You cannot be interested in a thing unless you love it. If you love it, it is filled with interest, it is filled with energy and life, and it comes true.

“I want a strong, healthy body,” and build up a mental equivalent for it by constantly thinking of your body as perfect, that is fine. Do not think of details very much.

cease to think fear and think of divine love instead, cease to think lack and think prosperity and the presence of God’s abundance instead—and then if you will think as clearly as possible and get interested; you will be building a mental equivalent of happiness and prosperity.

The law of mind is that you can only get rid of one thought by substituting another.

To think clearly and with feeling leads to demonstration, because you have then built a mental equivalent.