clarity and interest; those are the two poles.

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.

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.

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

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

Whatever enters into your life is but the material expression of some belief in your own mind. The kind of body you have, the kind of home you have, the kind of work you do, the kind of people you meet, are all conditioned by and correspond to the mental concepts you are holding.

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

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

The secret of successful living is to build up the mental equivalent that you want; and to get rid of, to expunge, the mental equivalent that you do not want.