The Message of a Master

you can have anything you want — and in abundance — when you learn to tune in to the power within, an infinitely greater power than electricity, a power you have had from the beginning.

an important requirement in successful achievement: that is secretiveness.”

My use of intensity here suggests mental force or power, and its results are constructive.

“When the first objective is reached, what then? Set another one beyond that, immediately. Why? Because the peculiar nature of the Outer Mind is to drop back into inertia after achieving an objective.

He does not resist those distractions, but gives them their due attention and returns to the picture. Just so with me. When his picture is completed, he begins another. I do too. For I am never consciously, mentally inactive. Inactivity is retrogression. “Here’s a concrete example: If I desire the presence of my assistant at this moment, I see him

At this point, I have to mention three minds — or, properly speaking, three phases of mind. “You are apparently made up of three minds. The one that controls the functioning of the body, for want of a better word, I will call the Deeper Mind. This mind we are not particularly concerned with and properly should not be. It knows its functions better

I have a purpose, and that purpose is to force you to think, to think deeply, with intensity.

Once you have attained that valuable momentum, maintain it. Cling to it. And as the momentum increases, the steps in your progress become more rapid, until eventually it’s possible to reach an objective almost immediately.

It is so important, then, to learn to think things through rather than follow the timeworn method of attempting to force them through. One is mastery and the other slavery.