‘I have no card, no name, no address. I am like the wind. I come from nowhere and I go everywhere. As for my name, just call me Friend.’

I don’t advise, however, that you use the declaration ‘I am’ in connection with the words in this list unless you are in a positive frame of mind at the time, unless you have full conviction of what you are repeating. “For example, if you declare ‘I am Power,’ you lay the Inner Mind open to attack from the Outer in the form of denial or doubt. But

“There should be no strain, striving, anxiety, or concern connected with this practice. Devote each evening to it, unless otherwise taken up by occasional business, social, or family duties. Allow these words to sink in and penetrate your being, and like drops of pure water entering a vessel of impure water, the nonessentials are forced out, drop

I will give you a list of powerful words that not only tend to keep the life force nourished, but will give you all the strength you need for doing the internal work necessary to create what you want in life. Here is my list — you can certainly add to it if you wish: Concentration Charity Peace Nonresistance Poise Justice Harmony Consideration

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.

“The set definite objective firmly imaged or pictured in mind immediately whips the Outer into line by giving it a fixed duty to perform. This, automatically, without any effort on your part, infuses it with the positive quality of the Inner Mind. And again, automatically, positive conditions and individuals are attracted to you as surely as steel

I am just an ordinary man, no different than you are. The world calls me a Master. And so I am, but only in the sense that I have learned how to master circumstances and situations in my life. I have developed the powers in me that abide in all of us.

There is but one mind, as there is but one electricity or one atmosphere. The many minds referred to are but a multiplicity of expression of the one. We use mind as we use air or electricity — as our individual needs require.

“What is the result? When you persistently hold to your goal, and keep absolutely airtight secretiveness, the Outer Mind finds no escape for its increasing energy, and in desperation it plunges through, like the overload of steam through the safety valve of a boiler, and your objective is reached.