IDEALS DEVELOP BY CONCENTRATION.

Your happiness and success depends upon your ideals. A valuable lesson. Throughconcentration we can work out our ideals In physical life. What a different world thiswould be if we would build the right kind of ideals. Every time you change your ideal

you think differently. Life is one continuous unfoldment. You can be happy every stepof its way or miserable as you please. ow our grandest thoughts come to us.  

Through our paltry stir and strife, Glows the wished Ideal, And longing moldsin clay, what life Carves in the marble real.--Lowell. 

e often hear people spo!en of as idealists. The fact is we are all idealists to a certaine"tent, and upon the ideals we picture depends our ultimate success. #ou must havethe mental image if you are to produce the material thing. $verything is first created inthe mind. hen you control your thoughts you become a creator. #ou receive divineideas and shape them to your individual needs. All things of this world are to you %ustwhat you thin! they are. #our happiness and success depend upon your ideals.

 #ou are responsible for every condition you go through, either consciously orunconsciously. The ne"t step you ta!e determines the succeeding step. &ememberthis' it is a valuable lesson. (y concentrating on each step as you go along, you cansave a lot of waste steps and will be able to choose a straight path instead of aroundabout road.

Concentrate )pon #our Ideals and They ill (ecome *aterial Actualities. Throughconcentration we wor! out our ideals in physical life. #our future depends upon theideals you are forming now. #our past ideals are determining your present. Therefore,if you want a bright future, you must begin to prepare for it today.

If persons could only reali+e that they can only in%ure themselves, that when they areapparently in%uring others they are really in%uring themselves, what a different worldthis would be

e say a man is as changeable as the weather. hat is meant is his ideals change.$very time you change your ideal you thin! differently. #ou become li!e a rudderlessboat on an ocean. Therefore reali+e the importance of holding to your ideal until itbecomes a reality.

 #ou get up in the morning determined that nothing will ma!e you lose your temper.This is your ideal of a person of real strength and poise. omething ta!es place thatupsets you completely and you lose your temper. or the time being you forget yourideal. If you had %ust thought a second of what a well-poised person implies youwould not have become angry. #ou lose your poise when you forget your ideal. $achtime we allow our ideals to be shattered we also wea!en our will-power. /olding toyour ideals develops will-power. 0on1t forget this.

hy do so many men fail2 (ecause they don1t hold to their ideal until it becomes amental habit. hen they concentrate on it to the e"clusion of all other things itbecomes a reality.

3I am that which I thin! myself to be.3

Ideals are reflected to us from the unseen spirit. The laws of matter and spirit are notthe same. 4ne can be bro!en, but not the other. To the e"tent that ideals are !ept isyour future assured.

It was never intended that man should suffer. /e has brought it upon himself bydisobeying the laws of nature. /e !nows them so cannot plead ignorance. hy doeshe brea! them2 (ecause he does not pay attention to those ideals flashed to him fromthe Infinite pirit.

Life is but one continuous unfoldment, and you can be happy every step of the way or

 

miserable, as you please' it all depends upon how we entertain those silentwhisperings that come from we !now not where. e cannot hear them with mortalear, but from the silence they come as if they were dreams, not to you or me alone,but to everyone. In this way the grandest thoughts come to us, to use or abuse. osearch not in treasured volumes for noble thoughts, but within, and bright andglowing vision will come to be reali+ed now and hereafter.

 #ou must give some hours to concentrated, consistent, persistent thought. #ou muststudy yourself and your wea!nesses.

5o man gets over a fence by wishing himself on the other side. /e must climb.

5o man gets out of the rut of dull, tiresome, monotonous life by merely wishinghimself out of the rut. /e must climb.

If you are standing still, or going bac!ward, there is something wrong. #ou are theman to find out what is wrong.

0on1t thin! that you are neglected, or not understood, or not appreciated.

uch thoughts are the thoughts of failure.

Thin! hard about the fact that men who have got what you envy got it by wor!ing forit.

0on1t pity yourself, criticise yourself.

 #ou !now that the only thing in the world that you have got to count upon is yourself.