Ideas are living things; you attract people who represent your thoughts.

It was mentioned in a recent magazine that for the last fifteen years, drunkenness, and crime had been terribly on the increase. The whole plan was then made plain, whereby the innocent holders of horrible stories are the shedders abroad of temptation.
For just about fifteen years the eloquent crusaders against vice have transfixed impressionable audiences with stories of wickedness, which they have unconsciously projected, as the beautiful words, ‘The Lord is your keeper,” flew on its mission.
What kind of stories do you fix into the minds of the people you meet? Ideas are living things. They are caged lions of prowess. They are projectiles from small bore-rifles or heavy caliber guns.


You attract people who represent your thoughts; as Socrates said that grief would attract sickness, waste of property and death.
A young metaphysician suddenly discovered that by being with one who was a reliable healer of sickness, he caught a state of mind quite different from what he had been holding. It was efficient to cure without his making any effort. He said he just left his mind free to take on the strong lights and shades of other people’s minds, and knowing just how to drop their errors he could keep their virtues. He noticed that being prosperous is entirely a state of mind. He is now practicing being near prosperous people so that he may minister the quality of mentality that draws prosperity when he walks among the wretched. He means to get so strong in the idea of the providing bounty of the Almighty, that stories of poverty cannot stick in his mind, no matter how real they may seem to others, not even if some great preacher describes them.

You certainly must have noticed how some people are lucky, anyhow. That is because they have a mind that attracts luck. This Science teaches one how to attract good into his life. It is a good doctrine to preach to the disconsolate. God is the feeder and healer and companion, according to this doctrine, and nothing is too small a situation or state of affairs for His goodness to pay close attention to. If you stop to think of it, no one is so prosperous and wise as Jehovah. That is why we are advised to talk with Him much. Misfortune and ignorance cannot stay in His presence. Stop often and commune with the Owner of the Worlds. Law of Attraction juxtaposes that by affirming something it will come to pass, but as Quimby said: “Man is governed by his belief, but his belief is not always known to him; so that often he thinks that the phenomenon has nothing to do with his belief - when all the evil he suffers is from his belief.” Does it matter whether it’s ill-health or ill-wealth.

There is a particular way for you to get out of that difficulty you are now in. Keep counsel with no one save the powerful Champion, the Lord God of Shabuoth. “Thou shalt hear a voice behind thee saying: This is the way; walk ye in it.”

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Bible Lesson XLIX
See Things As They Are
by Emma Curtis Hopkins
June 19th, 1892

You belong among the city’s throngs. You teach the nations government. Hold this word:
“Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?” ECH

"Have a cheerful receptivity toward truthful ideas."
Vernon Howard

Rushing around, hoping to find peace of mind anywhere other than within yourself, is like looking for your heart in someone else's body!

Any confidence you may have based on something outside yourself is also the basis of your self-doubt.

Letting go has nothing to do with the release of anything outside of yourself.

Here's the most important thing to remember whenever you find yourself in a mad rush: what you really want, what you're really after, is a quiet mind -- a peaceable state of self reached only by realizing there is no place more empowering for you to be than in the present moment.

In taking thought, always thinking about what one must do, or have... one never stops asking to "become." But, in remaining awake -- aware of one's thoughts, instead of driven by them -- one asks, "to be"... and this living prayer is always answered.

Guy Finley

What good is a belief if it does not benefit your life?
(Phineas Parkhurst Quimby, 1862)
Quimby realized that his beliefs as much as his techniques were the keys to his success as a healer, and that the beliefs of his patients were the keys to their health. Quimby, not only, found that people created their beliefs, but that their beliefs had strong consequences. “If you remove the beliefs”, said Quimby, “you remove the disease. Support toxic beliefs and people suffer.”