Persistence

Vernon Howard told us we may have to knock on the door of Truth ten thousand times before it will answer. But it will answer, and then all the effort will be rewarded a thousand fold.

Guy Finley's The Power of Persistence

If we are to succeed at taking back authority over our lives, we must persist. After all, we have many years of wrong thinking and negative emotions to see through. As we become more familiar with the wrong powers that have been ruling our lives all along, we discover... [continued]

 Read. Reread. Read and read and read. This will help form a new habit of thought. Thought habits are not all bad or obstructive. If a good Christian has developed habits of mentation which make for faith and trust in the Christian concept of God, this provides a bridge over which the healing practices can pass swiftly. Quimby tied his teachings to the already habituated beliefs of his patients. They believed that God could not be anything but good. They had the complexed belief gained in childhood that God was perfect, that He was good, and that He was all-powerful. Building on these fixed and complexed habits of belief, lodged in the low self and shared by the middle self, Quimby found it easy to cause the patient to believe in his theory that illness and all bad conditions could not exist because they were not of God, who was perfect. (A rather succint interpretation of Quimby!) The Secret Science Behind Miracles, by Max Freedom Long, [1948], at sacred-texts.com

Restlessness is the outpicturing of quick powers of some kind. Make up your mind what you want to do and persist in accomplishing it. Keep this saying: "He shall deliver thee in six troubles, yea in seven there shall no evil touch thee." ECH

Only the person who decides what he wants and holds to his decision doggedly, working always in that direction, can present to the High Self the proper thought forms from which to build the future as desired and planned and worked toward. The Secret Science Behind Miracles, by Max Freedom Long, [1948], at sacred-texts.com

{The story of Freud is fairly well known, but that of Quimby is not. The latter's one authentic history is to be found in Horatio W. Dresser 's book, The Quimby Manuscripts.

The Secret Science Behind Miracles, by Max Freedom Long, [1948], at sacred-texts.com}

{Self-Suggestion and the New Huna Theory of Mesmerism and Hypnosis, by Max Freedom Long, [1958], mentions Dianetics, as well as General Semantics and other belief systems. }