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I am taking a break from Marcus Aurelius and read “The Science of Getting Rich” by Wallace D. Wattles (http://www.amazon.com/Science-Getting-Rich-Wallace-Wattles/dp/B001D95XKO). This is also a book mentioned in the 50 Classics Series, and while I did not immediately add it to my list of books to read, I kept seeing it sitting prominently on a shelf at Half-Priced Books. After the third time, I bought it.
This book, written in the early 1900’s is another forefather of ‘The Secret’. Like ‘The Magic of Believing’ and books on ‘The Law of Attraction’ this book covers how to focus our thoughts to visualize what we want and then welcome it into our world.
Wallace Wattles talks about formless ‘stuff’ which is shaped by thought. Our thoughts, when consistent and focused, forge what we want. Although he says it is not a simple as thinking of getting something and having it materialize in front of you. While that would be cool, it does not work, so far as I have tried. He does mention how these things do end up in our life through a series of events. Someone has an extra item and wants to give it away, and tells a friend, who remembers hearing that someone was looking for such an item and one thing leads to another and the item ends up on your doorstep.
Praying works the same way. We can get what we pray for, but not necessarily in the way that we think. Someone shared with me a story of a shipwrecked man on a deserted island. He prays to be rescued, and in the days that pass, he builds a shelter out of driftwood. He is starving and lonely and keeps praying. Then one day his hut catches on fire and burns to the ground. He feels forsaken and gets angry. The next day he is awaken by a boat coming to save him. He asks how they found him, and they tell him that they saw his smoke signal.
However we visualize, pray or ask for things in our lives, be positive and consistent. Some folks I speak with think they can visualize a million dollars and it will show up next Tuesday. It would be great if it did, but more likely that visualization will create a series of events, ideas, actions, opportunities which if we keep focused on our goal, can eventually come our way. Some folks liken this to serendipity.
When we look at how successful people made it to success, it is often based on hard work and focused thought, consistently visualizing their goals and driving forward in the same direction.
Seems to me that they have successfully used these principles as well.
Something to think about.
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