Highlights:
“Never forget: inventions, great musical compositions, poetry, fiction, and all other ideas for original accomplishment, come from the subconscious. Give it the thought or the material and keep it going with a deep rooted desire for performance and you will get results. There is an old saying that once we start weaving, the gods will furnish the skein, and how true that is… When you star to operate with the aid of this power the bricks automatically fall into place as though a magical hand had touched them. Results will certainly follow in a most astounding manner. Ideas for accomplishment will pop here and they will pop there… What may appear as coincidences are not coincidences at all but simply the working out of the pattern which you started with your own weaving.”
**pg. 38
“…There is a golden thread that runs through all the teachings and makes them work for those who sincerely accept and apply them, and that thread can be named in a single word—belief.”
**pg. 5
“It is impossible that an outsider should enter into a clear understanding of the mystical spiritual-nature world around him and it follows that the teachings and tenants of that spiritual-nature world must be more or less a closed book to such a one—a book, moreover, which he seldom cares or dares to try and open. For this reason the sages concealed much of their profound knowledge from the multitude because they rightly recognized the limitations of narrow minds and prejudiced opinions… What the fool cannot learn he laughs at, thinking that by his laughter he shows superiority instead of latent idiocy.”
**pg. 14
“Persistence gives confidence and continued right mental attitude followed by consistent action will bring success… When you have that knowing inside of you, fear has vanished and the obstruction to a continued life of good, removed.”
**pg. 17
“What you exhibit outwardly, you are inwardly. You are the product of your own thought. What you believe yourself to be, you are.”
**pg. 21
“We are molded also by the thoughts of others; by what we hear in our social life, what we read in newspapers, magazines, and books, what we hear in the movies, the theater, and on the radio; even by chance remarks from the conversation of bystanders—and these thoughts bombard us constantly.”
**pg. 23
“El Dorado… Where to find the gold of the All Powerful? One secures the gold of the spirit when he finds himself. When he finds himself, he finds freedom and all riches, achievement, and prosperity… Men who know themselves know at once that all material things and ideas have a spiritual counterpart or basis.”
**pg. 24
“Most people have a general desire to succeed, but beyond that, everything is indefinite. They merely go along from day to day, figuring that if they have a job today, they will have it tomorrow—and that somehow, they will be looked after in their old age. They are like corks floating aimlessly on the water, drawn this way and that by various currents, either washing up on shore or becoming water-logged and eventually sinking. Therefore, it is vital that you know exactly what you want out of life. You must know where you are headed, and keep a fixed goal in view.”
**pg. 25