- 人生的追求
永恒的愛、身心的健康與財富，這是每一個人畢生的追求，這是我們天生的使命。
- 健康是一切的基礎
健康的身體是人生的本錢，如果肉體痛苦，又怎麽能享受人生的快樂呢？
- 財富並非萬能，但絕不可少
- 去追求愛
愛是一種神奇的東西，很難給它下準確的定義。愛的獲得符合守恒定律，如果你需要愛，那麽請記住：得到愛的惟一方式是施予愛，你施予的越多，得到的也越多。為了施予愛，你就必須讓你自己充滿愛，直到你成為愛的磁石。愛是全世界通用的語言，對於幸福來說愛是頭等重要的大事，與健康和財富相比，愛似乎更為重要。隻擁有健康和財富而缺少愛，生活就不會完滿，但是很多人卻願意以健康和財富的代價來追求愛。缺少愛，將會是一個人一生無法彌補的遺憾。
- 那麽愛、健康與財富在哪裏呢？
人們總是在外在世界中追尋這三種事物，其實那是南轅北轍。他們都隱藏在我們的內心，隱藏在我們的潛意識當中。找到它們的秘訣非常簡單，就是發掘我們的潛意識，使之與全能的宇宙能量相連接。宇宙能量中包含著全部的健康、全部的財富和全部的愛，一旦我們能夠做到與之相連接，它們就會任由我們索取。
- 精神創造一切
思想是精神的活動，而精神是最富有創造性的。時刻提醒自己：“我完美、我自信、我強大、我有力、我熱愛、我和諧”，你就會擁有幸福，擁有成功。
- 有崇高的追求
應該去思考一些關乎人類生存和發展的重大問題，對這些問題的思考會使你與人類社會保持步調一致，掌握正確的思維。正確的思維，會讓我們領悟愛、健康與財富的真諦，帶領我們進入“成功者的聖殿”。
- 尋找真理
真理既是所有事業發展和社會交往中的潛在法則，又是我們每一次正確行動的先決條件。
- 認識真理
自信且肯定地認識真理就是與宇宙力量的和諧共處，就可以獲得真正的力量。認識真理就是要使自己與這股戰無不勝的力量相關聯，任何其他事情都無法與此比擬。
- 與真理保持一致
一個人的成功與否在很大程度上取決於他是否與真理和諧地同步，即使是絕頂聰明的人，哪怕他知識淵博、學富五車，如果他的信念是建立在犯錯誤的前提之上的話，他也會迷失在謬誤的叢林裏；反之，即便是最缺少智慧的人，一旦他依靠直覺掌握了真理，也可以預見並掌握一個美好的將來。
- 真理無所不在
不管有意還是無心，任何與真理相抵觸的行為都會導致混亂不安。
- 潛意識中已經包含真理的屬性
潛意識蘊涵著宇宙的精神，它具有領悟一切真理的潛質。如果把世界上最偉大的真理與潛意識相溝通，那我們就找到了解決所有問題的方法。如果我們能做到這一點，那麽我們體內的每一個細胞都將彰顯我們所認知的真理。
- 擇善而居
近朱者赤，近墨者黑，人們總是受到他人、事物的滲透影響。如果一個人總是持有偉大的信念，追求偉大的事業，與偉大的自然物、偉大的人朝夕相處，那麽他就會在潛移默化中受到鼓舞，思想也會變得深邃而富有創造力。
- 擁有一個願景
擁有一個美好的願景，它會使你保持旺盛的生命力，千百年來人類的經驗已經證明了這一點。
- 願景導致成功
願景會幫助我們把想像轉化為現實，它借給我們的思想一雙明亮的眼睛，使我們能夠直觀地看到在現實世界中還未發生的將來，許多偉大的成就的產生都要歸功於願景。
- 做一次想象力的訓練
取來一粒種子，不管是花的種子也好，還是草的種子也好，隻要把它埋入土中。給它澆水，悉心照料它，把它放在能夠有陽光的地方，看那個種子發芽、成長。你就會看到，一個希望從無到有、從小到大地變為現實。
- 去想象那顆種子在成長
- 想象力讓你的視野變得清晰
你想看到的東西你就能夠看到，你看不到的東西你也可以想像得到。因為豐富的想象力，你能夠讓你的視野變得更清晰明朗，你就可以隨意地進入一件事物的最細枝末節入。
- 要專注
- 專注導致成功
偉人們的經驗表明，所有的成功，都是通過把意念恒久地集中於自己的目標上而實現的，專注導致成功。
- 信念使你強大
- 愛是最好的撫慰劑
- 信念改變現實
如果你抱持著“我完美、我強大、我有力、我熱愛、我和諧”的信念，日複一日，從不改變。一遍遍默念著這句話，那麽你就會真的變得完善、強大、有力、熱愛、和諧，你將獲得幸福。
- 困果相循
我們常說，生活是一麵鏡子，你笑它也笑，你哭它也哭。如果我們付出了愛與努力，它也一定會以同樣的方式回報我們；但如果我們付出的是憎恨、恐懼、憂愁、憤怒等等的想法，那麽在我們的生活中也一定會得到同樣的惡果。
- 向眾人宣布：“我要擁有！”
你想追求什麽，就大聲向眾人宣布：“我要擁有！”然後你將變得富有朝氣和動力，這實在是一句極其完美的話。
- １１個月輪回
根據科學家的研究，人類的肉體每隔１１個月都會重塑一次，１１個月是一個周期。因此，如果我們年複一年地把缺陷植入我們的身體，那可就怪不得別人了，那隻能從我們自己身上找原因。
- 環境映照心靈
如果我們的心靈總是處於軟弱、破壞、嫉妒甚至是毀滅的狀態，我們就會發現周邊的環境也會變得暗淡無光、充滿危機，環境是我們心靈狀態的映射。相反，如果我們的思想中總是充滿勇氣、自信、寬厚與同情，那麽環境也一定會照此折射出來，環境會變得美麗開闊，一片坦途。
- 思想是因，環境是果
思想是因，環境是果。這是這個世界的因果法則，也是我們自身的“引力法則”。思想是極富創造性的，它自動與環境相關聯，把環境改造成我們希望的樣子。
本課重點
１、人的一生有哪些最重要的追求？
——永恒的愛、身心的健康與財富。
２、人能夠改變自己嗎？
——可以，隻要他學會正確的思考。
３、正確思考的前提條件是什麽？
——認識世界的真理。
４、真理能為我們帶來什麽？
——如果一個人的行為基於正確的前提，我們就會很容易預測出這種行為的結果。
５、一個人的行為如果基於錯誤的前提會導致什麽樣的後果？
——不良的結果，挫折與失敗。
６、我們可以認識真理嗎？
——可以，我們的潛意識中已經包涵了真理的屬性。
７、一個人怎樣才能夠獲得成功？
——他的精神世界要與真理保持一致。
８、人怎樣才能夠改變自己？
——認識自己的精神潛能，將之釋放出來，就可以成功。
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Part Nine
In this Part you may learn to fashion the tools by which you may build for yourself any condition you desire. If you wish to change conditions you must change yourself. Your whims, your wishes, your fancies, your ambitions may be thwarted at every step, but your inmost thoughts will find expression just as certainly as the plant springs from the seed.
Suppose, then, we desire to change conditions, how are we to bring this about? The reply is simple: By the law of growth. Cause and effect are as absolute and undeviating in the hidden realm of thought as in the world of material things.
Hold in mind the condition desired; affirm it as an already existing fact. This indicates the value of a powerful affirmation. By constant repetition it becomes a part of ourselves. We are actually changing ourselves; are making ourselves what we want to be.
Character is not a thing of chance, but it is the result of continued effort. If you are timid, vacillating, self-conscious, or if you are over-anxious or harassed by thoughts of fear or impending danger, remember that is axiomatic that "two things cannot exist in the same place at the same time."
Exactly the same thing is true in the mental and spiritual world; so that your remedy is plainly to substitute thoughts of courage, power, self-reliance and confidence, for those of fear, lack and limitation.
The easiest and most natural way to do this is to select an affirmation which seems to fit your particular case.
The positive thought will destroy the negative as certainly as light destroys darkness, and the results will be just as effectual.
Act is the blossom of thought, and conditions are the result of action, so that you constantly have in your possession the tools by which you will certainly and inevitably make or unmake yourself, and joy or suffering will be the reward.
PART NINE
1. There are only three things which can possibly be desired in the "world without" and each of them can be found in the "world within." The secret of finding them is simply to apply the proper "mechanism" of attachment to the omnipotent power to which each individual has access.
2. The three things which all mankind desires and which are necessary for his highest expression and complete development are Health, Wealth and Love. All will admit that Health is absolutely essential; no one can be happy if the physical body is in pain. All will not so readily admit that Wealth is necessary, but all must admit that a sufficient supply at least is necessary, and what would be considered sufficient for one, would be considered absolute and painful lack for another; and as Nature provides not only enough but abundantly, wastefully, lavishly, we realize that any lack or limitation is only the limitation which has been made by an artificial method of distribution.
3. All will probably admit that Love is the third, or maybe some will say the first essential necessary to the happiness of mankind; at any rate, those who possess all three, Health, Wealth, and Love, find nothing else which can be added to their cup of happiness.
4. We have found that the Universal substance is "All Health," "All Substance" and "All Love" and that the mechanism of attachment whereby we can consciously connect with this Infinite supply is in our method of thinking. To think correctly is therefore to enter into the "Secret Place of the Most High."
5. What shall we think? If we know this we shall have found the proper mechanism of attachment which will relate us to "Whatsoever things we desire." This mechanism may seem very simple when I give it to you, but read on; you will find that it is in reality the "Master Key," the "Aladdin's lamp," if you please; you will find that it is the foundation, the imperative condition, the absolute law of well-doing, which means, well-being.
6. To think correctly, accurately, we must know the "Truth." The truth then is the underlying principle in every business or social relation. It is a condition precedent to every right action. To know the truth, to be sure, to be confident, affords a satisfaction beside which no other is at all comparable; it is the only solid ground in a world of doubt, conflict and danger.
7. To know the Truth is to be in harmony with the Infinite and Omnipotent power. To know the truth is, therefore, to connect yourself with a power which is irresistible and which will sweep away every kind of discord, inharmony, doubt or error of any kind, because the "Truth is mighty and will prevail."
8. The humblest intellect can readily foretell the result of any action when he knows that it is based on truth, but the mightiest intellect, the most profound and penetrating mind loses its way hopelessly and can form no conception of the results which may ensue when his hopes are based on a premise which he knows to be false.
9. Every action which is not in harmony with Truth, whether through ignorance or design, will result in discord, and eventual loss in proportion to its extent and character.
10. How then are we to know the truth in order to attach this mechanism which will relate us to the Infinite?
11. We can make no mistake about this if we realize that truth is the vital principle of the Universal Mind and is Omnipresent. For instance, if you require health, a realization of the fact that the "I" in you is spiritual and that all spirit is one; that wherever a part is the whole must be, will bring about a condition of health, because every cell in the body must manifest the truth as you see it. If you see sickness; they will manifest sickness; if you see perfection they must manifest perfection. The affirmation, "I am whole, perfect, strong, powerful, loving, harmonious and happy", will bring about harmonious conditions. The reason for this is because the affirmation is in strict accordance with the Truth, and when truth appears every form of error or discord must necessarily disappear.
12. You have found that the "I" is spiritual, it must necessarily then always be no less than perfect, the affirmation. "I am whole, perfect, strong, powerful, loving, harmonious and happy" is therefore an exact scientific statement.
13. Thought is a spiritual activity and spirit is creative, therefore the result of holding this thought in mind, must necessarily bring about conditions in harmony with the thought.
14. If you require Wealth a realization of the fact that the "I" in you is one with the Universal mind which is all substance, and is Omnipotent, will assist you in bringing into operation the law of attraction which will bring you into vibration with those forces which make for success and bring about conditions of power and affluence in direct proportion with the character and purpose of your affirmation.
15. Visualization is the mechanism of the attachment which you require. Visualization is a very different process from seeing; seeing is physical, and is therefore related to the objective world, the "world without," but Visualization is a product of the imagination, and is therefore a product of the subjective mind, the "world within." It therefore possesses vitality; it will grow. The thing visualized will manifest itself in form. The mechanism is perfect; it was created by the Master Architect who "doeth all things well," but unfortunately sometimes the operator is inexperienced or inefficient, but practice and determination will overcome this defect.
16. If you require Love try to realize that the only way to get love is by giving it, that the more you give the more you will get, and the only way in which you can give it, is to fill yourself with it, until you become a magnet. The method was explained in another lesson.
17. He who has learned to bring the greatest spiritual truths into touch with the so-called lesser things of life has discovered the secret of the solution of his problem. One is always quickened, made more thoughtful, by his nearness of approach to great ideas, great events, great natural objects, and great men. Lincoln is said to have begotten in all who came near him the feeling awakened when one approaches a mountain, and this sense asserts itself most keenly when one comes to realize that he has laid hold upon things that are eternal, the power of Truth.
18. It is sometimes an inspiration to hear from someone who has actually put these principles to the test, someone who has demonstrated them in their own life. A letter from Frederick Andrews offers the following insight:
19. I was about thirteen years old when Dr. T. W. Marsee, since passed over, said to my mother: "There is no possible chance, Mrs. Andrews. I lost my little boy the same way, after doing everything for him that it was possible to do. I have made a special study of these cases, and I know there is no possible chance for him to get well."
20. She turned to him and said: "Doctor, what would you do if he were your boy?" and he answered, "I would fight, fight, as long as there is a breath of life to fight for."
21. That was the beginning of a long drawn-out battle, with many ups and downs, the doctors all agreeing that there was no chance for a cure, though they encouraged and cheered us the best they could.
22. But at last the victory came, and I have grown from a little, crooked, twisted, cripple, going about on my hands and knees, to a strong, straight, well formed man.
23. Now, I know you want the formula, and I will give it to you as briefly and quickly as I can.
24. I built up an affirmation for myself, taking the qualities I most needed, and affirming for myself over and over again, "I am whole, perfect, strong, powerful, loving, harmonious and happy." I kept up this affirmation, always the same, never varying, till I could wake up in the night and find myself repeating, "I am whole, perfect, strong, powerful, loving, harmonious and happy." It was the last thing on my lips at night and the first thing in the morning.
25. Not only did I affirm it for myself, but for others that I knew needed it. I want to emphasize this point. Whatever you desire for yourself, affirm it for others, and it will help you both. We reap what we sow. If we send out thoughts of love and health, they return to us like bread cast upon the waters; but if we send out thoughts of fear, worry, jealousy, anger, hate, etc., we will reap the results in our own lives.
26. It used to be said that man is completely built over every seven years, but some scientists now declare that we build ourselves over entirely every eleven months; so we are really only eleven months old. If we build the defects back into our bodies year after year, we have no one to blame but ourselves.
27. Man is the sum total of his own thoughts; so the question is, how are we going to entertain only the good thoughts and reject the evil ones? At first we can't keep the evil thoughts from coming, but we can keep from entertaining them. The only way to do this is to forget them -- which means, get something for them. This is where the ready-made affirmation comes into play.
28. When a thought of anger, jealousy, fear or worry creeps in, just start your affirmation going. The way to fight darkness is with light -- the way to fight cold is with heat -- the way to overcome evils is with good. For myself, I never could find any help in denials. Affirm the good, and the bad will vanish. - Frederick Elias Andrews
29. If there is anything you require, it will be well for you to make use of this affirmation; it cannot be improved upon. Use it just as it is; take it into the silence with you, until it sinks into your subconsciousness, so that you can use it anywhere, in your car, in the office, at home; this is the advantage of spiritual methods; they are always available. Spirit is omnipresent, every ready; all that is required is a proper recognition of its omnipotence, and a willingness or desire to become the recipient of its beneficent effects.
30. If our predominant mental attitude is one of power, courage, kindliness and sympathy, we shall find that our environment will reject conditions in correspondence with these thoughts; if it is weak, critical, envious and destructive, we shall find our environment reflecting conditions corresponding to these thoughts.
31. Thoughts are causes and conditions are effects. Herein is the explanation of the origin of both good and evil. Thought is creative and will automatically correlate with its object. This is a Cosmological law (a universal law), the law of Attraction, the law of Cause and Effect; the recognition and application of this law will determine both beginning and end; it is the law by which in all ages and in all times the people were led to believe in the power of prayer. "As thy faith is, so be it unto thee," is simply another, shorter and a better way of stating it.
32. This week visualize a plant; take a flower, the one you most admire, bring it from the unseen into the seen, plant the tiny seed, water it, care for it, place it where it will get the direct rays of the morning sun, see the seed burst; it is now a living thing, something which is alive and beginning to search for the means of subsistence. See the roots penetrating the earth, watch them shoot out in all directions and remember that they are living cells dividing and subdividing, and that they will soon number millions, that each cell is intelligent, that it knows what is wants and knows how to get it. See the stem shoot forward and upward, watch it burst through the surface of the earth, see it divide and form branches, see how perfect and symmetrical each branch is formed, see the leaves begin to form, and then the tiny stems, each one holding aloft a bud, and as you watch you see the bud begin to unfold and your favorite flower comes to view; and now if you will concentrate intently you will become conscious of a fragrance; it is the fragrance of the flower as the breeze gently sways the beautiful creation which you have visualized.
33. When you are enabled to make your vision clear and complete you will be enabled to enter into the spirit of a thing; it will become very real to you; you will be learning to concentrate and the process is the same, whether you are concentrating on health, a favorite flower, an ideal, a complicated business proposition or any other problem of life.
34. Every success has been accomplished by persistent concentration upon the object in view.
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Study Questions with Answers
81. What is the imperative condition of all well-being?
Well doing.
82. What is the condition precedent to every right action?
Right thinking.
83. What is the underlying condition necessary in every business transaction or social relation?
To know the Truth.
84. What is the result of a knowledge of the Truth?
We can readily predict the result of any action that is based upon a true premise.
85. What is the result of any action based upon a false premise?
We can form no conception of the results which may ensue.
86. How may we know the Truth?
By a realization of the fact that Truth is the vital principle of the Universe and is therefore omnipresent.
87. What is the nature of Truth?
It is spiritual.
88. What is the secret of the solution to every problem?
To apply spiritual Truth.
89. What is the advantage of spiritual methods?
They are always available.
90. What are the necessary requirements?
A recognition of the omnipotence of spiritual power and a desire to become the recipient of its beneficent effects.
Thought means life, since those who do not think do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking makes the man.
A. B. Alcott
