THOUGHT VIBRATION/PART 16
CHAPTER
16.
LAW,
NOT CHANCE
SOME
time ago I was talking to a
man about the Attractive Power of Thought.
He said that he did
not believe that Thought
could attract anything to
him, and that
it was all
a matter of
luck. He had found,
he said, that ill luck
relentlessly pursued him,
and that everything
he touched went wrong. It always had,
and always would, and he
had grown to expect it. When he
undertook a new
thing he knew beforehand that it would
go wrong and that no
good would come of
it. Oh, no! there wasn't anything in the
theory of Attractive Thought, so far
as he could see;
it was all a
matter of luck!
This man
failed to see that by his own
confession he was giving a
most convincing argument in favor
of the Law of
Attraction. He was testifying that he was always expecting things to go
wrong, and that
they always came about as he
expected. He was a
magnificent illustration of the
Law of Attraction—but he didn't
know it, and no
argument seemed to
make the matter clear to
him. He was
"up against it,"
and there was no way
out of it—he always expected the ill
luck, and every occurrence
proved that he was right, and
that the Mental Science position was
all nonsense.
There
are many
people who seem to think that
the only way in which the Law
of Attraction operates
is when one
wishes hard, strong
and steady. They do not seem to realize that a
strong belief is as efficacious as a strong wish. The
successful man believes in himself and in his ultimate
Success, and, paying
no attention to little
setbacks, stumbles, tumbles and
slips, presses on
eagerly to the goal, believing all the time that he will get
there. His views
and aims may
alter as he
progresses, and he may
change his plans or have them
changed for him,
but all the time he knows
in his heart
that he will eventually "get there" . He is not steadily
wishing he may get there—he simply
feels it and
believes it, and thereby sets
into operation the strongest forces
known in the world
of thought.
The
man who just as
steadily believes he is
going to
fail will invariably fail.
How could he help
it? There is no special miracle about
it. Everything he does,
thinks and says
is tinctured with
the thought of failure. Other people catch his spirit, and fail to
trust him or his ability, which occurrences
he in turn sets down
as but other
exhibitions of his
ill luck, instead of
ascribing them to his belief
and expectation of
failure. He is suggesting failure to himself all
the time, and he
invariably takes on the effect
of the autosuggestion. Then,
again, he by his negative thoughts shuts
up that portion of his mind from which should come
the ideas and plans conducive to success
and which do come to the man who is expecting success because he believes in
it. A state of discouragement is not
the one in which bright ideas
come to us. It is only when we are enthused and hopeful that
our minds work
out the bright ideas
which we may turn to account.
Men
instinctively feel the atmosphere of
failure hovering around certain
of their fellows, and on the other hand
recognize something about others which leads them to say, when they hear
of a temporary mishap
befalling such a one;
"Oh, he'll come out all
right somehow—you can't
down him" It is the atmosphere caused by the prevailing Mental Attitude. Clear up
your Mental Atmosphere!
There
is no such thing as chance.
Law maintains everywhere,
and all that happens
happens because of the operation
of Law. You
cannot name the simplest thing that
ever occurred by
chance—try it, and
then run the thing down to a final
analysis, and you will
see it as the
result of Law.
It is as plain as mathematics.
Plan and purpose; cause
and effect. From
the movements of worlds
to the growth of the grain
of mustard seed—all the result of Law. The
fall of the stone down the mountain-side is not chance—forces which had
been in operation
for centuries caused it. And back of that cause were other causes,
and so on until the
Causeless Cause is reached.
And
Life is not the
result of chance—the Law is
here, too. The Law
is in full operation
whether you know
it or not—whether
you believe in it or
not. You
may be the ignorant
object upon which the Law
operates, and bring yourself all
sorts of trouble because of your
ignorance of or opposition to the Law. Or you may fall in with the
operations of the Law—get
into its current,
as it were—and Life will seem
a far different thing to you. You
cannot get outside of
the Law, by refusing to have anything to do with it. You
are at liberty
to oppose it and produce
all the friction you wish to—it
doesn't hurt the Law,
and you may keep
it up until you
learn your lesson.
The
Law of
Thought Attraction is one
name for the Law, or rather
for one manifestation of it.
Again I
say, your thoughts
are real things. They
go forth from you
in all directions,
combining with thoughts of like
kind—opposing thoughts of a different character—forming combinations—
going where they are attracted—flying away from
thought centers opposing them.
And your mind attracts
the thoughts of others, which have been sent out by them consciously
or unconsciously. But it attracts only those thoughts which are in
harmony with its own. Like
attracts like, and opposites repel opposites, in the
world of
thought.
If you
set your mind
to the keynote of courage, confidence,
strength and success, you attract
to yourself thoughts of
like nature; people of like nature;
things that fit
in the mental
tune. Your prevailing thought or mood determines that
which is to be
drawn toward you—picks out
your mental bedfellow. You are today setting into motion thought currents which will in time attract toward
you thoughts, people and conditions in harmony
with the predominant note
of your thought.
Your thought will mingle with that of
others of like nature and mind,
and you will be attracted toward each other, and will surely come together with a common purpose sooner or
later, unless one or
the other of you
should change the current of his
thoughts.
Fall in
with the operations of the Law.
Make it a part
of yourself. Get
into its currents. Maintain
your poise. Set
your mind to the keynote of Courage, Confidence and Success.
Get in touch
with all the thoughts
of that kind that
are emanating every hour
from hundreds of
minds. Get the best that
is to be had
in the thought world.
The best is there,
so be satisfied with nothing
less. Get into partnership with good
minds. Get into the right
vibrations. You must
be tired of
being tossed about by the operations of the
Law—get into harmony with it.
END
OF THIS BOOK.
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