The Magic Seven E-Book

Lida A. Churchill

• Herausgeber: Andura Publishing
• Kategorie: Ratgeber
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2020

Beschreibung

Experience the life-changing power of Lida A. Churchill with this unforgettable book.

Leseprobe

The Magic Seven

Lida A. Churchill

CONTENTS

I

HOW TO CENTER YOURSELF

What is meant by centering yourself? And why is such a process necessary?

“What,” asked a young officer of an experienced general, “do you consider the first requisite for an army which is to be victorious?”

“That it be within always possible reach of an adequate base of supplies,” was the reply.

In other words, no army can be sure of the brains which wisely plan, the strength which compels victory, the endurance which renders triumph permanent, without a center from which these things may be unfailingly called forth. An army may for a time subsist on forage, but such a subsistence can never be anything but precarious, and it is almost certain that the rations thus obtained will be insufficient and unsatisfactory, giving only spasmodic strength, and none of the confidence and mind-rest which come from a knowledge of sure available supplies.

The fact, then, becomes self-evident that an army’s center is its base of supplies, without which it may be morally certain of disaster, if not of complete final defeat, and will degenerate into an ineffectual horde of marauders.

This is no truer of an army than of an individual. He must find his center around his base of supplies, and if he is to greatly achieve and finally win, these supplies must be suitable, adequate, and unfailing. One having no base of supplies may forage for a time, but such subsistence will leave him on the straggling, un-winning side.

Now, everyone has the natural and healthy wish to be on the winning side. The first thing, then, is to decide that for you, for everyone, no matter what his past or present, his heredity, age or environment, there if a winning side. If, from long habit of uncertainty and unfaith, one cannot thus decide, let him determine to find out whether it is true or not; and the way to do this is to act exactly as though he believed it.

“There’s a brook just over the ridge,” declared a man to two thirsty hunters. “I don’t believe it,” said one; “it’s too rocky and barren about here for brooks.” And he sat down. “I don’t believe it, either,” replied his companion, “but I’m going to see if it is true.” He went, and came back with his flask full of water.

It being imperative that one who is to win must center in an always accessible and adequate base of supplies, it becomes necessary to determine where and of what nature this center shall be.

First, it must be where no one can bar him out from it, and, second, it must contain such stores as will give strength, confidence, and victory.

It is a truth attested by millions of cases that he who tries to form a base of supplies, make a center, outside of himself, and by things which are not inherently his, is likely at any hour, and almost certain in the end, to meet with the fate of the forager, which is moral vagabondage. One depending upon expectations from rich relatives, the influence of those in power, the chances of good luck, the power of beauty or diplomacy—anything which is not permanently and inherently his, which he cannot command, has no base of supplies, and is on the unwinning side.

Where and what is the center of one who is to win? It is within his inmost self and those things which his thoughts, his desires, his practices, may make for him always available, must make for him actual working forces if he wills it so.

“We are thirsty, give us water,” called the captain of a craft to the commander of another craft. “Let down your buckets,” came back the answer; “you are at the mouth of the Amazon.”

You who have not begun your base of supplies, do not even realize that you may have one, who are foraging, and consequently thirsting, despairing, failing, are at the mouth of the Amazon, and by flinging out your bucket may dip up all that will make you successful. The recognition that you, individualized so sharply that you are unlike any other person in the world, are still a part of the great universal Force and Intelligence, as the unduplicated wave is a part of the sea, and that of these things which saturate you and flow around you, you may use as much as you will to any purpose you wisely and deliberately choose, this recognition must be your bucket, and Will must send it out and draw it, filled, home to you.

You have, then, must have if you are certainly to win, as your base of supplies, all that God is or owns.

How shall you use what is thus made possible to you so as to render it a never-failing working force?

You must learn to use it by taking certain exercises intelligently, persistently, unfailingly. No other methods will suffice.

Thousands who have given years to the study of music, languages, or other accomplishments, are impatient if they cannot learn how to become spiritually strong and effectual in a day or a week. They want the most precious possessions, those that will make them free, happy, opulent, without paying for them in time, attention, or persistence. Know, once for all, that for the diamond of spiritual effectiveness you must delve with no easy or intermittent thrusts, but be comforted by the truth that he who digs for it does so by no severer labor, no more persistent endeavor and attention than are put forth by one who seeks a common stone, and, in the end, he holds as his own nothing less than a diamond.

SUMMARY AND EXERCISE:

You must, to be successful, center in an always accessible, permanent, and adequate base of supplies. This base of supplies is yours at your insistent and persistent demand, and with it you may do what you intelligently decide to do, become what you intelligently decide to become.

Say every day, in the silence of your heart, reverently, earnestly, repeating the words till they sink into your consciousness:

I am depending upon nothing but God. I am a part of the All-Wisdom, the All-Intelligence, the All-Strength, the All-Power, the All-Peace, the All-Opulence, and I am able to utilize all these Forces.