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people say one can't help one's thoughts
but one can the control of the thinking
machine is perfectly possible and since
nothing whatever happens to us outside
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our own brain since nothing hurts us or
gives us pleasure except within the
brain the supreme importance of being
able to control what goes on in that
mysterious brain is patent this idea is
one of the oldest platitudes but it is a
platitude whose profound truth and
urgency most people live and die without
realizing people complain of the lack of
power to concentrate not winning that
they may acquire the power if they
choose and without the power to
concentrate that is to say without the
power to dictate to the brain its task
and to ensure obedience true life is
impossible
mind control is the first element of a
full existence and it seems to me the
first business of the day should be to
put the mind through its paces you look
after your body inside and out
you run grave danger and hacking hairs
off your skin you employ a whole army of
individuals from the milkman to the pig
killer to enable you to bribe your
stomach into decent behavior
why not devote a little attention to the
far more delicate machinery of the mind
especially as you will require no
extraneous aid it is for this portion of
the art and craft of living that i have
reserved the time from the moment of
quitting your door to the moment of
arriving at your office
what I am to cultivate my mind in the
street on the platform in the train and
then the crowded street again
precisely nothing simpler no tools
required not even a book
nevertheless the affair is not easy
when you leave your house concentrate
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your mind on the subject
no matter what to begin with you will
not have gone 10 yards before your mind
skipped away under your very eyes and is
lurking around the corner with another
subject bring it back by the scruff of
the neck there you have reached the
station you will have brought it back
about 40 times do not despair continue
keep it up you will succeed you cannot
by any chance fail if you persevere it
is idle to pretend that your mind is
incapable of concentration
do you not remember that morning when
you receive the disquieting letter which
demanded a very carefully worded answer
how you kept your mind steadily on the
subject of the answer without a second
intermission until you reached your
office
whereupon you instantly sat down and
wrote the answer that was a case in
which you were aroused by circumstances
to such a degree of vitality that you're
able to dominate your mind like a tyrant
you would have no trifling you insisted
that its work should be done and it's
work was done by the regular practice of
concentration as to which there is no
secret save the secret of perseverance
you can terranize over your mind which
is not the highest part of you every
hour of the day and in no matter what
place the exercise is a very convenient
one if you got into your morning train
with a pair of dumbbells for your
muscles or an encyclopedia in 10 volumes
for your learning you would probably
excite remark but as you walk in the
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street or sit in the corner of the
compartment behind a pipe or strap hang
on the subterranean who was to know that
you are engaged in the most important of
daily acts what asinine board can laugh
at you i do not care what you
concentrate on so long as you
concentrate
it is the mirror disciplining of the
thinking machine that counts but still
you may as well kill two birds with one
stone and concentrate on something
useful
I suggest it is only a suggestion a
little chapter of Marcus Aurelius or
effectiveness do not I beg shy at their
names for myself I know nothing more
actual more bursting with playing
common-sense applicable to the daily
life of plain persons like you and me
who hate airs pose and nonsense then
Marcus Aurelius or effectiveness read a
chapter and so short they are the
chapters in the evening and concentrated
on it the next morning you will see
yes my friend it is useless for you to
try to disguise the fact i can hear your
brain like a telephone at my ear you're
saying to yourself what he says about
shaking and trains and concentration and
so on is not for me it may be well
enough for some folks but it isn't in my
line it is for you
I passionately repeat it is for you
indeed you are the ferryman I am aiming
at throw away the suggestion and you
throw away the most precious suggestion
that was ever offered to you it is not
my suggestion it is the suggestion of
the most sensible practical hard-headed
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man who have walked the earth
I only give it to you at secondhand try
it
get your mind in hand and see how the
process cures half the evils of life
especially worried that miserable
avoidable shameful disease worry the
exercise of concentrating the mind to
which at least half an hour a day should
be given is a mere preliminary like
scales on the piano having acquired
power over that most unruly number of
ones complex organism one is naturally
to put it to the yolk useless to possess
an obedient mind unless one profits to
the farthest possible degree by its
obedience a prolonged primary course of
study is indicated
now as to what this course of study
should be cannot be any question there
never has been any question all the
sensible people of all ages are agreed
upon it and it is not literature nor is
it any other art nor isn't history nor
is it any science is the study of one's
self men know thyself
these words are so hackneyed that verily
I blush to write them yet they must be
written for they need to be written
I take back my blush being ashamed of it
man
know thyself I say it out loud the
phrase is one of those phrases with
which everyone is familiar of which
everyone acknowledges the value and
which only the most sagacious put into
practice
I don't know why I am entirely convinced
that what is more than anything else
lacking in the life of the average
well-intentioned man of today is the
reflective mood we do not reflect I mean
that we do not reflect upon genuinely
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important things upon the problem of our
happiness upon the main direction in
which we are going upon what life is
giving to us upon the share which reason
has or has not in determining our
actions and upon the relation between
our principles and our conduct and yet
you are in search of happiness are you
not have you discovered it
the chances are that you have not the
chances are that you have already come
to believe that happiness is
unattainable but men have attained it
and they have attended by realizing that
happiness does not spring from the
procuring of physical or mental pleasure
but from the development of reason and
the adjustment of conduct the principles
i suppose that you will not have the
audacity to deny this and if you admit
it and still devote no part of your day
to the deliberate consideration of your
reason principles and conduct you admit
also that while striving for a certain
thing you are regularly leaving undone
the one act which is necessary to the
attainment of that thing
now shall I blush or will you do not
fear that I mean to thrust certain
principles upon your attention i care
not in this place
what's your principles are your
principles may induce you to believe in
the righteousness of burglary
I don't mind all I urge is that a life
in which conduct does not fairly well
accord with principles is a silly life
and the conduct can only be made to
accord with principles by means of daily
examination reflection and resolution
what leads to the permanent sorrowful
nosov burglars is that their principles
are contrary to burglary if they
genuinely believed in the moral
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excellence of burglary penal servitude
would simply mean so many happy years
for them all martyrs are happy because
their conduct and their principles agree
as for reason which makes conduct and is
not unconnected with the making of
principles it plays a far smaller part
in our lives than we fancy we are
supposed to be reasonable but we are
much more instinctive than reasonable
and the less we reflect the last
reasonable we shall be the next time you
get cross with the waiter because your
steak is overcooked asked reason to step
into the Cabinet Room of your mind and
consult her she will probably tell you
that the waiter did not cook the steak
and had no control over the cooking of
the steak
and that even if he alone was to blame
you accomplish nothing goodbye getting
cross you merely lost your dignity
looked a fool in the eyes of sensible
men and sour the waiter while producing
no effect whatever on the steak the
result of this consultation with reason
for which she makes no charge will be
that when once more your steak is
overcooked you will treat the waiter as
a fellow-creature remain quite calm and
a kindly spirit and politely insist on
having a fresh steak
the game will be obvious and solid in
the formation or modification of
principles and the practice of conduct
much health can be derived from printed
books issued sixpence each and upwards
i mentioned in my last chapter marcus
aurelius anda pictus surgeon even more
widely known works will occur it once to
the memory i may also mentioned Pascal
Lapierre and emerson for myself you do
not catch me traveling without my marcus
aurelius yes
books are valuable but not reading the
books will take the place with daily
candid honest examination of what one
has recently done and what one is about
to do I was steady looking at oneself in
the face disconcerting though the site
maybe one shall this important business
be accomplished the solitude of the
evening journey home appears to me to be
suitable for it a reflective mood
naturally follows the exertion of having
earned the day's living of course if
instead of attending to an elementary
and profoundly important duty you prefer
to read the paper which you might just
as well read while waiting for your
dinner I have nothing to say but attend
to it at some time of the day you must I
now come to the evening hours
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