man's greatest need is to believe in himself in what he is doing and in his
ultimate destiny self-reliance our self-confidence finds its greatest
outlet when it is accompanied by a belief that the real self of man is God
and that with God all things are possible Shakespeare spoke about the
divinity which shapes your ends are a few at how you will the Bible gives the
key to building spiritual self-reliance but without faith it is impossible to
please him for he that cometh to God must first believe that God is and that
he's our a water of them that diligently seek Him down through the ages all men
and women who have possessed spiritual self-reliance have had a deep abiding
conviction that they were one with the God presence within God is the living
spirit within you called a spirit and they that worship Him worship Him in
spirit and in truth a spirit has no face former figure it's timeless shapeless
and ageless you worship no man you will give your attention your devotion your
loyalty to the spirit within you which created the universe and created you
it's all powerful knows all and sees all when you're in tune with him that
infinite power responds to you and you do marvelous things
a great men down through the ages were sure of themselves without being
aggressive egotistical or intolerant Jesus Moses Buddha lout see Confucius
Muhammad many others accomplished the so-called impossible through the
absolute conviction that they could do what they set out to do through the
divine power which strengthened and inspired them they were all men born
like you were you can accomplish little in this world without faith the farmer
when he plans see his seed has faith in the science of agriculture the chemist
has faith and the laws and principles of chemistry the doctor has faith in his
knowledge of anatomy physiology materia medica and pharmacology he has faith in
his skill as a surgeon the engineer has implicit faith and the laws of
mathematics stress and strain and other principles of the universe and he builds
a building according to scientific laws which existed before any man walked this
earth or before any church was ever formed you can have the same abiding
faith in the laws of your own mind which are the same yesterday today and forever
and man is living in the dark ages who thinks that the principles of chemistry
and physics and mathematics are different than the principles and laws
operating in his own mind these mental and spiritual laws are just as
dependable and undeviating as the laws of gravitation Boyle's law or revoke
iroh's law we know for a fact that think good good follows think evil and evil
follow me if you think of yourself as a failure in your picture your picture
failure you will fail think of success realize you're born to succeed and to
win for the infinite cannot fail picture yourself successful happy and free and
you will be whatever you think and feel is true in your conscious mind is
embodied in your subconscious and comes to
into your experience that's the law of mind on deviating immutable timeless and
changeless we're not talking about faith and creeds or dogmas or traditions or
any religious persuasion we're talking about faith and the your own found in
your own feeling in the laws of your own mind in the goodness of God in the land
of the living faith in their creative intelligence which responds to your
thought you can have fate that you're going to be ill when exposed to a
draught or that you will catch the virus or a severe cold because someone sneezes
in your presence you can have faith that you will fail but your faith is in the
wrong thing isn't it and your business ventures will turn out badly a woman
once said to me for 10 years I had absolute faith I would be alone through
life no one would marry me and I would be poor and miserable then she said I
read a book the power of your subconscious mind of a car of many years
ago and I applied the prayers outlined now I
am happily married have a marvelous husband and have been blessed with three
lovely children this woman reversed her faith in the
negative to a Joyce expectancy of the best in all phases of her life fear is
faith in the wrong thing fear is fate upside down have faith and
the goodness of God in the land of the living
a faith in divine love have faith in the healing presence which made you to heal
the law of this woman's mind responded back to her belief for the law of life
is the law of belief what do you believe in to believe is to accept something is
true believe in whatsoever things are true whatsoever things are lovely
whatsoever things are just whatsoever things are pure whatsoever things are of
good report if there be any virtue if there be any praise believe in these
things the first step in building self-reliance or self confidence is to
believe that infinite power within you which grows here on your face which
digests your food grows nails torsionally grows your nails when you're
sound asleep and gross hair on your head it watches over you when you were sound
asleep it governs your heartbeat and all the vital organs of your body and all
the process of your body are controlled by that infinite intelligence that's
what we're talking about for example if you cut yourself it heals you if you
burn yourself reduces the edema gives you new tissue and skin it always seeks
to heal you that's the life principle in you and you know you're alive you know
you have a mind and you know you have that spirit because you can feel the
spirit of joy of rapture next receive love when you look into your child's eye
all these are invisible yet they're real so believe in that infinite power within
you recognize and know that the self of you is God that your higher self the
living spirit within you that was never born will never die water wet said not
fire burns are not wind blows it not away it's eternal it is the very life
principle in you through you and all around you the second step is to commune
regularly with this infinite presence and power and have a vision realizing
you go where your vision is and your vision is what you're mentally
looking at what you're giving attention to what you're thinking quietly silently
and feelingly at this moment that's where you're going and that's what's
going to happen to you let your vision be on abundance right
action inspiration and divine guidance and you will become like the perennial
mountain of snow which when melted by the heat of the Sun flows downward like
a river of life giving nourishment and sustenance to the valleys what
difference does it make if you have floundered and failed many times now
that you know the divine presence in welcher and that the infinite
intelligence and infinite power and the infinite life principle is the god
presence within you you know it responds to you wants you to be happy
stir up that divine gift within you wake up the sleeping giant within you trust
that creative intelligence within you more so even than you ever trusted your
human father or mother when the thought comes to you I cannot do this affirm but
the divine presence can its infinite presence
it's the infinite power there's nothing to oppose it or challenge it is almighty
if the thought comes look at all the difficulties and obstructions realize
you know and say boldly to yourself infinite intelligence and infinite power
knows no obstructions delays or impediments find an affirmation which
counteracts all your negations and your life will become more blessed and
beautiful through the years you will find your obstructions and challenges
will be transformed into opportunities your fear will turn to faith and your
doubt will turn into certainty that the infinite healing presence is within you
and wonders happen as you tune in upon it recently I had an intensely
interesting conversation with the hotel proprietor in Lisbon Portugal he told me
that he had started out as a waiter in a small restaurant when the boss would ask
him to do something special he would often say I am going to try to do it
his boss finally said to him never say I'm going to try say I am going to do it
and know that you can do it and then the power will respond to you he said I
profited from that advice and I never again said I'm going to try I began to
believe in myself I know that infinite power indwells me for the Bible says the
kingdom of God or intelligence is within you his secret was I'm going to do it he
began to affirm perhaps a thousand times a day I'm going to have a big hotel and
on it he believed that through the power of
the infinite he would do exactly that the answer came in a strange way he
continued I won at Roulette in Monaco the equivalent of a hundred thousand
dollars in American money I opened this hotel and now I have paid off the
mortgage I have prospered beyond my fondest dreams this man said he had felt
an overwhelming urge to go to the tables at Menaka and he asked a friend to
accompany him and show him the ropes he knew he would win it was an inner
silent knowing of the soul he had fabulous winnings and when he had enough
money $100,000 for a deposit on his hotel he stopped and never gambled again
this was the way his subconscious mind answered his prayer for a hotel of his
own the ways of your subconscious are fast finding out money is just an idea a
symbol of exchange there is nothing evil in the universe
nothing good or bad but thinking makes it so good and evil are the movements of
man's own mind relative to the infinite life principle within him which is
forever perfect all and complete in itself
make up your mind now this minute that you can do what you want to do and can
be what you sincerely want to be and can have what you wish to possess and it
will be done to you as you believe follow the age-old maximum be sure you
are right then go ahead let nothing move you or
shake your conviction make it a part of your mentality and with this kind of
belief you will inevitably succeed and move forward in life what is it that the
immensely wealthy man are the prominent businessman possesses that you do not
only one thing it is self reliance or self confidence he believes in himself
and the powers within him both of which of course mean the same thing
self-reliance or self confidence or wealth
confidence means with faith faith in a principle and the powers of your mind
just like an engineer has faith in the principles of mathematics faith in the
principle of strain and stress you meet men and women who have reached the top
of their professions they're successful in the art of living they are marvelous
homes they're wonderful children they're contributing to humanity in countless
ways they're successful in their prayer life relationship with the divine
relationship with people all this is due to their implicit trust and faith in
that inner power within them they place their whole reliance on that infinite
guiding principle on the divine love and the divine protection in always their
words actions demeanor and general attitude radiates power and confidence
and thus when you respect the first time you meet them
last year I interviewed a man at Hilo Hawaii he was very wealthy but he sadly
said to me I am nobody no one cares for me frankly no one did for the simple
reason that he did not respect or care for the self within him he was down on
himself and if you were cruel or mean to yourself others will be cruel and mean
to you for as within so without this man was down on himself even though
he had vast holdings of real estate and large bank deposits I explained to him
that he was constantly criticizing and belittling himself and that doing that
others must treat him the same way and that if he expected to accomplish
precisely nothing of himself neither would anyone expect any more of him for
us within so without the inside controls the outside I pointed out to him that
the riches of the infinite were within it and all around him Shakespeare said
all things be ready if the mine be sold all he had to do was to call in the
infinite presence and power and it would respond to his thought he began to use
some of the great eternal truths of the Bible which I outlined for him as
follows now II not that ye are the Temple of the Living God and that the
Spirit of God dwelleth in you but the fruit of the Spirit is love joy peace
patience gentleness goodness faith meekness and temperance that will keep
him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on thee because he trusted in
thee in all thy ways acknowledge him and he shall make claim their paths trust
him believe in him and he shall bring it to pass
this is the way the Lord had created you rejoice and be glad that that infinite
being created you and know it is always with you and it's capable of healing of
restoring vitalizing and energizing you and we know that all things work
together for good to them that love God to them do it that who are called
according to his purpose