Practical Thought

SOME PRACTICAL MENTAL RECIPES

by Prentice Mulford

http://website.lineone.net/~cornerstone/mulford.htm


NONE of us can expect to believe and live up to new laws, principles, or
methods of life all at once. Though convinced of their truth, there is
an unyielding, stubborn part of us which is hostile to them. That part
is our material mind or mind of the body.

THERE IS A SUPREME POWER AND RULING FORCE WHICH PERVADES AND RULES THE
BOUNDLESS UNIVERSE.
  
YOU ARE A PART OF THIS POWER.
YOU AS A PART HAVE THE FACULTY OF BRINGING TO YOU BY CONSTANT SILENT
DESIRE, PRAYER, OR DEMAND MORE AND MORE OF THE QUALITIES, BELONGINGS,
AND CHARACTERISTICS OF THIS POWER.

Every thought of yours is a real thing--a force (say this over to
yourself twice).
Every thought of yours is literally building for you something for the
future of good or ill.
What, then, Is your mind dwelling on now in any matter? The dark or the
bright side? Is it toward others ugly or kind? This is precisely the
same as asking, " What kind of life and results are you making for
yourself in the future? "

If now you are obliged to live in a tenement house or sit at a very
inferior table, or live among the coarse and vulgar, do not say to
yourself that you must always so live. Live in mind or imagination in
the better house. Sit in imagination at better served tables and among
superior people. When you cultivate this state of mind your forces are
carrying you to the better. Be rich in spirit, in mind, in imagination,
and you will in time be rich in material things. It is the mood of mind
you are most in, whether that be grovelling or aspiring, that is
actually making physical conditions of life in advance for you."