- 人生的追求
永恒的爱、身心的健康与财富，这是每一个人毕生的追求，这是我们天生的使命。
- 健康是一切的基础
健康的身体是人生的本钱，如果肉体痛苦，又怎么能享受人生的快乐呢？
- 财富并非万能，但绝不可少
- 去追求爱
爱是一种神奇的东西，很难给它下准确的定义。爱的获得符合守恒定律，如果你需要爱，那么请记住：得到爱的惟一方式是施予爱，你施予的越多，得到的也越多。为了施予爱，你就必须让你自己充满爱，直到你成为爱的磁石。爱是全世界通用的语言，对于幸福来说爱是头等重要的大事，与健康和财富相比，爱似乎更为重要。只拥有健康和财富而缺少爱，生活就不会完满，但是很多人却愿意以健康和财富的代价来追求爱。缺少爱，将会是一个人一生无法弥补的遗憾。
- 那么爱、健康与财富在哪里呢？
人们总是在外在世界中追寻这三种事物，其实那是南辕北辙。他们都隐藏在我们的内心，隐藏在我们的潜意识当中。找到它们的秘诀非常简单，就是发掘我们的潜意识，使之与全能的宇宙能量相连接。宇宙能量中包含着全部的健康、全部的财富和全部的爱，一旦我们能够做到与之相连接，它们就会任由我们索取。
- 精神创造一切
思想是精神的活动，而精神是最富有创造性的。时刻提醒自己：“我完美、我自信、我强大、我有力、我热爱、我和谐”，你就会拥有幸福，拥有成功。
- 有崇高的追求
应该去思考一些关乎人类生存和发展的重大问题，对这些问题的思考会使你与人类社会保持步调一致，掌握正确的思维。正确的思维，会让我们领悟爱、健康与财富的真谛，带领我们进入“成功者的圣殿”。
- 寻找真理
真理既是所有事业发展和社会交往中的潜在法则，又是我们每一次正确行动的先决条件。
- 认识真理
自信且肯定地认识真理就是与宇宙力量的和谐共处，就可以获得真正的力量。认识真理就是要使自己与这股战无不胜的力量相关联，任何其他事情都无法与此比拟。
- 与真理保持一致
一个人的成功与否在很大程度上取决于他是否与真理和谐地同步，即使是绝顶聪明的人，哪怕他知识渊博、学富五车，如果他的信念是建立在犯错误的前提之上的话，他也会迷失在谬误的丛林里；反之，即便是最缺少智慧的人，一旦他依靠直觉掌握了真理，也可以预见并掌握一个美好的将来。
- 真理无所不在
不管有意还是无心，任何与真理相抵触的行为都会导致混乱不安。
- 潜意识中已经包含真理的属性
潜意识蕴涵着宇宙的精神，它具有领悟一切真理的潜质。如果把世界上最伟大的真理与潜意识相沟通，那我们就找到了解决所有问题的方法。如果我们能做到这一点，那么我们体内的每一个细胞都将彰显我们所认知的真理。
- 择善而居
近朱者赤，近墨者黑，人们总是受到他人、事物的渗透影响。如果一个人总是持有伟大的信念，追求伟大的事业，与伟大的自然物、伟大的人朝夕相处，那么他就会在潜移默化中受到鼓舞，思想也会变得深邃而富有创造力。
- 拥有一个愿景
拥有一个美好的愿景，它会使你保持旺盛的生命力，千百年来人类的经验已经证明了这一点。
- 愿景导致成功
愿景会帮助我们把想像转化为现实，它借给我们的思想一双明亮的眼睛，使我们能够直观地看到在现实世界中还未发生的将来，许多伟大的成就的产生都要归功于愿景。
- 做一次想象力的训练
取来一粒种子，不管是花的种子也好，还是草的种子也好，只要把它埋入土中。给它浇水，悉心照料它，把它放在能够有阳光的地方，看那个种子发芽、成长。你就会看到，一个希望从无到有、从小到大地变为现实。
- 去想象那颗种子在成长
- 想象力让你的视野变得清晰
你想看到的东西你就能够看到，你看不到的东西你也可以想像得到。因为丰富的想象力，你能够让你的视野变得更清晰明朗，你就可以随意地进入一件事物的最细枝末节入。
- 要专注
- 专注导致成功
伟人们的经验表明，所有的成功，都是通过把意念恒久地集中于自己的目标上而实现的，专注导致成功。
- 信念使你强大
- 爱是最好的抚慰剂
- 信念改变现实
如果你抱持着“我完美、我强大、我有力、我热爱、我和谐”的信念，日复一日，从不改变。一遍遍默念着这句话，那么你就会真的变得完善、强大、有力、热爱、和谐，你将获得幸福。
- 困果相循
我们常说，生活是一面镜子，你笑它也笑，你哭它也哭。如果我们付出了爱与努力，它也一定会以同样的方式回报我们；但如果我们付出的是憎恨、恐惧、忧愁、愤怒等等的想法，那么在我们的生活中也一定会得到同样的恶果。
- 向众人宣布：“我要拥有！”
你想追求什么，就大声向众人宣布：“我要拥有！”然后你将变得富有朝气和动力，这实在是一句极其完美的话。
- １１个月轮回
根据科学家的研究，人类的肉体每隔１１个月都会重塑一次，１１个月是一个周期。因此，如果我们年复一年地把缺陷植入我们的身体，那可就怪不得别人了，那只能从我们自己身上找原因。
- 环境映照心灵
如果我们的心灵总是处于软弱、破坏、嫉妒甚至是毁灭的状态，我们就会发现周边的环境也会变得暗淡无光、充满危机，环境是我们心灵状态的映射。相反，如果我们的思想中总是充满勇气、自信、宽厚与同情，那么环境也一定会照此折射出来，环境会变得美丽开阔，一片坦途。
- 思想是因，环境是果
思想是因，环境是果。这是这个世界的因果法则，也是我们自身的“引力法则”。思想是极富创造性的，它自动与环境相关联，把环境改造成我们希望的样子。
本课重点
１、人的一生有哪些最重要的追求？
——永恒的爱、身心的健康与财富。
２、人能够改变自己吗？
——可以，只要他学会正确的思考。
３、正确思考的前提条件是什么？
——认识世界的真理。
４、真理能为我们带来什么？
——如果一个人的行为基于正确的前提，我们就会很容易预测出这种行为的结果。
５、一个人的行为如果基于错误的前提会导致什么样的后果？
——不良的结果，挫折与失败。
６、我们可以认识真理吗？
——可以，我们的潜意识中已经包涵了真理的属性。
７、一个人怎样才能够获得成功？
——他的精神世界要与真理保持一致。
８、人怎样才能够改变自己？
——认识自己的精神潜能，将之释放出来，就可以成功。
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Part Nine
In this Part you may learn to fashion the tools by which you may build for yourself any condition you desire. If you wish to change conditions you must change yourself. Your whims, your wishes, your fancies, your ambitions may be thwarted at every step, but your inmost thoughts will find expression just as certainly as the plant springs from the seed.
Suppose, then, we desire to change conditions, how are we to bring this about? The reply is simple: By the law of growth. Cause and effect are as absolute and undeviating in the hidden realm of thought as in the world of material things.
Hold in mind the condition desired; affirm it as an already existing fact. This indicates the value of a powerful affirmation. By constant repetition it becomes a part of ourselves. We are actually changing ourselves; are making ourselves what we want to be.
Character is not a thing of chance, but it is the result of continued effort. If you are timid, vacillating, self-conscious, or if you are over-anxious or harassed by thoughts of fear or impending danger, remember that is axiomatic that "two things cannot exist in the same place at the same time."
Exactly the same thing is true in the mental and spiritual world; so that your remedy is plainly to substitute thoughts of courage, power, self-reliance and confidence, for those of fear, lack and limitation.
The easiest and most natural way to do this is to select an affirmation which seems to fit your particular case.
The positive thought will destroy the negative as certainly as light destroys darkness, and the results will be just as effectual.
Act is the blossom of thought, and conditions are the result of action, so that you constantly have in your possession the tools by which you will certainly and inevitably make or unmake yourself, and joy or suffering will be the reward.
PART NINE
1. There are only three things which can possibly be desired in the "world without" and each of them can be found in the "world within." The secret of finding them is simply to apply the proper "mechanism" of attachment to the omnipotent power to which each individual has access.
2. The three things which all mankind desires and which are necessary for his highest expression and complete development are Health, Wealth and Love. All will admit that Health is absolutely essential; no one can be happy if the physical body is in pain. All will not so readily admit that Wealth is necessary, but all must admit that a sufficient supply at least is necessary, and what would be considered sufficient for one, would be considered absolute and painful lack for another; and as Nature provides not only enough but abundantly, wastefully, lavishly, we realize that any lack or limitation is only the limitation which has been made by an artificial method of distribution.
3. All will probably admit that Love is the third, or maybe some will say the first essential necessary to the happiness of mankind; at any rate, those who possess all three, Health, Wealth, and Love, find nothing else which can be added to their cup of happiness.
4. We have found that the Universal substance is "All Health," "All Substance" and "All Love" and that the mechanism of attachment whereby we can consciously connect with this Infinite supply is in our method of thinking. To think correctly is therefore to enter into the "Secret Place of the Most High."
5. What shall we think? If we know this we shall have found the proper mechanism of attachment which will relate us to "Whatsoever things we desire." This mechanism may seem very simple when I give it to you, but read on; you will find that it is in reality the "Master Key," the "Aladdin's lamp," if you please; you will find that it is the foundation, the imperative condition, the absolute law of well-doing, which means, well-being.
6. To think correctly, accurately, we must know the "Truth." The truth then is the underlying principle in every business or social relation. It is a condition precedent to every right action. To know the truth, to be sure, to be confident, affords a satisfaction beside which no other is at all comparable; it is the only solid ground in a world of doubt, conflict and danger.
7. To know the Truth is to be in harmony with the Infinite and Omnipotent power. To know the truth is, therefore, to connect yourself with a power which is irresistible and which will sweep away every kind of discord, inharmony, doubt or error of any kind, because the "Truth is mighty and will prevail."
8. The humblest intellect can readily foretell the result of any action when he knows that it is based on truth, but the mightiest intellect, the most profound and penetrating mind loses its way hopelessly and can form no conception of the results which may ensue when his hopes are based on a premise which he knows to be false.
9. Every action which is not in harmony with Truth, whether through ignorance or design, will result in discord, and eventual loss in proportion to its extent and character.
10. How then are we to know the truth in order to attach this mechanism which will relate us to the Infinite?
11. We can make no mistake about this if we realize that truth is the vital principle of the Universal Mind and is Omnipresent. For instance, if you require health, a realization of the fact that the "I" in you is spiritual and that all spirit is one; that wherever a part is the whole must be, will bring about a condition of health, because every cell in the body must manifest the truth as you see it. If you see sickness; they will manifest sickness; if you see perfection they must manifest perfection. The affirmation, "I am whole, perfect, strong, powerful, loving, harmonious and happy", will bring about harmonious conditions. The reason for this is because the affirmation is in strict accordance with the Truth, and when truth appears every form of error or discord must necessarily disappear.
12. You have found that the "I" is spiritual, it must necessarily then always be no less than perfect, the affirmation. "I am whole, perfect, strong, powerful, loving, harmonious and happy" is therefore an exact scientific statement.
13. Thought is a spiritual activity and spirit is creative, therefore the result of holding this thought in mind, must necessarily bring about conditions in harmony with the thought.
14. If you require Wealth a realization of the fact that the "I" in you is one with the Universal mind which is all substance, and is Omnipotent, will assist you in bringing into operation the law of attraction which will bring you into vibration with those forces which make for success and bring about conditions of power and affluence in direct proportion with the character and purpose of your affirmation.
15. Visualization is the mechanism of the attachment which you require. Visualization is a very different process from seeing; seeing is physical, and is therefore related to the objective world, the "world without," but Visualization is a product of the imagination, and is therefore a product of the subjective mind, the "world within." It therefore possesses vitality; it will grow. The thing visualized will manifest itself in form. The mechanism is perfect; it was created by the Master Architect who "doeth all things well," but unfortunately sometimes the operator is inexperienced or inefficient, but practice and determination will overcome this defect.
16. If you require Love try to realize that the only way to get love is by giving it, that the more you give the more you will get, and the only way in which you can give it, is to fill yourself with it, until you become a magnet. The method was explained in another lesson.
17. He who has learned to bring the greatest spiritual truths into touch with the so-called lesser things of life has discovered the secret of the solution of his problem. One is always quickened, made more thoughtful, by his nearness of approach to great ideas, great events, great natural objects, and great men. Lincoln is said to have begotten in all who came near him the feeling awakened when one approaches a mountain, and this sense asserts itself most keenly when one comes to realize that he has laid hold upon things that are eternal, the power of Truth.
18. It is sometimes an inspiration to hear from someone who has actually put these principles to the test, someone who has demonstrated them in their own life. A letter from Frederick Andrews offers the following insight:
19. I was about thirteen years old when Dr. T. W. Marsee, since passed over, said to my mother: "There is no possible chance, Mrs. Andrews. I lost my little boy the same way, after doing everything for him that it was possible to do. I have made a special study of these cases, and I know there is no possible chance for him to get well."
20. She turned to him and said: "Doctor, what would you do if he were your boy?" and he answered, "I would fight, fight, as long as there is a breath of life to fight for."
21. That was the beginning of a long drawn-out battle, with many ups and downs, the doctors all agreeing that there was no chance for a cure, though they encouraged and cheered us the best they could.
22. But at last the victory came, and I have grown from a little, crooked, twisted, cripple, going about on my hands and knees, to a strong, straight, well formed man.
23. Now, I know you want the formula, and I will give it to you as briefly and quickly as I can.
24. I built up an affirmation for myself, taking the qualities I most needed, and affirming for myself over and over again, "I am whole, perfect, strong, powerful, loving, harmonious and happy." I kept up this affirmation, always the same, never varying, till I could wake up in the night and find myself repeating, "I am whole, perfect, strong, powerful, loving, harmonious and happy." It was the last thing on my lips at night and the first thing in the morning.
25. Not only did I affirm it for myself, but for others that I knew needed it. I want to emphasize this point. Whatever you desire for yourself, affirm it for others, and it will help you both. We reap what we sow. If we send out thoughts of love and health, they return to us like bread cast upon the waters; but if we send out thoughts of fear, worry, jealousy, anger, hate, etc., we will reap the results in our own lives.
26. It used to be said that man is completely built over every seven years, but some scientists now declare that we build ourselves over entirely every eleven months; so we are really only eleven months old. If we build the defects back into our bodies year after year, we have no one to blame but ourselves.
27. Man is the sum total of his own thoughts; so the question is, how are we going to entertain only the good thoughts and reject the evil ones? At first we can't keep the evil thoughts from coming, but we can keep from entertaining them. The only way to do this is to forget them -- which means, get something for them. This is where the ready-made affirmation comes into play.
28. When a thought of anger, jealousy, fear or worry creeps in, just start your affirmation going. The way to fight darkness is with light -- the way to fight cold is with heat -- the way to overcome evils is with good. For myself, I never could find any help in denials. Affirm the good, and the bad will vanish. - Frederick Elias Andrews
29. If there is anything you require, it will be well for you to make use of this affirmation; it cannot be improved upon. Use it just as it is; take it into the silence with you, until it sinks into your subconsciousness, so that you can use it anywhere, in your car, in the office, at home; this is the advantage of spiritual methods; they are always available. Spirit is omnipresent, every ready; all that is required is a proper recognition of its omnipotence, and a willingness or desire to become the recipient of its beneficent effects.
30. If our predominant mental attitude is one of power, courage, kindliness and sympathy, we shall find that our environment will reject conditions in correspondence with these thoughts; if it is weak, critical, envious and destructive, we shall find our environment reflecting conditions corresponding to these thoughts.
31. Thoughts are causes and conditions are effects. Herein is the explanation of the origin of both good and evil. Thought is creative and will automatically correlate with its object. This is a Cosmological law (a universal law), the law of Attraction, the law of Cause and Effect; the recognition and application of this law will determine both beginning and end; it is the law by which in all ages and in all times the people were led to believe in the power of prayer. "As thy faith is, so be it unto thee," is simply another, shorter and a better way of stating it.
32. This week visualize a plant; take a flower, the one you most admire, bring it from the unseen into the seen, plant the tiny seed, water it, care for it, place it where it will get the direct rays of the morning sun, see the seed burst; it is now a living thing, something which is alive and beginning to search for the means of subsistence. See the roots penetrating the earth, watch them shoot out in all directions and remember that they are living cells dividing and subdividing, and that they will soon number millions, that each cell is intelligent, that it knows what is wants and knows how to get it. See the stem shoot forward and upward, watch it burst through the surface of the earth, see it divide and form branches, see how perfect and symmetrical each branch is formed, see the leaves begin to form, and then the tiny stems, each one holding aloft a bud, and as you watch you see the bud begin to unfold and your favorite flower comes to view; and now if you will concentrate intently you will become conscious of a fragrance; it is the fragrance of the flower as the breeze gently sways the beautiful creation which you have visualized.
33. When you are enabled to make your vision clear and complete you will be enabled to enter into the spirit of a thing; it will become very real to you; you will be learning to concentrate and the process is the same, whether you are concentrating on health, a favorite flower, an ideal, a complicated business proposition or any other problem of life.
34. Every success has been accomplished by persistent concentration upon the object in view.
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Study Questions with Answers
81. What is the imperative condition of all well-being?
Well doing.
82. What is the condition precedent to every right action?
Right thinking.
83. What is the underlying condition necessary in every business transaction or social relation?
To know the Truth.
84. What is the result of a knowledge of the Truth?
We can readily predict the result of any action that is based upon a true premise.
85. What is the result of any action based upon a false premise?
We can form no conception of the results which may ensue.
86. How may we know the Truth?
By a realization of the fact that Truth is the vital principle of the Universe and is therefore omnipresent.
87. What is the nature of Truth?
It is spiritual.
88. What is the secret of the solution to every problem?
To apply spiritual Truth.
89. What is the advantage of spiritual methods?
They are always available.
90. What are the necessary requirements?
A recognition of the omnipotence of spiritual power and a desire to become the recipient of its beneficent effects.
Thought means life, since those who do not think do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking makes the man.
A. B. Alcott
