The Magic of Believing

“If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth.”
Mark 9:23

It comes to the aid of those in the habit of making quick decisions almost instantaneously, and it comes into operation when you have cleared your conscious mind of its multitude of conflicting thoughts. “Going into the silence” is another way of expressing it.

What may appear as coincidences are not coincidences at all but simply the working out of the pattern which you started with your own weaving.

Something more than hard work is necessary: it is creative thinking and firm belief in your ability to execute your ideas. The successful people in history have succeeded through their thinking. Their hands were merely helpers to their brains.

It is not the power that is lacking, it is the will. When one finds oneself the will becomes automatically set toward El Dorado.

believe that no better explanation of this can be given than appeared in an article published in the Commercial and Financial Chronicle (Dec. 10, 1932). This publication has been known for more than a hundred years as the “Bible of business and finance,” and with the permission of Herbert D. Seibert, editor and publisher, I quote it in part. It is entitled “El Dorado.”

and Shakespeare’s words, “There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so,” become more intelligible.

An old Latin proverb says, “Believe that you have it, and you have it.

. It is just as Buddha said many centuries ago: “All that we are is the result of what we have thought.”