.. understands, with ever-increasing accuracy, how the thought-forces and
mind elements operate in the shaping of character, circumstances, and destiny. (page 6)
Circumstance does not make the man;
it reveals him to himself. (page 7)
Men do not attract that which they want, but that which they are. (page 8)
Clean thoughts make clean habits. (page 11)
A man should conceive of a legitimate purpose in his heart, and set out to ac-
complish it. He should make this purpose the centralizing point of his thoughts. (page 13)
Doubts and fears should be rigorously excluded. They are disintegrating elements
which break up
the straight line of effort, rendering it crooked, ineffectual, useless.
Thoughts of doubt and fear can never accomplish anything. They always lead to failure.
Purpose, energy, power to do, and all strong thoughts cease when doubt and fear
creep in. (page 14)
Thought allied fearlessly to purpose becomes creative force. He who knows this
is ready to become something higher and stronger than a bundle of wavering
thoughts and fluctuating sensations. (page 14)
A perfect love, seeing the suffering which both
states entail, condemns neither; a perfect compassion embraces both oppressor
and oppressed. He who has conquered weakness and has pushed away all selfish
thoughts belongs neither to oppressor nor oppressed. He is free. (page 15)