Success in life
Do you desire to be successful in life? Do you want to take steps to ensure that success for themselves? Would you like to make a choice and say: I want to be rich, I want to be famous, I want to be virtuous. Give your imagination free to rotate around the chosen thoughts and watch how the air hope will develop into a real possibility. Give your imagination free flap, because any finer picture painted by the imagination, be a future in which a person has the right to a strong will. After drawing in his mind that you have chosen, say to yourself: I want to. And there is nothing on earth or in heaven, nor in the waters, or under the earth, that would permanently prevent you, for you are immortal, and all future obedient to you.
You might say that death will block your path? This will not happen. You may say that poverty or disease, or friends can be a hindrance for you? This will not happen. You only need to make a choice and then was never wish for anything. You should not want, and say "I want", and really want to, constantly, in thought and action rather than words alone. And from then on never for a moment should you change your goals, directing the path to it all, from what you touch from now on. And then, if only an elite goal is not harmful, it will be achieved by you in the near future.
You talk about the insignificance of man, lost in the bends of great mother earth, which itself, in turn, only a speck among the infinite space? This is not so. You talk about the weakness and fatigue, about madness, about the pleasures and the accidents of life - how they limit and close the little man. This is not so. The body of a dress, a sense of just holes in a solid cover, and when the body is calm and obedient senses and the mind contemplates the possibility of your immortal, while inside you open the window and through it you see and know that you can become only what you yourself want to be, and nothing else.
Like a tiny grain buried in the ground, breaking, and produces tender shoot, makes his way through the earth to get the expanse of outdoor air, just as it turns into a mighty oak, sow the land of their offspring, or like a big banyanu that occurred from a small seed and spread their branches in infinite space, to provide welfare and shelter to thousands of creatures - and you throw yourself from now on the first tender, but some will sprout and choose exactly what you want to be.
What elect you? Want power? In this case, let others be great freedom and great strength, because you want that for themselves. Want knowledge? Then let the other become wiser, because you chose wisdom. Want love? Then let others enjoy the love, once you yourself can give so much. Thus, your will be in harmony with the Great Will and the Great Law and your life will be united with the great life, without which it can be no lasting success. What will be your means? All that will get on your path, and small and great, for there's nothing they would not be applied to achieve your goal. But again, let all people and all the items that will serve you will derive benefit from this service. Thus, your success will be their success and the Great Law will be respected.
But whatever you chose, one must always and everywhere - is the concentration of intentions, thoughts, feelings and actions so that, like a mighty magnet, it could polarize the concentration of everything that will occur in your way. In all the problems of life is necessary for success. All the people who had time in business, in public or political life, in art, science and philosophy, power and virtue, - they are all different steady constancy of purpose and power of his idea, although many of them neglected the Great Law. Was not this always been in the past, not repeat the same thing now, and would not it be the same in the future, as far as the progress of man depends on himself, he achieved not only as a systematic and sustained activities, control over desires and concentration of thought, without which progress is unattainable? Re-read the biography and philosophy of great people of all types, and you will find all of them the same fact is obvious.
Epicurean ancient times concentrated his thoughts on this and tried to live in harmony with natural laws. He allowed his mind to dwell with regret at anything past or fear for the future.
Stoic has focused on the objects in its area of influence, refusing to distract yourself anything was coming out of the limits of his authority and purpose and a gift to waste their thoughts and feelings. Platonist sought to concentrate his mind on the reverent study of the mysteries of life. Patanjali, the great teacher of the Hindu Yoga, certifies that a person can reach their true condition only through a successful exercise in full control of his mind. A devout ascetic, filling his life and everything around the rites and symbols, and constantly repeating mentally the names of God, seeks to evoke in his soul all the more powerful pious feelings. Man achiever in the sciences, so focused on his goal, he draws on the knowledge of the most insignificant of objects falling on his way. Such is the power of thought, that with her help all things may be directed to the target, and that is the power of man, that he is very power of thought can be subordinate to his will.
What does this focus, and how we need to practice to achieve control over the mind? This does not mean restriction, restrictions or closures of our thoughts and actions, this does not mean removing the forest or in caves, does not, and loss of human sympathies and interests, and does not imply that the source of life has dried up in our veins, like a river during the summer drought in the desert. This focus means that our whole life inspired by a single goal, it means more ideas, increased activity, increased sympathy, because the man is concentrated on guard, not missing a single case serve as a great goal.
(to be continued)
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