Prentice Mulford (1834-1891)

Prentice Mulford quotes

• The spiritual mind teaches that pleasure is the great aim of existence.

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• By the spiritual mind is meant a clearer mental sight of things and forces existing both in us and the Universe, and of which the race for the most part has been in total ignorance.

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• The material mind wants to more on in a rut of life and idea... It dislikes change more and more as the crust of the old thought held from year to year grows more thickly over it.

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• Material minds say this always has been, and therefore always must be. They accept the idea wholly. They say quite unconsciously, "It must be."

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• But when the spiritual mind has once commenced to awaken, nothing can stop its further waking, though the material may for a time retard it.

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• Many a thought or idea that you reject as visionary, or as a whim or fancy, comes of the prompting of your spiritual mind. It is your material mind that rejects it.

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• The spiritual mind today sees belonging to itself a power for accomplishing any and all results in the physical world, greater than the masses dream of.

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• The condition of mind to be desired is the entire dominancy of the spiritual mind. But this does not imply dominancy or control in any sense of tyrannical mastership of the material mind by the spiritual mind.

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• THE man or woman who if most like you in tastes, motives, and habits of thought, and to whom you feel most attracted, may not be brother, sister, cousin, or any physical relative at all. But such person is to you a very near relation.

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• WE need to be careful of what we think and talk. Because thought runs in currents as real as those of air and water. Of what we think and talk we attract to us a like current of thought. This acts on mind or body for good or ill.

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• We have far more to do to save ourselves than is now realized.

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• When people come together and in any way talk out their ill-will towards others they are drawing to themselves with ten-fold power an injurious thought current.

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• Place yourself in a house where there has recently been a panic or scare, though you may know nothing of it. You were well and strong the day before.

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• As you place your reliance on the Infinite Mind to bring you out of all these agencies for ill, that mind in some way will bring many material aids to help you out.

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• All degrees of failure are based on timidity.

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• This habit of thought can, through an unconscious training, grow to such an extent as to pervade a person's mind, at all times and places...

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• Fear is but another name for lack of power to control our minds, or, in other words, to control the kind of thought we think or put out.

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• The cultivation of courage commences in the cultivation of deliberation in so-called little acts like these. Deliberation and courage are as closely allied as fear and hurry.

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• If we do not learn to govern our force properly in the doing of the smallest act we shall find such government far less easy in the doing of all acts.

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• If we analyze what we fear, we shall find we are in mind trying to deal with too much at once of the thing feared.

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• We need to keep always our mind present with us. We want it always on the spot ready to use in any direction.

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• THE tendency with many people after they are a little "advanced in years" is to look backward and with regret. The "looking" should be the other way--forward.

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• If you want to go backward in every sense, mental and physical, keep on cultivating the mood of living regretfully in your past life.

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• Why do you say: " I am always sick?" Because you are looking back, living in your past ailments and thereby bringing more on you.

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• Power comes of looking forward with hope--of expecting and demanding the better things to come. That is the law of the Infinite Mind, and when we follow it we live in that mind.

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• YOUR thoughts shape your face, and give it its peculiar expression. Your thoughts determine the attitude, carriage, and shape of your whole body.

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• The law for beauty and the law for perfect health is the same. Both depend entirely on the state of a your mind; or, in other words, on the kind of thoughts you most put out and receive.

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• YOUR body is acted on in its growth and changes by the same laws and elements which govern the growth and enter into all other organized bodies, such as trees, plants, birds, and animals.

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• You cannot accumulate your neighbour's powers; you can only grow and use yours alone.

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• NEW thought is new life. When an invention, a discovery first breaks on the inventor's mind, it fills him with joy.

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• Old thought--constant repetition of the same thought--involves decay, sluggishness of mind, sluggishness of body.

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• The consciousness of such never-ending growth of improvement is also food for the growing mind, other than bread. Yet it is bread. It is the "Bread of Life," and to be desired as "Our Daily Bread."

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• There are thousands of things, events and scenes in your past life which it is more profitable to forget than to remember.

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• All experiences are valuable for the wisdom they bring or suggest.

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• No person could hold his or her physical body and enjoy life who as they lived on lived in the past and refused to set or open their minds to the future.

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• You do actually make the "things before " pleasant or unpleasant for you according as you think of them in advance.

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• In all business we must press on in mind to the successful result.

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• Forgetting the things behind and pressing on to those before is a maxim having a thousand intensely practical applications. Every business success is founded on it.

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• Life means the development in us of powers and pleasures which fiction in its highest flights has never touched.

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