Orison Swett Marden
PROSPERITY & HOW TO ATTRACT IT
On Living a Life of Financial Freedom, Conquering Debt, Increasing Income and Maximizing Wealth
Published by
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- Advanced Digital Solutions & High-Quality eBook Formatting -
2017 OK Publishing
ISBN 978-80-7583-968-8
Table of Contents
Chapter I. How We Limit Our Supply
Chapter II. The Law of Attraction
Chapter III. Driving Away Prosperity
Chapter IV. Establishing the Creative Consciousness
Chapter V. Where Prosperity Begins
Chapter VI. If You Can Finance Yourself
Chapter VII. How to Increase Your Ability
Chapter VIII. Look Like a Success
Chapter IX. How to Make Your Dreams Come True
Chapter X. How to Cure Discouragement
Chapter XI. Make Your Subconscious Mind Work For You
Chapter XII. Thinking Health and Prosperity Into Your Cells
Chapter XIII. How to Make Yourself Lucky
Chapter XIV. Self Faith and Prosperity
Chapter XV. How to Get Rid of Fear and Worry
Chapter XVI. Good Cheer and Prosperity
Chapter XVII. The Master Key to Be Great, Concentrate
Chapter XVIII. Time is Money, and Much More
Chapter XIX. The Positive Versus The Negative Man
Chapter XX. Thrift and Prosperity
Chapter XXI. "As A Man Expecteth So Is He"
Chapter XXII. Yes, You CAN Afford It
Chapter XXIII. How to Bring Out the Man You Can Be
Chapter I.
How We Limit Our Supply
"A man will remain a ragpicker as long as he has only a ragpicker's vision."
Why go thru life exhibiting the traits of an underling? If you are a real man, don't go around looking like a beggar, talking like a beggar, acting like a beggar.
Only by thinking prosperity and abundance can you realize the abundant, prosperous life.
Fixing limitation upon ourselves is one of the cardinal sins of mankind.
Prosperity flows only through channels that are wide open to receive it. Doubt, fear and lack of confidence close these channels.
A pinched mind means a pinched, limited supply. Everything we get in life comes through the gateway of our thought.
If that is pinched, stingy, mean, what flows to us will correspond.
What would you think of a prince, the heir to a kingdom of limitless wealth and power, who should live in the condition of a pauper, who should go about the world bemoaning his hard fate and telling people how poor he was, saying that he didn't believe his father was going to leave him anything, and that he might as well make up his mind to a life of poverty and limitations?
You would say, of course, that he must be insane, and that his hard conditions, his poverty and limitations, were not actual, but imaginary; that they existed only in his mind; that his father was ready to load him with good things, with all that his heart desired, if he would only open his mind to the truth and live in the condition befitting a prince, the son and heir of a great king.
Now, if you are living in pinching poverty, in a narrow, cramped, limited environment in which there seems to be no hope, no outlook for better things; if you are not getting what you want, though working hard for it, you are just as foolish as the prince who, believing that he was poor, lived like a pauper in the midst of his father's limitless wealth.
Your limitations are in your mind, just as the prince's were in his.
You are the child of a Father who has created abundance, limitless wealth, for all of His children, but your pinched, limited, poverty-stricken thought shuts you out from all this abundance and keeps you in poverty.
A Russian laborer named Mihok, living in Omaha, Nebraska, had carried a "luck" stone in his pocket for twenty years, never guessing that it had any monetary value.
Time and again friends, who thought that it might be more than an ordinary stone, suggested that he have it examined by a jeweler. He obstinately refused until, finally, they became so insistent that he sent the stone to a Chicago jeweler, who pronounced it a pigeon-blood ruby, the largest of its kind in the world.
It weighed 24 karats and was worth $100,000!
There are millions like this poor day laborer, living in poverty, thinking that there is nothing for them but hard work and more poverty who, without knowing it, are carrying in the great within of themselves possibilities of wealth beyond their dreams.
Their wrong thinking is robbing them of their divine inheritance; shutting off the abundant supply provided for them by the Omnipotent Source of all supply.
The majority of people are in the position of a man who went out to water his garden, but inadvertently stepped on the hose, shutting off the water supply.
He had a big hose and