There are undreamed of possibilities in the common lives all around us. In a large sense, there are no “common” people. We know in times of national stress and peril we see ordinary people become heroes through the quickening of the Principle of Power within them. There is a genius in every man and woman, waiting to be brought forth.
You and I know THERE is a Principle of Power in every person. By the intelligent use and direction of this principle, we can develop our own mental faculties.
We have an inherent power by which we may grow in whatever direction we please, and there aren’t any limits to the possibilities of our growth.
No one has yet become so great that it is impossible for someone else to become greater. That’s because the possibility is in the Original Substance (God, The Source) from which we are all made.
Great people are always greater than their deeds. They are in connection with a reserve of power that is without limit.
We do not know where the boundary of our mental powers is; we do not even know that there is a boundary.
The power of conscious growth is not given to the animals. The animals can, to a great extent, be trained and developed by us, and we can also train and develop ourselves. We alone have this power, and we have it to an apparently unlimited extent.
Just as the purpose of life for trees and plants is growth The purpose of life for you is growth also. Trees and plants grow automatically and along fixed lines; you can grow, as you will. Trees and plants can only develop certain possibilities and characteristics; you can develop any power, which is or has been shown by any person, anywhere. Nothing that is possible in spirit is impossible in flesh and blood. Nothing that you can think is impossible-in action. Nothing that you can imagine is impossible of realization.
You are formed for growth, and you are under the necessity of growing. It is essential to your happiness that you should continuously advance.
There is no possibility in any person that is not in every person; but if they proceed naturally, no two persons will grow into the same thing, or be alike. That’s because everyone comes into the world with a predisposition to grow along certain lines, and growth is easier for her along those lines than in any other way. This is a wise provision, for it gives endless variety to humankind. Not everyone wants to be rich and not everyone wants to be famous.
It is as if a gardener should throw all his bulbs into one basket; to the superficial observer they would look alike, but growth reveals a tremendous difference. So of people, they are like a basket of bulbs. One may be a rose
and add brightness and color to some dark corner of the world; one may be a lily and teach a lesson of love and purity to every eye that sees; one may be a climbing vine and hide the rugged outlines of some dark rock; one may be a great oak among whose boughs the birds shall nest and sing, and beneath whose shade the flocks shall rest at noon, but every one will be something worthwhile, something rare, something perfect.
The Principle of Power gives us just what we ask of it. If we only undertake little things, it only gives us power for little things; but if we try to do great things in a great way it gives us all the power there is.
But beware of undertaking great things in a small way: of that we shall speak farther on.
There are two mental attitudes people may take. One makes you like a football. It has resilience and reacts strongly when force is applied to it, but it originates nothing; it never acts of itself. There is no power within it. Person of this type are controlled by circumstances and environment, their destinies are decided by things external to themselves. The Principle of Power within them is never really active at all. They never speak or act from within.
The other attitude makes person like a flowing spring. Power comes out from the center of her. She has within her a well of water springing up into everlasting life, she radiates force; heist felt by her environment. The Principle of Power in her is in constant action. She is self-active. “She has life in herself.”
No greater good can come to any man or woman than to become self-active. All the experiences of life are designed by The Source to force men and women into self-activity; to compel them to cease being creatures of circumstances and master their environment.
In our lowest stage, we are the children of chance and circumstance and the slave of fear. Our acts are all reactions resulting from the impingement upon us of forces in our environment. We act only as we are acted upon; we originate nothing. But even at our lowest stage have within us a Principle of Power sufficient to master all that we fear; and if we learn this and becomes self-active, we become as one of the gods.
The awakening of the Principle of Power in us is the real conversion; the passing from death to life. It is the resurrection and the life. When it is awakened, we become a son of the Highest and all power is given to us in heaven and on earth.
Nothing was ever in any person that is not in you; no one ever had more spiritual or mental power than you can attain, or did greater things than you can accomplish. You can become what you want to be
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