, or longing, or complainingly wishing. It is
when you are 'down in the world,' calmly and persistently seeing
yourself as up. It is when you are now compelled to eat from a tin
plate, regarding that tin plate as only the certain step to one of
silver. It is not envying and growling at other people who have silver
plate. That growling is just so much capital stock taken from the bank
account of mental force."

A friend who knows the power of the interior forces, and whose life is
guided in every detail by them, has given a suggestion in this form:
When you are in the arms of the bear, even though he is hugging you,
look him in the face and laugh, but all the time keep your eye on the
bull. If you allow all of your attention to be given to the work of
the bear, the bull may get entirely out of your sight. In other words,
if you yield to adversity the chances are that it will master you, but
if you recognize in yourself the power of mastery over conditions then
adversity will yield to you, and will be changed into prosperity. If
when it comes you calmly and quietly recognize it, and use the time
that might otherwise be spent in regrets, and fears, and forebodings,
in setting into operation the powerful forces within you, it will soon
take its leave.

Faith, absolute dogmatic faith, is the only law of true success. When
we recognize the fact that a man carries his success or his failure
with him, and that it does not depend upon outside conditions, we will
come into the possession of powers that will quickly change outside
conditions into agencies that make for success. When we come into this
higher realization and bring our lives into complete harmony with the
higher laws, we will then be able so to focus and direct the awakened
interior forces, that they will go out and return laden with that for
which they are sent. We will then be great enough to attract success,
and it will not always be apparently just a little ways ahead. We can
then establish in ourselves a centre so strong that instead of running
hither and thither for this or that, we can stay at home and draw to us
the conditions we desire. If we firmly establish and hold to this
centre, things will seem continually to come our way.

The majority of people of the modern world are looking for things that
are practical and that can be utilized in every-day life. The more
carefully we examine into the laws underlying the great truths we are
consider