Resumo de The Law Of Success (1944) - PARAMAHANSA YOGANANDA

Your success in life does not altogether depend on ability and training; it is also depends on ability on your determination to grasp opportunities that are presented to you. Opportunities in life come by creation, not by chance. You yourself, either now or in the past (including the past of former lives), have created all opportunities that arise in your path. Since you have earned them, use them to the best advantage. You possess the power of thought and the power of will. Utilize to the uttermost these divine gifts. You demonstrate success of failure according to your habitual trend of thought. You alone are responsible for yourself. Don?t mentally review any problem constantly. Let it rest at times and it may work itself out. Use these rest periods to go deep within the calm region of your inner Self. Attuned to your soul, you will be able to think correctly regarding everything you do. Devote your entire will power to mastering one thing at a time; do not scatter your energies, nor leave something half done to begin a new venture. Mind is the creator of everything. When you are able to employ your will always for constructive purposes, you become the controller of your destiny. Fear exhausts life energy; it is one of the greatest enemies of dynamic will power. The nerves themselves become as though paralysed; the vitality of the whole body is lowered. Fear doesn?t help you to get away from the object of fear; it only weakens your will power. Fear causes the brain to send an inhibiting message to all bodily organs. When the consciousness is kept on God, you will have no fears; every obstacle will then be overcome by courage and faith. A ?wish? is desire without energy. After a wish may come ?intention?the plan to do a thing, to fulfil a wish or desire. But ?will? means: ?I act until I get my wish.? When you exercise your will power you release the power of life energy. The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success. You should transfer your attention from failure to success, from worry to calmness, from mental wanderings to concentration, from restlessness to peace, and from peace to the divine bliss within. Success is hastened or delayed by one?s habits. It is not your passing inspirations or brilliant ideas so much as your everyday mental habits that control your life. good habits of thought enable you to attract benefits and opportunities. Bad habits of thought attract you to materially minded persons and to unfavourable environments. Weaken a bad habit by avoiding everything that occasioned it or stimulated it, without concentrating upon it in you zeal to avoid it. It is only when you discard your bad habits that you are really a free man. Until you are a true master, able to command yourself to do the things that you should do but may not want to do, you are not a free soul. In that power of self-control lies the seed of eternal freedom. Success is measured by happiness. When peace of mind is lost, you have lost the highest treasure. Refuse to carry the burden of mental and moral weakness acquired in past years; burn them in the fires of your present divine resolutions and right activities. By this constructive attitude you will attain freedom. If you possess happiness you possess everything; to be happy is to be in tune with God. That power to be happy comes through meditation.

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