"For though gamesters say that the cards beat all the players, though they were never so skilful, yet in the contest we are now considering the players are also the game and share the power of the cards." Thought is all light and publishes itself in the universe. It will flow from your actions, your manners, and your face. It will bring you friendship or enemies." "Yes, here in this miserable, hampered, despicable actual wherein thou even now standest. Here or nowhere is thy ideal. Work it out therefrom, and working believe, live, be free. Fool! the ideal is in thyself; the impediment, too, is in thyself; thy condition is but the stuff thou art to shape that same ideal out of. What matter whether such stuff be of this sort or that so the form thou give it be heroic, be poetic? Oh, thou that pinest in the imprisonment of the actual and criest bitterly to the gods for a kingdom wherein to rule, know this truth: the thing thou seekest is already with thee, here or nowhere, couldst thou only see." SUCCESS IS FOR YOU CHAPTER I. WHAT EXPERIMENTS REVEAL. OU are either a magnet that Your attracts all things bright, desirable, helpful, healthy, and joyous; or, one that draws all things disagreeable, gloomy, undesirable, unhealthy, and destructive. You either respond to and vibrate with the immense tide of happiness and success in the world; or, you allow yourself to be engulfed in the great currents of woe and misery; or, purposeless and unaware of the power within yourself, you drift aimlessly, sometimes riding high on the crest of a sweeping wave of prosperity, and sometimes sinking so low as to be drawn down and almost lost in an undertow of despair. In brief, you are either a success or a failure; or you are neither one nor the other, which is almost as bad as being a failure. If you are not a success, it is imperatively urgent that you should discover why you are not, for Success is for You. Perhaps you have never thought of the way the law of attraction, the law of vibration, and the law of echo act through you, within you, and upon you. It is true you cannot see the workings of these invisible laws, but you can perceive the results of their action. Have you ever dissolved silver and put it into clear water in which it cannot be seen, and then made an attractor to gather up the invisible particles of the metal? A sympathetic bit of silver on the negative pole of a battery attracts every atom of silver in the water, be it as small as a mote in a sunbeam. There is a force within you which properly directed, will draw conditions and opportunities of success that are as invisible as the liquid silver lost in water. The piece of magnetized silver that gathers un |