The ideal of faith in
ourselves is of the greatest help to us. If faith in ourselves had been more extensively
taught and practiced, I am sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries
that we have would have vanished. Throughout the history of mankind, if any
motive power has been more potent than an other in the lives of all great men
and women, it is that of faith in themselves. Born with the consciousness that
they were to be great, they became great. Let a man go down as low as possible;
there must come a time when out of sheer desperation he will take an upward
curve and will learn to have faith in himself. But it is better for us that we
should know it from the very first.
To the man who has begun to
hate himself the gate to degeneration has already opened; and the same is true
of a nation.
Our first duty is not hate
ourselves, because to advance we must have faith in ourselves first and them in
God. He who has no faith in himself can never have faith in God.
Whatever you think, that
you will be. If you think yourselves weak, weak you will be; if you think
yourselves strong, strong, you will be; if you think yourselves impure, impure
you will be; if you think yourselves pure, pure you will be. This teaches us
not to think ourselves as weak, but as strong, omnipotent, omniscient. No
matter that I have not expressed it yet, it is in me. All knowledge is in me,
all power, all purity, and all freedom. Why cannot I express this knowledge?
Because I do not believe in it. Let me believe in it, and it must and will come
out.
The history of the world is
the history of a few men who had faith in themselves. That faith calls out the
divinity within. You can do anything. You fail only when you do not strive
sufficiently to manifest infinite power. As soon as a man Or a nation loses
faith, death comes.
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