What ails you today?

Solitude is a simple proposition.

You can create it anywhere.

It only requires concentration.

Just draw into your own shell.

You must be able to withdraw from others at times.

No one can bear to give out constantly.

You must take in once in a while—live rhythmically, in fact.

Work and play—give and take—struggle and rest.

Otherwise, there is no balance—no poise.

That is what ails you right now.

You need to relax and rest—to take in.

Stop going for a while.

Rest until the desire is strong to work again—no matter how long.

It is a true test of whether you are obeying the law when you find yourself either sick—or nervous—or blue.

You know by any of these symptoms that you have drawn too heavily on your reserve vitality and let other people drain you.

The remedy is perfectly simple.

After work hours just disappear from people.

Go into your shell and wait until you have time to fill up again.

Relax your whole nature.

Do not give anything out, either by sympathy—or brain power, but lie quietly and make happy plans for the future.

Always remember the cheerful thought is what renews your poise.

Never brood over disaster.

Forget it as rapidly as possible, and begin to make prosperous pictures of your future.

Always picture the future—whether tomorrow—next year—or after death—as happy—as full of pleasant possibilities and happy incidents.

You thus insure your future against evil happenings.

A personal plan—or vision of a desired future is a visible, concrete thing in the spirit-world, holding solidly together, so long as its creator holds it firmly in his brain.

More than this, the vision has power to build on your plane its counterpart by a process of magnetic attraction.

The law is one of the basic ones, and never fails unless the person is vacillating—or weak.

Picture a certain form of disaster and you create it just as certainly as a stone falls through air when dropped from a height.

The law is that you create by your own thought your future environment.

The swiftness of the actual materialisation depends upon the concentration of your thought and the distinct quality of your vision, as well as whether you build it while feeling happy.

Happy, cheerful states are splendid creators.

With confidence comes fair weather, and mind governs the planet in all its details—mind, which includes feeling as well.

As a (hu)man thinketh, so is he.

As a world feeleth, so is it.

The light of faith held by a few souls has more than once illumined the path of escape when world disaster threatened.

Heaven is a sort of magic.

Faith is like that.

The great faith of a few has been able to lift a race—a race otherwise lost.

Right and justice only are immortal.

Any success not founded on them has no stability.

You have but to look at history.

Where material interests outweighed moral interests that state was doomed.

Only through moral integrity, the ideals of individual liberty, a deep consideration for one's fellowmen can be secured the immortality of individual—or nation.

You must lose your life—or rather give your life to keep it eternally.

That is, you must unselfishly give all you have for the general good, not for glory, but for right.

To serve your fellows is to build your immortality.