Will power is sufficient

It is difficult for us to understand how we can benefit another person by our thoughts—but it is so—and if we see a beggar in the street and feel kindly towards him, we do him more good spiritually than if we gave him money. This is because our thoughts are more powerful in the spirit world than our physical acts, that is, we cannot think intently of anybody without doing so in connection with the will. We feel that we would like to do them good or that we would like to see them punished and they are benefitted or injured more or less by it because the will is the great motive power in the spirit world and the means by which all matter and spirit are there controlled.

It is for this reason that persons with firm wills get on the best in the world because more spiritual force is exercised than physical force. Thus, the man who can best resist and is least sensitive to the injurious thoughts of others fights his way most easily to the front—in other words, it is the positive-minded men who get on in the world and make the most noise. If a great man does not have a firm will, he is sure to suffer because he cannot fail to make enemies and his sensitiveness would render him liable to be constantly hurt.