How can you accomplish all things?

You have been taught that prayer is a solemn act, and should only be resorted to when there is urgent need for it—

On the other hand, you are also told to pray every day, and you repeat formal prayers, which merely represent so much wasted breath, inasmuch, as there is no exercise of will power—no inspiration—no earnest longing for help, which alone is true prayer. 

Both these theorists are wrong. 

You should keep your mind fixed on the course of life you wish to lead and hope that it may be realised—

If the hopes you entertain are good ones, and you are worthy of their being realised, they will inevitably be so, and you will be happy. 

If, on the contrary, your hopes are mercenary and selfish, they may also be realised because you will call spirits to your aid in the latter case just as certainly as you do in the former, but you will never be happy. 

Hence, you see the importance of living in constant hope, having, in short, your will constantly fixed on the goal you have in view, and striving for it. 

You should, therefore, pray for true wisdom, and then you will be guided by wise spirits who will teach you what is good for you—what is not. 

By this means, you will find that prayer is not an exercise of the will to be fallen back on in extreme cases only, but to be kept constantly in view. 

By your will, you can accomplish all things. 

Your prayers should not be confined to yourself, and your own wants, but to the wants of your friends, and if any whom you know are in distress, which you cannot alleviate—

You are rich in willpower—

You may confer on them great benefits.