2007-01-28 09:09
"This success made him reflect whether all maladies could not be cured by exorcism . . . The experiment which he tried on the invalids of his parish were so successful that his renown soon o… Read More
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2007-01-24 21:45
"In thy soul, as in a sleep, Gods or fiends are hidden deep, Awful forms of mystery, And spirits, all unknown to thee: Guard with prayer, and heed with care, Ere thou wak'st them from their… Read More
2007-01-24 18:10
I have, I trust, thus far in a few words explained to the reader the rationale of a system of mental discipline based on the will, and how by a very easy process the latter may, like Attenti… Read More
2007-01-24 08:43
"Ce domaine de la Suggestion est immense. Il n'y a pas un seul fait de notre vie mentale qui ne puisse être reproduit et exageré artificiellement par ce moyen."-Binet et Fr&egra&hell…Read More
2007-01-24 08:40
But far beyond perseverance in labor, or the inducing a calmer and habitually restful state of mind, was the Awakening of the Will, which I found as interesting as any novel or drama, or ser… Read More
2007-01-23 08:31
Again-and this constitutes the chief subject of all I here discuss-we can suggest to ourselves so as to produce the same results. It seems to be a curious law of Nature that if we put an ima… Read More
2007-01-23 08:18
Still there were thousands of physiologists or men of science who doubted the theory of the action or existence of Animal Magnetism, and the vital fluid, as declared by the Mesmerists, and t… Read More
2006-12-14 19:47
It has often seemed to me that the reason for failure, or the ultimate failing to attain success, in a vast number of "Faith cures," is simply because the people who seek them, being general… Read More
2006-12-14 19:42
For as I hope clearly to prove it is an easy matter to create a strong will, or strengthen that which we have, to a marvelous extent, yet he who would do this must first give his Attention f… Read More
2006-12-11 08:21
Many people would very willingly take an interest in many subjects if they knew how. It is a melancholy thing to see a man retired from business with literally nothing to do but fritter away… Read More
2006-12-10 06:39
It is true that an image or idea may be often repeated to minds which do not think or reflect, without awakening attention; per contra, the least degree of thought in a vast majority of case… Read More
2006-12-09 16:37
No one can be expected to take an interest at once and by mere will in any subject, but where an earnest and serious Attention has been directed to it, Interest soon follows. Hence it comes… Read More
2006-12-08 11:03
From the simple fact that even a man of plain common-sense and strong will may be driven to sleeplessness, or well nigh to madness, by the haunting presence of some wretched trifle, some mer… Read More
2006-12-08 11:01
Attention is closely allied to Memory; when we would give attention to a subject for continued consideration, we must "memorize" it, or it will vanish. Involuntary memory excited by differen… Read More
2006-12-04 19:08
Yet it was not until within a very few years that I discovered that this idea, which seemed so commonplace, had within it mysteries and meanings which were stupendously original or remarkabl… Read More
2006-12-04 18:47
"To the fairies, Determination and Good-Will, all things are possible."—The Man of the Family, by C. REID.It happened recently to me, as I write, to see one afternoon lying on the side… Read More
2006-11-23 19:40
"Unto many Fortune comes while sleeping."—Latin Proverb."Few know what is really going on in the world."—American Proverb.It is but a few years since it suddenly struck the gay w… Read More
2006-11-21 00:04
It has always been granted that it is a marvellously good thing to have a strong will, or a determined or resolute mind, and great has been the writing thereon. I have by me the last book on… Read More
2006-11-21 00:03
For as the world is going on, or getting to be, it is very evident that as it is popularly said, "he who will tell a lie will generally not hesitate to commit perjury," so he who cannot be r… Read More
2006-11-21 00:03
For it began to be seen that this fin-de-siècle was developing with startling rapidity changes of stupendous magnitude, which would ere long be seen "careering with thunder speed alon… Read More
2006-11-19 17:55
To recapitulate or make clear in brief what I intend, I would say Firstly, that the advanced thinkers at this end of the century, weary of all the old indirect methods of teaching Morality… Read More
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