daily bread; are dogged by fear and anxiety so that they can not take
any peace; that their lives are one battle with want; that they are
always under the harrow of worry, always anxious. There is something
wrong when people are so worried and absorbed in making a living that
they can not make a life.

We were made for happiness, to express joy and gladness, to be
prosperous. The trouble with us is that we do not trust the law of
infinite supply, but close our natures so that abundance cannot flow to
us. In other words, we do not obey the law of attraction. We keep our
minds so pinched and our faith in ourselves so small, so narrow, that
we strangle the inflow of supply. Abundance follows a law as strict as
that of mathematics. If we obey it, we get the flow; if we strangle
it, we cut it off. The trouble is not in the supply; there is
abundance awaiting everyone on the globe.

Prosperity begins in the mind, and is impossible with a mental attitude
which is hostile to it. We can not attract opulence mentally by a
poverty-stricken attitude which is driving away what we long for. It
is fatal to work for one thing and to expect something else. No matter
how much one may long for prosperity, a miserable, poverty-stricken,
mental attitude will close all the avenues to it. The weaving of the
web is bound to follow the pattern. Opulence and prosperity can not
come in through poverty-thought and failure-thought channels. They
must be created mentally first. We must think prosperity before we can
come to it.

How many take it for granted that there are plenty of good things in
this world for others, comforts, luxuries, fine houses, good clothes,
opportunity for travel, leisure, but not for them! They settle down
into the conviction that these things do not belong to them, but are
for those in a very different class.

But why are you in a different class? Simply because you think
yourself into another class; think yourself into inferiority; because
you place limits for yourself. You put up bars between yourself and
plenty. You cut off abundance, make the law of supply inoperative for
you, by shutting your mind to it. _And by what law can you expect to
get what you believe you can not get_? _By what philosophy can you
obtain the good things of the world when you are thoroughly convinced
that they are not for you_?

_One of the greatest curses of the world is the belief in the necessity
of poverty_. Most p