Nuggets of the New Thought: Several Things That Have Helped People

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NUGGETS OF THE NEW THOUGHT

Several Things That Have Helped People

WILLIAM WALKER ATKINSON

Associate Editor of "New Thought," Chicago; Author of "Thought Force," "The Law of the New Thought," etc.

Published by The Psychic Research Company, 3835 Vincennes Ave. Chicago, Ill., U. S. A. 1902

Copyright, 1902, By the Psychic Research Company, Chicago, Ill.

All Rights Reserved.

Notice.--This work is protected by Copyright, and simultaneous initial publication in United States of America, Great Britain, France, Germany, Russia and other countries. All rights reserved.

PREFACE.

I do not like writing a preface--it seems too much like an apology. I have no special apology to tender for offering this collection of New Thought nuggets. They may possess no literary merit, but they have helped men and women. With the exception of "The Secret of the I Am," these essays appeared from month to month in "New Thought," of which magazine I am associate editor. They were written hastily, principally upon the demand of the printer for "copy," and, for the most part, were printed just as they were written, there being no time for revision or polishing up. You may pick up any one of them and find many sentences needing straightening out--many thoughts which could be better expressed by the change of a few words. Knowing these things, I first thought that I would go over each essay and add a little here, and take away a little there, polishing up and burnishing as I went along. But when I looked over them, my heart failed me. There they were just as they were written--just as they were dug out of my mind--and I hadn't the heart to change them. I remembered the circumstances surrounding the writing of every one of them, and I let them alone. A "nugget" polished up would be no longer a nugget. And these thoughts are nuggets--I dug them myself. I will not say much regarding the quality of the metal--that is for you--but you see them just as they came from the mine--rough, unpolished, mixed with the rock, queerly shaped. If you think that they contain metal of sufficiently good quality, refine them, melt them and fashion them into something useful or ornamental. For myself, I like things with the bark on--with the marks of the hammer--with the original quartz adhering to the metal. But others are of different taste--they like everything to feel smooth to the touch. They will not like these nuggets. Alas, I cannot help it--I cannot produce the beautifully finished article--I have nothing to offer other than the crude product of the mine. Here they are, polish them up yourself if you prefer them in that shape--I will not touch them.

W. W. A. Chicago, October 2, 1902.

CONTENTS.

THE KEYNOTE.

"I Can and I Will"--The recognition--Equal to any task--A feeling of calm confidence--An abiding sense of power, reserve force and security--The Something within--The triple key to the door of attainment--The vibrations of Success 9

THE SECRET OF THE I AM.

The Ego--The physical plane--the mental plane--the new plane of consciousness--The Real Self--The "I"--The Temple of the Living Spirit--Development of the "I Am" consciousness.--The Higher Reason 12

"LET A LITTLE SUNSHINE IN."

The young people's song--Good "New Thought" doctrine--Plenty of sunshine in life, if you look for it--Don't make a dark dungeon of your mind--Throw open the windows of your soul--How to let a little sunshine in 17

THE HUNGER OF THE SOUL.

The soul, as well as the body and mind, requires nourishment --The want, a promise of the fulfillment--The law of unfoldment --Nourishment provided when it is needed--Provided for in the Divine Plan--The feast of good things 19

LOOK ALOFT.

The old sailor's advice--The warning cry--Peace and content-- Mental balance recovered--The glory of the Universe--All governed by Law--The Law manifests everywhere--A reverent feeling of calm, peaceful faith--Look aloft 24

TO-MORROW.

The work and cares of to-day easy if we do not worry about those of To-morrow--The mysterious To-morrow and its terrors--The way to meet the cares of To-morrow--To-morrow's opportunities will come as surely as To-morrow's cares--Law supreme--No need to be afraid--The real To-morrow 26

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IN THE DEPTHS OF THE SOUL.

Stores of information; rich mines of knowledge; uncut gems and precious metal awaiting the discoverer--Psychic and spiritual faculties--Strange attraction of soul to soul--The Rock of Ages--The Voice of the Soul 29

FORGET IT.

Why worry about the past--Hugging old sorrows to your Bosom-- What to do with them--Don't Poison your life--Pain brings experience--Learning your lesson--How to get rid of a gloomy thought--Throw it away--Forget it 34

THE KINDERGARTEN OF GOD.

Life a great school--Man a child learning his lesson--Preparing for higher grades--The game-task--What it all means--Things as they are--The rules wise and good--Each task means something-- Greeting the Kindergartner 36

THE HUMAN WET BLANKET.

Sees no good in anything--Expects the bad and gets it--Attracts it to him--Depresses everything and everyone--Carries an aura of negative depressing thought--Clammy--Puts out the fire of energy --Take Warning 39

AIM STRAIGHT.

Fear attracts as well as Desire--Learn to aim straight and aim at the right thing--Examples--The bowler--The bicyclist and the car--The bicyclist and the post--The boy and the marbles--Wisdom from the babe--Look straight; Think straight; Shoot Straight 41

AT HOME.

Don't be afraid--You are at home--Not here by chance--You belong here--YOU are the soul--YOU cannot be hurt--YOU cannot be banished--YOU are right in the universe, and there is no outside--Great things are before you--Make yourself at home 46

THE SOLITUDE OF THE SOUL.

Lorado Taft's group--Description--Each stands alone--Each is in touch with every other--Soul communion in silence--Silence is the sanctuary of the soul--The oneness of life and its apparent separateness--The message 48

JERRY AND THE BEAR.

The Law's plan of developing an individual--Folly of clinging to old worn out sheaths--The story of Jerry and the Bear--Who Jerry was--He meets the Bear--The fight--The result--The consequences --The change in Jerry--The moral 51

THE UNSEEN HAND.

The consciousness of the hand--When it first was felt--Always there--Now as the hand of a father--Now as that of a mother--A lover--A brother--Always guiding--Always leading--A mystery-- Some day we will know the owner of the hand 55

HOW SUCCESS COMES.

Seeking success through mental powers--Holding the thought alone not sufficient--How to get the real benefit of thought-force-- Fall in with the workings of the Law--Stand on your own feet-- One step at a time--"I Do" as well as "I Am" 58

THE MAN WITH THE SOUTHERN EXPOSURE.

Southern exposure as good a thing in a man as in a room--The man who faces the sun--Lives one day at a time and does the best he knows how, and is kind--Finds Joy and carries it to others-- Simple, loving, kind--Open yourself to the sun 60

A FOREWORD.

An individualist--Wearing no ticket or label--No one has a corner on Truth--Enough to go around--The Infinite Power back of all things--The Real Self is Spirit--The Law of Attraction --Fearthought--The Brotherhood of Man 63

PARTNERSHIP.

Next to marriage, partnership is the most important association --Mental partnerships--Be careful whom you choose as your mental partners--Get into partnership with the best thoughts--Dissolve partnership with the other kind--"I Can, I Will; I Do, I Dare." 65

THE SEEKERS.

The secret of life--the riddle of existence--Sought now as ever --The whyness of things--Attempts to answer the riddle--The Seekers--Fantastic creeds and queer philosophies--Revamping old ideas--The story of the man and the stars--The answer to be found within the soul 69

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MENTAL PICTURES.

"I hang bright pictures in my mind"--Bright pictures encourage one; gloomy ones depress--Get rid of your old, gloomy mental pictures--Make a bonfire of them--Get rid of the particularly miserable one, first of all--Then put bright ones in their places 73

DON'T RETAIL YOUR WOES.

A miserable habit--It grows as it is fed--A nuisance to friends and neighbors--It brings to you more of the same kind--You will get what you look for--Looking for trouble brings it--Don't imagine that you are being "put upon"-- Don't retail your woes 75

LIFE.

There is in each of us a potential Something seeking for expression--The Something Within--The plant of life--No use trying to repress it, for develop it must--Life has a meaning --Growth, development and unfoldment--The lesson of life 79

LET US HAVE FAITH.

Faith necessary in every human undertaking--You have faith in man, but are afraid to trust GOD--The Universe if governed by Law--The Law is in operation everywhere--Don't be afraid--You are a part of the plan--Fall in with the Law--Have faith, have faith 83

DO IT NOW.

Do to-day's tasks now--Don't try to do to-morrow's work to-day, but be sure and do the day's work Now--The baneful effects of procrastination--Not fair to yourself--Demoralization attendant upon putting off things--The world looking for people who can do things Now 87

GET IN TUNE.

Marconi's wireless messages--Vibrations reach only the instruments attuned to the sender--The same law in operation on the mental plane--The correct pitch is the thing--Get in tune with the proper vibrations--Get the messages from the best senders 89

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