THE ROAD TO SUCCESS COLLECTION: Dollars Want Me, How To Control Fate Through Suggestion, Concentration, The Call Of The Twentieth Century & The New Emancipation by Henry Harrison Brown

Author:Henry Harrison Brown [Brown, Henry Harrison]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9788075832955
Publisher: Musaicum Books
Published: 2017-05-22T00:00:00+00:00

XI. With Eyes, See Not

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Let us aspire to that heaven where all is eternal and where corruption never comes.

- Ancient Aztec King.

I speak to them in parables because having eyes they see not and having ears they hear not. * * * * Their ears are dull of hearing and their eyes they have closed, lest at any time they shall hear with their ears and shall see with their eyes and should understand with their hearts!

- Jesus.

These words reported of Jesus have been shortened into the proverb, "None so blind as those who will not see; and none so deaf as those who will not hear!" This fact is a common one. A person does not see or hear that to which he gives no attention. But within this fact lies the deeper fact, that one does not see and hear, because one wills not to see and hear. That is, each person has the power of choice and may see and may hear that which he chooses, and may not hear and may not see that which he does not choose to hear and to see. To exercise this choice is to be the master of fate. This choice is the prerogative of humanity alone. It is the patent-right of manhood; the entail of God's heritage to Man. To the degree in which we exercise this choice we have outgrown the animal in us; have made it subservient to the Human.

To see is to pay attention to. To hear is to listen to. To understand with the heart, is to so concentrate upon what is about you, to so think upon what is heard, seen and felt, that you shall know the meaning it has in your life.

Concentration is the simplest thing to understand when you realize that it is thinking upon that which you do;' paying attention to what is about you. It is a habit that can be acquired, but one so often neglected in childhood. It is the fault of teachers and parents that children do not grow up conscious of their power to choose and hold to the thought chosen. Wandering minds are formed from uncongenial tasks. Study the children at any school and see how uncon-genial are the tasks to many of them. It is a common thing to see children pretending or trying to study, but often glancing from the book, watching what is going on. This cultivates insincerity, pretence, hypocrisy, affectation, fickleness; all of which arises from a lack of attention.

Concentration means that we shall be absorbed in the task of the hour. The biographer of Agassiz tells us that he would bring his work into the parlor of an evening when it was filled with young company and devote a portion of the time to social converse and enjoyment and at the next moment turn with complete abandon to his study, oblivious of those about him. In this he showed complete control of his mind, - of himself.

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