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Today's reading was edited and adapted from

Find and Use Your Inner Power by him at Fox, published in 1922.

You think and your thoughts materialize as experience,

and thus it is that you are weaving the pattern of your own destiny,

here and now, by the way in which you allow yourself to think day by day and all day long.

It is altogether in your own hands. Nobody but yourself can keep you down. Nobody else can involve

you in difficulty or limitation. Neither parents, nor wives, nor husbands, nor employers,

nor neighbors, nor poverty, nor ignorance, nor any power whatever, can keep you down when

once you have learned how to think.

The science of living is the science of thought.

When things go seriously wrong, there is a strong temptation to cast oneself for a tragic role, to feel deeply injured

and even embittered.

The result of this, however, is only to make it more difficult to get things right again.

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