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Today's reading has been edited and adapted from The Eight Pillars of Prosperity by James Allen, published in 1911.

Energy is the working power in all achievement.

Inert coal it converts into fire, and water it transmutes into steam.

It vivifies and intensifies the commonest talent until it approaches genius, and when it touches the mind of the dullard, it turns into a living fire that before was sleeping in inertia.

Energy is a moral virtue, its opposing vice being laziness.

As a virtue it can be cultivated, and a lazy person can become energetic by forcibly arousing themselves

to exertion. Compared with the energetic individual, the lazy person is not half alive. Even while the

latter is talking about the difficulty of doing a thing, the former is doing it.

The active person has done a considerable amount of work before the lazy soul has roused themselves from sleep.

While the lazy person is waiting for an opportunity, the active individual has gone out

and met and utilized half a dozen opportunities.

They do things while others are rubbing their eyes.

Energy is one of the primary forces.

Without it, nothing can be accomplished.

It is the basic element in all forms of action.

The entire universe is a manifestation of tireless energy.

Energy is indeed life, and without it there would be no universe, no life.

When a person has ceased to act, when the body lies inert and all the functions have

ceased to act, then we say that someone is dead, and insofar as a person fails to act, they indeed are that far

dead.

Humanity, mentally and physically, is framed for action and not for swinish ease.

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