THE SILENT FORCE THAT PRODUCES RESULTS IN ALL
When I walk along the street and study the different people's faces I can tell how they spent their lives. It all shows in their faces, just like a mirror reflects their physical countenances. In looking in those faces I cannot help thinking how most of the people we see have wasted their lives. The understanding of the power of thought will awaken possibilities within us that we never dreamed of.
You have concentrated within powers that if developed will bring our happiness greater than we can even imagine. Most people go rushing through life, literally driving away the very things they seek. By concentration we can revolutionize our life, accomplish infinitely more and without a great effort. Look within our self and we will find the greatest machine ever made.
In order to speak wisely we must secure at least a partial concentration of the faculties and forces upon the subject at hand. Speech interferes with the focusing powers of the mind, as it withdraws the attention to the external and therefore is hardly to be compared with that deep silence of the subconscious mind, where deep thoughts and the silent forces of high potency are evolved. It is necessary to be silent before you can speak wisely. The person that is really alert and well poised and able to speak wisely under trying circumstances, is the person that has practiced in the silence. Most people do not know what the silence is and think it is easy to go into the silence, but this is not so. In the real silence we become attached to that interior law and the forces become silent, because they are in a state of high potency, or beyond the vibratory sounds to which our external ears are attuned. He who desires to become above the ordinary should open up for himself the interior channels which lead to the absolute law of the omnipotent.
We can only do this by persistently and intelligently practicing thought concentration. Hold the thought:
In silence I will allow my higher self to have complete control.
I will be true to my higher self.
I will live true to my conception of what is right.
I realize that it is to my self interest to live up to my best.
I demand wisdom so that I may act wisely for myself and others.