Expectations
Confident Expectations
“Your world is either good or bad between your own two ears” – Zig Ziglar
Here we go back to the matter of point of view. Besides being vitally important, it is the one which is likely to give the student the most trouble. We have been trained, partly by media, to look upon the world as being like a wrecked ship. Utter destruction is inevitable. The most that can be done is to rescue, perhaps, a few of the crew.
This view teaches us to consider the world as essentially bad and growing worse; to believe that existing discords and conflicts must continue and intensify until the end. It robs us of hope for society, government and humanity. It gives us a negative outlook and closed mind.
This is all wrong. The world is not wrecked. Your world can be, if you let it, like a well functioning jet. Every provision science could devise has been made for the safety, comfort and happiness of the crew. The jet is high amongst the clouds and all that is needed is the awareness, competence and, confidence of a great pilot who knows where he is heading in order to keep the jet on track. We are learning to steer our own jets, and in due, time will land gracefully on the runway to be greeted by those who knew we could make it! Our world is what we make of it!
Your world is good, and growing better. Existing discords and chaos are but turbulence due to our own imperfect steering; we get through it in due time. This view and an expanding mind will make us to think largely of society and of ourselves, and to do things in a great way.
Furthermore, we see that nothing can be wrong with such a world or with any part of it, including our own affairs. If it is all moving on toward completion, then it is not going wrong. And since our own personal affairs are a part of the whole, they are not going wrong. You and all that you are concerned with are moving on toward completeness. Nothing can stop this forward movement but yourself, and you can only stop it by assuming a mental attitude which is not in harmony with the strategies we’ve laid out here.
You have nothing to keep right but yourself. If you keep yourself right, nothing can possibly go wrong with you and you have nothing to fear. No business or other disaster can come upon you if your personal attitude is right. You are a part of that which is increasing and advancing, and you must increase and advance with it.
Moreover, your thought-form will be mostly shaped according to your viewpoint of the world. If you see the world as a lost and ruined thing, you will see yourself as a part of it, partaking in its weaknesses. If your outlook for the world as a whole is hopeless, your outlook for yourself cannot be hopeful. If you see the world as declining toward its end, you cannot see yourself as advancing. Unless you think well of all the works of God you cannot really think well of yourself, and unless you think well of yourself you can never become great.
I repeat that your place in life, including your material environment, is determined by the thought-form you habitually hold of yourself. When you make a thought-form of yourself you can hardly fail to form in your mind a corresponding environment. If you think of yourself as an incapable, inefficient person, you will think of yourself with poor or cheap surroundings. Unless you think well of yourself, you will be sure to picture yourself in a more or less mediocre environment. These thoughts, habitually held, become invisible forms in the surrounding mind-stuff and are with you continually. In due time, by the regular action of the eternal creative energy, the invisible thought-forms are produced in material stuff. You are surrounded by your own thoughts made into material things.
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