Enthusiasm

obs? Why, I am a bigger man than that. I have a great deal of ability and I simply hate these 'five cent' jobs. I never get anything that is up to me; I can't do these little things with any degree of power or efficiency, because all the time it just grinds me to think I have these little positions. I want something that is as big as I am." I said to him only the eternal truth when I replied: "You have a 'five cent' job because you have in you a 'five cent' man whom you have intensified so that he cannot keep out of form: No man ever had a 'five cent' job who had not the 'five cent' consciousness and that is the measure of your concentration." This man had concentrated only in the degree of power which represented the "five cent" man, and he will keep the five cent jobs until his mind and power are enough to get more than that. He will then be the biggest man in the "five cent" position and the "five cent" job will have to slip off. It is better to be a success in a five cent job than a failure in trying to do the work of a millionaire. Again, women say to me: I want to attract a great big, God-man into my life. Now what is the reason I never meet the kind of a man I want to meet? What is the reason that all the men I meet are sort of 'five cent' men? They are not worthwhile." Don't you see that is the same story from the woman's side as the man with his work? These people picture an absolutely matchless sort of being and then wonder at their lack of success in obtaining him or her. The reason of all this stands out clearly. It is because the God-man, strangely enough, by the law of God, must have a God-woman to mate with him. It is plain that there must be some state of consciousness in us that is intensified so that it cannot keep out of form, or we would not have attracted around us the "five cent" job, or the little man. Only as we pour out the whole strength of our selfhood and character can we displace these small things, and when the great bigness of our life is expressed, we then attract the position, person or object that fits that life. When we know that no one gives to us but ourselves, and no one takes away from us but ourselves, and that we lose or gain through our own individual law of attraction, and that this attraction is based wholly on our power of concentration and ability to pass up the proofs of our fitness, then we have a new idea of success and failure. We begin to put the blame where it belongs upon ourselves and to reall