Success

y know that the perfect or imperfect expression of life is in our own hands. There is only one world, and all things are in it! They do not wait around to fall into our laps without any visible lines of transference. The tools of conquest are in our hands! Our concentrated mind, our thought force carefully directed and intensified, at our own pleasure, make us the master of our fate and no matter what our place in life may be, we can show our greatness. "All the world falls into line with the man who declares himself a master." And only one who knows how to be the divine thinker of their own thoughts can ever take a master's place and speak with authority. 49 Concentration first, then an unfaltering determination to do! Then, with eyes wide-open to life's gigantic opportunities, the Gates of Success swing wide, never to close again. 50 FIFTEENTH SUCCESS METHOD APPRECIATION IT is a part of the higher development of everyone to learn, not only to do their own work as thoroughly as is possible, but to create the conditions and atmosphere by which all others with whom we contact, can do their work equally as well. It is the work of us all, not only to unfold our own character and life, but at the same time to carry around with us that silent creative atmosphere which helps others to bring out and develop all that is best and desirable within themselves. Go where we will, we find many people who must depend on other lives for the stimulus of their finer and higher growth; they have to be drawn out; they are in their shell; their sweetness and charm never find expression unless they are evoked by sincere encouragement and warm affection. The world is full of half starved lives; they go on day after day finding no legitimate expression for that mysterious something within them which cries out to be fed and expressed. There are many others who are hungry for the affection which they often have, but never receive or possess, because those who hold it for them never give it voice. Again, there are many who have possibilities within them of a very high order, but those possibilities remain undeveloped because nothing in their lives, and no one around them, brings out these latent powers. There are some who can only express in the warm atmosphere of appreciation: "The hearts of men contract from cold suspicion; shine on them with warm love, and they expand. It is Love, not justice, that from a low condition, leads mankind up to heights supremely grand." M