“There is a thinking stuff from which all things are made, and which, in its original state, permeates, and fills the inter spaces of the universe.
A thought in this substance, Produces the thing that is imaged by the thought.
Man can form things in his thought, and by impressing his thought upon formless substance, can cause the thing he thinks about to be created.”— Wallace D. Wattles
Half Awake
- William JamesHarvard professor, Father of American Psychology, New Age Thought pioneer
“Compared with what we ought to be, we are only half awake. Our fires are damped, our drafts are checked. We are making use of only a small pert of our possible mental and physical resources. … The human individual thus lives usualy far within his limits; he posseses powers of various sorts which he habitually fails to use. He energizes below his maximum, and behaves below his optimum. … Either some unusual stimulus fills them with emotional excitement, or some unusual idea of necessity induces them to make an extra effort of will. Excitements, ideas, and efforts in a word, are what carry us over the dam.”
— William James
Believe
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