Precept and Practice – AUGUST 15 – Mind is a Magnet

We are a part of what we gather to ourselves day by day, a part of the lives that touch ours.   Whether we will it or not, contact works a subtle change;  we may choose whether it shall be for the better or the worse, but change of some sort there will assuredly be.   We receive and give unconsciously, but we attract to ourselves only that which in some sense belongs to us.   The magnet may pass through many substances, but it gathers and holds only the metal for which it has a mysterious affinity.

If we draw out the best that is in others it is because there is something in ourselves to which it responds.

If we find ourselves gathering opinions, ways, habits that are unworthy, let us not blame any one’s influence, but look within to find what makes such accretions possible.

Mind is a magnet, that which it continually thinks it will draw to itself.   Keep the mind fixed on strength, power, and love, and you will draw strength, power, and love to you.

(P. Mulford)

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From the Introduction to Precept and Practice

The kindly welcome given to my other little books, ‘Being and Doing’ and ‘Character and Conduct,’ must be my excuse for adding another collection of extracts to the number now in circulation.

The quotations are gathered from the books of many earnest thinkers, and deal with Life in all its length and breadth, with ourselves, our characters, our plain unvarnished faults and weaknesses, our often untoward circumstances, and with all that drags us down;-  with our purposes, our religion, our love and friendships, and with all that uplifts us;-  with our relation to others, our influence and responsibilities, and finally with those stages of our journey which bring us to the Road’s Last Turn and to the Silent Land.

CONSTANCE  M. WHISHAW