Precept and Practice – AUGUST 16 – The Law of Attraction

We must nip the wrong thoughts in the bud:  we must not permit morbid and discouraging thoughts to remain in consciousness.   For whatever wins conscious attention is likely to attract its like, to draw similar thoughts, and add to itself by accretion until it has become a mountain of difficulty.

(H. W. Dresser – Health and the Inner Life)

Teach your children to understand the law of attraction.   Let them know that if they form certain habits and continue them until they become thoroughly fixed in their minds, they have through the power of thought become related to all people thinking and doing the things that have occupied their attention.   For instance, if it has been your habit to find fault with people, to criticise, through this habit of criticism all the fault-finding people in the world have become related to you.

If you are in the habit of thinking kindly and saying kind words, in a short time you will become mentally related to all kindly natured people in the world, and you will have the force of their kind, loving thoughts pouring in upon you, so that it will be easier for you to say a kind word than the reverse.

By indulging in healthy thoughts you attract to yourself everything necessary to your well-being happiness, health, strength, and friends.

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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