The Golden Rule
Fifth: That the greatest of all achievements, whether in literature, art, finance, industry, commerce, transportation, religion, politics or scientific discoveries, are usually the results of ideas conceived in one mans brain but ACTUALLY TRANSFORMED INTO REALITY BY OTHER MEN, through the combined use of their minds and bodies.
(Meaning that the conception of an idea is of greater importance than the transformation of that idea into more material form, because relatively few men can conceive useful ideas, while there are hundreds of millions who can develop an idea and give it material form after it has been conceived.)
Sixth: The majority of all thoughts conceived in the minds of men are not ACCURATE, being more in the nature of opinions or snap-judgments. When Alexander the Great sighed because he had no more worlds (as he believed) that could be conquered he was in a frame of mind similar to that the present-day Alexanders of science, industry, invention, etc., whose accurate thoughts have conquered the air and the sea,
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WHEN a man really finds himself, at the top of the Ladder of Success, he is never alone, because no man can climb to genuine success without taking others along with him. explored practically every square mile of the little earth on which we live, and wrested from Nature thousands of secrets which, a few generations ago, would have been set down as miracles of the most astounding and imponderable sort. |
In all this discovery and mastery of mere physical substances is it not strange, indeed, that we have practically neglected and overlooked the most marvelous of all powers, the human mind!
All scientific men who have made a study of the human mind readily agree on this - that the surface has not yet been scratched in the study of the wonderful power which lies dormant in the mind of man, waiting, as the oak tree sleeps in the acorn, to be aroused and put to work.
Those who have expressed themselves on the subject are of the opinion that the next great cycle of discovery lies in the realm of the human mind. The possible nature of these discoveries has been suggested, in many different ways, in practically every lesson of this course, particularly in this and the following lessons of the course.
If these suggestions appear to lead the student of this philosophy into deeper water than he or she is accustomed to, bear in mind the fact that the student has the privilege of stopping at any depth desired, until ready, through thought and study, to go further.