Man is a mental being, and to know this is the first step on the road to freedom, for as long as you believe yourself to be primarily physical, you will remain in bondage, that is to say, to your own habits of thought, for there is no other bondage.
If you want material prosperity, you must first think prosperity thoughts, and then make a habit of doing so, for the thing that keeps most people poor is the sheer habit of poverty thinking.
- Topic: Thinking
More Quotes from Emmet Fox
Bless a thing and it will bless you. Curse it and it will curse you. . . If you bless a situation, it has no power to hurt you, and even if it is troublesome for a time, it will gradually fade out, if you sincerely bless it.
If you have no time for prayer and meditation, you will have lots of time for sickness and trouble.
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You don’t have to depend on any material possessions, they depend on you, you create them, you own the one and only tool of production.
Drink does not drown care, but waters it, and makes it grow faster.
There are only two kinds of people, those who accept dogmas and know it, and those who accept dogmas and don't know it.
New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.
Be the witness of your thoughts. You are what observes, not what you observe.
Appearances to the mind are of four kinds. Things either are what they appear to be; or they neither are, nor appear to be; or they are, and do not appear to be; or they are not, and yet appear to be. Rightly to aim in all these cases is the wise man’s task.
At the end of the day, we can endure more than we think we can.