Creative Mind and Success

• Without mental clearness on the part of the thinker there can be no real creative work done. As water will reach only its own level, so Mind will return to us only what we first believe. We are always getting what we believe but not always what we want.
• See only what you wish to experience and look at nothing else. No matter how many times the old thought returns, destroy it by knowing that is has no power over you; look it squarely in the face and tell it to go; it does not belong to you, and you must know - and stick to it - that you are now free.
• Whatever God is in the Universal, man must be in the individual world. The difference between God and man is one of degree and not of quality. Many is not self-made; he is made out of God.
• Nothing moves except as our mind moves it.
• At all times we are either drawing things to us or we are pushing them away from us.
• We live in mind; and it can return to us only what we think into it.
• Behind every condition, whether of body or environment, there has been some thought, conscious or unconscious, which produced that condition.
• Man does not really create, he uses creative power that already is.
• We are making our environments by the creative power of thought.
• Like attracts like and we attract to us just what we are in mind.
• We must think only what we wish to experience.
• Nothing ever happens by chance. Law governs all life, and all people come under that law.
• The person who is to succeed will never let his mind dwell on past mistakes. He will forgive the past in his life and in the lives of other people.
• He will know that so long as he desires any good, there is nowhere in the universe anything that opposes him.
• I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul.
• Things are but outer manifestations of inner mental concepts.
• The conditions that we attract will correspond exactly to our mental pictures.
• You can attract only that which you first mentally become and feel yourself to be in reality, without any doubting.
• Until we learn to love we are not sending out love vibrations, and not until we send out love vibrations can we receive love in return.
• Think of the whole world as your friend; but you must also be the friend of the whole world.
• Refuse to see/focus on the negative side of anyone.
• The only reason we think other people are "queer" is because they do not happen to think as we do. We must get over this little, petty attitude and see things in the large.
• God in us is unified with God in all.
• He must remember that whatever he gets is his to use but not his to hold. Creation is always flowing by and we have as much of it as we can take and use; more would cause stagnation.
• God will work through us if we will let him, but we must act in the outer as though we were sure of ourselves. Our part is to believe, and then to act in faith.
• Since God can do for us only by doing through us, nothing can be done for us unless we are positively receptive.
• Thought will always bring back to us what we send out.
• All is law, and cause and effect obtain through all life. Mind is cause, and what we term matter, or the visible, is effect. As water will freeze into the form that it is poured, so mind will solidify only into the forms that our thought takes.
• We are not troubled about competition or opposition or failure because there is nothing but life, and this life is continually giving to us all that we could ask for, wish, or think into it.
• What we must do is to provide that already-having-received attitude.
• We must know exactly what it is that we wish and get the perfect mental picture of it. We must believe absolutely that we now have it and never do or say anything that denies it.
• Life is consciousness and not years.
• It is thought and not conditions that we are dealing with.
• What we can mentally encompass we can accomplish, no matter how hard it may seem from the outside.
• Life is from within outward, and never from without inward. You are the center of power in your own life.
• Keep watch over the inner workings of your thought, and the Law will do the rest.
• There must be mental alertness before there can be physical activity.
• The thought of activity makes him move, and the thought of confidence makes his movements sure, and thought of Supreme Guidance makes his work intelligent.
• We must be careful and not get into ruts; always be doing something new and different, and you will find life becomes a great game in which you are taking the leading part.
• The wide awake person can find so many things to do that he hasn't time even to begin in this life and he knows that Eternity is necessary to carry out the ideals that he already has evolved.
• Be interested in life, if you want life to be interested in you.
• Every invention is but a discovery of something that already is, although we may not have seen it.
• Never become disturbed by effects. They didn't make themselves and have no intelligence to contradict you.
• Trust in your own self more than in all else. All great men have learned to do this.
• This door is our thought and we are the guardian of it, and when we do open the door we will find that the divine presence is right at hand, waiting, ready and willing to do for us all that we can believe.
• This is what happens. We are all sending out into Mind a constant stream of thought; the clearer it is, the better will it manifest; if it becomes doubtful it will not have so clear a manifestation. If it is confused it will manifest only confusion.
• We are living in the outer world of effects and in the inner world of causes.
• God still rules in the Universe, but we are given the power to rule in our lives.
• The substance that we deal with, in itself, is never limited, but we often are, because we draw only what we believe.
• Our limitation is only our unbelief; life can give us a big thing or a little thing.
• Limitation is an experience of the (human) race, but it is not the fault of God, it is the fault of man's perception.
• We must stick to it until we gain the mastery of all our thought and in that day we will rise never to fall again.
• If we want a thing we must have within ourselves the mental equivalent before we get it. As water will reach only its own level, so our outward conditions will re-produce only our inner realizations.
• We must all start somewhere, and that somewhere is within ourselves.
• Daily try to see more and to understand more, feel every day that you are a being especially looked after.
• Declare that all life, all love and power and now in your life.
• Those who believe the most always get the most.
• Realize that everyone in the world is a friend, and prove this by never saying anything unkind to any one or about any one.
• Anything that is unlike good is of sort duration, but anything that embodies the good is like God, ever present and Eternal.
• We must see only the good and let nothing else enter into our minds.
• The sun shines on all alike. Shall we separate and divide where God has so carefully united?
• Our thought is the seed and mind is the soil. We are always planting and harvesting. All that we need to do is plant only that which we want to harvest.
• Each victory will strengthen us until the time will come when we will no longer have to say I hope or believe, but I know.
• He laughs best who laughs last.
• We can never stand still in our thought. Either we will be growing or else we will be going back.
• Life is always limitless, and the only thing that limits us is our inability to conceive mentally.
• If we want to do a thing that is really worth doing, we must mentally grow until we are that thing, which we want to see made flesh.
• First impressions are usually the most direct and the clearest; they are generally direct form the mind of the Universe and should be carefully worked out into expression.
• The seed that falls into the ground shall bear fruit of its own kind; and nothing shall hinder it.

Source: Creative Mind and Success by Ernest Holmes