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Attract what you want


Men do not attract that which they want, but that which they are. Their whims, fancies and ambitions are thwarted at every step, but their inmost thoughts and desires are fed with their own food, be it foul or clean. The ‘divinity that shapes our ends’ is in ourselves; it is our very self. Only himself manacles man: thought and action are the gaolers of fate – they imprison, being base; they are also the angels of freedom – they liberate, being noble. Not what he wishes and prays for does a man get, but what he justly earns. His wishes and prayers are only gratified and answered when they harmonise with his thoughts and actions.

In the light of this truth, what, then, is the meaning of ‘fighting against circumstances’? It means that a man is continually revolting against an effect without, while all the time he is nourishing and preserving its cause in his heart. That cause may take the form of a conscious vice or an unconscious weakness; but whatever it is, it stubbornly retards the efforts of its possessor and, thus, calls aloud for remedy.

Men are anxious to improve their circumstances but are unwilling to improve themselves; they, therefore, remain bound. The man who does not shrink from self- crucifixion can never fail to accomplish the object upon which his heart is set. This is as true of earthly as of heavenly things.

Even the man whose sole object is to acquire wealth must be prepared to make great personal sacrifices before he can accomplish his object; and how much more so he who would realise a strong and well-poised life?



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