we're talking about self-discipline
we wonder what means first of all it means
complete control over both the body and the mind
complete control doesn't mean
changing your, your mind or your body
it means controlling it
breaks the great emotion of sex gets more people
into trouble and all the other emotions combined
combined and yet it's the most creative
the most profound and the most divine of
all of the emotions
it's not the emotion
that's there that gets people in trouble
it's their lack of controlling it and directing it
transmuting it
which they would be readily able to do if they had
self-discipline
so it is with other
faculties of the body in the mind it's
it's not that you have to change completely
it's just that you have to be the master
you have to be in control you have to
recognize the things that you must do in
order to have sound health and peace of mind
it also means the development of
daily habits by which the mind is kept
busy in connection with the things and
the circumstances that one desires and
after circumstances one does not desire
it means that you will not accept our
submit to the influence of any
circumstance or thing you do not desire
nothing at all
don't submit to it you may have tolerate
it you may have to recognize that but
you don't have to submit that in you let
it conquer you, you don't have to admit
that it's stronger than you are but on
the other hand you assert that you're
stronger than it because you're not
going to submit to it
and you can give
your imagination a wide range of
operation there as to what these things
are that you're going to have to deal
with but you're not going to submit to it
I'm not going to mention Mitchell it
might get too personal
it means that you will build a three wall protection
around yourself so no one will ever know
all about you our what goes on in your mind
another interesting thing
would you
want anybody in this world anybody to
know all about you
no
who would
if you're in your right mind you wouldn't
would you want anybody to know all that you
think about it
well, there are a lot
of people who just make the mistake of
letting anybody that wants to know, know
everything that goes on their mind all
you have to do is start them talking you
know these people who start their mouth
working and go off and leave them
you know the type I'm talking about they are
just getting started and believe me you
find out all about them good and bad
J Edgar Hoover with whom I
did some professional work on him correct many
occasions and still do at times
told me once that the fellow the who is
investigating is the best help to him of
all of all because it gets more
information from the guy that he's
tracing than from all the soldiers combined
I said why says well because he talks
too damn much
yeah that's exactly reply
and tell me what a man fears and I will
tell you how to master in
very minute
you find out what anybody fears you know
exactly how to control him if you're
foolish enough to want to control
anybody on that basis I don't want to
control anybody on fear
not at all if I
control anybody I want it on the basis of heart
I wouldn't have any control over
anybody on any other basis than that he
wants to give me control of it
the average person talks too much for his own good
you've heard me speak of my invisible guide
and if you weren't in this
philosophy if you didn't understand
metaphysics you probably say that was a
very fantastic system that I worked out
but I'll assure it's not a fantastic
system I'll assure you that it looks
after all of my needs and all of my wants
I'll admit that last week I became a
little bit careless in me if they guide
to sound physical health let me down for
a day or two but well I did something
about it
I came to his rescue I gave him a jab in
the ribs and woke him up and leave you
I've got more energy and all that I've
had since we've started this course
so it's a good thing that I had that little
cold because it made me a little bit
more particular to expression gratitude
to this diet of some physical health not neglected
now
I fully realize that these
guides are the creation of my own
imagination I'm not kidding myself or
anybody else about that
but for all
practical purposes there they represent
real entities and real people and each
one is performing the exact duty that I
assigned to it
and doing it all the time
first of these guides is the guide
to physical sound health
and what in the world could the mind do
going around in a body it has to be
supported by crutches all the time
good strong physical body is the temple
of the mind and it has to be sound
it has to be healthy there has to be plenty of energy
of that when you turn on the
old enthusiasm buttons there's no energy
there's no energy there you can't
generate in something out of nothing
you've got to have a store of energy and
energy is physical it's physical in
nature and it's also mental in nature
but I don't know of anybody who can
express intention enthusiasm whose
body is a series of aches and pains
so the first use it to yourself is to your
physical bodies to see that it responds
to all your needs at all the time
does the things that you're suppose to do
you need a little bit more help than
just what you can give during the day
because when you lay your body down then
nature goes to work on it give it a tune-up
working over
and you have to
have this trained entity called the
guide to sound health to do that job to
supervise it to see if it's done properly
and then this number to the
guide to financial prosperity why do you
suppose I put that second in importance
do you know of anybody that can be a
very great service to others without money
how long can you get along without money
no you've got that money you've
got to have a money consciousness and
this entity that you're building up here
through this guy gives you a money consciousness
my guide is so controlled
however that he doesn't make money my
god I don't permit that
I don't permit myself to become greedy if you Walter an
over a mile for money or to pay too much
for the money that I get I pay enough
but not too much
I know people who pay too much
who died too young
because they put too much effort into accumulating
money that they didn't need and couldn't
use the only purpose that conserve would
be to cause their descendants to fight
over it after they were passed on
that's not going to happen to me
I want enough but not too much
and this guide it's his
business to see that I stopped one
together now I don't want too much
you know this this money getting business
becomes a kind of a vicious circle
with a lot of people he does it becomes a
vicious circle you get in it then there
will you say for all I'll make my first
million then I'll quit I remember the
time when when Bing Crosby announced to
his brother which his manager when they
made the first fifty thousand or that
was enough they're gonna quit
got down to where they make over a million
dollars every year now I'm still working
harder than ever did before struggling
in a rat race
I'm not speaking
in a derogatory manner understand of
being my beings of friend of mine is
great with mine but I'm speaking of all
people in that category who pay too much
for trying to get things that they don't need
now this is a philosophy dealing
with economic success
but the success
wouldn't consist in your destroying your
life and dying to the young
because you tried to get too much of
anything stop when you get enough
make better use of the things you have right
now instead of trying to get a lot of
more things that you're not going to
make any use of at all
oh what a wonderful thing it is
that statement that
comes out of the Bible, I will
translated it
meaning of it is not too much not too little of anything
or learn what is enough and not too much
that's one of the blessings of this
philosophy gives you a balanced life you
learn what is enough and whats too much
then the next one is the most important
to guide the peace of mind what good
would it be to you if you had everything
he owned everything in the world could
collect a royalty from every person
living if you didn't have peace of mind
what good would it be
now the reason I'm emphasizing these
points along here my friends is if I've
had the privilege of knowing intimately
the most outstanding and the most
successful and the richest men that this
country has ever produced
I mean
sweeping in their houses eating
with them knowing their families and
their wives and their children but
seeing what happened to their children
after they died and based on
I've seen all of that
and I know the importance of
learning to live a balanced life so that
you can have peace of mind as you go
along so that you can make your
occupation or your daily labor whatever
it is a game is that you're getting joy out of
not something to be abhorred and
dreaded but if a game if you please that
you play as ardently as a mammoth play a
game of golf or some other game he loves
I have always said that one of the
sins of civilization consists from the
fact that so few people are engaged in a
labor of love things that they like to do
most people are doing things because
they have to eat and sleep and have some
clothes to wear
when a man or a woman
gets in a position where he or she can
do the thing that has being done for the
sake of love because they won't do it I
want to tell you they're really fortunate
and this philosophy leads to
that very condition
but you'll never
attain that position until you learn to
maintain a positive mental attitude at
least a major portion of your time
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