Law of Success (21st Century Edition)

ACCURATE THINKING

In the fell clutch oj circumstance

I have not winced or cried aloud.

Under the bludgeonings oj chance

My head is bloody, but unbowed.

Beyond this place oj wrath and tears

Looms but the horror oj the shade,

And yet the menace oj the years

Finds, and shall find, me unafraid.

It matters not how strait the gate,

How charged with punishments the scroll,

I am the master oj my fate,

I am the captain oj my soul.

-WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY

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Henley did not write this poem until after he had discovered the
door to that secret passageway to which I referred.
You are the "master of your fate" and the "captain of your soul"
because you control your own thoughts. With the aid of your thoughts
you may create whatever you desire.

As we approach the close of this lesson, let us pull aside the curtain

that hangs over the gateway called Death and take a look into the

Great Beyond. Look closely and observe that you look at a world of

beings of your own creation; they correspond exactly to the nature of

your own thoughts as you expressed them before death. There they are,

the children of your own heart and mind, patterned after the image of

your own thoughts.

Those that were born of your hatred, envy, jealousy, selfishness,

and injustice toward others will not make very desirable neighbors,

but you must live with them just the same, for they are your children

and you cannot turn them out.