we could. Controlled concentration can be attained by
anybody. It is a matter of mental discipline. Practice.
Training.
Even more important is our disciplined control
of what w~ think. Because what we think determines sub-
stantially what we are and specifically what we shall be-
come.
"As a man thinketh ... so is he", says the Bible.
Buddha t~ught, "All that we are is the result
of what we have thought."
Throughout all great religions, throughout all
significant philosophies, throughout the personal disci-
plines of all great individuals, is the dominant assertion
that each of us is or becomes the materialization of what
he thinks.
This process of being or becoming what we
think, is accelerated by the intensity of our deeply believ-
ing what we think.
The Bible says, "ALL things are possible to
him that believeth." That's a strong statement, but it comes
from the Source of the pOSSible-God.
Study the miracle cures and you will find one
cause-deep belief. Some day we shall discover that mir-
acles are not miraculous at all-just happenings which we
do not, at the time, understand. Miracles are caused, and
the cause is deep belief.
Study the lives of great men and women, and
you will discover that underlying each great achievement
was the immovable foundation of deep belief in their
personal abilities, in their ultimate success. Psychologists