FATE, THE CAPTAIN OF YOUR SOUL,” BECAUSE…
lines, “I am the Master of my Fate, I am the
have informed us that we are the Masters of our Fate, the Captains of our
Souls, because we have the power to control our thoughts.
in which this little earth floats, in which we move and have our being, is a
form of energy moving at an inconceivably high rate of vibration, and that the
ether is filled with a form of universal power which ADAPTS itself to the
nature of the thoughts we hold in our minds; and INFLUENCES us, in natural
ways, to transmute our thoughts into their physical equivalent.
truth, we would know WHY IT IS that we are the Masters of our Fate, the
Captains of our Souls. He should have told us, with great emphasis, that this
power makes no attempt to discriminate between destructive thoughts and
constructive thoughts, that it will urge us to translate into physical reality
thoughts of poverty, just as quickly as it will influence us to act upon
thoughts of riches.
brains become magnetized with the dominating thoughts which we hold in our
minds, and, by means with which no man is familiar, these “magnets”
attract to us the forces, the people, the circumstances of life which harmonize
with the nature of our dominating thoughts.
we can accumulate riches in great abundance, we must magnetize our minds with
intense DESIRE for riches, that we must become “money conscious until the
DESIRE for money drives us to create definite plans for acquiring it.
philosopher, Henley contented himself by stating a great truth in poetic form,
leaving those who followed him to interpret the philosophical meaning of his
lines.