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Speaker 1: Aim straight. Fear attracts as well as desire. Learn to

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aim straight and aim at the right thing. Examples the bowler,

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the bisclist and the car, the bicyclist and the post,

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the boy and the marbles. Wisdom from the Babe. Look straight,

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think straight, shoot straight. A strong desire or a strong

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fear thought is an aim at the thing desired or feared.

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And in proportion to the degree of desire or fear,

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will we be carried toward the thing at which we aim.

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Confident expectation is manifested in a feer thought as well

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as in an earnest desire. And when we confidently expect

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a thing to happen, we are carried toward it by

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an irresistible force. It may seem strange to you to

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hear that fear is akin to desire, but this is

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the truth. It matters not whether we call it desire

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or fear. The jest of the matter lies in the

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confident expectation. A feint of hope and a lurking fear

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have about the same attractive force. A desire coupled with

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a firm belief in its realization attracts strongly, but no

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more strongly than does a fear coupled with a feeling

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of certainty of its realization. The thing upon which your

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thought is firmly fixed or drawn toward will be the

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thing you will realize. Therefore, aim strait. We have heard

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much of the attractive power of thought as applied to desire.

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I will now say something to you about the same

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force called into operation by fear thought. It is far

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more pleasant for me to speak of the bright side

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of the question, but I would be neglecting my duty

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towards you if I fail to direct your attention to

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the reverse of the shield. When you thoroughly realize that

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thought force works both ways, you will know how to

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handle it, and will understand many things that have heretofore

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been dark to you. You will learn to aim straight,

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but will also learn to be careful at what you aim.

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You will learn to avoid the aim inspired by fear,

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and will hereafter use all your energies to pointing your

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mental arrow at the bull's eye of happiness and success.

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Let us take a few facts from the physical placeane

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in order to illustrate things as they are on the

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mental plane of effort. Life has its correspondence on all

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its planes and by taking examples from one plane, we

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will be able to more readily understand the workings of

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the law on other planes. Some time ago I was

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talking to a number of people about this subject, and

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gleaned from each an illustration of the workings of the

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law of attraction on the physical plane, and each example,

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although on the physical plane, showed the power of mind

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behind it. I will tell you what some of these

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people said, and you can see for yourself just what

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I mean. The first man was a printer who, after hours,

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spent much time in bowling, and whull was looked upon

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as an expert in that game. He said that some

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time before he was playing a game, and at a

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critical point, when he was taking aim and endeavoring to

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put the ball in between one and two pins, especially

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advantageous shot, his opponent spoke up and said, just watch

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him hit the four pin. I do not know anything

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about bowling, but it seems that to hit the four

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pin is about the worst thing that can happen to

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a bowler, outside of missing the pins altogether. Well, to

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go on with the story With the remark of his rival,

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fearthought entered the mind of the printer, and he couldn't

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get the four pin out of his mind. He kept

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on looking at the place he wanted to hit, but

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his mind was on the four pin, and he feared

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that he would hit it. To use his own words,

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he got rattled and away went the ball, striking the

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four pin fair and square. He concluded the story by saying,

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and so in instead of making a ten strike, I

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got only a split Maybe you understand those terms better

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than do I, but at any rate, you will see

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what a fear thought brought to this typographical bowler in

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his little game of ten pins. Moral. When you wish

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to place the ball energy between the one and two

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pins of life, don't allow feer thoughts to switch you

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off to the four pin, thereby giving you a split

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in instead of the coveted ten strike. Another friend told

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me that a few few days before, he had been

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riding on the front bench of a grip car on

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a Chicago cable line. Hearing the gripman break into the

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vernacular in a vigorous style. He looked up and saw

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a colored man on a bicycle trying to cross the

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track on the bias, as the girls say, just ahead

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of the car. There was plenty of time plenty of

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room for the man to get across, but when he

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reached the middle of the track, fearthought got hold of him,

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and in spite of himself, his wheel turned and he

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headed straight for the car. He headed straight for the

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grip car, just as if he had aimed at it,

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and the next moment he went bang right into it.

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He escaped injury, but his wheel was wrecked. When asked

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about it, he said that from the moment he got

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afraid of the car, his wheel ran away with him,

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right into the thing he feared. Moral. Keep your mind

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fixed on the thing you want, not on the thing

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you don't want. Another man to whom I related the

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story of the man on the wheel, said that he

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had the same trouble. When he was learning to ride

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the wheel. He was getting along pretty well and could

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manage to steer half away straight, although in a wobbly manner,

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until one day he happened to see a certain telegraph

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pole in front of the place where he was learning

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to write. The pole seemed to hypnotize him, and from

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that day he couldn't keep his front wheel away from it.

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He couldn't keep away from that pole. He was afraid

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of it. The pole seemed to have magnetic qualities, and

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the result was pump. He remounted over and over again,

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but the result was the same. At last he made

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up his mind that he was going to get ahead

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of that pole somehow, and he mounted the wheel with

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his back toward the pole, but his mind was still

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on it. And lo the front wheel described a semicircle,

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and back to the pole. He went, morol, do not

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let a pole hypnotize you with fier thought. Keep your

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mind on the place to which you wished to go.

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But the best example was given by a boy who

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had kept his eyes open and his thinker working. Maybe

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I had better tell you in his own words. This

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is what he said, Just as he said it. Oh,

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Pshaw said the boy, you're making a big fuss over nothing.

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Every feller knows that you've got to think about a

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thing if you want to hit it. And if you

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think about the wrong thing, why you will hit the

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wrong thing. If I fire a stone at a tin can,

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why I just look square at the can and think

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about the can For all I am worth, and the

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can's a dead one shore. If I happen to let

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my mind wonder to the cat what's on the shed

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over to the left of the can well, so much

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the worse for the cat. That's all. To shoot straight,

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you've got to aim straight, and to im street, you've

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got to look straight. And to look straight, you've got

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to think straight. Every kid knows that, or he couldn't

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even play marbles. If I get my heart set on

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a beauty marble in the ring, I just want it

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the worst way, and says I to myself, You are

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my marble. Then I look at him, strong and steady like,

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and don't think about nothing else in the world but

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that beauty. Maybe I'm late for school, but I clean

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forget it. I don't see nothing, nor think nothing but

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that there marble. What I want as the piece in

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my reader says, it's my heart's desire, And I don't

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care whether school keeps or not, just so as I

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get it. Then I shoot at the marble's mine. And

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at school, when our drawing teacher tells us how to

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draw a straight line, she makes two dots several inches

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away from each other. Then she makes us put our

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pencils on the first dot and look steady at the other,

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and move our pencil towards it. The more you keep

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thinking about the far off dot, and the less you

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think about the starting dot or your hand, the straighter

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you're going to get your line. Once I looked straight

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at the far off dot with my eyes, but I

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kept thinking about a red headed girl on the other

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side of the room, And what do you think the

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line I was drawing slandered away off in her direction,

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although I had kept my eyes glued on the far

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away dot and never even peeped in the kid's direction,

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that she was sure that it's the thinking as well

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as the looking. See. All of the examples above given

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contain within them the principles of a mighty truth, a

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working illustration of a great law of life. If we

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are wise, we will profit by them. Many things are

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happening around us every day from which we might gain

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lessons if we would only think a little. And instead

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of playing follow my leader and accepting other people's thoughts

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ready made, we have gotten so accustomed to these hand

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me down thoughts that we have almost forgotten how to

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turn out thoughts for ourselves. The day has come when

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we are required to do a little thinking on our

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own account, and instead of humbly bowing before moth eaten

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authority pershed upon a crumbling base. The time has arrived

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when we must strike out for ourselves instead of following

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a musty precedent which has seen better days. This is

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the age of the individual. This is the time for

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the eye to assert itself. I wish you would pay

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attention to what the boy said. It is not the

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first time that we have gone to the bay for wisdom.

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Although a child has an imagination beyond our comprehension, he

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at the same time is painfully and even brutally matter

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of fact. He is continually asking why, and when we

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grown ups are unable to answer him, he answers the

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question himself, often better than we could have done. He

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doesn't theorize, but gets down to business and works things

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out for himself. This boy knew all about the thinking

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part of the problems and had put it into practical

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application while we were theorizing about it. He had discovered

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that in order to get things, we must first earnestly

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desire them, then confidently expect that we would get them,

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then go to work to procure them. That's the true

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philosophy of getting things. He tells us about the marble

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that he first wanted it the worst way, and didn't

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care whether school kept or not, just so he got

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the marple. Then he looked strong and steadylike at the marble,

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saying you are my marble. Then he shot, and the

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marble was his. Can any of you describe the process

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of getting things better than this? If we grown ups

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would only put into our daily tasks the interest and

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attention that the boy put into his game of marbles,

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we would get the marble oftener than we have been doing.

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Of course, it may be true that the principal joy

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is in the getting of things rather than in the

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session of them, that the game of life is like

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the game of marbles in that respect, But what of

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that that needed spoil the game? The boy knows enough

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to enjoy playing for a few marbles that may be

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obtained for a penny of fistful at the corner store,

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but that fact doesn't bother him at all. He knows

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that when he gets the marble it will not seem

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half so beautiful in the hand as it did in

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the ring, but he gets ready to shoot for the

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next one was just as much zest and enjoyment. He

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finds a joy in living, acting, doing expressing, growing and outgrowing,

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gaining experiences. Take a lesson from the boy. While you

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are in the great game, take a boy's interest in it.

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Play with zest, play your level best, and get the marple.

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The boy instinctively knows that the joy of life consists

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of living, while we poor grown ups vainly imagine that

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our pleasure will come only in the trophies of the game,

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the glass marples of life, and look upon the playing

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of the game as drudgery and work imposed upon us

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as a punishment of the sins of our forefathers. The

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boy lives in the now and enjoys every moment of

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his existence, his winnings, his losings, his victories, his defeats,

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while we, his elders and superiors in wisdom, grown at

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the heat of the day and the rigor of the game,

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and are only reconciled to our tasks by the thought

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of how we will enjoy the possession of the marples

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when we get them at the end of the game.

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The boy sucks his orange and extracts every particle of

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its sweet contents, while we threw away the juicy meat

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and aim only to secure the pips. Oh Yes, the

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boy not only knows how to get there, but he

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has also a sane philosophy of life. Many of us

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grown ups are now relearning that which we lost with

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our youth. You will notice that the bowler, the bicyclist,

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and the others got what they didn't want because they

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were afraid of it and allowed it to distract their

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thoughts from the object of their desire. To fear a

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thing is akin to desiring it. In either case you

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are attracted toward it or it to you. It's a

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rule that works both ways. You must think think about

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the thing you want, not about the thing you don't want.

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For the thoughts you are thinking are the ones that

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you are going to take form in action. As the

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boy said, You've got to think about a thing if

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you want to hit it, And if you think about

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the wrong thing, why you're going to hit the wrong thing.

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Watch your ideal, not your bugbear. Concentrate on your ideal,

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fix your thoughts and gaze upon it like the boy

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upon his marple, and don't allow your thought to sidetrack you.

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Select the thing you want to be and then grow

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steadily into it. Pick out the thing you want, and

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then go straight and steadily to it replace your old wine,

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I fear, with the new thought. Shout I can and

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I will. Then you will experience and frustration of thought

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taking form in action. Look straight, think straight, shoot straight.

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In these three things lie the secret of success.