All transformation begins with an intense, burning desire to be transformed. The first step in the ‘renewing of the mind’ is desire. You must want to be different before you can begin to change yourself. Then you must make your future dream a present fact. You do this by assuming the feeling of your wish fulfilled. By
Just as the moth in his desire to know the flame was willing to destroy himself, so must you in becoming a new person be willing to die to your present
The ideal you seek and hope to attain will not manifest itself, will not be realized by you, until you have imagined that you are already that ideal.
Everything depends on your attitude towards yourself. That which you will not affirm as true of yourself can never be realized by you, for that attitude alone is the necessary condition by which you realize your goal.
That is, you must assume the feeling of the fulfillment of your desire until you are possessed by it and this feeling crowds all other ideas out of your consciousness.
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