Impressions

Every impression that enters the mind produces a mental tendency,
and every tendency that originated in childhood 
is firmly established in the subconscious.

The young mind is highly sensitive 
to every impression that enters subconscious,
and what is impressed upon the young mind
usually continues all through life
unless removed later on by some special effort.

Everything that we imagine we impress upon mind.

What you dwell upon mentally
will impress itself upon your mind.

Anything that enters mind 
while mind is in the state of deep feeling, is impressed;
and it is the deepest impressions that serve as patterns for creative energies.

What is impressed upon your mind
will become thoughts, mental actions, desires,
and in many instances physical actions.

No impression will become strong and predominant
unless it is given constant attention.

So long as man permits environment
to impress the mind,
his thoughts will be exactly like his environment.

They may permit their minds to be impressed continually
by the weak side of life, by adverse impressions
and all sorts of impressions that convey the undeveloped
in its various forms of existence.

If your mental impressions are in the image and likeness
of darkness, weakness, illness and trouble,
you will set in motion forces that tend to produce those things
in your own mental world.

When the mind is in the attitude of fear, or dread or curiosity,
it is very easily impressed by whatever it may be thinking about.

No mind should place itself
in sympathetic contact with environments
that are contrary to its own ideals.

We must not permit our minds to be impressed
with anything in our environment
that is contrary to what is true in the perfect nature of man.''

In the midst of adversity he does not permit 
the adverseness of the circumstances to impress his mind,
but opens his mind to be impressed by the great power
that is back of the adversity.
His mind is not impressed by the misdirection of power,
but by the power itself.

Instead of being controlled 
by the impressions received from environment,
he will control those impressions,
and use them as material in the construction of his own larger life
and the greater destiny that must follow.

When the mental eye is single upon the ideal,
it will not be impressed by anything that is not ideal.

When mind is in the attitude of self-supremacy,
it may choose to be impressed by the greater possibilities only.

While mind is in the attitude of self-supremacy
man's contact with the world will not affect him
contrary to the way he desires to be affected
because he controls the impressions that come from without,
and can completely change their natures
before they are accepted into consciousness.
Or he may refuse to accept them entirely.

Impress the idea of spotless virtue upon the subconscious.