Light from Christian Larson

An affirmation should give expression to the highest conception of truth that has been attained. Affirm only those ideas that the mind f...

To apply the whole self literally means to turn on the full current of your life, ability and power. Begin the day with a deep, positive ...

The forces of individual life are either ascending or descending, depending on the attitude of mind. Everything that is met in life shou...

The mind always thinks on those things upon which its attention is fixed. The good alone deserves our attention. There is no wrong in ...

To express one's own individuality and to be oneself, the greatest essential is to live real life, the life that is felt in the depth ...

What we believe to be real we make a part of our own minds. We shape our lives largely after those things we believe to be real. What we acc...

Believe in your whole self, not simply in a part of yourself. Believe thoroughly in your greater interior self. Believe in the vastness...

Look for the best. Associate with the best. Desire the best. See yourself at your best. Be your best. Give your best. Expect the best. ...

Expect your body to stay well, to stay strong, to stay young, and to continue in health, youth and vigor as long as you live. Expect your bo...

Do not simply desire the bright side of life. Live such a life yourself. Live on the good side, the bright side, the true side of everyth...

Know that the kernel of your being can bring forth the mightiest oak of human greatness that your most inspired imagination could possibly...

We can produce any effect desired when we understand the causes, and can master those causes. To secure certain effects we must apply certai...

There is nothing in the nature of man that cannot be changed. It can be changed; and to believe this is the first step in that direction....

Character is the proper direction of all things, and the proper use of all things in the human system. Character does not mean simply, obedi...

Every child is born with that interior something which when developed  can produce remarkable ability, extraordinary talent and rare genius....

Every circumstance you meet contains something for you. The principal essential in the midst of circumstances is to control the mode of thin...

Concentration is general may be defined as an active state of mind wherein the whole of attention, with all available energy and talent, i...

The circumstances and conditions of man's physical world are the direct or indirect effects of the active elements in his mental world...

We may define the conscious as the upper side of the mentality, and the subconscious as the underside. The vast mental world that lies b...

There are three fields of consciousness in the whole mind of man. The first is conscious,  that field in which the mind functions during its...

Consciousness permeates every atom in your entire being. Consciousness is that finer something that permeates the soul of things. It has ...

Know that you can control your own life, your own body and your own mind and be determined to exercise that control. To control your thoug...

The supreme goal of human life is cosmic consciousness; to live in the cosmic world - the sublime world of the spirit - this is the dearest ...

Do what you can do now, no matter how far in advance of this age such actions may be. If you are capable of greater things today, you o...

Desire gives definiteness to the powers we possess. Whatever a man desires to do, if he thinks he can, he will develop the necessary power, ...

The human tends to develop in that direction where we express out deepest desires, our strongest thoughts and our highest faith. All desirab...

If you have made up your mind what you want to do, say to yourself a thousand times a day that you will do it. Whatever you make up your ...

It is only limitation that calls forth effort - effort to overcome limitation and enter the boundlessness. The personal man lives only in pa...

Have conscious control over every movement of your emotions. Every feeling and every joy must be held in poise, and enthusiasm has its great...

To save energy, to accumulate energy, to transmute energy, to increase the power of energy and to concentrate energy - these are necessar...

We are never called upon to do what we are not able to do. They are simply golden opportunities for you to become what you never were be...

All minds want the best, and they will soon know the best when it is constantly before them as a living reality. Seeing is believing, as...

What you always expect you get; therefore expect only what you want. Desire eternally what you want, expect eternally what you desire; ...

Everything seeks self-expression. Nothing in nature, visible or invisible, will have to be forced into expression, because at the very he...

...the face, where expressions of mind are the strongest. A man's face reveals his thought and we can invariably detect the predominatin...

There are many ways to develop the various mental faculties through the concentration of thought, but the most penetrating and the most thor...

Faith itself is a mental state that dwells constantly on the borderland of the unknown. Faith is that state of mind that always goes up ...

The creative forces that are generated in man, and the cosmic forces that work through man are fundamental cause of fate. When we analyze fa...

The way we feel inwardly, that is the way we become outwardly. We invariably become in the without as we feel in the within. The way yo...

We are constantly in the midst of powerful forces. All the forces of the system are creative. Every word, every thought and every action...

To forgive is to eliminate the useless, everything that is not good. The proper course is to forgive the wrong-doer, forget the wrong a...

The very first principle in life is to give everything the freedom to be what it is. In order that we may enter that attitude wherein we na...

We may liken the conscious mind to the sower, the tiller of the soil in the great mental garden; we may liken the subconscious to the fer...

Give yourself, your largest self, your whole self, to your life and your work. Give your whole self to your life, to your thought, to yo...

Giving and receiving must be equal in your life. We cannot expect to receive from others what we do not wish to give others. He who act...

Have a high goal, a definite goal, and keep the eye single upon that goal. Know what you want and what you want to be. The proper course to...

This interior man is the real you and is infinitely greater and more powerful than your outer personality. Think constantly of the greatness...

Think constantly of what you desire and you will grow into it. Train yourself to grow out of that which is not good by constantly growing i...

Life is growth and the object of right thinking is to promote that growth. Growth does not come from the passing of time; growth comes from...

It is possible to be harmoniously related to everything in life. To be in harmony is to be properly related to that with which we may come ...

Declare that you must have it. Declare again and again you must find a way. The inner life always responds when we "have to have it...

When threatening symptoms appear, eat less, drink more water, breathe more, move to the sunny side of life, have abundance of faith in th...

Think health and talk health to yourself constantly. Refuse to talk about disease or think about disease. Think constantly that you are ...

The real man is the soul or the individuality, the real "I Am." The "I Am" is the very center of individuality. ...

Keep constantly before mind the idea that "he can who thinks he can." Know that you can and continue to think that you can. Train...

I will become more than I am. I will live to live more. I will achieve more and more each day because I know that I can. I will think onl...

We cannot discern the ideal until we have the power to make it real. The mind never discerns those ideals that are beyond the possibility of...