Thoughts and Precepts of M. Emile Coué
cause the cause escapes you. When you know that, you realize that nothing could be more natural.
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When the will and the imagination are in conflict, it is always the imagination which wins. Such a case is only too frequent, and then not only do we not do what we want, but just the contrary of what we want. For example: the more we try to go to sleep, the more we try to remember the name of some one, the more we try to stop laughing, the more we try to avoid an obstacle, while thinking that we cannot do so, the more excited we become, the less we can remember the name, the more uncontrollable our laughter becomes, and the more surely we rush upon the obstacle.
It is then the imagination and not the will which is the most important faculty of man; and thus it is a serious mistake to advise people to train their wills, it is the training of their imaginations which they ought to set about.
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Things are not for us what they are, but what they seem; this explains the contradictory evidence of persons speaking in all good faith.
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By believing oneself to be the master of one's thoughts one becomes so.
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Everyone of our thoughts, good or bad, becomes concrete, materializes, and becomes in short a reality.
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