A Serene Mind
Hello there and welcome back to Six Minutes, this is Bob Proctor and this idea,
it’ll change your life in so many different ways by doing what I’m going to
suggest.
Now remember I showed you where I had a list of 6 things. I had the quote by
Vanderwall “do it once what needs to be done...” and our corporate logo.
Well, let me show you that sheet folded out. There’s the 6 things. And there
is the last chapter from the book by James Allen. A
wonderful little book. Just a little tiny book but it has some of the most
phenomenal literature—mind blowing literature.
The last chapter is only 4 small pages and it’s a small book. And it’s on
serenity. I recommend that people read this over and over and over every
day. And we’re going to share with you. You can get it here on our site.
We’re going to give it to you to help you with this. Now let me just read you
a couple of lines.
“Serenity, calmness of mind, is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom. It is the
result of long and patient effort in self-control. “
Isn’t that nice? Its presence is an indication of ripened experience and of a
more than ordinary knowledge of the laws and operations of thought. Now I’m
going to jump a couple of paragraphs here, he said “the calm person, having
learned how to govern themself knows how to adapt himself to others and
they in turn reverence his spiritual strength.” Wouldn’t you like people to look
at you that way? I’m sure you would. And they feel that they can learn from
you and rely upon you.
The more tranquil a person becomes the greater is his success, his influence,
his power for good. And down a little further it says “the strong calm person
is always loved and revered. He’s like a shade-giving tree in a thirsty land and
a sheltering rock in a storm.” Now I can assure you when I started studying
this information and somebody had read that to me, I’d think, “Come on. You
know, all I want to do is get enough money to pay my bills.” Well I got that
and I got well past that but then I wanted to be, very at home with myself. I
wanted to feel completely relaxed regardless of what was going on outside.
Most people—97% of the population—live from the outside in. You study this
long enough and you’ll learn to live from the inside out and then it really
doesn’t matter what’s going on out there. You’re in control of you. You’re God’s
highest form of creation.
Do you know all the rest of the little creatures on the planet blend in? The
birds blend in with the trees. You see, the animals blend in with the forest. You
and I don’t. They’re completely at home in their environment. We are totally
disoriented in our environment because we have the ability to adapt ourself
and to create our own environment.
Now I was 79 on my last birthday and I am picking up speed every day. I
have no intentions of slowing down. If all the power in the universe is on the
presence it’s within me. So I’m going to become more powerful and go faster
but at the same time I go calmly. So the trick is: calm down, speed up. That’s
not a contradiction. Calm down. Speed up. Become serene. Read that last
chapter every day and as you go through the day, if you find yourself getting
heating up, getting a little uptight say, “Wait a minute. Calmness of mind is
one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom. It’s a result of long and patient effort in
self-control.”
You can start to plan it now and do it now even though you just heard it. And I
guarantee you at the end of the day you’re going to be looking back at results
that stick. This is Bob Proctor, thank you.
