Friday 9 January 2015

Think and Grow Rich Summary - Chapter 14

Chapter 14: The Sixth Sense – The Door to the Temple of Wisdom

1.       This principle is the apex of the philosophy. It can be assimilated, understood and applied only by first mastering the other 12 principles.
2.      Understanding of the sixth sense comes only by meditation through mind development from within.
3.      The sixth sense probably is the medium of contact between the finite mind of man and Infinite Intelligence, and for this reason, it is a mixture of both the mental and the spiritual.
4.      Through the aid of the sixth sense, you will be warned of impending dangers in time to avoid them, and notified of opportunities in time to embrace them.
5.      There comes to your aid, and to do your bidding, with the development of the sixth sense, a guardian angel, who will open to you at all times the door to the Temple of Wisdom.
6.      Miracles of the sixth sense:
a.      The author is not a believer of “miracles”, for the reason that he has enough knowledge of Nature to understand that Nature never deviates from her established laws.
b.      Some of her laws are so incomprehensible that they produce what appear to be “miracles”.
c.       There is a power, of a first Cause, or an Intelligence, which permeates every atom of matter, and embraces every unit of energy perceptible to man – that this Infinite Intelligence converts acorns into oak trees, causes water to flow down hill in response to the law of gravity, follows night with day, and winter with summer, each maintaining its proper place and relationship to the other.
7.      Let great men shape your life:
a.      Emerson à marvelous understanding of Nature
b.      Paine à freedom of thought and the courage and clarity with conviction
c.       Edison à faith + spirit of unremitting toil
d.      Darwin à patience + no bias/ prejudice
e.      Lincoln à human understanding + tolerance
f.        Burbank à knowledge on harmonizing the laws of Nature
g.      Napoleon à marvelous ability to inspire men, and to arouse them to greater and more determined spirit of action + enduring faith to turn defeat into victory
h.     Ford à persistence + determination + poise + self-confidence
i.        Carnegie à organized effort
j.        I studied the records of their lives with painstaking care.
k.      Every night, over a long period of years, I held an imaginary Council meeting with this group whom I called my “invincible Counselors”.
l.        After some months of this nightly procedure, I was astounded by the discovery that these imaginary figures became, apparently real.
8.     Tapping the source of inspiration:
a.      Human beings do receive accurate knowledge, through sources other than the physical senses.
b.      Such knowledge, generally, is received when the mind is under the influence of extraordinary stimulation.
c.       Anyone who has experienced a near accident while driving knows that on such occasions, the sixth sense often comes to one’s rescue and aids, by split seconds, in avoiding the accident.
9.      A mighty force of slow growth:
a.      The sixth sense if not something that one can take off and put on at will. Ability to use those great powers comes slowly, through application of the other principles outlined in this book.
b.      The spiritual forces, with which the sixth sense is so closely related, do not mature and become usable except through years of meditation, self-examination, and serious thought.
c.       The starting point of all achievement is desire. The finishing point is that brand of knowledge which leads to understanding – understanding of self, understanding of others, understanding of the laws of Nature, recognition and understanding of happiness.
d.      Having read the chapter, you must have observed that while reading it, you were lifted to a high level of mental stimulation.

e.      Then you will have felt the touch of that unknown “something” which has been the moving spirit of every truly great thinker, leader, artist, musician, writer, and statesman.

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