A DAILY MESSAGE

Hokitika Guardian, 26 April 1929, Page 1

A DAILY MESSAGE

YOUR LUCK

We always receive just what we are entitled to, and it rests with us to make ourselves entitled to what wo

want

We always receive just what we give ; therefore it rests with us to give what we would receive.

'l‘lie relationship between what we give and wlmt we get is determined by laws which are changeless and eternal. i! we expect other than what we are giving, we expect the impossible; for always, and everywhere, we get back precisely what we are entitled to. How ran we expect to gather figs if we have grown thistles? M e speak of “ luck ” as if there were such a tiling. There is no uncaused happening in the universe. Everything happens through a cause, and all cause is governed by law. Law is eternal. What we call luck is only the operation of natural laws set in operation by our own thoughts. W bat you want, you can have—if you know what you do want. Want it hard enough, if you expect to obtain it. and you are willing to pay the price for it. This is the secret of “ luck.” There is no other. But von

bust not be a weak, vacillating, wo filling wisher; you must he a definite.

eterinined, persistent, strong de-

under

You must not l><> one of those

liuemic persons who wish this or that

We must, as Elbert Hubbard puts it, “ bold the thought and hustle,” knew what we want, and shape our whole

ife towards it. Unless we keep the flame of desin.

burning steadily m our heart there will be no power in this universe which can convert our desire into power, and change our luck into fortune. It rests with you.

—M. PRESTON STANLEY