Chapter 2  Desire the starting point of all achievement
the first step toward riches when Edwin C
Barnes climbed down from the freight train
in Orange New Jersey more than 30 years ago
he may have resembled a tramp but his thoughts
were those of a king as he made his way from
the railroad tracks to Thomas a Edison's office
his mind was at work he saw himself standing
and Edison's presents he heard himself asking
Mr. Edison for an opportunity to carry out
the one consuming Obsession of his life a
burning desire to become the business associate
of the great inventor Brenda's desire was
not a hope it was not a witch it was a keen
pulsating desire which transcended everything
else it was definite the desire was not mad
when he approached Edison it is Ben Barnes
is dominating desire for a long time in the
beginning when the desire first appeared in
his mind it may have been probably was only
wish but it was no mere wish when he appeared
before Edison with it a few years later and
Wednesday Barnes again stood before Edison
in the same office where you first met the
inventor this time his desire have been translated
into reality he was in business with Edison
the dominating dream of his life had become
a reality today people who owe Barnes NBA
because of the brake light fuel did him they
see him in the days of his Triumph without
taking the trouble to investigate the cause
of his success Barn succeeded because he chose
a definite goal placed all his energy all
his willpower all this effort everything back
of that goal he did not become the partner
of Edison the day he arrived he was content
to start in the most Millennial work as long
as it provided an opportunity to take even
one step toward his cherished goal five years
passed before the chance have been seeking
made its appearance during all those years
not one Ray of Hope not one promise of attainment
of his desire had been held out to him to
everyone except himself he appeared only another
Cog in the Edison business wheel but in his
own mind he was the partner of Edison every
minute of the time from the very day that
he first went to work there it is a remarkable
illustration of the power of a definite desire
Barnes won his goal because he wanted to be
a business associate of mr.
Edison more than he wanted anything he created
a plan by which to obtain that purpose but
he burned all my bridges behind him he stood
by his desire until it became the dominating
Obsession of his and finally effect when we
went to Orange you did not say to himself
I will try to induce Addison to give me a
job of some sort he said I will see Addison
and put them on notice that I have come to
go into business with him he did not say I
will work there for a few months and if I
get no encouragement I will quit and get a
job somewhere else he did say I will start
anywhere I will do anything Edison tells me
to do but before I am through I will be as
associate he did not say I will keep my eyes
open for another opportunity in case I found
to get what I want and he said there is but
one thing in this world that I am determined
to have and that is a Business Association
with Thomas a Edison I will burn all bridges
behind and stick my entire future on my ability
to get what I want he left himself will possible
way of retreat he had to win or perish that
is all there is to the barn story of success
a long while ago a great warrior fastest situation
which made it necessary for him to make a
decision which ensured his success on the
battlefield he was about to send his armies
against the powerful who is man outnumbered
his own he loaded his soldiers into boats
sail into the enemy's country unloaded soldiers
and Equipment then gave the order to burn
the ships that in addressing this morning
before the first battle he said you see the
boats going up in smoke that means we cannot
leave these Shores alive unless we win we
now have no choice we win or we perish they
won every person who wins in any undertaking
must be willing to burn his ships and cut
all sources of retreat only by so doing can
one be sure of maintaining that State of Mind
as a burning fire to win essential to success
the morning after the Great Chicago Fire a
group of merchants 29 State Street looking
at the smoking remains of what have been their
stores they went into a conference to decide
if they would try to rebuild or leave Chicago
and start over in the more promising section
of the country they reached a decision all
except one to leave Chicago the merchant who
decided to stay and rebuild pointed the finger
at the remains of the store and said gentlemen
on that very spot I will build the world's
greatest or no matter how many times it may
burn down that was more than 50 years ago
the store was built it stands there today
a towering Monument to the power of that State
of Mind only has a burning desire the easy
thing for Marshall Field's to a gun would
have been exactly what his fellow Merchants
dead when the going was hard and the future
look dismal they pulled up and went where
the going seemed easier work well this difference
between Marshall field and the other Merchants
because it is the same difference which distinguishes
Edwin C Barnes from thousands of other young
men who work in the Edison organization it
is the same difference which distinguishes
practically all of them succeed from those
who fail every human being who reaches the
age of understanding of the purpose of money
wishes for it wishing will not bring witches
but Desiring riches with the state of mind
that becomes an obsession then training definite
Ways and Means to acquire riches and back
in those plans with persistence which does
not recognize failure will bring riches the
method by which designer for Richard's can
be transmuted into a financial equivalent
consists of six definite practical steps his
first fix in your mind the exact amount of
money you desire it is not sufficient merely
to say I want plenty of money be definite
as to the amount there is a psychological
reason for a definiteness which will be described
and when chapter second determine exactly
what you intend to give in return for the
money you desire there is no such reality
as something for nothing third establish a
definite date when you intend to possess the
money you desire fourth create a definite
plan for carrying out your desire and begin
at once whether you are ready or not to put
this plan into action when are the clear concise
statement of the amount of money you intend
to acquire name the time limit for its acquisition
State what you intend to give in return for
the money and describe clearly the plan through
which you intend to accumulate it text read
your written statement allowed twice-daily
once just before retiring at night and once
after a rising in the morning as you read
see and feel and believe yourself already
in possession of the money it is important
that you follow the instruction described
in these six steps it is especially important
that you observe and follow the instructions
in the sixth paragraph and they complain that
it is impossible for you to see yourself in
possession of the money before you actually
have it here is where a burning desire will
come to your Aid if you truly desire money
soaking me that you were desire is an obsession
you will have no difficulty in convincing
yourself that you will acquire it the object
is to want money and to become so determined
to have it that you convince yourself you
will have it only those who become conscious
ever accumulate great riches money Consciousness
means that the line has become so thoroughly
saturated with the desire for money that one
can see oneself already in possession of it
to the uninitiated who was not been schooled
in the working principles of the human mind
these instructions man.
Practical it may be helpful to all who fail
to recognize the sound of the six steps to
know that the information they convey was
received from Andrew Carnegie who began as
an ordinary labor and steel mills but managed
to spite his humble beginning to make these
principles yield in the fortune of considerable
more than 100 million dollars it may be a
further help to know that the six steps here
recommended were carefully scrutinized by
the lake, they Edison who plays to stamp of
approval upon them as being not only the steps
essential for the accumulation of money but
necessary for the attainment of any definite
goal the steps call for no hard labor they
call for No sacrifice they do not require
one to become ridiculous or credulous to mcoles
for no great amount of education but the successful
application of these six steps does call for
sufficient imagination to enable one to see
and do understand that accumulation of money
cannot be left a chance good fortune and luck
one must realize that all who have accumulated
great fortunes first did a certain amount
of dreaming hoping wishing Desiring and planning
before they acquired money you may as well
know right here that you can never have riches
in great quantities unless you can work yourself
into a white heat of desire for money and
actually believe you will possess it you may
as well know also that every great leader
from the dawn of civilization down to the
present was a dreamer Christianity is the
greatest potential power in the world today
because its founder was in 10 streamer who
had the vision and the imagination to see
reality is in their mental and spiritual form
transmuted into physical form if you do not
see great riches in your imagination you will
never see them in your bank balance never
in the history of America has there been so
great an opportunity for practical dreamers
as now exists the six-year economic collapse
has reduced all lens substantially to the
same a new race is about to be run the steaks
represented huge fortunes which will be accumulated
within the next 10 years the rules of the
race of changed because we now live a changed
world that definitely favors the masses those
who had but little or no opportunity to win
under the conditions existing during the Depression
one fear paralyze growth and development we
were in this race for riches should be encouraged
to know that this changed World in which we
live is demanding new ideas new ways of doing
things new leaders new methods of teaching
new methods of marketing new books new literature
new features for the radio new ideas for moving
pictures back of all this demand for new and
better things there is one quality which one
must possess to win and that is definiteness
of purpose the knowledge of what one wants
and a burning desire to put the business depression
Mark the death of one age and the birth of
another this changed World requires practical
dreamers who can and will put their dreams
into action the Practical dreamers have always
been and always will be the pattern makers
of civilization we would desire to accumulate
riches should remember the real leaders of
the world always have been man who harnessed
and put into practical use intangible unseen
forces of unborn opportunity and have converted
those forces or impulses of thought in the
skyscrapers cities factories are planes Automobiles
and every form of convenience that makes life
more pleasant tolerance and an open mind are
practical necessities of the dreamer up today
those who are afraid of new ideas are due
before they start never has there been a time
more favorable the Pioneers in the present
true there is no Wild and Woolly West to be
conquered and as in the days of the covered
wagon but there is a vast Business Financial
and Industrial world to be remolded and redirected
along new and better lines in planning to
acquire your share of the riches let no one
influence you to score on the dreamer to win
the big stakes in this strange world we must
catch the spirit of the great pioneers of
the pennis growth dreams are given to civilization
all but it has a value the spirit which serves
as the lifeblood of our own country your opportunity
and mine to develop and Market are, let us
not forget Columbus dreamed of an unknown
World staked his life on the existence of
such a world and discovered it Copernicus
the great astronomer of a multiplicity of
Worlds and revealed no one denies him as impractical
after he triumphed instead the world worship
at his Shrine that's proving once wore that
success requires no apologies failure permits
no Alibis if the thing you wish to do is right
and you believe it go ahead and do it put
your dream across and never mind what they
say if you meet with temporary to feed for
then perhaps do not know that every failure
brings with it the seed of an equivalent Sixth
Sense Henry Ford poor and uneducated Dreamed
A Horseless Carriage went to work with what
tools he possessed without waiting for opportunity
to favor him and now evidence of his dream
belts the entire Earth he has put more operation
that any man who ever lived because he was
not afraid to back his dreams Thomas Edison
dreamed of a lamp that could be operated by
electricity begin where he stood to put his
dream into action and despite more than 10000
failures he stood by that he made it a physical
reality practical dreamers do not quit Waylon
dreamed of a chain of cigar stores transformed
his dream into action and now the United cigar
stores occupy the best corners in America
Lincoln dreamed of freedom for the black slaves
put his dream into action and barely neck
living to see a United North and South translate
his dream into reality the Wright brothers
dreamed of a machine that would fly through
the air now one man see evidence all over
the world that they dreamed soundly Marconi
dreamed of a system for harnessing the intangible
forces of The Ether evidence that he did not
dream in vain may be found in every Wireless
and radio in the world moreover Marconi's
dream brought the humblest cabin in the most
stately Manor House side-by-side it made the
people of Every Nation on Earth back door
neighbors that gave the president of the United
States a medium by which he may talk to all
the people of America one time and I'm short
notice it may interest you to know that Marconi's
friends had him taken into custody and examined
in a psychopathic hospital when he announced
he had discovered the principle through which
he could send messages through the air without
the aid of wires or other direct physical
means of communication the dreamers of today
fare better the world has become accustomed
to new discoveries it is shown a willingness
to award the dreamer who give the world a
new idea the greatest achievement was at first
and for a time but a dream the oak sleeps
in the acorn the bird waits in the egg and
in the highest division of the Soul Awakening
Angel stirs dreams are the seedlings of reality
awake arise and assert yourself and dreamers
of the world more store is now in the ascendancy
the world depression brought the opportunity
you've been waiting for it to people humility
tolerance and open-mindedness the world is
filled with an abundance of opportunity which
the dreamers of the past never knew a burning
desire to be and to do is the starting point
from which the dreamer must take off dreams
are not born of indifference laziness or lack
of inhibition the world no longer scoffs at
the dreamer Norcos and impractical if you
think it does take a trip to Tennessee and
witness what a dreamer president has done
in the way of harnessing and using the great
water power of America a score of years ago
such a dream would have seemed like Madness
you have been disappointed your Wonder gone
defeat during the Depression you have felt
the great hard within your crush until it
bled take courage for these experiences have
temper the spiritual mental of what you are
made they are assets of incomparable remember
to that all who succeed in life get off to
a bad start and passed through many hard braking
struggles before they arrived the turning
point in the lives of those who succeed usually
comes at the moment of some crisis through
which they are introduced to their other sounds
John Bunyan wrote the Pilgrims Progress which
is among the finest of all English literature
after he had been confined prison and sorely
punished because of his views on the subject
of religion O'Henry discover the genius which
slept with in his brain after you had met
with great Misfortune and looking fine in
a prison cell in Columbus Ohio being forced
through Misfortune to become acquainted with
his other self and to use his imagination
he discovered himself to be a great author
instead of a miserable criminal and Outkast
strange and very much are the ways of life
is stranger still are the ways of infinite
intelligence through which men are sometimes
forced to undergo all sorts of punishment
before discovering their own brains and their
own capacity to create useful ideas through
imagination Edison the world's greatest inventor
and scientist was a tramp Telegraph operator
he failed innumerable times before he was
driven finally to the discovery of the genius
which slept with in his brain Charles Dickens
began by pasting labels on blacking pots the
tragedy of his first love penetrated the depths
of his soul and converted him into War of
the Worlds truly great authors that tragedy
produce David Copperfield Venice succession
of other works that made this a richer and
better world for all the weed is books disappointment
over love affairs generally has the effect
of driving them to drink and women to ruin
and this because most people never learn the
art of transmitting their strongest emotions
into dreams of a constructive nature Helen
Keller became deaf dumb and blind shortly
after birth despite her greatest Misfortune
she has written her name indelibly in the
pages of the history of the Granite her entire
life has served as evidence that no one ever
is defeated until the feed has been accepted
as reality Robert Burns wasn't a little of
country lad he was cursed by poverty and grew
up to be a drunkard in the bargain the world
was made better for him having lived because
he closed beautiful thoughts and poetry and
thereby product of Thorne and planted a rose
in its place Booker T Washington was born
in slavery handicapped by race and color because
he was tolerant had an open mind at all times
on all subjects and was a dreamer he left
his Empress for good on an entire race Beethoven
was deaf Milton was blind but their names
will last as long as time and doors because
they dreamed and translated their dreams into
organized thought before passing to the next
chapter Kindle the new in your mind the fire
of hope faith courage and tolerance if you
have these states of mind and a working knowledge
of the principles destroy all else that you
need will come to you when you are ready for
it let Emerson the state the thought of these
words every proverb every book every by word
that belongs to be for Aid and comfort shall
surely come home to open or winding passages
every friend not die fantastic will but the
great and tender soul in the crib a shell
Roxy and his embrace there is a difference
between wishing for a thing and being ready
to receive it no one is ready for a thing
until he believes he can acquire it the State
of Mind must be belief Not Mere hope or wish
open-mindedness is essential for belief closed
minds do not Inspire Faith courage and believe
remember no more effort is required to aim
high in life to demand abundance and prosperity
than is required to accept misery and poverty
a great poet has correctly stated this universal
truth through these lines I bargained with
life for a penny and life would pay no more
however I beg that evening when I counted
my scanty store for life is a just employer
he gives you what you asked but once you accept
the wages why you must bear the task I worked
for a manual tire only to learn to do that
anyway which I had asked of life life would
have willingly paid desire outwits Mother
Nature as a fitting climax to this chapter
I wish to introduce one of the most unusual
persons I have ever known I first saw him
24 years ago a few minutes after he was born
he came into the world without any physical
sign of years and the doctor admitted when
pressed for an opinion that the child might
be deaf and mute for life I challenged the
doctor's opinion I have the right to do so
I was the child's father I to reach the decision
and rendered in opinion but I expressed the
opinion silently in the secrecy of my own
heart I decided that my son would hear and
speak nature could send me a child without
ears but nature could not induce me to accept
the reality of the Affliction in my own mind
I knew that my son would hear and speak how
I wish you were there must be a way and I
knew I would find it I thought of the words
of the immortal Emerson the whole course of
things going to teach us faith we need only
obey there is guidance for each of us and
by lowly listening we shall hear the right
word the right word desire more than anything
else I desired that my son should not be a
deaf-mute from that desire I never received
it not for a second many years previously
I had written our only limitations are those
we set up on our own lines for the first time
I wondered if that statement are true lying
on the bed in front of me with a newly born
child with equipment even though he might
hear and speak he was obviously disfigured
for Life surely this was a limitation which.
Child had not set up in his own mind what
could I do about it somehow I would find a
way to transplant into that child's mind my
only burning desire for Ways and Means of
conveying sound to his brain without the aid
of you as soon as the child was old enough
to cooperate I would feel his mind so completely
with a burning desire to hear that nature
would by methods of her own translated into
physical reality in my own mind but I spoke
of it to No One everyday I renewed The Pledge
I have made myself not to accept a deaf mute
or something as he grew older and began to
take notice of things around them we observed
that he had a slight degree of hearing when
you reach the age when children usually begin
talking he made no attempt to speak but we
could tell by his actions that he could hear
certain sounds likely that was all I wanted
to know I was convinced that if he could hear
even slightly he might develop still greater
hearing capacity then something happened which
gave me hope it came from entirely unexpected
source we bought a victrola when a child her
the music for the first time he went into
ecstasies and promptly appropriated the machine
he soon showed a preference for certain records
among them It's a Long Way to Tipperary on
one occasion he played that piece over and
over for almost 2 hours standing in front
of the victrola with his teeth clamped on
the edge of the case the significance of this
cell form to habit of his did not become clear
to us until years after word for we'd never
heard of the principle of bone conduction
of sound at that time shortly after he appropriated
the victrola I discovered that he could hear
me quite clearly when I spoke with my lips
touching his mastoid bone or at the base of
the brain these discoveries placed in my possession
the necessary media by which I began to translate
into reality my burning desire to help my
son develop Hearing & Speech by that time
he was making certain words the Outlook was
far from encouraging but desire backed by
faith Knows No Such word as impossible I've
been determined at that he could hear the
sound of my voice plainly I began immediately
to transfer to his mind the desire to hear
and speak I soon discovered that the child
is going to bedtime stories so I went to work
creating stories designed to develop and him
self-reliance imagination and a keen desire
to hear and to be normal there was one story
in particular which I emphasize by giving
it some new and romantic coloring each time
it was told it was designed to plant in his
mind the thought that his Affliction was not
a liability or an asset of great value despite
the fact that all the velocity I examined
clearly indicated that every adversity brings
with it the seed of an equivalent Advantage
I must confess that I had not the slightest
idea how this Affliction could ever become
an asset however I continue to my practice
of wrapping that philosophy in bedtime stories
hoping the time would come when he would find
some plan by which is handicapped could be
made to serve some useful purpose reason told
me plainly that there was no adequate compensation
for the lack of ears and natural hearing equipment
designer back by faith pushed me aside and
inspired me to carry on as I analyze the experience
in retrospect I can see now that my son's
faith in me had much to do with the astounding
results he did not question anything I told
him I sold him the idea that he had a distinct
advantage over his older brother and that
this Advantage would reflect itself in many
ways for example the teachers in school would
observe that he had no ears because of this
they would show him special attention and
treat him with extraordinary kindness they
always did his mother thought of that by visiting
the teachers and arranging with them to give
the child to be extra attention necessary
I sold him the idea to that when he became
old enough to sell newspapers his older brother
had already become a newspaper Merchant he
would have a big advantage over his brother
for the reason that people would pay him extra
money for his winners because they could see
that he was a bright industrious boy despite
the fact he had no ears we could notice that
graduate the child's hearing was improving
moreover he had not the slightest tendency
to be self-conscious because of his Affliction
it when he was a pow he showed the first evidence
that our method of servicing is mine was bearing
fruit for several months he beg for the privilege
of selling newspapers but his mother would
not give her consent she was afraid that is
deafness made it unsafe for him to go in the
street alone finally he took matters into
his own hands one afternoon when he was left
at home with the servants he climbed through
the kitchen window she need to the ground
and set out on his own he borrowed $0.06 in
capital from a neighbor of Shoemaker invested
in papers sold-out reinvested and kept repeating
until late in the evening after balancing
his accounts and paying back the $0.06 he
borrowed from his Banker he had a net profit
of $0.42 when we got home that night we found
them in bed asleep with the money tightly
clenched in his hand his mother opened his
hand remove the coins and cried of all things
crying over her son's first Victory seems
so inappropriate my reaction was the river
I laugh hard way before I knew that my Endeavor
to plant in the child's mind and attitude
of faith in himself had been successful his
mother song and it's for a business venture
a little deaf boy who would gone out in the
streets and risked his life to earn money
I saw a brave ambitious self-reliant little
businessman who's stalking himself at 100%
because he had gone into business on his own
initiative and it won the transaction fees
me because I knew that he had given evidence
of a trait of resourcefulness that would go
with him all through life later events prove
this to be true when his older brother wanted
something he would lie down on the floor kick
his feet in the air crying for it and get
it when the little death boy wanted something
you would plan a way to run the money then
buy it for himself he still follows that plan
truly my own son has taught me that handicaps
can be converted into Stepping Stones on which
one may climb Ford some worthy goal unless
they are accepted as obstacles and used as
an alibi The Little Death boy went through
the grades high school and college without
being able to hear his teachers accepting
when they shouted loudly at close range he
did not go to a school for the deaf we would
not permit him to learn the sign language
we were determined that he should live a normal
life and associate with normal children and
we stood by that decision although it cost
us many heated debate with school officials
won't he was in high school he tried an electrical
hearing aid but it was of no value to him
then we believe to a condition that was disclosed
when a child was seen by dr.
Jay Gordon Wilson of Chicago when he operated
on one side of the boy's head and discovered
that there was no sign of natural hearing
equipment during his last week in college
18 years after the operation something happened
which Mark the most important turning point
of his life through what seemed to be near
chance he came into possession of another
electrical urine device which was sent to
him on trial he was slow about testing it
do to a disappointment with a similar device
finally he picked the instrument up and more
left carelessly placed it on his head hooked
up the battery and low as it by a stroke of
magic his lifelong desire for normal hearing
became a reality for the first time in his
life he heard practically as well as any person
have normal hearing God moves in mysterious
ways his wonders to perform Overjoyed because
of the change World which have been brought
to him through his hearing device he rushed
to the telephone called his mother and heard
her voice perfectly the next day he playing
me where the boys for the first time in his
life previously he could hear them only when
I shouted at short range he heard the radio
he heard the talking pictures for the first
time in his life he could Converse freely
with other people without the necessity of
their having to speak loudly truly he had
come into possession of a changed world we
had refused to accept Nature's error and by
persistent desire we had induced major to
correct that her through the only practical
means available designer had commenced to
pay dividends but the victory was not yet
complete the boys still had to find a definite
and practical way to convert his handicap
into an equivalent asset Harvey realizing
the significance of what it already been accomplished
but intoxicated with the joy of his move discovered
world of sound he wrote a letter to the manufacturer
of a hearing aid enthusiastically describing
his experience something in his letter something
perhaps which was not written on the lines
but back of them caused the company to invite
him to New York when he arrived he was escorting
to the factory and while talking with the
chief engineer telling him about his changed
World a hunch and idea or an inspiration call
it what you wish flashed into his mind it
was this impulsive thought was converted into
fraction into an asset destined to pay dividends
in both money and happiness to thousands for
all time to come the sum and substance was
this it occurred to him that he might be of
help today to people who go through life without
the benefit of hearing devices if he could
find a way to tell the world then and there
he reached a decision to devote the remainder
of his life to run during useful service to
the hard of hearing for the entire month he
carried on an intensive research during which
he analyzed the entire Marketing System of
the manufacturer of the urine device and created
Ways and Means of communicating with a hard
of hearing all over the world for the purpose
of sharing with them his movie discovered
change the world when this was done he put
in writing a two-year plan based upon his
findings when he presented the plan to the
company he was instantly given a position
for the purpose of carrying out his ambition
little did he dream when he went to work that
he was destined to bring hope and practical
release the sounds of death into people who
without his help would have been doomed forever
to Death Note ISM shortly after he became
associated with a manufacturer of his hearing
aid he invited me to attend the class conducted
by his company for the purpose of teaching
definitely sticking around to speak I never
heard of such a form of Education therefore
I visited the class skeptical but hopeful
what time would not be entirely wasted here
I saw a demonstration which gave me a greatly
enlarged vision of what I had done to arouse
and people live in my son's mind the desire
for normal hearing I saw death needs actually
speak through application of the selfsame
principle is used more than 20 years previously
and saving my son from us through some strange
turn of the wheel of fate want a sun glare
and I have been destined to Aid and correct
indefinite is in for those that yet unborn
because we are the only living human beings
as far as I know who established definitely
the fact that deaf mutism can be corrected
to the extent of restoring from normal life
those who suffer with this Affliction that
has been done for 1 it will be done for others
there is no doubt in my mind that there would
have been a definite all his life if his mother
and I had not managed to shape his mind as
we did the doctor who attended at his birth
told us confidential the child might never
hear or speak a few weeks ago Dr Irving Voorhees
unnoted specialist in such cases examined
Blair very thoroughly he was astounded when
he learned how well my son now here that speaks
and said his examination indicated that theoretically
the boys should not be able to hear at all
but the lad does here despite the fact that
X-ray pictures that show there is no opening
in the skull whatsoever from where his ears
should be to the brain when I planted in his
mind the desire to hear and talk and live
as a normal person there went with that impulse
some strange influence would cause nature
to become bridge-builder post and the Gulf
of Silence between his brain in the outer
World by some means which the king of Medical
Specialists have not been able to interpret
it would be sacrilege for me to even conjecture
as to how nature perform this miracle it would
be unforgivable if I neglected to tell the
world as much as I know of the humble part
I assumed in the strange experience it is
my duty and a privilege to say I believe and
not without reason that nothing is impossible
to the person who backs Desire with enduring
faith verily a burning desire as devious ways
of transmitting itself into its physical equivalent
Blair desired he was born with kneecaps with
my easily have sent one with a less to find
desire to the street with a bundle of pencils
and attend cop that handicapped no promises
to serve as the medium by which he will render
useful service to many millions of Hart of
hearing also to give him useful employment
at adequate financial compensation the remainder
of his life The Little White Lies I planted
his mind when he was a child by leading him
to believe is Affliction would become a great
asset which you could capitalize as Justified
itself barely there is nothing right or wrong
which belief + burning desire cannot make
real these qualities are free to everyone
in all my experience in dealing with many
women with personal problems I never handled
a single case which more definitely demonstrates
the power of Desire author is sometimes make
the mistake of writing subjects of which they
have but superficial or very Elementary knowledge
it has been my good fortune to have had the
privilege of testing the sound this of the
power of desire to the Affliction of my own
son perhaps it was providential that the experience
came as it did for surely no one is better
prepared than he that serve is an example
of what happens when desire is put to the
past if Mother Nature Bend to the will of
Desire is it logical that may or men can defeat
a burning desire strange and imponderables
is the power of the human mind we do not understand
the method by which it uses every circumstance
every individual every physical thing within
its reach as a means of transmuting Desire
into its physical counterpart perhaps science
will uncover the secret I planted in my son's
mind the desire to hear and to speak as any
normal person hears in speaks that desire
has now become reality I planted in his mind
the desired second purchase greatest handicap
into his greatest asset that desire has been
realized the modus operandi by which this
astounding result was achieved is not hard
to describe it consisted of three very definite
facts first I mixed Faith with the desire
for normal hearing which I passed on to my
son second I communicated my desire to him
in every conceivable way available to a persistent
continuous effort over.
Of years 3rd he believed me as this chapter
was being completed news came of the death
of my Don Shuman hunk one short paragraph
in the news-dispatch gives the food is unusual
woman stupendous success as a singer I quote
the paragraph because the clue and contains
is none other than desire early in her career
visited the director of the Vienna Court Opera
to have him test her voice but he did not
test it after taking one look at the awkward
and poorly dressed girl explained with such
a face and with no personality at all how
can you ever expect to succeed in Opera my
good child give up the idea by a sewing machine
and go to work you can never be a singer never
is a long time the director of the Vienna
Court Opera knew much about the technique
of singing he knew little about the power
of Desire when it assumes the proportion of
obsession if he had known more of that power
he would not have made the mistake of condemning
genius without giving it an opportunity several
years ago one of my business associates became
ill he became worse as time went on and finally
was taken to the hospital for an operation
just before he was wheeled into the operating
room I took a look at him and wondered how
anyone is thin and emaciated as he could possibly
go through a major operation successfully
the doctor warned me that there was little
if any chance of my ever seeing him alive
again but that was the doctor's opinion it
was not the opinion of the patient just before
he was ruled away he whispered feebly to not
be disturbed Chief I'll be out of here in
a few days the attending nurse looked at me
with pity but the patient did come through
safely and after it was all over his position
said nothing but his own desire to live saved
him never would have pulled through if you
did not refuse to accept the possibility of
death I believe in the power of Desire back
by faith because I've seen this power lift
hand from Lowell Beginnings to places of power
and wealth I have seen it robbed the grave
of its victim I've seen it served as the medium
by which men stayed to come back after having
been defeated in a hundred different ways
I have seen a provide my own son with a normal
happy successful despite nature is having
sent him into the world without years how
can one harness and use the power of Desire
this has been answered through this and the
subsequent chapters of this audiobook this
message is going out to the world at the end
of the longest and perhaps the most devastating
depression America has ever known it is reasonable
to presume that the message may come to the
attention of many who have been wounded by
the depression those who have lost their fortunes
others who have lost their positions and great
number Kaiser plans and stayed to come back
to all these I wish to convey the thought
that all achievement no matter what maybe
it's nature or its purpose must begin with
an intense burning desire for something definite
through some strange and Powerful principle
of metal chemistry which she has never divulged
nature wraps up in the impulsive strong desire
that's something which recognizes no such
word as impossible and accept no such reality
as failure
