The Importance of Right Attitude

Right attitude is not merely produced by success: it actually attracts success. Within ourselves we have the power to emerge smiling from the greatest defeat, and to go on to achieve shining victory.

Why be like those social misfits who, even when things go well for them, manage to find something to grumble about? Disgruntlement becomes a habit. A positive attitude depends far less on things going right outwardly than on an inner determination to be happy always. More often, such an attitude is the cause of good fortune, not merely a result of it. A strong, positive attitude, finally, is most effective when it is self-generated.

People whose outlook on life is, by contrast, basically negative can actually attract failure! The stronger a person’s attitude, whether positive or negative, the stronger the magnetic field of energy it generates, drawing good or bad fortune to oneself.

True success is his already, indeed, who clings determinedly to right attitudes, for in the long run success means victory over one’s self. Merely to stumble onto success, like someone finding buried treasure in the garden of his ancestral home, is delusion’s way of softening one up for another plunge into failure! Above all, true success means self-mastery. What can anyone accomplish more than that? Complete mastery awaits you within yourself. Money, fame, worldly power, and other outward achievements are evanescent: they bring no lasting satisfaction. Whatever you do, think above all in terms of what success will make of you, both as a human being and as an instrument of Higher Truth.