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1491 When others are having hard times and poor business, you will find your greatest opportunities.

1492 Train yourself to think of and to look upon the world as a something which is Becoming, which is growing;

1493 and to regard seeming evil as being only that which is undeveloped. Always speak in terms of advancement;

1494 to do otherwise is to deny your faith, and to deny your faith is to lose it.

1495 Never allow yourself to feel disappointed. You may expect to have a certain thing at a certain time, and not

1496 get it at that time; and this will appear to you like failure.

1497 But if you hold to your faith you will find that the failure is only apparent.

1498 Go on in the certain way, and if you do not receive that thing, you will receive something so much better that

1499 you will see that the seeming failure was really a great success.

1500 A student of this science had set his mind on making a certain business combination which seemed to him at

1501 the time to be very desirable, and he worked for some weeks to bring it about. When the crucial time came,

1502 the thing failed in a perfectly inexplicable way; it was as if some unseen influence had been working secretly

1503 against him. He was not disappointed; on the contrary, he thanked God that his desire had been overruled,

1504 and went steadily on with a grateful mind. In a few weeks an opportunity so much better came his way that

1505 he would not have made the first deal on any account; and he saw that a Mind which knew more than he

1506 knew had prevented him from losing the greater good by entangling himself with the lesser.

1507 That is the way every seeming failure will work out for you, if you keep your faith, hold to your purpose,

1508 have gratitude, and do, every day, all that can be done that day, doing each separate act in a successful

1509 manner.

1510 When you make a failure, it is because you have not asked for enough; keep on, and a larger thing than you

1511 were seeking will certainly come to you. Remember this.

1512 You will not fail because you lack the necessary talent to do what you wish to do. If you go on as I have

1513 directed, you will develop all the talent that is necessary to the doing of your work.

1514 It is not within the scope of this book to deal with the science of cultivating talent; but it is as certain and

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