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Within You is the Power by Henry Thomas Hamblin
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operation a powerful law which will surely bring opportunity to him,
sooner or later. Many, however, ruin their hopes by not knowing that
for a time they must live a kind of double life. They must be opulent
in consciousness, but careful and thrifty in actual practice. The
time will come when their means will largely increase, then, if they
are wise, they will live on part of their income, instead of living
up to it. This will give them a wide margin for charitable purposes,
for the taking up of further opportunities and for extensions. Many
business men have to let golden opportunities pass, simply because
they have saved little or nothing, owing to lavish private
expenditure, or they have to let other people in to share their
schemes who, in addition to taking a large share of the profits may
prove a serious handicap and hindrance in other ways.

While in its essence, the Source of Supply is spiritual, it comes
to us through material channels, and, in order to have a share in
it, it is necessary to earn it. We have to give something in exchange
for what we draw from life in the way of supply. We must give in order
to receive, and what we give must be something that the world wants
or needs.

The secret of supply is, then, to realize that there is unlimited
abundance and to live in the consciousness of it, as completely as
though no material channels existed, and, at the same time, to work
as zealously and be as careful as though there were no such thing
as spiritual supply. At the same time we must give the world something
that it wants, or otherwise serve in some useful capacity, exercising
honesty, probity and justice in all our affairs. It is folly to expect
abundance to drop ready-made in our lap; it must be earned by
intelligent and faithful service. [11]
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