佛羅倫薩·斯高伏爾·西恩/Florence Scovel Shinn
We must all have a watchman at the gate of our thoughts. The watchman at the gate is the superconscious mind.
We have the power to choose our thoughts.
Since we have lived in the race thought for thousands of years, it seems almost impossible to control them. They rush through our minds like stampeding cattle or sheep.
But a single sheep-dog can control the frightened sheep and guide them into the sheep pen. I saw a picture in the news-reels of a shepherd dog the sheep. He had rounded up all but three. These three resisted and resented. They baaed and lifted their front feet in protest, but the dog simply sat down in front and never took his eyes off them. He did not bark or threaten. He just sat and looked his determination. In a little while the sheep tossed their heads and went in the pen.
We can learn to control our thoughts in the same way, by gentle determination, not force.
We take an affirmation and repeat it continually, while our thoughts are on the rampage.
We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the situation.
Your success and happiness in life depend upon the watchman at the gate of your thoughts, sooner or later, crystallize on the external. A trumpet is a musical instrument, used in olden times, to draw people's attention to something—to victory, to order.
You will form the habit of giving attention to every thought and word, when you realize their importance.
The imagination, the scissors of the mind, is constantly cutting out the events to come into your life.
在人類思想的門口，一定有一個守門人，而這個守門人就是每個人的潛意識。
我們有能力按照自己的心願選擇思想。
數千年以來，人類就是用自己的思考能力不斷地生活、繁衍。有時，思想在我們的頭腦裏會像受驚的牛羊四處奔逃。這時的思想，看起來根本無法控製。