Ella Wheeler Wilcox(1850-1919)
The Creator makes no mistakes. There is a divine purpose in your being on earth. Think of yourself as necessary to the great design. It is an inspiring thought. And then consider the immensity of the universe and how accurately the Maker planned it all. Ella Wheeler Wilcox
The New Thought is a science, the Science of Right Thinking. But the brain cells which have been shaped by the old thoughts of despondency and fear, cannot all at once be reformed. It will be a case of “Try, try again.”
Make your daily assertions, “I am love, health, wisdom, cheerfulness, power for good, prosperity, success, usefulness, opulence.” Never fail to assert these things at least twice a day; twenty times is better. But if you do not attain to all immediately, if your life does not at once exemplify your words, let it not discourage you.
The saying of the words is the watering of the seeds. After a time they will begin to sprout, after a longer time to cover the barren earth with grain, after a still longer time to yield a harvest.
If you have been accustomed to feeling prejudices and dislikes easily, you will not all at once find it easy to illustrate your assertion, “I am love.” If you have indulged yourself in thoughts of disease, the old aches and pains will intrude even while you say “I am health!”
If you have groveled in fear and a belief that you were born to poverty and failure, courage and success and opulence will be of slow growth. Yet they will grow and materialize, as surely as you insist and persist. Declare they are yours, right in the face of the worst disasters. There is nothing that so confuses and frustrates misfortune as to stare it down with unflinching eyes.
If you waken some morning in the depths of despondency and gloom, do not say to yourself: “I may as well give up this effort to adopt the New Thought — I have made a failure of it evidently.” Instead sit down quietly, and assert calmly that you are cheerfulness, hope, courage, faith and success.
Realize that your despondency is only temporary; an old habit, which is reasserting itself, but over which you will gradually gain the ascendancy. Then go forth into the world and busy yourself in some useful occupation, and before you know it is on the way, hope will creep into your heart, and the gray cloud will lift from your mind. Physical pains will loosen their hold, and conditions of poverty will change to prosperity.
Your mind is your own to educate and direct. You can do it by the aid of the Spirit, but you must be satisfied to work slowly. Be patient and persistent.
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Ella was born November 5, 1850, in the village of Johnstown, Rock County, Wisconsin. Her parents were Marcus H. Wheeler, and Sarah Pratt Wheeler, with three older children they had followed, “Grandsir Pratt” from Vermont in 1849The fact that ***her ideas were rooted in the truth of New Thought meant that her column provided a powerful podium for the dissemination of these important ideas during a time of progressive transformation.*** Her book Poems of Power is deeply informed with New Thought ideas and she wrote an essential book in the canon of New Thought called The Heart of New Thought
Through her work as a columnist New Thought found a forum through which the masses and intellectuals of her time could profit by her insights and transform their lives. Whereas publishers such as Elizabeth Towne were reaching many people who were favorably disposed toward intelligent insights. Ella was able to bring New Thought to the often closed minds of readers who shared the mass karma common to so many normal people
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