Thoughts are Things - Original Edition

THERE belongs to every human being a higher self and a lower self-a self or mind of the spirit which hasbeen growing for ages, and a self of the body, which is but a thing of yesterday. The higher self is full ofprompting idea, suggestion and aspiration. This it receives of the Supreme Power. All this the lower or animalself regards as wild and visionary. The higher self argues possibilities and power for us greater than men andwomen now possess and enjoy. The lower self says we can only live and exist as men and women have livedand existed before us. The higher self craves freedom from the cumbrousness, the limitations, the pains anddisabilities of the body. The lower self says that we are born to them, born to ill, born to suffer, and mustsuffer as have so many before us. The higher self wants a standard for right and wrong of its own. The lowerself says we must accept a standard made for us by others-by general and long-held opinion, belief andprejudice.