[MD] Quality/Tao

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On 27 Jun 2010 at 20:21, Dan Glover wrote:

Hello everyone

On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 8:44 AM, Platt Holden <plattholden at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 11:48 PM, Dan Glover <daneglover at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello everyone
>>
>>
>> Napoleon Hill wrote extensively about this in the early part of the
>> twentieth century. One particular story that stuck in my mind was how
>> Dr. Hill organized a take-over of one of Andrew Carnegie's steel
>> mills. He simply asked how much money Carnegie wanted for his mill.
>> Carnegie wrote what he thought was an outrageous sum of money on the
>> back of a napkin and handed it to Hill during lunch.
>>
>> Three days later Dr. Hill presented him with a check for the exact
>> amount Carnegie had wrote on the napkin. It totaled three hundred
>> million dollars. Some time later, Carnegie mused to Hill that he'd
>> considered writing down five hundred million dollars but considered
>> that sum too far out of the realm of possibility. Hill informed
>> Carnegie that he would have gotten it.
>>
>> He'd have gotten it! Just for the asking!
>>
>> So. It is not just wishful thinking to believe we order the world with
>> our thoughts. Ask and receive. It really is that simple. I guess the
>> hard part is knowing just what to ask.
>>
>> Hi Dan,
>
> Is this the same Napoleon Hill who wrote the book, "Think and Grow Rich"
> based upon the Thirteen Proven Steps to Riches?

Dan:
It is.

Platt:
I guess if a flap of a
> butterfly's wings can create a hurricane that destroys a city, a thought can
> create its physical equivalent. But then again, how come I'm ain't rich?

Dan:
There's an old joke about the guy who keeps praying, "Oh God, please
let me win the lottery." He does this over and over and over, day
after day. Finally, there comes a booming voice from heaven: "Buy a
ticket!"

Do you really want to be rich? And if so, have you bought a ticket?
What I mean to say is, have you paved the way to riches by taking
specific steps in obtaining a specific goal? Or have you pissed and
moaned the fact you haven't won the lottery while all the while
refusing to play the game?


>Platt:
> Still, a concept not to be dismissed out of hand.

Dan:
Sure it is. Which is why it doesn't work for most people. They never
buy a ticket. And then they holler, why ain't I rich? Gee. I wonder.
;)

Hi Dan,

If Idealism was true (subjects create the world) I would make a world in which 
I was twice as rich.

Regards,
Platt