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Gratitude alone can keep you looking toward the All, and prevent you from falling into the error of thinking of the supply as limited; and to do that would be fatal to your hopes.
感恩能讓你用一種宏觀的眼光審視這個世界，也能阻止你陷人諸如物質財富是有限的之類的錯誤思想當中。
There is a Law of Gratitude, and it is absolutely necessary that you should observe the law, if you are to get the results you seek.
除此之外，如果你想如愿以償的話，時刻觀察其內在規則，并時時提醒自己感恩也是必不可少的。
The law of gratitude is the natural principle that action and reaction are always equal, and in opposite directions.
感恩的規則渾然天成，即所有的得與失，行動與反應，來與去，通常都是一對方向相反但性質相同的平等體。
The grateful outreaching of your mind in thankful praise to the Supreme is a liberation or expenditure of force; it cannot fail to reach that to which it addressed, and the reaction is an instantaneous movement towards you.
最能表達你對宇宙的感激之情，同時也是最值得稱頌的一種感恩方式，就是盡情釋放你自身的能量，或者說，消耗能量。如果你真能做到這一點，那么，你的付出和努力就絕對不會白費，宇宙一定能感受到你的真心誠意，并在幾乎同一時間讓你感受到他已經接受了你的感恩。
"Draw nigh unto God, and He will draw nigh unto you." That is a statement of psychological truth.
“當你靠近宇宙的同時，宇宙也在向你走近”，一句簡簡單單的話，揭示了世間最平實也最深奧的心理作用原理。
And if your gratitude is strong and constant, the reaction in Fomless Substance will be strong and continuous; the movement of the things you want will be always toward you. Notice the grateful attitude that Jesus took; how He always seems to be saying "I thank Thee, Father, that Thou hearest me." You cannot exercise much power without gratitude; for it is gratitude that keeps you connected with Power.
如果你的感恩之情深沉且堅決，那么，你從無形的物質一宇宙一那兒得到的回應也會熱烈且持久，而你想要的那些物品也會始終保持朝你移動的運動軌跡。失去了感恩的心，你會發現自已根本手無縛雞之力，終將一事無成，因為正是感恩的思想將你與能量之源聯系在了一起。
But the value of gratitude does not consist solely in getting you more blessings in the future. Without gratitude you cannot long keep from dissat isfied thought regarding things as they are. The moment you permit your mind to dwell with dissatisfaction upon things as they are, you begin to lose ground. You fix attention upon the common, the ordinary, the poor, and the squalid and mean; and your mind takes the form of these things. Then you will transmit these forms or mental images to the Formless, and the common, the poor, the squalid, and mean will come to you.
可是，感恩的價值并不僅限于讓你能在未來收獲更多的幸福。沒有感恩的心，即使現實生活中的一切都保持原狀，你的不滿情緒也會越來越大，越來越強烈。就在你開始抱怨，開始不滿而事實上一切如舊的那一刻，你原本固守的陣地便開始失陷。漸漸的，你將注意力轉移到了那些平庸、乏味、骯臟、低劣的低級事物上，然后，這些事物便開始作用于你的思想，思想中各種事物的雛形開始現身。當你將腦海里的這些形體或形象傳遞給無形的物質，感受到這一切的神奇宇宙便會依照你的意愿，安排那些平庸、乏昧、骯臟、低劣的事物一齊向你涌去。
To permit your mind to dwell upon the inferior is to become inferior and to surround yourself with inferior things.
一旦你允許了這一切，放縱思想沉溺于各種低劣的事物當中，墮落的思想便會在你的身體里蔓延，而你的身邊也會開始出現各種低劣的事物。
On the other hand, to fix your attention on the best is to surround yourself with the best, and to become the best.
相反，如果你能將注意力集中在那些最美好的事物上，你便會被那些最美好的事物包圍，并最終成為這世間最棒的個體存在。
The Creative Power within us makes us into the image of that to which we give our attention.
我們體內的創造力，正是按照那些位于我們注意力焦點中的那些事物來塑造我們自身。
We are Thinking Substance, and thinking substance always takes the form of that which it thinks about.
我們就是這世間能夠思考的物質，而會思考的物質通常都是按照它所能想到的形式來改造自己。
The grateful mind is constantly fixed upon the best; therefore it tends to become the best; it takes the form or character of the best, and will receive the best.
一顆心，只有懂得感恩，才會去關注真善美，之后，它也會隨之變為真善美的化身，具備所有美好事物都具備的特點，并且總能夠受到真善美的格外關照。
Also, faith is bom of gratitude. The grateful mind continually expects good things, and expectation becomes faith. The reaction of gratitude upon one's own mind produces faith; and every outgoing wave of grateful thanksgiving increases faith. He who has no feeling of gratitude cannot long retain a living faith; and without a living faith you cannot get rich by the creative method, as we shall see in the following chapters.
同樣的，我們的信仰也來自于感恩。只有懂得感恩的心才會不斷地期待美好事物，而這些期待最終就會成為我們的信仰。在我們的心中，因為感恩而得到的回報還會繼續生成新的信仰。每感激一次，我們的信仰便加深一分。不知感激為何物的人，注定不能成為長久的生活信念的所有者，而生活信念的缺失帶來的最直接的后果，就是無法通過創造性的勞動獲取想要的財富。關于這一點，我們將會在以后的章節中陸續談到。
