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The scientific use of thought consists in forming a clear and distinct mental image of what you want; in holding fast to the purpose to get what you want; and in realizing with grateful faith that you do get what you want. Do not try to 'project' your thought in any mysterious or occult way, with the idea of having it go out and do things for you; that is wasted effort, and will weaken your power to think with sanity.
科學利用思想由以下兩個步驟組成：首先，你必須清楚明了地知道自己想要什么，并在腦海里形成清晰的圖象; 然后，你必須始終堅持自己的目標，并且堅定信念。千萬不要讓你的思想“置身于”任何神秘主義或玄學觀點當中。如果你以為自已能夠全身而退，那你就太高估自己了。那樣做只能產生無用功，同時，還會讓你迷失心智，失去理智的判斷力。
The action of thought in getting rich is fully explained in the preceding chapters; your faith and pupose positively impress your vision upon Formless Substance, which has THE SAME DESIRE FOR MORE LIFE THAT YOU HAVE; and this vision received from you, sets all the creative forces at work IN AND THROUGH THEIR REGULAR CHANNELS OF ACTION, but directed toward you.
我已經在前文中十分詳細地介紹了如何才能利用思想的力量致富。只有在你的信念和目標的積極作用下，你的財富藍圖才能成功地作用于無形的物質之上，而它也和你一樣，擁有渴望得到更多生活樂趣的欲望。在此之后，在財富藍圖的推動下，所有創造力量全都開始在它們的常規渠道之間運作起來，而所有運動的指向對象就是你。
It is not your part to guide or supervise the creative process; all you have to do with that is to retain your vision, stick to your purpose, and maintain your faith and gratitude.
你的職責并不是引導，或監督這一創造過程。你需要做的是讓頭腦中的那幅夢想藍圖保持清晰，并且堅守信念，堅持目標，當然，無論何時，都不要忘記始終懷著一種感激的心情。
But you must act in a Certain Way, so that you can appropriate what is yours when it comes to you; so that you can meet the things you have in your picture, and put them in their proper places as they arrive. You can really see the truth of this.
可是，這一切都必須按照特定恰當的行動方式完成，只有這樣，你才能成為當財富到來時剛好站在它面前的那個人，你才能如愿以償地得到藍圖中的每一件物品， 并為它們找到一個合適的位置。我再說一次，這一切都是千真萬確的，絕無半句虛言。
When things reach you, they will be in the hands of other men, who will ask an equivalent for them. And you can only get what is yours by giving the other man what is his. Your pocket book is not going to be transformed into a Fortunata's purse, which shall be always full of money without effort on your part.
當那些事物來到你身邊的時候，送它們來的那個人，在將它們送到你手里的同時，也會向你索取一件價值相當的物品。你只有先滿足他的需求，才能得到自已想要的。這并不意味著你必須將自己的財富全都交由命運女神來控制，事實上，后者從來不需要你的任何財富。
This is the crucial point in the science of getting rich; right here, where thought and personal action must be combined. There are very many people who, consciously or unconsciously, set the creative forces in action by the strength and persistence of their desires, but who remain poor because they do not provide for the reception of the thing they want when it comes. By thought, the thing you want is brought to you; by action you receive it. Whatever your action is to be, it is evident that you must act NOW.
而這一點恰恰正是決定致富秘訣能否成功的關鍵所在。我們的思想和行動正是通過這一點結合在了一起。許多人，無論他們是有意識的還是下意識的，能夠在欲望和目標的督促下，將自己的創造性思想付諸實踐，可努力的結果卻是以失敗告終。這就是因為當他們想要的事物到來時，他們沒有為它們騰出應有的位置，即沒有做好接受它們的準備。你通過思想將想要的東西帶到自己的身邊，然后再通過行動將它們收入自己的囊中。現在，事實已經很清楚地擺在眼前了，無論你打算如何致富，都必須立刻動起來。
You cannot act in the past, and it is essential to the clearness of your mental vision that you dismiss the past from your mind. You cannot act in the future, for the future is not here yet. And you cannot tell how you will want to act in any future contingency until that contingency has arived. Because you are not in the right business，or the right environment now, do not think that you must postpone action until you get into the right business or environment.
我指的是現在，過去的行動在這里沒有任何意義。這很關鍵，因為只有這樣你才能徹底地揮別過去的思想，讓腦海里的夢想藍圖保持清晰。對于未來，你無法承諾能夠做些什么，因為它尚未到來，而且你也根本無法預測未來將會發生什么，直到一切都變成現實。千萬不要因為不喜歡你現在所從事的職業，或是因為環境等外界時機不對，就推遲行動的時間，直到你找到滿意的工作或等到適宜的時機，
And do not spend time in the present taking thought as to the best course in possible future emergencies; have faith in your ability to meet any emergency when it arrives. If you act in the present with your mind on the future, your present action will be with a divided mind, and will not be effective. Put your whole mind into present action.
也不要再將時間浪費在思考未來可能出現的美好瞬間上。你需要做的就是相信自己，相信自己能夠在機會降臨時把握住所有機會。如果你在現在行動而思想卻集中在將來，那么，這種心不在焉的行動注定效率不高。你應當將思想集中在現在的每一個行動上。你應當將思想集中在現在的每一個行動上。
Do not give your creative impulse to Original Substance, and then sit down and wait for results; if you do, you will never get them. Act now. There is never any time but now, and there never will be any time but now. If you are ever to begin to make ready for the reception of what you want, you must begin now. And your action, whatever it is, must most likely be in your present business or employment, and must be upon the persons and things in your present environment. You cannot act where you are not; you cannot act where you have been, and you cannot act where you are going to be; you can act only where you are.
如果你希望將某些創造靈感告之源物質以后，什么都不用做就能夠坐享其成，那你就大錯特錯了。如果你這樣做，結果只會是竹籃打水一場空。夢想成真絕不是光靠想和思考就能實現的，你還必須行動起來。我說的行動不是發生在過去，也不是將來，就是現在!如果你想在好運降臨時能夠做好充足的準備迎接好運，那你就必須立刻行動起來。請記住，無論你怎么做，做什么，你的行動都必須以目前的事業或工作為根本，針對當前環境中的人或事而展開。你不可能將自己的行動力波及到那些你不在，或者從未去過，或是將米可能會去的地方。你的行動只能是立足于本地而發生。
