But let your imaginings and the imaginings of your children stop
this side of dreamland.
Your brain's activity is divided into the conscious and
sub-conscious departments. The conscious side of your mentality
puts you into communication with the world, enables you to meet
and to cope with conditions and individuals.
If you are to succeed materially the conscious mind must control,
direct and limit the activities of the sub-conscious mind with
which the imagination does its work.
If your sub-conscious brain, in the departments of abstract
thought, imagination and dreaming, be allowed to run away with
the practical side, you may be a very great man in the
far-distant future, but you may be sure that you will not succeed
now. ----
THE EARTH'S GREATEST MEN ARE DREAMERS.
The world never recognizes these dreamers. The successful man
admits limitations. He accepts conditions as they are. He uses
his imagination only as long as it can carry him to individual
success and comfort.
But the very greatest spirits among men are the spirits of
dreamers.
These are the men who refuse to acknowledge any limitations save
the limitations of absolute truth and of absolute possibility.
When nine-tenths of human beings were slaves, these dreamers
refused to recognize slavery, and they died for their belief.
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