The Master Key to Riches Ch 11
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What is the primary function of the conscience as described?

  • To modify individual aims to align with moral laws (correct)
  • To provide emotional guidance
  • To judge the validity of thought impulses
  • To enhance creative vision and imagination

Which factor contributes to the reliability of the five physical senses?

  • Strict habits of self-discipline (correct)
  • Creative visualization practices
  • Telepathic communication
  • Fear and emotional stability

What does the sixth sense primarily serve as?

  • A means of filtering emotional experiences
  • A storage unit for past memories
  • A tool for rational decision-making
  • A channel for telepathic thought transmissions (correct)

What is indicated as necessary for the effective management of one's thought habits?

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What role does Cosmic Habitforce play in shaping thought habits?

<p>It allows thought habits to become automatic. (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is described as the primary means to achieve control over one's own mind?

<p>Strict self-discipline (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

According to the content, what is the common misconception about achieving freedom of body and mind?

<p>It is dependent on external circumstances. (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Which of the following describes a consequence of failing to control one's own thoughts?

<p>Living in a self-made prison (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is suggested as the starting point for recognizing the real source of riches?

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What does the desire for freedom of body and mind signify according to the content?

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What role does self-discipline play in regards to achieving one's Definite Major Purpose?

<p>It is essential for the control and focus of the mind. (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

How does the conscious mind differ from the subconscious mind in terms of thought power utilization?

<p>The conscious mind is a small part compared to the subconscious mind. (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Which factor is identified as the source of all thought power?

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What is the primary function of the subconscious mind as described?

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What does the law of Cosmic Habitforce contribute to according to the discussed content?

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What is the primary role of the mind as described in the content?

<p>To carry out one's desires and influence circumstances. (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Which capacity of the mind allows individuals to form their own habits?

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How does the content suggest one can connect with Infinite Intelligence?

<p>By prayer or expressed desires combined with faith. (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Which ability of the mind helps in organizing and recalling thoughts?

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What should one remember when facing fear and worry, according to the content?

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What is the greatest enemy of mankind according to the content?

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How can the mind respond to discouragement, as stated in the content?

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Which statement reflects the potential of the mind as described in the content?

<p>The mind can perform feats that seem trifles in comparison to its future capabilities. (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What does the content suggest about the relationship between mind control and fear?

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Which positive outcome is associated with failure in the content?

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What is the primary function of the subconscious mind according to the content?

<p>To execute thoughts shaped by the conscious mind (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Which faculty is described as the 'boss' of all departments of the mind?

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What does the faculty of reason do when directed by self-discipline?

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How should the emotions be treated to help in the direction of personal achievement?

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What role does the imagination play in achieving one's goals, according to the content?

<p>It shapes desires and plans but requires direction through self-discipline (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the primary issue many people face regarding their thoughts according to the content?

<p>They often allow personal biases to distort their perception of facts. (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Which statement best describes the relationship between thought and physical action?

<p>Thoughts must be properly organized to inspire effective actions. (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What role does self-discipline play in managing thoughts?

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How are important facts defined in relation to achieving one's major purpose?

<p>Facts that assist in attaining major or minor purposes. (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the functioning relationship between the conscious and subconscious mind?

<p>The subconscious serves as a communication medium between Infinite Intelligence and the conscious mind. (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is a characteristic of thoughts once they become a habit?

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What is described as the greatest sin in relation to faith?

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What influence does the law of Cosmic Habitforce have on thoughts?

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What is a consequence of misusing the power of thought as discussed?

<p>It can result in societal consequences like famines and depressions. (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is a common pitfall in the way people handle their thoughts?

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Flashcards

Self-Discipline

The ability to control your thoughts and actions to achieve your goals. It's the key to unlocking the power of your mind.

Master of Your Fate

Taking control of your life and choices, rather than being controlled by external factors.

The Jail of Poverty

The state of being trapped by financial limitations, preventing you from achieving your potential.

True Riches

Going beyond material wealth to encompass things like happiness, good health, and fulfilling relationships.

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Inner Source of Power

The belief that your mind holds the key to achieving your goals, not external factors.

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Infinite Intelligence

The source of all thought power, operating automatically, but can be directed through Definite Purpose. It's like a reservoir providing life-giving water, with our brain acting as a spigot to access it.

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Conscious Mind

The part of the mind that we are aware of and use to control our thoughts. It's like the tip of an iceberg, a small portion compared to the vast subconscious.

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Subconscious Mind

The automatic part of the mind, carrying out essential bodily functions and acting as a link between the conscious mind and Infinite Intelligence. It's like the hidden base of an iceberg.

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How does the subconscious mind connect to Infinite Intelligence?

It acts as a bridge between the conscious mind and Infinite Intelligence, allowing thoughts and prayers to be conveyed and answers received. It's like a powerful conduit.

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What is the role of self-discipline in accessing Infinite Intelligence?

Self-discipline helps focus the conscious mind on a Definite Major Purpose, allowing more thought power to be directed through the subconscious, accessing Infinite Intelligence. It's like directing the water flow through the spigot.

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What is the subconscious mind's preference?

The subconscious mind favors thoughts and desires that are strongly felt, especially those driven by emotions like fear and faith.

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What is the function of the faculty of will-power?

Will-power is the decision-maker of the mind, capable of controlling emotions and modifying thinking habits.

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What is accurate thinking?

Accurate thinking involves engaging the faculty of reason to analyze and judge ideas, plans, and desires before making decisions.

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How are emotions important for achievement?

Emotions, while sometimes tricky, fuel enthusiasm, imagination, and creative vision. They must be directed by will and reason to reach their full potential.

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What is the role of imagination in success?

Imagination is the workshop where desires, plans, and purposes are shaped. Through organized use and self-discipline, it can evolve into Creative Vision.

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The power of the mind

The mind's ability to control thoughts and actions to achieve desired outcomes, even in challenging circumstances.

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Limitations of the mind

The only limitations on the mind are those imposed by its own beliefs and the laws of nature.

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What is the arch enemy of mankind?

Fear is the primary obstacle that prevents individuals from harnessing the full potential of their minds.

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How can we overcome fear?

By cultivating faith and replacing fear with confidence in our capabilities and the universal support system.

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Mind vs. Nature

Nature offers abundance and support, but fear prevents us from recognizing and utilizing it.

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Control of Emotions

The ability to manage and direct one's emotions through habits of self-discipline. This control helps to inspire the imagination to take action.

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Conscience: Moral Guide

The inner voice that acts as a moral compass, guiding the mind to align its aims and purposes with ethical principles. It helps discriminate and guide reason when uncertainty arises.

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Sixth Sense: Telepathic and Creative

The 'broadcasting station' of the mind that enables the transmission and reception of thought vibrations, commonly known as telepathy. It is the source of 'hunches' and facilitates the operation of Creative Vision.

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Memory: Filing Cabinet

The storage space of the brain, where thoughts, experiences, and sensations are filed away. It may also store impulses of thought received through the sixth sense, although this is debated by some psychologists.

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Self-Discipline: Shaping Thought Habits

The principle of voluntarily controlling and directing thought habits to align with desired aims and purposes. It is a privilege that allows one to take control of their mental destiny.

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What is the subconscious mind's role?

The subconscious mind acts as a gateway between your conscious thoughts and Infinite Intelligence, allowing you to tap into a vast reservoir of knowledge and power.

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How does Faith work?

Faith is a state of mind that opens the gateway to Infinite Intelligence by calming your will and reason, allowing your subconscious to receive guidance and inspiration.

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What are the mind's tools?

Your mind is equipped with powerful tools like imagination, desire, will, and reason. These tools empower you to shape your thoughts, create new ideas, and manifest your goals.

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Thoughts and their power

Your thoughts have the incredible power to shape your reality. They can create both happiness and misery, poverty and riches, depending on the dominant thoughts you choose.

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Mind's impact on the body

Your mind plays a vital role in maintaining your physical health. It can even influence the cure of illnesses, operating a powerful system of chemistry and self-repair.

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Thought's Physical Equivalence

Every thought, regardless of its nature, manifests physically through inspired ideas, plans, and means to achieve goals.

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Cosmic Habitforce

When a thought becomes a habit, it's taken over by the subconscious mind, working towards its natural conclusion.

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Thoughts Create All Things

Thoughts create all things, resembling the thought-pattern they originate from. It's not that thoughts are literally things, but they shape reality.

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Thoughts as Vibrations

Every thought released creates an endless chain of vibrations that the originator eventually interacts with.

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Man as a Reflection of Thought

Humans are physical representations of thoughts put into motion and solidified by Infinite Intelligence.

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Thought Energy from Infinite Intelligence

The energy used for thinking is a tiny portion of Infinite Intelligence, obtained through the brain.

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Transmutation of Thought

Through self-discipline, thoughts can be controlled and directed towards desired outcomes by developing suitable habits.

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Mind's Power Over the Body

The mind, aided by the subconscious, controls every cell, repairs damage, stimulates growth, and influences organ function and disease resistance.

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Achievements Begin with Thought

All achievements originate as thoughts, organized into plans, aims, and purposes, then expressed through physical actions.

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Conscious and Subconscious Sections

The mind functions through two sections: the conscious (controlled by the individual) and the subconscious (controlled by Infinite Intelligence and serves as a communication link).

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Study Notes

Self-Discipline: The Key to Success

  • Carnegie's perspective: Full control of one's mind is essential for achieving success. He exemplified this through his vast wealth and other life accomplishments.

  • Universal desire for freedom: People universally desire freedom of body and mind. Most don't attain this because their search is inward instead of outward.

  • Focus on internal riches: True wealth, power, and fame originate within the mind.

  • Mind as organized power: The mind is a powerful system requiring discipline for its release.

  • Self-discipline as a prerequisite: Crucial for achieving various life goals: freedom, power, and wealth. It allows one to focus on a major purpose and use cosmic power to achieve it.

Ten Factors of the Mind's Mechanism

  • Infinite Intelligence: The source of thought, directed towards specific targets via definiteness of purpose. Man's brain receives; creativity and destruction are influenced by how it's directed.

  • Conscious Mind: The visible part of the mind, actively engaged in thought. Only a small fraction of the mind's power. The conscious mind gives direction using the will.

  • Subconscious Mind: The invisible, automatic part of the mind. Responsible for essential body functions and connects with Infinite intelligence. Influenced most strongly by emotions; plays a crucial role in achieving purposes. It translates goals to reality.

  • Will-Power: The boss of all mental functions. Modifies, balances, and makes final decisions. Subject to self-discipline, and is crucial in achieving goals.

  • Reason: The judging faculty of the conscious mind, evaluating ideas, plans, and desires. Requires direction for accurate thinking. Most people do not fully use reason. 

  • Emotions: The driving force behind most mental actions. Undependable and may be dangerous if not controlled. Crucial for enthusiasm, imagination, and creativity. Controlled by the will and reason.

  • Imagination: The workshop of shaping desires; can develop into creative vision. Must be controlled by self-discipline to prevent destructive use; focused by definiteness of purpose.

  • Conscience: The moral compass, motivating harmony with natural and human laws. Functions as a co-operative guide when respected. Needs direction through self-discipline.

  • Sixth Sense: The broadcasting station for thought vibrations. A medium for recognizing intuition ("hunches"), and creative vision. Linked to genius-level minds.

  • Memory: The filing cabinet of thoughts, experiences, and physical sensations. Requires organization and direction through self-discipline.

Developing Self-Discipline

  • Formation of habits: Self-discipline is gained through controlling thought habits, accomplished by practice. 

  • Definite Major Purpose: Starting point in developing self-discipline; a focus for utilizing resources and sustaining plans.

  • Control over emotions: Necessary for shaping positive mental attitudes, and converting negative emotions into useful action. This is a crucial factor for success.

  • Thought habits and their impact: Our actions are deeply rooted in our patterns of thought. 

  • Role of will and persistence: Willpower, when self-disciplined and directed, fosters persistence. Achieved through practice, as with physical strength training.

  • Success stories (Carnegie, Washington, Keller): Examples illustrating the empowering effects of self-discipline and the will to succeed despite setbacks.

Recognizing and overcoming fears

  • Fear as an enemy: Fear is a powerful enemy within. Can significantly hinder success and happiness.

  • Specific examples of fears: This section details various fears, including poverty, ill-health, criticism, loss of love, aging, loss of freedom, death and more.

  • Overcoming fears: This section offers a method for overcoming fears by recognizing them, and using self-discipline to manage them.

Further Application of Self-Discipline

  • Importance of control over mind departments: Emphasis on controlling mental factors, particularly emotions and imagination, which shape success.

  • Use of a creed: A model creed encourages formation of useful habits, to instill self-discipline consciousness.

  • Connection to Alcoholics Anonymous (AA): AA illustrates the powerful effect of directed self-discipline in overcoming personal problems.

  • Faith and self-discipline: Faith is stimulated by purpose and is reflected and supported by self-discipline; the two are inseparable.

  • Influence of love and desire: Love and desire can create profound impulses toward action and give rise to self-disciplined effort.

  • Application across professions: Examples of successful professionals demonstrating how self-discipline drives success.

  • The importance of persistence: The will to succeed and persistent effort, achieved through self-discipline, are critical for overcoming obstacles and gaining success.

Achieving goals through self-discipline

  • Importance of self-discipline in various domains: Specific examples highlight the necessity of self-discipline across various aspects of life, from professional development to interpersonal relationships.

  • Mastery of emotions: Gradual development of habits to effectively manage and regulate emotions.

  • The importance of a Positive Mental Attitude: Key to converting adversity into strength, and achieving objectives through self-discipline.

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This quiz delves into the primary functions of conscience, the reliability of physical senses, and the significance of the sixth sense. It explores how Cosmic Habitforce influences thought habits, the importance of self-discipline, and misconceptions about freedom of mind and body. Test your knowledge on these key concepts of mind management.

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