My dad was a great admirer of Dr Peale and thru him I got introduced to Dr Peale’s books. The first book I read was AMAZING RESULTS OF POSITIVE THINKING, which I liked very much. Then I started looking and collecting for books. I think I have about a dozen of his books that I value very much.
Today I am taking up one of his books, POWER OF THE PLUS FACTOR. I would like to share with you a few passages from the first chapter of the book that I found very impressive and inspiring. I would like everybody to read and benefit by it. The sample passages are meant to encourage the reader to go in for the book and read it in full.
Now the selected passages:
… Everyone knows that there is a life force that sustains and animates every living thing on this planet of ours. With it, you are alive. Without it, you are dead. This life force was put into all of us by God Himself. What I am writing about here is a special manifestation of it, a special concentration of it that will do remarkable things for those who understand it and reach for it and allow it to function in their lives.
I call it the Plus Factor.
It is the quality of extra-ness that we see in certain people.
People who live with more eagerness, more energy, more enthusiasm than others.
Who set higher goals and achieve them more often.
Who keep going despite adversity and hardship.
Who shrug off misfortune and give out warmth and caring and encouragement wherever they go.
People, in short, who have, in themselves, a marvelous Plus Factor at work.
…
You will find it in the last place you might think: WITHIN YOURSELF.
…
There it remains, deep in the personality of every individual. You don’t have to search for it; it is already there. But there is one thing you must realize about the Plus Factor. Its power is potential, but it is not self-activating. It is latent in human beings and will remain latent until it is activated.
That is why it manifests itself more strongly in some people than in others. They are the people who have learned how to call it forth.
…
…it is blocked, ignored, neglected. You make a promise to yourself to rearrange your thought patterns so that the blocks are removed, and the power can come surging through.
…
…The Plus Factor is implanted in all of us. But it is planted deep. It is almost as if the Creator knew that a certain degree of struggle is good for His children. … It has to be understood and activated. … It is our job to remove the blocks and hindrances that short-circuit the emergence of power. It is our job to open the doors of our inner selves and let this force, this Plus Factor, comes through.
…
…the more we learn to believe in it, and open ourselves to it, the more we find that goals are achieved, ambitions are realized, high energy levels are maintained, fears and tensions subside, and spiritual growth becomes not just possible but almost inevitable.
…
Hope you like the above passages and want to go for the full book. Go for it. It is a Fawcett book, published by Galantine Books.
Library of Congress Catalog Card No.86-31546
ISBN 0-449-21600-4
All the best!
Grateful thanks to Dr Norman Vincent Peale and Fawcett Crest Books.
Today I am taking up one of his books, POWER OF THE PLUS FACTOR. I would like to share with you a few passages from the first chapter of the book that I found very impressive and inspiring. I would like everybody to read and benefit by it. The sample passages are meant to encourage the reader to go in for the book and read it in full.
Now the selected passages:
… Everyone knows that there is a life force that sustains and animates every living thing on this planet of ours. With it, you are alive. Without it, you are dead. This life force was put into all of us by God Himself. What I am writing about here is a special manifestation of it, a special concentration of it that will do remarkable things for those who understand it and reach for it and allow it to function in their lives.
I call it the Plus Factor.
It is the quality of extra-ness that we see in certain people.
People who live with more eagerness, more energy, more enthusiasm than others.
Who set higher goals and achieve them more often.
Who keep going despite adversity and hardship.
Who shrug off misfortune and give out warmth and caring and encouragement wherever they go.
People, in short, who have, in themselves, a marvelous Plus Factor at work.
…
You will find it in the last place you might think: WITHIN YOURSELF.
…
There it remains, deep in the personality of every individual. You don’t have to search for it; it is already there. But there is one thing you must realize about the Plus Factor. Its power is potential, but it is not self-activating. It is latent in human beings and will remain latent until it is activated.
That is why it manifests itself more strongly in some people than in others. They are the people who have learned how to call it forth.
…
…it is blocked, ignored, neglected. You make a promise to yourself to rearrange your thought patterns so that the blocks are removed, and the power can come surging through.
…
…The Plus Factor is implanted in all of us. But it is planted deep. It is almost as if the Creator knew that a certain degree of struggle is good for His children. … It has to be understood and activated. … It is our job to remove the blocks and hindrances that short-circuit the emergence of power. It is our job to open the doors of our inner selves and let this force, this Plus Factor, comes through.
…
…the more we learn to believe in it, and open ourselves to it, the more we find that goals are achieved, ambitions are realized, high energy levels are maintained, fears and tensions subside, and spiritual growth becomes not just possible but almost inevitable.
…
Hope you like the above passages and want to go for the full book. Go for it. It is a Fawcett book, published by Galantine Books.
Library of Congress Catalog Card No.86-31546
ISBN 0-449-21600-4
All the best!
Grateful thanks to Dr Norman Vincent Peale and Fawcett Crest Books.
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