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way out. Your imagination is your creative power. Now there is a close association between thought and imagination. Imagination is thought in its full freedom. Therefore to train the desire-nature you must bring thought to bear upon it. Desire cannot train desire. You are helpless within the narrow limits of the desire aspect of the Self. You desire a thing or you do not; that's all. No. Thought alone can help you here. Says Emerson: - There is no thought in any mind but it quickly tends to convert itself into a power, and organizes a huge instrumentality of means. One thought repeated for days, months and years will become very strongly vitalized. Tremendous will be its telling force. It will go to make or mar your destiny. As the famous axiom goes , "Allow the thought, and it may lead to a choice, 'carry out the choice, and it will be the act! repeat the act and it forms the habit; allow the habit and it shapes the character; continue the character, and it fixes the destiny." Thought, then, is the fine cause. Stamp it well upon your mind. It is a tremendous fact. Learn it well, now: now, while you read it. Picture to yourself, then, the benefits derivable from control of the lower nature. See how the man, who is chaste in word, deed and thought, is above the din and strife of conflicting passions. He is calm, serene, and self-poised. Having inner control, the control of the outer is an easy affair