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Prentice Mulford was born in Sag Harbor, New York, in 1834, and in 1856 sailed to California where he would spend the next 16 years. [2] During this time, Mulford spent several years in mining towns, trying to find his fortune in gold, copper, or silver.
The law of attraction is the New Thought spiritual belief that positive or negative thoughts bring positive or negative experiences into a person's life. [1] [2] The belief is based on the idea that people and their thoughts are made from "pure energy" and that like energy can attract like energy, thereby allowing people to improve their health, wealth, or personal relationships.
The Secret is a 2006 self-help book by Rhonda Byrne, based on the earlier film of the same name. It is based on the belief of the pseudoscientific law of attraction, which claims that thought alone can influence objective circumstances within one's life. [1] [2] The book alleges energy as assurance of its effectiveness. The book has sold 30 ...
The Secret, described as a self-help film, [3] [4] uses a documentary format to present a concept titled "law of attraction".As described in the film, the "Law of Attraction" hypothesis [5] posits that feelings and thoughts can attract events, feelings, and experiences, from the workings of the cosmos to interactions among individuals in their physical, emotional, and professional affairs.
Robert Corlett Proctor (July 5, 1934 – February 3, 2022 [1]) was a Canadian, new thought self-help author and business owner. [2] He was best known for his New York Times best-selling book You Were Born Rich (1984) and being a contributor to the film The Secret (2006). [3]
It reuses the same basic concepts as older American self-help books of the New Thought movement, such as William Walker Atkinson's The Law of Attraction in the Thought World. [3] An attempt by Hicks to copyright the phrase law of attraction was rejected by the United States Patent Office because it had been used by Atkinson as early as 1906. [6]
2. "It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live." 3. "People find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right." 4.
This list shows all the people quoted in the 1919 edition, and the chapter or part of the book in which the quotes are found. [18] Some editions arrange the quotations in slightly different orders and some have quotes that do not appear in the 1919 edition; for example, many have a quote by Benjamin Disraeli at the end of chapter 23. [19] [20]