Spirit,
or thought, is always active,
be
the body asleep or awake.
When
the body is unconscious in sleep,
your
mind then
enters on its other
phase
of life and activity.
You
have only exchanged one form of
existence
for another.
When
you awake, you do literally
"take
the body up"
to
use for purposes on the
earth-stratum
of life.
Your
thought acts on others, for or against you,
far
and near, while you are awake.
But
it acts more strongly on those to whom
it
is attracted when your body sleeps.
It
is then less distracted by the hopes, fears,
prejudices,
customs and surroundings
of
its body-life.
It
is better, then, if you have any purpose in view,
not
to fix your thought too strongly when
awake
on such persons as you may think
may
cooperate with you, because your
spirit,
when out of its body, has a
much
wider range of acquaintance
and
action than when
using
its body.
You
may concentrate its force overmuch, while
it
holds the body,
on some person less likely
to
help you than the person or thought
to
which it is attracted while
away
from the body.
Prentice
Mulford
Thoughts
are Things
