Wilcox The Heart of the New Thought. Do not imagine that you are to become perfectly well, perfectly cheerful, successful, and a healer, in a few days. Remember all growth is slow.
Mushrooms spring up in a night, but oaks grow with deliberation and endure for centuries.
Mental and spiritual power must be gained by degrees. All you can reasonably look for is a gradual improvement, just as you might do if you were attempting to take up music or a science. The New Thought is a science, the Science of Right Thinking. But the brain cells which have been shaped by the old thoughts of despond- ency and fear, cannot all at once be reformed. The saying of the words is the watering of the seeds.