[Sidenote:  Selling A Thought]

There is but one way to indicate or express what is going on in your mind.  Your thoughts can be physically shown only by muscular action of some kind.  Brain and nerve action are hidden, but muscle action can be perceived.  If your muscular action expresses exactly the idea you desire and will and use it to manifest, your mind is able to get its thought across to another mind—­to sell the idea.

Conversely, if your muscle action—­your outer, perceptible self—­expresses something different from your thought intention, your mind has failed to make the true impression of your idea.  It may be that an impression directly contradictory to your thought has been made by your muscles working at cross purposes.  So the truth in your mind won’t get across to the other man’s mind—­not because your idea was untrue, but because it has not been physically interpreted by your muscles as you intended.  For example, you might stand so much in awe of a man you greatly admire that you would avoid speaking to him, and in consequence would appear to him indifferent or cold.  Your physical appearance would belie your intentions.

Perhaps, if you have failed in life or have only partially succeeded, despite the qualifications you possess for complete success, your muscles may be principally to blame.  The parts of your idea-selling equipment that can be perceived in action probably have not “delivered the goods” of sale correctly.

[Sidenote:  How Knowledge is Accumulated]

Not only is your mind absolutely dependent on the muscular system of your body for any true expression of the real you inside; it likewise must depend on the activity of your various sets of muscles to get all the incoming sense impressions that make up whatever knowledge you have.

Have you realized how your present fund of information was accumulated?  Everything you know came into your conscious mind originally through impressions first made on your various “sense” muscles, and then transmitted by nerve telegraph to directly connected brain centers, which in turn passed on to their associated mind centers these original impressions of new ideas.  Many repetitions of similar sense impressions were needed to register permanently in your mind your first conceptions of different colors, scents, etc.  Thus you learned to think.  The process was started—­not by your mind—­but by your various “sense” muscles.  These received from your environment impressions of heat, cold, softness, hardness, etc., and passed them in to associated brain-mind centers, which thus commenced to collect knowledge about the world which you entered with a mind absolutely empty of ideas.