“The master mind is the mind that thinks what it wants to think, regardless of what circumstances, environment or associations may suggest.”

— Christian D. Larson

Source: Your Forces and How to Use Them (1912), p. 284

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Prolific author of metaphysical and New Thought books 1874–1962

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