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Chapter XVI--I am Optimistic
Might of the Thoughts Study Guide
Chapter XVI
"I am Optimistic!"
If someone were to ask you, “What is the meaning of the word ‘optimism,’” how would you respond?
I would say, “Someone who is happy-go-lucky and always sees the good in everything.”
Colliers Dictionary defines it like this: “Optimism is the feeling of being hopeful about the future or about the success of something in particular.”
Chapter XVI of MOTT takes a closer view at the meaning of the word "Optimism." After reading this chapter, I am beginning to realize why Billy makes such a big deal about the meaning of words and their precise definition. It’s as if my understanding of the word ‘optimism’ is inadequate, and so is Collier’s Dictionary, for that matter. Below are my notes on the true meaning of optimism according to MOTT.
Colliers Dictionary defines it like this: “Optimism is the feeling of being hopeful about the future or about the success of something in particular.”
Chapter XVI of MOTT takes a closer view at the meaning of the word "Optimism." After reading this chapter, I am beginning to realize why Billy makes such a big deal about the meaning of words and their precise definition. It’s as if my understanding of the word ‘optimism’ is inadequate, and so is Collier’s Dictionary, for that matter. Below are my notes on the true meaning of optimism according to MOTT.
From now on, when you say the words, “I am Optimistic,”
you may have a completely new meaning for that affirmation.
Notes on the meaning of Optimism
Notes on the meaning of Optimism
- Optimism is a prerequisite for constancy in life.
- An optimist is one who is realistic but never loses conviction about a good end.
- “Craftiness” is healthy, progressive, positive thoughts and the use of their might for personal development to which optimism also belongs.
- An optimist becomes a strong, tough spirit, who nurtures and tends to every thought, every feeling, every act and deed, and is progressively handled and carried out in a neutral-positive-equalized form.
- Optimism enables a person to see and to acknowledge the clear truth and, even in the rottenest situation, to realistically observe and to consider the very worst and nonetheless recognize the best and direct his striving to allow the good to become reality.
- Never a clown or comical figure, an optimist is a person who, under the greatest pressure, remains consciously hopeful and happy and in defiance of all blows, breakdowns, and deplorable states of affairs.
- Always maintaining the upper hand, the optimist has a sense and conviction for that which is good and best.
- Optimism represents a quality which fascinates all human beings and which every single human being would certainly like to call their own.
- Becoming an optimist depends on the kind of philosophy of life one has and on following creational-natural-laws which determine the striving for that which is higher.
- An optimist has the power to not only form his life correctly, but also to enchant it, and to allow it to become better than before.
- The presence of a positive, optimistic person is a joy, a pleasure, and a blessing for those others who have contact with them.
- An optimist is one who follows the creational-natural-laws which determine striving for that which is higher.
Excerpts from Might of the Thoughts by Billy
Optimism is a prerequisite for the constancy in life. If the human being is capable of dealing with the often very hard facts, situations and circumstances, and so forth, of his/her existence, in a creative and constructive kind and wise, and not thereby losing his/her conviction about a good end, then he/she can rightly claim that he/she has achieved a good optimism. Therefore he/she is a real optimist, which he/she, however, first had to become as a result of the work of his/her thoughts; as a result of thoughts which have “matured”, as the human being tends to say, when they are creative and constructive and bring good values and successes in manifold form.
And the human being for whom optimism is characteristic has, under the most unusual circumstances and situations, the power to not only form his/her life correctly, rather also to enchant it, and to not just allow it to appear better than it is, rather to also allow it to become better than before. Just the presence of a positive human being is a joy and a pleasure; indeed it is a blessing for those others who have contact with him/her, and indeed in particular when this positive human being is additionally a pronounced optimist in his/her inner nature and outer nature. Does that not rouse every human being to become such an optimist?
And the human being for whom optimism is characteristic has, under the most unusual circumstances and situations, the power to not only form his/her life correctly, rather also to enchant it, and to not just allow it to appear better than it is, rather to also allow it to become better than before. Just the presence of a positive human being is a joy and a pleasure; indeed it is a blessing for those others who have contact with him/her, and indeed in particular when this positive human being is additionally a pronounced optimist in his/her inner nature and outer nature. Does that not rouse every human being to become such an optimist?
Affirmations
I am optimistic.
I am optimistic.
I am optimistic.
I am optimistic.
I am optimistic.
I am optimistic.
Student Interaction
I read Chapter XVI online. Thanks for the link. I had not reached Chapter XVI in my reading; but, I read the MOTT Study Guide Chapter XVI and when I went to the book, it was much easier to comprehend what was being said. Thanks for helping us to understand this better. Optimism is not just a word! Without it, we cannot progress, Billy states. Why? Because the thoughts are weak. Powerlessness causes collapse and physical weakness appears.
