Over 90 percent of your mental life is subconscious, so men
and women who fail to make use of this marvelous power
live within very narrow limits. Your subconscious processes
are always lifeward and constructive. Your subconscious is the
builder of your body and maintains all its vital functions. It is
on the job 24 hours a day and never sleeps. It is always trying
to help and preserve you from harm.
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Your subconscious mind is in touch with infinite life
and boundless wisdom, and its impulses and ideas are always
lifeward. The great aspirations, inspirations, and visions for a
grander and nobler life spring from the subconscious. Your
profoundest convictions are those you cannot argue about
rationally because they do not come from your conscious mind;
they come from your subconscious mind. Your subconscious
speaks to you in intuitions, impulses, hunches, intimations,
urges, and ideas, and it is always telling you to rise, transcend,
grow, advance, adventure, and move forward to greater heights.
The urge to love, to save the lives of others comes from
the depths of your subconscious. For example, during the
great San Francisco earthquake and fire of April 18, 1906,
invalids and cripples who had been confined to bed for long periods of time, rose up and performed some of the
most amazing feats of bravery and endurance. The intense
desire welled up within them to save others at all costs, and
their subconscious responded accordingly. Great artists,
musicians, poets, speakers, and writers tune in with their
subconscious powers and become animated and inspired. For
example, Robert Louis Stevenson, before he went to sleep,
used to charge his subconscious with the task of evolving
stories for him while he slept. He was accustomed to ask his
subconscious to give him a good, marketable thriller when
his bank account was low. Stevenson said the intelligence of
his deeper mind gave him the story piece by piece, like a
*serial. This shows how your subconscious will speak lofty
and wise sayings through you, which your conscious mind
knows nothing about.
Mark Twain confided to the world on many occasions that
he never worked in his life.
All his humor and all his great writings were due to the fact
that he tapped the inexhaustible reservoir of his subconscious
mind.