John Corbett on Norman Vincent Peale’s ‘Positive Imaging’

In 1983, 4 maybe, I made a trip back to West Virginia. And as I was leaving my mother’s house in [INAUDIBLE] California, I saw that she had a book on her table. “Positive Imaging,” Norman Vincent Peale. This still has the price tag. $2.95. 

And I said, hey, mom, that looks interesting. Can I borrow that book? And she gave it to me, and here it is. I still have it. And there was one little thing that I– I dog-eared some of the pages in here and made little notes. 

“It must be kept in mind that imaging is not a magic formula that simply, by some kind of mental trick, brings desired results. It opens doors to problem solving and goal achievement. Once those doors are open, there must be”– I underlined this– “discipline, determination, patience, and persistence if the problem is to be solved or the dream is to become reality. In this way, you will find, as we have, that what you can imagine, can be.” I like that.