There Is a Thinking Stuff from Which All Things Are Made

In his 1910 book, The Science of Getting Rich, Wallace D. Wattles opens with these words:

“There is a thinking stuff from which all things are made, and which, in its original state, permeates, penetrates, and fills the interspaces of the Universe. A thought in this substance produces the thing that is imaged by the thought.”

This means that what you produce in your mind, in your imagination, is impressed on this thinking stuff, and this leads to the creation of what you thought about.

Who Was Wallace D. Wattles

Wallace D. Wattles lived from 1860 to 1911 and was one of the early writers of the New Thought movement, a school of thought that taught the power of mind and belief to shape outer circumstances.

The Science of Getting Rich remains his best known work and has influenced generations of success and manifestation writers who came after him. Its opening idea, that a thinking stuff underlies and responds to thought, became one of the most quoted lines in personal development writing.

The Creative Thinking Stuff

This thinking stuff has the power to create and maintain the Universe. Thoughts are made of this thinking stuff, and therefore, what you think affects this thinking stuff, which in turn works to make your thoughts come true.

Thoughts are creative, and therefore, by thinking about what you want, you can create or attract it into your life. However, not all thoughts are equally creative. Do you get everything you think about? No, you don’t. Many of the thoughts people think never materialize; otherwise, the world would have been a mess.

Most thoughts have no effect because they lack many of the ingredients necessary for making them come true. Most thoughts don’t possess enough strength to cause things to happen. There is not enough ambition, desire, and belief, and the thoughts are not repeated often enough to gain the power to cause movement in the thinking stuff that Wallace D. Wattles spoke about.

Read our creative visualization guide to learn more about the power of thoughts and how it can shape your life.

Energizing Your Thoughts

A weak thought hardly has any power, while a strong thought, repeated often, can create great things. Daydreaming and wishing usually remain as daydreams and wishes. To make things happen, you need to energize your thoughts.

Sometimes, people intuitively create a powerhouse within themselves that energizes their thoughts, making them powerful enough to change their lives and achieve great things. This can happen in all areas of life.

The creative power of thoughts works in all areas of life, not only in matters of money and finance. It works with big goals, and it also works in the daily affairs of life.

Maybe most people want to be rich and wealthy, but their goals are more simple, like finding love, getting a good job or a good house.

The thinking stuff from which all things are made, about which, Wallace D. Wattles speaks, helps to attract not only great wealth or fame, but also the more ordinary and important things of your life.

It is not enough to think about what you want once in a while. You need to think often, with great desire, and have enough faith and the inner strength and to act and follow opportunities, not just think or daydream.

How do you create a powerhouse that energizes your thoughts and makes them creative?

Many have written about this topic and offered advice and guidance. I have also written about this topic in many of my articles and, particularly, in my book, Manifest and Achieve Whatever You Want. In this book, I covered this topic extensively, teaching everything you need to turn your dreams and goals into reality with the help of the creative power of thought.

Putting the Thinking Stuff to Work

Here is what this looks like in practice. Suppose your goal is a new job. Instead of a vague wish, you hold a clear mental picture of yourself already working in that role, you think about it often, and you feel the confidence of having already achieved it.

This is different from idle daydreaming. The image is specific, it is repeated, and it is charged with genuine desire and belief. According to Wattles, these are the conditions that give a thought enough strength to work on the thinking stuff and begin shaping the outcome.