If you meet with selfishness, joyfully call it a chance to be unselfish yourself. Practice the unselfish attitude which is so obviously lacking in some particular person or situation, and lovely, unselfish things will begin springing up all around you. Instead of saying in thought, “what irritating, thoughtless neighbors,” begin calling them to yourself “delightful, potential friends and companions.” Just as though you wave a magic wand over them, they will certainly become that if you persist long enough, or else they will move away and be replaced by delightful companions. For you are waving a magic wand over yourself, remember, changing yourself into the nature of the name you give, so that people of the same nature will gravitate to you.
That, of course, is the whole secret and key. What you think, you yourself become in spirit. Spirits are continually attracted to, and gravitating towards, other spirits that think, desire, and feel the same kind of things as themselves. To think only of good things continually attracts other good and loving spirits to you in the real world of spirit or thought as you strengthen and bless one another. The reverse happens if you think and feel unkind or unloving things.
— Hannah Hurnard, Eagles Wings to the Higher Places, p. 66-67