The Map
Nothing here directs you like a machine. It is a map. You look at it, you see where you are standing, and you see the next place worth walking to — the adventure, the stone, the burden you will set down there. Christian walked it with a pack on his back and picked up a better way as he went. You do the same, and then you walk it back for someone else.
Earth side · the road
On the ground it looks like a woman walking with two companions she did not choose, building an altar at each stop and putting the stone she is handed into her pocket. She cannot see the high place from where she is. The map does not remove the climb; it tells her the stones are real and the pocket is hers.
Heaven side · the ascent
Seen from the mountain it is not thirty tasks but thirty degrees of ascent, and every law is an attribute of God being lent to her for the day. The road and the climb are the same road. One is measured in miles, the other in likeness.
Go through The Door →The scroll the map puts out today
Day 15 · Intellect · Days 11–20 · Pass: Proved
Day 13 and Day 14 add to Day 15. Pursuit — the study that becomes operations — added to Potentiality — capacity that keeps enlarging — equals Power.
C · The Attribute
Confident
Sure, because of what she is standing on — not because of how she feels about herself.
E · The Execution
Entrust
To place a thing into hands stronger than her own, and leave it there.
O · The Perfection
Omniscience
All knowing — the mind and will of God, made available to a woman who will ask.
The stone you pick up
Hematite
carries Power
The iron stone — mirror-dark, poured and set, the concrete foundation of power.
The adventure
The Silk Road Inn
Persia and Central Asia · 1000–1500
Trade flourished because someone built rest into the route at regular intervals.
Burden set down here: The pride of never stopping.
Og Mandino · Scroll 5 — The day
“I will live this day as if it is my last.”
Give the hours away on purpose. Nothing tomorrow that belongs to today.
Read it aloud three times today — morning, midday, before sleep.
Earth readingOn the earth road this is a stretch of Much-Afraid's climb: she builds an altar, gives up something she was holding, and is handed a stone for her pocket — Hematite. She cannot see the high place from here. She walks anyway.
Mountain readingOn the mountain side the same stretch is a degree of ascent: the law of Power is not a technique but an attribute of God being lent to her, and the stone in her pocket is the receipt.
Ten stops of Intelligence, ten of Intellect, ten of Intuitiveness. Walk them in order the first time. After that, go to whichever stop the day is asking for.
Og Mandino · the ten scrolls
Days 1–10 plant them, days 11–20 prove them, days 21–30 keep them. Mandino's instruction was never to read faster — it was to read the same page until it read you.
Scroll 1 · Good habits
“Today I begin a new life, and I will form good habits and become their slave.”
Scroll 2 · Love
“I will greet this day with love in my heart.”
Scroll 3 · Persistence
“I will persist until I succeed.”
Scroll 4 · Uniqueness
“I am nature's greatest miracle.”
Scroll 5 · The day
“I will live this day as if it is my last.”
Scroll 6 · Mastery of moods
“Today I will be master of my emotions.”
Scroll 7 · Laughter
“I will laugh at the world.”
Scroll 8 · Increase
“Today I will multiply my value a hundredfold.”
Scroll 9 · Action
“I will act now.”
Scroll 10 · Prayer
“I will pray for guidance, and I will pray for guidance in the very act.”