Some time ago I talked to a young lady aged twenty-two. She was taught that it was a sin to dance, to play cards, to swim and to go out with men. She was threatened by her mother who told her she would burn eternally in hell-fire if she disobeyed her will and her religious … Read more
Some years ago I visited a church to perform a marriage- ceremony. The young man did not appear, and at the end of two hours, the bride-to-be shed a few tears, and then said to me, “I prayed for divine guidance. This might be the answer for He never aileth.” That was her reaction – … Read more
Suppose none of the things mentioned in the letter had been true of the teacher. The latter would have realized that her class material had upset the prejudices, superstitions, or narrow sectarian beliefs of the writer of the note, and that a psychologically ill person was simply pouring forth her resentment because a psychological boil … Read more
A schoolteacher told me that one of her associates criticized a speech she had given, saying to her that she spoke too fast, she swallowed some of her words, she couldn’t be heard, her diction was poor, and her speech ineffective. This teacher was furious and full of resentment toward her critic. She admitted to … Read more
A man who murdered his brother in Europe visited me many years ago. He was suffering from great mental anguish and torture believing that God must punish him. He explained that his broth had been having an affair with his wife, and that he had shot him on the spur of the moment. This had … Read more
I knew a man who worked every night until about one o’clock in the morning. He paid no attention to his two boys or his wife. He was always too busy working hard. He thought people should pat him on the back because he was working so arduously and persistently past midnight every night He … Read more
Life forgives you when you cut your finger. The subconscious intelligence within you sets about immediately to repair it. New cells build bridges over the cut. Should you take some tainted food by error, Life forgives you and causes If you burn your you to regurgitate it in order to preserve you. hand, the Life-Principle … Read more
Life plays no favorites. God is Life, and this Life-Principle is flowing through you this moment. God loves to express Himself as harmony, peace, beauty, joy, and abundance through you. This is called the will of God or the tendency of Life. If you set up resistance in your mind to the flow of Life … Read more
1. Your subconscious mind is a recording machine which reproduces your habitual thinking. Think good of the other, and you are actually thinking good about yourself. 2. A hateful or resentful thought is a mental poison. Do not think ill of another for to do so is to think ill of yourself. You are the … Read more
Do not permit people to take advantage of you and gain their point by temper tantrums, crying jags, or so-called heart attacks. These people are dictators who try to enslave you and make you do their bidding. Be firm but kind, and refuse to yield. Appeasement never wins. Refuse to contribute to their delinquency, selfishness, … Read more