The game of life and how to play itShinn, Florence Scovel
Religion
The game of life and how to play it
Shinn, Florence Scovel
Conduct of life; New Thought; Spirituality; Success -- Psychological aspects
In the twenty-third psalm, we read: “He restoreth my soul.” This means
that the subconscious mind or soul, must be restored with the right
ideas, and the “mystical marriage” is the marriage of the soul and
the spirit, or the subconscious and superconscious mind. They must be
one. When the subconscious is flooded with the perfect ideas of the
superconscious, God and man are one. “I and the Father are one.” That
is, he is one with the realm of perfect ideas; he is the man made in
God’s likeness and image (imagination) and is given power and dominion
over all created things, his mind, body and affairs.
It is safe to say that all sickness and unhappiness come from the
violation of the law of love. A new commandment I give unto you, “Love
one another,” and in the Game of Life, love or good-will takes every
trick.
For example: A woman I know, had, for years an appearance of a terrible
skin disease. The doctors told her it was incurable, and she was in
despair. She was on the stage, and she feared she would soon have to
give up her profession, and she had no other means of support. She,
however, procured a good engagement, and on the opening night, made a
great “hit.” She received flattering notices from the critics, and was
joyful and elated. The next day she received a notice of dismissal.
A man in the cast had been jealous of her success and had caused her
to be sent away. She felt hatred and resentment taking complete
possession of her, and she cried out, “Oh God don’t let me hate that
man.” That night she worked for hours “in the silence.”
She said, “I soon came into a very deep silence. I seemed to be at
peace with myself, with the man, and with the whole world. I continued
this for two following nights, and on the third day I found I was
healed completely of the skin disease!” In asking for love, or good
will, she had fulfilled the law, (“for love is the fulfilling of the
law”) and the disease (which came from subconscious resentment) was
wiped out.
Continual criticism produces rheumatism, as critical, inharmonious
thoughts cause unnatural deposits in the blood, which settle in the
joints.
False growths are caused by jealousy, hatred, unforgiveness, fear,
etc. Every disease is caused by a mind not at ease. I said once, in my
class, “There is no use asking anyone ‘What’s the matter with you?’ we
might just as well say, ‘Who’s the matter with you?’” Unforgiveness is
the most prolific cause of disease. It will harden arteries or liver,
and affect the eye-sight. In its train are endless ills.
I called on a woman, one day, who said she was ill from having eaten
a poisoned oyster. I replied, “Oh, no, the oyster was harmless, you
poisoned the oyster. What’s the matter with you?” She answered, “Oh
about nineteen people.” She had quarrelled with nineteen people and had
become so inharmonious that she attracted the wrong oyster.
Any inharmony on the external, indicates there is mental inharmony. “As
the within, so the without.”
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