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
That means, agree that the adverse situation is good, be undisturbed
by it, and it falls away of its own weight. “None of these things move
me,” is a wonderful affirmation.
The inharmonious situation comes from some inharmony within man himself.
When there is, in him, no emotional response to an inharmonious
situation, it fades away forever, from his pathway.
So we see man’s work is ever with himself.
People have said to me, “Give treatments to change my husband, or my
brother.” I reply, “No, I will give _treatments to change you_; when
you change, your husband and your brother will change.”
One of my students was in the habit of lying. I told her it was a
failure method and if she lied, she would be lied to. She replied, “I
don’t care, I can’t possibly get along without lying.”
One day she was speaking on the ’phone to a man with whom she was very
much in love. She turned to me and said, “I don’t trust him, I know
he’s lying to me.” I replied, “Well, you lie yourself, so someone has
to lie to you, and you will be sure it will be just the person you want
the truth from.” Some time after that, I saw her, and she said, “I’m
cured of lying.”
I questioned: “What cured you?”
She replied: “I have been living with a woman who lied worse than I
did!”
One is often cured of his faults by seeing them in others.
Life is a mirror, and we find only ourselves reflected in our
associates.
Living in the past is a failure method and a violation of spiritual law.
Jesus Christ said, “Behold, now is the accepted time.” “Now is the day
of Salvation.”
Lot’s wife looked back and was turned into a pillar of salt.
The robbers of time are the past and the future. Man should bless the
past, and forget it, if it keeps him in bondage, and bless the future,
knowing it has in store for him endless joys, but live _fully in the
now_.
For example: A woman came to me, complaining that she had no money with
which to buy Christmas gifts. She said, “Last year was so different;
I had plenty of money and gave lovely presents, and this year I have
scarcely a cent.”
I replied, “You will never demonstrate money while you are pathetic
and live in the past. Live fully in the _now_, and _get ready to give
Christmas presents_. Dig your ditches, and the money will come.” She
exclaimed, “I know what to do! I will buy some tinsel twine, Christmas
seals and wrapping paper.” I replied, “Do that, and the _presents will
come and stick themselves to the Christmas seals_.”
This too, was showing financial fearlessness and faith in God, as the
reasoning mind said, “Keep every cent you have, as you are not sure you
will get any more.”
She bought the seals, paper and twine, and a few days before Christmas,
received a gift of several hundred dollars. Buying the seals and twine
had impressed the subconscious with expectancy, and opened the way
for the manifestation of the money. She purchased all the presents in
plenty of time.
Man must live suspended in the moment.
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