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
No one can understand the marvelous lightness I feel within!”
Love and good-will are invaluable in business.
For example: A woman came to me, complaining of her employer. She said
she was cold and critical and knew she did not want her in the position.
“Well,” I replied, “Salute the Divinity in the woman and send her love.”
She said “I can’t; she’s a marble woman.”
I answered, “You remember the story of the sculptor who asked for a
certain piece of marble. He was asked why he wanted it, and he replied,
‘because there is an angel in the marble,’ and out of it he produced a
wonderful work of art.”
She said, “Very well, I’ll try it.” A week later she came back and
said, “I did what you told me to, and now the woman is very kind, and
took me out in her car.”
People are sometimes filled with remorse for having done someone an
unkindness, perhaps years ago.
If the wrong cannot be righted, its effect can be neutralized by doing
some one a kindness _in the present_.
“This one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and
reaching forth unto those things which are before.”
Sorrow, regret and remorse tear down the cells of the body, and poison
the atmosphere of the individual.
A woman said to me in deep sorrow, “Treat me to be happy and joyous,
for my sorrow makes me so irritable with the members of my family that
I keep making more Karma.”
I was asked to treat a woman who was mourning for her daughter. I
denied all belief in loss and separation, and affirmed that God was the
woman’s joy, love and peace.
The woman gained her poise at once, but sent word by her son, not to
treat any longer, because she was “so happy, it wasn’t respectable.”
So “mortal mind” loves to hang on to its griefs and regrets.
I knew a woman who went about bragging of her troubles, so, of course,
she always had something to brag about.
The old idea was if a woman did not worry about her children, she was
not a good mother.
Now, we know that mother-fear is responsible for many of the diseases
and accidents which come into the lives of children.
For fear pictures vividly the disease or situation feared, and these
pictures objectify, if not neutralized.
Happy is the mother who can say sincerely, that she puts her child in
God’s hands, and _knows_ therefore, that he is divinely protected.
For example: A woman awoke suddenly, in the night, feeling her brother
was in great danger. Instead of giving in to her fears, she commenced
making statements of Truth, saying, “Man is a perfect idea in Divine
Mind, and is always in his right place, therefore, my brother is in his
right place, and is divinely protected.”
The next day she found that her brother had been in close proximity to
an explosion in a mine, but had miraculously escaped.
So man is his brother’s keeper (in thought) and every man should know
that the thing he loves dwells in “the secret place of the most high,
and abides under the shadow of the Almighty.”
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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