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
Man, himself, limits his supply by his limited vision. Sometimes the
student has a great realization of wealth, but is afraid to act.
The vision and action must go hand in hand, as in the case of the man
who bought the fur-lined overcoat.
A woman came to me asking me to “speak the word” for a position. So
I demanded: “Infinite Spirit, open the way for this woman’s right
position.” Never ask for just “a position”; ask for the right position,
the place already planned in Divine Mind, as it is the only one that
will give satisfaction.
I then gave thanks that she had already received, and that it would
manifest quickly. Very soon, she had three positions offered her,
two in New York and one in Palm Beach, and she did not know which to
choose. I said, “Ask for a definite lead.”
The time was almost up and was still undecided, when one day, she
telephoned, “When I woke up this morning, I could smell Palm Beach.”
She had been there before and knew its balmy fragrance.
I replied: “Well, if you can smell Palm Beach from here, it is
certainly your lead.” She accepted the position, and it proved a great
success. Often one’s lead comes at an unexpected time.
One day, I was walking down the street, when I suddenly felt a strong
urge to go to a certain bakery, a block or two away.
The reasoning mind resisted, arguing, “There is nothing there that you
want.”
However, I had learned not to reason, so I went to the bakery, looked
at everything, and there was certainly nothing there that I wanted, but
coming out I encountered a woman I had thought of often, and who was in
great need of the help which I could give her.
So often, one goes for one thing and finds another.
Intuition is a spiritual faculty and does not explain, but simply
_points the way_.
A person often receives a lead during a “treatment.” The idea that
comes may seem quite irrelevant, but some of God’s leadings are
“mysterious.”
In the class, one day, I was treating that each individual would
receive a definite lead. A woman came to me afterwards, and said:
“While you were treating, I got the hunch to take my furniture out
of storage and get an apartment.” The woman had come to be treated
for health. I told her I knew in getting a home of her own, her
health would improve, and I added, “I believe your trouble, which is
a congestion, has come from having things stored away. Congestion of
things causes congestion in the body. You have violated the law of use,
and your body is paying the penalty.”
So I gave thanks that “_Divine order was established in her mind, body
and affairs_.”
People little dream of how their affairs react on the body. There is
a mental correspondence for every disease. A person might receive
instantaneous healing through the realization of his body being a
perfect idea in Divine Mind, and, therefore, whole and perfect, but
if he continues his destructive thinking, hoarding, hating, fearing,
condemning, the disease will return.
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