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Silence What It Is, How To Use It-David Van Bush · The New Science of Controlled Breathing

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  Speaker 1: Section one of The Silence, What It Is? How To
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  Speaker 1: Use It? This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings
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  Speaker 1: are in the public domain. For more information or to volunteer,
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  Speaker 1: please visit LibriVox dot org. Recording by lt The Silence,
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  Speaker 1: What It Is? How To Use It? By David Van Busch,
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  Speaker 1: Section one approach to the silence. Wrong thinking produces in
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  Speaker 1: harmony in our body, which in turn produces sickness. Our
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  Speaker 1: bodies sometimes are instantly re harmonized while in the silence.
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  Speaker 1: In the silence, our minds become passive, open, free and loving,
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  Speaker 1: at which time the infinite master of harmony touches the
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  Speaker 1: mental chords of our being, and we are well. Just
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  Speaker 1: as the piano can be tuned, so can the mind.
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  Speaker 1: Man's body is made up of twelve octaves, the same
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  Speaker 1: as in music. All matter is music. All matter is
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  Speaker 1: composed of twelve octaves. Wrong thinking produces inharmony in some
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  Speaker 1: of the octaves in our body. Right thinking tunes these
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  Speaker 1: organs puts them back into their normal condition. Boys have
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  Speaker 1: their little steel magnets by which they pick up small
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  Speaker 1: pieces of steel, pins and so forth. When overworked, these
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  Speaker 1: magnets no longer attract Then the boys take their magnets,
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  Speaker 1: have them rubbed against strong magnets, or remagnetized with an
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  Speaker 1: electric current, and their power is quickly restored. So with
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  Speaker 1: our bodies. Mind is the re electrifier and re harmonizer
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  Speaker 1: of the octaves into all harmony. Right thinking, therefore, is
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  Speaker 1: the most important thing in life. As a man thinketh
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  Speaker 1: in his heart, so is he. Just as a tuning
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  Speaker 1: fork near a piano will respond with the vibration when
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  Speaker 1: a key of the same pitch is struck on the
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  Speaker 1: piano near by, so likewise do the bodies of men
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  Speaker 1: respond to proper stimulus and become in tune. By right thinking,
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  Speaker 1: man can re harmonize himself, can achieve health, success, and prosperity.
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  Speaker 1: To enter the silence, one must first establish perfect relaxation
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  Speaker 1: in mind and body. Then, as the consciousness is brought
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  Speaker 1: from one part of the body to another, the tuning
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  Speaker 1: takes place. If the leader in the silence should be intoning,
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  Speaker 1: there will be many in the audience who will feel
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  Speaker 1: tinkling sensations, vibrations, and are often instantly healed. They have
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  Speaker 1: been instantly re harmonized. Sometimes it may take several intonings
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  Speaker 1: in the silence for a complete healing. Should you have
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  Speaker 1: a violent vibration, feel no fear, but thank God for
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  Speaker 1: your healing, because the more violent the vibration, perhaps the
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  Speaker 1: worse has been your condition, and the more surely has
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  Speaker 1: the re harmony begun. Some people will feel this vibration
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  Speaker 1: for hours, even days, throughout which there is always healing.
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  Speaker 1: Others may not feel the vibration at all. Yet, if
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  Speaker 1: there has been any in harmony in the bodily organs,
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  Speaker 1: these organs are unconscious to the conscious Intoning re harmonization.
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  Speaker 1: Many people who have been healed of divers and many
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  Speaker 1: malignant diseases were at no time conscious of any vibration.
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  Speaker 1: Never be discouraged if you feel no sensation. If you
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  Speaker 1: do feel a vibration, know that you are susceptible and
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  Speaker 1: on the high road to a healing demonstration. The one
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  Speaker 1: Intoning may or may not be feeling vibrations. Religion is
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  Speaker 1: the life of God in the soul of man. The
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  Speaker 1: silence is the medium by which the life of God
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  Speaker 1: and the soul of man are brought into at one
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  Speaker 1: min The silence is a medium by which man comes
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  Speaker 1: in a closer touch with the infinite. A medium by
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  Speaker 1: which man becomes conscious of his nearness to the infinite.
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  Speaker 1: The silence is the meeting place where man's spirit links
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  Speaker 1: with God's spirit, where spirit meets spirit and the marvel
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  Speaker 1: of his grace never ceases. The silence is another way
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  Speaker 1: of praying, which is another way of concentration. It is
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  Speaker 1: another way of visualization. As a man thinketh in his heart,
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  Speaker 1: so is he. In the silence. A man can buy
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  Speaker 1: his thoughts, change his life, his conditions, his environment, his all.
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  Speaker 1: By right thinking, man becomes harmonious. A harmonious man in
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  Speaker 1: tune with the infinite is on the King's highway to health, success, abundance, prosperity, happiness,
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  Speaker 1: love and peace. By means of wrong thinking, our minds
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  Speaker 1: are put out of harmony with the great infinite Spirit
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  Speaker 1: of God. As a man thinketh in his heart, so
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  Speaker 1: is he. When wrong thinking becomes right thinking, then man's
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  Speaker 1: right relationship to God is restored. He becomes an open
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  Speaker 1: channel for the influx of the spirit, so that whatever
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  Speaker 1: demonstration he may desire, he may have. In the silence,
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  Speaker 1: a man may change his thinking, as in no other way,
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  Speaker 1: therefore may change his heart, change his whole being, change
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  Speaker 1: his environment, change every condition to which he was subject.
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  Speaker 1: The human body may be likened to a harp. When
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  Speaker 1: man thinks rightly, his body is in tune. But wrong
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  Speaker 1: thinking creates it's in harmony in the body and produces sickness.
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  Speaker 1: Wrong thinking produces in harmony in the mind, which of
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  Speaker 1: course disconnects man from rightful association with the divine. A
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  Speaker 1: man must therefore think right. Yet, because of centuries of
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  Speaker 1: erroneous conception of God and of the world, man has
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  Speaker 1: been a negative instead of a positive being, and his
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  Speaker 1: unwisdom has reacted upon the present generation. We are mental
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  Speaker 1: sending and receiving stations. What we receive depends upon how
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  Speaker 1: we are thinking. Now, for success, health and happiness, we must,
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  Speaker 1: in the silent chambers of the soul, change our thinking
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  Speaker 1: if we are holding negative or inharmonious thoughts. In the silence,
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  Speaker 1: there is presented to man his greatest opportunity to change
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  Speaker 1: his thinking. Wrong thinking produces in harmony of the body,
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  Speaker 1: which in turn produces sickness. If we change to right thinking,
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  Speaker 1: we have health, success, and happiness. Therefore, the silence, when
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  Speaker 1: properly used, re harmonizes our bodies and minds through the
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  Speaker 1: simple agency of right thinking, there are steps of approach
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  Speaker 1: to the silence. Stillness is one thing, and the silence
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  Speaker 1: is another. One may quiet himself physically and not be still,
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  Speaker 1: and he may be still without entering the silence. When
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  Speaker 1: one becomes physically and mentally at rest, he is apt
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  Speaker 1: to become receptive to psychic influences, and when these are
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  Speaker 1: not desired, it is advisable to protect one's self. While
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  Speaker 1: mentally negative, one may affirm his oneness with God, his
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  Speaker 1: being surrounded and protected by the divine goodness, and may
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  Speaker 1: symbolize this by enveloping himself in thought with the white
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  Speaker 1: light of love or the mellowed tints of sunshine, with
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  Speaker 1: the senses calmed and unresponsive to the slower vibrations but
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  Speaker 1: responsive to the quicker ones. A peace and calm pervade
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  Speaker 1: one's mind, and it becomes consciously receptive to higher vibrations
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  Speaker 1: of vital energy, Immune from the lesser harmonies, One opens
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  Speaker 1: himself to the greater ones, which are always seeking avenues
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  Speaker 1: of expression. With the greater influx of the one life,
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  Speaker 1: a sense of power steals over one, and he becomes
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  Speaker 1: conscious of increased vigor and vitality. In relinquishing specific thoughts.
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  Speaker 1: One opens inwardly rather than outwardly, and becomes receptive to
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  Speaker 1: subconscious impressions that are directed by his conscious affirmation of
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  Speaker 1: fundamental truth. The subconscious responds by returning to the conscious
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  Speaker 1: the logical sequences of the truths that have been consciously
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  Speaker 1: impressed upon it. The subconscious follows the lead given to
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  Speaker 1: it by the conscious affirmations of truth, and it brings
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  Speaker 1: back the consciousness of those truths in their various ramifications.
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  Speaker 1: End of section one. Section two of The Silence, What
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  Speaker 1: it Is, How To Use It? This is a LibriVox recording.
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  Speaker 1: All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more
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  Speaker 1: information or device volunteer, please visit LibriVox dot org. Recording
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  Speaker 1: by lt The Silence, What It Is, How to Use
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  Speaker 1: It by David Van Bush. Section two Health Silence. Select
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  Speaker 1: one or more of the affirmations or formulas below to
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  Speaker 1: hold in thought while in the silence. You may change
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  Speaker 1: or vary these as you choose. Selections as follows. Soul
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  Speaker 1: is health, Spirit is health. God is health. I am health.
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  Speaker 1: Since there is but one mind, there is but one mentality.
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  Speaker 1: This mind and mentality is God. God is health. I
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  Speaker 1: am health. I am whole, perfect, strong, powerful, loving, harmonious
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  Speaker 1: and happy. In what I am myself I desire for
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  Speaker 1: everyone else. I am filled with the abundant, intelligent, ever
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  Speaker 1: present life of Spirit. It flows through me freely, cleansing, healing,
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  Speaker 1: purifying and vitalizing every part. I am one with this life,
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  Speaker 1: and in it, I am every wit whole. The all
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  Speaker 1: powerful Christ's Mind in me dissolves and dissipates every adverse thought.
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  Speaker 1: My body is the pure and holy temple of the
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  Speaker 1: Living God, and every organ and every function is now
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  Speaker 1: in divine order and harmony. All the organs of my
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  Speaker 1: body are functioning normally, and I am well, whole and complete.
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  Speaker 1: All is Mind, All is God, All is universal energy.
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  Speaker 1: I am part of creative force, and I am health, abundance,
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  Speaker 1: joy and peace. I am filled. I am thrilled with
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  Speaker 1: life eternal, and I radiate that life within to me
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  Speaker 1: and without to all. Every experience of my life has
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  Speaker 1: been for my good, and I am happy in living
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  Speaker 1: God is Spirit. I use your name here am life.
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  Speaker 1: Life's Spirit is now flowing through me freely, and I
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  Speaker 1: am well, whole and complete. Be still and know that
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  Speaker 1: I am God. Use the following as a basis for
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  Speaker 1: your meditation as you demonstrate health. Of course, you may
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  Speaker 1: use other thoughts, provided they are constructive health thoughts. You
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  Speaker 1: may practice the silence sitting, reclining, or in bed. There
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  Speaker 1: is no better way to learn how to relax than
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  Speaker 1: by going into the silence. Are you tense, Let go relax.
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  Speaker 1: Then direct the mind to go from one part of
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  Speaker 1: the body to another. Take a deep breath between each
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  Speaker 1: change of your consciousness. Be sure to use the diaphormatic
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  Speaker 1: or abdominal breathing, breathing through the nostrils, mouth closed until
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  Speaker 1: the muscles of the abdomen expand. The best time to
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  Speaker 1: hold the silence is as you retire at night and
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  Speaker 1: just as you awaken in the morning. But you should
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  Speaker 1: hold your thought at least three times a day without
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  Speaker 1: stress or strain, without doubt or worry, passive in mind
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  Speaker 1: and body, perfectly relaxed. Hold the silence or thought upon
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  Speaker 1: retiring at night, awakening in the morning, and at noon day.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, you may take any other time that is convenient.
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  Speaker 1: You may concentrate on the roadway, street car, home, or office.
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  Speaker 1: But it is well if possible, to have one room
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  Speaker 1: for your silence. Most people in that way will build
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  Speaker 1: up stronger vibrations at noon. Now there are all over
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  Speaker 1: the world thousands of others holding silence, so that there
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  Speaker 1: is a great combined mental force working together at one
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  Speaker 1: time for success, health, prosperity, and happiness. And we therefore
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  Speaker 1: get the benefit of this great vibration. The more often
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  Speaker 1: you hold the silence without stress or strain, as a rule,
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  Speaker 1: the quicker may be the demonstration. The real part of
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  Speaker 1: me is spirit, not matter. I believe that this body
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  Speaker 1: of mine is a tabernacle for the spirit. The real
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  Speaker 1: I Am within me is therefore spirit. The real me
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  Speaker 1: is spirit. This spirit is the God's spirit. This is
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  Speaker 1: what Jesus meant when in the fourteenth chapter of John,
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  Speaker 1: and again in the seventeenth chapter of the same gospel,
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  Speaker 1: speaking to his disciples, he referred to I in you,
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  Speaker 1: You in me, and we in God. My spirit is
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  Speaker 1: a part of the God's Spirit. God is health, God
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  Speaker 1: is perfection, God is abundance, God is harmonious. Therefore the
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  Speaker 1: real I Am is God. The real I Am is health, perfection, abundance,
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  Speaker 1: and harmony. When I am sick, I know that it
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  Speaker 1: is the material of me that is sick, not the
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  Speaker 1: God's Spirit. It is my physical being, which is out
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  Speaker 1: of harmony. It is this tabernacle of which Paul speaks,
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  Speaker 1: housing my spirit, which gives me pain and suffering. The
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  Speaker 1: real me is not sick, it is my body. For
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  Speaker 1: centuries we have held to a wrong idea of life.
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  Speaker 1: We have thought that life is material, but life is spiritual.
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  Speaker 1: It is the invisible within me, which is eternal, which
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  Speaker 1: is God. Many still believe that life is material and
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  Speaker 1: matter instead of mind and spirit. I no longer hold
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  Speaker 1: that conception. I believe that all is mind and spirit.
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  Speaker 1: Just here is where the healing methods of drugs and
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  Speaker 1: the scientist's explanation of life is so limited. Not until
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  Speaker 1: we recognize that life is really a thing of spirit,
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  Speaker 1: not matter, but mind, not material, but spiritual, do we
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  Speaker 1: come into an understanding of truth. Jesus said God is spirit,
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  Speaker 1: and on different occasions told his disciples that this spirit
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  Speaker 1: was within them as well as within himself. Therefore, this
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  Speaker 1: same spirit is within me, and this same spirit is
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  Speaker 1: the God's spirit of health, abundance, happiness, harmony, and perfection.
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  Speaker 1: God is all health, all abundance, all harmony, peace and perfection. Therefore,
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  Speaker 1: the God's spirit within me is the same I am
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  Speaker 1: sick in body, not in mind, not in spirit. Inasmuch
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  Speaker 1: as I cannot conceive of God being sick, neither can
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  Speaker 1: I conceive of my spirit being sick. My spirit is health, perfection,
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  Speaker 1: and harmony. My body may not be well. But since
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  Speaker 1: mind is all, since this material is subject to the spiritual,
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  Speaker 1: since matter is subject to mind, I believe and affirm
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  Speaker 1: that my health does not depend upon matter, but upon
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  Speaker 1: the God's Spirit within me. It depends not upon the material,
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  Speaker 1: but the spiritual, upon the God Mind within. Just as
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  Speaker 1: would when made into a violin and properly tuned, will
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  Speaker 1: give forth harmony, so my body, though made in the material,
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  Speaker 1: when properly tuned by mind, will give forth harmonious living,
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  Speaker 1: perfect health. As the tree standing in the forest may
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  Speaker 1: be made into the violin music box of heart harmony,
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  Speaker 1: so my body, the material in the forest of matter,
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  Speaker 1: may be put in tune, become harmonious, and be raised
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  Speaker 1: to perfection by the master musician, God, his mind within me.
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  Speaker 1: God is all health. No one can conceive of God
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  Speaker 1: as being sick. I can visualize only the eternal spirit
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  Speaker 1: of the Infinite Father, perfection existing in everything, and I
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  Speaker 1: being a child in spirit I am whole and complete
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  Speaker 1: in spirit. My real I am is well. Science now
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  Speaker 1: asserts that matter is composed of twelve octaves, just as
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  Speaker 1: in music. My body is the composite of these twelve octaves.
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  Speaker 1: Science also says that every cell, atom, every electron in
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  Speaker 1: my body is intelligent. This spirit of mine is housed
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  Speaker 1: in the tabernacle of the body, which is composed of
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  Speaker 1: millions of millions of cells, all of which having intelligence,
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  Speaker 1: respond in my body according to the way I think.
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  Speaker 1: Every word I entertain, every thought I hold influences every
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  Speaker 1: one of the millions of cells making up this tabernacle.
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  Speaker 1: My body is made whole and complete physically. That is,
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  Speaker 1: all the cells of my body are made over new
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  Speaker 1: every eleven months. The body I have today is not
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  Speaker 1: the body I had eleven months ago. I get a
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  Speaker 1: new body every eleven months, and my body is today
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  Speaker 1: what my thinking was yesterday, the day before that, and
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  Speaker 1: the months before that. My body in the future depends
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  Speaker 1: upon my thinking in the future. I am what I
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  Speaker 1: think I am. When I affirm that I am well,
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  Speaker 1: whole and complete, that I am perfect, harmonious, and strong,
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  Speaker 1: I am suggesting to every atom in my body perfection
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  Speaker 1: and every atom, in turn, begins to make my body
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  Speaker 1: over new in health and imperfection. I may, or I
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  Speaker 1: may not have to wait for the element of time
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  Speaker 1: to make over every cell. That may be done spontaneously
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  Speaker 1: and instantly. There is no limitation to the power of God.
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  Speaker 1: So I shall not set a time limit for my healing.
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  Speaker 1: Knowing that all things are possible with the Father, I
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  Speaker 1: affirm that now I have that which I desire. I
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  Speaker 1: know that now the spirit of divine health is surging
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  Speaker 1: through me, touching and reaching every atom of my body,
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  Speaker 1: and that now the God's spirit within me is perfect,
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  Speaker 1: and that spirit makes my body perfect. Man is a
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  Speaker 1: spiritual being. Man expresses himself mentally and manifests himself physically.
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  Speaker 1: The one life animates all that exists. Harmony of existence
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  Speaker 1: depends upon the polarities of the three aspects of life.
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  Speaker 1: The mind is at ease when open to the inflow
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  Speaker 1: of the spirit. It is discordant when it follows sensory impressions.
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  Speaker 1: The body is healthy when responsive to the direction of
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  Speaker 1: the spiritualized mind. It becomes diseased when it accepts the
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  Speaker 1: physical as its guide. One achieves mental ease and physical
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  Speaker 1: health through his mental polarity. If open to the physical
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  Speaker 1: and closed to the spiritual, discord will prevail. If open
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  Speaker 1: to the spiritual and close to the physical, he lives
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  Speaker 1: the one life in mental ease and physical health. I
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  Speaker 1: open my mind to the inflow of the spirit. I
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  Speaker 1: place my body under the control of my spiritualized mind.
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  Speaker 1: I feel the one life animate my mind and my body.
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  Speaker 1: I am a spiritual being. I am perfect health. End
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  Speaker 1: of section two. Section three of the Silence, What it Is,
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  Speaker 1: How to Use It? This is the LibriVox recording. All
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  Speaker 1: LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information
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  Speaker 1: or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox dot org. Recording by
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  Speaker 1: lt The Silence, What it Is, How To Use It?
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  Speaker 1: By David Van Busch. Section three thought to hold in
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  Speaker 1: the Silence for abundance. The universal abundant spirits supply all
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  Speaker 1: my needs. There is no want or limitation in the law.
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  Speaker 1: If perchance there should appear to be lack of or
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  Speaker 1: need of abundance in our lives, it is because of
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  Speaker 1: wrong thinking, not because there is a lack of abundance. Therefore,
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  Speaker 1: we should enter the Silence with the profound faith and
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  Speaker 1: conviction that the world is filled with plenty, and that
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  Speaker 1: all our needs are most bountifully supplied. The mind should
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  Speaker 1: be saturated with the conviction that all life is filled
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  Speaker 1: with abundance, All space is overflowing with abundance. All living
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  Speaker 1: comes from an abundant source of supply. In a universe
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  Speaker 1: where this is true, there can be no want, no
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  Speaker 1: lack for you or yours, for me or mine. As
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  Speaker 1: you take your exercises this month, take the affirmation above
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  Speaker 1: as you walk on the street to your office or
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  Speaker 1: place of business. Continue this thought as you go about
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  Speaker 1: your daily duties in the home or workshop. Let the
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  Speaker 1: mind be saturated with a spirit, a feeling, and thinking
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  Speaker 1: of abundance. The opulence of the universal source of supply
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  Speaker 1: now meets all my needs. The abundant, life giving spirit
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  Speaker 1: of prosperity now leads and guides me into the paths
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  Speaker 1: of plenty, peace, and power. My mind is filled with
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  Speaker 1: prosperous thoughts. My being is pulsating an abundant rhythm. My
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  Speaker 1: soul is uplifted and sustained by a thousand thoughts of
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  Speaker 1: ever present abundance, prosperity, and opulence. As these thoughts are
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  Speaker 1: maintained and repeated again and again absorbed and sunk deep
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  Speaker 1: into the sub conscious mind. Know that all of your
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  Speaker 1: needs are this minute supplied. Know that you could not
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  Speaker 1: ask for anything from the Universal Spirit, Father God, without
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  Speaker 1: that Spirit being most willing to supply instantly all your needs.
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  Speaker 1: The spirit and body are well, but the flesh is weak.
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  Speaker 1: Allow your flesh to be stimulated and your body to
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  Speaker 1: respond by thoughts of abundance, prosperity, and opulence. I am
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  Speaker 1: now rich in thought, rich in body, and rich in spirit.
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  Speaker 1: I am now part of the abundant, ever present Spirit
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  Speaker 1: of prosperity and opulence. All that I need is now mine, Mine, Mine.
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  Speaker 1: The Universal abundant Spirit supplies all my needs. End of
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  Speaker 1: section three. Section four of the Silence, What it Is,
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  Speaker 1: How To Use It? This is a LibriVox recording. All
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  Speaker 1: lt The Silence, What It Is, How To Use It
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  Speaker 1: by David Van Busch. Section four thought to hold in
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  Speaker 1: meditation in the Silence for misfortunes, grief, mistakes, reverses, failure, sorrow, loss,
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  Speaker 1: and disappointment. All is good. We are entering upon a
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  Speaker 1: new consciousness for the human race, a higher plane of mentality,
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  Speaker 1: and a greater development of the spiritual life. In spirit,
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  Speaker 1: of course, there is no wrong, no sorrow, no grief,
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  Speaker 1: no misfortune, no losses, no reverses. In short, all is perfection.
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  Speaker 1: The age in which we are living has not yet
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  Speaker 1: developed this spiritual understanding. We are still of the earth, earthly,
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  Speaker 1: and we are still in that consciousness where the physical
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  Speaker 1: is affected by seeming misfortunes, reverses, sorrows, griefs, trouble, sickness,
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  Speaker 1: et cetera. We may be wise in not expecting that
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  Speaker 1: suddenly this generation of man will reach that spiritual plane
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  Speaker 1: where they will be no recognition of anything except good.
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  Speaker 1: We are a part of the infinite spirit ourselves, and
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  Speaker 1: of course in spirit we are perfection. But this physical
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  Speaker 1: body of ours manifests imperfection from time to time, because
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  Speaker 1: of our past training and past thinking, because of our
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  Speaker 1: own consciousness. In time, there is no doubt in my
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  Speaker 1: mind but that the spirit within will make a perfect body.
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  Speaker 1: Without this perfection will be recognized in health and in
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  Speaker 1: peace of mind. It will be recognized so that there
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  Speaker 1: will be no such thing as misfortunes, sorrows, reverses, failures, griefs, disappointments,
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  Speaker 1: or losses being able to affect our mentality or our body.
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  Speaker 1: In this state of consciousness, as we are emerging from
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  Speaker 1: the chrysalis material stage of man into the greater life,
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  Speaker 1: into the deeper spiritual understanding, we are subject to certain
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  Speaker 1: conditions not conducive to peace of mind without an effort.
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  Speaker 1: In other words, we recognize or feel the effects of losses, misfortunes, disappointments, sorrows, griefs,
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  Speaker 1: et cetera. We recognize now that the time is coming
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  Speaker 1: when the Spirit will be so completely in control of
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  Speaker 1: matter in the body that we will not recognize any
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  Speaker 1: in harmony. To reach that great spirit is one of
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  Speaker 1: the big forward steps in this generation. To reach that
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  Speaker 1: spiritual plane also means the right kind of thinking. Now.
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  Speaker 1: We plan today for tomorrow. This is true in every
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  Speaker 1: walk of life. We plan our home to day and
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  Speaker 1: build it tomorrow. We make our merchandise to day and
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  Speaker 1: market it tomorrow. We sow our seed today and reap
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  Speaker 1: the harvest tomorrow. We build our career to day, little
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  Speaker 1: by little, and we reach the outcome tomorrow. Therefore, our
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  Speaker 1: thinking today will change our tomorrow. The thinking of this
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  Speaker 1: generation will change the condition of tomorrow's generation. If tomorrow's
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  Speaker 1: generation is going to be free from the recognition of sorrows, misfortunes, griefs, fears, pain, losses, failures, reverses,
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  Speaker 1: in harmony, discord, et cetera. It depends upon our seed sowing.
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  Speaker 1: Our seed sowing today should be all is good, All
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  Speaker 1: is good in spirit. You can say that and be
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  Speaker 1: honest with yourself. All is perfection in spirit, All is
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  Speaker 1: good for us in spirit, all is good for our lives.
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  Speaker 1: Here spirit transcends matter. When we recognize, affirm, and continue
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  Speaker 1: to hold the constructive thought that all is good in spirit,
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  Speaker 1: we are changing our own mental attitude, our own bodies,
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  Speaker 1: all matter in general, getting ready for the greater realization
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  Speaker 1: of the spiritual manifestation in the next generation. Therefore, for
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  Speaker 1: your own good here today, in success, prosperity, and happiness,
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  Speaker 1: as well as in health, peace and harmony, begin to
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  Speaker 1: pronounce over everything in life. All is good. If you
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  Speaker 1: have any misunderstandings, all is good. If you have any losses,
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  Speaker 1: all is good. And he reverses, all is good. Any sorrow,
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  Speaker 1: all is good. Any in harmony, All is good in
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  Speaker 1: everything at all that is out of perfection. You must
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  Speaker 1: recognize only the good, all is good. Sending your thought energy.
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  Speaker 1: By repeating all is good, and thinking all is good,
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  Speaker 1: and living all is good, you will actually, in this
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  Speaker 1: day overcome your difficulty and turn all of your mistakes, blunders,
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  Speaker 1: and misfortunes into stepping stones for your own success, health,
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  Speaker 1: and happiness. I enter the Silence this month, this day,
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  Speaker 1: this hour, and this minute. My mind is obsessed and
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  Speaker 1: under control of the divine Spirit. I recognize here and
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  Speaker 1: now only good. I see in my fellow men only
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  Speaker 1: perfection and good. I see in nature all around me
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  Speaker 1: only perfection and good. I see in every transaction of life,
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  Speaker 1: only the perfect good. I see in every activity of
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  Speaker 1: my experience, and in every form, color and thought good.
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  Speaker 1: All is good for me, now today and forever. God
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  Speaker 1: is Spirit. Spirit is love, Love is perfection. God's Spirit
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  Speaker 1: is harmonious. I am perfect. I am love, perfection, and harmonious.
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  Speaker 1: All is good. End of section four, Section five of
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  Speaker 1: the Silence. What it is, How to use it. This
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  Speaker 1: How to Use It by David Van Busch, Section five
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  Speaker 1: for harmony, peace, comfort. Base your thought for this silence
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  Speaker 1: upon the following. You may add any constructive thought you
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  Speaker 1: choose my subconscious mind, I desire and command you to
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  Speaker 1: have peace, harmony, and justice reign in the hearts of
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  Speaker 1: men everywhere. I realize that there can be no negative
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  Speaker 1: thinking for my destruction, downfall, or harm set out by
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  Speaker 1: anyone else that can reach my consciousness or do me ill,
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  Speaker 1: unless I am afraid that such negative thinking will produce
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  Speaker 1: the evil effects others are planning. I know that thought
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  Speaker 1: is energy. This is scientifically demonstrated, and I realize that
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  Speaker 1: a constructive thought has much more energy than a destructive thought.
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  Speaker 1: I know because it has been conclusively proven that constructive
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  Speaker 1: thinking will blast away every negative thought current sent out
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  Speaker 1: by one person or by a thousand. Therefore, if there
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  Speaker 1: should be any inharmonious thoughts anywhere in the world, any
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  Speaker 1: discordant thought current by those who seek my downfall or
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  Speaker 1: block my progress, or by those who would endeavor to
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  Speaker 1: hurt my reputation, I know that by holding a harmonious
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  Speaker 1: attitude of peace, love, joy, and success for everyone, including
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  Speaker 1: those who would do me wrong. That such constructive thought
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  Speaker 1: currents will blast away all of the discordant and inharmonious
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  Speaker 1: mental currents of evil, so that they will not even
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  Speaker 1: reach my conscious mind. I also realize, when I hold
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  Speaker 1: my silent thought my subconscious mind, I desire and command
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  Speaker 1: you to have peace and harmony and justice reign, that
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  Speaker 1: I am sending out the energy of construction, which is
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  Speaker 1: bound to turn all of the efforts for my embarrassment
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  Speaker 1: and destruction into a higher current for my greater achievement. Therefore,
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  Speaker 1: I send out blessings and thanksgiving to the very ones
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  Speaker 1: who would work my downfall. I charge my subconscious mind
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  Speaker 1: to let peace, harmony, and justice reign, so that all
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  Speaker 1: things will work together for the good, for me and
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  Speaker 1: for those who are thinking evil. If I should think
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  Speaker 1: it hard to send out blessings to my enemies, I
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  Speaker 1: remember the affirmation of the greatest teacher of all ages,
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  Speaker 1: who said, forgive until seventy times seven. I remember that
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  Speaker 1: when he himself was reviled, reviled not in turn, I
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  Speaker 1: remember that when his merciless enemies had nailed him to
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  Speaker 1: the cross had apparently crushed his fondest ambition, had scorned
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  Speaker 1: and reviled the kingdom of which he had spoken, and
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  Speaker 1: had tortured him. As he hung on the cross, he
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  Speaker 1: uttered the immortal, lovable, constructive words which have rung throughout
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  Speaker 1: the centuries and will continue to bless all mankind throughout eternity. Father,
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  Speaker 1: forgive them, for they know not what they do. So
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  Speaker 1: those who would try to block my way, curb my progress,
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  Speaker 1: or put thorns in my crown, are doing so, not
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  Speaker 1: knowing what they are doing. Whatsoever a man soweth that
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  Speaker 1: shall he also reap instead of hurting me, they are
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  Speaker 1: sowing weed, seeds which shall bring forth a harvest of
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  Speaker 1: weeds and tears in their own lives and not in mine.
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  Speaker 1: I therefore do not wish them harm, nor think that
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  Speaker 1: they should feel the reaction. I do not have to
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  Speaker 1: concern myself about the negative people in the world, for
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  Speaker 1: the law takes care of them. I shall always think
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  Speaker 1: constructive thoughts, harmonious thoughts, and loving thoughts my subconscious mind,
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  Speaker 1: I desire and command you to have peace, harmony, and
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  Speaker 1: justice reign. And I know that all things are now
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  Speaker 1: working together for the good of my would be enemies
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  Speaker 1: and for myself. I relax, take time for meditation, and
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  Speaker 1: I become happy in the silence, holding my thought of peace,
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  Speaker 1: harmony and justice reigning in the hearts of men everywhere.
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  Speaker 1: And as I relax and wait, I feel my vibrations rise.
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  Speaker 1: I am resting, at ease in faith. I am perfectly
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  Speaker 1: calm and contented. I am sending out love, peace and
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  Speaker 1: harmonious thoughts. And as they go, love, peace and harmony
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  Speaker 1: will come to me. These are now returning. They enter
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  Speaker 1: my being and uplift my soul. I am therefore sending
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  Speaker 1: out a strong current of spiritual blessings with such a
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  Speaker 1: spirit of helpfulness that I am getting back the same
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  Speaker 1: which I send out. My harvest shall be peace, love, joy, harmony,
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  Speaker 1: justice and contentment. Because I am sowing the seed of love, peace, harmony, joy,
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  Speaker 1: contentment and justice into the great subconscious soil of the universe,
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  Speaker 1: my subconscious mind, I desire and command you to have peace,
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  Speaker 1: harmony and justice reign everywhere throughout the world. I wait,
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  Speaker 1: I rest, I am relaxed, I am at ease and
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  Speaker 1: filled with the spirit of harmony. I wait, I listen
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  Speaker 1: for the spirit within. I feel and hear the voice
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  Speaker 1: of infinite love sending back into my consciousness these thoughts
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  Speaker 1: which I send out. I know that my every constructive
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  Speaker 1: thought blasts away a thousand destructive ones. Therefore, I think peace, love, joy, harmony,
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  Speaker 1: and justice. And as I utter these words slowly and prayerfully,
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  Speaker 1: I feel my vibrate rising. I experience ease of mind
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  Speaker 1: and peace of soul. Harmony is now within and without.
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  Speaker 1: I realize that I cannot send out my affirmation of peace, love,
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  Speaker 1: joy and harmony without peace, love, joy, and harmony coming
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  Speaker 1: back to me. I therefore send out my affirmation my
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  Speaker 1: subconscious mind. I desire and command you to have peace, harmony,
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  Speaker 1: and justice reign in the hearts of men, wherever they
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  Speaker 1: may be. I wait and listen, perfectly relaxed and at ease,
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  Speaker 1: and I feel the vibrations which I sent out coming
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  Speaker 1: back to me. I therefore know that no harm can
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  Speaker 1: befall my dwelling place. I know that whatever evil thoughts
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  Speaker 1: have been sent out for my destruction have been counter blasted,
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  Speaker 1: and that now everything is working for my good. As
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  Speaker 1: I recognize and realize that all things work together for
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  Speaker 1: my good, I am sending out love thoughts that all
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  Speaker 1: things are working together for the good of those who
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  Speaker 1: would do me wrong. They know not what they do.
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  Speaker 1: They alone will have to reap the harvest of the
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  Speaker 1: weeds they are sowing. My wish for them is that
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  Speaker 1: they may learn their lesson easily and early. My blessings
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  Speaker 1: I send out to them again. I wait again. I
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  Speaker 1: listen again. I am at ease, happy and at rest.
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  Speaker 1: Love and blessings, Peace and harmony. I send out love
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  Speaker 1: and blessings, Peace and harmony. Come back my subconscious mind.
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  Speaker 1: I desire and command you to have peace, harmony, and justice.
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  Speaker 1: Reign my blessings upon all mankind, My love to everyone.
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  Speaker 1: End of section five. Section six of the Silence, What
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  Speaker 1: it Is, How To Use It? This is a LibriVox recording.
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  Speaker 1: All librivoks recordings are in the public domain. For more
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  Speaker 1: It by David Van Busch. Section six thought to hold
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  Speaker 1: as a basis for this silence for success. I have
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  Speaker 1: faith and conviction in my ultimate success. I believe the scripture.
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  Speaker 1: My ways are not your ways, saith the Lord. Neither
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  Speaker 1: are my thoughts your thoughts. For as the heavens are
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  Speaker 1: higher than the earth, so are my thoughts higher than
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  Speaker 1: your thoughts. I understand by this scripture that the thoughts
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  Speaker 1: of the infinite God are far above the understanding of
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  Speaker 1: finite me, that God's ways are higher than my ways.
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  Speaker 1: God moves in a mysterious way his wonders to perform.
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  Speaker 1: I also have faith and conviction in my ultimate success
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  Speaker 1: because I am part of the infinite Spirit, and in
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  Speaker 1: the infinite Spirit there be no failure. I am harmonious, complete,
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  Speaker 1: and successful in spirit in God. I may not see
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  Speaker 1: my success today, where I may feel as though I
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  Speaker 1: have accomplished little, but I know that all of my
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  Speaker 1: efforts and energies in the past, present, and future are
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  Speaker 1: working together for my good. Therefore, I shall hold the
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  Speaker 1: thought that my success has already been achieved. I am success.
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  Speaker 1: I have success now and forever. Therefore I think only success,
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  Speaker 1: I talk only success. I believe only in success. I
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  Speaker 1: am demonstrating success, and I know that success is mine.
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  Speaker 1: The needed lessons I am having now, have had in
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  Speaker 1: the past, and may require in the future, are but
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  Speaker 1: necessary stepping stones to my greater success. The apparent delay
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  Speaker 1: of my greater success means that I am now demonstrating
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  Speaker 1: more success than I could otherwise. Have. Dreams that I
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: have dreamed, visions that I have visualized, and the goal
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  Speaker 1: that I have mapped out are all a part of
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  Speaker 1: my ultimate greapater success. I have that now I am successful. Now,
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  Speaker 1: as Moses went into the land of Midian and spent
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  Speaker 1: forty years of his life as a shepherd in the wilderness,
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  Speaker 1: apparently with no future before him, which however, was the
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  Speaker 1: great schooling necessary for his greater triumphant success in the future,
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  Speaker 1: so I may be in my land of Midian, apparently
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  Speaker 1: only a sheep herder, but in reality getting the necessary
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  Speaker 1: training for my greater and ultimate success. Therefore, I now
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  Speaker 1: rejoice in every experience I have, giving thanks for every
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  Speaker 1: apparent setback and for every seeming block of my purposes
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  Speaker 1: and aspirations. I believe that my past experiences, as well
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  Speaker 1: as present happenings, are for my benefit, and that I
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  Speaker 1: could not have been the great success I am and
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  Speaker 1: shall be had not the discouragements of yesterday, the perplexities
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  Speaker 1: of today, and the drawbacks of tomorrow come into my life.
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  Speaker 1: I realized that I need to go into the Land
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  Speaker 1: of Midian, that it is as necessary for me as
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  Speaker 1: it was for Moses to spend a few years in
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  Speaker 1: the wilderness of life's experience. I am happy to know
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  Speaker 1: that I am in such company as that of the
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  Speaker 1: great leader of his people, and rejoice in the thought
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  Speaker 1: that the Lord has called me to spend my time
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  Speaker 1: in the land of Midian, getting the necessary training for
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  Speaker 1: the greater things the Lord has in store for me.
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  Speaker 1: There is no place in the world where clouds do
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  Speaker 1: not gather and storms do not rage. But when the
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  Speaker 1: storms abate and the skies clear, then do we appreciate
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  Speaker 1: more fully the glories and beauties of God, the universe
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  Speaker 1: and its natural laws and infinite love. However, I know
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  Speaker 1: by experience in the land of Midian, where clouds hover
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  Speaker 1: low and where storms try the soul and body, that
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  Speaker 1: the dawn of a new day shall make life all
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  Speaker 1: the sweeter for me and mine. Moses could not have
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  Speaker 1: enjoyed leading his people into the Promised Land had he
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  Speaker 1: not been in the Land of Midian. If he had
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  Speaker 1: stayed forever in the court of Pharaoh with its attendant luxuries,
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  Speaker 1: life would have taken on a dull, monotonous hue and
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: his experiences would have seemed drab, wearisome, and pale. I
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  Speaker 1: am glad for the privilege accorded me to be in
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  Speaker 1: the land of Midy, and for a short time. I
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  Speaker 1: know that, as did Moses, I shall enjoy my promised
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  Speaker 1: land all the more when my greater success shall have
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  Speaker 1: been well worked out by the hand of Divinity. Faith
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  Speaker 1: and conviction in my ultimate greater success is stronger today
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  Speaker 1: than ever. I hold such a strong thought and such
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  Speaker 1: a deep and courageous faith in the workings of God's
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  Speaker 1: plan that I know I now have that which has
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: been intended for me, and nothing can take from me
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  Speaker 1: that which the Lord hath prepared for my success, health
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  Speaker 1: and happiness. I know too that I shall learn daily
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  Speaker 1: to enjoy, appreciate, and make better use of the success
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  Speaker 1: I now possess. That I shall unfold day by day
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  Speaker 1: into greater opportunities for more influence, power, friendship, charity, love, comradeship,
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  Speaker 1: and service. I know that my present success is but
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  Speaker 1: a part of the greater success which the Lord has
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  Speaker 1: waiting for me just around the corner. Therefore, I shall
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  Speaker 1: offer up prayers of thanksgiving and gratitude. I shall work harder,
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  Speaker 1: being more particular in the preparation for my greater work
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  Speaker 1: than I have been in the past, never doubting but
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  Speaker 1: that every moment spent in this greater preparation will bring
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  Speaker 1: added interests and greater success in the future. Even as
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  Speaker 1: Moses did not doubt the wisdom of the Lord for
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  Speaker 1: a greater future when in the land of Midian for
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  Speaker 1: forty years, so shall I not doubt his ways. To day.
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  Speaker 1: I claim with a joyful heart and an attitude of thanksgiving,
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  Speaker 1: that my life could not have been as great in
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: the future had I been denied my present experience. I
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  Speaker 1: know that greater things are in store for me because
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  Speaker 1: God's thoughts are greater than my thoughts, because He is
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  Speaker 1: giving me that training now in my land of Midian,
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  Speaker 1: which I most need. I trust the guiding spirit of
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  Speaker 1: infinite love to lead me at the right time into
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  Speaker 1: my life's promised land. The success to day in my
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  Speaker 1: land of Midian is attracting unto me the greater influence
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  Speaker 1: and power of the court of Pharaoh. And in my
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  Speaker 1: leadership as I lead others into that promised land which
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  Speaker 1: the Lord has prepared for me and mine, I smile,
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  Speaker 1: I sing, I rejoice, and offer thanksgiving and gratitude for
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  Speaker 1: my success now and forever. Surely I believe more and more.
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  Speaker 1: My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are my ways
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  Speaker 1: your ways. Saith the Lord, and all things are now
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  Speaker 1: working together for my good. Therefore I have faith and
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  Speaker 1: conviction in my ultimate success, in my greater success, in
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  Speaker 1: my greatest success. End of section six. Section seven of
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  Speaker 1: the Silence, What it Is? How To Use It? This
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  Speaker 1: How to Use It? By David Van Busch. Section seven Abundance.
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  Speaker 1: There is abundance in the world for me, given by
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  Speaker 1: the bountiful hand of omnipotence. I gratefully claim and accept
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  Speaker 1: all the supply for my needs. The old idea of
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  Speaker 1: Orthodox prayer was that of supplication and begging. I have
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  Speaker 1: spent a whole night at a time begging for a
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  Speaker 1: few pennies and supplicating for the salvation of others. What
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  Speaker 1: waste of energy each time that we send up such
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  Speaker 1: a weak supplication as the attitude of a beggar with
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  Speaker 1: the timid, frightful thoughts that only a beggar's mind can have.
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  Speaker 1: This condition of mind cross circuits the power to bring
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  Speaker 1: into our lives the very things we most desire. When
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  Speaker 1: the beggar extends his hand for a copper, he knows
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  Speaker 1: that not everyone who passes is going to give him
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  Speaker 1: a coin. He therefore solicits more or less mechanically, with
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  Speaker 1: a mind not positive or sure. His hand is extended
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  Speaker 1: in timidity and weakness now and then he gets a
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  Speaker 1: coin from a sympathetic passerby the same principle holds true
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  Speaker 1: for the man who prays in the old Orthodox fashion.
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  Speaker 1: He utters his petitions with doubts and misgivings, with timidity
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  Speaker 1: and wonderings. Some of his prayers are answered, just as
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  Speaker 1: the occasional coin is cast to the beggar. But most
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  Speaker 1: of the Orthodox prayers sent up in the fashion of
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  Speaker 1: begging and supplicating are never answered of necessity. They cannot
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  Speaker 1: be because the concentration is filled with fear and trembling.
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  Speaker 1: Only by positive and courageous thinking do we attract to
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  Speaker 1: ourselves the answers to our prayers. When we are permeated
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  Speaker 1: with the spirit of doubt, our petitions are cross circuited. Therefore,
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  Speaker 1: in making your affirmation this time, rest assured that the
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  Speaker 1: abundant spirit of the universal supply has everything you need,
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  Speaker 1: and has it now you have only to put your
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  Speaker 1: mind in a condition to receive. You do not have
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  Speaker 1: to beg the sun for its rays, nor God for
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  Speaker 1: his love. It is there for the taking. Many of
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  Speaker 1: us keep the sunshine of abundance out of our lives
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  Speaker 1: by pulling down the curtain of doubt, just as we
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  Speaker 1: may go into a room, pull down a shade and
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  Speaker 1: keep out the sun. James Russell Lowell seventy five years
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  Speaker 1: ago told us the same story in the vision of
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  Speaker 1: Sir Lawnful, when he said that Heaven is given away
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  Speaker 1: and God may be had for the asking. By gratefully
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  Speaker 1: accepting all of the supply for your needs, you are
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  Speaker 1: running up the shade of positive faith and letting the
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  Speaker 1: sunlight of abundance in. Send out the desire for your
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  Speaker 1: supply to the universal mind, and then rest, feeling that
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  Speaker 1: it has been acquired. Of course, the stronger you concentrate
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  Speaker 1: without stress and strain, and the more positive and courageous
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  Speaker 1: your concentration, the stronger will be your mental thought currents,
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  Speaker 1: and consequently the quicker your demonstration. Omnipotence has provided for
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  Speaker 1: me in mine I raise the sh shade of my
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  Speaker 1: faith and let in the sunlight of abundance. I know
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  Speaker 1: I do not have to beg for this, for it
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  Speaker 1: is mine now. When first I saw the light of day,
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  Speaker 1: the bountiful spirit of the Father made all preparations for
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  Speaker 1: my life's necessities and pleasures. They have been in the
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  Speaker 1: world since I was born. I now claim and accept
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  Speaker 1: my supply. From now on. The Spirit goes before me,
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  Speaker 1: making easy and prosperous all my ways, and I have
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  Speaker 1: abundance for every need from the bountiful hand of omnipotence.
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  Speaker 1: I have abundant health, I have abundant love. I have
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  Speaker 1: abundant prosperity. I have abundant peace. My Father careth for
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  Speaker 1: the grass of the field and the birds of the air,
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  Speaker 1: and he careth for me. I realize it, think it,
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  Speaker 1: and live it now. Abundance for all my needs is
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  Speaker 1: mine now and forever. End of section seven, Section eight
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  Speaker 1: of the Silence. What it is, how to use it?
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  Speaker 1: Section eight Health, Success, prosperity, universal, peace, and brotherhood God
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  Speaker 1: made from one blood, all the nations of the world.
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  Speaker 1: As I enter the silence this time expecting to get health, success, prosperity,
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  Speaker 1: and happiness, I am going to have my mind filled
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  Speaker 1: with the spirit of divine unity. Unity among the nations
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  Speaker 1: of the world. Unity in abundance, unity in love, unity
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  Speaker 1: in prosperity, unity in health, and unity in spirit. There
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  Speaker 1: can be no separation. In spirit. All is mind, all
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  Speaker 1: is God, all is universal energy. I am part of
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  Speaker 1: the creative force. I am a part and parcel of
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  Speaker 1: the unity of Love, Nature and God. Therefore, where God is,
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  Speaker 1: I recognize a completeness, and I, being a part of God,
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  Speaker 1: a part of this Spirit, a part of the power
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  Speaker 1: with Him, am therefore at one with God and all thought.
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  Speaker 1: I am therefore at one with God and all Spirit.
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  Speaker 1: Nothing can separate me from the love of God but
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  Speaker 1: my own mental attitude. Nothing can separate me from abundance, happiness, success,
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  Speaker 1: prosperity and love, but my own wrong thinking. Love is
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  Speaker 1: dealt in the world and the Spirit of God. And therefore,
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  Speaker 1: recognizing this unity of love, I am a part of it,
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  Speaker 1: and to have perfect love, success, prosperity, abundance and health.
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  Speaker 1: The ocean is composed of water. If I take a
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  Speaker 1: bucket of water from the ocean, it still is the
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  Speaker 1: water of the ocean. I may take this water to
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  Speaker 1: an island in the sea. Though I have separated this
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  Speaker 1: water from the main body of the ocean. It still
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  Speaker 1: is the water from the sea. But as the water
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  Speaker 1: is separated from the main body of the ocean, it
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  Speaker 1: loses its power, its strength, in many of its cardinal properties.
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  Speaker 1: I am the same as the sea water. When I,
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  Speaker 1: by wrong thinking, whether it be jealousy, envy, hatred, misunderstanding, worry,
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  Speaker 1: or fear, separate myself from the Spirit of God, I
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  Speaker 1: am as one going upon an island of humanity. I
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  Speaker 1: am still of that same spirit, but it has been
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  Speaker 1: separated so that within me it has lost many of
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  Speaker 1: its cardinal virtues. These virtues are there, but I do
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  Speaker 1: not recognize them. Separation has lessened my strength, my vitality,
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  Speaker 1: my power, my health, my happiness, my prosperity, and my joy.
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  Speaker 1: Just as it is necessary for the bucket of water
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  Speaker 1: to remain in the ocean in order to contain all
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  Speaker 1: of its original power and to retain all of its
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  Speaker 1: original strength to be intact, so is it necessary for
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  Speaker 1: man to keep in the spirit at one men with
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  Speaker 1: the Father, that we may manifest daily God's principle of
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  Speaker 1: unity with God, Man, and nature. When we have maintained
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  Speaker 1: that attitude of oneness with the Father in all respects,
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  Speaker 1: we are then recognizing and expecting in this act the
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  Speaker 1: fullness of our spirit. This fullness of our spirit will
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  Speaker 1: therefore give us health, prosperity, and happiness. When I have
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  Speaker 1: a mind that is filled with negative, discordant or inharmonious thoughts,
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  Speaker 1: I am separating myself from the full expression of the
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  Speaker 1: divine within me. I am the bucket of water going
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  Speaker 1: stale on a human island. But when I make my
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  Speaker 1: spirit at one with the Father by harmonious thinking, by love, kindness,
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  Speaker 1: good will, fellowship and co operation, I am not only
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  Speaker 1: maintaining all of my original properties, but I am in
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  Speaker 1: correspondence with the infinite Spirit, so that I can manifest
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  Speaker 1: and express His original spirit in every particular. Where there
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  Speaker 1: is a unity of spirit, there is unity of all
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  Speaker 1: the good things of life. Perhaps I am not drawing
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  Speaker 1: from the bank of life's experience everything that I ought
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  Speaker 1: to have, because I have separated myself from the spiritual
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  Speaker 1: board of directors in this bank of life and am
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  Speaker 1: not getting my dividends on time. My mental attitude is
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  Speaker 1: the cause. Therefore, as I enter the silence this time,
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  Speaker 1: I am going to maintain the faith and the love
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  Speaker 1: spirit of my unity with all things. I maintain Therefore,
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  Speaker 1: my at onement with God, with Man and nature. I
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  Speaker 1: maintain that all of the original strength of Spirit is mine.
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  Speaker 1: I hold that the manifestations of this original spirit will
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  Speaker 1: produce everything in my life for my ultimate good. Because
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  Speaker 1: I am at one with the Father, all things are mine.
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  Speaker 1: The silence this day finds me at one with all.
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  Speaker 1: The silence this day finds me at peace with God, Man,
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  Speaker 1: and Nature. The silence this day finds me in at
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  Speaker 1: onement with God and all, in unity with every conceivable
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  Speaker 1: thing in the universe. Therefore, my unity, my at onement
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  Speaker 1: with the Father, my wholeness of spirit with God, brings
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  Speaker 1: into my life everything for my good. All things work
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  Speaker 1: together for my good in my at onement with Man,
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  Speaker 1: God and Nature in my unity with all. End of
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  Speaker 1: section eight. Section nine of the Silence, What it Is?
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  Speaker 1: How to Use It? This is a LibriVox recording. All
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  Speaker 1: The Silence, What It Is? How to Use It? By
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  Speaker 1: David Van Bush, Section nine How to have More? I
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  Speaker 1: Am unselfish in action, being, and motive. The science of psychology,
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  Speaker 1: as applied to everyday life is strictly speaking, a new science.
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  Speaker 1: It is a matter of thousands of people in the world,
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  Speaker 1: all of a sudden, coming into contact with certain laws
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  Speaker 1: which make them successful, healthy, and prosperous. It is quite natural,
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  Speaker 1: because man is interested more in himself than in anyone else, that,
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  Speaker 1: when he finds these laws may be applied to give
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  Speaker 1: him more abundance, the tendency may be to use these
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  Speaker 1: laws for selfish purposes. Nothing could be more unpsychological. The
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  Speaker 1: laws should be used for the individual, but should not
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  Speaker 1: stop there. Each individual who is profiting by the operation
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  Speaker 1: of the laws or understanding of psychology, ought not only
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  Speaker 1: to get everything himself, that psychology can give him, but
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  Speaker 1: he should pass these on to others. He should tell
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  Speaker 1: others about it. He should cry it from the housetops
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  Speaker 1: and megaphone it from the street corners. He should not
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  Speaker 1: want to get everything himself, but wish the same that
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  Speaker 1: he has to everyone else. By doing this, the law
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  Speaker 1: will rebound, and instead of having less, he will have
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  Speaker 1: still more than he could have or he thinking about
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  Speaker 1: the laws for himself alone. The human race is made
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  Speaker 1: up of a whole lot of selfishness, and the man
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  Speaker 1: or the woman who hopes to get the most out
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  Speaker 1: of life and out of psychology must learn at the
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  Speaker 1: very beginning of his or her understanding of the laws.
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  Speaker 1: Then only will the best come to those who are
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  Speaker 1: absolutely unselfish. If there is any selfish motive or selfish
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  Speaker 1: desire in your heart, you may operate the law and
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  Speaker 1: get a certain amount of benefit. Nay, you may even
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  Speaker 1: become rich by it and have great power. But it
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  Speaker 1: should not end there. Your riches are for the use
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  Speaker 1: of others as well as for yourselves, and the real psychologist,
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  Speaker 1: in getting his riches, will pass on to others that
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  Speaker 1: which he has. The real psychologist, in getting more power,
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  Speaker 1: will share it with others, and will use it for
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  Speaker 1: the good of others as well as for his own
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  Speaker 1: personal aggrandizement. Therefore, hold the thought I am unselfish in action, being,
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  Speaker 1: and motive. Many a person never will get the demonstrations
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  Speaker 1: he wants because the channel of abundance and prosperity, happiness
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  Speaker 1: and joy is clogged up with his own selfish attitude.
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  Speaker 1: The selfish person who does not operate the laws does
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  Speaker 1: so by overbalancing his selfishness with some other great virtue.
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  Speaker 1: But when he is extremely selfish, he may never have
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  Speaker 1: demonstrations as he wants. He may not have enough other
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  Speaker 1: virtues to outweigh his selfishness. He may live for years
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  Speaker 1: and know what the laws are, and yet lack this
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  Speaker 1: one little thing, unselfishness in operating the laws for his
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  Speaker 1: own abundance, prosperity, or happiness. If you are not having
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  Speaker 1: the demonstrations you want, it is because there is a
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  Speaker 1: kink in the mind somewhere. The kink may be selfishness,
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  Speaker 1: or it may be pride, haughtiness, duplicity, dishonesty, hatred, envy,
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  Speaker 1: or jealousy. This time we are going to hold the
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  Speaker 1: thought I am unselfish in action, being, and motive. And
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  Speaker 1: each time we go into the silence, this unselfish spirit
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  Speaker 1: shall be the guiding star of our thoughts. It will
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  Speaker 1: be the personal touch with the infinite Spirit itself. The
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  Speaker 1: beginning of life's happiness as well as the end thereof
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  Speaker 1: is the spirit of unselfishness. I am unselfish in action, being,
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  Speaker 1: and motive. End of section nine. Section ten of The Silence,
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  Speaker 1: What it Is? How To Use It? This is a
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  Speaker 1: Use It by David Van Bush. Section ten. All things
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  Speaker 1: are in divine order. Divine harmony and peace actuate every
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  Speaker 1: thought and acts of my being. I realize that all
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  Speaker 1: things are in divine order for me and mine. There
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  Speaker 1: can be no disturbance in the world without or the
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  Speaker 1: world within my being, but that is in perfect harmony
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  Speaker 1: with the Infinite. The circumstances outside of my life are
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  Speaker 1: all for my good. My environment where I am now
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  Speaker 1: and the conditions in which I am living I make
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  Speaker 1: harmonious for me by my attitude of mind. I think
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  Speaker 1: only peace, I breathe only love, I speak only harmony.
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  Speaker 1: My conditions in my environment, although outwardly inharmonious to my
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  Speaker 1: life's and tendencies, are changed by the alchemy of my thinking,
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  Speaker 1: into a perfect symphony of happiness for me. Now, divine
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  Speaker 1: harmony and peace actuate every thought and action of my being.
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  Speaker 1: This thought is energy, This thought is life, This thought
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  Speaker 1: is power. The energy, life, and power of this thought
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  Speaker 1: weaves all of my diversified life's experiences into a divine
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  Speaker 1: pattern of perfection. For me. There can be no trouble, disappointments, sorrow, reverses, loss,
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  Speaker 1: or discord, but that shall be changed for my good.
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  Speaker 1: When I think, spirit and live the affirmation of today, namely,
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  Speaker 1: divine harmony and peace, actuate every thought and action of
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  Speaker 1: my being. All things are in divine order. The spirit
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  Speaker 1: of Divinity prompts my thinking, the divine within me actuates
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  Speaker 1: my actions. The god powers within this minute are working
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  Speaker 1: all things together for my good. There can be no
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  Speaker 1: danger come nigh of my dwelling, for my body is
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  Speaker 1: the temple of the living God. Therefore, the God's spirit
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  Speaker 1: within me protects me from all harm inspires me to
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  Speaker 1: high ideals, lifts me to heights of righteousness, and fills
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  Speaker 1: my soul with love. Love for my circumstances, love for
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  Speaker 1: my present conditions, love for my environment, love for everyone
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  Speaker 1: in the world, love for all of the creation of God.
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  Speaker 1: Therefore I have no enemies, for I love all I recognize,
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  Speaker 1: no misfortunes, for the love energy within turns all misfortunes
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  Speaker 1: and sorrows into stepping stones for my greater advancement and achievement.
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  Speaker 1: The God energy within transforms all inharmonious conditions without into
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  Speaker 1: a perfect harmony within the Kingdom of God now reigns
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  Speaker 1: within me, and I am at ease, at peace, and
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  Speaker 1: at one mint with all nature and God. The harmony
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  Speaker 1: therefore within me, in nature and in God gives me
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  Speaker 1: perfect peace within and perfect peace without. Divine thought and energy,
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  Speaker 1: love and blessing actuate every action of my being. Where
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  Speaker 1: divine love reigns, there can be no trouble, no discord,
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  Speaker 1: no in harmony, no lack, no limitation, no sorrow, no grief,
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  Speaker 1: no sickness, no failure. The energy of divine love transforms
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  Speaker 1: all things into my good. The love and peace of
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  Speaker 1: the Father abideth within me and is manifested without so
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  Speaker 1: that my life is one harmonious whole, touching the lives
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  Speaker 1: of all others who come in contact with me, so
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  Speaker 1: that they too feel my vibrations of that onement with
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  Speaker 1: the Father, and they in turn become harmonious and complete
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  Speaker 1: in spirit with Man and God. Divine harmony and peace
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  Speaker 1: actuate every thought and action of my being. All things
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  Speaker 1: are in divine order. End of section ten. Section eleven
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  Speaker 1: of the Silence, What it Is, How to Use It?
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  Speaker 1: This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in
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  Speaker 1: It Is, How To Use It? By David Van Bush.
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  Speaker 1: Section eleven thought to hold in silence and to meditate
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  Speaker 1: upon during the day. For justice. There's a spirit of
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  Speaker 1: justice that secures me in which is my own. If
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  Speaker 1: we reach a consciousness of justice, we need to have
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  Speaker 1: no doubts as to our care in every particular while
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  Speaker 1: journeying between the two peaks of eternity, from birth to
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  Speaker 1: the great Divide. There is nothing that can defeat justice,
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  Speaker 1: and the person who has a consciousness of justice will
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  Speaker 1: attract to himself every conceivable thing needed for this life,
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  Speaker 1: because it will be the logical objective of justice to
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  Speaker 1: supply each individual that justice for which he thinks. That
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  Speaker 1: is the reason why this affirmation is so complete in itself. Namely,
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  Speaker 1: there is a spirit of justice that secures me in
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  Speaker 1: which is my own, and this security is provided already
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  Speaker 1: for us by the spirit of justice. It would be
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  Speaker 1: a psychological paradox to think that justice could be defeated.
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  Speaker 1: That could not be. Perhaps it appears to you that
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  Speaker 1: your are own has not yet been secured to you.
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  Speaker 1: But remember that life is fleeting, that a year is
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  Speaker 1: as a tale that is told, and that a decade
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  Speaker 1: is but as ships that pass in the night, when
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  Speaker 1: the years have vanished in the distance. If you have
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  Speaker 1: lived a life of justice, and it appears now that
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  Speaker 1: your own is not coming to you, that someone else
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  Speaker 1: is having more of the good things of life than you,
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  Speaker 1: and that someone seems to have used the art of
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  Speaker 1: the man of injustice, be not deceived. God is not mocked.
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  Speaker 1: For whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.
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  Speaker 1: If you have sowed equity and justice in the days
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  Speaker 1: that are gone, be sure that the same equity and
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  Speaker 1: justice will be secured to you. The scriptures tell us
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  Speaker 1: not to think too much of the man who is
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  Speaker 1: nourishing like a green bay tree, for his efforts are
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  Speaker 1: soon cut off, and he vanisheth away. One who has
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  Speaker 1: astride the scales of justice, and who thinks that he
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  Speaker 1: can hold the balance is gravely mistaken. He may have
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  Speaker 1: occupied his present position for many years, first putting his
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  Speaker 1: way on one side and then on the other, in
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  Speaker 1: an effort to keep his equilibrium. Perhaps today it appears
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  Speaker 1: that the scales of justice are being well manipulated by
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  Speaker 1: his insincerity, duplicity, or trickery. But it is like the
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  Speaker 1: green bay tree. It will soon pass away. Justice is
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  Speaker 1: as eternal as God himself, and there is no more
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  Speaker 1: possibility of defeating it in the individual's life, in your
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  Speaker 1: own life, in the life of a nation, or in
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  Speaker 1: the history of mankind, than there is of likelihood that
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  Speaker 1: the sun can get away from its own rays. The
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  Speaker 1: justice of God is eternal, or in other words, God
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  Speaker 1: always is justice personified. Where God rules and where his
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  Speaker 1: laws and mandates have been given by his own fiat man,
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  Speaker 1: neither flesh nor the devil can defeat the ultimate outcome
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  Speaker 1: of justice. Your own is secured to you. Man himself
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  Speaker 1: is fashioned by the finger of divinity. The crown of
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  Speaker 1: justice is placed upon his brow, and no ruthless hand
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  Speaker 1: of greed, duplicity, or evil dexterity can ever tear it away.
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  Speaker 1: It is there to stay. And the man who has
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  Speaker 1: been thus crowned, because he has lived in this consciousness
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  Speaker 1: of justice and the consciousness of God himself, is bound
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  Speaker 1: to have come back to him that which he has
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  Speaker 1: sowed justice. You are secured by this spirit of justice.
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  Speaker 1: Perhaps already your life has had the law of compensation
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  Speaker 1: bring to you more than to others, of whom you
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  Speaker 1: may think, and who, because of their bank account, get
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  Speaker 1: more out of life than you. A man may have
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  Speaker 1: a million dollars and yet not be as happy as
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  Speaker 1: the laborer living in a thatched cottage. Perhaps justice has
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  Speaker 1: tipped the scales in your favor already, and you may
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  Speaker 1: have failed to recognize it. Perhaps you have children, loved ones, family,
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  Speaker 1: and fireside, which bring more comfort to you than the
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  Speaker 1: landowner gets who lives in his palace on the hill.
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  Speaker 1: Half of life, or the joys of life, depend upon
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  Speaker 1: our ability to recognize and appreciate the blessings we already have. Therefore,
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  Speaker 1: in counting your blessings or discounting your blessings, be sure
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  Speaker 1: that you use a moral standard instead of a material standard,
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  Speaker 1: engaging whether justice has been meted out to you or not.
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  Speaker 1: The justice of the eternal secures me, The spirit of
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  Speaker 1: justice secures me. In which is mine own. Believe it,
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  Speaker 1: think it, live it, claim it, and justice shall be yours.
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  Speaker 1: End of section eleven. Section twelve of the Silence, What
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  Speaker 1: by lt The Silence, What It Is, How to Use
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  Speaker 1: It by David Van Busch, Section twelve. Question. In practicing
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  Speaker 1: the silence, the mind seems to flutter all about, and
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  Speaker 1: there is a great nervous tension. What is wrong? Answer?
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  Speaker 1: Lack of concentration. This person ought to follow some simple
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  Speaker 1: exercise of concentration, such as follows, until the mind has
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  Speaker 1: control over the body by practicing a few of the
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  Speaker 1: simple exercises following fifteen minutes a day, and then taking
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  Speaker 1: the silence a few hours after these exercises have been practiced,
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  Speaker 1: the mind will begin to be under control. The nervous
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  Speaker 1: tension is caused because of this lack of control, and
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  Speaker 1: in the effort to bring the scattering mind into one focus,
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  Speaker 1: the reaction comes upon the nervous system, which in turn
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  Speaker 1: reacts upon the body. Practice and exercises for lack of
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  Speaker 1: concentration follow exercises by Thos Parker Boyd. One Select some
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  Speaker 1: part of the body a foot or hand, with the
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  Speaker 1: idea of heat. While holding the mind in this attitude,
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  Speaker 1: breathe deeply and steadily, and in from one to four
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  Speaker 1: minutes you will feel the warm glow coming to the foot.
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  Speaker 1: In this way you can soon master the entire body.
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  Speaker 1: Begin with the sense of feeling. If there is an
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  Speaker 1: itching of the body, make it stop by the force
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  Speaker 1: of your will. In from three days to three weeks,
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  Speaker 1: you can stop the itching sensation at will. Then try
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  Speaker 1: the habit of sneezing. Stubbornly resist the inclination to sneeze,
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  Speaker 1: and you will soon have the mastery. Now try your
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  Speaker 1: will on coughing. When the tickling sensation comes, stop it.
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  Speaker 1: By the exercise of your will, you can soon master it. Next,
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  Speaker 1: try it on pain. When you feel a pain in
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  Speaker 1: the body. Instead of rubbing on liniment, rub in a
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  Speaker 1: little will power. Soon it will ease your pain, as
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  Speaker 1: if by magic. With the fingers of one hand, rub
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  Speaker 1: the skin on the back of the other hand, stroking
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  Speaker 1: toward the elbow, and with that all feeling shall disappear
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  Speaker 1: in from one to three minutes. Take a needle and
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  Speaker 1: you can stick it through the skin on the back
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  Speaker 1: of your hand without pain. You may have to try
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  Speaker 1: it a dozen times, but persistence will bring success. Having
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  Speaker 1: mastered the sense of feeling, take up that of hearing. Two.
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  Speaker 1: It may seem impossible at first thought, but you have
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  Speaker 1: seen people so absorbed in what they were reading or
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  Speaker 1: thinking that they heard nothing, although you addressed them directly.
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  Speaker 1: They are simply abstracted from all else and are thinking
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  Speaker 1: of one thing to the exclusion of everything else. They
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  Speaker 1: entered this state of abstractedness unconsciously. To do so intentionally,
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  Speaker 1: you go by the law of indirectness. For instance, take sight.
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  Speaker 1: Concentrate your vision and your whole attention upon some object,
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  Speaker 1: real or imaginary, until soon the sense of hearing becomes dormant.
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  Speaker 1: A little practice will enable you to study, think, or
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  Speaker 1: sleep regardless of noise. Three. Having mastered hearing, begin on sight.
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  Speaker 1: You have known people who walked on the street, looked
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  Speaker 1: at you, and passed by without recognition, although they knew
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  Speaker 1: you well. A person deeply thinking on some subject neither
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  Speaker 1: sees nor hears, but uses the mental sense entirely. The
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  Speaker 1: method is to let the eyes be open, but concentrate
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  Speaker 1: the thoughts on hearing or feeling. Four. After getting control
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  Speaker 1: of your sight, take up the taste. Take some tasteless
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  Speaker 1: thing on the tongue, abstract the mind to something else
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  Speaker 1: until the taste becomes dormant. Then take something with more
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  Speaker 1: taste to it, abstracting the taste until by this gradual
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  Speaker 1: process you can make the sorest pickle sweet. Five. Finally,
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  Speaker 1: take some light odor and hold it before the nostrils,
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  Speaker 1: abstracting the attention from the sense of smell by hearing
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  Speaker 1: or seeing, et cetera, until by practice you can pass
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  Speaker 1: through the foulest odour without inconvenience or notice. Sit or
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  Speaker 1: stand absolutely motionless except your breathing, for one to five
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  Speaker 1: minutes at a time. Do this often, practice disclosing each
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  Speaker 1: finger in rotation. Then when all are closed, open one
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  Speaker 1: at a time, very slowly, keeping the attention fixed on
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  Speaker 1: what you are doing. Keep all the other fingers still,
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  Speaker 1: save the one you are exercising with in hell gradually
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  Speaker 1: for ten seconds. Then exhale in the same way and time.
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  Speaker 1: Look steadily at some point or object for a minute
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  Speaker 1: without blinking the eye, keeping your attention fixed on the subject.
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  Speaker 1: Look at a picture critically, then close your eyes and
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  Speaker 1: mentally reconstruct it. Close your eyes and construct the face
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  Speaker 1: of a friend feature by feature. Fix your attention on
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  Speaker 1: a hand or foot, hold on it the idea of heat,
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  Speaker 1: and continue until the hand or foot feels warm. Then
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  Speaker 1: try cold, then try pain. Will that the person in
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  Speaker 1: front of you shall turn around or put his hand
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  Speaker 1: on his head or neck. Hold your hand on someone
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  Speaker 1: in pain and say I will the pain to depart.
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  Speaker 1: Repeat till the pain goes. End of the silence. What
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  Speaker 1: it is, How to Use It? By David Van Bush