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Heart of the New Thought-Ella Wheeler Wilcox · Your Psychic Powers and How to Develop Them

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  Speaker 1: Preface of the Heart of the New Thought. This is
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  Speaker 1: a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain.
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  Speaker 1: The Heart of the New Thought by Ella Wheeler Welcox,
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  Speaker 1: publisher's preface. This book is noteworthy as an interpretation of
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  Speaker 1: new thought. That which was vaguemestic, unreal has become in
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  Speaker 1: the hands of Missus Welcox, a lovable philosophy of simplest construction.
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  Speaker 1: The backbone of this philosophy is the power of right thought. Startling,
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  Speaker 1: as are some of the tenets expressed, they are provably
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  Speaker 1: true here and now. It is possible that the very
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  Speaker 1: simplicity of this book will encourage careless criticism from those
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  Speaker 1: who believe that genius and ambiguity are twin. But Missus
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  Speaker 1: Wilcox is ever the voice of the people. What she
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  Speaker 1: says is practical, what she thinks is clear, what she
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  Speaker 1: feels is plain. Let the people judge this book. End
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  Speaker 1: of preface, Section one of the Heart of the New
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  Speaker 1: Thought by Ella Wheeler Wilcox. This LibriVox recording is in
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  Speaker 1: the public domain. Let the past go, do not begin
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  Speaker 1: the new year by recounting to yourself or others all
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  Speaker 1: your losses and sorrows. Let the past go. Should some
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  Speaker 1: good friend present you with material for a lovely garment,
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  Speaker 1: would you insult her by throwing it aside and describing
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  Speaker 1: the beautiful garments you had worn out in past times.
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  Speaker 1: The new year has given you the fabric for a
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  Speaker 1: fresh start in life. Why dwell upon the events which
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  Speaker 1: have gone, the joys, blessings and advantages of the past.
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  Speaker 1: Do not tell me it is too late to be
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  Speaker 1: successful or happy. Do not tell me you are sick
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  Speaker 1: or broken in spirit. The spirit cannot be sick or
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  Speaker 1: broken because it is of God. It is your mind
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  Speaker 1: which makes your body sick. Let the spirit assert itself
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  Speaker 1: and demand health and hope and happiness in this new year.
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  Speaker 1: Forget the money you have lost, the mistakes you have made,
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  Speaker 1: the injuries you have received, the disappointments you have experienced,
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  Speaker 1: real sorrow, the sorrow which comes from the death of
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  Speaker 1: dear ones or some great cross well born. You need
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  Speaker 1: not forget, but think of these things. Assent to enrich
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  Speaker 1: your nature and to make you more human and sympathetic.
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  Speaker 1: You are missing them if you permit yourself instead to
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  Speaker 1: grow melancholy and irritable. It is weak and unreasonable to
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  Speaker 1: imagine destiny has selected you for special suffering. Sorrow is
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  Speaker 1: no respector of persons. Say to yourself, with the beginning
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  Speaker 1: of this year, that you are going to consider all
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  Speaker 1: your troubles as an education for your mind and soul,
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  Speaker 1: and that out of the experiences which you have passed through,
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  Speaker 1: you are going to build a noble and a splendid
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  Speaker 1: character and a successful career. Do not tell me you
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  Speaker 1: are too old. Age is all imagination. Ignore years, and
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  Speaker 1: they will ignore you. Eat moderately and bathe freely in
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  Speaker 1: water as cold as nature's rainfall. Exercise thoroughly and regularly.
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  Speaker 1: Be alive from crown to toe. Breathe deeply, filling every
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  Speaker 1: cell of the lungs for at least five minutes morning
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  Speaker 1: and night. And when you draw in long full breasts,
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  Speaker 1: believe you are inhaling health, wisdom, and success. Anticipate good health.
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  Speaker 1: If it does not come at once, consider it a
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  Speaker 1: mere temporary delay, and continue to expect it. Regard any
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  Speaker 1: physical ailment as a passing inconvenience, no more.
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  Speaker 2: Never for an instant.
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  Speaker 1: Believe you are permanently ill or disabled. The young men
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  Speaker 1: of France are studying alchemy, hoping to learn the secret
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  Speaker 1: of the transmutation of gold. If you will study your
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  Speaker 1: own spirit and its limitless powers, you will gain a
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  Speaker 1: greater secret than any alchemist ever held, a secret which
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  Speaker 1: shall give you whatever you desire. Think of your body
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  Speaker 1: as the silver jewel box, your mind as the silk lining,
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  Speaker 1: your spirit as the gem. Keep the box burnished and
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  Speaker 1: clear of dust. But remember always that the jewel within
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  Speaker 1: is the precious part of it. Think of yourself as
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  Speaker 1: on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious
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  Speaker 1: year lies before you. In a year you can regain health, fortune, wistfulness, happiness,
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  Speaker 1: push on, achieve, Achieve and of Section one Section two
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  Speaker 1: of the Heart of the New Thought by Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
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  Speaker 1: This Liprovok recording is in the public domain. The sowing
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  Speaker 1: of the seed. When you start in the New Thought,
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  Speaker 1: do not expect sudden illumination. Do not imagine that you
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  Speaker 1: are to become perfectly well, perfectly cheerful, successful, and a
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  Speaker 1: hailer in a few days. Remember all growth is slow.
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  Speaker 1: Mushrooms spring up in a night, but oaks grow with
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  Speaker 1: deliberation and endure.
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  Speaker 2: For centuries.
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  Speaker 1: Mental and spiritual power must be gained by degrees. If
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  Speaker 1: you attained maturity before you entered this field of new thought.
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  Speaker 1: It is folly to suppose a complete transformation of your
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  Speaker 1: whole being will take place in a week, a month,
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  Speaker 1: or a year. All you can reasonably look for is
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  Speaker 1: a gradual improvement, just as you might do if you
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  Speaker 1: were attempting to take up music or a science. The
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  Speaker 1: new thought is a science, the science of right thinking.
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  Speaker 1: But the brain cells which have been shaped by the
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  Speaker 1: old thoughts of despondency and fear cannot all at once
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  Speaker 1: be reformed. It will be a case of try, try again.
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  Speaker 1: Make your daily assertions I am love, health, wisdom, cheerfulness,
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  Speaker 1: power for good, prosperity, success, usefulness, opulence. Never fail to
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  Speaker 1: assert these things at least twice a day. Twenty times
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  Speaker 1: is better. But if you do not attain to all immediately,
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  Speaker 1: if your life does not at once exemplify your words,
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  Speaker 1: let it not discourage you. The saying of the words
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  Speaker 1: is the watering of the seeds. After a time, they
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  Speaker 1: will begin to sprout, after a longer time, to cover
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  Speaker 1: the barren earth with grain, after a still longer time
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  Speaker 1: to yield a harvest. If you have been accustomed to
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  Speaker 1: feeling prejudices and dislikes easily, you will not all at
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  Speaker 1: once find it easy to illustrate your assertion I am love.
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  Speaker 1: If you have indulged yourself in thoughts of disease, the
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  Speaker 1: old aches and pains will intrude even while you say
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  Speaker 1: I am health. If you have groveled in fear, and
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  Speaker 1: I believe that you were born to poverty and failure,
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  Speaker 1: courage and success and opulence will be of a slow growth.
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  Speaker 1: Yet they will grow and materialize as surely as you
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  Speaker 1: insist and persist declare they are yours right in the
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  Speaker 1: face of the worst disasters. There is nothing so confuses
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  Speaker 1: and frustrates misfortune as to stare it down with hopeful,
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  Speaker 1: unflinching eyes. If you waken some morning in the depths
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  Speaker 1: of despondency and gloom, do not say to yourself, I
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  Speaker 1: may as well give up this effort to adopt the
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  Speaker 1: new thought. I have made a failure of it. Evidently, Instead,
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  Speaker 1: sit down quietly and assert calmly that you are cheerfulness, hope, courage,
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  Speaker 1: fail and success. Realize that your despondency is only temporary.
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  Speaker 1: An old habit which is reasserting itself, but over which
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  Speaker 1: you will gradually gain the ascendancy. Then go forth into
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  Speaker 1: the world and busy yourself in some useful occupation, And
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  Speaker 1: before you know it is on the way, hope will
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  Speaker 1: creep into your heart, and the gray cloud will lift
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  Speaker 1: from your mind. Physical pains will loosen their hold, and
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  Speaker 1: conditions of poverty will change to prosperity. Your mind is
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  Speaker 1: your own to educate and direct. You can do it
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  Speaker 1: by the aid of the spirit, but you must be
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  Speaker 1: satisfied to work slowly, be patient and persistent. And of
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  Speaker 1: section two, Section three of The Heart of the New
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  Speaker 1: Thought by Ella Wheeler Wilcox. This LibriVox recording is in
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  Speaker 1: the public domain.
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  Speaker 2: Old clothes.
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  Speaker 1: As you go over your wardrobe in the spring or fall,
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  Speaker 1: do not keep any old, useless, or even questionable garments,
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  Speaker 1: for fear you might need them another year. Give them
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  Speaker 1: to the ragman, or send them to the county or
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  Speaker 1: city poorhouse. There is nothing that will keep you in
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  Speaker 1: a rut of shabbiness more than clinging.
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  Speaker 2: To old clothes. It is useless to say that you.
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  Speaker 1: Cannot afford new garments. It is because you have harped
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  Speaker 1: upon this idea that you are so in straitened circumstances
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  Speaker 1: you believe neither in God or yourself. Possibly you were
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  Speaker 1: brought up to think yourself a mere warm of earth,
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  Speaker 1: born to poverty and sorrow. If you were, it will
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  Speaker 1: of course require a continued effort to train your mind
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  Speaker 1: to the new thought, the thought of your divine inheritance
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  Speaker 1: of all God's vast universe of wealth. But you can
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  Speaker 1: do it begin by giving away your old clothes. There
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  Speaker 1: may be people poor relations, or some struggling mother of
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  Speaker 1: half clad children, to whom your old garments will seem
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  Speaker 1: like new raiment, and to whom they will bring hope
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  Speaker 1: and happiness. As a rule, it is not well to
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  Speaker 1: give people your discarded clothes. It has a tendency to
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  Speaker 1: lower their self respect and to make them look to
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  Speaker 1: you and instead of to themselves for support. It all
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  Speaker 1: depends upon whom the people are and how you do it.
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  Speaker 1: If you can find employment for them and arouse their
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  Speaker 1: hope and self confidence and ambition, it is better than
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  Speaker 1: care loads of clothing or furniture or provisions. But little
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  Speaker 1: children suffering from cold or hard working over taxed men
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  Speaker 1: and women will not be harmed and may be temporarily
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  Speaker 1: cheered and encouraged by your gifts. No matter if you
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  Speaker 1: still need your fraid out garments, do not keep them.
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  Speaker 1: Your thoughts of poverty and trouble have impregnated them so
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  Speaker 1: that you will continue to produce the same despondent mind
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  Speaker 1: stuff while.
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  Speaker 2: You wear these garments.
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  Speaker 1: Get rid of them and believe that you are to
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  Speaker 1: soon procure fresh, becoming raiment. Rouse all your energies, and
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  Speaker 1: go straight ahead with that purpose in mind. You will
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  Speaker 1: be surprised to find how soon the opportunity presents itself
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  Speaker 1: for you to obtain what you need. There is new strength,
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  Speaker 1: repose of mind, and inspiration in fresh apparel. God gives
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  Speaker 1: nature new garments every season. We are a part of nature.
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  Speaker 1: Hey gives us the qualities and the opportunities to obtain
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  Speaker 1: suitable covering for our changing needs if we believe in
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  Speaker 1: the one and use the other. When I read of
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  Speaker 1: a wealthy man who boasts that he has worn one
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  Speaker 1: hat seven years, or a woman in affluent circumstances who
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  Speaker 1: has worn one bonnet for various seasons, I feel sorry
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  Speaker 1: for their ignorance and ashamed of their penurinousness. Look at
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  Speaker 1: the apple tree with its delicate spring drapery, its luxurious
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  Speaker 1: summer foliage, its autumn richness of coloring, its winter draperies
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  Speaker 1: of white. Surely the creator did not intend the tree
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  Speaker 1: to have more variety than man. The tree trusts and
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  Speaker 1: grows and takes a storm and sun as divinely sent,
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  Speaker 1: and believes in its right to new apparel, and it comes.
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  Speaker 1: It will come to you if you do the same.
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  Speaker 1: End of section three, section four of the Heart of
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  Speaker 1: the New Food by Ella Wheeler Wilcox. This liprivox recording
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  Speaker 1: is in the public domain.
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  Speaker 2: High noon.
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  Speaker 1: Every woman who passes thirty ought to keep her brain, heart,
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  Speaker 1: and mind alive and warm with human sympathy and emotion.
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  Speaker 1: She ought to interest herself in the lives of others
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  Speaker 1: and make her friendship valuable to the young. She should
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  Speaker 1: keep her body supple and avoid losing the lines of grace.
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  Speaker 1: And she should select some study or work to occupy
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  Speaker 1: her spare hours and to lend a zest to the
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  Speaker 1: coming years. Every woman in the comfortable walks in life
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  Speaker 1: can find time for such a study. No woman of tact, charm, refinement,
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  Speaker 1: and feeling need ever let her husband, unless she has
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  Speaker 1: married a Claude become indifferent or commonplace in his treatment
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  Speaker 1: of her. Man reflects to an astonishing degree woman's sentiments
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  Speaker 1: for him. Keep sentiment alive in your own heart, madam,
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  Speaker 1: and in the heart of your husband. If he sees
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  Speaker 1: that other men admire you, he will be more alert
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  Speaker 1: to the necessity of remaining your lover. Take the happy,
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  Speaker 1: safe medium path between a gray and a gay life
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  Speaker 1: by keeping it radiant and bright. Read and think and
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  Speaker 1: talk of cheerful, hopeful, interesting subjects. Avoid small gossip, and
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  Speaker 1: be careful in your criticism of neighbors. Sometimes we must criticize,
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  Speaker 1: but speak to people whose fools you feel a word
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  Speaker 1: of counsel may amend, not of them to others. Make
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  Speaker 1: your life after it reaches its noon, glorious with sunlight,
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  Speaker 1: rich with harvests, and bright with color. Be alive in mind,
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  Speaker 1: heart and body. Be joyous without giddiness, loving without silliness,
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  Speaker 1: attractive without being flirtacious, attentive to others needs without being officious,
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  Speaker 1: and inestructive without too great a display of erudition. Be
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  Speaker 1: a noble, loving, lovable woman. It is never too late
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  Speaker 1: in life to make a new start, no matter how
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  Speaker 1: small A beginning may be it is so much begun
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  Speaker 1: for a new incarnation if it is cut off.
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  Speaker 2: Here by death.
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  Speaker 1: If I were one hundhundred years old and in possession
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  Speaker 1: of my faculties, I would not hesitate to undertake a
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  Speaker 1: new enterprise which offered a hope of bettering my condition.
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  Speaker 1: Thought is eternal in its effects, and every hopeful thought
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  Speaker 1: which enters the mind sets vibrations in motion which shall
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  Speaker 1: help minds millions of miles distant and lives yet unborn.
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  Speaker 1: It is folly to mourn over a failure to provide
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  Speaker 1: opportunities and luxuries for children. We have only to look
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  Speaker 1: at the children of the rich to say how little
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  Speaker 1: enduring happiness money gives, and how seldom great advantages result
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  Speaker 1: in great characters. The majority of the really great people
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  Speaker 1: of the world, in all lines of achievement, have sprung
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  Speaker 1: from poverty. I do not mean from proper homes, but
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  Speaker 1: from the homes where only the mere necessities of life
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  Speaker 1: could be obtained, and where early in their youth that
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  Speaker 1: children felt it necessary to go into the world and
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  Speaker 1: make their own way. Self dependence, self reliance, energy ambition
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  Speaker 1: were all developed in this way. How rarely do we
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  Speaker 1: find these qualities in the children of wealth, how rarely
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  Speaker 1: to great philosophers, great statesmen, great thinkers, and great characters
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  Speaker 1: developed from the wealthy classes. Pauperism, infinite labor, the wage
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  Speaker 1: earning women are all evils which ought to be abolished.
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  Speaker 1: But next to that evil, I believe the worst thing
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  Speaker 1: possible for a human soul is to be born to wealth.
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  Speaker 1: It is an obstacle to greatness which few are strong
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  Speaker 1: enough to surmount, and it rarely results in happiness to
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  Speaker 1: the recipient. End of section four Section five of the
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  Speaker 1: Heart of the New Thought by Ella Wheeler Wilcox. This
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  Speaker 1: liprifox recording is in the public domain. Obstacles. However great
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  Speaker 1: the obstacles between you and your goal may be, or
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  Speaker 1: have been, do not lay the blame of your failure
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  Speaker 1: upon them. Other people have succeeded in overcoming just as
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  Speaker 1: great obstacles. Remove such hindrances from the path for others
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  Speaker 1: if you can, or tell them a way to go around,
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  Speaker 1: even lead them a little distance and cheer them on.
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  Speaker 1: But so far as you yourself are concerned, do not
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  Speaker 1: stop to excuse any delinquency, or half heartedness, or defeat
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  Speaker 1: by the plea of circumstance or environment. The great nature
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  Speaker 1: makes its own environment, and to benates circumstance. It all
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  Speaker 1: depends upon the amount of force.
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  Speaker 2: In your own soul.
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  Speaker 1: While you apply this rule to yourself and make no
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  Speaker 1: scapegoat of fate, you must have consideration for the weakness
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  Speaker 1: of others, and you must try and better the conditions
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  Speaker 1: of the world as you go along. You are robust
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  Speaker 1: and possessed of all your limbs. You can mount over
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  Speaker 1: the great boulder which has fallen in the road to success,
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  Speaker 1: and go on your way to your goal, all the
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  Speaker 1: stronger for the experience. But behind you comes a one
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  Speaker 1: legged man, a blind man, a man bowed to the
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  Speaker 1: earth with a heavy burden which he cannot lay down.
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  Speaker 1: It will require weeks, months, years of effort on their
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  Speaker 1: part to climb over that rock which you surmounted in
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  Speaker 1: a few hours. So it is right and just for
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  Speaker 1: you to cool other strong ones to your aid and
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  Speaker 1: roll the boulder away or blast it out of the path.
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  Speaker 1: That is just exactly the way you should think of
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  Speaker 1: the present industrial conditions. In spite of them, the strong,
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  Speaker 1: well poised, earnest and determined soul can reach any desired success.
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  Speaker 1: There are boulders in the road which do not belong there,
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  Speaker 1: Boulders which cause hundreds of the pilgrims who are lame,
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  Speaker 1: or blind or burdened to fall by the wayside and perish.
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  Speaker 2: It is your.
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  Speaker 1: Duty to aid in removing these obstacles and in making
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  Speaker 1: the road a safe and clear thoroughfare for all who journey.
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  Speaker 1: Do not sit down by the roadside and say you
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  Speaker 1: have been hindered by these difficulties. That is to confess
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  Speaker 1: yourself weak. Do not mount over them and rush to
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  Speaker 1: your goal and say coldly to the throgs behind you, Oh,
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  Speaker 1: everybody can climb over that rock. Who really tries, didn't I?
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  Speaker 1: That is to announce yourself selfish and unsympathetic. No doubt
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  Speaker 1: the lame, the blind mind, and the burden could attain
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  Speaker 1: the goal despite the rocks, if they were fired by
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  Speaker 1: a consciousness of the divine force within them. That consciousness
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  Speaker 1: can achieve all things under all circumstances. But there will
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  Speaker 1: always be thousands of pilgrims toiling wearily toward the goal
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  Speaker 1: who have not come to this realization. If there are unjust, unfair,
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  Speaker 1: and unkind restrictions placed about them, see to it that
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  Speaker 1: you do all in your power to write what is wrong,
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  Speaker 1: but never wait to attain your own success because of
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  Speaker 1: these restrictions or obstacles. Believe absolutely in your own God
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  Speaker 1: given power to overcome anything and everything. Think of yourself
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  Speaker 1: as performing miracles with.
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  Speaker 2: The God's aid.
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  Speaker 1: Desire success so intensely that you attract if as the
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  Speaker 1: magnet attracts the steel.
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  Speaker 2: Help to adjust.
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  Speaker 1: Things as you go along, but never for a moment
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  Speaker 1: believe that the lack of adjustment can cause you to fail.
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  Speaker 1: End of section five Section six of the Heart of
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  Speaker 1: the New Thought by Ella Wheeler Wilcox. This liprivox recording
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  Speaker 1: is in the public domain. Thought force, your spirit and
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  Speaker 1: mine are both part of the stupendous cause. We have
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  Speaker 1: always been and always will be. First in one form,
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  Speaker 1: then in another. Every thought, word, and deed is helping
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  Speaker 1: decide your next place in the Creator's magnificent universe. You
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  Speaker 1: will be beautiful or ugly, wise or ignorant, fortunate or unfortunate,
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  Speaker 1: according to what use you make of yourself here and now.
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  Speaker 1: Unselfish thoughts training your mind to desire only universal good,
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  Speaker 1: the cultivation of the highest attributes such as love, honesty, gratitude, faith, reverence,
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  Speaker 1: and goodwill all mean a life of usefulness and happiness
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  Speaker 1: in another incarnation, as well as satisfaction and self respect
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  Speaker 1: in this sphere. Even if you escape the immediate results
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  Speaker 1: of the opposite course of action here, you must face
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  Speaker 1: the law of cause and effect in the next state.
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  Speaker 1: It is inevitable. God, the maker of all things, does
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  Speaker 1: not change his laws. As you sow, you reap as
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  Speaker 1: a man thinketh so is he. There is no revenge
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  Speaker 1: in God's mind. He simply makes his laws, and we
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  Speaker 1: work our destinies for good or ill, according to our
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  Speaker 1: adherents to them or violation of them. Each one of
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  Speaker 1: us is a needed part of his great plan. Let
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  Speaker 1: each soul say he has need of me, or I
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  Speaker 1: would not be. I am here to strengthen the plan.
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  Speaker 1: Remember that always in your most discourage ours, the Creator
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  Speaker 1: makes no mistakes. There is a divine purpose in your
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  Speaker 1: being on earth. Think of yourself as a necessary to
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  Speaker 1: the great design. It is an inspiring thought, and then
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  Speaker 1: consider the immensity of the universe and how accurately the
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  Speaker 1: Maker planned it all. Do not associate with pessimists. If
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  Speaker 1: you are unfortunate enough to be the son or daughter,
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  Speaker 1: husband or wife, of one. Put cotton, either real or spiritual,
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  Speaker 1: in your ears, and shut out the poisoned words of
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: discouragement and despondency. No tie of blood or law should
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: compel you to listen to what means discomfort and disaster
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  Speaker 1: to you. Get out and away into the society of
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  Speaker 1: optimistic people. Before you go, insist on saying cheerful, hopeful,
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  Speaker 1: and bright things, sowing the seed, as it were in
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  Speaker 1: the mental ground behind you, But do not sit down
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  Speaker 1: to see it grow. Never feel that it is your
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  Speaker 1: duty to stay closely and continuously in the atmosphere of
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: the despondent. You might as well think it your duty
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  Speaker 1: to stay in deep water with one who would not
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  Speaker 1: make the least effort to swim. Get on shore and
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: throughout a life line, but do not remain and be
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  Speaker 1: dragged under. If you find anyone determined to talk failure
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  Speaker 1: and sickness and misfortune and disaster, walk away. You would
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  Speaker 1: not permit the dearest person on earth to administer slow
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  Speaker 1: poison to you. If you knew it, then why think
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  Speaker 1: it your duty to take mental portions which paralyze your
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  Speaker 1: courage and kill your ambition. Despondency is one phase of immorality.
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  Speaker 1: It is blasphemous, an insult.
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  Speaker 2: To the creator.
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  Speaker 1: You are justified in avoiding the people who send you
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  Speaker 1: from their presence with less hope and force and strength
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  Speaker 1: to cope with life's problems than when you met them.
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  Speaker 1: Do what you can to change their current of thought,
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: but do not associate intimately with them until they have
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: learned to keep silent, at least if they cannot speak, Hopefully,
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: learn how to walk, how to poise your body, how
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: to breathe, how to hold your head, how to focus
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  Speaker 1: your mind on things of universal importance. Believe your tender,
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  Speaker 1: loving thoughts and wishes for good to all humanity have
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  Speaker 1: power to help the struggling souls of earth to rise
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  Speaker 1: to higher and better conditions, no matter how limited your
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  Speaker 1: sphere of action may seem to you, and how small
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  Speaker 1: your town appears on the map. If you develop your
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  Speaker 1: mental and spiritual forces through love thoughts, you can be
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  Speaker 1: a power to move the world along. Wise up and
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  Speaker 1: realize your strength. Note only will you be more useful
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  Speaker 1: and happy, but you will grow more beautiful and keep
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: your youth. End of Section six. Section seven of the
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  Speaker 1: Heart of the New Thought by Ella Wheeler Wilcox this
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  Speaker 1: LibriVox recording is in the public domain. Opulence. Do not
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: go through the world talking poverty and asking everyone you
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  Speaker 1: deal with to show you special consideration because you are
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: poor and unfortunate. If you do this with an idea
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  Speaker 1: of saving a few dollars here and there, you will
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  Speaker 1: always have to do it because you are creating poverty
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: conditions by your constant assertions. It is a curious fact
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: that the people who are always demanding consideration in money
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: matters demand the best that is going at the same time.
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: I have known a woman to make a plea for
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: cut prices in a boarding house because she was so poor,
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: yet she wanted the sunniest room and the best location
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  Speaker 1: the house afforded. It is the charity patience who make
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: the most complaint of a physician's skill or a nurse's attention.
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  Speaker 1: If you cannot afford to do certain things or buy
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  Speaker 1: certain objects, don't But when you decide, you must decide
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  Speaker 1: too that you will pay the price and make no
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: whining plea of poverty. There are two extremes of people
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  Speaker 1: in the world, one as distasteful as the other. One
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: is represented by the men who boast of the costliness
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: of every possession and invites the whole world to behold
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: his opulence and expenditure. His clothes, his house, his servants,
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: his habits seem no different to the observer from his neighbors,
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: yet according to his story, they cost ten times the amount.
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  Speaker 1: The other extreme is the man who dresses well, lives well,
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  Speaker 1: enjoys all the comforts and the pleasures of his associates,
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  Speaker 1: yet talks poverty continually and expects the entire community to
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: show him consideration in consequence. Another thing to avoid is
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: the role of the chronically injured person. We all know him.
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: He has a continual grievance. He has been cheated, abused, wronged, insulted, disappointed,
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: and deceived. We wonder how or why he has managed
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: to exist as we listen to the story of his troubles.
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: No one ever treats him fear, either in business or
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: social life. Everybody is ungrateful, unkind, selfish, and he could
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  Speaker 1: not be made to believe that these experiences were of
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: his own making. All of us meet with occasional blows
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: from fate in the form of insults, or ingratitude, or
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: trickery from an unexpected source. But if we get nothing else,
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: but those disappointing experiences from life, we may rest assured
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: that the fault lies somewhere in ourselves. We are not
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: sending out the right kind of mental stuff, or we
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: would get better returns. You never can tell what your
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: thoughts will do in bringing you hate or love, For
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: those are things, and their wings are swift as a
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: carrier dove. They follow the law of the universe. Each
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: thing must create its kind, and they speed over the
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: track to bring you back whatever went out from your mind.
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  Speaker 1: In the main, we must, of necessity, get from humanity.
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  Speaker 2: What we give to it.
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: If we question our ability to win friends or love,
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: people will also question it. If we doubt our own
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: judgment and discretion in business, others will doubt it, and
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: the shrewd and unprincipled will take the opportunity given by
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: our doubts of ourselves to spring upon us. If in consequence,
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: we distrust every person we meet, we create an unwholesome
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: and unfortunate atmosphere about ourselves, which will bring to us
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  Speaker 1: the unworthy and deceitful. Stand firm in the universe. Believe
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  Speaker 1: in yourself, believe in others. If you make a mistake,
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  Speaker 1: consider it only an incident. If someone wrongs you, cheats, misuses,
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: or insults you, let it pass as one of the
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: lessons you had to learn. But do not imagine that
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: you are selected by fate for only such lessons. Keep wholesome, hopeful,
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: and sympathetic with the world at large, whatever individuals may do.
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: Expect life to use you better every year, and it
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: will not disappoint you in the long run, for life
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: is what we make it. End of section seven, Section
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  Speaker 1: eight of The Heart of the New Thought by Ella
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  Speaker 1: Wheeler Wilcox. This librifox recording is in the public domain eternity.
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  Speaker 1: Do you know what a wonderfully complicated thing a human
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: being is? Every feature, every portion of your body, every
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: motion you make, reflects your mental organization. I know a
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: woman past middle life who has always been on the
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: opposite side of every question discussed in her presence. She
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: was agnostic with the orthodox, reverential with the Asiast, liberal
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: with the narrow, bigoted with the liberal. Whatever believe any
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: one expressed on any subject, she invariably took the other extreme.
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: She loved to disagree with her fellow men. It was
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: her pastime now to walk with that woman in silence
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: is merely to carry on a wordless argument. You cannot
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: regulate your steps, so they will harmonize with hers. She
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: will be just ahead or just behind you, and if
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: you want to turn to the left, she pulls to
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: the right. A promenade with her is more exhausting than
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: a day's labor. She is not conscious of it, and
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: would think anyone very unreasonable and unjust who told her
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: of her peculiarities. I know a woman who all her
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: life has been looking afar for happiness and peace and content,
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: and has never found any of them because she did
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: not look in her own soul. She was a restless girl,
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: and she married, believing in domestic life lay the goal
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: of her dreams. But she was not happy there and
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: sighed for freedom. She wanted to move, and did move
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: once twice twice to different points of the United States.
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: She was discontented with each change. She is today possessed
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: of all comforts and luxuries which life can afford, yet
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: she is the same restless soul. She likes to read,
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: but it is always the book which she does not possess,
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: which she craves. If she is in the library with
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: shelves's book filled, she goes into the garret and hunts
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: in old boxes for a book or a paper which
• 42:53
  Speaker 1: has been cast aside. If she is in a picture gallery,
• 42:57
  Speaker 1: she wants to go to the window and look out
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: on the street. But when she is on the street
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: it bores her, and she longs to go in the house.
• 43:08
  Speaker 1: If a member of the family is absent, she gets
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: no enjoyment out of the society of those at home.
• 43:16
  Speaker 1: Yet when that absent one returns, her mind strays elsewhere,
• 43:21
  Speaker 1: seeking some imagined happiness not found here. I wonder if
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: such souls ever find it, even in the spirit realm,
• 43:33
  Speaker 1: or if they go on their seeking and always seeking
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: something just beyond. It is a great gift to learn
• 43:44
  Speaker 1: to enjoy the present, to get all there is out
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: of it, and to think of today as a piece
• 43:51
  Speaker 1: of eternity. Begin now to teach yourself this great art,
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: if you have not thought of it before. To be
• 44:02
  Speaker 1: able to enjoy heaven, one must learn.
• 44:06
  Speaker 2: First to enjoy earth. End of section eight.
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: Section nine of The Heart of the New Thought by
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: Ella Wheeler Wilcox. This librifox recording is in the public domain.
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  Speaker 1: Morning Influences. What do you think about the very first
• 44:34
  Speaker 1: thing in the morning. Your thoughts during the first half
• 44:39
  Speaker 1: hour of the morning will greatly influence the entire day.
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: You may not realize this, but it is nevertheless a fact.
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: If you set out with worry and depression and bitterness
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: of soul toward fate or man, you are giving the
• 45:01
  Speaker 1: keynote to a day of discords and misfortunes. If you
• 45:07
  Speaker 1: think peace, hope, and happiness, you are sounding a note
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: of harmony and success. The result may not be felt
• 45:18
  Speaker 1: at once, but it will not fail to make itself
• 45:23
  Speaker 1: evident eventually. Control your morning thoughts.
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  Speaker 2: You can do it.
• 45:31
  Speaker 1: The first moment on waking, no matter what your mood.
• 45:35
  Speaker 1: Say to yourself, I will get all the comfort and
• 45:41
  Speaker 1: pleasure possible out of this day, and I will do
• 45:45
  Speaker 1: something to add to the measure of the world's happiness
• 45:50
  Speaker 1: or well being. I will control myself when tempted to
• 45:56
  Speaker 1: be irritable or unhappy. I will look for the bright
• 46:01
  Speaker 1: side of every event. Once you say these things over
• 46:07
  Speaker 1: to yourself in a calm, earnest way, you will begin
• 46:12
  Speaker 1: to feel more cheerful. The worries and troubles of the
• 46:16
  Speaker 1: coming day will seem less clossal. Then say, I shall
• 46:23
  Speaker 1: be given help to meet anything that comes today. Everything
• 46:28
  Speaker 1: will be for the best. I shall succeed in whatever
• 46:33
  Speaker 1: I undertake. I cannot fail. Do not let it discourage you.
• 46:41
  Speaker 1: If the moment you leave your room you encounter a
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: trouble or a disaster. This usually happens. When we make
• 46:51
  Speaker 1: any boasts, spiritually or physically, we are put to the test.
• 46:58
  Speaker 1: The occult forces at us are not unlike human beings.
• 47:04
  Speaker 1: When a school boy boasts of his strength and says
• 47:08
  Speaker 1: he can lick any boy in school, he generally gets
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: a chance to prove it. When we declare we are
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: brave enough to overcome any fate, we find our strength
• 47:23
  Speaker 1: put to the test at once. But that is all right.
• 47:29
  Speaker 1: Prove your words to be true. Regard the troubles and
• 47:33
  Speaker 1: cares you encounter as the punching bags of fate given
• 47:38
  Speaker 1: you to develop your spiritual muscle. Go at them with
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: courage and keep to your mourning resolve. By and by,
• 47:49
  Speaker 1: the troubles will lessen, and you will find yourself master
• 47:53
  Speaker 1: of circumstances. End of section nine, Section ten of the
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  Speaker 1: Heart of the New Thought by Ella Wheeler Wilcox. This
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  Speaker 1: liprivox recording is in the public domain. The philosophy of happiness.
• 48:19
  Speaker 1: There are natures born to happiness, just as there are
• 48:24
  Speaker 1: born musicians, mechanics, and mathematicians. They are usually children who
• 48:33
  Speaker 1: came into life under right pre natal conditions, that is,
• 48:39
  Speaker 1: children conceived and born in love. The mother who thanks
• 48:45
  Speaker 1: God for the little life she is about to bring
• 48:49
  Speaker 1: to earth, gives her child a more blessed endowment than
• 48:54
  Speaker 1: if it were heir to a kingdom or a fortune.
• 48:59
  Speaker 1: As the majority of people, however, born under civilized conditions,
• 49:05
  Speaker 1: are unwelcomed to their mothers, it is rarely we encounter
• 49:10
  Speaker 1: one who has a birthright of happiness. Youth possesses a
• 49:16
  Speaker 1: certain buoyancy and exhilaration which passes for happiness until the
• 49:23
  Speaker 1: real disposition of the individual asserts itself with the passing
• 49:28
  Speaker 1: of time. Good health and strong vitality are great aids
• 49:35
  Speaker 1: to happiness, yet that they, wealth and honors added do
• 49:41
  Speaker 1: not produce that much desired state of mind. We have
• 49:47
  Speaker 1: but to look about us to observe. One who is
• 49:52
  Speaker 1: not born a musician needs to toil more assiduously to
• 49:57
  Speaker 1: acquire skill in the art, however strong his desire or
• 50:02
  Speaker 1: great his taste than the natural genius. So the man
• 50:08
  Speaker 1: not endowed with joyous impulses needs to set himself the
• 50:13
  Speaker 1: task of acquiring the habit of happiness. I believe it
• 50:18
  Speaker 1: can be done to the sad, or restless or discontented being.
• 50:24
  Speaker 1: I would say, begin each morning by resolving to find
• 50:29
  Speaker 1: something in the day to enjoy. Look in each experience
• 50:35
  Speaker 1: which comes to you for some grain of happiness. You
• 50:39
  Speaker 1: will be surprised to find how much that has seemed
• 50:44
  Speaker 1: hopelessly disagreeable possesses either an instructive or.
• 50:48
  Speaker 2: An amusing side.
• 50:51
  Speaker 1: There is a certain happiness to be found in the
• 50:54
  Speaker 1: most disagreeable duty when you stop to realize that you
• 51:00
  Speaker 1: are getting it out of the way. If it is
• 51:03
  Speaker 1: one of those duties which has the uncomfortable habit of
• 51:08
  Speaker 1: repeating itself continually, you can at least say you are
• 51:13
  Speaker 1: learning patience and perseverance, which are too great virtues and
• 51:18
  Speaker 1: essential to any permanent happiness in life. Do not anticipate
• 51:24
  Speaker 1: the happiness of tomorrow, but discover it in today. Unless
• 51:30
  Speaker 1: you are in the profound depths of some great sorrow,
• 51:34
  Speaker 1: you will find it if you look for it. Think
• 51:38
  Speaker 1: of yourself each morning as an explorer in a new realm.
• 51:43
  Speaker 1: I know a man whose time is gold, and he
• 51:47
  Speaker 1: carefully arranged his plans to take three hours for a
• 51:52
  Speaker 1: certain pleasure. He lost his way and missed his pleasure,
• 51:57
  Speaker 1: but was full of exuberant delay night over his new experience,
• 52:03
  Speaker 1: I saw places and met with adventures. I might have
• 52:07
  Speaker 1: missed my whole life. He was a true philosopher and optimist.
• 52:14
  Speaker 1: And such a man gets the very kernel out of
• 52:17
  Speaker 1: the not of life. I know a woman who had
• 52:21
  Speaker 1: since her birth every material blessing, health, wealth, position, travel,
• 52:29
  Speaker 1: and a luxurious home. She was forever complaining of the
• 52:34
  Speaker 1: cares and responsibilities of the latter. Finally she prevailed upon
• 52:40
  Speaker 1: the family to rent the home for a series of
• 52:44
  Speaker 1: years and to live in hotels. Now she goes about
• 52:48
  Speaker 1: posing as a martyr, a homeless woman. It is impossible
• 52:53
  Speaker 1: for such a selfishly perverted nature to no happiness. A
• 52:59
  Speaker 1: child should be taught from its earliest life to find
• 53:03
  Speaker 1: entertainment in every kind of condition or weather. If it
• 53:08
  Speaker 1: hears its elders cursing and bemoaning a rainy day, that
• 53:13
  Speaker 1: Chile's plastic mind is quick to receive the impression that
• 53:18
  Speaker 1: a rainy day is a disaster. How much better to
• 53:23
  Speaker 1: expatiate in its presence on the blessing of rain, and
• 53:27
  Speaker 1: to teach it the enjoyment of all nature's varying moods
• 53:32
  Speaker 1: which other young animals feel. Happiness must come from within
• 53:38
  Speaker 1: in order to respond to that which comes from without,
• 53:43
  Speaker 1: just as there must be a musical ear and temperament
• 53:47
  Speaker 1: to enjoy music cultivate happiness as an art or science.
• 53:55
  Speaker 1: End of Section ten, Section eleven of the Heart of
• 54:06
  Speaker 1: the New Thought by Ella Wheeler Wilcox. This LibriVox recording
• 54:12
  Speaker 1: is in the public domain.
• 54:15
  Speaker 2: A worn out creed.
• 54:19
  Speaker 1: I have a letter from an Orthodox Christian who says
• 54:24
  Speaker 1: the only hope for humanity lies in the old fashioned religion.
• 54:31
  Speaker 2: Then he proceeds to tell.
• 54:33
  Speaker 1: Me how carefully he has studied human nature in business,
• 54:38
  Speaker 1: in social life, and in himself, and that he finds
• 54:43
  Speaker 1: it all vile, selfish, sinful. Of course he does, because
• 54:49
  Speaker 1: he studies it from a false and harmful standpoint, and
• 54:54
  Speaker 1: looks for the worm of earth and the poor, miserable
• 54:58
  Speaker 1: sinner instead of the divine men. We find what we
• 55:03
  Speaker 1: look for in this world. I have always been looking
• 55:09
  Speaker 1: for the noble qualities in human beings, and I have
• 55:13
  Speaker 1: found them. There are great souls all along the high
• 55:19
  Speaker 1: way of life, and there are great qualities even in
• 55:23
  Speaker 1: the people who seem common and weak to us. Ordinarily,
• 55:30
  Speaker 1: one of the grandest souls I know is a man
• 55:34
  Speaker 1: who served his term in prison for since committed while
• 55:38
  Speaker 1: in drink. He was not born bad. He simply drifted
• 55:44
  Speaker 1: into bad company and formed bad habits. He paid the
• 55:50
  Speaker 1: awful penalty of five years behind prison bars. But the
• 55:56
  Speaker 1: divine man within him asserted itself, and today I have
• 56:01
  Speaker 1: no friend. I feel prouder to call that name. Mister
• 56:07
  Speaker 1: John L. Tait, secretary of the Central Howard Association of Chicago,
• 56:13
  Speaker 1: writes me, regarding his knowledge of ex convicts, according to
• 56:19
  Speaker 1: my experience with a number of men of this class
• 56:23
  Speaker 1: during the last two years, more than ninety percent of
• 56:27
  Speaker 1: them are worthy of the most cordial support and assistance.
• 56:33
  Speaker 1: If this can be said of men who have been criminals,
• 56:37
  Speaker 1: surely humanity is not so vile as my orthodox correspondent
• 56:42
  Speaker 1: would have me believe. A Christian of that order ought
• 56:48
  Speaker 1: to be put under restraint and not allowed to associate
• 56:52
  Speaker 1: with mankind. He carries a moral malaria with him which
• 56:58
  Speaker 1: poisons the heir. He suggests evil to minds which have
• 57:04
  Speaker 1: not thought it. He is a dangerous hypnotist while pretending
• 57:10
  Speaker 1: to be a disciple of Christ. The man who believes
• 57:15
  Speaker 1: that all men are vicious, selfish, and immoral is projecting
• 57:22
  Speaker 1: pernicious mind stuff into space, which is as dangerous to
• 57:27
  Speaker 1: the peace of the community as dynamite bombs. The world
• 57:33
  Speaker 1: has been kept back too long by this false, unholy,
• 57:38
  Speaker 1: and blasphemous religion. It is not the religion of Christ.
• 57:44
  Speaker 1: It is the religion of ignorant translators, ignorant readers. Thank God,
• 57:52
  Speaker 1: its supremacy is past. A wholesome and holy religion has
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  Speaker 1: taken its place with the tellis and progressive minds of
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  Speaker 1: the day, A religion which says, I am all goodness, love, truth, mercy, health,
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  Speaker 1: I am a necessary part of God's universe. I am
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  Speaker 1: a divine soul, and only good can come through me
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  Speaker 1: or to me. God made me, and He could make
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  Speaker 1: nothing but goodness and purity and worth. I am the
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  Speaker 1: reflection of all His qualities. This is then new religion,
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  Speaker 1: yet it is older than the universe. It is God's
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  Speaker 1: own thought put into practical form. End of Section eleven.
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  Speaker 1: Section twelve of the Heart of the New Thought by
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  Speaker 1: Ella Wheeler Wilcock. This sliprivox recording is in the public
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  Speaker 1: domain common sense. If you are suffering from physical ills,
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  Speaker 1: ask yourself if it is not your own fault. There
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  Speaker 1: is scarcely one person in one hundred who does not
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  Speaker 1: overeat or drink. I know an entire family who complain
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  Speaker 1: of gastric troubles, yet who keep the coffee pot continually
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  Speaker 1: on the range and drink large quantities of that beverage
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  Speaker 1: at least twice a day. No one can be well
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  Speaker 1: who does that. Almost every human ailment can be traced
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  Speaker 1: to foolish diet. Eat only two meals in twenty four
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  Speaker 1: hours if you are not in gaged in active physical labor.
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  Speaker 1: Make it one meal. Drink two or three or four
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  Speaker 1: quarts of milk at intervals during the day to supply
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  Speaker 1: good blood to the system. You will thrive upon it,
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  Speaker 1: and you will not miss the other two meals after
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  Speaker 1: the first week, and your ailments will gradually disappear. Meantime,
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  Speaker 1: if you are self supporting, your bank account will increase.
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  Speaker 1: Think of the waste of money which goes into indigestible food.
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  Speaker 1: It is appalling when you consider it. Heaven speed the
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  Speaker 1: time when men and women find out how little money
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  Speaker 1: it requires to sustain the body in good health and
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  Speaker 1: keep the brain clear and the eye bright. The heavy
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  Speaker 1: drinker is today look upon with pity and scorn. The
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  Speaker 1: time will come when the heavy eater will be similarly regarded.
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  Speaker 1: Once you find the delight of a simple diet, the
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  Speaker 1: benefit to body and mind and purse and life will
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  Speaker 1: assume new interest, and toil will be robbed of its drudgery,
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  Speaker 1: for it will cease to be a mere matter of
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  Speaker 1: toiling for a bare existence. Again, are you unhappy? Stop
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  Speaker 1: and ask yourself why. If you have a great sorrow,
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  Speaker 1: time will be your consoler. And there is an ennobling
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  Speaker 1: and enriching effect of sorrow while born. It is the
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  Speaker 1: education of the soul. But if you are unhappy over
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  Speaker 1: petty worries and trials, you are wearing yourself to no avail.
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  Speaker 1: And if you are allowing small things to irritate and
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  Speaker 1: harass you, and to spoil the beautiful days for you,
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  Speaker 1: take yourself in hand and change your ways. You can
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  Speaker 1: do it if you choose. It is pitiful to observe
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  Speaker 1: what sort of troubles most unhappy people are afflicted with.
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  Speaker 1: I have seen a beautiful young woman grow careligned and
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  Speaker 1: faded just from imagining she was being slighted or neglected
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  Speaker 1: by her acquaintances. Someone nodded coldly to her, another one
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  Speaker 1: spoke super seriously, a third failed to invite her, a
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  Speaker 1: fourth did not pay her a call, and so on.
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  Speaker 1: Always a grievance to relate until one is prepared to
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  Speaker 1: look sympathetic at the sight of her, and such petty,
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  Speaker 1: petty grievances for this great good life to be marred by,
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  Speaker 1: and all the result of her own disposition. Had she
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  Speaker 1: chosen to look for appreciation and attention and good will,
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  Speaker 1: she would have found it everywhere. Then about your temper?
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  Speaker 1: Is it flying loose over a trifle?
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 2: Are you making.
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  Speaker 1: Yourself and every one else wretched? If a chair is
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  Speaker 1: out of place, or a meal a moment late, or
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  Speaker 1: some member of the family athordy at dinner, or your
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  Speaker 1: shoe string is in a tangle, or your collar button mislaid.
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  Speaker 1: Do you go to pieces nervously if you are obliged
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  Speaker 1: to repeat a remark to some one who did not
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  Speaker 1: understand you. I have known a home to be ruined
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  Speaker 1: by just such infinitesimal annoyance. It is a habit, like
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 1: the drug or alcohol habit this irritability.
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  Speaker 2: All you need do is to stop it.
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  Speaker 1: Keep your voice from rising, and speak slowly and calmly.
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  Speaker 1: When you feel yourself giving way to it. Realize how
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  Speaker 1: ridiculous and disagreeable you will be if you continue, what
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  Speaker 1: an unlovely and hideous old age you are preparing for yourself.
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  Speaker 1: And realize that a loose temper is a sign of
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  Speaker 1: vulgarity and lack of culture.
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  Speaker 2: Think of the value of each.
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  Speaker 1: Day of life, how much it means, and what possibilities
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  Speaker 1: of happiness and usefulness it contains if well spent. But
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 1: if you stuff yourself like an iconda, dwell on the
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  Speaker 1: small worries, and grow angry at the least trifle, you
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  Speaker 1: are committing as great and inexcusable a folly as if
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  Speaker 1: you've flung your furniture and garments and food and fuel
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  Speaker 1: into the sea in a spirit of wanton cruelty. You
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  Speaker 1: are wasting life for nothing. Every sick, gloomy day you
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  Speaker 1: pass is as sin against life.
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  Speaker 2: Get health, be cheerful.
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  Speaker 1: Keep calm, clear your mind of every gloomy, selfish, angry
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  Speaker 1: or revengeful thought. Allow no resentment or grudge toward man
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  Speaker 1: or fate. To stay in your heart over night, wake
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  Speaker 1: in the morning with a blessing for every living thing
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  Speaker 1: on your lips and in your soul. Say to yourself, health, luck, usefulness,
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  Speaker 1: success are mind.
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  Speaker 2: I claim them.
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  Speaker 1: Keep thinking that thought, no matter what happens, Just as
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  Speaker 1: you would put one foot before another if you had
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 1: a mountain to climb, Keep on, keep on, and suddenly
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  Speaker 1: you will find you are on the heights.
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  Speaker 2: Luck beside you.
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  Speaker 1: Whoever follows this recipe cannot fail of happiness, good fortune.
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  Speaker 2: And a useful life.
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  Speaker 1: But saying the words over once and then drifting back
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  Speaker 1: to anger, selfishness, revenge, and.
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  Speaker 2: Gloom will do no good.
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  Speaker 1: The words must be said over and over, and thought and.
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  Speaker 2: Lived when not said.
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  Speaker 1: End of Section twelve, Section thirteen of The Heart of
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  Speaker 1: the New Thought by Ella Wheeler Wilcox. This liprivox recording
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  Speaker 1: is in the public domain.
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  Speaker 2: Literature.
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  Speaker 1: The world is full of New Thought literature. It is
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 1: helpful and inspiring to read. It is worth many dollars
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 1: to anyone who will live its philosophy. I talked to
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 1: a man who has been studying along these lines for
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 1: some years.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, I know.
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  Speaker 1: All that philosophy, he said, it is nothing new. I
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 1: am perfectly familiar with it. Yet this man was continually
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 1: allowing himself to grow angry over the least trifle. He
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 1: was quick to see and speak of the faults in others.
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 1: He was the man more of those he associated with
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 1: in the way of consideration and justice than he was
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 1: willing to give. And he was untidy in his person
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 1: and improvident in his.
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  Speaker 2: Use of money.
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  Speaker 1: Now it is the merest waste of time for this
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  Speaker 1: man to read new thought, literature, or practice deep breathing,
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 1: since he will not put into daily and hourly practice
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 1: what is taught by the new religion. He is like
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 1: the Orthodox Christian who mumbles through the Lord's prayer.
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 2: And then goes forth to do exactly as he would
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 2: not be done by.
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  Speaker 1: In business, social, and domestic life, man is what he thinks,
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  Speaker 1: not what he says, reads, or hears. By persistent thinking,
• 1:08:59
  Speaker 1: you can undo any condition which exists. You can free
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  Speaker 1: yourself from any chains, whether of poverty, sin, ill health,
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 1: or unhappiness. If you have been thinking these thoughts half
• 1:09:17
  Speaker 1: a lifetime, you must not expect to batter down the
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  Speaker 1: walls you have built in a week or a month
• 1:09:26
  Speaker 1: or a year. You must work and wait and grow,
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 1: discourage and stumble, and pick yourself up and go on again.
• 1:09:37
  Speaker 1: You cannot in an hour gain control over a temper
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 1: which you have let fly loose for twenty years, but
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 1: you can control it eventually, and learn to think of
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 1: a burst of anger as a vulgarity, like drunkenness or profanity,
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 1: something you could not descend to. If you have allowed
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  Speaker 1: yourself to think despondent thoughts and believe that poverty and
• 1:10:07
  Speaker 1: sickness were your portion for years, it will take time
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 1: to train your mind to more cheerful and hopeful ideas,
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  Speaker 1: but you can do it by repeated assertions, and by
• 1:10:21
  Speaker 1: reading and thinking and living the Beautiful New Thought philosophy
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 1: and of section thirteen Section fourteen of The Heart of
• 1:10:39
  Speaker 1: the New Thought by Ella Wheeler Wilcox. This LibriVox recording
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  Speaker 1: is in the public domain. Optimism. Not long ago I
• 1:10:51
  Speaker 1: read the following gloomy bit of pessimism from the pen
• 1:10:55
  Speaker 1: of a man bright enough to know better than to
• 1:10:58
  Speaker 1: add to the mental melane of the world. He said,
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  Speaker 1: life is a hopeless battle in which we are foredoomed
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  Speaker 1: to defeat, and the prize for which we strive to
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  Speaker 1: have and to hold. What is it a thing that
• 1:11:17
  Speaker 1: is neither enjoyed while hand nor missed when lost, so worseless,
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  Speaker 1: it is so unsatisfying, so inadequate to purpose, so false
• 1:11:29
  Speaker 1: to hope, and at its best so brief, that for
• 1:11:34
  Speaker 1: consolation and compensation we set a fantastic feace of an
• 1:11:39
  Speaker 1: after time, in a better world from which no confirming
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 1: whisper has ever reached us out of the void. Heaven
• 1:11:48
  Speaker 1: is a prophecy uttered by the lips of despair, but
• 1:11:52
  Speaker 1: hell is an inference from history. This is morbid and
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  Speaker 1: unholsome talk which can do no human being any good
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  Speaker 1: to utter or listen to. But it can depress and
• 1:12:09
  Speaker 1: discourage the weak and struggling souls who are striving to
• 1:12:14
  Speaker 1: make the best of circumstances. And it can nerve to
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  Speaker 1: suicide the hand of some half crazed being who needed
• 1:12:24
  Speaker 1: only a word of encouragement and cheer to brace up
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  Speaker 1: and win the race. This is the unpardonable sin to
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  Speaker 1: talk discouragingly to human souls hungering for hope. When the
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  Speaker 1: man without brains does it, he can be pardoned for
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  Speaker 1: knowing no better. When the man with brains does it,
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  Speaker 1: He should be ashamed to look his fellow mortals in
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  Speaker 1: the eyes. It is a sin ten times deeper dyed
• 1:12:58
  Speaker 1: than giving a stone to those who ask for bread.
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  Speaker 1: It is giving poison to those who plead for.
• 1:13:06
  Speaker 2: A cup of cold water.
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  Speaker 1: Fortunately, the remarks above coated contain not one atom of truth.
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  Speaker 1: The writer may speak for himself, but he has no
• 1:13:20
  Speaker 1: right to speak for others. It is all very well
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  Speaker 1: for a man who is marked with smallpox to say
• 1:13:28
  Speaker 1: his face has not one unscarred inch on the surface
• 1:13:32
  Speaker 1: of it. But he has no premises to stand upon
• 1:13:37
  Speaker 1: when he says there is not a face in the
• 1:13:40
  Speaker 1: world which is free from smallpox scars. Life is not
• 1:13:46
  Speaker 1: a hopeless battle in which we are doomed to defeat.
• 1:13:51
  Speaker 1: Life is a glorious privilege, and we can make anything
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  Speaker 1: we choose of it. If we begin early and are
• 1:14:00
  Speaker 1: in deep earnest and realize our own divine powers, nothing
• 1:14:06
  Speaker 1: can hinder us or stay us. We can do and
• 1:14:11
  Speaker 1: be whatsoever we will. The price of life is not
• 1:14:16
  Speaker 1: a thing which is neither enjoyed while had, nor missed
• 1:14:21
  Speaker 1: when lost. It is enjoyed by millions of souls today.
• 1:14:28
  Speaker 1: This great price of life. I, for one, declare that
• 1:14:33
  Speaker 1: for every day of misery in my existence, I have
• 1:14:37
  Speaker 1: had a week of joy and happiness. For every hour
• 1:14:42
  Speaker 1: of pain, I have had a day of pleasure, for
• 1:14:46
  Speaker 1: every moment of worry, an hour of content. I cannot
• 1:14:51
  Speaker 1: be the only soul so endowed with the appreciation of life.
• 1:14:56
  Speaker 1: I know scores of happy people who enjoy oh with
• 1:15:00
  Speaker 1: the many delights of earth, and there are thousands whom
• 1:15:04
  Speaker 1: I do not know. Of course, life is not missed
• 1:15:09
  Speaker 1: when lost, because it is never lost. It is indestructible
• 1:15:16
  Speaker 1: life ever was, and ever will be. It is a
• 1:15:20
  Speaker 1: continuous performance. It is not worseless to the wholesome, normal mind.
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  Speaker 1: It is full of interest and rich with opportunities for usefulness.
• 1:15:32
  Speaker 1: When any man says his life is worthless, it is
• 1:15:36
  Speaker 1: because he has eyes and sees not, and ears and
• 1:15:41
  Speaker 1: hears not. It is his own fault, not the fault
• 1:15:46
  Speaker 1: of God, faith or accident. If every life seems at
• 1:15:52
  Speaker 1: times unsatisfactory and inadequate, it is only due to the
• 1:15:58
  Speaker 1: cry of the immortal soul longing for larger opportunities and
• 1:16:03
  Speaker 1: fewer limitations. Neither is life false to hope. He who
• 1:16:09
  Speaker 1: trusts the divine source of life shall find his hopes
• 1:16:13
  Speaker 1: more than realize here upon earth. I but voice the
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  Speaker 1: knowledge of thousands of souls. When I make this assertion,
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  Speaker 1: I know whereof I speak all that our dearest hopes
• 1:16:29
  Speaker 1: desire will come to us. If we believe in ourselves
• 1:16:33
  Speaker 1: as rightful heirs to divine opulence, and work and think
• 1:16:38
  Speaker 1: always on those lines. If no whisper has ever reached
• 1:16:44
  Speaker 1: us out of the void confirming our faith in immortality,
• 1:16:50
  Speaker 1: then one third of the seemingly intelligent and sane beings
• 1:16:55
  Speaker 1: of our acquaintance must be fools or liars. For we
• 1:17:00
  Speaker 1: have the assertion of fully this number, that such whispers
• 1:17:05
  Speaker 1: have come, besides the biblical statistics of numerous messages from
• 1:17:10
  Speaker 1: the other Realm, as it was in the beginning, is
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  Speaker 1: now and shall be ever more world without end amen.
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  Speaker 1: End of section fourteen Section fifteen of the Heart of
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  Speaker 1: the New Thought by Ella Wheeler Wilcox. This LibriVox recording
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  Speaker 1: is in the public domain preparation. Every day I hear
• 1:17:47
  Speaker 1: middle aged people bemoaning the fact that they were not
• 1:17:51
  Speaker 1: given advantages or did not seize the opportunities for an
• 1:17:57
  Speaker 1: education in early youth. They believe that their lives would
• 1:18:02
  Speaker 1: be happier, better, and more useful had an education been obtained.
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  Speaker 1: Scarcely one of these people realizes that middle life is
• 1:18:13
  Speaker 1: the school time for old age, and that just as
• 1:18:17
  Speaker 1: important an opportunity is being missed or ignored day.
• 1:18:22
  Speaker 2: By day for the storing.
• 1:18:24
  Speaker 1: Up of valuable knowledge, which will be of great importance
• 1:18:28
  Speaker 1: in rendering.
• 1:18:30
  Speaker 2: Old age endurable.
• 1:18:33
  Speaker 1: Youth is the season to acquire knowledge, middle life is
• 1:18:37
  Speaker 1: the time to acquire wisdom. Old age is the season
• 1:18:43
  Speaker 1: to enjoy both, but wisdom is far the more important.
• 1:18:48
  Speaker 2: Of the two.
• 1:18:50
  Speaker 1: By wisdom, I mean the philosophy which enables us to
• 1:18:54
  Speaker 1: control our tempers, curb our tendency to severe criticism, and
• 1:19:00
  Speaker 1: cultivate our sympathies. The majority of people after thirty five
• 1:19:07
  Speaker 1: consider themselves privileged to be cross, irritable, critical, and severe
• 1:19:14
  Speaker 1: because they have lived longer than the young, because they
• 1:19:18
  Speaker 1: have had more trials and disappointments, and because they believe
• 1:19:23
  Speaker 1: they understand the world better. Those are excellent reasons why
• 1:19:28
  Speaker 1: they should be patient, kind, broad and sympathetic. The longer
• 1:19:35
  Speaker 1: we live, the more we should realize the folly and
• 1:19:39
  Speaker 1: vulgarity of ill temper, the cruelty of severe criticism, and
• 1:19:44
  Speaker 1: the necessity for a broad minded view of life, manners, morals,
• 1:19:49
  Speaker 1: and customs. Unless we adapt ourselves to the changing habits
• 1:19:55
  Speaker 1: of the world, unless we adopt some of the new
• 1:19:59
  Speaker 1: ideas that are constantly coming to the front, we will
• 1:20:04
  Speaker 1: find ourselves carping, disagreeable, and lonely old people. As the
• 1:20:09
  Speaker 1: years go by, the world will not stand so for us.
• 1:20:14
  Speaker 1: Society will not wear the same clothes, or follow the
• 1:20:19
  Speaker 1: same pleasures, or think the same thoughts when we are
• 1:20:23
  Speaker 1: eighty that were prevalent when we were thirty. We must
• 1:20:29
  Speaker 1: keep moving with the world or stand still and solitary.
• 1:20:34
  Speaker 1: After thirty, we must cease every hour and educate ourselves
• 1:20:41
  Speaker 1: to grow into agreeable old age. It requires at least
• 1:20:46
  Speaker 1: twenty years to become well educated in book and college lore.
• 1:20:52
  Speaker 1: If we begin to study at seven, we are rarely
• 1:20:56
  Speaker 1: through with all our common schools, seminaries, high schools, and
• 1:21:01
  Speaker 1: colleges have to offer under a score of years. The
• 1:21:06
  Speaker 1: education for old age needs fully as many years. We
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  Speaker 1: need to begin at thirty to be tolerant, patient, serene, trustful,
• 1:21:17
  Speaker 1: sympathetic and liberal. Then at fifty we may hope to
• 1:21:22
  Speaker 1: have graduated with honors from life's school of wisdom, and
• 1:21:27
  Speaker 1: to be prepared for another score or two of years
• 1:21:31
  Speaker 1: of usefulness and enjoyment in the practice of these qualities.
• 1:21:37
  Speaker 1: And instead of wasting our time in bemoaning the loss
• 1:21:40
  Speaker 1: of early opportunities for obtaining an education, let us devote
• 1:21:45
  Speaker 1: ourselves to the cultivation of wisdom, since that is free
• 1:21:51
  Speaker 1: to all who possess self, control, will, power, faith, and perseverance.
• 1:21:58
  Speaker 1: Begin today at home. Be more tolerant of the faults
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  Speaker 1: of the other members of your household. Restrain your criticisms
• 1:22:07
  Speaker 1: on the conduct of your neighbors. Try and realize the
• 1:22:12
  Speaker 1: causes which lead some people who have gone wrong to err.
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  Speaker 1: Look for the admirable qualities in every one you meet.
• 1:22:21
  Speaker 1: Sympathize with the world. Be interested in progress, be interested
• 1:22:27
  Speaker 1: in the young. Keep in touch with each new generation,
• 1:22:31
  Speaker 1: and do not allow yourself to grow old in thought
• 1:22:35
  Speaker 1: or feeling. Educate yourself for a charming old age. There
• 1:22:41
  Speaker 1: is no time to lose. End of section fifteen. Section
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  Speaker 1: sixteen of The Heart of the New Thought by Ella
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  Speaker 1: Wheeler Wilcox. This LibriVox recording is in the public domain. Dividence,
• 1:23:08
  Speaker 1: our thoughts are shaping unmad spheres, and like a blessing
• 1:23:14
  Speaker 1: or a curse. They thunder down the formless years and
• 1:23:19
  Speaker 1: ring throughout the universe. The more we realize the tremendous
• 1:23:25
  Speaker 1: responsibility of our mental emanations, the better for the world
• 1:23:30
  Speaker 1: and ourselves, the sooner we teach little children what a
• 1:23:36
  Speaker 1: mighty truth lies in the Bible phrase, as a man thinketh,
• 1:23:41
  Speaker 1: so is he the better for future generations. If a
• 1:23:47
  Speaker 1: man thinks sickness, poverty, and misfortune, he will meet them
• 1:23:54
  Speaker 1: and claim them all eventually as his own. But he
• 1:23:58
  Speaker 1: will not acknowledge the close relationship. He will deny his
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  Speaker 1: own children and declare they were sent to him by
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  Speaker 1: an evil fate. Walter Atkinson tells us that he who
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  Speaker 1: hates is an assassin. Every kindergarten and public school teacher
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  Speaker 1: ought to embody this idea in the daily lessons for children.
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  Speaker 1: It may not be possible to teach a child to
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  Speaker 1: love every neighbor as himself, for that is the most
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  Speaker 1: difficult of commandments to follow to the letter. But it
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  Speaker 1: is possible to eliminate hatred from a nature. If we
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  Speaker 1: awaken sympathy for the object of dislike that which we pity,
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  Speaker 1: we cannot hate the wonderful intelligence which said, the super
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  Speaker 1: system of worlds in action must have inspired by love.
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  Speaker 1: For all it created so much grander and magnificence, so
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  Speaker 1: much perfection of detail, could only spring from love. Whatever
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  Speaker 1: is out of harmony in our little world has been
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  Speaker 1: caused by man's substituting hate and fear for love and faith.
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  Speaker 1: Every time we allow either hate or fear to dominate
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  Speaker 1: our minds, we disarrange the order of the universe and
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  Speaker 1: make trouble for humanity and ourselves. It may be a
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  Speaker 1: little late in reaching us, but it is sure to
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  Speaker 1: come back to the mind which sent forth the cause.
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  Speaker 1: Every time we entertain thoughts of love, sympathy, forgiveness, and faith,
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  Speaker 1: we add to the well being of the world and
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  Speaker 1: create fortunate and successful conditions for ourselves. Those two may
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  Speaker 1: be late in coming to us, but they will come.
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  Speaker 1: White thinking is not attained in a day or a week.
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  Speaker 1: We must train the mind to reject the broad of despondent, resentful, fearful,
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  Speaker 1: and prejudiced thoughts which approach it, and to invite and
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  Speaker 1: entertain cheerful, broad and wholesome thoughts instead. Just as we
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  Speaker 1: overcome false tones and cultivate musical ones. In educating the
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  Speaker 1: voice for singing. When we once realize that by driving
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  Speaker 1: away pessimistic, angry and bitter thoughts, we drive away sickness
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  Speaker 1: and misfortune to a great extent, and that by seeking
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  Speaker 1: the kinder and happier frame of mind we seek at
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  Speaker 1: the same time success and health and good luck, we
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  Speaker 1: will find a new impetus in the control of our
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  Speaker 1: mental forces. For we all love to be paid for
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  Speaker 1: our worthy deeds, even while we believe in being good
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  Speaker 1: for goodness sake only, and nothing in life is surer
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  Speaker 1: than this. Right thinking pays large dividends. Think success, prosperity, usefulness.
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  Speaker 1: It is much more profitable than thinking self destruction or
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  Speaker 1: the effort at self destruction, for that is an act
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  Speaker 1: which aims at an impossibility. You can destroy the body,
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  Speaker 1: but the you who suffers in mind and spirit will
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  Speaker 1: suffer still and live still. You will only change your
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  Speaker 1: location from one state to another. You did not make yourself.
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  Speaker 1: You cannot unmake yourself. You can merely put yourself among
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  Speaker 1: the spiritual tramps who hang about the earth's borders because
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  Speaker 1: they have not prepared a better place for themselves. Suicide
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  Speaker 1: is cheap, vulgar, and cowardly because you have made a
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  Speaker 1: wreck of a portion of this life. Do not make
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  Speaker 1: a wreck of the next. Mend up your broken life. Here,
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  Speaker 1: go along bravely and with sympathy and love in your heart,
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  Speaker 1: determined to help everybody you can, and to better your
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  Speaker 1: condition as soon as possible. Men have done this after
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  Speaker 1: fifty and lived thirty good years to enjoy the results.
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  Speaker 1: Do not feel hurt by the people who slight you,
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  Speaker 1: or who refer to your erring past. Be sorry for them.
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  Speaker 1: I would rather be a tender hearted, reformed sinner than
• 1:29:05
  Speaker 1: a hard hearted model of good behavior. I would rather
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  Speaker 1: learn sympathy through sin than never learn it at all.
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  Speaker 1: There is nothing we cannot live down and rise above
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  Speaker 1: and overcome. There is nothing we cannot be in the
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  Speaker 1: way of nobility and worth. End of Section sixteen, Section
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  Speaker 1: seventeen of the Heart of the New Thought by Ella
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  Speaker 1: Wheeler Wilcox. This LibriVox recording is in the public domain.
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  Speaker 2: Royalty. We get what we give.
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  Speaker 1: I have never known this rule to fail in the
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  Speaker 1: long run. If we give sympathy, appreciation, good will, charitable thoughts, admiration,
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  Speaker 1: and love, we receive all these back from humanity. In
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  Speaker 1: time we may bestow them unworthily. As the sour of
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  Speaker 1: good seed may cast it on a rocky surface, but
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  Speaker 1: the winds of heaven will scatter it broad cost and
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  Speaker 1: while the rock remains barren, the fields shall yield a
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  Speaker 1: golden harvest. The seed must be good. However, if I
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  Speaker 1: say to myself without any real regard for another, in
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  Speaker 1: my heart, I want that person to like me, I
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  Speaker 1: will do all in my power to please him. I
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  Speaker 1: need not be surprised if my efforts fail or prove
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  Speaker 1: of only temporary efficacy. Neither need I feel surprised or
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  Speaker 1: pained if I find by and by that other people
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  Speaker 1: are bestowing policy friendship upon me, actions with no feeling
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  Speaker 1: for a foundation. No matter how kind and useful I
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  Speaker 1: make my conduct toward an individual, if in my secret
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  Speaker 1: heart I am criticizing him severely and condemning him, I
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  Speaker 1: must expect criticism and condemnation from others as my portune.
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  Speaker 2: We reap what we sow.
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  Speaker 1: Some harvests are longer in growing than others, but they
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  Speaker 1: all grow in time. Servility and love or friendship or
• 1:31:40
  Speaker 1: duty is never commandable. I do not believe God himself
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  Speaker 1: feels complimented when the beings he created as the highest
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  Speaker 1: type of his workmanship. Declare themselves worsetless warms, unworthy of
• 1:31:57
  Speaker 1: his regard. We are heirs of God's kingdom and rightful
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  Speaker 1: inheritors of happiness and health and success. What a monarch
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  Speaker 1: would feel pleasure in having his children crawl in the
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  Speaker 1: dust saying we are less than nothing, miserable, unworthy creatures.
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  Speaker 1: Would he not prefer to hear them say proudly.
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  Speaker 2: We are of royal blood.
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  Speaker 1: We ought always to believe in our best selves, in
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  Speaker 1: our right to love and be loved, to give and
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  Speaker 1: receive happiness, and to toil and be rewarded. And then
• 1:32:42
  Speaker 1: we should bestow our love, our gifts, and our toil,
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  Speaker 1: with no anxious thought about the returns. If we chance
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  Speaker 1: to love a loveless individual, to give to one bankrupt
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  Speaker 1: in gratitude, to toil for the unappreciative, it is but
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  Speaker 1: a temporary deprivation for us. The love, the gratitude, and
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  Speaker 1: the recompense will all come to us in time, from
• 1:33:10
  Speaker 1: some source or many sources. It cannot fail. End of
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  Speaker 1: Section seventeen, Section eighteen of the Heart of the New
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  Speaker 1: Thought by Ella Wheeler Wilcox. This liprivox recording is in
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  Speaker 1: the public domain.
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  Speaker 2: Heredity.
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  Speaker 1: American parents, as a rule, can be put into two
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  Speaker 1: extreme classes, those who render the children insuperably conceded an
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  Speaker 1: unbearable by overestimating their abilities and overpraising their achievements, and
• 1:33:55
  Speaker 1: those who render them morbid and self deprecating by lack
• 1:33:59
  Speaker 1: of wholesops praise. It is rare, indeed, when we find
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  Speaker 1: parents wise and sensible enough to strengthen the best that
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  Speaker 1: is in their children by discreet praise, and at the
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  Speaker 1: same time to control the undesirable qualities by judicious and
• 1:34:20
  Speaker 1: kind criticism. I heard a grandmother not long ago telling
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  Speaker 1: coolers in the presence of a small boy, what a naughty,
• 1:34:31
  Speaker 1: bad child he was, and how impossible it seemed to
• 1:34:35
  Speaker 1: make him mind wretched seed to sow in the little mind,
• 1:34:40
  Speaker 1: and the harvest.
• 1:34:42
  Speaker 2: Is sure to be sorrow.
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  Speaker 1: I have heard parents and older children expeciate on the
• 1:34:50
  Speaker 1: ones to betrayed and the one plain feature of a
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  Speaker 1: bright and handsome child, intending to keep it from forming
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  Speaker 1: too good an opinion of itself.
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  Speaker 2: To all young.
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  Speaker 1: People, I would say, cultivate a belief in yourself. Base
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  Speaker 1: it on self respect and confidence in God's love for
• 1:35:12
  Speaker 1: his own handy work. Say to yourself, I will be
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  Speaker 1: what I will to be, not because your human will
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  Speaker 1: is all powerful, but because the divine will is back
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  Speaker 1: of you. Analyze your own abilities and find.
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  Speaker 2: What you are best fitted to do.
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  Speaker 1: Then get about the task of doing your chosen work
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  Speaker 1: to the very best of your ability, And do not
• 1:35:42
  Speaker 1: for an instant doubt your own capabilities. Perhaps they may
• 1:35:48
  Speaker 1: be dwarfed and enfeebled by years of morbid thought. But
• 1:35:53
  Speaker 1: if you persist in a self respecting, self reliant, and
• 1:35:57
  Speaker 1: God trusting course of thinking, your powers will increase and
• 1:36:02
  Speaker 1: your capabilities strengthen. It is no easy matter to overcome
• 1:36:08
  Speaker 1: a habit of self deprecation. It is like the strengthening
• 1:36:13
  Speaker 1: out a limb which has been twisted by a false attitude,
• 1:36:18
  Speaker 1: or correcting a habit of sitting round shouldered. It requires
• 1:36:23
  Speaker 1: a steady and persistent effort. When the depressing and doubtful
• 1:36:29
  Speaker 1: thoughts come, drive them away like a malaria breeding insects.
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  Speaker 1: Say this is not complimentary to my maker. I am
• 1:36:40
  Speaker 1: his work. I must be worthy of my own respect
• 1:36:44
  Speaker 1: and of that of others. I must and will succeed.
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  Speaker 1: End of Section eighteen, Section nine nineteen of the Heart
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  Speaker 1: of the New thought by Ella Wheeler Wilcox. This LibriVox
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  Speaker 1: recording is in the public domain invincibility. If we persistently
• 1:37:15
  Speaker 1: desire good things to come to.
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  Speaker 2: Us for unselfish purposes.
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  Speaker 1: And at the same time faithfully perform the duties which
• 1:37:26
  Speaker 1: lie nearest, we will eventually find our desires being realized
• 1:37:32
  Speaker 1: in the most unexpected manner. Our thought force has proved
• 1:37:39
  Speaker 1: to be a wedge opening the seemingly inaccessible.
• 1:37:43
  Speaker 2: Law of circumstance.
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  Speaker 1: To read good books, to think and ponder on what
• 1:37:49
  Speaker 1: you read. To cultivate every agreeable quality you observe in others,
• 1:37:55
  Speaker 1: and to read from your nature every unworthy and disagreeable trade.
• 1:38:01
  Speaker 1: To study humanity with an idea of being helpful and sympathetic.
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  Speaker 1: All these efforts will help you to the ultimate attainment
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  Speaker 1: of your wishes. It is a proven fact that if
• 1:38:15
  Speaker 1: we devote a few moments each day to reaching exercises,
• 1:38:21
  Speaker 1: standing with loose garments and stretching the body muscles to
• 1:38:26
  Speaker 1: reach some point above us, we increase our stature. Just so,
• 1:38:32
  Speaker 1: if we mentally and spiritually are continually reaching to the
• 1:38:37
  Speaker 1: higher plane, we are growing. Every least thought of the
• 1:38:43
  Speaker 1: brain is a chisel chipping away at our characters, and
• 1:38:48
  Speaker 1: our characters are building our destinies. The incessant and persistent
• 1:38:54
  Speaker 1: demand of our hearts and minds must be granted. And
• 1:39:01
  Speaker 1: of section nineteen, Section twenty of The Heart of the
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  Speaker 1: New Thought by Ella Wheeler Wilcox. This LibriVox recording is
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  Speaker 1: in the public domain. That mental shizzle during a trolley
• 1:39:25
  Speaker 1: ride through a thrifty New England locality where church spires
• 1:39:30
  Speaker 1: were almost as plentful as trees, I studied the faces
• 1:39:35
  Speaker 1: of the people who came into the car during my
• 1:39:39
  Speaker 1: two hours journey. The day was beautiful, and all along
• 1:39:44
  Speaker 1: the route our numbers were recruited by bevies of women, young,
• 1:39:49
  Speaker 1: middle aged and old, who were bent on shopping expeditions,
• 1:39:55
  Speaker 1: or setting forth to make social calls. They went and
• 1:40:00
  Speaker 1: came at each village through which our coach of democracy passed,
• 1:40:05
  Speaker 1: and they represented all classes. The young girls were lovely,
• 1:40:11
  Speaker 1: as young girls are the world over. Their complexion possessed
• 1:40:16
  Speaker 1: that soft, tender luster peculiar to seashore localities. For the
• 1:40:23
  Speaker 1: salty breath of Father Niptchen is the greatest of cosmetics.
• 1:40:29
  Speaker 1: Many of the young faces were formed in classic mold,
• 1:40:33
  Speaker 1: their features clearly cut and refined and severe, like the
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  Speaker 1: thoughts and principles of their ancestors. Often I observed a
• 1:40:45
  Speaker 1: mother and some female relative, presumably an aunt, in company
• 1:40:51
  Speaker 1: with a young relative, and always the sharpening and withering
• 1:40:56
  Speaker 1: process of the years of set and unless sick thought
• 1:41:01
  Speaker 1: was discernible upon their faces, which had once been young
• 1:41:06
  Speaker 1: and classic and attractive. In the entire two hours, I
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  Speaker 1: saw but three lovely faces which were matured by time.
• 1:41:18
  Speaker 1: I saw scores of well dressed and evidently well cared
• 1:41:23
  Speaker 1: for women of middle age whose countenances were horrored, drawn, pinched, sallow,
• 1:41:30
  Speaker 1: and worn beyond excuse for time. Sorrow and sickness are
• 1:41:37
  Speaker 1: not plausible excuses for such ravages upon a face God
• 1:41:42
  Speaker 1: drew in lines of beauty. Time should mature a woman's
• 1:41:48
  Speaker 1: beauty as it does that.
• 1:41:50
  Speaker 2: Of a tree.
• 1:41:51
  Speaker 1: Sorrow should glorify it as does the frost the tree,
• 1:41:55
  Speaker 1: and sickness should not be allowed to lay a lingering
• 1:41:59
  Speaker 1: touch upon it until death calls the spirit away. Without question,
• 1:42:06
  Speaker 1: the great majority of the women I saw were earnest
• 1:42:10
  Speaker 1: Orthodox Christians. I heard snatches of conversation regarding church and charities,
• 1:42:18
  Speaker 1: and I have no doubt that each woman among them
• 1:42:22
  Speaker 1: believed herself to be a disciple of Christ. Yet where
• 1:42:28
  Speaker 1: was the result of the loving, tender, sweet spirit of
• 1:42:32
  Speaker 1: Christ's teaching. It surely was not visible upon those pinched
• 1:42:38
  Speaker 1: and world faces. And those faces were certain and truthful
• 1:42:42
  Speaker 1: chronicles of the work done by the minds within. One
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  Speaker 1: face said to me, in every line, I talk about
• 1:42:52
  Speaker 1: God's goodness and loving kindness, but I worry over the
• 1:42:57
  Speaker 1: dust in the spare room, about our expenses. I am
• 1:43:02
  Speaker 1: troubled about my lungs, and I fear my husband has
• 1:43:07
  Speaker 1: an unresonant heart.
• 1:43:09
  Speaker 2: I never know an.
• 1:43:11
  Speaker 1: Hour's peace, for even in my sleep, I worry, worry, worry,
• 1:43:18
  Speaker 1: But of course I know I will be saved by
• 1:43:21
  Speaker 1: the blood of Christ. Another said, I am in God's
• 1:43:27
  Speaker 1: fold well and safe. But I hate and despise my
• 1:43:33
  Speaker 1: nearest neighbor, for she wears clothes that I am sure
• 1:43:38
  Speaker 1: she cannot pay for, and her children are always dressed
• 1:43:42
  Speaker 1: better than mine. I quarrel with my domestics, and I
• 1:43:47
  Speaker 1: am always in trouble of some kind, just because human
• 1:43:51
  Speaker 1: beings are so full of sin, and no one but
• 1:43:55
  Speaker 1: myself is ever right. I shall be so glad.
• 1:44:00
  Speaker 2: I believe this.
• 1:44:00
  Speaker 1: World of war and go to heaven, but I hope
• 1:44:05
  Speaker 1: I will not meet many of my present acquaintances.
• 1:44:09
  Speaker 2: There another said.
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  Speaker 1: If I only had good health, but I was born
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  Speaker 1: to sickness and suffering, and it is God's will that
• 1:44:21
  Speaker 1: I should suffer. Oh the pity of it, And to
• 1:44:27
  Speaker 1: imagine this is religion.
• 1:44:31
  Speaker 2: Thank God.
• 1:44:32
  Speaker 1: The wave of new thought is sweeping over the land
• 1:44:36
  Speaker 1: and washing away those old, blasphemous errors, of mistaken creeds.
• 1:44:43
  Speaker 1: The new thought is to give us a new race
• 1:44:47
  Speaker 1: of beautiful, middle, aged and old people. Today in any
• 1:44:53
  Speaker 1: part of the land, among rich, poor, ignorant or intellectual,
• 1:44:59
  Speaker 1: Orthodox or materialists, the beautiful, mature face is rarer than
• 1:45:04
  Speaker 1: a white black bird in the woods. It is impossible
• 1:45:09
  Speaker 1: to be plain, ugly or uninteresting in late life if
• 1:45:15
  Speaker 1: the mind keeps itself occupied with white thinking. The withered
• 1:45:20
  Speaker 1: and drawn face of fifty indicates withered emotions and drawn
• 1:45:25
  Speaker 1: and perverted ambitions. The dried and sallow face tells its
• 1:45:31
  Speaker 1: story of dried up sympathies and hopes. The forward face
• 1:45:36
  Speaker 1: tells of acid cares eating into the heart. All this
• 1:45:42
  Speaker 1: is irreligious, Yet all this prevails extensively in our most
• 1:45:47
  Speaker 1: conservative and churchy communities. He who in truth trusts God
• 1:45:54
  Speaker 1: cannot worry. He who loves God and mankind cannot become
• 1:46:00
  Speaker 1: tried and withered at fifty, for love will recreate his
• 1:46:04
  Speaker 1: blood and renew the fires of his eye. He who
• 1:46:09
  Speaker 1: understands his own divine nature will grow more beautiful with
• 1:46:14
  Speaker 1: the passing of time, for the God within will become
• 1:46:18
  Speaker 1: each year more visible. The really reverent soul accepts its
• 1:46:24
  Speaker 1: sorrows as blessings in disguise, and he whoso accepts them
• 1:46:29
  Speaker 1: is beautified and glorified by them within and without? Are
• 1:46:36
  Speaker 1: you growing more attractive as you advance in life? Is
• 1:46:40
  Speaker 1: your eye softer and deeper? Is your mouth kinder, your
• 1:46:46
  Speaker 1: expression more sympathetic? Or are you screwing up your face
• 1:46:50
  Speaker 1: intense knots of worry? Are your eyes growing hopeless and dull?
• 1:46:57
  Speaker 1: Is your mouth drooping at the corners and becoming a
• 1:47:01
  Speaker 1: set thin line in the center? And is your skin
• 1:47:05
  Speaker 1: dry and sollow and perished? Study yourself and answer these
• 1:47:12
  Speaker 1: questions to your own soul, For in the answer depends
• 1:47:17
  Speaker 1: the decision whether you really love and trust God and
• 1:47:22
  Speaker 1: believe in your own immortal spirit, or whether you are
• 1:47:27
  Speaker 1: a mere impostor in the court of faith. End of
• 1:47:33
  Speaker 1: section twenty Section twenty one of the Heart of the
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  Speaker 1: New Thought by Ella Wheeler Wilcox. This LibriVox recording is
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  Speaker 1: in the public domain. The object of life? What do
• 1:47:56
  Speaker 1: you believe to be the object of your life? To
• 1:48:00
  Speaker 1: be happy and successful? Perhaps you are thinking, even if
• 1:48:05
  Speaker 1: you do not answer in those words, that is the
• 1:48:10
  Speaker 1: idea of the many. Meanwhile, others who have been educated
• 1:48:16
  Speaker 1: in the melankly faith of their ancestors believe the object
• 1:48:20
  Speaker 1: of this life is to be miserable, poor, and full
• 1:48:24
  Speaker 1: of sorrow, that they may wear a crown of glory hereafter.
• 1:48:31
  Speaker 1: But the clear thinker and careful observer must realize that
• 1:48:37
  Speaker 1: there is one and only one main object in life,
• 1:48:43
  Speaker 1: the building of character. He who sets out in early
• 1:48:48
  Speaker 1: youth with that ambition and purpose and keeps to it
• 1:48:53
  Speaker 1: will not only attain his object, but he will too
• 1:48:58
  Speaker 1: attain happiness and true success, For there is no such
• 1:49:03
  Speaker 1: thing as failure for the man or woman of character.
• 1:49:09
  Speaker 1: We often apply the two words character and success unworthily.
• 1:49:17
  Speaker 1: We speak of a man of much character when he
• 1:49:21
  Speaker 1: is merely self assertive and stubborn, and we call a
• 1:49:26
  Speaker 1: man successful who has accumulated a fortune or achieved fame
• 1:49:32
  Speaker 1: and a position by doubtful methods. Then what is character
• 1:49:39
  Speaker 1: and what is success. Character is the result of the
• 1:49:44
  Speaker 1: cultivation of the highest and noblest qualities in human nature
• 1:49:50
  Speaker 1: and putting those qualities to practical use. Success is the
• 1:49:56
  Speaker 1: conquest of the lower and baser self and the ability
• 1:50:01
  Speaker 1: to be useful to one's fellow men.
• 1:50:05
  Speaker 2: There are men of brain.
• 1:50:07
  Speaker 1: Wealth and position who are failures. And there are men
• 1:50:12
  Speaker 1: of limited abilities and in humble places who are yet successful,
• 1:50:20
  Speaker 1: inasmuch as they make the utmost of themselves and their opportunities.
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  Speaker 1: It makes no difference how lowly your sphere in life
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  Speaker 1: may be, and no matter how limited your environment, you
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  Speaker 1: can build your character if you will. You need no
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  Speaker 1: outlay of money, no assistance from those in power, no influence.
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  Speaker 1: Character building must be done alone and by yourself. The
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  Speaker 1: ground must be cleansed of debris, and the structure must
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  Speaker 1: be erected stone by stone. It is dull, slow, hard work,
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  Speaker 1: especially the preparation. All preparation is drudgery. When this little
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  Speaker 1: whirling globe of ours began to cool in space, think
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  Speaker 1: what a task lay before it. Think of the mass
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  Speaker 1: of chaos which has to slowly shape itself into mighty,
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  Speaker 1: green glad and snow capped mountains, fertile vales and noble forests.
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  Speaker 1: Each one of us is a little world, whirling alone
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  Speaker 1: on an individual orbit. But the divine power is within
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  Speaker 1: us to grow into symmetry, beauty, and perfection if we
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  Speaker 1: only realize it, and the happiness of the work once
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  Speaker 1: we begin it is beyond the power of description. There
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  Speaker 1: is no other satisfaction can compare with that of looking
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  Speaker 1: back across the years and finding that you have grown
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  Speaker 1: in self control, in charity of judgment, in a sense
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  Speaker 1: of justice, in generosity, and in unselfishness. If you are
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  Speaker 1: conscious of this growth, let no lack of material success
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  Speaker 1: for one moment disturb you. That will come enough for
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  Speaker 1: your need in time. The man of symmetrically developed character
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  Speaker 1: is never a pauper. He is never dependent for more
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  Speaker 1: than a temporary period. To possess character is to be useful,
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  Speaker 1: and to be useful is to be independent. And to
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  Speaker 1: be useful and independent is to be happy, even in
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  Speaker 1: the midst of.
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  Speaker 2: Sorrow, For sorrow is.
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  Speaker 1: Not necessarily unhappiness. A man who has made the development
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  Speaker 1: of a noble and harmonious character the business of his life,
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  Speaker 1: accepts his sorrows as means of greater growth, and finds
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  Speaker 1: in them an exaltation of a spirit which is closely
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  Speaker 1: allied to happiness. To such a nature, absolute wretchedness would
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  Speaker 1: only be possible through the loss of self respect, the
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  Speaker 1: lowering of an ideal, or the failure of a principle.
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  Speaker 1: Would you be happy and successful, then set yourself to.
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  Speaker 2: Build character, seek to be.
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  Speaker 1: Worthy of your own highest commendation. End of section twenty
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  Speaker 1: one Section twenty two of the Heart of the New
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  Speaker 1: Thought by Ella Wheeler Wilcox. This LibriVox recording is in
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  Speaker 1: the public domain wisdom. A great many people are attracted
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  Speaker 1: to the New Thought of the Day by its declaration
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  Speaker 1: of our right to material wealth, and by its claim
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  Speaker 1: that the mind of man can create, command, and control
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  Speaker 1: conditions which produce wealth. There is no question concerning the
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  Speaker 1: truth of this claim. But wo unto him who cultivates
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  Speaker 1: his mental and spiritual powers only for this purpose, his
• 1:54:43
  Speaker 1: gold shall turn to dross, his pleasure to dead sea fruit.
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  Speaker 1: He shall be as one who drags a beautiful garment
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  Speaker 1: through the mud of the streets, and while clothed in
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  Speaker 1: purple and fine linen, is yet a repulse object into
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  Speaker 1: the great scheme of existence as first conceived by the creator.
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  Speaker 1: Money did not enter. He made this beautiful universe, and
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  Speaker 1: all that it contains was meant for the enjoyment of
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  Speaker 1: his creatures. There was no millionaire and no proper soul
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  Speaker 1: created by God. Each soul contains the spark of the
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  Speaker 1: divine Spirit. And by the realization of that spark and
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  Speaker 1: all it means, whatever is desired by mortal.
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  Speaker 2: Man may come to him. But wise is.
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  Speaker 1: He who remembers the injunction. Seek first the kingdom of heaven,
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  Speaker 1: and all other things shall be added. Unto you, wise
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  Speaker 1: is he who understands the meaning of the words. Unto
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  Speaker 1: him that hath the war shall be given. Not until
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  Speaker 1: you obtain the faculty of being happy through your spiritual
• 1:56:08
  Speaker 1: and mental faculties, independent of material conditions. Not until you
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  Speaker 1: learn to value wealth only as a means of helpfulness,
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  Speaker 1: can you safely turn your powers of concentration upon the
• 1:56:23
  Speaker 1: idea of opulence. To demand, assert and command wealth for
• 1:56:29
  Speaker 1: its mere sensual benefits. To focus your mind upon it.
• 1:56:33
  Speaker 1: Because you desire to shine, lead and triumph. Is to
• 1:56:38
  Speaker 1: play spiritual football with spiritual dynamite. You may obtain what
• 1:56:44
  Speaker 1: you seek. You may accumulate riches, but at the cost
• 1:56:49
  Speaker 1: of all that is worth living. For the merely ignorant,
• 1:56:54
  Speaker 1: or stupid or holy material man who stumbles into a
• 1:56:58
  Speaker 1: fortune through in inheritance, dogged, persistent industry, or chance, may
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  Speaker 1: enjoy it in his own fashion and do no harm
• 1:57:09
  Speaker 1: in the world. But the man who knows, and who
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  Speaker 1: has developed his spiritual powers only for the purpose of
• 1:57:17
  Speaker 1: commanding material gain, might better have a millstone tied about
• 1:57:23
  Speaker 1: his neck, for he makes himself a spiritual outcast, and
• 1:57:28
  Speaker 1: his money shall never bring him happiness. Make therefore your
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  Speaker 1: assertion of opulence the last in your list. As you
• 1:57:38
  Speaker 1: make love. First, call onto yourself spiritual insight, absolute unselfishness,
• 1:57:46
  Speaker 1: desire for universal good, wisdom, justice and usefulness, and last
• 1:57:52
  Speaker 1: of all opulence. Think of yourself as possessed of all
• 1:57:57
  Speaker 1: these qualities before you picture five financial independence. For without
• 1:58:03
  Speaker 1: love for your kind, without the desire for usefulness, and
• 1:58:07
  Speaker 1: the spiritual insight and the wisdom to be just before
• 1:58:11
  Speaker 1: being generous, your money would bring you only temporary pleasure
• 1:58:17
  Speaker 1: and would do the world no good. Neither should you
• 1:58:22
  Speaker 1: labor under the impression that God's work is lying undone,
• 1:58:28
  Speaker 1: because you have no fortune to command, and wisely distribute
• 1:58:33
  Speaker 1: where most needed. Rest assured if you do the work
• 1:58:38
  Speaker 1: which lies nearest to you, relieve such distress as is
• 1:58:43
  Speaker 1: possible to you, and keep your faith in the ultimate
• 1:58:46
  Speaker 1: justice of God's ways, that the world will move on
• 1:58:50
  Speaker 1: and humanity will slowly attain its destined goal, even if
• 1:58:56
  Speaker 1: you never become a millionaire. Of Section twenty two Section
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  Speaker 1: twenty three of the Heart of the New Thought by
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  Speaker 1: Ella Wheeler Wilcox. This sliprivox recording is in the public
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  Speaker 1: domain self conquest. Every new idea or supposed new idea,
• 1:59:26
  Speaker 1: is a light which attracts the moths. The new Thought
• 1:59:31
  Speaker 1: is no exception about it. Flutter hysterical women, unbalanced men,
• 1:59:37
  Speaker 1: the erratic, and the irresponsible. The possibilities of performing miracles,
• 1:59:43
  Speaker 1: of healing the sick, hypnotizing the well, transforming poverty into wealth,
• 1:59:49
  Speaker 1: and changing age to youth are the rays of light
• 1:59:53
  Speaker 1: which flicker through the darkness and drew them into the
• 1:59:57
  Speaker 1: circle of radiance. The self indulgent fat woman subscribes to
• 2:00:02
  Speaker 1: New Thought literature, pays for a course of lectures, and
• 2:00:07
  Speaker 1: goes forth into the ranks of the unbelievers. Proclaiming her
• 2:00:12
  Speaker 1: power to become a self and to cause others to
• 2:00:16
  Speaker 1: become selfs. The extravagant and inconsiderate rush forth, after having
• 2:00:22
  Speaker 1: heard a discourse upon the power of mind over matter,
• 2:00:26
  Speaker 1: and declare that they possess the secret of accumulating a
• 2:00:30
  Speaker 1: fortune by occult means. The lovers of the marvelous believe
• 2:00:36
  Speaker 1: that they will become great healers in a brief space
• 2:00:39
  Speaker 1: of time. Not one of these moth converters realizes that
• 2:00:44
  Speaker 1: the very first step to take in the direction of
• 2:00:47
  Speaker 1: new thought is self conquest. The gormond does not know
• 2:00:53
  Speaker 1: that self indulgence and gross appetite are incompatible with mental
• 2:00:59
  Speaker 1: or spiritual growth, and will be insurmountable obstacles in her
• 2:01:04
  Speaker 1: path toward symmetry. The spence thrift does not take into
• 2:01:09
  Speaker 1: consideration the fact that good sense, thrift, and industry must
• 2:01:15
  Speaker 1: aid his mental assertion of wealth, and the miracle lover
• 2:01:19
  Speaker 1: does not understand that something greater and more difficult is
• 2:01:24
  Speaker 1: required than a mere wish to heal before healing powers
• 2:01:28
  Speaker 1: can be obtained. That the physical body and material conditions
• 2:01:35
  Speaker 1: can be dominated by the divine spirit in man is
• 2:01:40
  Speaker 1: an incontrovertible fact, But first, last and always, the lesser
• 2:01:47
  Speaker 1: self must be subjugated, and the weak and unworthy qualities overcome.
• 2:01:55
  Speaker 1: The woman who desires to reduce her flesh cannot do
• 2:01:59
  Speaker 1: so by reading occult literature, or joining mystic circles, or
• 2:02:04
  Speaker 1: attending lectures, unless she permeates herself so thoroughly with the
• 2:02:10
  Speaker 1: spiritual truth that she no longer craves six courses at
• 2:02:15
  Speaker 1: dinner and three meals a day, and unless she overcomes
• 2:02:20
  Speaker 1: her dislike for exercise.
• 2:02:23
  Speaker 2: The man who wishes to.
• 2:02:24
  Speaker 1: Control circumstances must love better things than money. Before he
• 2:02:30
  Speaker 1: can succeed. He must love and respect and believe in
• 2:02:34
  Speaker 1: his creator and trust the divine man within himself. And
• 2:02:39
  Speaker 1: he must illustrate this love and trust by his daily conduct,
• 2:02:45
  Speaker 1: and in his home circle, and in his business relations.
• 2:02:51
  Speaker 1: Once in a century, perhaps is a man born with
• 2:02:55
  Speaker 1: great powers already developed to heal the sick, or to
• 2:03:00
  Speaker 1: do other seeming miracles. Such beings are old souls who
• 2:03:05
  Speaker 1: have obtained diplomas in former lives. But the majority of
• 2:03:10
  Speaker 1: us are still in school, and we cannot become seniors
• 2:03:15
  Speaker 1: until we pass.
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  Speaker 2: Through the lower grades.
• 2:03:18
  Speaker 1: We must change ourselves before we can change material conditions.
• 2:03:24
  Speaker 1: We must heal our own thoughts and make them sane
• 2:03:27
  Speaker 1: and normal before we can heal bodily disease in others.
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  Speaker 1: It is not an immediate process. I have heard an
• 2:03:37
  Speaker 1: old lady declare that she got religion in the twinkling
• 2:03:42
  Speaker 1: of an eye, and.
• 2:03:44
  Speaker 2: She believed all people would be.
• 2:03:46
  Speaker 1: Damned and burned in hell fire who did not pass
• 2:03:50
  Speaker 1: through this sudden illumination. It is possible that the religion
• 2:03:55
  Speaker 1: which can worship a God cruel enough to burn his
• 2:03:59
  Speaker 1: children in fire, can only be obtained in the twinkling
• 2:04:03
  Speaker 1: of an eye. But the reverend wholesome and beautiful religion
• 2:04:07
  Speaker 1: of New Thought must be grown into, little by little,
• 2:04:11
  Speaker 1: through patience, faith, and practice all that it claims to do.
• 2:04:18
  Speaker 1: It can do, but not instantaneously, not rapidly. We must
• 2:04:24
  Speaker 1: first make ourselves over after absolute control of our minds
• 2:04:30
  Speaker 1: has been obtained. Then and only then may we hope
• 2:04:35
  Speaker 1: to influence circumstances and health. End of section twenty three
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  Speaker 1: Section twenty four of the Heart of the New Thought
• 2:04:52
  Speaker 1: by Ella Wheeler Wilcox. This liprivox recording is in the
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  Speaker 1: public domain. The important trifles you will find in the
• 2:05:04
  Speaker 1: effort to reach a higher spirituality in your daily life,
• 2:05:09
  Speaker 1: that the small things try your patience and your strength
• 2:05:13
  Speaker 1: more than the greater ones. Home life, like business life,
• 2:05:19
  Speaker 1: is composed of an accumulation of trifles. There are people
• 2:05:24
  Speaker 1: who bear great sorrows with resignation, and seem to gain
• 2:05:29
  Speaker 1: a certain dignity and forth of character through trouble, but
• 2:05:34
  Speaker 1: who are utterly vanquished by trivial annoyances. The old fashioned
• 2:05:39
  Speaker 1: Orthodox Christian was frequently of this order. Death, poverty, and misfortune.
• 2:05:48
  Speaker 1: He bore without complaining, and became oftentimes a more agreeable
• 2:05:53
  Speaker 1: companion in times.
• 2:05:54
  Speaker 2: Of deepest sorrow.
• 2:05:57
  Speaker 1: He regarded all such experiences as as the will of God,
• 2:06:01
  Speaker 1: and bow to them. Yet if his dinner was late,
• 2:06:06
  Speaker 1: his coffee below the standard, if his eyeglasses were misplaced,
• 2:06:12
  Speaker 1: or his toe trodden upon, he become a raging line,
• 2:06:17
  Speaker 1: and his roar drove his affrighted household into dark corners.
• 2:06:23
  Speaker 1: There have been neighborhood angels who watched beside the dying sinner,
• 2:06:28
  Speaker 1: sustained orphans and widows, and endured great troubles sublimely like martyrs.
• 2:06:35
  Speaker 1: But if a dusty shoe trod upon a freshly washed floor,
• 2:06:40
  Speaker 1: or husband or child came tardly to the breakfast table,
• 2:06:44
  Speaker 1: or lingered outside the door after regulation hour for retiring
• 2:06:50
  Speaker 1: lo the angel became virago or a droning mosquito with
• 2:06:55
  Speaker 1: persistent sting. The New philosophy demands surren and patience through
• 2:07:02
  Speaker 1: small trials, as well as fortitude in meeting life's larger ills.
• 2:07:08
  Speaker 1: It demands, too, that we seek to avoid giving other
• 2:07:12
  Speaker 1: unnecessary irritation by a thoughtless disregard of the importance of trifles.
• 2:07:19
  Speaker 1: A man is more likely to keep calm if he
• 2:07:22
  Speaker 1: wakes in the night and discovers that the house is
• 2:07:25
  Speaker 1: on fire than he is if, on being fully prepared
• 2:07:29
  Speaker 1: to retire, he finds the only mug on the third
• 2:07:33
  Speaker 1: story is missing from his wash stand, or the cake
• 2:07:37
  Speaker 1: of toilet soap he asks for the day before has
• 2:07:41
  Speaker 1: been forgotten. A mother bears the affliction of a crippled
• 2:07:45
  Speaker 1: child with more equanimity than she is able to bring
• 2:07:49
  Speaker 1: to bear upon the continual thoughtfulness of a strong one.
• 2:07:54
  Speaker 1: To be kind means to be thoughtful. The kindness and
• 2:07:58
  Speaker 1: most loving heart will sometimes forget and be careless, but
• 2:08:04
  Speaker 1: it cannot be perpetually forgetful and careless of another's wishes
• 2:08:09
  Speaker 1: and needs even in.
• 2:08:11
  Speaker 2: The merest trifles. End of section twenty four.
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  Speaker 1: Section twenty five of the Heart of the New Thought
• 2:08:26
  Speaker 1: by Ella Wheeler Wilcox. This LibriVox recording is in the
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  Speaker 1: public domain. Concentration the New Thought includes concentration of thought
• 2:08:40
  Speaker 1: in its teaching. And he who learns that important art
• 2:08:45
  Speaker 1: is not liable to frequently forget small or large duties.
• 2:08:50
  Speaker 1: It is he who scatters and instead of concentrates his
• 2:08:54
  Speaker 1: mind powers, who keeps himself and others in a state
• 2:08:58
  Speaker 1: of a continual area teach by forgetting, mislaying, and losing,
• 2:09:04
  Speaker 1: three pity vices which do much to mar domestic or
• 2:09:09
  Speaker 1: business life. Concentration is a most difficult acquirement for the
• 2:09:15
  Speaker 1: mature mind which has been allowed to grow in the
• 2:09:18
  Speaker 1: habit of thought. Scattering wise is the mother, and as
• 2:09:24
  Speaker 1: sure as wise, who teaches her child to finish each
• 2:09:29
  Speaker 1: task begun before attempting another, For that is the first
• 2:09:34
  Speaker 1: step in concentration. Princess Moufford, that great and good pioneer
• 2:09:42
  Speaker 1: in the field of practical New Thought, tells us to
• 2:09:46
  Speaker 1: apply our whole mental powers to whatever we do, even
• 2:09:52
  Speaker 1: if it is merely the tying of a shoe, and
• 2:09:55
  Speaker 1: to think of nothing else until that shoe is tied.
• 2:10:00
  Speaker 1: Then to utterly forget the shoe string when we turn
• 2:10:04
  Speaker 1: to another duty or employment. The next lesson in concentration
• 2:10:09
  Speaker 1: he gives us is to repeat the word often to
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  Speaker 1: impress it upon the mind, and then to declare each
• 2:10:18
  Speaker 1: day that concentration is mine. Will aid so further in
• 2:10:25
  Speaker 1: the acquisition of this great and important quality. Meanwhile, since
• 2:10:31
  Speaker 1: we can be so fortunate as to always surround ourselves
• 2:10:36
  Speaker 1: with others who have acquired it, the student of the
• 2:10:40
  Speaker 1: higher philosophy must learn to be serene and self poised
• 2:10:45
  Speaker 1: when he encounters life's pigamin worries. He must carry his
• 2:10:50
  Speaker 1: religion into his bedroom and his office, and not forget
• 2:10:55
  Speaker 1: it utterly when he loses his cooler button, or misses
• 2:10:59
  Speaker 1: his co or finds his office boy has taken a
• 2:11:03
  Speaker 1: parcel to the wrong address. To build character necessitates a
• 2:11:09
  Speaker 1: constant watch upon ourselves. The New Thought is not a
• 2:11:13
  Speaker 1: religion of Sundays, but of every day. End of section
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  Speaker 1: twenty five Section twenty six of the Heart of the
• 2:11:29
  Speaker 1: New Thought by Ella Wheeler Wilcox. This LibriVox recording is
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  Speaker 1: in the public domain. Destiny, never say that you wish
• 2:11:41
  Speaker 1: your situation were different, Never wish you had some other
• 2:11:46
  Speaker 1: person's life or troubles or worries except your own. As
• 2:11:52
  Speaker 1: a working basis the best for you. Then go ahead
• 2:11:57
  Speaker 1: and change whatever displeases you. Remember you are the maker
• 2:12:03
  Speaker 1: and molder of your own destiny. You do not recall
• 2:12:07
  Speaker 1: the fact, but you wrote about the present conditions of
• 2:12:11
  Speaker 1: your destiny in former incarnations. Even if you do not
• 2:12:16
  Speaker 1: believe this, you must acknowledge that you are here and
• 2:12:21
  Speaker 1: that the situation in which you find yourself seems to
• 2:12:25
  Speaker 1: be inevitable for the present, But it is not inevitable
• 2:12:31
  Speaker 1: for the future unless you lie down in the furrow
• 2:12:34
  Speaker 1: and wine and which you were a millionaire or a genius,
• 2:12:38
  Speaker 1: and rail at the partiality of providence. There is no
• 2:12:43
  Speaker 1: partiality in the universe. The whole scheme is well balanced.
• 2:12:48
  Speaker 1: If you were allowed to change lots with anyone on
• 2:12:51
  Speaker 1: the faith of the earth, you would complain and find
• 2:12:55
  Speaker 1: fault in a short time. One of our best known millionaires,
• 2:13:00
  Speaker 1: born to opulence, complains that he has been robbed of
• 2:13:03
  Speaker 1: the privilege of making his own fortune. He is no
• 2:13:07
  Speaker 1: happier than you. His confession betrays his weakness of character,
• 2:13:13
  Speaker 1: just as your repining and fault finding betrays yours. The
• 2:13:18
  Speaker 1: real worth while character, thanks God for its destiny, and
• 2:13:22
  Speaker 1: says I will show the world what I can do
• 2:13:26
  Speaker 1: with my life. Not long ago there was a great
• 2:13:30
  Speaker 1: trotting race at Brighton Beach. The blind conqueror Rhythmic, won
• 2:13:36
  Speaker 1: five consecutive races.
• 2:13:40
  Speaker 2: Think of it.
• 2:13:41
  Speaker 1: He did not, like a mortal man, shrink back and say,
• 2:13:46
  Speaker 1: I am blind. That is a terrible destiny. I am
• 2:13:50
  Speaker 1: cursed of God. I will not try to win the race.
• 2:13:54
  Speaker 1: He just trusted the hand of the master at the reins,
• 2:13:58
  Speaker 1: did his best and won the honors of the season.
• 2:14:04
  Speaker 1: We are all blind racers on the track of earth.
• 2:14:08
  Speaker 1: The king, the millionaire, the statesman, the lawmaker, the beggar,
• 2:14:12
  Speaker 1: the laborer, the cripple, we are all in the dark.
• 2:14:17
  Speaker 1: The only thing is to trust the hand of the
• 2:14:19
  Speaker 1: master and do our best. Believe your position is the
• 2:14:24
  Speaker 1: right starting point for you merely the starting point. It
• 2:14:30
  Speaker 1: is the shapeless block of stone from which you are
• 2:14:33
  Speaker 1: to fashion the perfect statue. Or it is the mere
• 2:14:38
  Speaker 1: mud from which you are to mold the clay image,
• 2:14:42
  Speaker 1: and later that is to be put into enduring marble.
• 2:14:47
  Speaker 1: What is uglier or more unattractive than mud. Yet think
• 2:14:53
  Speaker 1: of the glorious conceptions which it imprisons. Take the mud
• 2:14:59
  Speaker 1: of your present environment and thank God for it, and
• 2:15:03
  Speaker 1: make the image of the future you desire.
• 2:15:08
  Speaker 2: You can do it, You must do it. You will
• 2:15:13
  Speaker 2: do it. End of section twenty six.
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  Speaker 1: Section twenty seven of The Heart of the New Thought
• 2:15:27
  Speaker 1: by Ella Wheeler Wilcox. This LibriVox recording is in the
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  Speaker 1: public domain. Sympathy Are you of a sympathetic nature? If so,
• 2:15:42
  Speaker 1: do not let your sympathies help to add to the
• 2:15:45
  Speaker 1: world's miseries. That may seem a strange expression, but it
• 2:15:52
  Speaker 1: can be explained if you will listen. Much of the
• 2:15:57
  Speaker 1: misery in the world is the result of imagine nation.
• 2:16:01
  Speaker 1: All of it is the result of selfishness and ignorance.
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  Speaker 1: But hundreds and thousands of people believe themselves sick, sorrowful,
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  Speaker 1: and poverty stricken, who would be well, glad and prosperous
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  Speaker 1: if they only thought themselves so. Every time you pour
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  Speaker 1: out your sympathy upon these self made sufferers, you add
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  Speaker 1: to their burden of wrong thought and make it just
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  Speaker 1: so much more difficult for them to rise out of
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  Speaker 1: their troubles. I do not believe all the misfortune in
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  Speaker 1: the world is caused by wrong thinking in this life,
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  Speaker 1: or can be done away with by right thinking. The
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  Speaker 1: three year old child who toddles in front of a
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  Speaker 1: trolley car and loses a leg while the tired mother
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  Speaker 1: is bending over the wooshtub to keep the wolf of
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  Speaker 1: hunger at bay cannot be blamed for wrong thinking as
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  Speaker 1: the cause of its trouble. Neither can the deaf mute,
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  Speaker 1: or the child born blind or deformed. We must go
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  Speaker 1: further back to former lives to find the first cause
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  Speaker 1: of such misfortunes. No new thought, no amount of optimistic
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  Speaker 1: theology or philosophy, can restore the child's leg, or ears
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  Speaker 1: or eyes. It is utter nonsense to say that miracles
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  Speaker 1: like these can be performed. There are scores of individuals
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  Speaker 1: whom we meet, handicapped in life's race by such dear calamities,
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  Speaker 1: that we spontaneously pour forth our sympathy. But even to
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  Speaker 1: these it were kinder and wiser to give diverting thoughts
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  Speaker 1: and an you outlook, and to open up avenues for
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  Speaker 1: pleasure and entertainment and profit in place of tears and condolence.
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  Speaker 1: Sympathy without elevating actions to a sufferer is like a
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  Speaker 1: cloud without rain to the parched earth. But the great
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  Speaker 1: majority of people whom we encounter are making their own crosses,
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  Speaker 1: and we who offer them sympathy and condolence, are but
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  Speaker 1: adding to the burden's weight. I do not recommend coldness, indifference,
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  Speaker 1: or ridicule as a substitute for sympathy. But instead of
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  Speaker 1: leading the sick man on to tell you the details
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  Speaker 1: of his illness and to describe all his symptoms while
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  Speaker 1: your own body responds with sympathetic aches and pains as
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  Speaker 1: you listen, it is kinder to divert his attention to
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  Speaker 1: some cheerful and merry topic, or to refer to some
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  Speaker 1: case like his own, which resulted in perfect restoration to health,
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  Speaker 1: And instead of going down into his underground cave of depression,
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  Speaker 1: bring him out into the wholesome sunlight of your own
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  Speaker 1: healthful state, even if for a moment only, and impress
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  Speaker 1: upon his mind that health belongs to him and must
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  Speaker 1: return to him. To the man in business trouble, the
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  Speaker 1: same advice applies. Tell him you are sorry for him,
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  Speaker 1: but do not take on his despondency to prove it.
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  Speaker 1: Talk of the future and all the possibilities it holds
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  Speaker 1: for a determined man or woman. Make him laugh. Speak
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  Speaker 1: of trouble as the gymnasium where our moral muscles are developed.
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  Speaker 1: Answer him that everything he desires is his if he
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  Speaker 1: will be persistent and determined in demanding his own. If
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  Speaker 1: you put force in your words, you will leave an impression.
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  Speaker 1: Do not go away from the house of trouble in tears,
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  Speaker 1: but leave the trouble ones you cold upon, smiling as
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  Speaker 1: you depart. That is true sympathy. End of section twenty
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  Speaker 1: seven Section twenty eight of The Heart of the New
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  Speaker 1: Thought by Ella Wheeler Wilcox. This LibriVox recording is in
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  Speaker 1: the public domain.
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  Speaker 2: The breath.
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  Speaker 1: A man reproved me for my interest in New thought creeds.
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  Speaker 1: The old religion I learned at my mother's knee is
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  Speaker 1: good enough for me, he said, it is good enough
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  Speaker 1: for anybody. Yet this man's mother had always enjoyed poor health,
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  Speaker 1: as the old lady expressed it, and the man himself
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  Speaker 1: was forever talking of his diseases, his ill luck, his poverty,
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  Speaker 1: which he said he had been enabled to endure only
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  Speaker 1: through the sustaining power of the religion learned at his
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  Speaker 1: mother's knee. It would be difficult to convince the man
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  Speaker 1: that had his mother taught him the creed of the
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  Speaker 1: new religion, he could have changed all these unfortunate conditions.
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  Speaker 1: Lifelong ill health would have been impossible for his mother
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  Speaker 1: or for him. The old fashioned religion allowed and still
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  Speaker 1: allows a human being to breathe like a canary bird.
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  Speaker 1: Little children go to Sunday School all their young lives
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  Speaker 1: and grow up to be devote church members and never
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  Speaker 1: hear one word about the importance of deep breathing. Possibly
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  Speaker 1: you may think breathing lessons belong to physical culture and
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  Speaker 1: have no place in religious teachings.
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  Speaker 2: There is where you er.
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  Speaker 1: In order to develop your whole being, you must learn
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  Speaker 1: how to control body and mind through the spirit. Thousands
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  Speaker 1: of years ago, men who gave their entire lives to
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  Speaker 1: the study of these things learned the great importance of
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  Speaker 1: deep breathing as an aid to religious meditation. By this
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  Speaker 1: practice systematically observed, the body is calmed, the mind is
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  Speaker 1: brought into subjection, and the spirit rises into control. And
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  Speaker 1: in addition, absolute health is achieved. A large portion of
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  Speaker 1: our physical ailments resolve from unused lung cells and consequent
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  Speaker 1: imperfect circulation of the blood. Fill the lungs, full every
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  Speaker 1: cell with fresh air two or three times daily, and
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  Speaker 1: do not overload the digestive organs, and sickness will fly
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  Speaker 1: away to the dark regions where it belongs. At least
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  Speaker 1: ten minutes morning and night should be given to the
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  Speaker 1: breathing exercises. Sit upright in a comfortable chair alone, facing
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  Speaker 1: the east in the morning and the.
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  Speaker 2: West at night.
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  Speaker 1: Because great magnetic force comes from the direction of the sun,
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  Speaker 1: have a window or a door opening to the outer air.
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  Speaker 1: Place your hands lightly on your knees, and close your
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  Speaker 1: eyes and mouth. Leave your spine free, not touching the
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  Speaker 1: chair where no compressing garments or bands. Inflate the chest
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  Speaker 1: and abdominal regions. As you inhale deep breaths through the
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  Speaker 1: nostrils while counting seven, slowly exhale while you count seven.
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  Speaker 1: Repeat this exercise seven times. Think as you inhale of
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  Speaker 1: whatever qualities you would like to possess, and believe that
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  Speaker 1: you are inhaling them. Select seven qualities love, health, wisdom, usefulness,
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  Speaker 1: power to do good success. Opulence will cover the average
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  Speaker 1: human desires. The very unworldly will substitute spiritual knowledge for opulence.
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  Speaker 1: Fill your mind with the idea that you are drawing
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  Speaker 1: in these qualities with your breasts, and exhaling all that
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  Speaker 1: is weak or unworthy. After a few moments, you will
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  Speaker 1: be conscious of a security and peace, new and uplifting.
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  Speaker 1: And after a few weeks of steady, persistent practice of
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  Speaker 1: these exercises, you will find life growing more beautiful to you,
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  Speaker 1: and your strength will be increased tenfold, both physically and spiritually.
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  Speaker 1: End of section twenty eight Section twenty nine of the
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  Speaker 1: Heart of the New Thought by Allah Wheeler Wilcox. This
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  Speaker 1: LibriVox recording is in the public domain. Generosity. Have you
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  Speaker 1: ever observed how inevitably your last dollar is restored to
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  Speaker 1: you with additions when you have given it for some
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  Speaker 1: worthy purpose, even if the purpose did not prove to
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  Speaker 1: be a worthy one. Yet, if you thought it so,
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  Speaker 1: and gave your last dollar with spontaneous sympathy and good will,
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  Speaker 1: you were not long left penniless. Money is much like
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  Speaker 1: a man. If you do not hold it too jealously,
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  Speaker 1: it returns to you the more readily. Never hesitate to
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  Speaker 1: give aid where you feel there is sore and pressing need,
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  Speaker 1: For fear, you will be left in want yourself, you
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  Speaker 1: will not be. This does not mean that indiscriminate charity
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  Speaker 1: is commendable. It does not mean that you should lend
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  Speaker 1: money to everyone who asks, or lift and carry the
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  Speaker 1: burdens of every one who is ready to lean upon you.
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  Speaker 1: It is as wrong to encourage the man addicted to
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  Speaker 1: the vice of borrowing as the one with the vice
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  Speaker 1: of alcohol or drugs. One depends upon his acquaintances to
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  Speaker 1: tide him over hard places and instead of upon his
• 2:27:28
  Speaker 1: own strength of character, and the other depends upon stimulants
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  Speaker 1: for the same purpose. The too ready lender is almost
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  Speaker 1: as great and evil to humanity as rum or opium,
• 2:27:44
  Speaker 1: since he too helps a man to kill his own
• 2:27:47
  Speaker 1: better nature and destroy his self respect. If you were
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  Speaker 1: able and willing to pay rents of all the poor
• 2:27:57
  Speaker 1: people you know, and to clothe their children, you would
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  Speaker 1: soon produce a condition of settled paupyism among them. Large
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  Speaker 1: and frequent favors of a financial nature are an injury
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  Speaker 1: to anyone, even if it is your son or brother.
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  Speaker 1: Let no man lean on anyone save God and his
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  Speaker 1: own divine self. But little helps when they are unexpected,
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  Speaker 1: arouse hope and awaken new faith and new ambition in
• 2:28:32
  Speaker 1: a discouraged soul. Look about you for such souls, the
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  Speaker 1: worn and weary father of a brood of hunger children,
• 2:28:42
  Speaker 1: the widow struggling with adverse fate in an effort to
• 2:28:46
  Speaker 1: clothe and educate a child, the tired shop girl who
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  Speaker 1: uses all her earnings to sustain her parents, the ambitious
• 2:28:57
  Speaker 1: boy or girl eager for a chance in life. And
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  Speaker 1: the poor, cripple or invalid seeking health. You will find
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  Speaker 1: them all about you. Do not be afraid to use
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  Speaker 1: a dollar here or there to give these worthy ones
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  Speaker 1: a happy surprise. No matter how poor you are. It
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  Speaker 1: is an insult to the opulent creator to suppose you
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  Speaker 1: will suffer wont and poverty if you help those who
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  Speaker 1: are in temporary misfortune.
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  Speaker 2: You will not.
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  Speaker 1: Oftentimes we read and hear of the open handed, generous
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  Speaker 1: man who helped everybody, and who never refused to aid
• 2:29:43
  Speaker 1: a needy brother, and who ended his life in punery
• 2:29:47
  Speaker 1: because of his generosity. Never believe these tales until you
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  Speaker 1: investigate them. Inevitably, you will find not generosity, but extravagance
• 2:30:00
  Speaker 1: and utter lack of forethought caused the man's financial ruin.
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  Speaker 1: I recall a gifted young woman who gave freely to
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  Speaker 1: all who asked her assistance, and who died a lingering
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  Speaker 1: death as a charity patient in a hospital. Yet this
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  Speaker 1: young woman had expended ten dollars on foolish and rabbit
• 2:30:25
  Speaker 1: living where she gave one in charity. It was her
• 2:30:30
  Speaker 1: wasteful extravagance, not her open heart of sympathy, which made
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  Speaker 1: her a pauper. It has been my observation that dollars
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  Speaker 1: planted in the soil of benevolence grow into harvests of prosperity.
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  Speaker 1: The man who is not afraid to use his small
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  Speaker 1: means to assist others need not fear poverty. End of
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  Speaker 1: section twenty nine, Section thirty of The Heart of the
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  Speaker 1: New Thought by Ella Wheeler Wilcox. This LibriVox recording is
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  Speaker 1: in the public domain. Woman's opportunity, the greatest opportunity to
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  Speaker 1: better the world which can come to any woman, is
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  Speaker 1: through the experience of maternity. The power of prenatal influence
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  Speaker 1: which a mother possesses is oh inaspiring to realize. It
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  Speaker 1: has been said upon excellent authority that Napoleon's mother read
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  Speaker 1: Roman history with absorbing interest during the months preceding his birth.
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  Speaker 2: Think of the.
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  Speaker 1: Nations and the centuries influenced by that one woman's mental concentration.
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  Speaker 1: The geography of the world was changed by her power
• 2:31:58
  Speaker 1: of focused thought. In all probability, Napoleon's mother did not
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  Speaker 1: know what she was doing. She was not conscious of
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  Speaker 1: the destiny her mind was shaping for her unborn child,
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  Speaker 1: nor of the law governing such conditions. Women have been
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  Speaker 1: strangely ignorant of this vital truth until recent years. It
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  Speaker 1: has not been considered a proper theme for tongue or pen,
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  Speaker 1: and to day the great majority of young women marry
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  Speaker 1: absolutely uninformed upon the subject of prenatal influence. Men are
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  Speaker 1: equally oblivious of any knowledge regarding the matter, and consequently
• 2:32:44
  Speaker 1: make no special effort to keep the expectant mother of
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  Speaker 1: their offspring happy, hopeful, or free of anxiety and.
• 2:32:53
  Speaker 2: Worry during this period.
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  Speaker 1: Often they do not strive to aid them in their
• 2:32:59
  Speaker 1: own attempts to bestow a desirable temperament upon the unborn child,
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  Speaker 1: but heedlessly and needlessly every gate or grieve the mind
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  Speaker 1: which is temping its impressed upon an unborn soul. It
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  Speaker 1: is just here that the new thought can perform its
• 2:33:20
  Speaker 1: greatest miracles of good. Even the woman who has not
• 2:33:26
  Speaker 1: been enlightened upon the law of anti birth influence, will,
• 2:33:31
  Speaker 1: if a true disciple of the religion of right living,
• 2:33:35
  Speaker 1: bring healthy and helpful children into the world, because her
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  Speaker 1: normal state of mind will be inclusive of those three qualities,
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  Speaker 1: and her continued and repeated assertions of her own divine
• 2:33:49
  Speaker 1: nature will shape the brain of her child in optimistic
• 2:33:54
  Speaker 1: and reveential mold. There is the old law of the
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  Speaker 1: continual fuls of the drop of water upon the stone
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  Speaker 1: to be verified in the spiritual plane. Continual assertions of
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  Speaker 1: a mother that her child will be all that she
• 2:34:11
  Speaker 1: desires it to be will wear away the stone of
• 2:34:15
  Speaker 1: inheritance tendencies and bring into physical being a mallible nature
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  Speaker 1: wholly amenable to the after influences and efforts she may
• 2:34:26
  Speaker 1: bring to bear upon it. It is a tremendous responsibility
• 2:34:32
  Speaker 1: which rests upon the woman who knows she is to
• 2:34:35
  Speaker 1: be a mother of a human being. A hundred ancestors
• 2:34:40
  Speaker 1: may have contributed certain qualities to that invisible and formless
• 2:34:45
  Speaker 1: atom which contains an immortal soul. Yet the mother's mind
• 2:34:52
  Speaker 1: has the power to remake and rebuild all those characteristics,
• 2:34:57
  Speaker 1: and to place over them her own dominating impulse, whether
• 2:35:02
  Speaker 1: for good or ill. Surely, if success in the arts
• 2:35:07
  Speaker 1: or the sciences is worthy of years of devoted attention
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  Speaker 1: and interested effort, the molding of a noble human being
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  Speaker 1: is worth eight or nine months of concentrated thought and
• 2:35:20
  Speaker 1: unflagging zeal of purpose. Every expectant mother should set herself
• 2:35:27
  Speaker 1: about the important business God has entrusted her with, unafraid
• 2:35:33
  Speaker 1: and confident of her divine mission. She should direct her
• 2:35:38
  Speaker 1: mind into wholesome and optimistic channels. She should read in
• 2:35:43
  Speaker 1: aspiring books and think loving and large thoughts. She should
• 2:35:48
  Speaker 1: pray and aspire, And always should she kerry in her
• 2:35:53
  Speaker 1: mind the ideal of the child she would mother, and
• 2:35:58
  Speaker 1: command from the great source of all opulence, the qualities
• 2:36:03
  Speaker 1: she would desire to perpetuate, and they will be given.
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  Speaker 1: And of Section thirty Section thirty one of the Heart
• 2:36:20
  Speaker 1: of the New Thought by Ella Wheeler Wilcox. This LibriVox
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  Speaker 1: recording is in the public domain. Balance avoid all strained
• 2:36:32
  Speaker 1: and uptruth language when conversing with people who may not
• 2:36:37
  Speaker 1: have entered this realm of thought. Do not allow anyone
• 2:36:42
  Speaker 1: to think of you as a lunatic or a crank
• 2:36:45
  Speaker 1: unnecessarily of course, there are people in the world who
• 2:36:50
  Speaker 1: consider everyone a lunatic, who hold an opinion differing from
• 2:36:55
  Speaker 1: their own. But it can do you or your philosoph
• 2:37:00
  Speaker 1: no good to thrust its most difficult phases before the
• 2:37:05
  Speaker 1: minds of the unawakened by vague and high flown expressions.
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  Speaker 1: I once chanced to call upon a lady who had,
• 2:37:15
  Speaker 1: quite unknown to me, entered upon the study of Christian science.
• 2:37:20
  Speaker 1: She remarked to me, almost as soon as the greetings
• 2:37:24
  Speaker 1: were exchanged, I had a claim to meet for three
• 2:37:28
  Speaker 1: days this week, but I have come through it, and
• 2:37:32
  Speaker 1: I am victorious.
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  Speaker 2: I supposed.
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  Speaker 1: The lady referred to some business matter, perhaps a legal affair,
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  Speaker 1: and waited an explanation. After considerable rumbling conversation, I managed
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  Speaker 1: to grasp the fact that the woman had been sick
• 2:37:51
  Speaker 1: in the house three days, but now was well. She
• 2:37:56
  Speaker 1: considered her illness a mere claim her mortal mind had
• 2:38:02
  Speaker 1: made which she had to meet and compact. All this
• 2:38:07
  Speaker 1: sort of talk is very ridiculous. We need not talk
• 2:38:12
  Speaker 1: about every ailment which attacks us as we move along
• 2:38:15
  Speaker 1: toward the condition of perfect health.
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  Speaker 2: Which belongs to us. But if we do speak.
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  Speaker 1: Of indisposition, let us use common sense language. What we
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  Speaker 1: want to realize is that we are in the body,
• 2:38:33
  Speaker 1: but that the spirit can control bodily conditions. If we
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  Speaker 1: give it the ascendancy to the extent of keeping us well, moral, useful,
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  Speaker 1: and comfortable, even in the midst of sickness, vice, indolence,
• 2:38:48
  Speaker 1: and poverty, we can rise above these false elements and
• 2:38:54
  Speaker 1: subjugate them. Meanwhile, we cannot live without food, clothes.
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  Speaker 2: And money.
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  Speaker 1: Despise and ignore these vulgar things, as we may assume
• 2:39:06
  Speaker 1: to do, we yet must have them. It brings only
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  Speaker 1: ridicule upon ourselves and our ideas. To make this pretense
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  Speaker 1: of despising the necessities of life, to make them secondary
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  Speaker 1: in our thoughts to spiritual knowledge is right and wise.
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  Speaker 1: But this is better illustrated by our lives and conduct
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  Speaker 1: than by our words. End of Section thirty one and
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  Speaker 1: end of the Heart of the New Thought by Ellow
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  Speaker 1: Wheeler Wilcox.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you for listening.