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026 - Concentration · Heart of the New Thought

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  Speaker 1: Section twenty five of the Heart of the New Thought
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  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
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  Speaker 1: in its teaching. And he who learns that important art
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  Speaker 1: is not liable to frequently forget small or large duties.
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  Speaker 1: It is he who scatters and instead of concentrates his
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  Speaker 1: mind powers, who keeps himself and others in a state
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  Speaker 1: of a continual irritation by forgetting, mislaying, and losing, three
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  Speaker 1: pity vices which do much to mar domestic or business life.
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  Speaker 1: Concentration is a most difficult acquirement for the mature mind
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  Speaker 1: which has been allowed to grow in the habit of thought.
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  Speaker 1: Scattering Wise is the mother, and as sure as wise,
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  Speaker 1: who teaches her child to finish each task begun before
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  Speaker 1: attempting another, For that is the first step in concentration.
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  Speaker 1: Princess Mufford, that great and good pioneer in the field
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  Speaker 1: of practical new Thought, tells us to apply our whole
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  Speaker 1: mental powers to whatever we do, even if it is
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  Speaker 1: merely the tying of a shoe, and to think of
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  Speaker 1: nothing else until that shoe is tied. Then to utterly
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  Speaker 1: forget the shoe string when we turn to another duty
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  Speaker 1: or employment. The next lesson in concentration he gives us
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  Speaker 1: is to repeat the word often to impress it upon
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  Speaker 1: the mind, and then to declare each day that concentration
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  Speaker 1: is will aid still further in the acquisition of this
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  Speaker 1: great and important quality. Meanwhile, since we can be so
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  Speaker 1: fortunate as to always surround ourselves with others who have
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  Speaker 1: acquired it, the student of the higher philosophy must learn
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  Speaker 1: to be serene and self poised when he encounters life's
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  Speaker 1: pigamy worries. He must carry his religion into his bedroom
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  Speaker 1: and his office, and not forget it utterly when he
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  Speaker 1: loses his cooler button, or misses his car, or finds
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  Speaker 1: his office boy has taken a parcel to the wrong address.
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  Speaker 1: To build character necessitates a constant watch upon ourselves. The
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  Speaker 1: new thought is not a religion of Sundays, but of
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  Speaker 1: every day. End of section twenty five, which should think
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  Speaker 1: that you