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032 - Balance · Heart of the New Thought

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  Speaker 1: Section thirty one 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. Balance avoid all strained and ubtruth language when
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  Speaker 1: conversing with people who may not have entered this realm
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  Speaker 1: of thought. Do not allow any one to think of
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  Speaker 1: you as a lunatic or a crank. Unnecessarily. Of course,
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  Speaker 1: there are people in the world who consider every one
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  Speaker 1: a lunatic who hold an opinion differing from their own.
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  Speaker 1: But it can do you or your philosophy no good
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  Speaker 1: to thrust its most difficult phases before the minds of
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  Speaker 1: the unawakened by vague and high flown expressions. I once
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  Speaker 1: chance to call upon a lady who had, quite unknown
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  Speaker 1: to me, entered upon the study of Christian science. She
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  Speaker 1: remarked to me, almost as soon as the greetings were exchanged,
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  Speaker 1: I had a claim to meet for three days this week.
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  Speaker 1: But I have come through it and I am victorious.
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  Speaker 1: I suppose the lady referred to some business matter, perhaps
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  Speaker 1: a legal affair, and waited an explanation. After considerable rumbling conversation,
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  Speaker 1: I managed to grasp the fact that the woman had
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  Speaker 1: been sick in the house three days, but now was well.
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  Speaker 1: She considered her illness a mere claim her mortal mind
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  Speaker 1: had made, which she had to meet and compact. All
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  Speaker 1: this sort of talk is very ridiculous. We need not
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  Speaker 1: talk about every ailment which attacks us as we move
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  Speaker 1: along toward the condition of perfect health, which belongs to us.
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  Speaker 1: But if we do speak of indisposition, let us use
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  Speaker 1: common sense language. What we want to realize is that
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  Speaker 1: we are in the body, but that the spirit can
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  Speaker 1: control bodily conditions. If we give it the ascendency to
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  Speaker 1: the extent of keeping us well, moral, useful, and comfortable,
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  Speaker 1: even in the midst of sickness, vice, indolence, and poverty,
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  Speaker 1: we can rise above these false elements and subjugate them. Meanwhile,
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  Speaker 1: we cannot live without food, clothes, and money. Despise and
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  Speaker 1: ignore these vulgar things, as we may assume to do,
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  Speaker 1: we yet must have them. It brings only ridicule upon
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  Speaker 1: ourselves and our ideas. To make this pretense of despising
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  Speaker 1: the necessities of life, to make them secondary in our
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  Speaker 1: thoughts to spiritual knowledge is right and wise. But this
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  Speaker 1: is better illustrated by our lives and conduct than by
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  Speaker 1: our words. End of section thirty one and End of
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  Speaker 1: the Heart of the New Thought by Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you for listening.