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028 - Sympathy · Heart of the New Thought

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  Speaker 1: Section twenty seven of the Heart of the New Thought
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  Speaker 1: by Ella Wheeler Welcox. This LibriVox recording is in the
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  Speaker 1: public domain. Sympathy. Are you of a sympathetic nature? If so,
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  Speaker 1: do not let your sympathies help to add to the
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  Speaker 1: world's miseries. That may seem a strange expression, but it
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  Speaker 1: can be explained if you will listen. Much of the
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  Speaker 1: misery in the world is the result of imagination. All
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  Speaker 1: of it is the result of selfishness and ignorance. But
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  Speaker 1: hundreds and thousands of people believed themselves sick, sorrowful, and
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  Speaker 1: poverty stricken. Who would be well, glad and prosperous if
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  Speaker 1: they only thought themselves so. Every time you pour out
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  Speaker 1: your sympathy upon these self made sufferers, you add to
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  Speaker 1: their burden of wrong thought and make it just so
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  Speaker 1: much more difficult for them to rise out of their troubles.
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  Speaker 1: I do not believe all the misfortune in the world
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  Speaker 1: is caused by wrong thinking in this life, or can
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  Speaker 1: be done away with by right thinking. The three year
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  Speaker 1: old child who toddles in front of a trolley car
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  Speaker 1: and loses a leg while the tired mother is bending
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  Speaker 1: over the wooshtub to keep the wolf of hunger at bay.
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  Speaker 1: Cannot be blamed for wrong thinking as the cause of
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  Speaker 1: its trouble. Neither can the deaf mute, or the child
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  Speaker 1: born blind or deformed. We must go further back to
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  Speaker 1: former lives to find the first cause of such misfortunes
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  Speaker 1: your own new thought. No amount of optimistic theology or
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  Speaker 1: philosophy can restore the child's leg, or ears or eyes.
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  Speaker 1: It is utter nonsense to say that miracles like these
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  Speaker 1: can be performed. There are scores of individuals whom we meet,
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  Speaker 1: handicapped in life's race by such dear calamities, that we
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  Speaker 1: spontaneously pour forth our sympathy. But even to these it
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  Speaker 1: were kinder and wiser to give diverting thoughts and a
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  Speaker 1: new outlook, and to open up avenues for pleasure and
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  Speaker 1: entertainment and profit in place of tears and condolence. Sympathy
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  Speaker 1: without elevating actions to a sufferer is like a cloud
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  Speaker 1: without rain to the parched earth. But the great majority
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  Speaker 1: 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
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  Speaker 1: indifference or ridicule as a substitute for sympathy. But instead
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  Speaker 1: of leading the sick man on to tell you the
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  Speaker 1: details of his illness and to describe all his symptoms,
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  Speaker 1: while your own body responds with sympathetic aches and pains
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  Speaker 1: as you listen, it is kinder to divert his attention
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  Speaker 1: to some cheerful and merry topic, or to refer to
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  Speaker 1: some case like his own, which resulted in perfect restoration
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  Speaker 1: to health, And instead of going down into his underground
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  Speaker 1: cave of depression, bring him out into the wholesome sunlight
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  Speaker 1: of your own healthful state, even if for a moment only,
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  Speaker 1: and impress upon his mind that both belongs to him
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  Speaker 1: and must return to him. To the man in business trouble,
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  Speaker 1: the 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. And of said election
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  Speaker 1: twenty seven