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025 - The Important Trifles · Heart of the New Thought

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  Speaker 1: Section twenty four 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. The important trifles you will find in the
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  Speaker 1: effort to reach a higher spirituality in your daily life,
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  Speaker 1: that the small things try your patience and your strength
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  Speaker 1: more than the greater ones. Home life, like business life,
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  Speaker 1: is composed of an accumulation of trifles. There are people
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  Speaker 1: who bear great sorrows with resignation, and seem to gain
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  Speaker 1: a certain dignity and forth of character through trouble, but
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  Speaker 1: who are utterly vanquished by trivial annoyances. The old fashioned
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  Speaker 1: Orthodox Christian was frequently of this order. Death, poverty, and misfortune.
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  Speaker 1: He bore without complaining, and became oftentimes a more agreeable
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  Speaker 1: companion in times of deepest sorrow. He regarded all such
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  Speaker 1: experiences as the will of God and bow to them.
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  Speaker 1: Yet if his dinner was late, his coffee below the standard,
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  Speaker 1: if his eye glasses were misplaced, or his toe trodden upon,
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  Speaker 1: he become a raging line, and his roar drove his
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  Speaker 1: affrighted household into dark corners. There have been neighborhood angels
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  Speaker 1: who watched beside the dying sinner sustained orphans and widows,
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  Speaker 1: and endured great troubles sublimely like martyrs. But if a
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  Speaker 1: dusty shoe trod upon a freshly washed floor, or husband
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  Speaker 1: or child came tartly to the breakfast table, or lingered
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  Speaker 1: outside the door after regulation hour for retiring lo the
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  Speaker 1: angel became virago or a droning mosquito with persistent sting.
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  Speaker 1: The New philosophy demands serenity and patience through small trials,
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  Speaker 1: as well as fortitude in meeting life's larger ills. It demands, too,
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  Speaker 1: that we seek to avoid giving other unnecessary irritation by
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  Speaker 1: a thoughtless disregard of the importance of trifles. A man
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  Speaker 1: is more likely to keep calm if he wakes in
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  Speaker 1: the night and discovers that the house is on fire
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  Speaker 1: than he is if, on being fully prepared to retire,
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  Speaker 1: he finds the only mug on the third story is
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  Speaker 1: missing from his wash stand, or the cake of toilet
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  Speaker 1: soap he asks for the day before has been forgotten.
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  Speaker 1: A mother bears the affliction of a crippled child with
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  Speaker 1: more equanimity than she is able to bring to bear
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  Speaker 1: upon the continual thoughtfulness of a strong one to be
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  Speaker 1: kind means to be thoughtful. The kindness and most loving
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  Speaker 1: heart will sometimes forget and be careless. But it cannot
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  Speaker 1: be perpetually forgetful and careless of another's wishes and needs,
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  Speaker 1: even in the merest trifles. End of Section twenty four