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<span style="font-size: 220%">Thoughts I Met On</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 220%">The Highway</span><br /><br />
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<span style="font-size: 130%;">Words of Friendly Cheer</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 130%;">From "The Life Books"</span><br />
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<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_5" id="Page_5">[Pg 5]</a></span>
Thoughts are forces—like builds like and like attracts like. Thoughts
of strength both build strength from within and attract it from without.
Thoughts of weakness actualize weakness from within and attract it from
without. Courage begets strength, fear begets weakness. And so courage
begets success, fear begets failure.</p>
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<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_6" id="Page_6">[Pg 6]</a></span>
Any way the old world goes<br />
<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Happy be the weather!</span><br />
With the red thorn or the rose<br />
<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Singin' all together!</span><br />
Don't you see that sky o' blue!<br />
<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Good Lord painted it for you</span><br />
Reap the daisies in the dew<br />
<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Singin' all together!</span><br />
Springtime sweet, an' frosty fall<br />
<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Happy be the weather!</span><br />
Earth has gardens for us all,<br />
<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Goin' on together.</span><br />
<br />
Sweet the labor in the light,<br />
<span style="margin-left: 1em;">To the harvest's gold and white—</span><br />
Till the toilers say "Good night,"<br />
<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Singin' all together!</span>
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<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_7" id="Page_7">[Pg 7]</a></span>There
is no quality that exerts more good, is of greater service to all
mankind during the course of the ordinary life, than the mind and the
heart that goes out in an all-embracing love for all, that is the
generator and the circulator of a genuine, hearty, wholesome sympathy
and courage and good cheer, that is not disturbed or upset by the
passing occurrence little or great, but that is serene, tranquil, and
conquering to the end, that is looking for the best, that is finding the
best, and that is inspiring the best in all. There is moreover, no
quality that when genuine brings such rich returns to its possessor by
virtue of the thoughts and the feelings that it inspires and calls forth
from others and that come back laden with their peaceful, stimulating,
healthful influences for you.</p>
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<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_8" id="Page_8">[Pg 8]</a></span>Out of
the night that covers me,<br />
<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Black as the Pit from pole to pole,</span><br />
I thank whatever gods may be<br />
<span style="margin-left: 1em;">For my unconquerable soul.</span><br />
<br />
In the fell clutch of circumstance<br />
<span style="margin-left: 1em;">I have not winced nor cried aloud.</span><br />
Under the bludgeoning of chance<br />
<span style="margin-left: 1em;">My head is bloody, but unbowed.</span><br />
<br />
Beyond this place of wrath and tears<br />
<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Looms but the horror of the shade,</span><br />
And yet the menace of the years<br />
<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Finds and shall find me, unafraid.</span><br />
<br />
It matters not how strait the gate<br />
<span style="margin-left: 1em;">How charged with punishment the scroll,</span><br />
I am the master of my fate;<br />
<span style="margin-left: 1em;">I am the captain of my soul.</span><br />
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<p style="margin-left: 7em;"><i>William Earnest Henley</i></p>
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<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_9" id="Page_9">[Pg 9]</a></span>Thought is the great builder in human life: it is the determining
factor. Continually think thoughts that are good, and your life will
show forth in goodness, and your body in health and beauty. Continually
think evil thoughts, and your life will show forth in evil, and your
body in weakness and repulsiveness. Think thoughts of love, and you will
love and will be loved. Think thoughts of hatred, and you will hate and
will be hated. Each follows its kind.</p>
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<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_10" id="Page_10">[Pg 10]</a></span>
Every day is a fresh beginning,<br />
<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Every morning is the world made new;</span><br />
You who are weary of sorrow and sinning,<br />
<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Here is a beautiful hope for you,</span><br />
<span style="margin-left: 1em;">A hope for me and a hope for you.</span><br />
<br />
All the past things are past and over,<br />
<span style="margin-left: 1em;">The tasks are done, and the tears are shed.</span><br />
Yesterday's errors let yesterday cover;<br />
<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Yesterday's wounds, which smarted and bled,</span><br />
<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Are healed with the healing which night has shed.</span><br />
<br />
Every day is a fresh beginning,<br />
<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Listen, my soul, to the glad refrain,</span><br />
And, spite of old sorrow and older sinning,<br />
<span style="margin-left: 1em;">And puzzles forecasted, and possible pain,</span><br />
<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Take heart with the day and begin again.</span></p>
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<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_11" id="Page_11">[Pg 11]</a></span>Each morning is a fresh beginning. We are, as it were, just beginning
life. We have it <i>entirely</i> in our own hands. And when the morning with
its fresh beginning comes, all yesterdays should be yesterdays, with
which we have nothing to do. Sufficient is it to know that the way we
lived our yesterday has determined for us our today. And, again, when
the morning with its fresh beginning comes, all tomorrows should be
tomorrows, with which we have nothing to do. Sufficient to know that the
way we live our today determines our tomorrow.</p>
<p>Simply the first hour of this new day, with all its richness and glory,
with all its sublime and eternity-determining possibilities, and each
succeeding hour as it comes, but <i>not before</i> it comes—this is the
secret of character building. This simple method will bring any one to
the realization of the highest life that can be even conceived of, and
there is nothing in this connection that can be conceived of that cannot
be realized somehow, somewhen, somewhere.</p>
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<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_12" id="Page_12">[Pg 12]</a></span>
The poem hangs on the berry-bush<br />
<span style="margin-left: 1em;">When comes the poet's eye,</span><br />
And the whole street is a masquerade<br />
<span style="margin-left: 1em;">When Shakespeare passes by.</span></p>
<hr class="pagebreak" />
<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_13" id="Page_13">[Pg 13]</a></span>This same Shakespeare, whose mere passing causes all this commotion, is
the one who put into the mouth of one of his creations the words: "The
fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are
underlings." And again he gave us a great truth when he said:</p>
<p>
<span style="margin-left: 8em;">"Our doubts are traitors,</span><br />
And make us lose the good we oft might win<br />
By fearing to attempt."<br />
</p>
<p>There is probably no agent that brings us more undesirable conditions
than fear. We should live in fear of nothing, nor will we when we come
fully to know ourselves. An old French proverb runs:</p>
<p>
"Some of your griefs you have cured,<br />
<span style="margin-left: 1em;">And the sharpest you still have survived;</span><br />
But what torments of pain you endured<br />
<span style="margin-left: 1em;">From evils that never arrived."</span><br />
</p>
<p>Fear and lack of faith go hand in hand. The one is born of the other.
Tell me how much one is given to fear, and I will tell you how much he
lacks in faith. Fear is a most expensive guest to entertain, the same as
worry is: so expensive are they that no one can afford to entertain
them. We invite what we fear, the same as, by a different attitude of
mind, we invite and attract the influences and conditions we desire.</p>
<hr class="pagebreak" />
<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_14" id="Page_14">[Pg 14]</a></span>To remain in nature always sweet and simple and humble, and therefore
strong.</p>
<p>
"Whatever the weather may be," says he,<br />
"Whatever the weather may be,<br />
It's the songs ye sing, an' the smiles ye wear,<br />
That's a-makin' the sun shine everywhere."<br />
</p>
<p style="margin-left: 7em;"><i>James Whitcomb Riley</i></p>
<hr class="pagebreak" />
<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_15" id="Page_15">[Pg 15]</a></span>Sweetness of nature, simplicity in manners and conduct, humility without
self-abasement, give the truly kingly quality to men, the queenly to
women, the winning to children, whatever the rank or the station may be.
The life dominated by this characteristic, or rather these closely
allied characteristics, is a natural well-spring of joy to itself and
sheds a continual benediction upon all who come within the scope of its
influence. It makes for a life of great beauty in itself, and it imparts
courage and hope and buoyancy to all others.</p>
<hr class="pagebreak" />
<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_16" id="Page_16">[Pg 16]</a></span>
There is no thing we cannot overcome;<br />
<span style="margin-left: 2em;">Say not thy evil instinct is inherited,</span><br />
<span style="margin-left: 2em;">Or that some trait inborn makes thy whole life forlorn;</span><br />
And calls down punishment that is not merited.<br />
<br />
Back of thy parents and grandparents lies<br />
<span style="margin-left: 2em;">The Great Eternal Will! That too is thine</span><br />
<span style="margin-left: 2em;">Inheritance,—strong, beautiful, divine,</span><br />
Sure lever of success for one who tries.<br />
<br />
Earth has no claim the soul cannot contest;<br />
<span style="margin-left: 2em;">Know thyself part of the Eternal Source;</span><br />
<span style="margin-left: 2em;">Naught can stand before thy spirit's force:</span><br />
The soul's Divine Inheritance is best.</p>
<hr class="pagebreak" />
<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_17" id="Page_17">[Pg 17]</a></span>Thought is at the bottom of all progress or retrogression, of all
success or failure, of all that is desirable or undesirable in human
life. The type of thought we entertain both creates and draws conditions
that crystallize about it, conditions exactly the same in nature as is
the thought that gives them form. Thoughts are forces, and each creates
of its kind, whether we realize it or not. The great law of the drawing
power of the mind, which says that like creates like, and that like
attracts like, is continually working in every human life, for it is one
of the great immutable laws of the universe. For one to take time to see
clearly the things one would attain to, and then to hold that ideal
steadily and continually before his mind, never allowing faith—his
positive thought-forces—to give way to or to be neutralized by doubts
and fears, and then to set about doing each day what his hands find to
do, never complaining, but spending the time that he would otherwise
spend in complaint in focusing his thought-forces upon the ideal that
his mind has built, will sooner or later bring about the full
materialization of that for which he sets out.</p>
<hr class="pagebreak" />
<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_18" id="Page_18">[Pg 18]</a></span>
Beauty seen is never lost,<br />
<span style="margin-left: 1em;">God's colors all are fast;</span><br />
The glory of this sunset heaven<br />
<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Into my soul has passed,—</span><br />
A sense of gladness unconfined<br />
<span style="margin-left: 1em;">To mortal, date or clime;</span><br />
As the soul liveth, it shall live<br />
<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Beyond the years of time.</span><br />
Beside the mystic asphodels<br />
<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Shall bloom the home-born flowers,</span><br />
And new horizons flush and glow<br />
<span style="margin-left: 1em;">With sunset hues of ours.</span><br />
</p>
<p style="margin-left: 7em;"><i>Whittier</i></p>
<hr class="pagebreak" />
<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_19" id="Page_19">[Pg 19]</a></span>Would you remain always young, and would you carry all the joyousness
and buoyancy of youth into your maturer years? Then have care concerning
but one thing,—how you live in your thought world. It was the inspired
one, Gautama, the Buddha, who said,—"The mind is everything; what you
think you become." And the same thing had Ruskin in mind when he
said,—"Make yourselves nests of pleasant thoughts. None of us as yet
know, for none of us have been taught in early youth, what fairy palaces
we may build of beautiful thought—<i>proof against all adversity</i>." And
would you have in your body all the elasticity, all the strength, all
the beauty of your younger years? Then live these in your mind, making
no room for unclean thought, and you will externalize them in your body.
In the degree that you keep young in thought will you remain young in
body. And you will find that your body will in turn aid your mind, for
body helps mind the same as mind helps body.</p>
<hr class="pagebreak" />
<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_20" id="Page_20">[Pg 20]</a></span>
There is a sacred Something on all ways—<br />
<span style="margin-left: 2em;">Something that watches through the Universe;</span><br />
One that remembers, reckons and repays,<br />
<span style="margin-left: 2em;">Giving us love for love, and curse for curse.</span><br />
</p>
<p style="margin-left: 7em;"><i>Edwin Markham</i></p>
<hr class="pagebreak" />
<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_21" id="Page_21">[Pg 21]</a></span>The power of every life, the very life itself, is determined by what it
relates itself to. God is immanent as well as transcendent. He is
creating, working, ruling in the universe today, in your life and in
mine, just as much as He ever has been. We are too apt to regard Him
after the manner of an absentee landlord, one who has set in operation
the forces of this great universe, and then taken Himself away.</p>
<p>In the degree, however, that we recognize Him as immanent as well as
transcendent, are we able to partake of His life and power. For in the
degree that we recognize Him as the Infinite Spirit of Life and Power
that is today, at this very moment, working and manifesting in and
through all, and then, in the degree that we come into the realization
of our oneness with this life, do we become partakers of, and so do we
actualize in ourselves the qualities of his life. In the degree that we
open ourselves to the inflowing tide of this immanent and transcendent
life, do we make ourselves channels through which the Infinite
Intelligence and Power can work.</p>
<hr class="pagebreak" />
<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_22" id="Page_22">[Pg 22]</a></span>
The robber is robbed by his riches;<br />
<span style="margin-left: 1em;">The tyrant is dragged by his chain;</span><br />
The schemer is snared by his cunning,<br />
<span style="margin-left: 1em;">The slayer lies dead by the slain.</span><br />
</p>
<p style="margin-left: 7em;"><i>Edwin Markham</i></p>
<hr class="pagebreak" />
<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_23" id="Page_23">[Pg 23]</a></span>This is the law of prosperity: When apparent adversity comes, be not
cast down by it, but make the best of it, and always look forward for
better things, for conditions more prosperous. To hold yourself in this
attitude of mind is to set into operation subtle, silent, and
irresistible forces that sooner or later will actualize in material form
that which is today merely an idea. But ideas have occult power, and
ideas, when rightly planted and rightly tended, are the seeds that
actualize material conditions.</p>
<p>Never give a moment to complaint, but utilize the time that would
otherwise be spent in this way in looking forward and actualizing the
conditions you desire. Suggest prosperity to yourself. See yourself in a
prosperous condition. Affirm that you will before long be in a
prosperous condition. Affirm it calmly and quietly, but strongly and
confidently. Believe it, believe it absolutely. Expect it,—keep it
continually watered with expectation. You thus make yourself a magnet to
attract the things that you desire. Don't be afraid to suggest.</p>
<hr class="pagebreak" />
<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_24" id="Page_24">[Pg 24]</a></span>
They might not need me—yet they might,<br />
I'll let my heart be just in sight.<br />
A smile so small as mine might be<br />
Precisely their necessity.<br />
</p>
<p style="margin-left: 7em;"><i>Emily Dickinson</i></p>
<hr class="pagebreak" />
<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_25" id="Page_25">[Pg 25]</a></span>The grander natures and the more thoughtful are always looking for and
in conversation dwelling on the better things in others. It is the rule
with but few, if any exceptions, that the more noble and worthy and
thoughtful the nature, the more it is continually looking for the best
there is to be found in every life. Instead of judging or condemning, or
acquiring the habit that eventually leads to this, it is looking more
closely to and giving its time to living more worthily itself.</p>
<p>It is in this way continually unfolding and expanding in beauty and in
power; it is finding an ever-increasing happiness by the admiration and
the love that such a life is always, even though all unconsciously,
calling to itself from all sources. It is the life that pays by many
fold.</p>
<hr class="pagebreak" />
<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_26" id="Page_26">[Pg 26]</a></span>
We just shake hands at meeting<br />
<span style="margin-left: 2em;">With many that come nigh</span><br />
We nod the head in greeting<br />
<span style="margin-left: 2em;">To many that go by—</span><br />
<br />
But welcome through the gateway<br />
<span style="margin-left: 2em;">Our few old friends and true;</span><br />
Then hearts leap up, and straightway<br />
<span style="margin-left: 2em;">There's open house for you.</span><br />
<span style="margin-left: 4em;">Old friends.</span><br />
<span style="margin-left: 2em;">There's open house for you!</span><br />
</p>
<p style="margin-left: 7em;"><i>Gerald Massey</i></p>
<hr class="pagebreak" />
<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_27" id="Page_27">[Pg 27]</a></span>Many times the struggles are greater than we can ever know. We need more
gentleness and sympathy and compassion in our common human life. Then we
will neither blame nor condemn. Instead of blaming or condemning we will
sympathize.</p>
<p>
<span style="margin-left: 3em;">"Comfort one another.</span><br />
For the way is often dreary<br />
And the feet are often weary,<br />
<span style="margin-left: 1em;">And the heart is very sad.</span><br />
There is a heavy burden bearing,<br />
When it seems that none are caring,<br />
<span style="margin-left: 1em;">And we half forget that ever we were glad.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="margin-left: 3em;">"Comfort one another</span><br />
With the hand-clasp close and tender.<br />
With the sweetness love can render,<br />
<span style="margin-left: 1em;">And the looks of friendly eyes.</span><br />
Do not wait with grace unspoken,<br />
While life's daily bread is broken—<br />
<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Gentle speech is oft like manna from the skies."</span><br />
</p>
<p>And then when we fully realize the fact that selfishness is at the root
of all error, sin, and crime, and that ignorance is the basis of all
selfishness, with what charity we come to look upon the acts of all. It
is the ignorant man who seeks his own ends at the expense of the greater
whole. It is the ignorant man, therefore, who is the selfish man.</p>
<hr class="pagebreak" />
<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_28" id="Page_28">[Pg 28]</a></span>To get up immediately when we stumble, face again to the light, and
travel on without wasting even a moment in regret.</p>
<hr class="pagebreak" />
<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_29" id="Page_29">[Pg 29]</a></span>We are on the way from the imperfect to the perfect; some day, in this
life or some other, we shall reach our destiny. It is as much the part
of folly to waste time and cripple our forces in vain, unproductive
regrets in regard to the occurences of the past as it is to cripple our
forces through fears and forebodings for the future.</p>
<p>There is no experience in any life which if rightly recognized, rightly
turned and thereby wisely used, cannot be made of value; many times
things thus turned and used can be made sources of inestimable gain;
ofttimes they become veritable blessings in disguise.</p>
<hr class="pagebreak" />
<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_30" id="Page_30">[Pg 30]</a></span>
'Tis the sweetest thing to remember<br />
<span style="margin-left: 1em;">If courage be on the wane.</span><br />
When the cold, dark days are over—<br />
<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Why, the birds go north again.</span><br />
</p>
<p style="margin-left: 7em;"><i>Ella Higginson</i></p>
<hr class="pagebreak" />
<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_31" id="Page_31">[Pg 31]</a></span>Nothing is more subtle than thought, nothing more powerful, nothing more
irresistible in its operations, when rightly applied and held to with a
faith and fidelity that is unswerving,—a faith and fidelity that never
knows the neutralizing effects of doubt and fear. If one have
aspirations and a sincere desire for a higher and better condition, so
far as advantages, facilities, associates, or any surroundings or
environments are concerned, and if he continually send out his highest
thought forces for the realization of these desires, and continually
water these forces with firm expectation as to their fulfillment, he
will sooner or later find himself in the realization of these desires,
and all in accordance with natural laws and forces.</p>
<p>We are born to be neither slaves nor beggars, but to dominion and to
plenty. This is our rightful heritage, if we will but recognize and lay
claim to it.</p>
<hr class="pagebreak" />
<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_32" id="Page_32">[Pg 32]</a></span>
One who never turned his back, but marched breast forward,<br />
Never doubted clouds would break,<br />
Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph,<br />
Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better,<br />
Sleep to wake.<br />
</p>
<p style="margin-left: 7em;"><i>Robert Browning</i></p>
<hr class="pagebreak" />
<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_33" id="Page_33">[Pg 33]</a></span>Will is the steady directing power: it is concentration. It is the pilot
which, after the vessel is started by the mighty force within, puts it
on its right course and keeps it true to that course.</p>
<hr style='width: 45%;' />
<p>Will is the sun-glass which so concentrates and so focuses the sun's
rays that they quickly burn a hole through the paper that is held before
it. The same rays, not thus concentrated, not thus focused, would fall
upon the paper for days without any effect whatever. Will is the means
for the directing, the concentrating, the focusing, of the
thought-forces. Thought under wise direction,—this it is that does the
work, that brings results, that makes the successful career. One object
in mind which we never lose sight of; an ideal steadily held before the
mind, never lost sight of, never lowered, never swerved from,—this,
with <i>persistence</i>, determines all. Nothing can resist the power of
thought, when thus directed by will.</p>
<hr class="pagebreak" />
<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_34" id="Page_34">[Pg 34]</a></span>
To stand by one's friend to the uttermost end,<br />
And fight a fair fight with one's foe;<br />
Never to quit and never to twit,<br />
And never to peddle one's woe.<br />
</p>
<p style="margin-left: 7em;"><i>George Brinton Chandler</i></p>
<hr class="pagebreak" />
<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_35" id="Page_35">[Pg 35]</a></span>The fearing, grumbling, worrying, vascillating do not succeed in
anything and generally live by burdening, in some form or another,
someone else. They stand in the way of, they prevent their own success;
they fail in living even an ordinary healthy, normal life; they cast a
blighting influence over and they act as a hindrance to all with whom
they at any time come in contact. The pleasures we take captive in life,
the growth and advancement we make, the pleasure and benefit our company
or acquaintanceship brings to others, the very desirability of our
companionship on the part of others—all depend upon the types of
thought we entertain and live most habitually with.</p>
<hr class="pagebreak" />
<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_36" id="Page_36">[Pg 36]</a></span>
No one could tell me where my Soul might be.<br />
I searched for God but God eluded me.<br />
I sought my brother out and found all there.<br />
</p>
<p style="margin-left: 7em;"><i>Ernest Crosby.</i></p>
<hr class="pagebreak" />
<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_37" id="Page_37">[Pg 37]</a></span>In the degree that we love will we be loved. Thoughts are forces. Each
creates of its kind. Each comes back laden with the effect that
corresponds to itself and of which it is the cause.</p>
<p>
"Then let your secret thoughts be fair—<br />
They have a vital part, and share<br />
In shaping words and moulding fate;<br />
God's system is so intricate."<br />
</p>
<p>If our heart goes out in love to all with whom we come in contact, we
inspire love and the same ennobling and warming influences of love
always return to us from those in whom we inspire them. There is a deep
scientific principle underlying the precept—If you would have all the
world love you, you must first love all the world.</p>
<hr class="pagebreak" />
<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_38" id="Page_38">[Pg 38]</a></span>
It was only a glad "Good morning!"<br />
<span style="margin-left: 3em;">As she passed along the way,</span><br />
But it spread the morning glory<br />
<span style="margin-left: 3em;">Over the livelong day.</span></p>
<hr class="pagebreak" />
<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_39" id="Page_39">[Pg 39]</a></span>By example and not by precept. By living, not by preaching. By doing,
not by professing. By living the life, not by dogmatizing as to how it
should be lived. There is no contagion equal to the contagion of life.
Whatever we sow, that shall we also reap, and each thing sown produces
of its kind. We can kill not only by doing another bodily injury
directly, but we can and we do kill by every antagonistic thought. Not
only do we thus kill, but while we kill we suicide. Many a man has been
made sick by having the ill thoughts of a number of people centered upon
him; some have been actually killed. Put hatred into the world and we
make it a literal hell. Put love into the world and heaven with all its
beauties and glories becomes a reality.</p>
<p>Not to love is not to live, or it is to live a living death. The life
that goes out in love to all is the life that is full, and rich, and
continually expanding in beauty and in power. Such is the life that
becomes ever more inclusive, and hence larger in its scope and
influence.</p>
<hr class="pagebreak" />
<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_40" id="Page_40">[Pg 40]</a></span>
Give us men!<br />
<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Strong and stalwart ones:</span><br />
Men whom highest hope inspires,<br />
Men whom purest honour fires,<br />
Men who trample Self beneath them.<br />
Men who make their country wreathe them<br />
<span style="margin-left: 2em;">As her noble sons,</span><br />
<span style="margin-left: 2em;">Worthy of their sires,</span><br />
Men who never shame their mothers,<br />
Men who never fail their brothers,<br />
True, however false are others:<br />
<span style="margin-left: 2em;">Give us Men—I say again,</span><br />
<span style="margin-left: 4em;">Give us Men!</span><br />
</p>
<p style="margin-left: 7em;"><i>The Bishop of Exeter</i></p>
<hr class="pagebreak" />
<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_41" id="Page_41">[Pg 41]</a></span><i>Not repression, but elevation.</i> Would that this could be repeated a
thousand times over! <i>No, a knowledge of the spiritual realities of life
prohibits asceticism, repression, the same as it prohibits license and
perverted use. To err on the one side is just as contrary to the ideal
life as to err on the other.</i> All things are for a purpose, all should
be used and enjoyed; but all should be rightly used, that they may be
fully enjoyed.</p>
<p>It is the all-around, fully developed we want,—not the ethereal,
pale-blooded man and woman, but the man and woman of flesh and blood,
for action and service here and now,—the man and woman strong and
powerful, with all the faculties and functions fully unfolded and used,
all in a royal and bounding condition, but all rightly subordinated. The
man and the woman of this kind, with the imperial hand of mastery upon
all,—standing, moving thus like a king, nay, like a very God,—such is
the man and such is the woman of power. Such is the ideal life: anything
else is one-sided, and falls short of it.</p>
<hr class="pagebreak" />
<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_42" id="Page_42">[Pg 42]</a></span>
High thought and noble in all lands<br />
<span style="margin-left: 2em;">Help me; my soul is fed by such,</span><br />
But oh, at the touch of life and hands—<br />
<span style="margin-left: 2em;">The human touch!</span><br />
Warm, vital, close, life's Symbol dear,—<br />
<span style="margin-left: 2em;">These need I most, and now and here.</span><br />
</p>
<p style="margin-left: 7em;"><i>Richard Burton</i></p>
<hr class="pagebreak" />
<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_43" id="Page_43">[Pg 43]</a></span>Thoughts of strength both build strength from within and attract it from
without. Thoughts of weakness actualize weakness from within and attract
it from without. Courage begets strength, fear begets weakness. And so
courage begets success, fear begets failure. It is the man or the woman
of faith, and hence of courage, who is the master of circumstances, and
who make his or her power felt in the world. It is the man or the woman
who lacks faith and who as a consequence is weakened and crippled by
fears and forebodings, who is the creature of all passing occurences.</p>
<p>What one lives in his invisible thought world he is continually
actualizing in his visible material world. If he would have any
conditions different in the latter he must make the necessary change in
the former. A clear realization of this great fact would bring success
to thousands of men and women who all about us are now in the depths of
despair. It would bring health, abounding health and strength to
thousands now diseased and suffering. It would bring peace and joy to
thousands now unhappy and ill at ease.</p>
<hr class="pagebreak" />
<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_44" id="Page_44">[Pg 44]</a></span>
I stay my haste, I make delays,<br />
<span style="margin-left: 2em;">For what avails this eager pace?</span><br />
I stand amid eternal ways,<br />
<span style="margin-left: 2em;">And what is mine shall know my face</span><br />
<br />
Asleep, awake, by night or day,<br />
<span style="margin-left: 2em;">The friends I seek are seeking me;</span><br />
No wind can drive my bark astray,<br />
<span style="margin-left: 2em;">Nor change the tide of destiny—</span><br />
<br />
The waters know their own, and draw<br />
<span style="margin-left: 2em;">The brooks that spring in yonder height;</span><br />
So flows the good with equal law<br />
<span style="margin-left: 2em;">Unto the soul of pure delight.</span><br />
<br />
The stars come nightly to the sky;<br />
<span style="margin-left: 2em;">The tidal wave unto the sea;</span><br />
Nor time, nor space, nor deep, nor high,<br />
<span style="margin-left: 2em;">Can keep my own away from me.</span><br />
</p>
<p style="margin-left: 7em;"><i>John Burroughs</i></p>
<hr class="pagebreak" />
<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_45" id="Page_45">[Pg 45]</a></span>The thing that pays, and that makes for a well balanced, useful, and
happy life, is not necessarily and is not generally a somber, pious
morality, or any standard of life that keeps us from a free, happy,
spontaneous use and enjoyment of all normal and healthy faculties,
functions, and powers, the enjoyment of all innocent pleasures—use, but
not abuse, enjoyment, but enjoyment through self-mastery and not through
license or perverted use, for it can never come that way. Look where we
will, in or out and around us, we will find that it is the middle
ground—neither poverty nor excessive riches, good wholesome use without
license, a turning into the bye-ways along the main road where innocent
and healthy God-sent and God-intended pleasures and enjoyments are to be
found; but never getting far enough away to lose sight of the road
itself. The middle ground it is that the wise man or woman plants foot
upon.</p>
<hr class="pagebreak" />
<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_46" id="Page_46">[Pg 46]</a></span>
For evil poisons; malice shafts<br />
<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Like boomerangs return,</span><br />
Inflicting wounds that will not heal<br />
<span style="margin-left: 1em;">While rage and anger burn.</span></p>
<hr class="pagebreak" />
<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_47" id="Page_47">[Pg 47]</a></span>Tell me how much one loves and I will tell you how much he has seen of
God. Tell me how much he loves and I will tell you how much he lives
with God. Tell me how much he loves and I will tell you how far into the
Kingdom of Heaven,—the kingdom of harmony, he has entered, for "love is
the fulfilling of the law."</p>
<p>And in a sense love is everything. It is the key to life, and its
influences are those that move the world. Live only in the thought of
love for all and you will draw love to you from all. Live in the thought
of malice or hatred, and malice and hatred will come back to you.</p>
<p>And so love inspires love; hatred breeds hatred. Love and good will
stimulate and build up the body; hatred and malice corrode and tear it
down. Love is a savor of life unto life; hatred is a savor of death unto
death.</p>
<p>
"There are loyal hearts, there are spirits brave,<br />
<span style="margin-left: 1em;">There are souls that are pure and true;</span><br />
Then give to the world the best you have,<br />
<span style="margin-left: 1em;">And the best will come back to you.</span><br />
<br />
"Give love, and love to <i>your</i> heart will flow,<br />
<span style="margin-left: 1em;">A strength in your utmost need;</span><br />
Have faith, and a score of hearts will show<br />
<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Their faith in <i>your</i> word and deed."</span></p>
<hr class="pagebreak" />
<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_48" id="Page_48">[Pg 48]</a></span>
The kind of a man for you and me!<br />
<span style="margin-left: 1em;">He faces the world unflinchingly,</span><br />
And smiles as long as the world exists,<br />
<span style="margin-left: 1em;">With a knuckled faith and force like fists:</span><br />
He lives the life he is preaching of,<br />
<span style="margin-left: 1em;">And loves where most is the need of love;</span><br />
And feeling still, with a grief half glad,<br />
<span style="margin-left: 1em;">That the bad are as good as the good are bad,</span><br />
He strikes straight out for the right—and he<br />
<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Is the kind of a man for you and me!</span><br />
</p>
<p style="margin-left: 7em;"><i>James Whitcomb Riley</i></p>
<hr class="pagebreak" />
<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_49" id="Page_49">[Pg 49]</a></span>After a certain age is reached in any life, the prevailing tone and
condition of that life is the resultant of the mental habits of that
life. If one have mental equipment sufficient to find and to make use of
the Science of Thought in its application to scientific mind and body
building, habit and character building, there is little by way of
heredity, environment, attainment of which he or she will not be the
master.</p>
<p>One thing is very certain—the mental points of view, the mental
tendencies and habits at twenty-eight and thirty-eight will have
externalized themselves and will have stamped the prevailing conditions
of any life at forty-eight and fifty-eight and sixty-eight.</p>
<hr class="pagebreak" />
<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_50" id="Page_50">[Pg 50]</a></span>
Who puts back into place a fallen bar.<br />
<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Or flings a rock out of a traveled road,</span><br />
His feet are moving toward the central star,<br />
<span style="margin-left: 1em;">His name is whispered in the Gods' abode.</span><br />
</p>
<p style="margin-left: 7em;"><i>Edwin Markham</i></p>
<hr class="pagebreak" />
<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_51" id="Page_51">[Pg 51]</a></span>We need changes from the duties and the cares of our accustomed everyday
life. They are necessary for healthy, normal living. We need
occasionally to be away from our friends, our relatives, from the
members of our immediate households. Such changes are good for us; they
are good for them. We appreciate them better, they us, when we are away
from them for a period, or they from us.</p>
<p>We need these changes to get the kinks out of our minds, our nerves, our
muscles—the cobwebs off our faces. We need them to whet again the edge
of appetite. We need them to invite the mind and the soul to new
possibilities and powers. We need them in order to come back with new
implements, or with implements redressed, sharpened, for the daily
duties.</p>
<p>We need periods of being by ourselves—<i>alone</i>. Sometimes a fortnight or
even a week will do wonders for one, unless he or she has drawn too
heavily upon the account. The simple custom, moreover, of taking an
hour, or even a half hour, <i>alone in the quiet</i>, in the midst of the
daily routine of life, would be the source of <i>inestimable gain</i> for
countless numbers.</p>
<hr class="pagebreak" />
<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_52" id="Page_52">[Pg 52]</a></span>
I know not where His islands lift<br />
<span style="margin-left: 2em;">Their fronded palms in air;</span><br />
I only know I cannot drift<br />
<span style="margin-left: 2em;">Beyond His love and care.</span><br />
</p>
<p style="margin-left: 7em;"><i>Whittier</i></p>
<hr class="pagebreak" />
<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_53" id="Page_53">[Pg 53]</a></span>We need more faith in everyday life—faith in the power that works for
good, faith in the Infinite God, and hence faith in ourselves created in
His image. And however things at times may seem to go, however dark at
times appearances may be, the knowledge of the fact that "the Supreme
Power has us in its charge as it has the suns and endless systems of
worlds in space," will give us the supreme faith that all is well with
us, the same as all is well with the world. "Thou wilt keep him in
perfect peace whose mind is stayed on Thee."</p>
<p>There is nothing firmer, and safer, and surer than Deity. Then, as we
recognize the fact that we have it in our own hands to open ourselves
ever more fully to this Infinite Power, and call upon it to manifest
itself in and through us, we will find in ourselves an ever increasing
sense of power. For in this way we are working in conjunction with it,
and it in turn is working in conjunction with us. We are then led into
the full realization of the fact that all things work together for good
to those that love the good.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_54" id="Page_54">[Pg 54]</a></span></p>
<hr class="pagebreak" />
<p>
Earth breaks up, time drops away,<br />
In flows Heaven with its new day.<br />
</p>
<p style="margin-left: 7em;"><i>Browning</i></p>
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