This week I’m starting my stand-up comedy classes. Yes, you read that right—stand-up comedy! I want to help people laugh, and at the same time, learn to laugh at myself. I truly believe that a lot of the problems we face come from taking ourselves too seriously, from expecting others to take us seriously all […]
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Often, when we look around, it seems like the world is full of problems and negative situations, which can lead us to feel and think pessimistically. Bad news shouts so loudly that it drowns out the good, capturing our attention. This happens because, since ancient times, our minds have evolved to focus more on dangers
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You might’ve heard the saying, “The grass is always greener on the other side.” This adage captures a deep-rooted human tendency: our incessant need to compare ourselves to others. In today’s social media-driven world, every moment becomes a stage to showcase achievements, making comparison an almost involuntary act. How Comparison Ties in with Envy Let’s
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You fear debt. So, your mind concentrates upon it and brings about greater debts. You fear loss, and by visualizing that loss, you bring it about. The only remedy for fear is to know that evil has no power—that it is a nonentity—merely a lack of something. You fear ill health when, if you would
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My friend, Bruce Calvert, editor of The Open Road, takes a series of shots at New York in his September magazine. Bruce and I both love the open country, but he is just a “little” prejudiced, I’m thinking, against the city. He sees only confusion, inharmony, greed, and vice in the city. To me, there
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Disease is more than imagination; it is a human error, a constituent part of what comprises the whole of mortal existence,—namely, material sensation and mental delusion. But an erring sense of existence, or the error of belief, named disease, never made sickness a stubborn reality. On the ground that harmony is the truth of being, the
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You will find, in the effort to reach a higher spirituality in your daily life, that the small things try your patience and your strength more than the greater ones. Home life, like business life, is composed of an accumulation of trifles. There are people who bear great sorrows with resignation and seem to gain
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Make light of your feelings. Never mind them. It is no disgrace to FEEL like a coward. It is a purely physical thing; due to nervous depletion. But it is a disgrace to ACT like a coward. In other words, ACT at all times like the well, healthy, poised person that you want to be.
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It is true that the poor sick woman, who has been doing washing all day to support her small children, is a pitiful sight. It is true that the consumptive man, driven to work day after day to get the means to feed his family, is not at first thought an inspiring object as he
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As you go over your wardrobe in the spring or fall, do not keep any old, useless, or even questionable, garments, for “fear you might need them another year.” Give them to the ragman, or send them to the county or city poor house. There is nothing that will keep you in a rut of
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