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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What do you think about the very first thing in the morning? Your thoughts during the first half-hour of the morning will greatly influence the entire day. You may not realize this, but it is nevertheless a fact. If you set out with worry, and depression, and bitterness of soul toward fate or man, you
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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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The greatest obstacle I find in trying to get sick people to get well is their lack of persistent application. I will give a few facts of my personal experience, and you can draw your own conclusions. As a boy, I was trained to believe in the usual set of ideas regarding the body and
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To forgive everybody for everything at all times, regardless of circumstances, is the first step towards complete emancipation. Heretofore, we have looked upon forgiveness as a virtue ; now we know it to be a necessity. To those who possessed the spirit of forgiveness we have given our highest praise, and have thought of such
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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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Love is the joy of life. The sensation of love is the joy of life. The sensation of loving is the reward of the lover. The true lover receives a great many perquisites, such as the love and the gifts of others, but the grand reward of the lover is the sensation of loving. He
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