ucate yourself for a charming old age. There is no time to lose.
Dividends
Our thoughts are shaping unmade spheres,
And, like a blessing or a curse,
They thunder down the formless years
And ring throughout the universe.
The more we realize the tremendous responsibility of our mental
emanations the better for the world and ourselves. The sooner we teach
little children what a mighty truth lies in the Bible phrase "As a man
thinketh, so is he," the better for future generations.
If a man thinks sickness, poverty and misfortune, he will meet them and
claim them all eventually as his own. But he will not acknowledge the
close relationship, he will deny his own children and declare they were
sent to him by an evil fate.
Walter Atkinson tells us that "he who hates is an assassin."
Every kindergarten and public school teacher ought to embody this idea
in the daily lessons for children.
It may not be possible to teach a child to "love every neighbor as
himself," for that is the most difficult of Commandments to follow to
the letter; but it is possible to eliminate hatred from a nature if we
awaken sympathy for the object of dislike.
That which we pity we cannot hate. The wonderful Intelligence which
set this superb system of worlds in action must have been inspired by
love for all it created.
So much grandeur and magnificence, so much perfection of detail, could
only spring from Love.
Whatever is out of harmony in our little world has been caused by man's
substituting hate and fear for love and faith.
Every time we allow either hate or fear to dominate our minds we
disarrange the order of the universe and make trouble for humanity, and
ourselves.
It may be a little late in reaching us, but it is sure to come back to
the Mind which sent forth the cause.
Every time we entertain thoughts of love, sympathy, forgiveness and
faith we add to the well-being of the world, and create fortunate and
successful conditions for ourselves.
Those, too, may be late in coming to us--BUT THEY WILL COME.
Right thinking is not attained in a day or a week.
We must train the mind to reject the brood of despondent, resentful,
fearful and prejudiced thoughts which approach it, and to invite and
entertain cheerful, broad and wholesome thoughts instead, just as we
overcome false tones and cultivate musical ones in educating the voice
for singing.
When we once realize that by driving away pess
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