The Game of Life and How to Play It

by Florence Scovel Shinn

For example: a woman I know, when a child, always “made believe” she was a widow. She “dressed up” in black clothes and wore a long black veil, and people thought she was very clever and amusing. She grew up and married a man with whom she was deeply in love. In a short time he died and she wore black and a sweeping veil for many years. The picture of herself as a widow was impressed upon the subconscious mind,

Man can only receive what he sees himself receiving. The children of Israel were told that they could have all the land they could see. This is true of every man. He has only the land within his own mental vision.

It is the law of nonresistance, which is so little understand. Someone had said that courage contains genius and magic. Face a situation fearlessly, and there is no situation to face; it falls away of its own weight.

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She replied: “I have been living with a woman who lied worse than I did!” One is often cured of his faults by seeing them in others. Life is a mirror, and we find only ourselves reflected in our associates. Living in the past is a failure method and a violation of spiritual law.