The Law of Mind in Action Quotes

“So many of the ills of the world are due to hurt feelings and worry over what other people say and do that we need a new motto. Let us try this, “Nothing matters.” Jesus exclaims, “What is that to thee? Follow thou me.”. That has nothing to do with you unless you allow it. Why do you allow yourself to worry and fuss if someone seems preferred before you ? There is enough for you to do. You have your place somewhere. What does it matter to you if your neighbor does act unneighborly ? He won't have the opportunity to hurt you unless you care. Why should you go about with an aching heart because people won't take your advice, or insist on doing things in a different way from that which you approve? Will that change them any? Suppose that some member of your family is a bit uncouth or even rude, don't you see that you are only aggravating it by “caring?” When you show your indifference, not defiantly, but by really not “allowing it to matter,” you will see the things change. You say, business is going wrong and I must worry! Worry will only hasten the end. You need to save yourself so that you will have a clear mind to act in case of emergency or a change for the better. Say, “nothing matters.”
― Fenwicke Lindsay Holmes, The Law of Mind in Action: Unlocking the Power of the Mind

“And into these currents every one of us tends at times to be drawn through a false idea of sympathy. We allow ourselves to “feel sorry” about ourselves or someone else. The heart of great compassion naturally goes out in loving regard for those who are in the path of error, sorrow, or loss. This is right and natural. But many of us allow this sentiment to degenerate into pity, not for them, but for their misfortune. Instead of doing what we can to alleviate the suffering, we simply condole and “sympathize” with the error, thus allowing ourselves to feel the reality of “evil” or negation and so making ourselves at one with it. Pity of This Kind Is Evil. Do Not Indulge in It. Do Not Allow Yourself to Be Indulged in It. How easy it is for us to want others to sympathize with us, to pity us, to feel sorry about us! It is not only a great sign of weakness, it is also very selfish, and it opens us to all their negative thinking -about us. “I won't have anybody pity me,”
― Fenwicke Lindsay Holmes, The Law of Mind in Action: Unlocking the Power of the Mind

“Some people appear always unlucky. They expect it; and the law works out their misfortune to its bitter conclusion. Others are proverbially “lucky.” They expect luck and good fortune therefore smiles upon them. Our attitudes of mind therefore control our destiny. Men who succeed are found to be those who expect success and men who fail are those who most fear failure. Of course in any particular case it is not always possible to trace out the full working- of the law of cause and effect, because so many elements work in. Often the habitually fearful have days of hope and the habitually hopeful have days of fear. What All of Us Need to Do, Therefore, Is to Bring up the Aggregate of Our Thinking for Health, Wealth, and Love So That It Shall Outbalance Any Possible Amount of Negative Thinking.”
― Fenwicke Lindsay Holmes, The Law of Mind in Action: Unlocking the Power of the Mind