kind
of thought will only produce misunder-standing
and cause us to lose the friends that
we now have. Think of the whole world
as your friend; but you must also be the
friend of the whole world. In this way
and with this simple practice you will
draw to you so many friends that the time
will be too short to enjoy them all. Refuse
to see the negative side of anyone. Refuse
to let yourself misunderstand or be misunder-stood.
Do not be morbid. Know that everyone wants
you to have the best; affirm this wherever
you go and then you will find things just
as you wish them to be.
The
atmosphere created by a real lover of
the race is so powerful that although
his other short-comings may be many, still
the world will love him in return. "To
him who loveth much, much will be forgiven."
People are dying for real human interest,
for someone to tell them that they are
all right. Which person do we like the
better: the one who is always full of
trouble and faultfinding, or the one who
looks at the world as his friend and loves
it? The question does not need to be asked;
we know that we want the company of the
person who loves and loving, forgets all
else.
The
only reason we think that other people
are "queer" is because they
do not happen to think as we do. We must
get over this little, petty attitude and
see things in the large.
The
person who sees what he wants to see,
regardless of what appears, will some
day experience in the outer what he has
so faithfully seen within.
From
selfish motives alone, if from no loftier
reason, we cannot afford to find fault
or to hate or even to hold in mind anything
against any living soul. The God who is
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