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The Miracle of Right Thought

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The Divinity of Desire - Success and Happiness Are for You - Working for One Thing and Expecting Something Else - Expect Great Things of Yourself - Self-Encouragement by Self-Suggestion - The Crime of the "Blues" - Change the Thought, Change the Man - The Paralysis of Fear - One With the Divine - Getting in Tune - The Great Within - A New Way of Bringing Up Children - Training for Longevity - As a Man Thinketh - Mental Self-Thought Poisoning - Contents -

that they magnify everything. They are often punished for telling falsehoods, when the fault is really due to their excessively active imagination.

Many ignorant or thoughtless parents and nurses constantly use fear as a means of governing children. They fill their little minds full of all sorts of fear stories and terror pictures which may mar their whole lives. They often buy soothing syrups and all sorts of sleeping potions to prevent the little ones from disturbing their rest at night, or to keep them quiet and from annoying them in the day time, and thus are liable to stunt their brain development.

Even if children were not seriously injured by fear, it would be wicked to frighten them, for it is wrong to deceive them. If there is anything in the world that is sacred to the parent or teacher, it is the unquestioned confidence of children.

I believe that the beginnings of deterioration in a great many people who go wrong could be traced to the forfeiting of the children's respect and confidence by the parents and teachers. We all know from experience that confidence once shaken is almost never entirely restored. Even when we forgive, we seldom forget; the

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