peace and bliss; and, on the other hand, meditations upon evil may fill our whole world with evil images.
Wise are we to cease utterly and forever from meditating upon injuries; from meditating upon this little self; from meditating upon poverty. These three are important subjects to eliminate utterly from our consciousness—injuries, the little, false self, and poverty. For if we meditate upon these long enough it means insanity. Meditation upon evil is disintegrating. Not only distracting, but disintegrating. And if we meditate upon this little self, its injuries, its rights and so on, we develop a false ego, and as some one has said, “Insanity is egotism gone to seed.” And that third meditation upon poverty lies back of many of the cases in the insane asylums. People thinking that thieves are after them, that their property has been taken from them, although they may be wealthy; that losses are crowding upon them, and that every man’s hand is against them—this is unhealthy meditation, distracting and spoiling.
Therefore we take our stand to repudiate utterly all meditation upon evil or injuries or upon this little, mortal, conceited self or our poverty-ills or lack. We learn to put in their place the good, the beautiful, and the true. This Platonic trinity of the good and the beautiful and the true can counteract all the false meditations that have been set up.
Memory Restored
Your memory is purified by the truth as you learn to dismiss from your mentality all memories of injury
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