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New Thought Common Sense

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The Ancient Lineage of New Thought - The Anti-toxin of Common Sense - Are You Doing the Best You Can? - Be Not Easily Offended - For What Are You Living? - Ignore Misfortune - The Power of Personality - Common Sense and "Goodness" - "Good Business" - The Trapeze Performer - The High Calling of Fatherhood - The High Calling of Motherhood - Thought Building for Children - The New Thought Economy - What Is a Good Woman? - The Color of Your Thoughts - "In God We Trust" - Are You Alive? - Something About Celibacy - The Old and the New Thought View of Life - The Cities Beyond - The Onward March - Common Sense Ideas in Marriage - The Shading of the Picture - Woman and the Cigarette - Sinning Against the "Holy Ghost" - New Thoughts and Beauty - Famous and Infamous Women - Enemies to Happiness - The New Year - Enthusiasm - Brace Up - Universal Need - Every Day Opportunities - The Masters - Building Kindness Cells - What Is Optimism? - What Is the Loving Thing to Do? - A New Thought Rosary - Unto the End - Keep Still and Wait - What Life Means to Me - Contents - Index

But are you? Are you breathing? If you had a thousand dollars in your purse and were starving, it would seem very foolish; but you have thousands of cells in your lungs, and you are using only about 6 per cent of them for the purpose of pumping fresh air through your body.

That is the percentage used by nineteen people in every score and that is why only one in every score is really enjoying good health.

Are you breathing the best you can? Give five minutes each morning and night to breathing exercises, using every lung cell, and see the difference in a week's time.

Instead of wearing out your mind with impracticable efforts at gaining something you do not need, stop a bit and ask yourself a few questions.

Are you doing the duties which lie nearest?

Are you confronting the daily obligations and problems of domestic, social, political and religious life with dignity, pride, self-respect and courage?

These obligations and problems are not always presented to us in tragic or lofty form. They more frequently come in mean and shabby attire, and with a disagreeable countenance.

There are relatives or members of your family who, to use your own expression, perhaps, "get on your nerves." They annoy you in a thousand and one small ways. Their manners, their habits, their voices, their ideas, all render them uncongenial to you. And so life is a constant discord.

But are you meeting this situation with all that is tolerant, and large-minded, and wholesome, and kind in your nature?

Do you try to make these people feel that you are

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