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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

Universal Need

How universally kind and thoughtful people are to the blind, or the crippled. No one is ever so busy or so worried or so out of temper that he cannot stop to show a little courtesy and consideration to a blind man who is groping his way along the street or through a room.

The most selfish of us seem to have that impulse of sympathy and helpfulness toward the blind which causes people deprived of sight from birth, to think the world is such a kind place.

Well, now if we only pause and consider the truth about humanity we will realize that everybody is blind. Whoever is going wrong is blind, for surely no one ever deliberately wanted to go wrong. The most disagreeable people on the face of the earth and the most wicked and the most selfish are all blind. Think of them as you think of the poor fellow with his cane and his hands groping in front of him as he walks.

Show the same sympathy, the same desire to help them to go right, and what a different feeling you will find growing in your heart, and what a different world you will be instrumental in building.

To be sorry for anybody is a step toward spiritual education and a link in universal brotherhood. Instead of being angry and disgusted at the stupidity, the selfishness and the sins of human beings we ought just to be sorry for them. That is the first move toward helpfulness.

Most of us are angry and disgusted at other people

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