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Florence Scovel Shinn

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Florence Scovel Shinn's

Secret Door to Success

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The Secret Door to Success - Bricks Without Straw - And Five of Them Were Wise - What Do You Expect? - The Long Arm of God - The Fork in the Road - Crossing Your Red Sea - Watchman at the Gate - Way of Abundance - I Shall Never Want - Look With Wonder - Catch Up with Your Good - Rivers in the Desert - The Inner Meaning of Snow White and the Seven Dwarves - Contents -


of things. I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings."

So let us look with wonder at that which is before us; that statement was given me a number of years ago, I mention it in my book, "The Game of Life and How To Play It."

I had missed an opportunity and felt that I should have been more awake to my good. The next day,

I took the statement early in the morning, "I look with wonder at that which is before me."

At noon the phone rang, and the proposition was put to me again. This time I grasped it. I did indeed, look with wonder for I never expected the opportunity to come to me again.

A friend in one of my meetings said the other day, that this statement had brought her wonderful results. It fills the consciousness with happy expectancy.

Children are filled with happy expectancy until grown-up people, and unhappy experiences bring them out of the world of the wondrous!

Let us look back and remember some of the gloomy ideas which were given us: "Eat the speckled apples first." "Don't expect too much, then you won't be disappointed." "You can't have everything in this life." "Childhood is your happiest time." "No one knows what the future will bring." What a start in life!

These are some of the impressions I picked up in early childhood.

At the age of six I had a great sense of responsibility. Instead of looking with wonder at that

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