The Game Of Life and How To Play It
The Game
By Florence Scovel Shinn
Most people consider life a battle, but it is not a battle, it is a game.
It is a game, however, which cannot be played successfully without the knowledge of spiritual law, and the Old and the New Testaments give the rules of the game with wonderful clearness. Jesus Christ taught that it was a great [...]
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The Law of Prosperity
By Florence Scovel Shinn
“Yea, the Almighty shall be thy defense and thou shalt have plenty of silver.”
One of the greatest messages given to the race through the scriptures is that God is man’s supply and that man can release, through his spoken word, all that belongs to him by divine right. He must, however, have perfect faith in [...]
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The Power of the Word
By Florence Scovel Shinn
“By thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.”
A person knowing the power of the word, becomes very careful of his conversation. He has only to watch the reaction of his words to know that they do “not return void.” Through his spoken word, man is continually making laws [...]
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The Law of Nonresistance
By Florence Scovel Shinn
“Resist not evil. Be not overcome of evil,
but overcome evil with good.”
Nothing on earth can resist an absolutely nonresistant person.
The Chinese say that water is the most powerful element, because it is perfectly nonresistant. It can wear away a rock, and sweep all before it.
Jesus Christ said, “Resist not evil,” for He knew in reality, [...]
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The Law of Karma and Forgiveness
By Florence Scovel Shinn
Man receives only that which he gives. The Game of Life is a game of boomerangs. Man’s thoughts, deeds and words, return to him sooner or later, with astounding accuracy.
This is the law of Karma, which is Sanskrit for “Comeback.” “Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.”
For example: A friend told me this [...]
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Casting the Burden - Impressing the Subconscious
By Florence Scovel Shinn
When man knows his own powers and the workings of his mind, his great desire is to find an easy and quick way to impress the subconscious with good, for simply an intellectual knowledge of the Truth will not bring results.
In my own case, I found the easiest way is in “casting the burden.”
A metaphysician [...]
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Love
By Florence Scovel Shinn
Every man on this planet is taking his initiation in love. “A new commandment I give unto you, that ye love one another.” Ouspensky states, in “Tertium Organum,” that “love is a cosmic phenomenon,” and opens to man the fourth dimensional world, “The World of the Wondrous.”
Real love is selfless and free from fear. It [...]
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Intuition or Guidance
By Florence Scovel Shinn
“In all thy ways acknowledge Him and
He shall direct thy paths.”
There is nothing too great of accomplishment for the man who knows the power of his word, and who follows his intuitive leads. By the word he starts in action unseen forces and can rebuild his body or remold his affairs.
It is, therefore, of the [...]
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Perfect Self-Expression or The Divine Design
By Florence Scovel Shinn
“No wind can drive my bark astray nor change the tide of destiny.”
There is for each man, perfect self-expression. There is a place which he is to fill and no one else can fill, something which he is to do, which no one else can do; it is his destiny!This achievement is held, a perfect [...]
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Denials and Affirmations
By Florence Scovel Shinn
“Thou shalt also decree a thing, and it shall be established unto thee.”
All the good that is to be made manifest in man’s life is already an accomplished fact in divine mind, and is released through man’s recognition, or spoken word, so he must be careful to decree that only the Divine Idea be made [...]
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