A person who does not laugh is not healthy.  “A merry heart doeth good, like a medicine.”  To forget your sorrow begin to cultivate joy.  Keep away from sad people, or you will be sad.  Stop rehearsing your grief, you only enlarge it.  If you suffer grief, find someone in trouble and cheer them, encourage them, help them, and you will deliver yourself.  You will comfort yourself when you comfort another.  You cannot lose a loved one, tho absent from the earth plane they are nearer than ever.  Life and love never change.  Death is an unreality thought made.  Our friends take on a new embodiment that is glorified in life and spirit.  When you believe you were “created in His image,” and “are a partaker of the divine nature,” it is easier to believe, “you shall arise in His likeness.”  Some day we shall all believe we have not disfigured, morally broken natures, but Divine Natures, supreme in limitless power.  Traditions, teachings, education, environment of generations of thinking have disfigured, morally broken, sin burdened humanity.  All are thought created conditions.  Thought made limitations.  Thought made original sins.  System cultivated human wrongs.  Institutionalized teachings of error.  But you should know the universe is one undivided Soul.  You are a yoke-fellow with God.  You are a part of One Complete Life.  You are a lobe of the Infinite Brain.  You are a Supreme Personality of Absolute Personality.  Nothing that has life is God-damned.

Where love is only a dream, the marriage is an alarm clock.

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If you cannot endure your mother-in-law, you can begin your plans at once to live alone, when your children are married.

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A quarrel between two people to settle things, is a good deal like a dog fight in a flower bed, the only things that get settled are the flowers.

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Nearly always when you hear the lusty wail of a boy with energy plus filling the air, you can look in at the window and find a woman’s hand at the seat of his trouble.

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You can over-work your notion of neatness.  A woman in Vermont crippled her usefulness for life, by mopping a hole thru her kitchen floor and falling into the cellar.

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=Lesson Third

A SUPREME DAILY-LIFE METHOD

A Central plan:= Do your mental work in the morning, your manual work in the afternoon.  Do not dictate letters in the afternoon; from ten to twelve in the morning is best.  The brain is usually at low ebb at three o’clock in the afternoon.  Do not have your desk so that you have to look side-wise at persons approaching you.  It blunts your personality.  By no means have people enter behind you, it is the most negative psychic influence possible.  Let your position in your office be such that when anyone approaches your eyes will fall upon them as near a straight level as possible.  Plan your workroom for efficiency.  No matter how small, how large, or if it be but a bench.  Put your character stamp on the plan of the work you do.  Go to that work as a King goes to his throne.  Centralize your work.  Plan it.  Work your plan.