The first start toward success is to be glad you are yourself, and know that the ground you are on is holy ground and that you expand into the Divine Plan of your life. In the Divine Plan, every righteous desire of the
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heart is satisfied. You are the leading lady in your life’s scenario. You never take a backseat in the fourth dimension. The Divine Plan unfolds through following intuition.
Claude Bragdon says, “To live intuitively is to live fourth dimensionally.” The magic path leads you out of the house of bondage and into your promised land. It is the path of destiny, where your failures are transmuted into successes and handicaps prove stepping-stones.
I heard the following story over the radio, which gives a wonderful example. A man who could neither read nor write tried to obtain the position of janitor in a public school. They refused him on account of his illiteracy, so a friend got him a position selling cigars. He became very successful, selling hundreds of cigars, and deposited the money in the bank with the aid of a friend who wrote the deposit
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slips. After a number of years, he found he had deposited $30,000 and decided to draw some out. The paying teller said, “Write a check for the amount you want to draw out.” The man replied, “I can’t read or write.” The paying teller was amazed and exclaimed, “Good Lord, man. You have accumulated $30,000 without an education! Where would you have been if you had been able to read and write?” The man replied, “I would have been a janitor in Public School No. 1.”
In Hyde Park Corner in London, people are permitted to mount soapboxes, collect an audience, and express their views on any subject—religious, political, or personal—saying just what they please regarding the reigning family, etc. The government thinks it is a good way to allow them to let off steam. In passing, I stopped to listen to a poor, forlorn individual who was yelling at the top of his
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voice, “There ain’t no God, and I can prove it!” I thought, You have never proved God, or you wouldn’t be where you are. If I had had a copy of The Game of Life and How to Play it with me, I would certainly have laid it on his soapbox with a blessing.
We prove God by showing active faith, which puts to flight all adverse appearances. There is nothing left out in the fourth dimension.
I have often been asked, “If the Infinite Intelligence supplies all our needs, why is it necessary to pray for anything?” I answered, “Because that is the law.” Man must make the first move. You must press the button in order to turn on the electric light. Many people never make big demands on the Universal Supply. They think it is asking too much. One
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woman came to me and asked, “Is it wrong to ask for the things that you really want, or should you just ask for necessities?” I replied, “What are the things you really want?” She said, “Love and beauty.” I replied, “If you desire them, they are necessities.”
When you have the fixed idea that there is only One Power in the Universe, all appearances of evil will disappear from your world. Trouble comes from a belief in duality—good and evil. In getting a demonstration, we must know that the Infinite Intelligence is the only power. Evil comes from “man’s vain imaginings.” I was in a restaurant with a friend who spilled something on her dress. She was sure it would leave a stain. I said, “We will give it a treatment: Evil is unreal and leaves no stain.” There was never the slightest stain left on the dress. You couldn’t tell where the accident had happened. In the fourth dimension, evil has
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never been registered. It is only in your mind that man experiences loss, lack, failure, sickness, sorrow, etc.
Often people go through life resenting and disliking some particular person, thereby keeping the unhappy situation alive and harmful to mind, body, and affairs. A woman came to me full of resentment toward her niece. Whatever her niece did irritated her. She said, “All I can think about is how badly my niece cleans her silver.” It seemed a trivial matter, but it was reacting on her in the form of rheumatism. I said, “Send her love and goodwill, and don’t give her any advice. Let Infinite Wisdom illumine and direct her.” Much to her surprise, her niece gave the silver a wonderful shine and changed in many ways.
You will obtain magic results when you really give this Supreme Intelligence the
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right of way. The tide has turned to stay, for God has right of way. I gave this affirmation when I was speaking in California. A man in the audience came to me after the meeting and said, “That is a marvelous affirmation. I am an engineer, and I know what it means to have the right of way.”
Desire is a tremendous power and must be rightly directed. You may desire the wrong things and conditions, so to give the Supreme Intelligence right of you, you must say, I desire only that which God desires through me. The wrong desire will fade out and be replaced by the right aspirations. As you look back, you will say, “Thank heaven I didn’t get the things I desired so much when I was 18,” or “I wish I hadn’t gotten the things I wanted at 22.” You make sure your wishes are foolproof by saying, I desire the Divine ideas only to come to pass, under grace and in perfect ways.
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I say in The Game of Life and How to Play It that health, wealth, love, and perfect self-expression are the square of life. See ye first the fourth dimension, and the perfect plan of your life will come to pass. You will fill the place that you can fill and no one else can fill. Righteous desires of the heart, no matter how extravagant or seemingly unattainable, will be added unto you.
“Ask, and it shall be given you;
seek, and ye shall find; knock,
and it shall be opened unto you.”
— MATTHEW 7:7
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Florence Scovel Shinn was born in 1871 in Camden, New Jersey. She was a gifted teacher, artist, and writer who shaped the fields of spiritual growth and New Thought. Through her inspiring work and numerous books, she was a profound influence on best-selling author and metaphysical lecturer and teacher Louise L. Hay, as well as many other pioneers of personal transformation.
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