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Man’s mind may be likened to a garden, which may be intelligently cultivated or allowed to run wild; but whether cultivated or neglected, it must, and will, bring forth. If no useful seeds are put into it, then an abundance of useless weed-seeds will fall therein, and will continue to…

Given our soil,Whether we thrive or dieIs ours to fathom.Care and toilCan from much barren groundBring forth abundantly. Given a Soul,It rests with us to makeIt still diviner.A perfect whole;Something complete at last,Worthy a God to take. Opportunities correspond with almost mathematical accuracy to the ability to use them.—Lilian Whiting…

Not by any process that is merely outside of our own personality can we be saved from our ills. Outside processes are indeed necessary. No salvation would be genuine that did not make itself visible and palpable. Salvation must come forth to the outermost plane, and in the long run…

We build our future thought by thoughtFor good or bad and know it not:Yet so the universe is wrought. Thought is another name for Fate;Choose then thy destiny and wait,For love brings love and hate brings hate. Mind is the master of the sphere;Be calm, be steadfast, and sincere;Fear is…

Phrases are freely uttered;—often to obscure the real thoughts; sometimes to avoid direct contact with the subject; occasionally to compress a whole chapter of experience into a few words. Men talk of Public Opinion, and the Force of Circumstances, as though they were abstract ideas far removed from the actual…

There are many ideas prevalent today which, to say the least, are mistaken ones; ideas, to remove which, would assuredly bring about a great betterment of existing conditions. Almost the greatest of these errors, at any rate in Spiritual importance, if not in physical magnitude, is the idea in which…

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