"New Thought" is not altogether a matter of thinking, you will find.

It is a way of living, and as you advance in it, many of the theoretical objections will attend to themselves.
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Within yourself lies all that you desire and need. You were created whole and complete; and it is only because you have been satisfied to live a fractional life that you have.ever experienced lack of any good thing. Your belief in the necessity or the desirability of deprivation and suffering, which you may have accepted from your neighbors or from your ancestors — this, unless you have worked faithfully at erasing it, is still with you. Perhaps you don't recognize it now, but the time will come as you go deeper and deeper into that storehouse of resources of every kind which lies within you, when you will suddenly stop and say: “But all this means that I can be what I choose! That I make my own life, and need not be limited in any way! It does away with the discipline of suffering and the virtue of patience! It does away with God's overshadowing providence in my life — if I can choose whatsoever things I desire and really obtain them, what becomes of ‘Thy will be done?'"

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If you are looking for a duty to perform, choose this consistent one: learn to live so grandly, so perfectly, that all with whom you come in contact shall acquire an incurable dissatisfaction with anything less than the best.
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Scientists and mystics alike, all through the ages, have been whispering of the wonderful things which lay just over the threshold of today. There have been many '' ages of gold," but the Age of Crystal, of the white light of Spirit, is still to come. That is the mystical interpretation of '' Thy Kingdom come ! " The kingdom of God, which has so long been germinating in the hearts of men! And even now the dawn of this new day is breaking in the east, and we who are light sleepers may arise and behold its coming.
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Love — you will not get very far along the path without that. And the more fully you open yourself to its perfect inflowing and regeneration, the more swiftly will you advance. Such love as this is the most practical thing in the world. It is the compass of the Spirit, which will enable you to reach your port without danger of running upon the reefs. There are always two ways of doing a thing: the way of the lower self, and the way of love. But love alone is practical. And so I am going to ask you to begin to study and to practice love ; to study and practice it just as you would music or French or painting. For love is an art, and no matter how proficient you may be in it naturally, you can continue to grow more proficient.
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Why do New Thought healers and meta-physicians generally object to the use of medicine in its other phase — as a chemical stimulant to vital reaction? For a multitude of reasons, but one will suffice; the only cause of disease is abnormal thought or emotion — back of every attack, acute or chronic, lies a false belief or an intense and wrongly-directed desire or.emotion. As long as these corrosive vibrations are turned into the organism it is impossible for permanent health to exist; and on the other hand, as soon as they are reversed, the life power which originally built the body is perfectly capable of rebuilding and setting it to rights. To strive to force it to do so by the use of chemical irritants, while at the same time destructive thought is allowed to continue its work, is absurd.
DIRECT HEALING
BY PAUL ELLSWORTH
1916