That Old Witch—Bad Luck

Has that old witch—bad luck— ever camped on your doorstep? Have ill health, misfortune and worry ever seemed to dog your footsteps?

 If so, you will be interested in knowing that YOU were the procuring cause of all that trouble.

No one can control your mind because …

Where is salvation? In the mind.  

Where is it not?

Strengthening the Mind's Immune System

What we’re going to talk about today is “Strengthening the Mind’s Immune System.” And I want to start by reading or quoting a line from the preamble to The Constitution to UNESCO. Many of you know one of the phrases, but I’ll just read you the whole line. UNESCO is United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, which was founded in 1945, and the line is actually right at the beginning of the preamble, and it says:

Since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defenses of peace must be constructed.

“Since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defenses of peace must be constructed.” Actually, the whole preamble is very, very lovely. The Constitution, I think, is 70 or 80 pages, but the preamble is very nice, emphasizing in its own words—not the words the Course might use—the oneness of all people and the need not to see differences or to make the differences into something significant and use them as a justification for conflict and war. Again, it’s a very, very lovely preamble, and that opening statement is particularly nice.