Friday 23 August 2024
ALTER YOUR LIFE
ALTER YOUR LIFE
Around the Year with Emmet Fox
August 24
There is no need to be unhappy.
There is no need to be disappointed,
or oppressed, or aggrieved.
There is no need for illness or failure or discouragement.
There is no necessity for anything
but an abounding interest and joy in life.
As long as you accept a negative condition
at its own valuation,
so long will you remain in bondage to it;
but you have only to assert your birthright
as a free man or woman
and you will be free.
Success and happiness
are the natural conditions of mankind.
It is actually easier to demonstrate
these things than the reverse.
Bad habits of thinking and acting
may obscure this fact for a time,
just as a wrong way of walking or sitting,
or holding a pen or a musical instrument
may seem to be easier than the proper way,
because we have accustomed ourselves to it;
but the proper way is the easier nevertheless.
Unhappiness, frustration, poverty,
loneliness are really bad habits
that their victims have become accustomed to bear,
believing that there is no way out, whereas there is a way;
and that way is simply to acquire good habits
of working with the Law instead of against it.
“Open thou mine eyes,
that I may behold
wondrous things out of thy Law”
Psalm 119:18
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