expressions as connected
with your individual life, that can be
recalled with pleasure and profit. These
are not of the decaying past. These are
full of life, freshness and beauty, and
are of today.
But if with these any
shade of sadness steals in, reject it
instantly. Refuse to accept it. It is
not a part of the cheerful life-giving
remembrance. It is the cloud which if
you give it the least chance will overshadow
the whole and turn it all to gloom.
The science of happiness
lies in controlling our thought and getting
thought from sources of healthy life.
When your mind is diverted
from possibly the long habit of thinking
and living in the gloomy side of things
and admitting gloomy thought, you will
find to your surprise that the very place
the sight of which gave you pain will
give you pleasure, because you have banished
a certain unhealthy mental condition,
into which you before allowed yourself
to drift. You can then revisit the localities
connected with your past, remember and
live only in the bright and lively portion
of that past, and reject all thought about
"sad changes," and "those
who have passed away, never to return,
etc."
I have proven this to
myself.
Is there any use or sense
in admitting things to have access to
you which only pain and injure you? Does
God commend any self-destroying, suicidal
act? Grief does nothing but destroy the
body.
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