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with others despondent or angry, and
that each one in such moods serves
as an additional battery or generator
of such thought and is strengthening
that particular current. We should
see these forces working in similar
manner and connecting the hopeful,
courageous and cheerful, with all
others hopeful, courageous and cheerful.
When
you are in low spirits or "blue"
you have acting on you the thought
current coming from all others in
low spirits. You are in oneness with
the despondent order of thought. The
mind is then sick. It can be cured,
but a permanent cure cannot always
come immediately when one has long
been in the habit of opening the mind
to this current of thought.
In attracting
to us the current of any kind of evil,
we become for a time one with evil.
In the thought current of the Supreme
Power for good we may become more
and more as one with that power, or
in Biblical phrase "One with
God." That is the desirable thought
current for us to attract.
If a
group of people talk of any form of
disease or suffering, of death-bed
scenes and dying agonies, if they
cultivate this morbid taste for the
unhealthy and ghastly, and it forms
their staple topics of conversation,
they bring in themselves a like current
of thought full of images of sickness,
suffering and things revolting to
a healthy mind. This current will
act on them, and eventually bring
them disease and suffering in some
form.
If we
are talking much of sick people or
are much among them and thinking of
them, be our motive what it may, we
shall draw on ourselves a current
of sickly thought, and its ill results
will
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