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New Thought Common Sense

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The Ancient Lineage of New Thought - The Anti-toxin of Common Sense - Are You Doing the Best You Can? - Be Not Easily Offended - For What Are You Living? - Ignore Misfortune - The Power of Personality - Common Sense and "Goodness" - "Good Business" - The Trapeze Performer - The High Calling of Fatherhood - The High Calling of Motherhood - Thought Building for Children - The New Thought Economy - What Is a Good Woman? - The Color of Your Thoughts - "In God We Trust" - Are You Alive? - Something About Celibacy - The Old and the New Thought View of Life - The Cities Beyond - The Onward March - Common Sense Ideas in Marriage - The Shading of the Picture - Woman and the Cigarette - Sinning Against the "Holy Ghost" - New Thoughts and Beauty - Famous and Infamous Women - Enemies to Happiness - The New Year - Enthusiasm - Brace Up - Universal Need - Every Day Opportunities - The Masters - Building Kindness Cells - What Is Optimism? - What Is the Loving Thing to Do? - A New Thought Rosary - Unto the End - Keep Still and Wait - What Life Means to Me - Contents - Index

Enemies to Happiness

REMORSE and Regret are both enemies to Success and Happiness. Regret wastes our time, taking us back over the fields of lost pleasures, departed youth and missed opportunities. She leads us to cemeteries, and bids us sit by old tombs and weep for those who cannot return to us here.

Such an hour may prove a means of spiritual growth, if it is an exceptional experience. But when Regret is our daily companion, and when she rises with us in the morning, walks beside us all day and retires with us and directs our dreams at night, she is our worst enemy.

She is wasting the strength which should be given to spiritual and mental growth; the growth which will enable us to become philosophers and to earn immortality.

He who spends his time in regretting lost youth is not growing into beautiful maturity or an attractive old age.

He who continually mourns for the departed loved ones is not keeping pace with them in spirit growth, and he is widening the distance between possible reunions.

The disembodied spirit is going forward in the planes beyond; unless we go forward here, how can we hope for a reunion?

However inevitable and lasting may be the loneliness and sorrow we feel for those passed on, we must not make Regret our daily companion. We must

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