d, and the true,
righteousness, goodness, and truth are suggested to him, and thus we
have a most beneficent influence on his life and conduct. If our
hearts go out in love to all with whom we come in contact, we inspire
love, and the same ennobling and warming influences of love always
return to us from those in whom we inspire them. There is a deep
scientific principle underlying the precept--If you would have all the
world love you, you must first love all the world.
In the degree that we love will we be loved. Thoughts are forces.
Each creates of its kind. Each comes back laden with the effect that
corresponds to itself and of which it is the cause.
"Then let your secret thoughts be fair--
They have a vital part, and share
In shaping words and moulding fate;
God's system is so intricate."
I know of no better practice than that of a friend who continually
holds himself in an attitude of mind that he continually sends out his
love in the form of the thought,--"Dear everybody, I love you." And
when we realize the fact that a thought invariably produces its effect
before it returns, or before it ceases, we can see how he is
continually breathing out a blessing not only upon all with whom he
comes in contact, but upon all the world. These same thoughts of love,
moreover, tokened in various ways, are continually coming to him from
all quarters.
Even animals feel the effects of these forces. Some animals are much
more sensitively organized than many people are, and consequently they
get the effects of our thoughts, our mental states, and emotions much
more readily than many people do. Therefore whenever we meet an animal
we can do it good by sending out to it these thoughts of love. It will
feel the effects whether we simply entertain or whether we voice them.
And it is often interesting to note how quickly it responds, and how
readily it gives evidence of its appreciation of this love and
consideration on our part.
What a privilege and how enjoyable it would be to live and walk in a
world where we meet only Gods. In such a world you can live. In such
a world I can live. For in the degree that we come into this higher
realization do we see only the God in each human soul; and when we are
thus able to see Him in every one we meet, we then live in such a world.
And when we thus recognize the God in every one, we by this recognition
help to call it forth ever more and more. What a privileg
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