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Geneviève Behrend
How to Live Life and Love it
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2019 OK Publishing
EAN 4064066051303
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: LIVE LIFE AND LOVE IT!
Chapter 2: THE FINE ART OF GIVING
Chapter 3: THE ART OF RECIPROCITY
Chapter 4: GOD-CONSCIOUSNESS VERSUS SENSE-CONSCIOUSNESS
Chapter 5: PERSONAL INTIMACY WITH GOD
Chapter 7: PERSONAL POINTERS ON SUCCESS
Chapter 8: INSTANTANEOUS HEALING
Chapter 9: INSTANTANEOUS HEALING (Cont'd)
Chapter 10: IS DESIRE A DIVINE IMPULSE?
Chapter 11: IS DESIRE A DIVINE IMPULSE?
Chapter 12: EXERCISES FOR HEALTH
Chapter 13: "HOW TO LIVE LIFE AND LOVE IT!"
Chapter 14: IMAGINATION AND INTUITION
Chapter 15: HUSBANDS, WIVES, CHILDREN AND WILLS
Chapter 16: LIFE, LOVE, BEAUTY
Foreword
The purpose of this series of personal-pointer Lessons, which are herein compiled into one volume, is to indicate in a clear, concise way "the natural principles governing the relation between the creative action of all thought-power and material things," i.e., circumstances and conditions.
If these few simple principles are carefully studied, and mastered to your satisfaction, and then put into practical, hourly application, the student will find very soon that it is possible for man to make conscious contact with the Almighty, EverPresent, Never-Failing God; and this just naturally means individual freedom, freedom from every form of limitation and bondage of any nature.
(Read Mark 9:23.) Then try to believe that the Spirit of Life, which is your life also, knows "How to Live Life and Love It."
All the joy Life has to give is yours right now!
Let us start on the highway to unqualified success now. God is our guide.
Your loving companion,
Genevieve Behrend
Chapter 1
LIVE LIFE AND LOVE IT!
MASTER: Let us begin this morning's lesson with the certain knowledge that every living thing really wishes to enjoy Life. Once one really has entered into the true Spirit of Life that one can not help loving to live and is certain to enjoy life.
PUPIL: That is just it. If one could get into the Spirit of Living Life, I am sure one, every one, would enjoy it. But it seems to me that the general run of humanity live in the spirit of death rather than of life. The average person I know is always wishing that he could but at the same time knowing that he can't. That does not seem like really living.
MASTER: Indeed that is not living and people who live in that form of mental action are "the living dead." Let us see if we can not find an easy, logical method of entering into the true Spirit of Life. We know that we must enter into the Spirit of a book, or a picture, or of music, else they are entirely meaningless to us. To really appreciate anything we must share the mental attitude of the creative thought and feeling which brought them into outward form.
PUPIL: Now I am wondering if getting into the spirit of a thing would be getting into the spiritual prototype of the thing we may wish to enjoy. For example, I should very much enjoy a home of my own, a husband and children. Can one really get into the spirit of these good things before one do.
PUPIL: But the matter of the right husband, that seems very difficult for me. First, I am not in the right position to contact men and now I have only two men acquaintances, neither of which I should care to live with in my model home.
MASTER: What you say does not enter into the matter at all. All that the individual does is to place into the Originating Creative Power the QUALITY one wishes to differentiate, just as one plugs into the electric current in the house when one wishes to use it. The light, the heater, the Frigidaire, the fan, the iron, or any other thing one may want to use, all are there. All of the power is already there, too. It is ready and waiting; all that is necessary is your recognition of it and your taking action to utilize it. Your recognition and your desire cause you to make the right contact; and the power that is there does all the rest. The ways and means of your meeting the one and only husband are not your own concern; they form themselves into line automatically as a result of your turning on the correct switch.
PUPIL: Do you mean that it is not necessary for me to do anything to try to meet people? Do I not have to go to parties, or visit friends? Sometimes when I should be much happier at home I go to such places, and do such things, because there is always a chance of meeting the right one there.
MASTER: All of that is entirely unnecessary. The power you have turned on within yourself is an attracting Power, remember! To give you an example: One time when we were in Chicago, living at the Medinah Athletic Club, a young lady came to me with much the same attitude that you express and received the same answer I give here. She was a trained nurse, a graduate of St. Luke's. She was tired of living alone, wished a home, a husband, children. After she had had ten or twelve personal interviews and lessons with me I told her, one morning as she was leaving our apartment, that it would not be necessary for her to come to see me again. She felt sure also that the contact had been made. Our apartment was on the forty-second floor; and as she caught the elevator