The Game of Life And How to Play it: The Timeless Classic on Successful Living by Florence Scovel Shinn

Author:Florence Scovel Shinn [Scovel Shinn, Florence and Horowitz, Mitch]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Gildan Media Corporation
Published: 2015-09-15T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seven

Love

A woman came to me in deep distress. The man she loved had left her for another women, and said he had never intended to marry her. She was torn with jealousy and resentment, and said she hoped he would suffer as he had made her suffer. She added, “How could he leave me when I loved him so much?”

I replied, “You are not loving that man, you are hating him,” and added, “ You can never receive what you have never given. Give a perfect love and you will receive a perfect love. Perfect yourself on this man. Give him unselfish love, demanding nothing in return; do not criticize or condemn, and bless him wherever he is.”

I continued, “When you send out real love, real love will return to you. Either from this man or his equivalent, for if this man is not the divine selection you will not want him. As you are one with God, you are one with the love that is yours by divine right.”

I told her of a brotherhood in India who never said, “Good morning” to each other. They used the words: “I salute the Divinity in you.” They saluted the divinity in every man, for they saw only God in every living thing.

I said, “Salute the divinity in this man, and say, ‘I see your divine self only. I see you as God sees you: perfect, made in His image and likeness.’”

She did so–and gradually she grew more poised and began losing her resentment. One morning I received a letter saying, “We are married.”

There is an old proverb, “No man is your enemy, no man is your friend, every man is your teacher.” This woman’s lover was teaching her selfless love.

Suffering is not necessary for man’s development; it is the result of violation of spiritual law, but few seem able to rouse themselves from their “soul sleep” without it. When people are happy, they usually become selfish, and automatically the Law of Karma is set in action. Man often suffers loss through lack of appreciation.

No one can attract money, for example, if he despises it. Many people are kept in poverty by saying “money means nothing to me.” This is why so many artists are poor. Their contempt for money separates them from it. I remember hearing one artist say of another, “He’s no good as an artist; he has money in the bank.” This attitude of mind separates man from his supply; you must be in harmony with a thing in order to attract it.

Follow the path of love, and all things are added. For God is love –and God is supply.

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