
The Game of Life and How to Play It

Getting into the spiritual swing of things is no easy matter for the average person. The adverse thoughts of doubt and fear surge from the subconscious. They are the “army of the aliens” which must be put to flight. This explains why it is so often, “darkest before the dawn.”
Florence Scovel-Shinn • The Game of Life and How to Play It
never violate a hunch.”
Florence Scovel-Shinn • The Game of Life and How to Play It
Such is the power of the vision, and many a great man has owed his success to a wife, or sister, or a friend who “believed in him” and held without wavering to the perfect pattern!
Florence Scovel-Shinn • The Game of Life and How to Play It
“There is a place that you are to fill and no one else can fill, something you are to do, which no one else can do.”
Florence Scovel-Shinn • The Game of Life and How to Play It
The friend or “healer” sees clearly the success, health, or prosperity, and never wavers, because he is not close to the situation. It is much easier to “demonstrate” for someone else than for one’s self, so a person should not hesitate to ask for help, if he feels himself wavering.
Florence Scovel-Shinn • The Game of Life and How to Play It
The imagination has been called, “The Scissors of The Mind, “and it is ever cutting, cutting, day by day, the pictures man sees there, and sooner or later he meets his own creations in his outer world.
Florence Scovel-Shinn • The Game of Life and How to Play It
Man must prepare for the thing he has asked for, when there isn’t the slightest sign of it in sight.
Florence Scovel-Shinn • The Game of Life and How to Play It
The children of Israel were told that they could have all the land they could see.
Florence Scovel-Shinn • The Game of Life and How to Play It
There is a perfect picture of this in the super-conscious mind. It usually flashes across the conscious as an unattainable ideal—“something too good to be true.” In reality it is man’s true destiny (or destination) flashed to him from the Infinite Intelligence which is within himself.