Some wonderful person on this forum I think.. a while ago, posted something to do with Florence Scovel Shinn and it resonated within me so much.  I cannot find the post or quote and it was a few months ago but THANK YOU for bringing her books into my life.  Sometimes it takes something written or spoken in a different way for it to click with you, I have to keep rereading her books to imprint it in my brain like taking daily vitamins.. as I keep forgetting and my vibe keeps slipping such is life She speaks about 'prescriptions' and 'treatments' in spoken words, similar to Ernest Holmes.  Sayings you repeat, early affirmations really.  Using some of them have worked like magic for me when I'm in the right place.. or in dire straits...

Similar also to the words and works of Genevieve Behrend I typed up and posted a while ago to the forum. 

So here's a bit from one of her books I've typed up for you and I really hope it resonates with someone too. 

Here's extracts from her chapter titled 'LOVE' 

"Every man on this planet is taking his initiation in love, "A new commandment I give unto you, that ye love one another."  Ouspensky states, in "Tertium Organum," that "love is a cosmic phenomenon," and opens to man the fourth dimensional world, "The World of the Wondrous." 

Real love is selfless and free from fear.  It pours itself out upon the object of its affection, without demanding any return.  Its joy is in the joy of giving.  Love is God in manifestation, and the strongest magnetic force in the universe.  Pure, unselfish love draws to itself its own; it does not need to seek or demand.  Scarcely anyone has the faintest conception of real love.  Man is selfish, tyrannical or fearful in his affections, thereby losing the thing he loves.  Jealousy is the worst enemy of love, for the imagination runs riot, seeing the loved one attracted to another, and invariably these fears objectify if they are not neutralised.  

For example: A woman came to me in deep distress.  The man she loved had left her for other women, and said he 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; and 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 a perfect, unselfish love, demanding nothing in return, do not criticise or condemn, and bless him wherever he is."

She replied, "No, I won't bless him unless I know where he is!" 

"Well," I said, "that is not real love." 
"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 which belongs to you by divine right." 

Several months passed, and matters remained about the same, but she was working conscientiously with herself. I said "When you are no longer disturbed by his cruelty, he will cease to be cruel, as you are attracting it through your own emotions." Then I told her of a brotherhood in India, who never said, "Good Morning" to each other. They used these words: "I salute the divinity in you."  They saluted the divinity in every man, and in the wild animals in the jungle, and they were never harmed, 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 found she was becoming more poised and gradually losing her resentment.  He was a Captain, and she always called him "The Cap."  One day, she said, suddenly, "God bless the Cap wherever he is." I replied: "Now, that is real love, and when you have become a 'complete circle', and are no longer disturbed by the situation, you will have his love, or attract its equivalent."

I was moving at this time, and did not have a telephone, so was out of touch with her for a few weeks, when one morning I received a letter saying, "We are married."  At the earliest opportunity I paid her a call.  My first words were, "What happened?" 

"Oh," she exclaimed, "a miracle! One day I woke up and all suffering had ceased.  I saw him that evening and he asked me to marry him.  We were married in about a week, and I have never seen a more devoted man." There is an old saying "No man is your enemy, no man is your friend, every man is your teacher."  So one should become impersonal and learn what each man has to teach him, and soon he would learn his lesson and be free.  The woman's lover was teaching her a selfless love, which every man, sooner or later must learn.  Suffering is not necessary for man's development; it is the result of violation of spiritual law, but few people seem able to rouse themselves from their "soul sleep" without it...."

There's more in the whole chapter but I thought that might be the most helpful part.  Hope somebody finds it useful!  Her books are really handy to have around.  

love to you all today 
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