The Game of Life and How to Play It
Florence Scovel Shinn, 1925
A century-old manual for the projector: whatever you speak and expect, the world develops into film. Naive on the surface, precise in the mechanics — fear is just faith pointed the wrong way.
Florence Scovel Shinn, an American artist turned metaphysical teacher, published this book in 1925. Written as a plain-spoken New Thought manual, it argues that spoken words and firm expectation shape circumstance — that most people sabotage themselves through fear and doubt, and that the fix is deliberate, specific affirmation of what you actually want.
A few lines worth keeping:
Fear is inverted faith.
IN-tuition means being taught from within.
If everyone thinks you’re crazy, you’re on the right track! Keep going!
Man can only be what he sees himself to be, and only attain what he sees himself attaining.
The thing man seeks is seeking him.
As one door shuts another door opens.
We attract more of what we fear.
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
Everything may seem to be going wrong, when in reality, it is going right.
Appears in think → forward