yourself with your aim in life, and do not permit any person, place, or
thing to deflect you from your inner sense of peace, tranquility, and
radiant health.
- The meaning of love in harmonious human relations
Sigmund Freud, the Austrian founder of psychoanalysis, said that
unless the personality has love, it sickens and dies. Love includes
understanding, good will, and respect for the divinity in the other
person. The more love and good will you emanate and exude, the
more comes back to you.
If you puncture the other fellow’s ego and wound his estimate of
himself, you cannot gain his good will. Recognize that every man
wants to be loved and appreciated, and made to feel important in the
world.
Realize that the other man is conscious of his true worth, and that,
like
yourself, he feels the dignity of being an expression of the One Life
Principle animating all men. As you do this consciously and
knowingly, you build the other person up, and he returns your love
and good will.
- He hated audiences
An actor told me that the audience booed and hissed him on his first
appearance on the stage. He added that the play was badly written and
that undoubtedly he did not play a good role. He admitted openly to
me that for months afterward he hated audiences. He called them
dopes, dummies, stupid, ignorant, gullible, etc. He quit the stage in
disgust and went to work in a drugstore for a year.
One day a friend invited him to hear a lecture in Town Hall, New
York City, on “How to Get Along With Ourselves.” This lecture
changed his life.
He went back to the stage and began to pray sincerely for the
audience and himself. He poured out love and good will every night