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    My Pillow Book
    My Pillow Book
    My Pillow Book
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    My Pillow Book

    By Alice Hegan Rice

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    This vintage book contains Alice Hegan Rice's wonderful little work, 'My Pillow Book'. This text is full of interesting, inspiring, and thought-provoking explorations of many different topics, including spirituality, philosophy, happiness, courage, guidance, forgiveness, and much more. A wonderful book to peruse at one's leisure, this text will appeal to those with an interest in little aphorisms and helpful life advice, and it makes for a great addition to any personal collection. The chapters of this book include: How To Begin, What Do We Believe?, Mysticism, Lessons in Philosophy, Our Personal Atmosphere, The Problem of Suffering, Fear, Be Still, Hints to the Lonely, Little Secrets of a Happy Life, The Duty of Being Happy, Influence, etcetera. We are republishing this vintage book now in an affordable, modern edition complete with a new prefatory biography of the author.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRead Books Ltd.
    Release dateMay 31, 2013
    ISBN9781473388369
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      My Pillow Book - Alice Hegan Rice

      BOOK

      I

      HOW TO BEGIN

      Every art has its technique and none more than the art of living. In every profession we expect to give years of preparation in hard study before we can hope to attain any degree of mastery. But in the greatest of all arts we too frequently expect to achieve without struggle.

      Each life presents its individual problem. Is not the courageous facing of this problem and the persistent effort to find its wisest solution the most important duty that confronts us?

      If for even a short time each day we can turn away from all that is material and troubling, and live above space and time, for that period we will be living in the Kingdom of God. Through meditation, quiet thinking and prayer, we can get self out of the way and leave the channel free for divine life to work through us.

      Each morning before the machinery of the day is set in motion we should seek a quiet spot and make a conscious readjustment of our personal lives to the highest possible spiritual level. We will find that being thus alone with God brings us to see things from His standpoint. It is only by being still that one can ever hope to hear the divine message.

      One of the greatest of all laws is the law of cause and effect. Our actions determine our everyday conditions, and actions spring from thought. Therefore we are hourly creating our conditions, material and spiritual, by the thoughts we think.

      The ability to separate the essential from the nonessential, the reality from the symbol, to think constructively and positively can only be gained by persistent effort.

      There seem to be no bounds to the heights human nature can attain, if the aspiration be sufficiently noble and the faith and effort sufficiently steadfast. Heroic souls throughout the ages have attested this. Apparently insurmountable physical handicaps, mental and moral defeats and failures have been met and conquered, and man at his best has become a co-worker with God for the establishment of His Kingdom.

      This little book is designed to present in the simplest way short outlines for comfort and inspiration, followed by quotations culled from my note-books. Wherever possible I have given the name of the author of these quotations, but in those instances where I have failed to do so, I ask forgiveness. Truth, beauty, and wisdom are universal and belong to us all, once they are made manifest through the Word. On behalf of myself and my readers I thank those who have expressed the beautiful thoughts that are herein quoted.

      II

      WHAT DO WE BELIEVE?

      Very few of us, unless we have deliberately formulated our creed, can tell another what we actually believe. Many of us go through life, probably identified with a church, never having definitely thought out this problem. Some years ago I was challenged to state just what I believed, and here is the result.

      I believe first of all in a Mind back of the universe. This Mind I call God.

      I believe that He is transcendent as Creator of the universe, and in that respect all-powerful, but that He is also immanent in each of His creations, and to that extent self-limited.

      I believe He has given man a certain degree of free will, in order to allow him to develop and not to be a mere puppet.

      There are certain unchanging laws of truth, which if obeyed bring freedom and if disobeyed bring chaos. Sin and disease are the result of this conscious or unconscious breaking of the law. Due to the solidarity of humanity, individuals cannot have the power to love and serve without also having the power to hate and hurt.

      I believe that love is the creative power in the universe, and that evil can only be overcome with good.

      Sin is a retrogression, a slipping back to a lower level. Evolution is the assertion of the spirit over material things.

      I believe in a personal God, because my finite mind cannot conceive of Him in any other way, and because I have experienced a communion with Him, gaining strength in weakness, comfort in sorrow, and daily joy in fellowship with Him.

      I believe in the immortality of the soul because I cannot conceive of an intelligent First Cause creating human beings through long process of evolution in this world only to destroy them.

      I hold that Jesus Christ is the highest manifestation of God’s intention for man, the supreme example of what He wishes us to be. Love is the Eternal Verity, and any real love we have given or received in this world, will not pass out of our lives in the world to come.

      My Prayer

      Oh God, my Creator and Preserver, teach me to obey the all-embracing law of universal love as exemplified in the life of Jesus Christ. Help me through daily meditation and prayer to search my heart, face my problems with courage, sublimate my earthly desires, and be lifted from consciousness of self to consciousness of Thee., At all times make me aware, in the silence of my soul, of Thy absolute presence, which, speaking the word of deepest wisdom, will sustain and guide me, and, if I be worthy, pass through me as an energizing and ennobling influence to my fellow men.

      ALICE HEGAN RICE

      Your religion is good if it is vital and active, if it nourishes in you confidence, hope, love and a sentiment of the infinite value of existence, if it is allied with what is best in you against what is worst, and holds before you the necessity of becoming a new man, if it renders forgiveness more easy, fortune less arrogant, duty more dear. If it does these things it is good, little matter its name, for it comes from the true source and binds you to man and to God.

      CHARLES WAGNER

      A Litany for Latter-day Mystics

      Out of the Vastness that is God

      I summon the power to heal me.

      It comes with peace ineffable

      And patience, to anneal me.

      Ajar I set my soul-doors

      Toward unbounded Life

      And let the infinitudes of it

      Flow through me, vigour-rife.

      Out of the Vastness

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