Enthusiasm

ESS METHOD HATEFUL COMPARISONS COMPARISON, both true and false, takes part in our success and failure. Comparison is everywhere on our pathway. One would have to be born with a supreme ego never to compare themselves with anyone else, or with certain opportunities and lack of opportunities of action. "By the mistakes of others wise men correct their own," and unless we are proud and self-arrogant we must find splendid opportunities of measuring our own ability with the ability or lack of ability of others. Strong, positive ideals are necessary in the building of a perfected selfhood, and positive ideals are bound to keep one in a condition of comparative thinking, for only as we see the ultimate self clearly can we hew to the line along the path of our true development. There are always those who can do the very thing we are doing and do it in a different way and better, perhaps, than we are doing it, and no matter how fine we are, we would be just that much finer if we added to our own method the methods of those who are our masters. A master consciousness and a master expression is always to be emulated, and the one who does not know this and who stands fast bound to their own peculiar method, refusing to entertain even the idea of a change in their method, is a cad, and a snob, who will meet their own defeat through their own egoism. They may be all right, but so are a world of others and it will do them good to take notice. Not all of perfection is expressing through anyone all at once; no matter who he or she is or what they are doing, they must grow into it out of the natural states of their thoughts, feelings and actions. All art, literature, music, drama, commerce, politics, and industry have their living pictures of perfection and there follows, as incentives, ideals and examples to help bring out in us all that is capable of stimulation. Healthy, normal and careful comparison of our own ability and our own expressions with the highest type of these things we can find in others, will keep us on the keen edge of finer effort and spur us on to accomplish still greater expression in action, and as long as we keep to this we are under a success law which cannot be broken. Around this true law of healthy comparison there swings the negative destructive law of hateful comparisons. Hateful comparisons have ruined fine executive lives. Filled with a desire divine to be perfect in the thing it is doing, possessing a super-sensitive nature, seein