Self Help

ateful comparison; there is, in truth, no such thing as "comparison." We are each perfect for our type and different from anyone else. "Let the wild rose alone, she couldn't be the lily if she tried," Ella Wheeler Wilcox said, and you are all right, no matter what your expression may be, and if you work on, perfecting your own type, you will get somewhere, but if you bind yourself with the wretchedness of comparison, you will fail, just because you make your consciousness one with the law of failure. Whatever you have around you in things, people and conditions are just what you have the power to create, and they will remain until you change them by making new conditions, so don't belittle them or compare them love them and call them good and try to displace them by finer attraction. Jesus said, "And if I be lifted up, I will draw all men unto me," and the individual who will perfect their type, and make themselves the hundred percent expressed of just that thing that they are, will have success; it will come and abide with them because they are fulfilling the true laws of their being. Comparisons for growth and example this is only embodied stimulation to higher effort and purpose and is the ladder by which we climb past our dead selves to higher things. Comparison for depreciation and rejection of our finer selfhood this is failure and the one who does it reaps what they sow. The true self knows, and knowing, dares the way, turning aside, perhaps, to get a shorter path, but holding fast to the great mortal birthright which allows it to say, "I am that I am." 56 SEVENTEENTH SUCCESS METHOD HAPPINESS THERE are those who are always sad, unhappy. Their gloom reacts on everything around them and carrying this load of despair they become a dread to their friends, their loved ones, business opportunities pass them by because no one wants a walking tale of woe which, by every look, tells to every passer-by the negative failure method of their lives. If we look deeply into every life that touches our own, we will find that each one is on the same journey; each hunting for the same object. It is plain that everybody is filled with only one great purpose, which stands paramount to all others, and that is, the desire to be happy, to find happiness, not the fleeting content which anyone can feel for an hour, a day, but that all sufficient, certain and abiding contentment which makes for peace, power and plenty at every point in our human existence. Wat