Singing Through Life with God Author:George Wharton James Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTBE III THE SINGING MOOD JV1OODS — artistic temperament — irritability — gloom—pessimism—worry—meanness—malice—how they all hang together, impinge one ... more »upon another. Make room in your life for one and most of the others are sure to crowd in. And when "they" are in the singing mood goes out. Children undoubtedly are more or less temperamental, but when they are reasonably healthy and properly trained they are ready to sing, frolic and enjoy themselves under all circumstances. Why, then, do older people allow themselves to become victims of these happiness-destroying rnoods ? There is a reason! It is entirely a matter of mind—their mind, your mind. There are two classes of people in the world: those who believe facts, circumstances, surroundings make the man, and those who believe that man— mind—makes the facts, controls the circumstances and dominates the surroundings. To which class do you belong? I belong to the latter. "I" means that I am mind—controlling, dominating, directing. I am mind because I am a part of the great whole which is all mind—the mind of the universe, ever-present, ever-active, ever-beneficent, ever-helpful, ever-strong, ever-loving. There is no escape from this Ail-Embracing Mind, except in the realm of our own little, muddled, confused, yet arrogant, complacent and conceited mind. Strange to say we have the power to hypnotize ourselves into any mean, contemptible, narrowing, unsatisfactory, complaining, melancholy, gloomy, worrying, fretful, pessimistic mood we choose. But let us never forget we do it ourselves. It is not our inheritance. God never bestowed such a cursed heredity upon any one. It does not belong to us. It is not ours. It does not "sit well upon us." It can never be affirmed too often that God is a Being of love and...« less