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The Ancient Lineage of New Thought - The Anti-toxin of Common Sense - Are You Doing the Best You Can? - Be Not Easily Offended - For What Are You Living? - Ignore Misfortune - The Power of Personality - Common Sense and "Goodness" - "Good Business" - The Trapeze Performer - The High Calling of Fatherhood - The High Calling of Motherhood - Thought Building for Children - The New Thought Economy - What Is a Good Woman? - The Color of Your Thoughts - "In God We Trust" - Are You Alive? - Something About Celibacy - The Old and the New Thought View of Life - The Cities Beyond - The Onward March - Common Sense Ideas in Marriage - The Shading of the Picture - Woman and the Cigarette - Sinning Against the "Holy Ghost" - New Thoughts and Beauty - Famous and Infamous Women - Enemies to Happiness - The New Year - Enthusiasm - Brace Up - Universal Need - Every Day Opportunities - The Masters - Building Kindness Cells - What Is Optimism? - What Is the Loving Thing to Do? - A New Thought Rosary - Unto the End - Keep Still and Wait - What Life Means to Me - Contents - Index

All the methods of fasting and mortification he tested, and all he discarded as useless. He summed up the religion necessary to salvation in the following words:

"To cease from all wrong-doing;
To get virtue;
To cleanse one's own heart ---
This is the religion of the Buddhas."

He also formulated the "Eight-Fold Path to Righteousness":

1. Right views.
2. Right aims.
3. Right words.
4. Right behavior.
5. Right mode of livelihood.
6. Right exertion.
7. Right mindfulness.
8. Right meditation and tranquillity.

Among many other beautiful words left us by Gautama Buddha are the following:

"As a mother, even at the risk of her own life, protects her son, her only son, so let man cultivate good will without measure toward the whole world, above, below, around, unstinted, unmixed with any feeling of differing or opposing interests. Let a man remain steadfastly in this state of mind all the while he is awake, whether he be standing, walking, sitting or lying down. This state of heart is the best in the world."

To support father and mother,

To cherish wife and child,

To follow a peaceful calling ---

These are the greatest blessing.

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