How to Get the Best of Life

You have to repeat the above affirmation three times before you continue to read the lesson below. Thereafter repeat it last thing at night and first thing in the morning for seven days. During the day and at all times as often as you can, think about it, say it to yourself silently, now you can read on!

There is only one way of getting the best of life, and that is by giving the best you have to life. We, none of us do give our best, because none of us realizes what a limitless potential we have, to give from. What is your idea of the best life has to offer you? I mean life in the now, because the only life you will ever know is ‘life now’. You cannot know life yesterday or life tomorrow. You can recall to mind life as it appeared to you yesterday, and can surmise what life will be tomorrow, but the only life you can really know is life as it is now. So, the first thing is to decide upon your idea as to what you would consider to be the best of life, now for you. Not what would be best for anyone else, nor what anyone else might consider to be best for you. Not that you should ignore others. But first of all to thine self be true, thou canst not then be false to any man.

Psychologists tell us that the three basic of desires of everyone are for: health, happiness and self-expression. That may be a general assumption, but what is your idea about it? Do you accept that if you were healthy, happy and actively giving expression to whatever it is you have a desire to express, that you would then be getting the best of life? And that you would then experience peace of mind? Let us work on that general assumption, because you will find that most of the good things in life come under one or other of those headings. Take the last one first. Are you giving expression to whatever it is you have a desire to express? This is a crucial question, because if you are, the chances are that you will be happy, and if you are happy you are much more likely to be healthy. This all boils down to the first statement: ‘there is only one way of getting the best of life and that is by giving the best you have to life.’ This is a fundamental law of life. You must give to get, and what you give is returned in you experience in good measure, pressed down and running over, it is the law of cause and effect, of action and reaction. I am not thinking at the moment of giving things although the law acts in that direction also. I would like to remind you, in the same word, not other words, re-mind you that you live in your mind. It is what you give mentally that controls your experiences. It is your attitude of mind, that to which you give attention, that terminates in the action in your experience. Attitude, attention, action. What is you attitude towards life? Living is giving. Giving out, that is life at its best, it may sound paradoxical but it is nevertheless quite true that he more you give the more you get. You do not have to fight or struggle to get the best of life; all you have to do is to give your best to life. That is correct attitude. What about attention? If your desire is for the best, then you must give your attention only to the best. Demand the best of yourself; do not be content with half measures. Mediocrity is self inflicted- genius is self-imposed. Be ye perfect – because nestled within you is the seed of perfection. Pay attention to the best ideas that come to your mind and act accordingly.