The Game of Life & How to Play It
by Florence Scovel Shinn
The Game of Life & How to Play It is one of the classics from metaphysician Florence Schovel Shinn. First published in 1925, the book explains eternal truths, the benefits of right thinking and how to solve everyday problems in very simple language and funny stories.
In the vein of Raymond Charles Barker, Shinn offers instructions on how to tap into the power of the subconscious and use affirmations as mental treatments. She sets the stage with:
Most people consider life a battle, but it is not a battle, it is a game. It is a game, however, which cannot be played successfully without the knowledge of spiritual law.
Throughout the book Shinn shows us how we can change our conditions by changing our words. The copy of the book I have belonged to my dad who apparently purchased it for $2.50! It was well-used by him and then I added my own post-it notes. I highly recommend this easy-read, 95-page book as a guide for tuning your mind and creating positive manifestations.
FAVORITE INSIGHTS
“Most people consider life a battle, but it is not a battle, it is a game. It is a game, however, which cannot be played successfully without the knowledge of spiritual law.” (p. 7)
“To play successfully the game of life, we must train the imaging faculty. A person with an imaging faculty trained to image only good, brings into his life ‘every righteous desire of his heart’ –health, wealth, love, friends, perfect self-expression, his highest ideals.” (p. 8)
“There are three departments of the mind, the subconscious, conscious and superconscious.” (p. 8)
“Whatever man feels deeply or images clearly, is impressed upon the subconscious mind, and carried out in minutest detail.” (p. 8)
“The superconscious mind is the God Mind within each man, and is the realm of perfect ideas.” (p. 9)
“There is always plenty on man’s pathway; but it can only be brought into manifestation through desire, faith or the spoken word.” (p. 12)
“Nothing stands between man and his highest ideals and every desire of his heart, but doubt and fear. When man can ‘wish without worrying,’ every desire will be instantly fulfilled.” (p. 13)
“We must substitute faith for fear, for fear is only inverted faith; it is faith in evil instead of good.” (p. 13)
“The object of the game of life is to see clearly one’s good and to obliterate all mental pictures of evil. This must be done by impressing the subconscious mind with a realization of good.” (p. 13)
“Man has ever a silent listener at his side — his subconscious mind. Every thought, every word is impressed upon it and carried out in amazing detail.” (p. 14)
“Man must prepare for the thing he has asked for, when there isn’t the slightest sign of it in sight.” (p. 17)
“Man can only receive what he sees himself receiving.” (p. 19)
“Every great work, every big accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement.” (p. 19)
“You can control any situation if you first control yourself.” (p. 20)
“The horse-shoe or rabbit’s foot contains no power, but man’s spoken word and belief that it will bring him good luck creates expectancy in the subconscious mind, and attracts a ‘lucky situation.'” (p. 22)
“Face a situation fearlessly, and there is no situation to face; it falls away of its own weight.” (p. 24)
“Owing to the vibratory power of words, whatever man voices, he begins to attract.” (p. 25)
“When the subconscious is flooded with the perfect ideas of the superconscious, God and man are one.” (p. 26)
“Every disease is caused by a mind not at ease.” (p. 27)
Unforgiveness is the most prolific cause of disease.” (p. 27)
“Any inharmony on the external, indicates there is mental inharmony.” (p. 27)
“Good-will produces a great aura of protection about the one who sends it.” (p. 28)
“Nothing on earth can resist an absolutely non-resistant person.” (p. 30)
“The man who is centered and established in right thinking, the man who sends out only good-will to his fellow-man, and who is without fear, cannot be touched or influenced by the negative thoughts of others.” (p. 31)
“One’s ships come in over a calm sea.” (p. 34)
“The robbers of time are the past and the future. Man should bless the past, and forget it, if it keeps him in bondage, and bless the future, knowing it has in store for him endless joys, but live fully in the now.” (p. 35)
“Man receives only that which he gives. The Game of Life is a game of boomerangs. Man’s thoughts, deeds and words, return to him sooner or later, with astounding accuracy.” (p. 39)
“Man can only be what he sees himself to be, and only attain what he sees himself attaining.” (p. 40)
“Man should always demand only that which is his by divine right.” (p. 41)
“In order to impress the subconscious, active faith is always essential.” (p. 51)
“The subconscious mind is often impressed through music.” (p. 52)
“Fear is misdirected energy and must be redirected, or transmuted into Faith.” (p. 53)
“Man should watch himself hourly to detect if his motive for action is fear or faith.” (p. 54)
“Love is God in manifestation, and the strongest magnetic force in the universe.” (p. 56)
“There is nothing too great of accomplishment for the man who knows the power of the word, and who follows his intuitive leads.” (p. 66)
“Giving opens the way for receiving.” (p. 67)
“Intuition is a spiritual faculty and does not explain, but simply points the way.” (p. 69)
“What man condemns in others , he attracts to himself.” (p. 70)
“Man picks up a live-wire whenever he criticises or condemns, and may expect a shock.” (p. 70)
“There is for each man, perfect self-expression. There is a place which he is to fill and no one else can fill, something which he is to do, which no one else can do; it is his destiny!” (p. 75)
“Man’s highest demand is for the Divine Design of his life.” (p. 75)
“The perfect plan includes health, wealth, love and perfect self-expression. This is the square of life, which brings perfect happiness.” (p. 76)
“Perfect self-expression will never be labor; but of such absorbing interest that it will seem almost like play.” (p.76)
“Often fear stands between man and his perfect self-expression.” (p. 78)
“Poise is Power, for it gives God-Power a chance to rush through man, to ‘will and to do Its good pleasure.” (p. 80)
“Anger blurs the visions, poisons the blood, is the root of many diseases, and causes wrong decision leading to failure.” (p.80)
“Man can only vanquish fear by walking up to the thing he is afraid of.” (p.80)
“Where there is an effect there is always a cause; there is no such thing as chance.” (p. 83)
“Man manifests, on any plane, the sum total of his subconscious beliefs.” (p. 83)
“Visualizing is a mental process governed by the reasoning or conscious mind; visioning is a spiritual process, governed by intuition, or the superconscious mind.” (p. 91)
“All power is given man (through right thinking) to bring his heaven upon his earth, and this is the goal of the ‘Game of Life.'” (p.93)
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