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Remedy for accidents

Suffering is no less a mental condition than is enjoy- ment. You cause bodily sufferings and increase them by admitting their reality and continuance, as directly as you enhance your joys by be- lieving them to be real and continuous. When an ac- cident happens, you think or exclaim, "I am hurt!" Your thought is more powerful than your words, more powerful than the accident itself, to make the injury real.

Now reverse the process. Declare that you are not hurt and understand the reason why, and you will find the ensuing good effects to be in exact proportion to your disbelief in physics, and your fidelity to divine meta- physics, confidence in God as All, which the Scriptures declare Him to be.