Quotes from Florence Scovel Shinn

So long as man resists a situation, he will have it with him. If he runs away from it, it will run after him.

Bless your enemy, and you rob him of his ammunition." His arrows will be transmuted into blessings.

Man must live suspended in the moment.

Every thought, every word is impressed upon it and carried out in amazing detail. It is like a singer making a record on the sensitive disc of the phonographic plate. Every note and tone of the singer's voice is registered. If he coughs or hesitates, it is registered also. So let us break all the old bad records in the subconscious mind, the records of our lives which we do not wish to keep, and make new and beautiful ones. Speak

There are three departments of the mind, the subconscious, conscious and superconscious.

My point of power is in the present. This means that irregardless of what has happened in the past, or what the current state of affairs are... they are no longer relevant, for my point of power is in the present! With the present moment I can make things happen and change the reality to something that I want, everything else is irrelevant! Start today! ***

When you are undisturbed by a situation it falls away of its own weight.

What God has done for others He can do for me and more!

No one keeps you out of your good but yourself.

This means, agree that the adverse situation is good, be undisturbed by it, and it falls away of its own weight. "None of these things move me," is a wonderful affirmation. The

No man is an enemy. No man is a friend. Everyman is a teacher

Visualizing is a mental process governed by the reasoning or conscious mind; visioning is a spiritual process, governed by intuition, or the superconscious mind.

Intuition is a spiritual faculty high above the reasoning mind, but on that path is all that you desire or require. In

I find however, this will not "work" when man has advanced spiritually and

knows a higher law. One cannot turn back, and must put away "graven images.

Infinite Spirit, open the way for my great abundance. I am an irresistible magnet for all that belongs to me by Divine Right.

People think by running away from a negative situation, they will be rid of it, but the same situation confronts them wherever they go. They will meet the same experiences until they have learned their lessons.

desire only that which God desires through me.

give thanks for my whirlwind success. I sweep all before me, for I work with the Spirit and follow the Divine Plan of my life. The decks are cleared for Divine action.

Do this by repeating an affirmation: Stand still and see the power within me.

give thanks that my flowers come from the Universe, under grace in a perfect way.

I do not resist this situation. I put it in the hands of Infinite Love and Wisdom. Let the Divine idea now come to pass.

If you hate and resent a situation, you have fastened it to yourself, for you attract what you fear or dislike. When someone has been unjust to you, you are filled with wrath and resentment.

Your point of power is in the present.