Success - Overcoming Bodily Conditions Which Seem Impossible of
Change
Conditions differ from circumstances. Circumstances are
changeable conditions which merely "stand around about you,"
and, of them, have no stability. They are created by man, and
can be overcome by man.
But, differing from circumstances, there are certain conditions
which seem to be so "fixed" that they obstruct your progress
toward success. They are of two kinds: undesirable facial
features, and malformations of the body. They are often so fixed
that it seems impossible to change them.
Yet, the limitations of all such conditions can be overcome! It
has been done hundreds of times, and that which has been done,
can be done!
Of course, you cannot change your height from four feet eight
inches to six feet two inches, but in all dealings with others,
you can overcome the limitations which you think are due to a
stature of four feet eight inches! You can carry yourself in
such a way that others will think of you as a king. Napoleon,
though short of stature, made himself the commanding figure
among all classes and manner of men, merely by the way he
carried himself. He did not increase his stature, but he
overcame its limitations.
Whether or not you succeed in overcoming conditions, which it
seems impossible for you to change, depends on your vision of
the powers of your soul, on your faith in its possibilities, and
on your use of expression as the means of overcoming the
limitations. If your ideal of the possibilities and powers of
your real self is limited, then you hinder yourself in climbing
out from under the conditions. But, if you realize that your
soul is infinite, and that its possibilities of expression are
limitless; then, no matter what the partial manifestation, no
matter what the restricting condition, no matter what the
limitation-you can climb out from under it, by changing your
expression!
In essence, your soul is perfect-embracing all possibilities and
all powers.
In manifestation, you limit yourself by limiting your expression.
You can change your expression!
You can change your body!
But, to change the bodily form, you must change its expression
first!
If you are locked in a room, with the key on the inside of the
door, on your side, you will fail to get out-no matter how much
you butt your head against the door-unless you first turn the
key to unlock the door.
But, it is easy to succeed in getting out of the room, if you
turn the key in the lock first, and then open the door.
If you have failed to climb out from under the limitations of
bodily conditions, it is because you have been attempting to
batter down the form of the limitations without first changing
its expression. To succeed means "to climb out from under." It
does not mean to batter down, to smash, or to '' reduce to
nothingness.''
You can always change the expression of any form of life.
And, changing its expression will change its form.
Soul expression is soul-in-action.
Activity comes first!
Every soul loves the beauty of activity more than it loves
beauty of form; for, in active expression, there is a beauty
which has a greater and stronger appeal than the beauty of form.
Do you not prefer the living, romping, active, companionable
dog-even though he may not be perfect in form-to the most
perfect clay model of a dog any artist ever designed?
As a mother, do you not prefer the active, living child-even if
its nose is not perfect- to the most beautifully formed and
perfectly featured doll in the world?
And, young man, do you not prefer the living, loving, joyously
expressive maid, to the perfect wax figure in the department
store window?
It is beauty of expression which we most love! It is beauty of
expression which attracts others most!
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