"How To Develop Positive Thinking, Right and Wrong Thinking & Their Results..."

Every one recognizes the truth of the old saw: "The more haste, the less speed." The mental condition which is produced by the feeling of hurry is always an impediment to celerity of action, often causes inaccuracy, and sometimes results in destruction. In and of itself alone, therefore, hurry, like all other kinds of discordant thinking, is a disadvantage in just the degree of its indulgence.

Then abandon that mental condition and use the effort thus saved to increase efficiency.

Grief in many of its forms is thought to be admirable. Especially is this the case if it is caused by the death of friends.

It is then looked upon as an expression of kindliness of heart and as a token of respect and love for the one who has gone.

These qualities are indeed admirable, but they are entirely distinct from grief, although grief has been mistakenly praised for them, solely because its close association with them has led to confusion of judgment.

Not to grieve for the loss of friends is condemned as hardness of heart; sorrow for wrong doing is held to be right and laudable; yet we know that extreme grief often paralyzes and sometimes kills, and that not infrequently sorrow for wrong actions is so intense and absorbing as to unfit its victim for activity in any right direction.

Who does not know among his acquaintances those who have so grieved over business losses that they were unable to procure the needed support for the ones dependent upon them? Who has not known grief for the loss of a child to render the parent, for a time at least, incapable of discharging the ordinary duties of life? Many cases of grief have resulted in insanity.

It is true that these are results of excessive grief; but all grief has the same characteristics, and such extreme instances only emphasize its injurious character.