Speaker 1: Let a little sunshine in the young people's song good
new thought doctrine. Plenty of sunshine in life if you
look for it. Don't make a dark dungeon of your mind.
Throw open the windows of your soul. How to let
a little sunshine in? The Other night, just as I
was dropping off to sleep, a crowd of young people
passed along, returning from some social gathering. They were bubbling
over with mirth and joy, and every girl seemed to
be talking at the same time, the voices of the
young men serving merely to punctuate the sentences of their
fair companions. Just after they passed my window, someone started
up a song, and the rest join in. I do
not know the song they sang, but the chorus went
something like this, let a little sunshine in, Let a
little sunshine in. Open wide the windows, open wide the doors,
and let a little sunshine in. I listened with pleasure
to the words and cheerful air of the song, and
said to myself, well, that's good enough new thought doctrine
for me. The young people went on their way singing. I,
now wide awake, listened and thought. The song grew fainter
and fainter as the distance between us grew greater, and
at last I could not clearly distinguish the words they sang.
But the faint vibrations of the tune still reached me,
and I imagined that I could just hear the last
words of the refrain, let a little sunshine in, Oh,
if only those young people, and all young people, and
all people young or old, would take to their hearts
these words and let a little sunshine in. It is
not sufficient that you merely agree that the advice is good,
that you merely repeat the words mechanically. You must make
thought take form in action. And not only say the words,
not only think them, but you must act them. Make
them a part of your life. Incorporate the idea in
your being. Train yourself into the habit of opening yourself
to the sunshine of life. Get into the way of
letting it flow in, Let a little sunshine in. There
is plenty of sunshine in life if you only look
for it. And there is plenty of shadow in life
if you only look for it. But in the things
that seem all shadow to others, you will be able
to find the sunshine if you but train yourself to
always look for it, and in that which may seem
bright sunshine to some. Others will find nothing but shade.
They are troubled with a mental cataract that shuts out
all the rays of the sunshine of life. Let a
little sunshine in. And when you learn to love the
sunshine and look forward to seeing it always, you seem
to draw it to you. The law of attraction brings
to you your share of the sunshine with which the
world is plentifully supplied. And if you fall into the
habit of looking for and expecting the shadow, the shadow
will always be found. Let a little sunshine in. It
is astonishing what a change the mental attitude of the
person will make. Change your mental attitude, and the whole
world seems to change. It is like taking off the
smoked glasses that have caused the world to seem dark
and gloomy, and seeing the brightness and colors of the world.
Let a little sunshine in. Many of you have been
making dark dungeons of your minds. You have steadily shot
out the sun, and your minds have become musty, damn
and milddude across the floor, cruel, noxious creatures. The slimy
form of fear drags itself slowly along, leaving its track behind.
The hideous shape of jealousy eyes you from one corner.
A creature of darkness, the veamous reptile hate shows its fangs.
The vampire worry flits across the chamber. Fearful shapes are there,
gloring in the darkness. Frightful forms crouch in corners and restisses.
All is gloom, darkness, horror, A fit breeding place for
the foul creatures who fear the light, A fit nursery
for monsters. Look within the dark chambers of your mind.
See what it really is, see what it generates. Look within,
look within, Ah, you see at last, No wonder you
shriek with terror, No wonder you turn away with horror.
No no, do not turn away. Look and see yourself
as you are. You need the lesson. Now that you
see what you have been carrying around with you and
are sickened at the sight, start to work to remedy
the evil. Throw wide open the doors, throw open the
windows of the saw. Let a little sunshine in ah. Yes,
never fear. There is plenty of sunshine in the universe,
plenty for all of you. There is an infinite supply.
Draw it to you. Take it freely. It is there
for you. It is your own, your very own. It
is as free as air and the material sunshine. There
is no tariff on it. It is not controlled by
any trust or combine. It is not adulterated. It is everywhere, everywhere.
O ye who are dwelling in darkness, Here is life
and happiness for you. Here is peace for you. Here
is joy for you, Joy, comrades, joy. Open wide your windows,
Open wide your doors, Let a little sunshine in. Yes, yes,
I hear you say that you cannot dispel the gloom
with which you are surrounded. Nonsense. Do you not know
that darkness is not a positive thing. It is the
essence of negation. It is not a real thing at all.
It is merely the absence of light. And here you
have been for all these years believing that the darkness
was a real thing that you could not get rid of.
Just stop for a moment and think. If a room
in your house is dark and gloomy. Do you hire
a man to shovel out the darkness? Do you attempt
to do it yourself in your desire for light? No, no,
of course you do not. You just raise the shades
and throw open the shutters, and the sunshine pours in,
and lo, the darkness has vanished. So it is with
the gloom of the soul, the darkness of the mind.
It is a waste of energy to attempt to dig
away the darkness, to cast out the shadows. You will
never get light in that way. All that you need
to do is to recognize the advantage of light, the
fact that light is to be had, that there is
plenty of it anxiously waiting to be let in. Then
all that you need to do is to let a
little sunshine in. Let a little sunshine in. Open wide
the windows, open wide the doors, and let a little
sunshine in.