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Speaker 1: Let a little sunshine in the young people's song good

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new thought doctrine. Plenty of sunshine in life if you

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look for it. Don't make a dark dungeon of your mind.

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Throw open the windows of your soul. How to let

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a little sunshine in? The Other night, just as I

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was dropping off to sleep, a crowd of young people

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passed along, returning from some social gathering. They were bubbling

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over with mirth and joy, and every girl seemed to

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be talking at the same time, the voices of the

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young men serving merely to punctuate the sentences of their

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fair companions. Just after they passed my window, someone started

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up a song, and the rest join in. I do

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not know the song they sang, but the chorus went

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something like this, let a little sunshine in, Let a

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little sunshine in. Open wide the windows, open wide the doors,

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and let a little sunshine in. I listened with pleasure

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to the words and cheerful air of the song, and

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said to myself, well, that's good enough new thought doctrine

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for me. The young people went on their way singing. I,

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now wide awake, listened and thought. The song grew fainter

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and fainter as the distance between us grew greater, and

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at last I could not clearly distinguish the words they sang.

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But the faint vibrations of the tune still reached me,

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and I imagined that I could just hear the last

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words of the refrain, let a little sunshine in, Oh,

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if only those young people, and all young people, and

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all people young or old, would take to their hearts

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these words and let a little sunshine in. It is

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not sufficient that you merely agree that the advice is good,

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that you merely repeat the words mechanically. You must make

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thought take form in action. And not only say the words,

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not only think them, but you must act them. Make

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them a part of your life. Incorporate the idea in

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your being. Train yourself into the habit of opening yourself

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to the sunshine of life. Get into the way of

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letting it flow in, Let a little sunshine in. There

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is plenty of sunshine in life if you only look

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for it. And there is plenty of shadow in life

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if you only look for it. But in the things

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that seem all shadow to others, you will be able

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to find the sunshine if you but train yourself to

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always look for it, and in that which may seem

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bright sunshine to some. Others will find nothing but shade.

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They are troubled with a mental cataract that shuts out

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all the rays of the sunshine of life. Let a

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little sunshine in. And when you learn to love the

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sunshine and look forward to seeing it always, you seem

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to draw it to you. The law of attraction brings

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to you your share of the sunshine with which the

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world is plentifully supplied. And if you fall into the

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habit of looking for and expecting the shadow, the shadow

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will always be found. Let a little sunshine in. It

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is astonishing what a change the mental attitude of the

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person will make. Change your mental attitude, and the whole

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world seems to change. It is like taking off the

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smoked glasses that have caused the world to seem dark

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and gloomy, and seeing the brightness and colors of the world.

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Let a little sunshine in. Many of you have been

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making dark dungeons of your minds. You have steadily shot

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out the sun, and your minds have become musty, damn

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and milddude across the floor, cruel, noxious creatures. The slimy

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form of fear drags itself slowly along, leaving its track behind.

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The hideous shape of jealousy eyes you from one corner.

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A creature of darkness, the veamous reptile hate shows its fangs.

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The vampire worry flits across the chamber. Fearful shapes are there,

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gloring in the darkness. Frightful forms crouch in corners and restisses.

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All is gloom, darkness, horror, A fit breeding place for

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the foul creatures who fear the light, A fit nursery

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for monsters. Look within the dark chambers of your mind.

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See what it really is, see what it generates. Look within,

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look within, Ah, you see at last, No wonder you

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shriek with terror, No wonder you turn away with horror.

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No no, do not turn away. Look and see yourself

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as you are. You need the lesson. Now that you

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see what you have been carrying around with you and

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are sickened at the sight, start to work to remedy

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the evil. Throw wide open the doors, throw open the

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windows of the saw. Let a little sunshine in ah. Yes,

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never fear. There is plenty of sunshine in the universe,

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plenty for all of you. There is an infinite supply.

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Draw it to you. Take it freely. It is there

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for you. It is your own, your very own. It

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is as free as air and the material sunshine. There

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is no tariff on it. It is not controlled by

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any trust or combine. It is not adulterated. It is everywhere, everywhere.

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O ye who are dwelling in darkness, Here is life

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and happiness for you. Here is peace for you. Here

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is joy for you, Joy, comrades, joy. Open wide your windows,

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Open wide your doors, Let a little sunshine in. Yes, yes,

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I hear you say that you cannot dispel the gloom

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with which you are surrounded. Nonsense. Do you not know

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that darkness is not a positive thing. It is the

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essence of negation. It is not a real thing at all.

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It is merely the absence of light. And here you

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have been for all these years believing that the darkness

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was a real thing that you could not get rid of.

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Just stop for a moment and think. If a room

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in your house is dark and gloomy. Do you hire

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a man to shovel out the darkness? Do you attempt

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to do it yourself in your desire for light? No, no,

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of course you do not. You just raise the shades

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and throw open the shutters, and the sunshine pours in,

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and lo, the darkness has vanished. So it is with

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the gloom of the soul, the darkness of the mind.

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It is a waste of energy to attempt to dig

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away the darkness, to cast out the shadows. You will

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never get light in that way. All that you need

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to do is to recognize the advantage of light, the

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fact that light is to be had, that there is

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plenty of it anxiously waiting to be let in. Then

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all that you need to do is to let a

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little sunshine in. Let a little sunshine in. Open wide

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the windows, open wide the doors, and let a little

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sunshine in.