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TO BE
LOVED. "I desire
to attract love from the Infinite or somewhere, that I may not
be starved for it, as I have been ever since I
married. My husband sneers at the New Thought, and
in fact at nearly all that is best in me." Caroline. And yet this
woman has children to love her. She thinks she is in need of being
loved; but what she really needs is to love. Being loved is the effect of
loving. A loving man or woman can never want for love. Others turn to
them in love as naturally as flowers turn to the sun. In order to be
loved you must radiate love. Instead of trying to attract the
love of others, seek to give your love to others, expecting
nothing in return. After a time you will find the unexpected coming to you
spontaneously. Learn to love
by loving all people and things, and especially all things you
find to do. This same
Caroline wants to "rise above drudgery." What is drudgery? It is simply
unloved work - nothing more nor less. Any work which is looked down
upon, and which is done with the hands whilst the heart and mind are
criticizing it, and running out after other things, - any work thus done
is drudgery. Work done with the hands and a small and unwilling part
of the mind, is drudgery. To her who respects, and loves, and
does with a will what she finds to do, there is no drudgery. Let the woman
who longs to be loved begin to love, by practicing on her work. To
quit calling it "drudgery"; to put all her mind and will and soul into
each piece of work as it comes; is the first and longest step
toward loving it. It is an easily demonstrated fact that we learn to love
anything we persist in doing with a whole-souled will. To love our
work enlarges our capacity for loving people, and the more we love
people, and the more people we love, the more radiant we become. It is the
radiant lover whom all the world loves. Do you know that love
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