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LOVE LIFE & WORK
1906
By ELBERT HUBBARD
1. A Prayer
2. Life and Expression
3. Time and Chance
4. Psychology of a Religious Revival
5. One-Man Power
6. Mental Attitude
7. The Outsider
8. Get Out or Get in Line
9. The Week-Day, Keep it Holy
10. Exclusive Friendships
11. The Folly of Living in the Future
12. The Spirit of Man
13. Art and Religion
14. Initiative
15. The Disagreeable Girl
16. The Neutral
17. Reflections on Progress
18. Sympathy, Knowledge and Poise
19. Love and Faith
20. Giving Something for Nothing
21. Work and Waste
22. The Law of Obedience
23. Society's Saviors
24. Preparing for Old Age
25. An Alliance With Nature
26. The Ex. Question
27. The Sergeant
28. The Spirit of the Age
29. The Grammarian
30. The Best Religion
A Prayer
The supreme prayer of my heart is not to be learned, rich, famous,powerful, or "good," but simply to be radiant. I desire to radiatehealth, cheerfulness, calm courage and good will. I wish to live withouthate, whim, jealousy, envy, fear. I wish to be simple, honest, frank,natural, clean in mind and clean in body, unaffected—ready to say "I donot know," if it be so, and to meet all men on an absolute equality—toface any obstacle and meet every difficulty unabashed and unafraid.
I wish others to live their lives, too—up to their highest, fullest andbest. To that end I pray that I may never meddle, interfere, dictate,give advice that is not wanted, or assist when my services are notneeded. If I can help people, I'll do it by giving them a chance to helpthemselves; and if I can uplift or inspire, let it be by example,inference, and suggestion, rather than by injunction and dictation. Thatis to say, I desire to be radiant—to radiate life.
Life and Expression
By exercise of its faculties the spirit grows, just as a muscle growsstrong thru continued use. Expression is necessary. Life is expression,and repression is stagnation—death.
Yet, there can be right and wrong expression. If a man permits his lifeto run riot and only the animal side of his nature is allowed to expressitself, he is repressing his highest and best, and the qualities notused atrophy and die.
Men are punished by their sins, not for them. Sensuality, gluttony, andthe life of license repress the life of the spirit, and the soul neverblossoms; and this is what it is to lose one's soul. All adown thecenturies thinking men have noted these truths, and again and again wefind individuals forsaking in horror the life of the senses and devotingthemselves to the life of the spirit. This question of expressionthroug