Quote 05/18/2011
 
     I'm reading the marvelous work of Emmet Fox. I would like to share the following excerpt from Alter Your Life which was first published in 1931.  This excerpt is taken from a 1990 edition.
  
      "The Western Pioneers have done their work and passed off the stage, but other work just as important and just as great is awaiting us their successors. The task which each American has before him is to realize the American Dream in his own life, to the utmost that he is able, by making himself personally free; free in body, and soul, and spirit. Free in body, by demonstrating bodily health. Free in soul, by liberating himself, as far as he can, from every clogging prejudice, whether of party, or race, or creed, or caste; from all the snobbery of limitations that centuries of oppression have burned-in to the life of the Old World. Free in spirit, by rising above all the fetters of personal greed and jealousy, petty spite, mean pride, and small resentments that are the common handicap of humanity in all countries. The American Dream is not a fine theory to be written upon paper, but a life to be lived, for its own sake, and for the sake of the nation, and for the sake of Humanity." ~~Emmet Fox
 


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