The power of sympathy
is one of the greatest powers of attraction in existence.
The attitude of sympathy always acts in connection with kindness.
The law that governs sympathy is this,
that you enter into mental unity in a measure
with everything with which you sympathize,
and that whatever you enter into mental unity with
you tend to imitate and produce in yourself to a degree.
We frequently get what we do not want,
because we accepted it
when our real judgement was set aside by abnormal sympathy
or by other abnormal states of mind.
Make is a practice never to sympathize with the inferior side,
but only with the superior side.
Train yourself to sympathize only with the superior side of people
and the greater possibilities of things.
In applying this principle
we find that the more perfectly you sympathize
with the higher, the finer and the stronger side of man
the more love you feel,
and the more tenderness you express
and the more helpful you become in all your efforts.
