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Today's reading was edited and adapted from Happiness Wrote by Alice Hagen Rice, published in 1942.

Dare to launch out on Life's Uncharted Sea, for in you the great pilot, the great adventurer, the great poet, the great inventor, the great musician,

the great artist, is making its quest for individual experience.

Genius springs from the soul that dares to drink at the fountains of inspiration in the Garden of Life.

Every individual has two minds, the unconscious and the subconscious, and each one functions in

different ways. The latter is the builder of the body, ceaselessly directing its activities and compelling it to

reproduce its kind. This subconscious mind is impersonal, deductive, with no purpose of its own. But being

clairvoyant and telepathic, it serves as a medium through which

we contact the universal. It is the conscious mind that fashions the thought which the unconscious

mind brings into existence in form. The cells of our body, which are constantly made and replaced by the unconscious mind,

are under the influence of the conscious mind, and reflect its attitude toward good and evil, health and disease.

The power to choose our thoughts and direct them, therefore constitutes a partial

free will, which enables us by the power of suggestion to modify many of our inherited or

environmental tendencies. This freedom, however, has its disadvantages, for we are free to choose unwisely as well as wisely.

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