Comments on: A Follow up to Frivolous http://theunwindingpath.com/transhypno/2008/08/26/a-follow-up-to-frivolous/ Mon, 21 May 2012 19:09:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Michael Raugh, C.H. http://theunwindingpath.com/transhypno/2008/08/26/a-follow-up-to-frivolous/comment-page-1/#comment-1307 Michael Raugh, C.H. Tue, 26 Aug 2008 14:07:17 +0000 http://theunwindingpath.com/transhypno/?p=680#comment-1307 Outstanding! Congrats to your client and to you, Ellie, for the way you've handled her. Is the quote you're thinking of, "Assume a virtue if you have it not"? That's from <i>Hamlet</i>, though like many Shakespeare quotes the original context has nothing to do with the way it tends to get used. (Hamlet was enjoining Gertrude to stop sleeping with Claudius -- positive thinking was not even remotely on his mind.) Come to think of it, there's also a Bible verse somewhere that goes, "As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he." Not sure what the original context of that was, but it's often cited by the 'all you have to do is wish and the Universe will grant it to you' crowd. <MR> Outstanding! Congrats to your client and to you, Ellie, for the way you’ve handled her.

Is the quote you’re thinking of, “Assume a virtue if you have it not”? That’s from Hamlet, though like many Shakespeare quotes the original context has nothing to do with the way it tends to get used. (Hamlet was enjoining Gertrude to stop sleeping with Claudius — positive thinking was not even remotely on his mind.)

Come to think of it, there’s also a Bible verse somewhere that goes, “As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.” Not sure what the original context of that was, but it’s often cited by the ‘all you have to do is wish and the Universe will grant it to you’ crowd.

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