About the Author:
Masami Saionji is the leader of the World Peace Prayer Movement, initiated by her adoptive father, Masahisa Goi (1916-1980), in 1955. She is Chairperson of two peace organizations: the World Peace Prayer Society, headquartered in New York, and the Byakko Shinko Kai, founded in Japan. Descended from the Royal Ryuku Family of Okinawa, Mrs. Saionji was educated in the United States as well as Tokyo. She attended Michigan State and Stanford Universities. She and her husband, a prime-minister of Japan's great-grandson, have three daughters. Masami Saionji is also the author of The Golden Key to Happiness (Element Books, 1995), numerous articles in the English-language magazine Byakko, and many books in Japanese.
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From Chapter 7: People today have forgotten how a healthy person thinks. A truly healthy person naturally thinks bright thoughts all of the time. A truly healthy person speaks only words that emit waves of bright light. Since their minds emanate perfect health, such peole never accept negative words, nor do they need to use them. Even though, on the other side of the wall there are unhealthy people, or people with negative thoghts and actions, those living on this side of the wall remain totally unaffected. They ceaselessly create healthy thoughts and actions with perfect freedom. When your heart is healthy, everything about you is fair and upright, loving, cheerful and harmonious. Bright light fills your mind and floods out from you. Without making any particular effort, you naturally emanate thankfulness toward everything that sustains your life and helps you to grow. People with healthy hearts never feel hatred or jealousy of others. They never curse, harm or ridicule others. They cannot. They cannot even imagine doing such things, for such words and actions are possible only for people with ailing hearts. Once you find yourself taking pleasure in another's failure, wishing for another's misfortnue or envying another's success, it is a sign that your heart is no longer in perfect health. Unhealthy vibrations have begun to creep in. When your heart is in perfect health, you naturally say and do things that reflect your luminous, wholesome thoughts. You accomplish your work with zest and enjoyment, with new ideas pouring out one after another. You spontaneously feel that you are working not only for yourself, but for others as well. Since you strive for the benefit of mankind, the fruits of your efforts continue to multiply.
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