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This book suits readers who enjoy brisk stories with a moral, who like Bible passages read as practical advice, and who want daily affirmations to try.
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What would you do with eight dollars, a hunch, and just enough money for the fare home? In this book, a worn-out woman does exactly that, and the author says her small act of trust opens the way to thousands of dollars.
Florence Scovel Shinn was an American artist and teacher who held classes in New York. The Game of Life and How to Play It is her short work of practical spiritual teaching. She reads the Bible as a handbook about the mind, and she wants you to free yourself from fear, lack, and illness by changing your words and your pictures of the future.
In dieser Zusammenfassung
- 1Life is a game of giving and receivingFree
- 2Your three minds decide what you attract
- 3Careless words build the life you live
- 4Show faith by acting as if you have received
- 5Resist nothing and meet every enemy with love
- 6Forgive quickly and keep money moving
- 7Cast your burden and follow your hunches
- 8Seek your Divine Design and read with discernment
Punkt 1 von 8
Life is a game of giving and receiving
Shinn opens with a plain claim. Life is not a battle but a game, and nobody plays it well without knowing the rules. She finds those rules in the Old and New Testaments, and she says Jesus taught the game as one of giving and receiving.
The first rule is sowing and reaping. Whatever a person sends out in word or deed comes back to him. Give hate and hate returns, give love and love returns. She calls life a game of boomerangs. One friend snaps at an aunt over dinner, asking for no more talking so she can eat in peace. The next day a woman she hoped to impress says the very same words to her.
The second rule concerns imagination. What a person pictures will take shape in his affairs. A man fears a rare disease, pictures it constantly, and finally dies of it. So the game is won by training the mind to picture only good. Fear is the only real enemy, since doubt blocks what faith would bring.
What you send out and what you picture are the moves that decide the game.
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What is The Game of Life and How to Play It about?
It is a short guide that treats life as a game with spiritual rules. Shinn teaches that thoughts, words, and imagination shape health, money, love, and work, and she gives true-life stories and affirmations to show how to use them.
What does the square of life mean in Florence Scovel Shinn's book?
The square of life is her name for four goals that go together: health, wealth, love, and perfect self-expression. She says every person's Divine Design includes all four, and that asking for the complete square leads to lasting happiness.
What is the law of nonresistance in this book?
It is the idea that fighting a problem keeps it alive, while meeting it with calm and goodwill lets it fall away. Shinn illustrates it with water, with blessing a business rival, and with naming a failure Success.
Is The Game of Life and How to Play It easy to read?
Yes, in a sense of approachability only: it has ten short chapters, plain sentences, lively anecdotes, and affirmations at the end. Each chapter stands on its own, so readers can start anywhere and follow the stories easily.
What is the main message of The Game of Life and How to Play It?
The main message is that people shape their lives through the thoughts they hold and the words they speak. Shinn urges fearless faith, forgiveness, love, and trust in an inner guide, and she sums it up as faith, nonresistance, and love.
Cite this edition
Shinn, Florence Scovel. The Game of Life and How to Play It. Library of Alexandria, 2026, libraryofalexandria.com/products/the-game-of-life-and-how-to-play-it.
Shinn, F. S. (2026). The game of life and how to play it. Library of Alexandria. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/the-game-of-life-and-how-to-play-it (Original work published 1925)
Shinn, Florence Scovel. The Game of Life and How to Play It. Library of Alexandria, 2026. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/the-game-of-life-and-how-to-play-it.
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note = {First published 1925}
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