DO YOU realize that the word “concern” is one of the most important words in our language at the present time?

Why? Because your concern about what is happening these days more than anything else will involve you in whatever trials and tribulations are happening in the world. We will show you how this is so.

First know that nothing that is happening can in any way affect you, unless your mind accepts it as so and believes that it is affecting you. By the same token, nothing can hurt you if you do not let it in your consciousness, for what is not in your consciousness does not exist to you. Study these words carefully, for in them is hidden a very great truth.

That of which you are not conscious at a particular time, of course, is not—to you at that time. There can be no question about this, for your consciousness is all that you are, and what is in your world is only what is in your consciousness. That which is not in your consciousness, therefore, has no existence in your world.

Can you grasp the great significance of this? It means that if you do not let a thing get into your consciousness, it will not get into your life or affairs, and therefore it cannot affect you.

Does this apply to everything that is happening around you and that is affecting everyone else?

It truly does, and is just why we are emphasizing this great truth. You need not be affected by anything, if you do not let it concern your mind.

What do we mean by concern?

A thing concerns you when your mind is unduly interested in it, allows its thoughts to dwell upon it, and thereby builds it into something that is so in your consciousness.

Can a thing be so to other people, and not be so to you? It can, and we will show you how and why?

Down in certain parts of your town or city are districts where a considerable number of people are living lives of sin and crime.