Search - List of Books by Florence Scovel Shinn

A woman I know, had, for years an appearance of a terrible skin disease. The doctors told her it was incurable, and she was in despair. She was on the stage, and she feared she would soon have to give up her profession, and she had no other means of support. She, however, procured a good engagement, and on the opening night, made a great "hit." She received flattering notices from the critics, and was joyful and elated. The next day she received a notice of dismissal. A man in the cast had been jealous of her success and had caused her to be sent away. She felt hatred and resentment taking complete possession of her, and she cried out, "Oh God don't let me hate that man." That night she worked for hours "in the silence."

She said, "I soon came into a very deep silence. I seemed to be at peace with myself, with the man, and with the whole world. I continued this for two following nights, and on the third day I found I was healed completely of the skin disease!" In asking for love, or good will, she had fulfilled the law, ("for love is the fulfilling of the law") and the disease (which came from subconscious resentment) was wiped out.."

Shinn is considered part of the New Thought movement, as her writings follow in the tradition of Phineas Quimby (1802 - 1866), Emma Curtis Hopkins (1849-1925), and both Charles Fillmore (1854 - 1948) and Myrtle Fillmore (1845 - 1931), co-founders of the Unity Church.

Motivational author Louise Hay acknowledges her as an early influence.

• Shinn, F. S. (1925). The Game of Life. In The writings of Florence Scovel Shinn (1988, pp. 1 — 92). Marina del Rey, CA: DeVorss & Company.
• Your Word is Your Wand 1928
• The Secret Door to Success 1940.
• Collected works: F.S. Shinn, The Wisdom of Florence Scovel Shinn: Four complete books, Fireside Books, New York, 1989.

• Rubinstein, Charlotte Streifer American Women Artists: From Early Indian Times to the Present Published 1982 G.K. Hall ISBN 0816185352
• John Cook, Steve Deger, Leslie Ann Gibson The Book of Positive Quotations Published 2007, Fairview Press ISBN 1577491696 . Contains 8 quotations by Florence Scovel Shinn.
• Sheppard, Alice (1984) There Were Ladies Present: American Women Cartoonists and Comic Artists in the Early Twentieth Century The Journal of American Culture 7 (3) , 38—48 doi:10.1111/j.1542-734X.1984.0703_38.x [1] (pdf) Accessed May 2008

• Virginia Reed Colby, James B. Atkinson, Footprints of the Past, Images of Cornish, New Hampshire and the Cornish Colony. New Hampshire Historical Society, Concord, New Hampshire, 1996.