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The Game of Life and How to Play It

Florence Scovel Shinn · Mentoring Center →

14 passages · ~10 min read


Florence Scovel Shinn opened her most famous work with a bold proposition: "Most people consider life a battle, but it is not a battle, it is a game." She went further to explain that it is a game of giving and receiving — a game governed by spiritual laws that, once understood, allow anyone to win. The spiritual laws Shinn described are not arbitrary rules …