“Every negative mental picture is a ghost story. Every recital of wrongs is a ghost story. Delineations of symptoms of illness are ghost stories. To relate a hard luck story is to relate another ghost story.
“When you say of anything that it is too good to be true, you tell yourself a ghost story. Everything that speaks of good is true—an incident of your life in the real world. All things begin in the mind. To claim the good of which you are able to think is but simplest honesty.
“The act of claiming gives the thing an impulse that starts it toward you. Make your claim on the grounds of your natal rights. You are a citizen of the real world, wherein exists for you all that you can claim of the enduring, and wherein there is infinitely more than you have thought of claiming.
“When you have so fully identified yourself with the real that you cannot be shaken or rendered doubtful by the pretenses of the fictitious, you will never say of anything that it is too good to be true. Of the best that you can hear, of the best that is hoped, of the best that is prophesied, of the best that is revealed, and of the best that stands beyond the pale of present revelation, you will say, ‘It is good enough to be true.’”
— Imelda Octavia Shanklin, Unity/New Thought pioneer, minister, metaphysician, and writer
— From What Are You, © 1929
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