In the download there is a link that will allow you to listen to Dr. Conwell tell the story to an audience in the early 1900s- it's like taking a ride in a time machine, cool!

No one yet ever got angry and spoke from his anger that he did not, consciously or unconsciously, expect reactionary anger from the other person, just as surely as, if you throw a ball against a stone wall, you expect it to bounce back at you.

Now suppose you stand in front of something which appears to you to be a solid stone wall, and when you throw the ball, it proves to be a fog which your ball goes right through, does it not follow, very naturally, that you cease throwing? That is the way it happens when someone throws invectives at you; if you refuse to react, the invectives cease, — provided you refuse to react in a really quiet spirit. But if you are quiet outside and are resenting inside, it is the effect of the inside resentment that is felt and your quiet serves only as an aggravation to your angry accuser.

Abandonment, Alienation, Anger, Blame, Bruises, Bumps, Burns, Sprains And Abrasions, Crying, Conflicts, Depression, Disappointments, Dying And Death, Forgiving, Grief, Guilt, Headache, Hurried, Hurt Another, Hurt Emotionally, Jealousy, Loneliness, Loss (sudden loss), Love (too much), Not Good Enough, Problem (with no solution), Psychic Attack, Regretted Actions, Revenge, Self Pity, Shame, Sick (loved one), Suicidal, Time (not enough of it), Trouble (in trouble), Unsure, Unhappy, Unwanted Emotion, Upset (with another person).