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  Speaker 1: Preface. I do not like writing a preface. It seems
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  Speaker 1: too much like an apology. I have no special apology
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  Speaker 1: to tender for offering this collection of New Thought nuggets.
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  Speaker 1: They may possess no literary merit, but they have helped
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  Speaker 1: men and women with the exception of the secret of
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  Speaker 1: the I am. These essays appeared from month to month
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  Speaker 1: in New Thought, of which magazine I am associate editor.
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  Speaker 1: They were written hastily, principally upon the demand of the
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  Speaker 1: printer for copy, and for the most part, were printed
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  Speaker 1: just as they were written, there being no time for
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  Speaker 1: revision or polishing up. You may pick up any one
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  Speaker 1: of them and find many sentences needing straightening out, many
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  Speaker 1: thoughts which could be better expressed by the change of
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  Speaker 1: a few words. Knowing these things, I first thought that
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  Speaker 1: I would go over each essay and add a little
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  Speaker 1: here and take away a little there, polishing up and
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  Speaker 1: burnishing as I went along. But when I looked over them,
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  Speaker 1: my heart failed me. There they were just as they
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  Speaker 1: were written, just as they were dug out of my mind,
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  Speaker 1: and I hadn't the heart to change them. I remembered
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  Speaker 1: the circumstances surrounding the writing of every one of them,
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  Speaker 1: and I let them alone. A nugget polished up would
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  Speaker 1: be no longer a nugget. And these thoughts are nuggets.
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  Speaker 1: I dug them myself. I will not say much regarding
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  Speaker 1: the quality of the metal. That is for you. But
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  Speaker 1: you see them just as they came from the mine, rough, unpolished,
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  Speaker 1: mixed with the rock, queerly shaped. If you think that
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  Speaker 1: they contain metal of sufficiently good quality, refine them, melt them,
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  Speaker 1: and fashion them into something useful or ornamental. For myself,
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  Speaker 1: I like things with the bark on, with the marks
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  Speaker 1: of the hammer, with the original quartz adhering to the metal.
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  Speaker 1: But others are of different taste. They like everything to
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  Speaker 1: feel smooth to the touch. They will not like these
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  Speaker 1: nuggets alas I cannot help it. I cannot produce the
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  Speaker 1: beautifully finished article. I have nothing to offer other than
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  Speaker 1: the crude product of the mine. Here they are. Polish
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  Speaker 1: them up yourself, if you prefer them in that shape.
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  Speaker 1: I will not touch them. W. W. A. Chicago, October second,
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  Speaker 1: nineteen o two.
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  Speaker 2: The keynote, I can and I will. The recognition equal
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  Speaker 2: to any task, a feeling of calm, confidence, an abiding
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  Speaker 2: sense of power, reserve, force and security, that something within
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  Speaker 2: the triple key to the door of attainment, the vibrations
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  Speaker 2: of success, I can and I will. Have you ever
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  Speaker 2: said these words to yourself with a firm conviction that
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  Speaker 2: you were speaking the truth was a strong feeling that
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  Speaker 2: needed no other proof. If so, you then felt within
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  Speaker 2: you a thrill which seemed to cause every atom of
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  Speaker 2: your being to vibrate in harmony. Was some note in
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  Speaker 2: the grand scale of life sounded by the real self.
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  Speaker 2: You caught a momentary glimpse of the inner light, heard
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  Speaker 2: a stray note of the song of the soul, were
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  Speaker 2: conscious for the moment of your self, And in that
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  Speaker 2: moment of ecstasy, you knew that untold power and possibilities
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  Speaker 2: were yours. You felt that you were in touch with
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  Speaker 2: all strength, power, knowledge, happiness and peace. You felt that
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  Speaker 2: you were equal to any task, capable of executing any undertaking.
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  Speaker 2: For the moment, there was no fear in the world
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  Speaker 2: for you. All the universe seemed to vibrate in the
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  Speaker 2: same key with your thought. For the moment you recognized
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  Speaker 2: the truth, But alas the spirit of doubt, distrust, fear,
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  Speaker 2: and unfaith called you again to earth, and the vision faded,
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  Speaker 2: and yet the remembrance of the sight, the echo of
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  Speaker 2: the sound, the remnant of the new found strength, is
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  Speaker 2: with you still. You still find that memory to be
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  Speaker 2: stimulus to great efforts, a comforting thought. In times of
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  Speaker 2: weakness and trial. You have been able to accomplish much
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  Speaker 2: by the aid of the lingering vibrations of the mighty thought.
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  Speaker 2: In times of great peril, grave perplexities, life and death struggles,
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  Speaker 2: a feeling of calm, confidence and strength often comes to us,
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  Speaker 2: and we are borne on by a power of us,
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  Speaker 2: and in us, and yet in everything else too, that
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  Speaker 2: seems to lift us of our feet and sweep us
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  Speaker 2: on to safety, to peace, to rest. We are possessed
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  Speaker 2: of an abiding sense of power, reserve force, and security.
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  Speaker 2: When extraordinary conditions confront us, when our bodies seem paralyzed,
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  Speaker 2: our minds stupefied, our well powered gun. We are often
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  Speaker 2: made conscious of the existence of the real self, and
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  Speaker 2: it answers our involuntary demand and comes to rescue with
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  Speaker 2: the shearing pry. I am here. Many of us have
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  Speaker 2: made use of this inner strength without realizing it. One
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  Speaker 2: day we were sorely distressed and made the demand, and
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  Speaker 2: lo it was answered. We knew not from whence came
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  Speaker 2: this new found strength, but we were conscious of the
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  Speaker 2: uplift and felt more confidence in ourselves. The next time
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  Speaker 2: we confidently demanded the aid, and again we were answered.
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  Speaker 2: We acquired that which we call confidence and faith in ourselves,
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  Speaker 2: and were carried over many a dark place and started
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  Speaker 2: on the road to success. Our repeated success caused us
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  Speaker 2: to think and speak of our luck, and we grew
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  Speaker 2: to believe that we had a star, and took chances
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  Speaker 2: and risks that others would not dream of. We dared.
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  Speaker 2: We made some apparent failures, but we soon came to
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  Speaker 2: know them as only lessons leading to ultimate success. The
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  Speaker 2: eye can and I will feeling carried us over rough
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  Speaker 2: places safely, and we got to simply know that we
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  Speaker 2: would get there in the end. And so we went
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  Speaker 2: on and on, knowing that if we advanced three steps
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  Speaker 2: and slipped back too, we were still one step ahead.
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  Speaker 2: We had confidence because we knew that things would come
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  Speaker 2: our way in the end, and so long as we
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  Speaker 2: held this attitude, we did succeed. And it was only
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  Speaker 2: when we lost at some unexpected slip. Only when after
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  Speaker 2: having attained success, we became dazed and frightened, and began
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  Speaker 2: to fear that our luck might turn and that we
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  Speaker 2: would lose all of our accumulations. It was only then
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  Speaker 2: I say that our star waned. Talk with any successful man,
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  Speaker 2: and if truthful, he would admit having felt from the
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  Speaker 2: time of his first success that he had some sort
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  Speaker 2: of a pull with faith, some lucky star, some special
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  Speaker 2: providence operating in his behalf. He grew to expect results,
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  Speaker 2: to have confidence in things turning out right, to have
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  Speaker 2: faith in something of which he knew, not the nature,
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  Speaker 2: And he was not disappointed. Things seemed to work in
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  Speaker 2: his favor, not always just in the way he expected,
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  Speaker 2: sometimes in an entirely different way. Matters seemed somehow to
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  Speaker 2: straighten themselves out in the end, so long as he
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  Speaker 2: kept his nerve. He did not know the source of
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  Speaker 2: his strength, but he believed in it and trusted it
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  Speaker 2: just the same. Let us wake up and recognize this
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  Speaker 2: something within. Let us begin to understand this I can
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  Speaker 2: and I will feeling. Let us cherish it if we
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  Speaker 2: have it, and cultivate it if we have it not.
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  Speaker 2: Do you know that we are young giants who have
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  Speaker 2: not discovered our own strength? Are you not aware that
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  Speaker 2: There are powers latent within us, pressing forth for development
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  Speaker 2: and unfoldment. Do you not know that earnest desire, faith,
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  Speaker 2: and calm demand will will bring to us that which
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  Speaker 2: we require, will place at our hand the tools with
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  Speaker 2: which we we are to work out our destiny, will
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  Speaker 2: guide us in the proper use of the tools will
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  Speaker 2: make us grow. Do you not know that desire, faith,
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  Speaker 2: and work is the triple key to the doors of attainment.
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  Speaker 2: There are possibilities before us awaiting our coming, of which
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  Speaker 2: we have never dreamed. Let us assert ourselves, take up
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  Speaker 2: the key, unlock the doors, and enter our kingdom. To accomplish,
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  Speaker 2: we must be possessed of earnest desire, must be as
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  Speaker 2: confident of ultimate success as we are of the rising
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  Speaker 2: of tomorrow's sun. We must have faith, and we must
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  Speaker 2: work out the end with the tools and instruments that
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  Speaker 2: will present themselves. Day by day we will find that desire, confidence, faith,
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  Speaker 2: and work will not only brush aside the obstacles from
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  Speaker 2: our path, but will also begin to assert that wonderful force,
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  Speaker 2: as yet so little understood, the law of attraction, which
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  Speaker 2: will draw to us that which is conducive to our success.
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  Speaker 2: Be it ideas people, things, yes, even circumstances. Oh, ye
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  Speaker 2: of little faith, Why do you not see these things?
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  Speaker 2: The world is looking for these I can and I
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  Speaker 2: will people, It has places ready for them. The supply
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  Speaker 2: does not begin to equal the demand. Pluck up, courage, ye,
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  Speaker 2: unfortunate ones, Ye doubters, Ye I can't. People. Begin the
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  Speaker 2: fight by abolishing fear from your minds. Then start to
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  Speaker 2: climb the ladder of attainment, shouting I can and I
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  Speaker 2: will with all your might, drowning out the sound of
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  Speaker 2: the but ifs, supposings, you cants, and aren't you afraid
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  Speaker 2: of your wet blanket. Friends at the foot of the ladder,
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  Speaker 2: Do not bother about the upper rounds of the ladder.
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  Speaker 2: You will reach them in time. But give your whole
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  Speaker 2: attention to the round just ahead of you, And when
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  Speaker 2: you have gained a firm footing on that, then look
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  Speaker 2: at the next one, one round at a time. Remember
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  Speaker 2: and give your entire attention to each step. Climb with desire,
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  Speaker 2: confidence and faith and aspiring each step, and the task
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  Speaker 2: will become a pleasure. You will be conscious of some
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  Speaker 2: mighty force attracking you upward and onward as you progress,
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  Speaker 2: And don't try to pull some other fellow off the ladder.
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  Speaker 2: There's room enough for both of you. Be kind. Kind
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  Speaker 2: if you fail to feel that I can and I
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  Speaker 2: will vibrations within you. Start in today and say I
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  Speaker 2: can and I will, think, I can and I will
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  Speaker 2: act I can and I will, and get the vibrations
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  Speaker 2: started in motion. Remember that as the one note of
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  Speaker 2: the violin, if constantly sounded, will cause the mighty bridge
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  Speaker 2: to vibrate in unison, so will one positive thought held
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  Speaker 2: constantly manifest itself, both in yourself, others, and things. So
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  Speaker 2: begin sounding the note to day, this very moment, sounded constantly,
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  Speaker 2: Send forth a clear, glad joyous note, a note of faith,
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  Speaker 2: a note of coming victory. Sound it over and over again,
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  Speaker 2: and soon you will become conscious that the vibrations have commenced,
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  Speaker 2: and that the mighty structure of your being is quivering
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  Speaker 2: and vibrating. To the keynote, I can and I will.
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  Speaker 1: The secret of the I Am, the ego, the physical plane,
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  Speaker 1: the mental plane, the new plane of consciousness, the real self,
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  Speaker 1: the eye, the temple of the living spirit, development of
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  Speaker 1: the I Am, consciousness, the Higher Reason, Lord of a
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  Speaker 1: thousand worlds, Am I and I reign Since time began,
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  Speaker 1: and night and day in cyclic sway shall pass while
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  Speaker 1: their deeds I scan. Yet time shall cease. Here I
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  Speaker 1: find release, for I am the soul of man. Charles
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  Speaker 1: h Or. Many of us are accustomed to thinking of
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  Speaker 1: ourselves on the physical plane alone. When we think of
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  Speaker 1: the ego, the eye of ourselves, we picture it as
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  Speaker 1: a human body with organs ranging from the finest the
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  Speaker 1: brain down to those of coarser atomic structure. To one
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  Speaker 1: living on this plane of consciousness, the body is the
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  Speaker 1: real self, and the mind but an appendage to the body.
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  Speaker 1: Such a man speaks of my mind or my soul,
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  Speaker 1: as he speaks of my hat, my coat, my shoes,
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  Speaker 1: as things belonging to him, which he uses, but which
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  Speaker 1: are not him. To him, the body is the real man,
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  Speaker 1: the mind something useful to the body, the spirit a
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  Speaker 1: nebulous hypothetical, something of which he has but a hazy idea,
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  Speaker 1: and no consciousness. He lives on the physical plane alone.
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  Speaker 1: Others picture their eye as intellect or mind, having control
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  Speaker 1: of the body in its organs, and having its abode
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  Speaker 1: in the brain or brains of the human being. To
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  Speaker 1: these people, the intellect is the real self. In fact,
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  Speaker 1: to many of this class. The intellect is elevated to
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  Speaker 1: the position of God, and they bow down to and
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  Speaker 1: worship it. They realize the subjection of the body to
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  Speaker 1: the mind, and are aware of the wonderful power of
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  Speaker 1: the latter over the particular body under its control, the
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  Speaker 1: bodies of others, the minds of others. To them, the
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  Speaker 1: intellect is the highest self, identical with the spirit. They
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  Speaker 1: are conscious of the wonderful workings of the mind, but
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  Speaker 1: are conscious of nothing higher. To some of them, death
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  Speaker 1: seems to end all their idea of mind, being that
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  Speaker 1: it is a product of the brain. Others feel that somehow,
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  Speaker 1: somewhere their intellect will maintain its existence, but it is
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  Speaker 1: merely a belief or hope, based upon the words of
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  Speaker 1: others who have claimed authority to speak. They have no
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  Speaker 1: consciousness of pre existence or future existence, no perception of
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  Speaker 1: that real self which knows itself to be eternal. A
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  Speaker 1: third class have so far progressed along the path of
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  Speaker 1: life that they have crossed the borders of a new
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  Speaker 1: plane of consciousness. They are in a strange land. They
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  Speaker 1: see no familiar landmarks. They do not recognize the country
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  Speaker 1: that lies before them. Their friends, whom they have left
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  Speaker 1: just a few feet behind across the border, do not
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  Speaker 1: seem to realize the difference the short distance has made
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  Speaker 1: to those who have traveled it, and therefore dealt the
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  Speaker 1: prospect seen from the new point of view. Those who
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  Speaker 1: have crossed the border find that they have acquired a
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  Speaker 1: consciousness of a real existence. The eye. Consciousness has passed
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  Speaker 1: beyond the intellectual plane and is able to look back
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  Speaker 1: to that plane and the one still further back, the
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  Speaker 1: physical plane. I recognizes the value of both mind and body,
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  Speaker 1: but regards them both as but instruments, tools, or servants
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  Speaker 1: with which to work. I feels that it has existed
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  Speaker 1: from the beginning, if beginning there was, and will exist
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  Speaker 1: until the end, if and there be, I feels a
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  Speaker 1: keen pleasure in mere existence in the now. I knows
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  Speaker 1: itself to be a part of the whole thing, knows
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  Speaker 1: that the universe is its home. I knows itself to
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  Speaker 1: be a tiny drop of spirit from the great spirit Ocean,
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  Speaker 1: a ray from the supreme Sun, a particle of the
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  Speaker 1: divine being encased in a material body, using that body
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  Speaker 1: and a force called mind which to manifest itself. I
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  Speaker 1: does not at present understand all things far from it.
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  Speaker 1: It has not as yet been able to bring its
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  Speaker 1: tools to that degree of perfection. It merely knows that
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  Speaker 1: it is, and has always been, and always will be.
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  Speaker 1: I allows intellect to indulge in speculations, but contents itself
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  Speaker 1: with the knowledge that it is. It frets not itself
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  Speaker 1: with the problems of the past or future, but lives
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  Speaker 1: in the now and knows itself to be a part
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  Speaker 1: of the whole. I knows that it cannot be destroyed
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  Speaker 1: or injured, that it exists in accordance with law, and
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  Speaker 1: that law is good. And asks no further light at
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  Speaker 1: this time, knowing that in its progress through matter, discarding
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  Speaker 1: sheaf after sheaf more knowing will surely come, It says,
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  Speaker 1: trustfully and confidently, to the absolute, I will be done,
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  Speaker 1: knowing itself to be immortal. I has no fear of
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  Speaker 1: the death of the body. One body is as good
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  Speaker 1: as another to it. It is willing to lay aside
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  Speaker 1: the body as it does a coat when it has
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  Speaker 1: outworn or outgrown it, knowing itself to be impregnable to harm.
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  Speaker 1: I has no fear thought. It fears nothing, knowing that
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  Speaker 1: the law is working for development, always for ultimate good.
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  Speaker 1: I is not disturbed by the cares, troubles and sorrows
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  Speaker 1: of life. It knows them for what they are. The
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  Speaker 1: body may be in pain, the mind may be burdened
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  Speaker 1: with sorrow, but I, knowing, smiles. I knows itself to
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  Speaker 1: be one with the eye of all living creatures, and
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  Speaker 1: knowing this, cannot manifest hate, fear, envy, jealousy. It cannot
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  Speaker 1: despise or condemn these and other feelings. The old life
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  Speaker 1: drop from the person like a discarded mantle. When I
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  Speaker 1: mounts its throne, I recognizes that others may not have
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  Speaker 1: progressed so far on the path as itself, but knows
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  Speaker 1: them to be but fellow travelers on the same road,
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  Speaker 1: who are doing the best they know how, considering their
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  Speaker 1: stage of the journey, I recognizes ignorance, not evil. I
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  Speaker 1: has but one feeling toward mankind and the whole living world. Love.
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  Speaker 1: I love and comradeship for even the last man, For
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  Speaker 1: it knows that that last man cannot be left out
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  Speaker 1: of the great scheme of life. I knows that it
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  Speaker 1: has traveled a long road leading to its present position,
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  Speaker 1: and that all life is traveling the same. I looks
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  Speaker 1: back and sees others covered with the mire and dust
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  Speaker 1: of the road. Far back on the path, but knowing
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  Speaker 1: that it has traveled the same same stage of the journey,
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  Speaker 1: been covered with the same mire and mud, it cannot condemn.
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  Speaker 1: I knows that it is but on the threshold of
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  Speaker 1: the new consciousness, the borderland of the cosmic knowing, and
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  Speaker 1: that far beyond lies regions of marvelous beauty, which will
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  Speaker 1: in turn be traveled, and then on and on, increasing
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  Speaker 1: in strength and knowing power. Each day I sees endless
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  Speaker 1: phases of existence opening up in the vision. It cannot
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  Speaker 1: at this time understand, but it knows of the existence
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  Speaker 1: of the law and is content. I has the courage
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  Speaker 1: of intelligent faith and presses forward cheerfully to the divine adventure.
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  Speaker 1: All this and more to the man or woman who
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  Speaker 1: understands the task of self development becomes a labor of
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  Speaker 1: love and exalted task, rather than the mere selfish striving
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  Speaker 1: after power. As the sculptor saw in the block of
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  Speaker 1: marble the form of the angel and was impelled to
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  Speaker 1: cut away the surrounding material in order to liberate the
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  Speaker 1: angelic form, so may we, seeing the godlike form within us,
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  Speaker 1: strive to liberate it that inner form is the real self,
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  Speaker 1: the eye. If you have never realized this truth, relax
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  Speaker 1: body and mind, and indulge in a little introspection. Turn
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  Speaker 1: your gaze inward. Listen to the voice of the spirit.
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  Speaker 1: You will be conscious of a faint recognition of the
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  Speaker 1: something within striving to make itself manifest to your understanding,
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  Speaker 1: asking for the proper tools with which to work. Listen,
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  Speaker 1: listen in the silence. Day by day, the voice will
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  Speaker 1: grow plainer, Day by day, the light will grow brighter.
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  Speaker 1: Your own is coming to you at last. Oh joy, unspeakable,
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  Speaker 1: Oh tears, oh laughter, After long ages, you are coming
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  Speaker 1: in sight of the promised land. Know yourself, o man,
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  Speaker 1: Know that you have within you the divine spark to
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  Speaker 1: which both body and mind are but servants. Know that
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  Speaker 1: your body is the temple of the living Spirit, and
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  Speaker 1: respect it as such. Know that your intellect is but
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  Speaker 1: the instrument of the manifestation of the Spirit the eye.
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  Speaker 1: Do not crawl on your belly like a worm. Do
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  Speaker 1: not humble yourself in the dust and call upon Heaven
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  Speaker 1: to witness what a despicable creature you are. Do not
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  Speaker 1: call yourself a miserable sinner, worthy only of eternal damnation.
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  Speaker 1: No a thousand times no. Rise to your feet, raise
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  Speaker 1: your head, face the skies, throw back your shoulders, fill
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  Speaker 1: your lungs with nature's ozone. Then say to yourself, I am.
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  Speaker 1: Man has acquired a wonderful power when he can understandingly
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  Speaker 1: say I am a part of the eternal life principle.
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  Speaker 1: I am created in the divine image. I am filled
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  Speaker 1: with the divine breath of life. Nothing can hurt me,
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  Speaker 1: for I am eternal. The first requisite for the acquirement
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  Speaker 1: of an understanding of the law is the recognition of
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  Speaker 1: the existence and the power of the real self the eye.
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  Speaker 1: The more complete the recognition, the greater the power. Special
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  Speaker 1: directions for the acquirement of this faculty of recognition cannot
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  Speaker 1: be given. It must be grown into and felt, rather
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  Speaker 1: than reasoned out by the intellect. You will not be
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  Speaker 1: long in doubt as to whether or not you are
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: on the right track. If you are right, you will
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  Speaker 1: begin to realize it at once. You will have glimpses
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  Speaker 1: of it, and then it may slip away from you
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  Speaker 1: for a while. But fear not, you cannot escape it.
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  Speaker 1: In the end, you will feel that your body is
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  Speaker 1: but as a garment which whilst covering you temporarily is
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  Speaker 1: not you. You will feel that you are separate and apart
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  Speaker 1: from your body, although for a time living in it,
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: you will feel that you could as well live in
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: some other body and still retain your sense of individuality.
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  Speaker 1: You will realize that even your mind is not you,
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  Speaker 1: but is merely the instrument through which you manifest yourself,
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  Speaker 1: and which, being imperfect, prevents the complete expression of the spirit.
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: In short, when you say or think I am, you
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: are conscious of the existence of your real self and
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: feel the growth of a new sense of power within you.
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  Speaker 1: This recognition of the self may be faint, but encourage
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  Speaker 1: it and it will grow, And, whilst growing, will manifest
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  Speaker 1: itself to your mind by impressing upon the latter the
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  Speaker 1: knowledge of the proper plan for further development. It is
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  Speaker 1: another example of to him that hath shall be given.
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  Speaker 1: This mere calling of their attention to the fact will
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: awaken the first glimmer of recognition in some. Others will
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  Speaker 1: find it necessary to reflect upon the idea and awaken
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: to a recognition of the truth. More slowly, some will
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: not feel the truth. To such I say, the time
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: is not yet ripe for your recognition of this great truth.
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  Speaker 1: But the seed is planted, and the plant will appear
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  Speaker 1: in time. This may seem like the veriest nonsense to
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: you now, but the time will come when you will
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  Speaker 1: admit its literal correctness. You will find that a desire
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  Speaker 1: has been created that will cause a mental unrest until
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: more light is received. As Walt Whitman says, my words
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: will itch in your ears till you understand them. As
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: Emerson says, you cannot escape from your good. To those
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: who feel the first indications of the awakening of the spirit,
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: I say, carry the thought with you, and it will
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: unfold like the lotus, naturally and gradually. The truth, once recognized,
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  Speaker 1: cannot be lost, and there is no standing still in nature.
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: What has been said is but a faint hint of
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: a mighty truth, which nestles in the bosom of the
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: esoteric teachings of all religions, in the philosophies of the
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: Orient and of ancient Greece. You will find it in
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: the songs of the poets, in the writings of the mystics.
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: The advanced science of this age touches it without recognizing
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: it fully. It is not a thing that can well
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  Speaker 1: be conveyed by words. It is not easily comprehended by
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: purely intellectual processes. It must be felt and lived out
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: by those who are ready for it, those for whom
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: the time has come. It has been known to the
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: few throughout all ages, and in all times. All races
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  Speaker 1: have known it. It has been handed down from teacher
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  Speaker 1: to pupil from the earliest days.
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  Speaker 2: It is that.
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: Truth which Edward Carpenter refers to when he says, Oh,
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: let not the flame die out, cherished age after age,
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: in its dark caverns, in its holy temples, cherished fed
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: by pure ministers of love. Let not the flame die out?
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: It is.
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  Speaker 1: It is difficult to convey even a hint of this
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: truth to any but those who are prepared to receive it.
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  Speaker 1: To others, it will seem to be errant folly. As
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: Emerson says, every man's words who speaks from that life
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  Speaker 1: must sound vain to those who do not dwell in
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: the same thought. On their own part, I dare not
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  Speaker 1: speak for it. My words do not carry its august sense.
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  Speaker 1: They fall short and cold. Only itself can inspire whom
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: it will. Yet I desire even by profane words, if
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: sacred I may not use to indicate the heaven of
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: this deity, and to report what hints I have collected
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: of the transcendent simplicity and energy of the highest law.
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: If you prefer to try to solve the problem of life,
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: the riddle of the universe, by scientific investigation, by exact reasoning,
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: formal thought, mathematical demonstration, by all means, follow this method.
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  Speaker 1: You will be taught the lesson of the power and
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: the limitations of the human intellect. And after you have
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: traveled round and round the circle of thought and find
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: that you are but covering the same ground over and
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: over again, after you have run into the intellectual cul
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: de sac, the blind alley of logic, after you have
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: beaten your wings against the cage of the unknowable, and
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: fall exhausted and bruised. After you have done all these
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: things and have learned your lesson, then listen to the
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: voice within, see the tiny flame which burns steadily and
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: cannot be extinguished, Feel the pressure of the something within,
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: and let it unfold. You will then begin to understand
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: that as the mind of man developed by slow stages
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  Speaker 1: from mere sensation to simple consciousness, from simlsimple consciousness, to
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: self consciousness in its lower and higher degrees. So is
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: there a consciousness higher than we have heretofore imagined in
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: store for man, which is even now beginning to manifest itself.
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  Speaker 1: You may then understand that there may be an intelligent
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: faith which knows, not simply believes. These and other lessons
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  Speaker 1: you will learn in time, and when you have reached
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  Speaker 1: the stage where you feel the promptings of the higher
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: Reason and live in accordance therewith, you will say with
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  Speaker 1: Carpenter lo the healing power descending from within, calming the
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: enfevered mind, spreading peace among the grieving nerves, low the
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: eternal Savior, the sought after of all the world, dwelling
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: hidden to be disclosed within each, Oh joy insuperabol.
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  Speaker 2: Let a little sunshine in the young people's song, good
• 33:09
  Speaker 2: new thought doctrine. Plenty of sunshine in life if you
• 33:14
  Speaker 2: look for it. Don't make a dark dungeon of your mind.
• 33:19
  Speaker 2: Throw open the windows of your soul. How to let
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: a little sunshine in the other night, Just as I
• 33:29
  Speaker 2: was dropping off to sleep, a crowd of young people
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: passed along, returning from some social gathering. They were bubbling
• 33:40
  Speaker 2: over with mirth and joy, and every girl seemed to
• 33:44
  Speaker 2: be talking at the same time, the voices of the
• 33:48
  Speaker 2: young men serving merely to punctuate the sentences of their
• 33:52
  Speaker 2: fair companions. Just after they passed my window, some one
• 33:58
  Speaker 2: started up a song, and the rest join in. I
• 34:02
  Speaker 2: do not know the song they sang, but the chorus
• 34:06
  Speaker 2: went something like this, let a little sunshine in, Let
• 34:11
  Speaker 2: a little sunshine in, Open wide the windows, open wide
• 34:17
  Speaker 2: the doors, and let a little sunshine in. I listened
• 34:23
  Speaker 2: with pleasure to the words and cheerful air of the song,
• 34:27
  Speaker 2: and said to myself, well, that's good enough, new thought
• 34:32
  Speaker 2: doctrine for me. The young people went on their way singing. I,
• 34:38
  Speaker 2: now wide awake, listened and thought. The song grew fainter
• 34:44
  Speaker 2: and fainter as the distance between us grew greater, and
• 34:48
  Speaker 2: at last I could not clearly distinguish the words they sang,
• 34:53
  Speaker 2: But the faint vibrations of the tune still reached me,
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: and I imagined that I could just hear the last
• 35:01
  Speaker 2: words of the refrain, let a little sunshine in. Oh,
• 35:07
  Speaker 2: if only those young people, and all young people, and
• 35:12
  Speaker 2: all people young or old, would take to their hearts
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  Speaker 2: these words, and let a little sunshine in It is
• 35:22
  Speaker 2: not sufficient that you merely agree that the advice is good,
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  Speaker 2: that you merely repeat the words mechanically. You must make
• 35:32
  Speaker 2: thought take form in action. And not only say the words,
• 35:37
  Speaker 2: not only think them, but you must act them. Make
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: them a part of your life. Incorporate the idea in
• 35:45
  Speaker 2: your being. Train yourself into the habit of opening yourself
• 35:50
  Speaker 2: to the sunshine of life. Get into the way of
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: letting it flow in. Let a little sunshine in. There
• 36:01
  Speaker 2: is plenty of sunshine in life if you only look
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: for it. And there is plenty of shadow in life
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: if you only look for it. But in the things
• 36:11
  Speaker 2: that seem all shadow to others, you will be able
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: to find the sunshine if you but train yourself to
• 36:20
  Speaker 2: always look for it. And in that which may seem
• 36:24
  Speaker 2: bright sunshine to some, others will find nothing but shade.
• 36:29
  Speaker 2: They are troubled with a mental cataract that shuts out
• 36:34
  Speaker 2: all the rays of the sunshine of life. Let a
• 36:38
  Speaker 2: little sunshine in. And when you learn to love the
• 36:43
  Speaker 2: sunshine and look forward to seeing it always, you seem
• 36:47
  Speaker 2: to draw it to you. The law of attraction brings
• 36:51
  Speaker 2: to you your share of the sunshine with which the
• 36:54
  Speaker 2: world is plentifully supplied. And if you fall into the
• 36:59
  Speaker 2: habit of life looking for and expecting the shadow, the
• 37:03
  Speaker 2: shadow will always be found. Let a little sunshine in.
• 37:10
  Speaker 2: It is astonishing what a change the mental attitude of
• 37:14
  Speaker 2: the person will make. Change your mental attitude, and the
• 37:19
  Speaker 2: whole world seems to change. It is like taking off
• 37:23
  Speaker 2: the smoked glasses that have caused the world to seem
• 37:27
  Speaker 2: dark and gloomy, and seeing the brightness and colors of
• 37:32
  Speaker 2: the world. Let a little sunshine in. Many of you
• 37:38
  Speaker 2: have been making dark dungeons of your minds. You have
• 37:42
  Speaker 2: steadily shut out the sun, and your minds have become musty, damn,
• 37:48
  Speaker 2: and mildude. Across the floor cruel noxious creatures. The slimy
• 37:54
  Speaker 2: form of fear drags itself slowly along, leaving its behind.
• 38:01
  Speaker 2: The hideous shape of jealousy eyes you from one corner.
• 38:06
  Speaker 2: A creature of darkness, The veaumous reptile Hate shows its fangs.
• 38:13
  Speaker 2: The vampire Worry flits across the chamber. Fearful shapes are there,
• 38:18
  Speaker 2: glorwering in the darkness. Frightful forms crouch in corners and restisses.
• 38:25
  Speaker 2: All is gloom, darkness, horror, a fit breeding place for
• 38:31
  Speaker 2: the foul creatures who fear the light, A fit nursery
• 38:36
  Speaker 2: for monsters. Look within the dark chambers of your mind,
• 38:42
  Speaker 2: See what it really is, See what it generates. Look within,
• 38:49
  Speaker 2: Look within, Ah, you see at last. No wonder you
• 38:56
  Speaker 2: shriek with terror, No wonder you turn away with horror.
• 39:02
  Speaker 2: No no, do not turn away. Look and see yourself
• 39:07
  Speaker 2: as you are. You need the lesson. Now that you
• 39:14
  Speaker 2: see what you have been carrying around with you and
• 39:18
  Speaker 2: are sickened at the sight, start to work to remedy
• 39:22
  Speaker 2: the evil. Throw wide open the doors, Throw open the
• 39:27
  Speaker 2: windows of the saw. Let a little sunshine in Ah. Yes,
• 39:34
  Speaker 2: never fear. There is plenty of sunshine in the universe,
• 39:39
  Speaker 2: plenty for all of you. There is an infinite supply
• 39:45
  Speaker 2: draw to you. Take it freely. It is there for you.
• 39:51
  Speaker 2: It is your own, your very own. It is as
• 39:56
  Speaker 2: free as air and the material sunshine. There is no
• 40:01
  Speaker 2: tariff on it. It is not controlled by any trust
• 40:06
  Speaker 2: or combine. It is not adulterated. It is everywhere everywhere.
• 40:15
  Speaker 2: O ye who are dwelling in darkness, Here is life
• 40:20
  Speaker 2: and happiness for you. Here is peace for you. Here
• 40:25
  Speaker 2: is joy for you, Joy comrades, joy, open wide your windows,
• 40:33
  Speaker 2: Open wide your doors, Let a little sunshine in. Yes, yes,
• 40:40
  Speaker 2: I hear you say that you cannot dispel the gloom
• 40:44
  Speaker 2: with which you are surrounded. Nonsense. Do you not know
• 40:49
  Speaker 2: that darkness is not a positive thing. It is the
• 40:53
  Speaker 2: essence of negation. It is not a real thing at all.
• 40:59
  Speaker 2: It is the absence of light. And here you have
• 41:04
  Speaker 2: been for all these years believing that the darkness was
• 41:08
  Speaker 2: a real thing that you could not get rid of.
• 41:13
  Speaker 2: Just stop for a moment and think. If a room
• 41:17
  Speaker 2: in your house is dark and gloomy, do you hire
• 41:21
  Speaker 2: a man to shovel out the darkness? Do you attempt
• 41:26
  Speaker 2: to do it yourself in your desire for light? No, no,
• 41:31
  Speaker 2: of course you do not. You just raise the shades
• 41:36
  Speaker 2: and throw open the shutters, and the sunshine pours in,
• 41:40
  Speaker 2: and lo, the darkness has vanished. So it is with
• 41:46
  Speaker 2: the gloom of the soul, the darkness of the mind.
• 41:50
  Speaker 2: It is a waste of energy to attempt to dig
• 41:53
  Speaker 2: away the darkness, to cast out the shadows. You will
• 41:58
  Speaker 2: never get light in that way. All that you need
• 42:01
  Speaker 2: to do is to recognize the advantage of light, the
• 42:06
  Speaker 2: fact that light is to be had, that there is
• 42:10
  Speaker 2: plenty of it, anxiously waiting to be let in. Then
• 42:15
  Speaker 2: all that you need to do is to let a
• 42:18
  Speaker 2: little sunshine in. Let a little sunshine in. Open wide
• 42:24
  Speaker 2: the windows, open wide the doors, and let a little
• 42:30
  Speaker 2: sunshine in.
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: The hunger of the soul. The soul, as well as
• 42:38
  Speaker 1: the body and mind, requires nourishment. The want a promise
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: of the fulfillment the law of unfoldment, nourishment provided when
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: it is needed, provided for in the divine plan, the
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: feast of good things. The soul, as well as the
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: body and the mind, requires nourishment. We have felt that
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: hunger for spiritual knowledge, which transcended our hunger for bread,
• 43:09
  Speaker 1: exceeded our craving for mental sustenance. We have felt soul hungry,
• 43:15
  Speaker 1: and knew not with what to appease it. The soul
• 43:19
  Speaker 1: has cried out for food. It has been fed upon
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: the husks of the physical plane for so long that
• 43:26
  Speaker 1: it is fairly starving for the proper nourishment. It seeks
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: this way and that way for the bread of life,
• 43:33
  Speaker 1: and finds it not. It has asked this authority and
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: that authority for information as to where this food may
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: be had, Where could be obtained The food that would
• 43:44
  Speaker 1: nourish the soul, but it has been given nothing but
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: the stone of dogma and creeds. At last, it sank
• 43:53
  Speaker 1: exhausted and felt that perhaps there was no bread to
• 43:57
  Speaker 1: be had. It has felt faint and weary, and almost
• 44:02
  Speaker 1: believed that all was a delusion and a will of
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: the wisp of the mind, that there was no reality
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: to it. It felt the chill of despair creeping over it,
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: and all seemed lost. But we must not lose sight
• 44:19
  Speaker 1: of the fact that just as the hunger of the
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: body implies that somewhere in the world is to be
• 44:25
  Speaker 1: found that which will satisfy it, that just as the
• 44:29
  Speaker 1: hunger of the mind implies that somewhere is to be
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: found mental nourishment. So the mere fact that this soul
• 44:38
  Speaker 1: hunger exists is a proof that somewhere there is to
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: be found that which the absolute has intended to satisfy it.
• 44:48
  Speaker 1: The want is the prophecy of the fulfillment. Yes, and
• 44:53
  Speaker 1: the want and its recognition afford the means of obtaining
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: that which will satisfy the want. When in the course
• 45:01
  Speaker 1: of unfoldment, either on the physical, mental, or spiritual plane,
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: it becomes necessary for the well being of the unfolding
• 45:09
  Speaker 1: ego to draw to itself certain things which it requires.
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: In the process of evolution. The first step toward the
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: obtaining of that necessary thing is the consciousness of a
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: great and pressing want, the birth of a strong desire.
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: And then the desire grows stronger and stronger, until the
• 45:29
  Speaker 1: ego becomes desperate and determines to obtain the necessary thing
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: at any cost. The obtaining of that thing becomes the
• 45:37
  Speaker 1: prime object in life. Students of evolution realize this fact,
• 45:42
  Speaker 1: perhaps more than the rest of us. The subconsciousness of
• 45:46
  Speaker 1: the plant or animal becomes surcharged with this great desire,
• 45:51
  Speaker 1: and all the conscious and subconscious power of the living
• 45:54
  Speaker 1: thing is put forth to obtain that which is necessary
• 45:58
  Speaker 1: for its development. And on the mental plain, the same
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: thing is true. The hunger for knowledge, when it once
• 46:06
  Speaker 1: possesses a man, will cause him to cut loose from
• 46:09
  Speaker 1: old environments, surroundings, and everything else which has held him,
• 46:13
  Speaker 1: and he forces himself to the place where that knowledge
• 46:16
  Speaker 1: may be obtained, and he obtains it. If he only
• 46:21
  Speaker 1: wants it hard enough, he gets it. When we think
• 46:25
  Speaker 1: of Lincoln in his boyhood days, painfully and laboriously striving
• 46:30
  Speaker 1: for knowledge, lying on his side before the log fire
• 46:34
  Speaker 1: and reading his book by the light of his flames,
• 46:37
  Speaker 1: and this after a hard day's work, such as only
• 46:41
  Speaker 1: the boy on the farm knows. When we think of this,
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: we may understand the effects of a strong desire possessing
• 46:49
  Speaker 1: the mind of man or boy, woman or girl, and
• 46:54
  Speaker 1: this hunger for spiritual knowledge and growth from whence comes it.
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: When we understand the laws of spiritual unfoldment, we begin
• 47:04
  Speaker 1: to understand that the ego is growing and developing, unfolding
• 47:09
  Speaker 1: and casting off old, worn out sheaths. It is calling
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: into operation new faculties exploring new regions of the mind.
• 47:20
  Speaker 1: In the super conscious regions of the soul are many
• 47:23
  Speaker 1: faculties lying dormant, awaiting the evolutionary hour of manifestation along
• 47:28
  Speaker 1: conscious lines. As the faculties approach the hour of birth
• 47:33
  Speaker 1: into the new plane, they manifest an uneasiness which is
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: communicated to the subconscious and conscious planes of the mind,
• 47:41
  Speaker 1: causing a restlessness and uneasiness which is quite disturbing to
• 47:46
  Speaker 1: the individual in whom they are manifesting. There is a
• 47:50
  Speaker 1: straining for expression, a reaching forward for development, a desire
• 47:55
  Speaker 1: for growth, which produces something akin to pain. All growth
• 48:00
  Speaker 1: and development is accompanied by more or less pain. We
• 48:04
  Speaker 1: speak of the beautiful growth of the plant of the
• 48:07
  Speaker 1: lily and wish that we could grow as easily and
• 48:11
  Speaker 1: as painlessly as it does, But we forget that all
• 48:16
  Speaker 1: growth means a breaking down, a tearing away, as well
• 48:21
  Speaker 1: as a building up and adding to. The lily's growth
• 48:24
  Speaker 1: appears painless to us. But if we were endowed with
• 48:28
  Speaker 1: keen enough vision, with clear enough sight, with a power
• 48:32
  Speaker 1: enabling us to feel that which is going on within
• 48:35
  Speaker 1: its organism, we would be made aware that there is
• 48:39
  Speaker 1: a constant change going on, a tearing down of tissue,
• 48:43
  Speaker 1: a using up of cells, a pressing upon and breaking
• 48:47
  Speaker 1: through of confining sheaths, all meaning growth, development, and unfoldment.
• 48:53
  Speaker 1: We see only the birth of the new parts and
• 48:57
  Speaker 1: lose sight of the pain and destruction proceed it. All
• 49:02
  Speaker 1: through life is manifested the growing pains of development. All
• 49:06
  Speaker 1: birth is attended with pain, and so it is with
• 49:11
  Speaker 1: the birth into consciousness of these unfolding spiritual faculties. We
• 49:16
  Speaker 1: feel an uneasiness, dissatisfaction, yea even pain, as we strive
• 49:22
  Speaker 1: to call into conscious life these children of the soul.
• 49:26
  Speaker 1: We feel that desire for something needed by our inner self,
• 49:30
  Speaker 1: and we seek for it in all directions. We exhaust
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  Speaker 1: all of the pleasures of life so called, and find
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  Speaker 1: no satisfaction there. We then endeavor to find comfort and
• 49:42
  Speaker 1: solace and intellectual pursuits, but without obtaining that which we seek.
• 49:48
  Speaker 1: We pore over the writing of the philosophers and learned
• 49:52
  Speaker 1: writers of the past and present, but find them as
• 49:55
  Speaker 1: but husks to the hungering soul. We seek, increa and dogmas,
• 50:00
  Speaker 1: that comforting something the need of which we feel, but
• 50:05
  Speaker 1: of the nature of which we are ignorant. But we
• 50:07
  Speaker 1: find no satisfaction there. We perhaps go from creed to creed,
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  Speaker 1: from philosophy to philosophy, from one scientific theory to another
• 50:19
  Speaker 1: scientific theory, but still we hunger. At last, we get
• 50:25
  Speaker 1: to a position in which we feel that life is
• 50:27
  Speaker 1: not worth the living, and that all is a ghastly mockery.
• 50:32
  Speaker 1: And so we go on and on, seeking, ever seeking,
• 50:37
  Speaker 1: but the quest is fruitless. Man on the physical plane
• 50:44
  Speaker 1: has a comparatively easy time of it. He lives as
• 50:47
  Speaker 1: does the animal, He thinks as does the animal. He
• 50:51
  Speaker 1: dies as does the animal. The problems of life fret
• 50:55
  Speaker 1: him not. He does not even know of the existence
• 50:59
  Speaker 1: of the problems of life. He is happy in his way,
• 51:03
  Speaker 1: and it almost seems a pity that he must be
• 51:05
  Speaker 1: disturbed from his state of animal content. But he must
• 51:09
  Speaker 1: be disturbed, not by you or by me, perhaps, but
• 51:14
  Speaker 1: by the inevitable law which is working around and about
• 51:18
  Speaker 1: him and in him. Sooner or later, in the course
• 51:22
  Speaker 1: of his development, he must be awakened. And he awakens
• 51:26
  Speaker 1: upon the mental plane, and here his troubles begin. On
• 51:30
  Speaker 1: the mental plane, everything seems beautiful. For a time man
• 51:35
  Speaker 1: finds himself a new being, and he goes on and on,
• 51:39
  Speaker 1: feeling himself a very god, and reveling in his intellectual powers.
• 51:44
  Speaker 1: But after a time these things cease to satisfy him.
• 51:48
  Speaker 1: The unfolding of the higher faculties begin to annoy him,
• 51:52
  Speaker 1: particularly as he cannot explain them. His intellectual training has
• 51:58
  Speaker 1: perhaps taught him to believe that there is nothing higher
• 52:00
  Speaker 1: than the mind, that religious feelings were nothing but the
• 52:04
  Speaker 1: result of the emotional nature, and that he had outgrown
• 52:08
  Speaker 1: all that. But still he feels that something within, never
• 52:14
  Speaker 1: ceasing to annoy him, never ceasing to intrude upon his
• 52:17
  Speaker 1: intellectual consciousness, certain feelings entirely contrary to his theories. He
• 52:25
  Speaker 1: has grown to doubt the existence of a supreme being, and,
• 52:29
  Speaker 1: having read Heckel's Riddle of the Universe, feels that the
• 52:33
  Speaker 1: question has been satisfactorily settled for all time, and that
• 52:37
  Speaker 1: the answer to all of life's problems may be found
• 52:40
  Speaker 1: in the tenets of his creed materialism. But somehow he
• 52:46
  Speaker 1: is not at ease. He feels the pressure of the
• 52:50
  Speaker 1: growing something within and becomes quite restless. This goes on
• 52:56
  Speaker 1: from time to time, and he seeks the truth in
• 52:58
  Speaker 1: all directions, rushing from one thing to another in his
• 53:02
  Speaker 1: desires to satisfy the cravings of the soul, but all
• 53:07
  Speaker 1: the time denying that there is anything to be found.
• 53:11
  Speaker 1: After a time, he becomes aware of a new state
• 53:14
  Speaker 1: of consciousness developing within him, and in spite of his
• 53:18
  Speaker 1: mental revolts against any good thing coming from within, he
• 53:22
  Speaker 1: is forced to accept himself in his growing state, and
• 53:26
  Speaker 1: to realize that he may possess a knowing other than
• 53:30
  Speaker 1: that of the intellect. It may take him a long
• 53:33
  Speaker 1: time to accept this, but so long as he rebels
• 53:37
  Speaker 1: against it and struggles, so long will he feel pain.
• 53:41
  Speaker 1: And only when he catches a glimpse of the true
• 53:44
  Speaker 1: state of affairs. Does he open himself up to the
• 53:47
  Speaker 1: divine unfoldment going on in his soul and joyfully welcome
• 53:52
  Speaker 1: the tearing away of confining mental sheaths, which destruction enables
• 53:57
  Speaker 1: the newly born faculty to force its way into the
• 54:01
  Speaker 1: conscious mentality. He learns to even aid in the unfoldment
• 54:06
  Speaker 1: by holding the thoughts conducive to spiritual development, and thus
• 54:11
  Speaker 1: assists in the bringing forth of the new leaf or
• 54:14
  Speaker 1: flower of the soul. It has always been so. Man
• 54:19
  Speaker 1: has gone through stage after stage of unfoldment, suffering pain
• 54:23
  Speaker 1: each time, as the old sheaths are burst asunder and discarded.
• 54:27
  Speaker 1: He is prone to hold on to the old sheaths
• 54:30
  Speaker 1: and to cherish them long after they have served their
• 54:32
  Speaker 1: purpose in his growth. And it is only when he
• 54:36
  Speaker 1: has reached the stage that many men are now coming
• 54:40
  Speaker 1: into a knowledge of that he understands the process of
• 54:44
  Speaker 1: growth and is willing and glad to aid in the development.
• 54:48
  Speaker 1: Instead of attempting to oppose it, he falls in with
• 54:52
  Speaker 1: the workings of the law, instead of trying to defeed it.
• 54:58
  Speaker 1: Life is motion. We are moving onward and upward throughout
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  Speaker 1: the ages. Man has passed over miles of the path,
• 55:08
  Speaker 1: but he will have to travel many more before he
• 55:11
  Speaker 1: sees the reason of the journey. But he has now
• 55:14
  Speaker 1: reached the stage where he may see that it all
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  Speaker 1: means something, all is a part of a mighty plan,
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  Speaker 1: that this is a necessary stage of the journey, and
• 55:25
  Speaker 1: that around the bend of the road are to be
• 55:27
  Speaker 1: found shady trees and a brook at which he may
• 55:30
  Speaker 1: quench his thirst and wash away the dust of the
• 55:34
  Speaker 1: last few miles. The hunger of the soul is a
• 55:38
  Speaker 1: real thing. Do not imagine that it is an illusion.
• 55:42
  Speaker 1: Do not endeavor to deny it. If you feel it,
• 55:47
  Speaker 1: you may rest assured that your time is coming, and
• 55:50
  Speaker 1: that there will be provided that which will satisfy it.
• 55:54
  Speaker 1: Do not waste your energy in running hither and thither
• 55:57
  Speaker 1: seeking for bread. The bread will be provided when it
• 56:01
  Speaker 1: is most needed. There is no such thing in life
• 56:05
  Speaker 1: as spiritual starvation. But instead of seeking without for that
• 56:11
  Speaker 1: which will nourish you, look within. At each stage of
• 56:15
  Speaker 1: the journey, the traveler will find enough to nourish him
• 56:18
  Speaker 1: for the hour, enough to sustain him until he reaches
• 56:21
  Speaker 1: the next stage. You cannot be denied this nourishment. It
• 56:26
  Speaker 1: is part of the divine plan that it be provided
• 56:29
  Speaker 1: for you. If you will look for it in the
• 56:32
  Speaker 1: right place, you will always find it and will be
• 56:35
  Speaker 1: saved much seeking and worrying. Do not be impatient, because
• 56:39
  Speaker 1: the feast is not set before you at this stage.
• 56:43
  Speaker 1: Be satisfied with that which is given, for it suffices
• 56:46
  Speaker 1: your needs at the present moment. By and by you
• 56:49
  Speaker 1: will reach the stage when the feast of good things
• 56:52
  Speaker 1: will have been earned, and you will be invited to
• 56:55
  Speaker 1: feast and rest until you are ready for the next
• 56:58
  Speaker 1: stage of the journey. The great spiritual wave which is
• 57:02
  Speaker 1: now sweeping over the world brings with it great wants,
• 57:06
  Speaker 1: but it also carries with it the means of satisfying
• 57:09
  Speaker 1: those wants. Do not despair.
• 57:13
  Speaker 2: Look aloft. The old sailor's advice, the warning cry peace
• 57:21
  Speaker 2: and content, mental balance recovered, the glory of the universe
• 57:28
  Speaker 2: all governed by law. The law manifests everywhere a reverent
• 57:34
  Speaker 2: feeling of calm, peaceful faith. Look aloft. I recently heard
• 57:41
  Speaker 2: a little tale about a boy who went to sea
• 57:45
  Speaker 2: in the old days of the sailing vessel. One day
• 57:49
  Speaker 2: he was ordered to go aloft, and was urged on
• 57:53
  Speaker 2: until he reached the highest possible point on the mosque.
• 57:58
  Speaker 2: When he found that he could go no farther. He
• 58:02
  Speaker 2: glanced down. The sight terrified him and almost caused him
• 58:08
  Speaker 2: to loose his grip and fall headlong on the deck
• 58:12
  Speaker 2: far blue. He felt dizzy and sick, and it seemed
• 58:17
  Speaker 2: almost impossible for him to maintain his hold on the mast.
• 58:22
  Speaker 2: Far blow was the deck looking so small as compared
• 58:26
  Speaker 2: to the wide expanse of water on all sides of it.
• 58:31
  Speaker 2: The motion made him feel as if he was suspended
• 58:35
  Speaker 2: between heaven and Earth. Was nothing substantial to support him.
• 58:41
  Speaker 2: He felt his brain reeling and his senses leaving him,
• 58:46
  Speaker 2: and all seemed lost. When far away from the deck below,
• 58:52
  Speaker 2: he heard an old sailor cry, look aloft, lad, look aloft.
• 58:59
  Speaker 2: Turning his eyes from the scene below, the boy gazed upward.
• 59:04
  Speaker 2: He saw the blue sky, the fleecy clouds passing peacefully along,
• 59:11
  Speaker 2: looking just the same as they did when he had
• 59:15
  Speaker 2: looked at them while lying on his back on the
• 59:18
  Speaker 2: green grass of the meadows in his country home. A
• 59:23
  Speaker 2: strange feeling of peace and content came over him, and
• 59:28
  Speaker 2: the feeling of dread, terror and despair passed away. His
• 59:34
  Speaker 2: strength and presence of mind came back to him, and
• 59:39
  Speaker 2: soon he was able to slide down the mast until
• 59:42
  Speaker 2: he grasped a friendly rope, thence to the lower ringing,
• 59:47
  Speaker 2: and on until the deck was again reached. He never
• 59:52
  Speaker 2: forgot the old sailor's advice given in the hour of need,
• 59:57
  Speaker 2: and when he would feel dazed and fearful danger, he
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 2: would invariably look aloft until he recovered his mental balance.
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 2: We may well take a leaf from the old Sailor's
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 2: note book and impress his wisdom upon our minds. There
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 2: is nothing so good in hours of trial, doubt, sorrow,
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 2: and pain as to look aloft. When we feel that
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 2: we cannot see clearly with our spiritual vision, that our
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 2: spiritual sight is blurred and dim, that we lose faith
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 2: and confidence, hope and courage, that we feel the deadly
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 2: sensation of despair and hopelessness creeping over us and benumbing
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 2: our senses, stilling our heart. Then is the time for
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 2: us to listen to the warning shout look aloft, lad,
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 2: look aloft. When all seems lost, when darkness is closing
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 2: around us, when we seem to have lost our foothold
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 2: and have no way of regaining it, When all appears hopeless, gloomy,
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 2: and dreadful. When faith seems to have deserted us, and
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 2: the chill of unbelief is on us, then is the
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 2: time for us to shout to ourselves, look aloft, look aloft.
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 2: When we try to solve the riddle of the universe,
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 2: the problem of existence by the aid of the intellect,
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 2: unsupported by faith. When we ask our intellects, whence come I?
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 2: Whether go I? What is the object of my existence?
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 2: What does life mean? When we travel round and round
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 2: the weary paths of intellectual reasoning and find that it
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 2: has no ending. When we shout aloud the question of
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 2: life and hear no answer but the despairing echo of
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 2: our own sad cry. When life seems a mockery, when
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 2: life seems to be without reason, when life seems a
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 2: torment devised by a fiend. When we lose the feeling
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 2: of nearness to the infinite power that has supported us
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 2: in the past, when we lose the touch of the
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 2: unseen hand, these are the times for us to look
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 2: upward to the source of wisdom and light. These are
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 2: the times for us to heed the cry of the soul.
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 2: Look aloft, Look aloft, Look aloft. Some clearness night, when
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 2: the moon is not shining. Go out into the darkness
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 2: and gaze upward at the stars. You will see countless
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 2: bright spots, each of which is the Sun, equalling or
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 2: exceeding in size the Sun, which gives light and life
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 2: to our little earth, each sun having its circling worlds,
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 2: many of the worlds having moons revolving around them. In turn,
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 2: look all over the heavens as far as the eye
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 2: can reach, and endeavor to grasp the idea of the
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 2: countless suns and worlds. Then try to imagine that, in space,
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 2: far beyond the reach of human vision, even aided by
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 2: the telescope, are millions upon millions of other worlds and
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 2: suns on all sides of us, on and on and
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 2: on throughout the universe, reaching into infinity. And then remember
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 2: that all these worlds hold their places and revolve according
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 2: to law. And then remember that the microscope shows that
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 2: law manifests itself in the smallest thing that can be
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 2: seen by its use or around you, you will see
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 2: nothing but the manifestations of law. And then remembering that
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 2: the infinite, which has us all in charge, takes note
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 2: of the foe of the sparrow. What has become of
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 2: your fears and doubts and worries. Gone is your despair
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 2: and unbelief, And in their place is found a reverent
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 2: feeling of calm, peaceful faith. Ay, there is much good
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 2: sense in the old sailor's maxim When you get rattled
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 2: look aloft tomorrow.
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 1: The work and cares of to day easy if we
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 1: do not worry about those of tomorrow, the mysterious tomorrow
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 1: and its terrors. The way to meet the cares of tomorrow.
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 1: Tomorrow's opportunities will come as surely as Tomorrow's cares law supreme.
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 1: No need to be afraid the real Tomorrow. The work
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 1: of each day would be a pleasure if we would
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 1: refrain from attempting to perform at the same time the
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 1: work of tomorrow. The cares of to day would cease
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 1: to disturb us. If we would refuse to anticipate the
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 1: cares of tomorrow. The work of to day is easily performed.
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 1: Notwithstanding the fact that we spoiled the pleasure of yesterday
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 1: by fretting about the tasks of the coming day, the
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 1: cares of today do not seem half so terrible as
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 1: they appeared viewed from the distance of yesterday. Nor do
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 1: we suffer nearly as much from today's burdens as we
• 1:06:10
  Speaker 1: did yesterday. In bearing these burdens in anticipation, today is
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 1: comparatively easy for us. But oh tomorrow, I there's the
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 1: trouble Tomorrow. The past is gone, and its sorrows, cares, troubles, misfortunes,
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 1: and work do not seem so terrible viewed from this distance.
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 1: The misfortunes of the past are now often known as
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 1: blessings in disguise. Today is here, and we seem to
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 1: be getting along fairly well, excepting fearing the dawn of tomorrow.
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 1: But tomorrow, oh mysterious tomorrow, that delight of the child,
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 1: that bugaboo of the grown up. What shall we say
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 1: of tomorrow? Who knows what terrible monsters are lurking in
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 1: its gloomy recesses, What frightful cares are slumbering there, What
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 1: dreadful shapes are there crouching with glowering eyes awaiting our coming.
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 1: No frightful tale of childhood begins to compare in horror
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 1: with this fantasy of maturity. Tomorrow. Yesterday, with all its troubles,
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 1: to day, with its pressing tasks, affright us not. But
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 1: to morrow, Ah, to morrow, tell us of the morrow,
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 1: who knows what a day may bring? Forth? Tell us
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 1: how to meet the terrors of tomorrow forsooth an easy task,
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 1: good friends, The way to meet the terrors of tomorrow
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 1: is to wait until tomorrow. The cares of tomorrow indeed
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 1: twould be laughable if it were not so pitiful. Tomorrow's
• 1:08:08
  Speaker 1: cares may come, will come, must come. But what of
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 1: Tomorrow's opportunities, Tomorrow's strength, tomorrow's chances, circumstances helpers. Don't you
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 1: know that the supply of good things does not cease
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 1: with the close of to day? Don't you know that
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 1: in the womb of the future sleep opportunities intended for
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 1: your use when the time comes. Don't you know that
• 1:08:37
  Speaker 1: an earnest, confident expectation of the good things to come
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 1: will cause these good things to grow for your use
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 1: in the future. Well, it's so. They'll grow and grow
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 1: and grow, and then when you need them, you will
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 1: find them ripe and ready to pick. Water them with faith,
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 1: surround them with the rich soil of hope, Let them
• 1:09:01
  Speaker 1: receive the full rays of the sun of love, and
• 1:09:04
  Speaker 1: the nourishing fruit of opportunity will be your reward tomorrow.
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 1: Did you ever shiver with dread at the thought of
• 1:09:15
  Speaker 1: what would happen if the sun should not rise tomorrow?
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 1: Did you ever doubt that the grass would grow and
• 1:09:21
  Speaker 1: the trees take on leaves next spring? Did you ever
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 1: fear that perhaps the summer would not come?
• 1:09:29
  Speaker 2: Oh?
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 1: No, of course not. These things have always happened, and
• 1:09:35
  Speaker 1: you have sufficient faith to know that they will occur again. Yes,
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 1: but you have been fearing that opportunities, chances, circumstances may
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 1: not be present tomorrow. Oh, ye of little faith? Do
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 1: you not know that this is no world of chance?
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 1: Do you not know that you are working under the
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 1: operations of a great law, and that these they are
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 1: as much amenable to that law as are the seasons,
• 1:10:03
  Speaker 1: the crops, the motion of the Earth, the planets, this
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 1: and countless other solar systems, The universe, the law which
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 1: regulates the motions of the millions of worlds, and whose
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 1: jurisdiction extends over space. That space, the abstract idea of
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 1: which cannot be grasped by the puny intellect of man
• 1:10:27
  Speaker 1: of today, also takes cognizance of the tiny living organism,
• 1:10:33
  Speaker 1: too small to be seen through our strongest microscope. The
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 1: sparrow's fall comes under the law, as well as the
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 1: building of a magnificent series of solar systems, And yet
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 1: man fears tomorrow. Of all living beings, man alone fears tomorrow. Children, lovers,
• 1:10:55
  Speaker 1: and philosophers escape the curse, the first to look forward
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 1: to it with joy and confidence, having the love that
• 1:11:03
  Speaker 1: casteth out fear. The philosopher's reason teaches him that which
• 1:11:09
  Speaker 1: the intuition of the other two has grasped. The child
• 1:11:13
  Speaker 1: intuitively recognizes that the infinite supply is inexhaustible, and naturally
• 1:11:19
  Speaker 1: expects tomorrow's supply as he does tomorrow's sun. He has
• 1:11:24
  Speaker 1: faith in the law until fear is suggested into his
• 1:11:27
  Speaker 1: receptive mind by those who have grown old enough to fear.
• 1:11:32
  Speaker 1: The child knows that there are just as good fish
• 1:11:35
  Speaker 1: in the sea as ever were caught, but the grown
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 1: up fears that today's fish is the last in the sea,
• 1:11:42
  Speaker 1: and fails to appreciate today's haul by reason of his
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 1: worry about the possible future failure of the fishing industry.
• 1:11:52
  Speaker 1: Oh no, I do not believe in just sitting down
• 1:11:55
  Speaker 1: and folding my hands and waiting for mine own to
• 1:11:59
  Speaker 1: come to me. I know that mine own will come
• 1:12:03
  Speaker 1: to me because I am doing well the work that
• 1:12:07
  Speaker 1: the law has placed before me, to do that which
• 1:12:10
  Speaker 1: lies nearest to my hand. Today, I believe in work,
• 1:12:15
  Speaker 1: good work, honest work, cheerful work, hopeful work, confident work.
• 1:12:22
  Speaker 1: I believe in the joy of work, the pleasure of creating.
• 1:12:26
  Speaker 1: And I believe that he who does his best work
• 1:12:29
  Speaker 1: one day at a time, working with faith, hope, and
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 1: confidence in the morrow, with fear eliminated from his mind
• 1:12:36
  Speaker 1: and replaced with courage, I believe, I say, that such
• 1:12:41
  Speaker 1: a man will never find his cupboard empty, nor will
• 1:12:45
  Speaker 1: his children want for bread. And furthermore, I believe that
• 1:12:50
  Speaker 1: tomorrow is what we make it by our thoughts today.
• 1:12:54
  Speaker 1: I believe that we are sowing thought seeds today which
• 1:12:58
  Speaker 1: will grow up overnight and bear food tomorrow. I believe
• 1:13:02
  Speaker 1: that thought takes form in action, and that we are
• 1:13:06
  Speaker 1: and will be just what we think ourselves into being.
• 1:13:12
  Speaker 1: I believe that our minds and bodies are constantly being
• 1:13:15
  Speaker 1: molded by our thoughts, and that the measure of man's
• 1:13:19
  Speaker 1: success is determined by the character of his thoughts. And
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  Speaker 1: I believe that when man will throw off the incubus
• 1:13:29
  Speaker 1: of fear, the frightful vision of the night will vanish,
• 1:13:33
  Speaker 1: and opening his eyes in the place of the monster,
• 1:13:37
  Speaker 1: he will see the fair form and smiling face of
• 1:13:41
  Speaker 1: a radiant creature, who, bending over him with love lit eyes,
• 1:13:47
  Speaker 1: will softly whisper I am tomorrow.
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  Speaker 2: In the depths of the soul, stores of information which
• 1:13:59
  Speaker 2: my knowledge, uncut gems and precious metal awaiting the discoverer,
• 1:14:07
  Speaker 2: psychic and spiritual faculties, strange attraction of soul to soul,
• 1:14:13
  Speaker 2: the rock of ages, the voice of the soul. Deep
• 1:14:19
  Speaker 2: down in the soul are stores of information awaiting to
• 1:14:24
  Speaker 2: be brought to the surface of consciousness. Which minds of
• 1:14:28
  Speaker 2: knowledge are there. Uncut gems rest there, awaiting the day
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  Speaker 2: when they will be uncovered and brought into the bright
• 1:14:39
  Speaker 2: light of consciousness. Which vines of precious metals are there,
• 1:14:44
  Speaker 2: awaiting in patience the day when some divine adventurer will
• 1:14:50
  Speaker 2: search for them and bring them to light. The human
• 1:14:54
  Speaker 2: mind is a wonderful storehouse, concealing all sorts of treasures
• 1:14:59
  Speaker 2: and press vicious things, only a fraction of which have
• 1:15:03
  Speaker 2: been discovered so far. We have faculties not yet recognized
• 1:15:09
  Speaker 2: by the science of the day. Psychic and spiritual faculties
• 1:15:14
  Speaker 2: just as real as the recognized faculties playing an important
• 1:15:19
  Speaker 2: part in our everyday lives, particularly when we have been
• 1:15:24
  Speaker 2: made aware of their existence. In many of us, these
• 1:15:29
  Speaker 2: faculties are scarcely recognized, and many of us doubt and
• 1:15:34
  Speaker 2: deny their very existence. Others have a feigned perception of
• 1:15:40
  Speaker 2: their existence, but do not know how to use them
• 1:15:45
  Speaker 2: and get but the slightest benefit from them. Others have
• 1:15:50
  Speaker 2: awakened to the wonderful faculties which are developing and unfolding
• 1:15:55
  Speaker 2: within them, and a few have gone so far as
• 1:15:59
  Speaker 2: to aid this development of these higher faculties of the mind,
• 1:16:03
  Speaker 2: and have been almost startled as the results obtained. The
• 1:16:08
  Speaker 2: Orientals have their ways of development of these faculties, and
• 1:16:13
  Speaker 2: we occidentals have ours. Each best serves the purposes of
• 1:16:19
  Speaker 2: the particular people using it. As we bring these faculties
• 1:16:24
  Speaker 2: out of the realm of the super conscious into the
• 1:16:27
  Speaker 2: field of consciousness, life takes on an entirely different meaning,
• 1:16:33
  Speaker 2: and many things heretofore dark are seen plainly and understood.
• 1:16:40
  Speaker 2: No one can understand the oneness of things until his
• 1:16:44
  Speaker 2: spiritual faculties are sufficiently developed to make him conscious of it.
• 1:16:50
  Speaker 2: Blind belief or reliance upon the words of another will
• 1:16:55
  Speaker 2: never do for the seeker after truth. That which is
• 1:16:59
  Speaker 2: accomplis by a single gleam of consciousness resting upon some
• 1:17:04
  Speaker 2: of the hidden treasures of the soul. One glimpse into
• 1:17:08
  Speaker 2: the depths of the soul will do more than the
• 1:17:12
  Speaker 2: reading of thousands of books, the teaching of hundreds of teachers.
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  Speaker 2: This glimpse, once hand, will never be forgotten. Its reality
• 1:17:24
  Speaker 2: may be questioned at times. At other times the memory
• 1:17:29
  Speaker 2: may seem dim and unreliable, but it will return in
• 1:17:35
  Speaker 2: all its freshness and brightness, And even in the moment
• 1:17:39
  Speaker 2: of doubt, we cannot entirely escape it. Our real knowledge
• 1:17:45
  Speaker 2: of the existence of God is not obtained from the intellect.
• 1:17:50
  Speaker 2: We can take up the subject of God and reason
• 1:17:53
  Speaker 2: about it all our life, only to find ourselves in
• 1:17:58
  Speaker 2: the end in a worse mud than when we started.
• 1:18:03
  Speaker 2: And yet one single ray of consciousness, reaching down into
• 1:18:08
  Speaker 2: the depths of our inner being, will bring to us
• 1:18:12
  Speaker 2: such a complete certainty of God's existence and being that
• 1:18:18
  Speaker 2: nothing afterward will ever shake our faith in the reality
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  Speaker 2: and existence of the Supreme Power. We will not understand
• 1:18:30
  Speaker 2: the nature of His being, his existence his power. But
• 1:18:36
  Speaker 2: we will know that He exists, and will feel that
• 1:18:40
  Speaker 2: peacefulness and infinite trust in Him which always come with
• 1:18:45
  Speaker 2: a glimpse of the truth. We will not understand any
• 1:18:50
  Speaker 2: better the many theories of man regarding God and his works.
• 1:18:55
  Speaker 2: In fact, we will be more apt to turn away
• 1:19:00
  Speaker 2: from men's discussion of the subject, the attempt of the
• 1:19:04
  Speaker 2: finite to describe and limit the infinite. But we will
• 1:19:10
  Speaker 2: know that at the center of things is to be
• 1:19:13
  Speaker 2: found that universal presence, and we feel that we can
• 1:19:18
  Speaker 2: safely rest ourselves on his bosom, trust ourselves in his hands.
• 1:19:25
  Speaker 2: The cares, sorrows, and trials of life seem very small, indeed,
• 1:19:31
  Speaker 2: when viewed from the absolute position, although from the relative
• 1:19:36
  Speaker 2: position this world often seems to be a very hell.
• 1:19:41
  Speaker 2: Another glimpse into the recesses of the soul reveals to
• 1:19:46
  Speaker 2: us the oneness of things. We see God as the
• 1:19:50
  Speaker 2: great center of things, and all the universe as but one.
• 1:19:55
  Speaker 2: The oneness of all life becomes apparent to us, and
• 1:20:00
  Speaker 2: we feel in touch not only with all mankind, but
• 1:20:04
  Speaker 2: with all life. The petty distinctions of class, race, rank, cost, nationality, language,
• 1:20:14
  Speaker 2: country fade away, and we see all men as brothers.
• 1:20:21
  Speaker 2: And we feel a kindly feeling and love toward the
• 1:20:24
  Speaker 2: lesser manifestations of life. Even the rocks and the stones
• 1:20:29
  Speaker 2: are seen as pars of the whole, and we no
• 1:20:33
  Speaker 2: longer feel a sense of separateness from anything. We realize
• 1:20:39
  Speaker 2: what the universe is, and in our imagination visit the
• 1:20:43
  Speaker 2: most distant stars and extinctively know that we would find
• 1:20:49
  Speaker 2: nothing foreign to us there, or would be but bits
• 1:20:53
  Speaker 2: of the same thing. And we begin to understand those
• 1:20:58
  Speaker 2: strange attractions of sort soul, instances of which have come
• 1:21:03
  Speaker 2: to all of us. We realize that it is possible
• 1:21:08
  Speaker 2: to entertain a feeling of love for every living creature,
• 1:21:12
  Speaker 2: to every man or woman, the manifestations, of course, varying
• 1:21:17
  Speaker 2: in degree and kind according to sex and closeness of
• 1:21:22
  Speaker 2: soul relation. It makes us more tolerant, and causes us
• 1:21:27
  Speaker 2: to see but ignorance in many things in which we
• 1:21:30
  Speaker 2: saw but sin before. It makes us feel pity rather
• 1:21:35
  Speaker 2: than hate. Ah these little glimpses into the inmost recesses
• 1:21:42
  Speaker 2: of the soul. They teach us many new lessons, And
• 1:21:47
  Speaker 2: one of the greatest lessons that we may acquire in
• 1:21:52
  Speaker 2: this way is the recognition of the eternal life of
• 1:21:56
  Speaker 2: the soul. We may believe with greater or less earnestness
• 1:22:01
  Speaker 2: in the doctrine of the immorality of the soul, our
• 1:22:05
  Speaker 2: beliefs and conceptions depending more or less upon the teachings
• 1:22:11
  Speaker 2: which we have received from early childhood. But until we
• 1:22:15
  Speaker 2: become conscious of that which lies within us, we are
• 1:22:20
  Speaker 2: never really certain. We do not know. Many good people
• 1:22:26
  Speaker 2: will deny this statement, and will say that they have
• 1:22:30
  Speaker 2: never doubted the life of the soul after death. But
• 1:22:34
  Speaker 2: see how they act when death comes into their houses.
• 1:22:40
  Speaker 2: They mourn and cry aloud in their agony, and demand
• 1:22:45
  Speaker 2: of God why he has done this thing. They drape
• 1:22:49
  Speaker 2: themselves in mourning and mourn and weave as if the
• 1:22:53
  Speaker 2: loved one had been destroyed and annihilated. All of their
• 1:22:59
  Speaker 2: actions and conduct go to prove that they have no
• 1:23:03
  Speaker 2: abiding sense of the reality of the continuous of life
• 1:23:07
  Speaker 2: beyond the grave. They speak of the dead as if
• 1:23:12
  Speaker 2: they were lost forever, as if a sponge had been
• 1:23:16
  Speaker 2: passed over the slate of life and note remained. How
• 1:23:21
  Speaker 2: cold and hollow sounds that would be comforting words of
• 1:23:25
  Speaker 2: friends and relatives who assure the mourning ones that the
• 1:23:29
  Speaker 2: being who has just laid aside, the body is better
• 1:23:34
  Speaker 2: off now, and that all is for the best, and
• 1:23:38
  Speaker 2: all the rest of conventional expressions that we make use of.
• 1:23:44
  Speaker 2: I tell you that one who has had a glimpse
• 1:23:47
  Speaker 2: into what lies within him knows so well that he
• 1:23:51
  Speaker 2: is eternal that he finds it impossible to look upon
• 1:23:55
  Speaker 2: death in the ordinary way. And if he is not
• 1:23:59
  Speaker 2: very careful, he will be regarded as heartless and unfeeling
• 1:24:04
  Speaker 2: for the sorrows of others, and he will be regarded
• 1:24:08
  Speaker 2: as a fool in his views of life by those
• 1:24:11
  Speaker 2: around him who attend church regularly every Sunday, and who
• 1:24:16
  Speaker 2: profess a full belief in all its doctrines. If he
• 1:24:21
  Speaker 2: considers that he himself is his soul, and that he
• 1:24:25
  Speaker 2: is as much an immortal being now as he ever
• 1:24:29
  Speaker 2: will be, that his body is but as a garment
• 1:24:32
  Speaker 2: to cover him, or an instrument through which he manifests himself.
• 1:24:38
  Speaker 2: If he considers that he is in eternity now just
• 1:24:42
  Speaker 2: as much as he ever will be, that he cannot
• 1:24:46
  Speaker 2: be destroyed by Mount Pelee eruptions or railroad accidents, If
• 1:24:53
  Speaker 2: in short, he feels these things so strongly that they
• 1:24:58
  Speaker 2: have become a part of his real everyday life. Why
• 1:25:03
  Speaker 2: he is looked upon as queer by those who hear
• 1:25:07
  Speaker 2: these things taught them every Sunday, and who would feel
• 1:25:12
  Speaker 2: horrified if they were accused of harboring a doubt regarding them.
• 1:25:18
  Speaker 2: This is one of the things that go to show
• 1:25:21
  Speaker 2: the difference between believing a thing and being conscious of it. Now,
• 1:25:29
  Speaker 2: don't run away and say that I held that the
• 1:25:33
  Speaker 2: church goers have no conception of the reality of the
• 1:25:37
  Speaker 2: immortality of the soul, for I haven't said any such thing.
• 1:25:42
  Speaker 2: There are many churchgoers who have experienced a full realization
• 1:25:48
  Speaker 2: of the feeling I mentioned, and there are many more
• 1:25:52
  Speaker 2: churchgoers who have not. And there are many men and
• 1:25:57
  Speaker 2: women who scarcely ever and within the walls of a church,
• 1:26:02
  Speaker 2: who have had this experience, and it means more to
• 1:26:07
  Speaker 2: them than all the preachments they have ever listened to.
• 1:26:12
  Speaker 2: It is not a matter of being in church or
• 1:26:15
  Speaker 2: out of church. It is a matter of spiritual development,
• 1:26:19
  Speaker 2: that's all. I attend churches of all denominations, and I
• 1:26:26
  Speaker 2: find all of them good. The service of the Catholic
• 1:26:30
  Speaker 2: Church appeals to me, and so does the meeting of
• 1:26:34
  Speaker 2: some old fashioned Methodist congregation. I do not accept all
• 1:26:40
  Speaker 2: the doctrines and theories I hear in the various churches,
• 1:26:44
  Speaker 2: but I manage to get some good out of all
• 1:26:49
  Speaker 2: if I have any preference, whatever it is, for an
• 1:26:53
  Speaker 2: old fashioned Quaker meeting, where perhaps not a word is
• 1:26:59
  Speaker 2: said from begins to close, but where there is undoubtedly
• 1:27:04
  Speaker 2: a strong spiritual power manifested. I have even found much
• 1:27:10
  Speaker 2: good in attending a certain Orthodox church, where the venerable preacher,
• 1:27:17
  Speaker 2: who does not believe in the higher criticism or create revision,
• 1:27:22
  Speaker 2: often gives us a delightful sermon on the horrors of
• 1:27:26
  Speaker 2: hell and the state of the damned, including the unpaptized infants.
• 1:27:33
  Speaker 2: I can listen to a sermon like this with a
• 1:27:36
  Speaker 2: thrill of delight, a feeling of intense joy which comes
• 1:27:41
  Speaker 2: to me because I have been given the inward assurance
• 1:27:45
  Speaker 2: that there exists a God who is love, and instead
• 1:27:50
  Speaker 2: of the hating, wrathful, vengeful creature that the poor preacher
• 1:27:54
  Speaker 2: tries to make us believe, is the infinite power, the
• 1:27:58
  Speaker 2: universal presence, the Loving Father. Oh no, I am not
• 1:28:03
  Speaker 2: condemning churches. I like them all and think that each
• 1:28:08
  Speaker 2: one is doing the best possible work for the particular
• 1:28:11
  Speaker 2: people who are attracted to it. I have listened to
• 1:28:15
  Speaker 2: the exercises of the Salvation Army and have seen much
• 1:28:20
  Speaker 2: good in it. How many of you new thought people,
• 1:28:25
  Speaker 2: or you high toned church members, would make half the
• 1:28:29
  Speaker 2: sacrifices for what you consider truth that the Salvation Army
• 1:28:34
  Speaker 2: soldier or the Hallelujah lassie make every day of their lives.
• 1:28:42
  Speaker 2: Stop a moment before you laugh at them. Some of
• 1:28:46
  Speaker 2: these people have more spirituality in their little finger than
• 1:28:51
  Speaker 2: many of us have in our whole bodies. There are
• 1:28:55
  Speaker 2: times when we feel disturbed and full of unrest. We
• 1:29:00
  Speaker 2: seek to use our intellects and solve all the problems
• 1:29:04
  Speaker 2: of life. We fret and chafe under the restrictions which
• 1:29:09
  Speaker 2: have been placed upon us. We wish to know all things.
• 1:29:14
  Speaker 2: We reason this way and that way, follow up every lane,
• 1:29:18
  Speaker 2: alley and street in the city of thought. But alas
• 1:29:23
  Speaker 2: we find not that which we seek, and in our
• 1:29:27
  Speaker 2: search we are apt to forget that we have within
• 1:29:31
  Speaker 2: us an assurance that all is well with the world
• 1:29:36
  Speaker 2: and with us. We revel against the leadings of the spirit,
• 1:29:41
  Speaker 2: against the knowledge that has come from the inner self,
• 1:29:45
  Speaker 2: and we want to get our knowledge over the old
• 1:29:48
  Speaker 2: channels by means of the intellect. Well. At such times
• 1:29:54
  Speaker 2: we storm and fume and fret and complain at our
• 1:29:58
  Speaker 2: inability to solve the problem. We set up ideas, only
• 1:30:02
  Speaker 2: to tear them down again. We assume and then abandon
• 1:30:07
  Speaker 2: one position after another, until there is nothing left. And
• 1:30:13
  Speaker 2: the end of all the intellectual debanche is to say, finally,
• 1:30:18
  Speaker 2: I do not know. And then, after the struggle is over,
• 1:30:23
  Speaker 2: we see, just as plainly as ever before, the glimpse
• 1:30:28
  Speaker 2: of truth that has come to us from within. We
• 1:30:32
  Speaker 2: hear the words of the soul. We have the same
• 1:30:36
  Speaker 2: old consciousness. We say to ourselves. I may not get
• 1:30:41
  Speaker 2: this thing intellectually, but I know it is true. I
• 1:30:46
  Speaker 2: cannot doubt the voice of the soul. This knowledge, which
• 1:30:51
  Speaker 2: comes from within. Is like the rock against which beat
• 1:30:55
  Speaker 2: the storms of the sea, against which dash the waves,
• 1:30:59
  Speaker 2: which completely covered, and which hide it from sight, until
• 1:31:04
  Speaker 2: it seems that it has disappeared forever from view, carried
• 1:31:08
  Speaker 2: away by the attacking waves. The lightning flashes, the thunder rolls,
• 1:31:15
  Speaker 2: The fury of the tempest seems concentrated against this rock,
• 1:31:20
  Speaker 2: and the demon of the storm seems intent upon destroying
• 1:31:25
  Speaker 2: every particle of it, of tearing it to little bits.
• 1:31:29
  Speaker 2: With which to strew the shores. All is darkness, All
• 1:31:34
  Speaker 2: is blackness, All is fury, raging and terror. After hours,
• 1:31:43
  Speaker 2: the storm subsides, and then later morning comes and the
• 1:31:48
  Speaker 2: first rays of the rising sun kiss lovingly the rock
• 1:31:53
  Speaker 2: which has stood the fury of the storm and has
• 1:31:57
  Speaker 2: emerged unheard, a witness to its superiority. To the elements
• 1:32:05
  Speaker 2: storm away, Ye, who would destroy this rock? Dash your
• 1:32:10
  Speaker 2: waves of doubt, logic, criticism, unbelief, dogma, theory against this rock.
• 1:32:18
  Speaker 2: With the spirit, exert yourself to the utmost expand all
• 1:32:23
  Speaker 2: the force that is within you. Do your best, do
• 1:32:28
  Speaker 2: your worst. Tear and twist, pull and wrench, beat and bound,
• 1:32:34
  Speaker 2: And what have you accomplished? After the storm has passed away,
• 1:32:40
  Speaker 2: after the clouds have dispersed, when the sky again is
• 1:32:45
  Speaker 2: blue and the sun again is shining, the rock still
• 1:32:49
  Speaker 2: stands undisturbed, unchanged, unshaken, and stand it will for ages
• 1:32:58
  Speaker 2: and ages, and and man shall begin to know of
• 1:33:02
  Speaker 2: the stability and firmness of this rock. He will begin
• 1:33:06
  Speaker 2: to realize just what it means to him. And he
• 1:33:10
  Speaker 2: will know that while the waves that beat upon it
• 1:33:13
  Speaker 2: are good and needful and not to be despised, that
• 1:33:17
  Speaker 2: only upon the rock can he safely build. Do not
• 1:33:22
  Speaker 2: despise the intellect and its teachings, but know that ye
• 1:33:27
  Speaker 2: have within ye another source of knowledge. That ye have
• 1:33:32
  Speaker 2: spiritual faculties which are developing, and which you can use
• 1:33:38
  Speaker 2: and trust the work of these faculties. Listen to the
• 1:33:41
  Speaker 2: voice of the soul. Forget it? Why worry about the past?
• 1:33:48
  Speaker 2: Hugging all sorrows to your bosom? What to do with them?
• 1:33:53
  Speaker 2: Don't poison your life. Pain brings experience, learning your lessons.
• 1:34:01
  Speaker 2: How to get rid of a gloomy thought, throw it away,
• 1:34:05
  Speaker 2: forget it. One can often get some useful lesson from
• 1:34:11
  Speaker 2: the slang and current phrases of the day. There is
• 1:34:14
  Speaker 2: something particularly attractive to me about slang and the pat
• 1:34:19
  Speaker 2: phrases that are passed along from one to another on
• 1:34:23
  Speaker 2: the streets. Many of these phrases condensing a few words
• 1:34:29
  Speaker 2: certain practical truths that one could use as a basis
• 1:34:33
  Speaker 2: for a sermon, anesthy, or even a book. They are
• 1:34:38
  Speaker 2: the practical experiences of the people crystallized in a catchy phrase.
• 1:34:44
  Speaker 2: The phrase which I hear so frequently on the street,
• 1:34:48
  Speaker 2: just now, forget it seems to me to contain much
• 1:34:53
  Speaker 2: practical common sense, and if people would put it into practice,
• 1:34:58
  Speaker 2: there would be many more bright faces, many more lighter hearts.
• 1:35:05
  Speaker 2: What's the use, anyhow, of carrying around a long face
• 1:35:09
  Speaker 2: or a heavy heart just because away back in the
• 1:35:14
  Speaker 2: past something went wrong with us, or even if we
• 1:35:19
  Speaker 2: went wrong ourselves, and most of us have I have,
• 1:35:24
  Speaker 2: I know, what's the use forget it? Of course, you
• 1:35:30
  Speaker 2: will not forget the experiences of the past, and you
• 1:35:33
  Speaker 2: do not want to. That's one of the things we
• 1:35:37
  Speaker 2: are living for gaining experience. When we have once really
• 1:35:43
  Speaker 2: learned a thing through experience, we never forget it. It
• 1:35:47
  Speaker 2: is a part of us. But why bother about the
• 1:35:51
  Speaker 2: memory of the pain, the mortification, the slip up, the
• 1:35:55
  Speaker 2: heart ache, the wounded feelings, the misplaced confidence, the thing
• 1:36:00
  Speaker 2: done in the wrong way, the chance you let slip by,
• 1:36:04
  Speaker 2: the folly, the sin, the misery that might have bins
• 1:36:09
  Speaker 2: and all the rest. Oh, what's the use forget it?
• 1:36:14
  Speaker 2: I say, forget it? If one is to worry about
• 1:36:19
  Speaker 2: all the things that went wrong, all the things that
• 1:36:22
  Speaker 2: didn't come right in the past, if he has to
• 1:36:25
  Speaker 2: take out each memory every day, and after carefully dozing
• 1:36:30
  Speaker 2: it off, fondle and caress it and hug it close
• 1:36:34
  Speaker 2: to his bosom. If he has to raise up these
• 1:36:38
  Speaker 2: ghosts from the past, these phantoms of long ago, these musty,
• 1:36:43
  Speaker 2: moth eating things, why he will have no time for
• 1:36:48
  Speaker 2: the affairs of to day. He will lose all the
• 1:36:51
  Speaker 2: joy of the now, or the pleasure of life, of
• 1:36:54
  Speaker 2: the moment, or the interest in the things of to day. Oh, dear, dear,
• 1:37:01
  Speaker 2: what's the use forget it? Forget it? Some people are
• 1:37:08
  Speaker 2: not happy unless they have some old, faded sorrow hunged
• 1:37:13
  Speaker 2: up close to their bosoms, and they feel guilty if
• 1:37:16
  Speaker 2: they happen to smile and forget the old thing for
• 1:37:20
  Speaker 2: even a moment. Oh, how they do gloat over their
• 1:37:24
  Speaker 2: own revamped unhappiness. How they enjoy the relieving of the
• 1:37:30
  Speaker 2: pains and sorrows, mistakes and ignorance of years gone by.
• 1:37:36
  Speaker 2: How they love to hold the fox to their sides
• 1:37:39
  Speaker 2: and let it eat out their heart. These people are
• 1:37:44
  Speaker 2: really happy in the unhappiness, and life would not be
• 1:37:49
  Speaker 2: worth living if they were deprived of their pet sorrows.
• 1:37:54
  Speaker 2: Of course, if these people are really happy because they
• 1:37:57
  Speaker 2: are unhappy, I have no objection. Every man or woman
• 1:38:02
  Speaker 2: has the right to pursue happiness in his or her
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  Speaker 2: own way. And I suppose that that is as good
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  Speaker 2: a way as any other, And I should not find
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  Speaker 2: fault if somebody else's way is different from mine. But
• 1:38:19
  Speaker 2: doesn't it seem like a pity to see people wasting
• 1:38:22
  Speaker 2: their time, energy, thoughts, and life on these old sorrows.
• 1:38:28
  Speaker 2: If they must think of the past, why not think
• 1:38:31
  Speaker 2: of the bright things that came into their lives, and
• 1:38:34
  Speaker 2: instead of the dark ones, think of the moments of happiness,
• 1:38:39
  Speaker 2: not of the moments of sorrow. Don't make a tomb
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  Speaker 2: of your mind. Don't let that particular painful experience poison
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  Speaker 2: your present life. Don't do it. Don't do it. What's
• 1:38:56
  Speaker 2: the use forget it? Every bit of pain that has
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  Speaker 2: happened you has brought its experience to you. You are better, wiser,
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  Speaker 2: and broader for it. Look at it in that way,
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  Speaker 2: and you will cease to mourn and wail and wring
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  Speaker 2: your hands over the fact that in the past you
• 1:39:21
  Speaker 2: have done those things which you ought not to have done,
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  Speaker 2: and have left undone those things which you ought to
• 1:39:29
  Speaker 2: have done. Nonsense. You have gained the experience and know
• 1:39:36
  Speaker 2: better now. If you were placed back in the same
• 1:39:40
  Speaker 2: old position, and lacked the experience that you have gained
• 1:39:45
  Speaker 2: by just such things. You would do the same old
• 1:39:49
  Speaker 2: thing over again, and in the same old way. You
• 1:39:55
  Speaker 2: couldn't help it, because you would be the same old place.
• 1:40:02
  Speaker 2: What you would like to do would be to be
• 1:40:05
  Speaker 2: placed back in the same position and face the same
• 1:40:08
  Speaker 2: al temptation or problem. But you would want to take
• 1:40:13
  Speaker 2: with you the experience you have gained by your former mistake.
• 1:40:18
  Speaker 2: You want the cake and the penny at the same time.
• 1:40:22
  Speaker 2: You want the experience without the pain. Oh, yes you do. Now,
• 1:40:29
  Speaker 2: that's just what you want. I have been through it
• 1:40:32
  Speaker 2: myself and know all about it. You have gained the experience.
• 1:40:38
  Speaker 2: Be satisfied. Someday you will need that experience and will
• 1:40:44
  Speaker 2: be glad you have it, and will see that it
• 1:40:47
  Speaker 2: was worth all you have paid for it. No, you
• 1:40:52
  Speaker 2: don't see it that way. Well, maybe you haven't had
• 1:40:56
  Speaker 2: enough of it, haven't learned your lesson yet. If that
• 1:41:01
  Speaker 2: is the case, some of these days the law will
• 1:41:04
  Speaker 2: drop you back into the pot until you're well done.
• 1:41:09
  Speaker 2: The law is not satisfied with underdone people. Oh, you're
• 1:41:15
  Speaker 2: making a big mistake. Forget it. Forget it. The people
• 1:41:20
  Speaker 2: who carry these old things around with them, generally get
• 1:41:25
  Speaker 2: themselves into the mental attitude that draws other things of
• 1:41:29
  Speaker 2: the same sort to them. Misery likes company, and a
• 1:41:35
  Speaker 2: miserable thought also likes companionship, and almost always manages to
• 1:41:41
  Speaker 2: attract some other miserable thing to it to keep it
• 1:41:45
  Speaker 2: from being lonesome. The only way to get rid of
• 1:41:50
  Speaker 2: a thought of this kind is to forget it. Now.
• 1:41:56
  Speaker 2: If you have some pet thing that is knowing out
• 1:41:59
  Speaker 2: your vital is corroding your heart, is poisoning your mind,
• 1:42:05
  Speaker 2: take it out and look at it for the lost time.
• 1:42:09
  Speaker 2: Give it a lost, long, lingering gaze, kiss it goodbye,
• 1:42:14
  Speaker 2: weep over it if you like, for this is the
• 1:42:18
  Speaker 2: last you will see of it. Then throw open the
• 1:42:22
  Speaker 2: window of your mind and pitch it out into the
• 1:42:26
  Speaker 2: outer darkness. Forget it. The kinder garden of God life
• 1:42:34
  Speaker 2: a great school man, a child learning his lesson, preparing
• 1:42:40
  Speaker 2: for higher grades, the game task. What it all means,
• 1:42:47
  Speaker 2: things as they are, the rules, wise and good. Each
• 1:42:52
  Speaker 2: task means something. Greeting the kindergardener. I see life as
• 1:43:01
  Speaker 2: a great school man, as a tiny child, learning his
• 1:43:06
  Speaker 2: little lessons, performing his little tasks, playing his little games,
• 1:43:13
  Speaker 2: enjoying his little pleasures, suffering his little pains, disappointments, trials,
• 1:43:20
  Speaker 2: and sorrows. I feel that we are in but the
• 1:43:24
  Speaker 2: kindergarden stage of existence, learning the first lessons of life,
• 1:43:30
  Speaker 2: fitting ourselves for the grander, broader, fuller life in store
• 1:43:35
  Speaker 2: for us. And I feel that this little kinder garden
• 1:43:40
  Speaker 2: experience will continue until we have learned its lessons well,
• 1:43:46
  Speaker 2: have firmly grasped the principles designed for our baby minds.
• 1:43:52
  Speaker 2: And I feel that when we have proven our ability
• 1:43:56
  Speaker 2: to weave our little mats, build our little blocks, draw
• 1:44:01
  Speaker 2: our little pictures, mold our little clay forms, sing our
• 1:44:07
  Speaker 2: little songs, then and not until then, will we pass
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  Speaker 2: into a higher grade, where we will spill out the
• 1:44:17
  Speaker 2: lines of the primer of life and acquire the elementary
• 1:44:21
  Speaker 2: principles of cosmic mathematics. And I feel that each little
• 1:44:26
  Speaker 2: lesson must be learned thoroughly before the next step is taken.
• 1:44:32
  Speaker 2: And I feel that every one of us must perform
• 1:44:36
  Speaker 2: his own task, must memorize his own lesson before he
• 1:44:42
  Speaker 2: can gain the experience, can profit by the knowledge acquired
• 1:44:47
  Speaker 2: in the performance of the task. We may be inspired
• 1:44:51
  Speaker 2: by some brighter pupil be encouraged by the loving sympathy
• 1:44:56
  Speaker 2: of some fellow scholar. But the task is our to perform,
• 1:45:01
  Speaker 2: sooner or later, and ours is the joy of accomplishment.
• 1:45:07
  Speaker 2: I believe that as some children, even whilst fascinated by
• 1:45:11
  Speaker 2: the game task of the kindergarden, know that it is
• 1:45:15
  Speaker 2: only a childish task and not the real thing of life,
• 1:45:20
  Speaker 2: so may we come to a point where, whilst enjoying
• 1:45:24
  Speaker 2: the constantly changing play of life, we will realize that
• 1:45:28
  Speaker 2: it is but the training for greater things, and important
• 1:45:32
  Speaker 2: only in that sense. The perception of this fact by
• 1:45:36
  Speaker 2: the child need not interfere with his interest in the game,
• 1:45:41
  Speaker 2: need not prevent him from feeling the joy of doing, creating, working,
• 1:45:46
  Speaker 2: gaining new experiences, nor needed prevent us from playing the
• 1:45:51
  Speaker 2: kindergarden games of grown up life with a zest an interest,
• 1:45:56
  Speaker 2: not alone because we realize that we are learning value lessons,
• 1:46:01
  Speaker 2: but yea, even from the very excitement and joy of
• 1:46:05
  Speaker 2: the game itself. When we realize just what this view
• 1:46:10
  Speaker 2: of life means, we will find new pleasures in everyday life,
• 1:46:15
  Speaker 2: will learn to laugh with the childish glee at our
• 1:46:19
  Speaker 2: little successes in molding the clay into the desired shape
• 1:46:23
  Speaker 2: in the clever weaving of the mat, and we will
• 1:46:27
  Speaker 2: learn to smile through our tears. If our little mat
• 1:46:32
  Speaker 2: happens to tear in two, if our little clay sphere
• 1:46:36
  Speaker 2: drops to the floor and it is shattered, if the
• 1:46:40
  Speaker 2: hour's work is destroyed, and we will learn our little
• 1:46:45
  Speaker 2: lesson of love of comradeship. We will learn by experience
• 1:46:50
  Speaker 2: that if we lead the nerrow selfish life, we will
• 1:46:53
  Speaker 2: miss the joy that falls to the lot of those
• 1:46:56
  Speaker 2: who have learned to express more fully the love nature
• 1:47:00
  Speaker 2: within them. We will find that love begets love, that
• 1:47:05
  Speaker 2: the love nature expressed attracts to itself the love in
• 1:47:09
  Speaker 2: the hearts of our little playmates. We will find that
• 1:47:13
  Speaker 2: the child who cares within him the love for others
• 1:47:17
  Speaker 2: and expresses that love need never want for friends or companions,
• 1:47:24
  Speaker 2: need never suffer from loneliness, need never fear being left
• 1:47:29
  Speaker 2: out in the cold. The true personal magnetism of the
• 1:47:33
  Speaker 2: child and the grown up consists largely of love, which
• 1:47:38
  Speaker 2: never fails in its drawing power. And we will learn
• 1:47:42
  Speaker 2: from bitter experience the folly of the idea of separateness
• 1:47:47
  Speaker 2: from our little playmates. Will know that the standing apart
• 1:47:52
  Speaker 2: brings nothing but sorrow to us. We will realize that
• 1:47:57
  Speaker 2: selfishness brings nothing but pain, that giving has its pleasures
• 1:48:03
  Speaker 2: as well as receiving, and we will learn something of
• 1:48:07
  Speaker 2: brotherhood and its goodness. We will have the true democracy
• 1:48:12
  Speaker 2: of the kindergarden impressed upon us. These lessons and others
• 1:48:18
  Speaker 2: we will learn well before passing on. We, like the child,
• 1:48:23
  Speaker 2: often wonder what is the use of it all, fret
• 1:48:28
  Speaker 2: over our enforced tasks, chafe at the confinement, rage at
• 1:48:33
  Speaker 2: the restrictions, and, failing to comprehend it all, indulge in complaints, protests, rebellion,
• 1:48:41
  Speaker 2: And like the child, we cannot expect to understand the
• 1:48:45
  Speaker 2: wideness of it all, certainly not until we pass beyond
• 1:48:49
  Speaker 2: the kindergarden stage of existence and reach the higher grades.
• 1:48:55
  Speaker 2: When one begins to realize what he is, begins to
• 1:48:59
  Speaker 2: be conscious of the I am, begins to know things
• 1:49:03
  Speaker 2: as they are, He gradually learns to appreciate things at
• 1:49:07
  Speaker 2: their true worth, and, although not released from the necessity
• 1:49:12
  Speaker 2: of playing out his kindergarden gain tasks, is able to
• 1:49:18
  Speaker 2: practically stand aside and watch himself play them out. He
• 1:49:23
  Speaker 2: knows that he is gaining knowledge, is mastering his lessons
• 1:49:27
  Speaker 2: is living out and outliving his desires, is acquiring and
• 1:49:33
  Speaker 2: storing up new experiences. But he values things only at
• 1:49:38
  Speaker 2: their final worth, and is not deceived by the apparent
• 1:49:42
  Speaker 2: value of the moment he begins to see things in
• 1:49:46
  Speaker 2: their proper relations. He does not take himself or things
• 1:49:50
  Speaker 2: too seriously. He enjoys the pleasure of the game, but
• 1:49:55
  Speaker 2: he knows it to be but the play and pleasure
• 1:49:58
  Speaker 2: of the child, but is not deceived. He suffers also
• 1:50:05
  Speaker 2: the sorrow, grief, disappointment, humiliation, and chagrin of the child nature.
• 1:50:12
  Speaker 2: But even though the tears are falling, he knowing smiles,
• 1:50:17
  Speaker 2: he laughs with joy, with pain. He cries, but he knows,
• 1:50:22
  Speaker 2: he knows. He enjoys the playthings gifts, rewards, but he
• 1:50:28
  Speaker 2: knows them for what they are. He knows he plays
• 1:50:32
  Speaker 2: the games with the children who do not know, and
• 1:50:35
  Speaker 2: well he plays, but he knows his disillusionment spoils not
• 1:50:41
  Speaker 2: the sport. He plays on for play he must, knowing,
• 1:50:46
  Speaker 2: but enjoying, yes, enjoying because of the knowing. He knows
• 1:50:52
  Speaker 2: that the child things are good, but he sees them
• 1:50:55
  Speaker 2: as but shadows of the good to come. He knows
• 1:50:59
  Speaker 2: that he cannot escape from his own good, and he
• 1:51:03
  Speaker 2: knows that the good is also in store for his playmates,
• 1:51:07
  Speaker 2: though they know it not, and being full of love,
• 1:51:11
  Speaker 2: he rejoices. He feels that the rules of the school
• 1:51:15
  Speaker 2: are wise and good, and that though he cannot see
• 1:51:18
  Speaker 2: it clearly now, infinite justice rules all and will in
• 1:51:23
  Speaker 2: the end appear. He knows that promotion will be gained
• 1:51:28
  Speaker 2: just as soon as earned. He knows that just as
• 1:51:32
  Speaker 2: soon as he is able to master a task, that
• 1:51:36
  Speaker 2: task will be set before him, not a moment before,
• 1:51:41
  Speaker 2: And he knows that no task will be eluded him
• 1:51:44
  Speaker 2: even one moment before the possibility of its accomplishment. He
• 1:51:49
  Speaker 2: knows that he is being tested, trained, and strengthened day
• 1:51:55
  Speaker 2: by day, that every unpleasant and disagreeable task as an
• 1:52:00
  Speaker 2: important end in view, And he knows that every task
• 1:52:05
  Speaker 2: placed before him is in accordance with the law that
• 1:52:09
  Speaker 2: takes cognizance of his powers, failings, capabilities, shortcomings, that understands
• 1:52:16
  Speaker 2: him better than he does himself. He knows that the
• 1:52:20
  Speaker 2: very allonement of the task is a guarantee of his
• 1:52:24
  Speaker 2: ability to perform it. He knows that within him are
• 1:52:28
  Speaker 2: latent powers, potential forces, hidden knowledge which will well forth
• 1:52:34
  Speaker 2: from his subconscious mentality, when bidden by the confidence expectation
• 1:52:39
  Speaker 2: of intelligent faith. And knowing these things, he is filled
• 1:52:44
  Speaker 2: with courage and presses forth eagerly to the tasks of
• 1:52:48
  Speaker 2: the day. And knowing he casts off all fear, worry, discouragement,
• 1:52:55
  Speaker 2: and discontent, And with the smile of love on his
• 1:52:59
  Speaker 2: face and the joy of faith in his heart, he
• 1:53:03
  Speaker 2: greets the kinder gardener with confidence and trust. The human
• 1:53:09
  Speaker 2: wet blanket sees no good in anything, expects the bad
• 1:53:15
  Speaker 2: and gets it, attracts it to him, depresses everything, and
• 1:53:21
  Speaker 2: every one carries an aura of negative, depressing thought. Clammy
• 1:53:28
  Speaker 2: puts out the fire of energy. Take warning, did you
• 1:53:34
  Speaker 2: ever meet the human wet blanket? To start with? He
• 1:53:39
  Speaker 2: sees no good in anything? To him, every man is
• 1:53:43
  Speaker 2: a rogue, every woman a schemer trying to pull the
• 1:53:47
  Speaker 2: wool over the eyes of some man. He looks for
• 1:53:51
  Speaker 2: the bad, expects to find it, and find that he does.
• 1:53:56
  Speaker 2: One generally gets what he looks for. He attracts to
• 1:54:01
  Speaker 2: him that for which he looks, and he cannot see
• 1:54:05
  Speaker 2: any other qualities than those possessed by himself. Every One
• 1:54:10
  Speaker 2: is trying to cheat him outwit him, so he thinks,
• 1:54:14
  Speaker 2: and I have no doubt that the law brings him
• 1:54:17
  Speaker 2: a fair share of people of this kind. In order
• 1:54:21
  Speaker 2: to prevent other people from taking advantage of him, he
• 1:54:25
  Speaker 2: endeavors to take advantage of them in the same small
• 1:54:28
  Speaker 2: way that he fears they will use on him. The
• 1:54:32
  Speaker 2: consequence is the people with whom he has dealings are
• 1:54:35
  Speaker 2: apt to give him a dose of his own medicine.
• 1:54:39
  Speaker 2: He trusts no man. He is so shrewd that he
• 1:54:43
  Speaker 2: measures of this spool of threat in order to be
• 1:54:47
  Speaker 2: sure that the storekeeper has not robbed him of a
• 1:54:50
  Speaker 2: yard or two. And the funny thing is that he
• 1:54:54
  Speaker 2: sets in motion the law which causes the one short
• 1:54:57
  Speaker 2: measure's pool in the case to fall into to his hands.
• 1:55:01
  Speaker 2: He just draws these things to him. He thinks himself
• 1:55:05
  Speaker 2: a marvel of cunning, and endeavors to manifest it in
• 1:55:08
  Speaker 2: petsy practices, the result being that he attracts to himself
• 1:55:13
  Speaker 2: all the little schemers and some of the big ones
• 1:55:17
  Speaker 2: who happen to be within the radius of his attracting power,
• 1:55:21
  Speaker 2: while the other type of people are repelled by his
• 1:55:25
  Speaker 2: mental attitude and thought force. Funny, isn't it, then he
• 1:55:32
  Speaker 2: sees nothing but disaster ahead in any plan, and sure enough,
• 1:55:37
  Speaker 2: if he gets near enough to the plan to contaminate it,
• 1:55:41
  Speaker 2: trouble is sure to happen. As an attractor of negative thought,
• 1:55:46
  Speaker 2: he is the glittering success. He seems to have a
• 1:55:50
  Speaker 2: positive genius for doing things the wrong way, and yet
• 1:55:55
  Speaker 2: he doesn't believe in the attractive power of thought or
• 1:55:58
  Speaker 2: any such nonsense. He's too shrewd to take any stock
• 1:56:02
  Speaker 2: in such ridiculous theories. Although he exhibits in his life
• 1:56:07
  Speaker 2: a most convincing proof of the truth of new thought teachings,
• 1:56:14
  Speaker 2: he never says I can and I will. And if
• 1:56:18
  Speaker 2: he hears any one around him indulging in such heretical notions,
• 1:56:23
  Speaker 2: he promptly proceeds to squalsh him by a few supposings
• 1:56:28
  Speaker 2: but what ifs, and two or three gloomy shakes of
• 1:56:32
  Speaker 2: the head and a few sighs. His motto seems to
• 1:56:37
  Speaker 2: be there's no use trying. You can't do it with him.
• 1:56:43
  Speaker 2: The country seems always to be going to the dogs,
• 1:56:47
  Speaker 2: and the poor house is constantly looming up before him.
• 1:56:52
  Speaker 2: I need scarcely add that fear, worry, jealousy, and suspicion
• 1:56:57
  Speaker 2: are his bosom friends. Hey holds these thoughts constantly, and
• 1:57:03
  Speaker 2: they and the rest of the negative brood are devouring him.
• 1:57:08
  Speaker 2: They are making their home in his mentality and are
• 1:57:11
  Speaker 2: increasing rapidly besides frequently inviting their friends for a visit.
• 1:57:18
  Speaker 2: Of course, it's no body's business if he likes this
• 1:57:21
  Speaker 2: sort of thing, but it is not pleasant to come
• 1:57:25
  Speaker 2: in contact with him. He is surrounded with an aura
• 1:57:29
  Speaker 2: of a negative, depressing, gloomy thought forth, which is manifest
• 1:57:35
  Speaker 2: to all with whom he comes in contact. Turn him
• 1:57:39
  Speaker 2: loose in a roomful of cheerful people, and in a
• 1:57:43
  Speaker 2: few minutes the conversation has lacked. The warmth of love
• 1:57:48
  Speaker 2: and friendship has disappeared, and things begin to feel damn
• 1:57:52
  Speaker 2: and chilly, and someone will begin to make inquiry regarding
• 1:57:56
  Speaker 2: the furnace or the stream radiators, and wondering why the
• 1:58:01
  Speaker 2: janitor does not keep up the fire on such a day.
• 1:58:06
  Speaker 2: Approach him when you feel fired with energy, ambition, and push,
• 1:58:11
  Speaker 2: when you feel that you can go out and conquer
• 1:58:13
  Speaker 2: any obstacle, and you will feel the clammy wet blanket
• 1:58:18
  Speaker 2: thrown over you, putting out your fire of energy, and
• 1:58:22
  Speaker 2: in a moment or two he will wonder what's the
• 1:58:26
  Speaker 2: use that is, unless you understand your business and know
• 1:58:32
  Speaker 2: how to throw off the influence of the negative thought
• 1:58:35
  Speaker 2: waves emanating from this man. Look out for him from
• 1:58:41
  Speaker 2: the bottom of my heart. I pity this man and
• 1:58:44
  Speaker 2: his kind. He gets none of the sweet things of life.
• 1:58:49
  Speaker 2: He doesn't see them lying around. He misses the joy
• 1:58:53
  Speaker 2: of living. He sees everything through jaundice's eyes. He knows
• 1:58:58
  Speaker 2: nothing of the happyness of the clear head, warm heart,
• 1:59:03
  Speaker 2: and brotherly hand. He is so occupied in looking for
• 1:59:08
  Speaker 2: the spoiled fruit on the ground that he does not
• 1:59:11
  Speaker 2: see the perfect foot on the branches above his head,
• 1:59:15
  Speaker 2: begging to be picked. He is so much engroast in
• 1:59:19
  Speaker 2: the mud upon the road that he does not see
• 1:59:21
  Speaker 2: the bright blue sky above his head, the beautiful landscape,
• 1:59:26
  Speaker 2: the children playing on the grass, the mother nursing her babe,
• 1:59:31
  Speaker 2: the old couple trudging a long hand in hand. These
• 1:59:35
  Speaker 2: things do not exist for him. His mind is full
• 1:59:40
  Speaker 2: of fear, suspicion, distrust, in a pity, spite that love
• 1:59:46
  Speaker 2: finds no room. But even this is good, for many
• 1:59:52
  Speaker 2: find their way to optimism only by first sinking to
• 1:59:55
  Speaker 2: the depths of extreme pessifism. They reach the celestial city,
• 2:00:00
  Speaker 2: by the road that winds through the valley of the
• 2:00:03
  Speaker 2: shadow of Death. Even these things shall pass away all's well.
• 2:00:11
  Speaker 2: Aim straight. Fear attracts as well as desire. Learn to
• 2:00:18
  Speaker 2: aim straight and aim at the right thing. Examples the bowler,
• 2:00:25
  Speaker 2: the bisclist and the car, the bicyclist and the post,
• 2:00:29
  Speaker 2: the boy and the marbles. Wisdom from the Babe. Look straight,
• 2:00:35
  Speaker 2: think straight, Shoot straight. A strong desire or a strong
• 2:00:42
  Speaker 2: fear thought is an aim at the thing desired or feared.
• 2:00:47
  Speaker 2: And in proportion to the degree of desire or fear
• 2:00:52
  Speaker 2: will we be carried toward the thing at which we aim.
• 2:00:57
  Speaker 2: Confident expectation is manifested in a fure thought as well
• 2:01:02
  Speaker 2: as in an earnest desire. And when we confidently expect
• 2:01:07
  Speaker 2: a thing to happen, we are carried toward it by
• 2:01:12
  Speaker 2: an irresistible force. It may seem strange to you to
• 2:01:18
  Speaker 2: hear that fear is akin to desire, but this is
• 2:01:22
  Speaker 2: the truth. It matters not whether we call it desire
• 2:01:27
  Speaker 2: or fear. The just of the matter lies in the
• 2:01:30
  Speaker 2: confident expectation. A feint of hope and a lurking fear
• 2:01:35
  Speaker 2: have about the same attractive force. A desire coupled with
• 2:01:40
  Speaker 2: a firm belief in its realization attracts strongly, but no
• 2:01:46
  Speaker 2: more strongly than does a fear coupled with a feeling
• 2:01:50
  Speaker 2: of certainty of its realization. The thing upon which your
• 2:01:55
  Speaker 2: thought is firmly fixed or drawn toward will be the
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  Speaker 2: thing you will really lies. Therefore, aim straight. We have
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  Speaker 2: heard much of the attractive power of thought as applied
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  Speaker 2: to desire. I will now say something to you about
• 2:02:12
  Speaker 2: the same force called into operation by fear thought. It
• 2:02:18
  Speaker 2: is far more pleasant for me to speak of the
• 2:02:20
  Speaker 2: bright side of the question, but I would be neglecting
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  Speaker 2: my duty towards you if I fail to direct your
• 2:02:28
  Speaker 2: attention to the reverse of the shield. When you thoroughly
• 2:02:33
  Speaker 2: realize that thought force works both ways, you will know
• 2:02:39
  Speaker 2: how to handle it and will understand many things that
• 2:02:43
  Speaker 2: have heretofore been dark to you. You will learn to
• 2:02:48
  Speaker 2: aim straight, but will also learn to be careful at
• 2:02:52
  Speaker 2: what you aim. You will learn to avoid the aim
• 2:02:56
  Speaker 2: inspired by fear, and will hear after use all your
• 2:03:01
  Speaker 2: energies to pointing your mental arrow at the bull's eye
• 2:03:05
  Speaker 2: of happiness and success. Let us take a few facts
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  Speaker 2: from the physical plane in order to illustrate things as
• 2:03:14
  Speaker 2: they are on the mental plane of effort. Life has
• 2:03:18
  Speaker 2: its correspondence on all its planes, and by taking examples
• 2:03:23
  Speaker 2: from one plane, we will be able to more readily
• 2:03:27
  Speaker 2: understand the workings of the law on other planes. Some
• 2:03:32
  Speaker 2: time ago I was talking to a number of people
• 2:03:35
  Speaker 2: about this subject, and gleaned from each an illustration of
• 2:03:40
  Speaker 2: the workings of the law of attraction on the physical plane,
• 2:03:45
  Speaker 2: and each example, although on the physical plane, should the
• 2:03:50
  Speaker 2: power of mind behind it. I will tell you what
• 2:03:54
  Speaker 2: some of these people said, and you can see for
• 2:03:57
  Speaker 2: yourself just what I mean. The first man was a
• 2:04:02
  Speaker 2: printer who, after hours, spent much time in bowling, and
• 2:04:06
  Speaker 2: hull was looked upon as an expert in that game.
• 2:04:11
  Speaker 2: He said that some time before he was playing a game,
• 2:04:14
  Speaker 2: and at a critical point, when he was taking aim
• 2:04:18
  Speaker 2: and endeavoring to put the ball in between one and
• 2:04:21
  Speaker 2: two pins, especially advantageous shot, his opponent spoke up and said,
• 2:04:29
  Speaker 2: just watch him hit the four pin. I do not
• 2:04:34
  Speaker 2: know anything about bowling, but it seems that to hit
• 2:04:37
  Speaker 2: the four pin is about the worst thing that can
• 2:04:41
  Speaker 2: happen to a bowler outside of missing the pins altogether. Well,
• 2:04:47
  Speaker 2: to go on with the story with the remark of
• 2:04:50
  Speaker 2: his rival. Fear thought entered the mind of the printer,
• 2:04:55
  Speaker 2: and he couldn't get the four pin out of his mind.
• 2:04:59
  Speaker 2: He kept on looking at the place he wanted to hit,
• 2:05:03
  Speaker 2: but his mind was on the four pin, and he
• 2:05:07
  Speaker 2: feared that he would hit it. To use his own words,
• 2:05:12
  Speaker 2: he got rattled and away went the ball, striking the
• 2:05:17
  Speaker 2: four pin fair and square. He concluded the story by saying,
• 2:05:25
  Speaker 2: and so in instead of making a ten strike, I
• 2:05:29
  Speaker 2: got only a split. Maybe you understand those terms better
• 2:05:35
  Speaker 2: than do I, but at any rate, you will see
• 2:05:39
  Speaker 2: what a fair thought brought to this typographical bowler in
• 2:05:45
  Speaker 2: his little game of ten pins. Moral, when you wish
• 2:05:50
  Speaker 2: to place the ball energy between the one and two
• 2:05:54
  Speaker 2: pins of life, don't allow fear thoughts to switch you
• 2:05:59
  Speaker 2: off to the four pin, thereby giving you a split
• 2:06:04
  Speaker 2: instead of the coveted ten strike. Another friend told me
• 2:06:11
  Speaker 2: that a few days before, he had been riding on
• 2:06:14
  Speaker 2: the front bench of a grip car on a Chicago
• 2:06:17
  Speaker 2: cable line. Hearing the gripman break into the vernacular in
• 2:06:22
  Speaker 2: a vigorous style. He looked up and saw a colored
• 2:06:26
  Speaker 2: man on a bicycle trying to cross the track on
• 2:06:30
  Speaker 2: the bias, as the girls say, just ahead of the car.
• 2:06:36
  Speaker 2: There was plenty of time, plenty of room for the
• 2:06:39
  Speaker 2: man to get across, But when he reached the middle
• 2:06:43
  Speaker 2: of the track, fearthought got hold of him, and in
• 2:06:47
  Speaker 2: spite of himself, his wheel turned and he headed straight
• 2:06:51
  Speaker 2: for the car. He headed straight for the grip car,
• 2:06:55
  Speaker 2: just as if he had aimed at it, and the
• 2:06:58
  Speaker 2: next moment he went bang right into it. He escaped injury,
• 2:07:04
  Speaker 2: but his wheel was wrecked. When asked about it, he
• 2:07:09
  Speaker 2: said that from the moment he got afraid of the car,
• 2:07:12
  Speaker 2: his wheel ran away with him, right into the thing
• 2:07:16
  Speaker 2: he feared. Moral. Keep your mind fixed on the thing
• 2:07:21
  Speaker 2: you want, not on the thing you don't want. Another
• 2:07:27
  Speaker 2: man to whom I related the story of the man
• 2:07:30
  Speaker 2: on the wheel, said that he had the same trouble.
• 2:07:34
  Speaker 2: When he was learning to ride the wheel. He was
• 2:07:37
  Speaker 2: getting along pretty well and could manage to steer half
• 2:07:42
  Speaker 2: away straight, although in a wobbly manner, until one day
• 2:07:47
  Speaker 2: he happened to see a certain telegraph pole in front
• 2:07:51
  Speaker 2: of the place where he was learning to ride. The
• 2:07:54
  Speaker 2: pole seemed to hypnotize him, and from that day he
• 2:07:58
  Speaker 2: couldn't keep his front wheel away from it. He couldn't
• 2:08:02
  Speaker 2: keep away from that pole. He was afraid of it.
• 2:08:06
  Speaker 2: The pole seemed to have magnetic qualities, and the result
• 2:08:11
  Speaker 2: was pump. He remounted over and over again, but the
• 2:08:16
  Speaker 2: result was the same. At last he made up his
• 2:08:20
  Speaker 2: mind that he was going to get ahead of that
• 2:08:23
  Speaker 2: pole somehow, and he mounted the wheel with his back
• 2:08:27
  Speaker 2: toward the pole, but his mind was still on it.
• 2:08:31
  Speaker 2: And lo the front wheel described a semi circle, and
• 2:08:36
  Speaker 2: back to the pole. He went, morol, do not let
• 2:08:41
  Speaker 2: a pole hypnotize you with fear thought. Keep your mind
• 2:08:45
  Speaker 2: on the place to which you wished to go. But
• 2:08:50
  Speaker 2: the best example was given by a boy who had
• 2:08:54
  Speaker 2: kept his eyes open and his thinker working. Maybe I
• 2:08:59
  Speaker 2: had better tell you in his own words. This is
• 2:09:03
  Speaker 2: what he said, Just as he said it. Oh, Pshaw
• 2:09:09
  Speaker 2: said the boy, you're making a big fuss over nothing.
• 2:09:14
  Speaker 2: Every feller knows that you've got to think about a
• 2:09:18
  Speaker 2: thing if you want to hit it. And if you
• 2:09:21
  Speaker 2: think about the wrong thing, why you will hit the
• 2:09:25
  Speaker 2: wrong thing. If I fire a stone at a tin can,
• 2:09:30
  Speaker 2: why I just look square at the can and think
• 2:09:34
  Speaker 2: about the can For all I am worth? And the
• 2:09:37
  Speaker 2: can's a dead one shore. If I happen to let
• 2:09:41
  Speaker 2: my mind wonder to the cat what's on the shed
• 2:09:45
  Speaker 2: over to the left of the can, well, so much
• 2:09:49
  Speaker 2: the worse for the cat. That's all. To shoot straight,
• 2:09:54
  Speaker 2: you've got to aim straight, and to am street, you've
• 2:09:58
  Speaker 2: got to look straight. And to look straight, you've got
• 2:10:02
  Speaker 2: to think straight. Every kid knows that, or he couldn't
• 2:10:07
  Speaker 2: even play marbles. If I get my heart set on
• 2:10:11
  Speaker 2: a beauty marble in the ring, I just want it
• 2:10:15
  Speaker 2: the worst way, and says I to myself, you are
• 2:10:19
  Speaker 2: my marble. Then I look at him, strong and steady like,
• 2:10:24
  Speaker 2: and don't think about nothing else in the world but
• 2:10:27
  Speaker 2: that beauty. Maybe I'm late for school, but I clean
• 2:10:32
  Speaker 2: forget it. I don't see nothing, nor think nothing but
• 2:10:38
  Speaker 2: that theyre marble what I want as the piece in
• 2:10:43
  Speaker 2: my reader says, it's my heart's desire, and I don't
• 2:10:47
  Speaker 2: care whether school keeps or not, just so as I
• 2:10:52
  Speaker 2: get it. Then I shoot, and the marble's mine. And
• 2:10:58
  Speaker 2: at school, when our droping teacher tells us how to
• 2:11:02
  Speaker 2: draw a straight line, she makes two dots several inches
• 2:11:07
  Speaker 2: away from each other. Then she makes us put our
• 2:11:10
  Speaker 2: pencils on the first dot, and look steady at the other,
• 2:11:15
  Speaker 2: and move our pencil towards it. The more you keep
• 2:11:19
  Speaker 2: thinking about the far off dot, and the less you
• 2:11:22
  Speaker 2: think about the starting dot or your hand, the straighter
• 2:11:26
  Speaker 2: you're going to get your line. Once I looked straight
• 2:11:31
  Speaker 2: at the far off dot with my eyes, but I
• 2:11:34
  Speaker 2: kept thinking about a red headed girl on the other
• 2:11:37
  Speaker 2: side of the room, And what do you think the
• 2:11:40
  Speaker 2: line I was drawing slantid away off in her direction,
• 2:11:45
  Speaker 2: Although I had kept my eyes glued on the far
• 2:11:48
  Speaker 2: away dot and never even peeped in the kid's direction,
• 2:11:54
  Speaker 2: that she was sure that it's the thinking as well
• 2:11:57
  Speaker 2: as the looking. See All of the examples above given
• 2:12:04
  Speaker 2: contain within them the principles of a mighty truth, a
• 2:12:08
  Speaker 2: working illustration of a great law of life. If we
• 2:12:13
  Speaker 2: are wise, we will profit by them. Many things are
• 2:12:17
  Speaker 2: happening around us every day from which we might gain
• 2:12:20
  Speaker 2: lessons if we would only think a little. In astead
• 2:12:25
  Speaker 2: of playing follow my leader and accepting other people's thoughts
• 2:12:30
  Speaker 2: ready made, we have gotten so accustomed to these hand
• 2:12:35
  Speaker 2: me down thoughts that we have almost forgotten how to
• 2:12:40
  Speaker 2: turn out thoughts for ourselves. The day has come when
• 2:12:44
  Speaker 2: we are required to do a little thinking on our
• 2:12:47
  Speaker 2: own account, and a stead of humbly bowing before moth
• 2:12:51
  Speaker 2: eaten authority pershed upon a crumbling base. The time has
• 2:12:57
  Speaker 2: arrived when we must strike out for our instead of
• 2:13:01
  Speaker 2: following a musty precedent which has seen better days. This
• 2:13:07
  Speaker 2: is the age of the individual. This is the time
• 2:13:11
  Speaker 2: for the eye to assert itself. I wish you would
• 2:13:15
  Speaker 2: pay attention to what the boy said. It is not
• 2:13:19
  Speaker 2: the first time that we have gone to the bay
• 2:13:22
  Speaker 2: for wisdom. Although a child has an imagination beyond our comprehension,
• 2:13:28
  Speaker 2: he at the same time is painfully and even brutally
• 2:13:32
  Speaker 2: matter of fact. He is continually asking why, and when
• 2:13:38
  Speaker 2: we grown ups are unable to answer him, he answers
• 2:13:42
  Speaker 2: the question himself, often better than we could have done.
• 2:13:47
  Speaker 2: He doesn't theorize, but gets down to business and works
• 2:13:51
  Speaker 2: things out for himself. This boy knew all about the
• 2:13:56
  Speaker 2: thinking part of the problems, and had put it into
• 2:13:59
  Speaker 2: practice application while we were theorizing about it. He had
• 2:14:05
  Speaker 2: discovered that in order to get things, we must first
• 2:14:09
  Speaker 2: earnestly desire them, then confidently expect that we would get them,
• 2:14:15
  Speaker 2: then go to work to procure them. That's the true
• 2:14:18
  Speaker 2: philosophy of getting things. He tells us about the marble,
• 2:14:24
  Speaker 2: that he first wanted it the worst way, and didn't
• 2:14:28
  Speaker 2: care whether school kept or not, just so he got
• 2:14:32
  Speaker 2: the marple. Then he looked strong and steadylike at the marble,
• 2:14:37
  Speaker 2: saying you are my marble. Then he shot, and the
• 2:14:42
  Speaker 2: marble was his. Can any of you describe the process
• 2:14:46
  Speaker 2: of getting things better than this? If we grown ups
• 2:14:51
  Speaker 2: would only put into our daily tasks the interest and
• 2:14:55
  Speaker 2: attention that the boy put into his game of marples,
• 2:14:59
  Speaker 2: we would get the marble oftener than we have been doing.
• 2:15:04
  Speaker 2: Of course, it may be true that the principal joy
• 2:15:08
  Speaker 2: is in the getting of things rather than in the
• 2:15:11
  Speaker 2: possession of them, that the game of life is like
• 2:15:15
  Speaker 2: the game of marbles in that respect, But what of
• 2:15:19
  Speaker 2: that that needed spoil the game? The boy knows enough
• 2:15:25
  Speaker 2: to enjoy playing for a few marbles that may be
• 2:15:29
  Speaker 2: obtained for a penny of fistful at the corner store,
• 2:15:33
  Speaker 2: but that fact doesn't bother him at all. He knows
• 2:15:37
  Speaker 2: that when he gets the marble it will not seem
• 2:15:41
  Speaker 2: half so beautiful in the hand as it did in
• 2:15:44
  Speaker 2: the ring, But he gets ready to shoot for the
• 2:15:47
  Speaker 2: next one was just as much zest and enjoyment. He
• 2:15:53
  Speaker 2: finds a joy in living, acting, doing, expressing, growing and
• 2:15:59
  Speaker 2: out growing, gaining experiences. Take a lesson from the boy.
• 2:16:06
  Speaker 2: While you are in the great game, take a boy's
• 2:16:09
  Speaker 2: interest in it. Play with a zest, play your level best,
• 2:16:14
  Speaker 2: and get the marple. The boy instinctively knows that the
• 2:16:18
  Speaker 2: joy of life consists of living, while we poor grown
• 2:16:22
  Speaker 2: ups vainly imagine that our pleasure will come only in
• 2:16:26
  Speaker 2: the trophies of the game, the glass marples of life,
• 2:16:30
  Speaker 2: and look upon the playing of the game as drudgery
• 2:16:33
  Speaker 2: and work imposed upon us as a punishment of the
• 2:16:37
  Speaker 2: sins of our forefathers. The boy lives in the now
• 2:16:41
  Speaker 2: and enjoys every moment of his existence, his winnings, his losings,
• 2:16:47
  Speaker 2: his victories, his defeats, while we his elders and superiors
• 2:16:53
  Speaker 2: in wisdom, grown at the heat of the day and
• 2:16:57
  Speaker 2: the rigor of the game, and our only reconciled to
• 2:17:01
  Speaker 2: our tasks by the thought of how we will enjoy
• 2:17:05
  Speaker 2: the possession of the marples when we get them. At
• 2:17:09
  Speaker 2: the end of the game. The boy sucks his orange
• 2:17:13
  Speaker 2: and extracts every particle of its sweet contents, while we
• 2:17:19
  Speaker 2: threw away the juicy meat and aim only to secure
• 2:17:23
  Speaker 2: the pips.
• 2:17:25
  Speaker 1: Oh.
• 2:17:26
  Speaker 2: Yes, the boy not only knows how to get there,
• 2:17:30
  Speaker 2: but he has also a sane philosophy of life. Many
• 2:17:34
  Speaker 2: of us grown ups are now relearning that which we
• 2:17:38
  Speaker 2: lost with our youth. You will notice that the bowler,
• 2:17:43
  Speaker 2: the bicyclist, and the others got what they didn't want
• 2:17:48
  Speaker 2: because they were afraid of it and allowed it to
• 2:17:51
  Speaker 2: distract their thoughts from the object of their desire. To
• 2:17:57
  Speaker 2: fear a thing is akin to desire it. In either
• 2:18:01
  Speaker 2: case you are attracted toward it or it to you.
• 2:18:06
  Speaker 2: It's a rule that works both ways. You must think
• 2:18:11
  Speaker 2: about the thing you want, not about the thing you
• 2:18:14
  Speaker 2: don't want. For the thoughts you are thinking are the
• 2:18:18
  Speaker 2: ones that you are going to take form in action.
• 2:18:21
  Speaker 2: As the boy said, you've got to think about a
• 2:18:25
  Speaker 2: thing if you want to hit it, and if you
• 2:18:28
  Speaker 2: think about the wrong thing, why you're going to hit
• 2:18:31
  Speaker 2: the wrong thing. Watch your ideal, not your bugbear. Concentrate
• 2:18:38
  Speaker 2: on your ideal, fix your thoughts and gaze upon it
• 2:18:42
  Speaker 2: like the boy upon his marple, and don't allow fear
• 2:18:46
  Speaker 2: thought to sidetrack you. Select the thing you want to be,
• 2:18:52
  Speaker 2: and then grow steadily into it. Pick out the thing
• 2:18:56
  Speaker 2: you want, and then go straight and steadily to it.
• 2:19:00
  Speaker 2: Replace your old wine I fear with the new thought.
• 2:19:05
  Speaker 2: Shout I can and I will. Then you will experience
• 2:19:11
  Speaker 2: an illustration of thought taking form in action. Look straight,
• 2:19:18
  Speaker 2: think straight, shoot straight. In these three things lie the
• 2:19:25
  Speaker 2: secret of success at home.
• 2:19:32
  Speaker 1: Don't be afraid you are at home, not here by chance.
• 2:19:37
  Speaker 1: You belong here. You are the soul. You cannot be hurt,
• 2:19:43
  Speaker 1: you cannot be banished. You are right in the universe,
• 2:19:47
  Speaker 1: and there is no outside. Great things are before you.
• 2:19:52
  Speaker 1: Make yourself at home. Don't be afraid your living in
• 2:19:58
  Speaker 1: your own home. This universe was built for you to inhabit,
• 2:20:02
  Speaker 1: to occupy, to enjoy. Do not feel strange. Make yourself
• 2:20:08
  Speaker 1: at home. The wonderful laws of nature, those which have
• 2:20:12
  Speaker 1: been discovered and those which remain to be discovered, are
• 2:20:15
  Speaker 1: all laws for your use when you grow large enough
• 2:20:19
  Speaker 1: to understand how to make use of them. Did you
• 2:20:22
  Speaker 1: think you were here by chance, or that you were
• 2:20:25
  Speaker 1: an alien? If so, learn better. You are to the
• 2:20:30
  Speaker 1: manner born, You are the heir. Everything around the place
• 2:20:35
  Speaker 1: is for your use when you grow up. No one
• 2:20:39
  Speaker 1: can dispossess you, no one can put you out. You
• 2:20:42
  Speaker 1: are at home. Do you long for another home? Do
• 2:20:48
  Speaker 1: you fret and chafe at the trials and troubles of
• 2:20:50
  Speaker 1: this world and imagine that somewhere else things will be better. Well,
• 2:20:56
  Speaker 1: they'll never be better for you until you have met
• 2:20:58
  Speaker 1: and conquered the trials and troubles of this place. You
• 2:21:02
  Speaker 1: are just where you belong. You are surrounded with just
• 2:21:06
  Speaker 1: the things you need. You are getting just what you deserve.
• 2:21:10
  Speaker 1: And until you learn the truth of this, you will
• 2:21:14
  Speaker 1: have the same surroundings, the same environments. And then when
• 2:21:19
  Speaker 1: you learn that the things around you are all right,
• 2:21:22
  Speaker 1: that you are being treated justly, that you are getting
• 2:21:26
  Speaker 1: just what you have attracted and are attracting to yourself,
• 2:21:31
  Speaker 1: then you will be ready for the next step in
• 2:21:33
  Speaker 1: the journey, and you will have new surroundings and new environments,
• 2:21:37
  Speaker 1: new tasks, new lessons, new pleasures. I hear some of
• 2:21:43
  Speaker 1: you talking about death. You seem to think that you
• 2:21:47
  Speaker 1: will be another order of being as soon as you
• 2:21:49
  Speaker 1: take your last breath upon earth. You talk about being
• 2:21:53
  Speaker 1: a spirit by and bye. Do I believe this? Of
• 2:21:58
  Speaker 1: course I believe it, I know it, But I also
• 2:22:02
  Speaker 1: know something else, and that is that you are a
• 2:22:06
  Speaker 1: spirit now, just as much as you will be in
• 2:22:09
  Speaker 1: another world. Did you think that some wonderful essence was
• 2:22:13
  Speaker 1: going to grow from you, and that that essence would
• 2:22:16
  Speaker 1: be what you call a spirit? Nonsense. You are the
• 2:22:21
  Speaker 1: spirit and the not you part which will be discarded.
• 2:22:25
  Speaker 1: Never was you? The you which says I am, is
• 2:22:31
  Speaker 1: the real thing, the real self, and the rest of
• 2:22:34
  Speaker 1: you is but tools and instruments which you are using.
• 2:22:39
  Speaker 1: Why can't you see this? You talk about my soul,
• 2:22:44
  Speaker 1: my spirit, and so on. You make me tired. Why
• 2:22:50
  Speaker 1: the thing which is thinking and speaking you is the
• 2:22:54
  Speaker 1: soul or spirit of which you are talking. You talk
• 2:22:58
  Speaker 1: as if the physical part of you, which is changing
• 2:23:01
  Speaker 1: continually was you. You are like the boy with the
• 2:23:06
  Speaker 1: old knife. He was continually having the knife repaired. He
• 2:23:10
  Speaker 1: had had seven new blades and three new handles put
• 2:23:13
  Speaker 1: on it, and yet it was the same old knife.
• 2:23:17
  Speaker 1: Why you could step right out of your body, and
• 2:23:20
  Speaker 1: maybe you do more than you have any idea of,
• 2:23:24
  Speaker 1: and it would be the same old you. You could
• 2:23:28
  Speaker 1: discard your body just as you do your clothes, and
• 2:23:31
  Speaker 1: yet you would be the same individual. There is a
• 2:23:36
  Speaker 1: wonderful difference between individuality and personality. One you cannot get
• 2:23:42
  Speaker 1: rid of, the other may be changed. What's the use
• 2:23:47
  Speaker 1: in being afraid? Nobody can hurt the real you. You cannot
• 2:23:54
  Speaker 1: be wiped out of existence. If a single spirit Adam
• 2:23:57
  Speaker 1: should be destroyed, the entire struck sure would smash up.
• 2:24:01
  Speaker 1: You cannot be banished from the universe, for there's nowhere
• 2:24:05
  Speaker 1: else to put you. You cannot get outside of the universe,
• 2:24:09
  Speaker 1: for there's no outside. There's no place for you outside
• 2:24:15
  Speaker 1: of everywhere. And you talk about time and eternity, Why
• 2:24:20
  Speaker 1: you're in eternity right now? You are right in it
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  Speaker 1: this moment. It is always today, Tomorrow never comes, and
• 2:24:31
  Speaker 1: you are right at home in the universe and always
• 2:24:33
  Speaker 1: will be. You are always there, for there's nowhere else
• 2:24:37
  Speaker 1: to go. So what's the use in being afraid? Who's
• 2:24:42
  Speaker 1: going to hurt you? They can't kill you, They can't
• 2:24:46
  Speaker 1: put you out of existence. They cannot expel you from
• 2:24:50
  Speaker 1: the universe. So what are they going to do about it? Anyhow?
• 2:24:55
  Speaker 1: And after all, who are they? You talk as if
• 2:25:00
  Speaker 1: there were outside forces and influences antagonistic to you, outside
• 2:25:06
  Speaker 1: of what, No matter what beings of Earth or air
• 2:25:10
  Speaker 1: there may be. They are creatures like yourself. They are
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  Speaker 1: all a part of the whole thing, all made of
• 2:25:18
  Speaker 1: the same material, all come from the hand of the
• 2:25:22
  Speaker 1: same maker. You are all cut from the same piece
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  Speaker 1: of goods. The apparent differences are illusions. The difference and
• 2:25:31
  Speaker 1: separateness is only relative and not actual. So make yourself
• 2:25:36
  Speaker 1: at home, take a look around and see what a
• 2:25:40
  Speaker 1: nice bit of the universe you have to live in.
• 2:25:43
  Speaker 1: Some of your family have been trying to occupy the
• 2:25:46
  Speaker 1: whole house instead of only their share of it. But
• 2:25:49
  Speaker 1: those things are gradually working out, and all will be
• 2:25:52
  Speaker 1: better within a comparatively short time. This is going to
• 2:25:56
  Speaker 1: be a better world to live in when men take
• 2:25:59
  Speaker 1: time to think a little, and you'll be around to
• 2:26:02
  Speaker 1: enjoy it when it comes. Never fear you cannot get
• 2:26:06
  Speaker 1: away even if you want to. And what's the use
• 2:26:11
  Speaker 1: of waiting for tomorrow. There's lots of things in which
• 2:26:14
  Speaker 1: you can find happiness today if you will only stop
• 2:26:17
  Speaker 1: worrying about tomorrow. The little child knows more about enjoying
• 2:26:22
  Speaker 1: life than you do. The little child feels at home
• 2:26:25
  Speaker 1: anywhere and starts in to enjoy it and get the
• 2:26:28
  Speaker 1: most out of it. Until he grows old enough to
• 2:26:31
  Speaker 1: be hypnotized by the race. Belief. You are at home here,
• 2:26:37
  Speaker 1: just as much at home as is the fish in
• 2:26:39
  Speaker 1: the sea, the bird in the air. Realize this and
• 2:26:43
  Speaker 1: make the most of it. Stop being afraid, stop fretting,
• 2:26:48
  Speaker 1: stop worrying. Realize that yesterday, today, and tomorrow you are
• 2:26:54
  Speaker 1: here in the universe. It's a good universe, and it
• 2:26:58
  Speaker 1: grows better as man grows in wisdom to take advantage
• 2:27:01
  Speaker 1: of its goodness. And it is not yet sun up here.
• 2:27:06
  Speaker 1: Great things are before us, and you will see them
• 2:27:09
  Speaker 1: and take part in them. Make yourself at home, for
• 2:27:14
  Speaker 1: your going to be around here for some time. The
• 2:27:18
  Speaker 1: Solitude of the Soul Laredo Taft's group description. Each stands alone,
• 2:27:28
  Speaker 1: Each is in touch with every other, sole communion in silence.
• 2:27:33
  Speaker 1: Silence is the sanctuary of the soul, the oneness of
• 2:27:37
  Speaker 1: life and its apparent separateness. The message. In one of
• 2:27:43
  Speaker 1: the rooms of the Art Institute in Chicago stands a
• 2:27:46
  Speaker 1: remarkable group by Laredo Taft, the sculptor entitled The Solitude
• 2:27:51
  Speaker 1: of the Soul. The average visitor stops a moment and
• 2:27:54
  Speaker 1: passes on, commenting on the beauty of the figures composing
• 2:27:58
  Speaker 1: this group past afraid to look at the figures, for
• 2:28:02
  Speaker 1: they are nude, as naked as the human soul before
• 2:28:06
  Speaker 1: the gaze of its creator. Some people are afraid of
• 2:28:10
  Speaker 1: things not hidden by draperies. Even the naked truth shocks them.
• 2:28:15
  Speaker 1: But the man or woman who thinks and understands stops
• 2:28:19
  Speaker 1: long before this group, conscious that it tells the tale
• 2:28:23
  Speaker 1: of a mighty truth. Around a large rock stand four
• 2:28:27
  Speaker 1: human figures, two men and two women. They are so
• 2:28:31
  Speaker 1: placed that but one figure is in full sight from
• 2:28:34
  Speaker 1: any given point of view. Although the connection between any
• 2:28:37
  Speaker 1: figure and the two on each side of it may
• 2:28:39
  Speaker 1: be seen, it is necessary to walk completely around the
• 2:28:43
  Speaker 1: group to see the idea of the sculptor to read
• 2:28:46
  Speaker 1: the story that he has written into the marble. Each
• 2:28:50
  Speaker 1: figure has an individuality. Each stands alone, and yet each
• 2:28:56
  Speaker 1: is in touch with the one behind and the one before,
• 2:28:59
  Speaker 1: each taich one is connected with all, yet each one
• 2:29:03
  Speaker 1: stands alone. One figure extends a hand to her brother
• 2:29:07
  Speaker 1: just ahead of her, and on her shoulder rests the
• 2:29:11
  Speaker 1: tired head of the brother. Following her hand in hand
• 2:29:15
  Speaker 1: or head on shoulder stand, they each giving to the
• 2:29:19
  Speaker 1: other that human touch and contact so dear to the soul,
• 2:29:23
  Speaker 1: craving that companionship of one who understands. Each face shows sorrow,
• 2:29:29
  Speaker 1: pain and longing, that longing for that complete union of
• 2:29:34
  Speaker 1: soul with soul, that longing that earth life cannot satisfy.
• 2:29:40
  Speaker 1: And each feels and knows that the other has the
• 2:29:43
  Speaker 1: same longing, and each gives to the other that comforting
• 2:29:47
  Speaker 1: touch that says, I know, I know. Each face shows
• 2:29:54
  Speaker 1: a great human love mingled with its pain. Each face
• 2:29:59
  Speaker 1: shows resignation, mingled with its grief. It is the old
• 2:30:03
  Speaker 1: story of human love and human limitations. It is also
• 2:30:07
  Speaker 1: a story of deeper import the story of the soul.
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  Speaker 1: Every lip is closed, each man and woman is silent,
• 2:30:17
  Speaker 1: and yet each understands the other. Soul is communing with
• 2:30:22
  Speaker 1: soul in the silence, and in the silence alone can
• 2:30:26
  Speaker 1: soul converse with soul. Words cheapen the communication of soul
• 2:30:31
  Speaker 1: to soul. With those who understand us well, we can
• 2:30:35
  Speaker 1: best commune in silence, hand in hand, cheek to cheek,
• 2:30:41
  Speaker 1: sit those who love well. The tale of love is
• 2:30:45
  Speaker 1: told and retold without a word. Words serve their purpose
• 2:30:50
  Speaker 1: in conveying the commonplaces of life, but seem strangely inadequate
• 2:30:54
  Speaker 1: to express the deeper utterances of the soul. The tale
• 2:30:58
  Speaker 1: of love, the story of sorrow, needs no words. The
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  Speaker 1: soul understands the message of the soul. Mind flashes the
• 2:31:09
  Speaker 1: message to mind, and all is known. The fondest memory
• 2:31:14
  Speaker 1: of the one whom you loved and lost is not
• 2:31:17
  Speaker 1: of moments in which he spoke, even the most endearing words.
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  Speaker 1: The memory most sacred to you is that of some
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  Speaker 1: great silence lived out with the loved one, some moment
• 2:31:29
  Speaker 1: in which each soul drew aside its veil and gazed
• 2:31:32
  Speaker 1: with awe into the depths of the other soul. Silence
• 2:31:37
  Speaker 1: is the sanctuary of the soul. Enter it only with
• 2:31:41
  Speaker 1: due reverence, uncover the head, tread softly. Each figure stands
• 2:31:49
  Speaker 1: alone and yet in touch with all the rest. Each
• 2:31:53
  Speaker 1: is apparently separate, and yet each is but a part
• 2:31:56
  Speaker 1: of the whole. Each feels the rightful solitude which comes
• 2:32:01
  Speaker 1: to the soul when first it recognizes what it is.
• 2:32:05
  Speaker 1: And yet in that dreadful moment, each knows itself to
• 2:32:10
  Speaker 1: be in touch with all of life. Each feels that
• 2:32:14
  Speaker 1: intense longing for a closer soul union, a reunion of
• 2:32:18
  Speaker 1: the separated parts of the whole, and yet each realizes
• 2:32:22
  Speaker 1: the impossibility of a consummation of that desire at this time,
• 2:32:27
  Speaker 1: and they show their grief. They place the head upon
• 2:32:30
  Speaker 1: the shoulder of the other, they clasp the hand of
• 2:32:33
  Speaker 1: the other, they touch the flesh of the other, all
• 2:32:38
  Speaker 1: as a symbol of the desire for the union of
• 2:32:40
  Speaker 1: the soul. This group is a symbol of the oneness
• 2:32:45
  Speaker 1: of life and its apparent separateness. A picture of the
• 2:32:49
  Speaker 1: in touchness of each part of the whole with every
• 2:32:52
  Speaker 1: other part. A story of the pain of the soul
• 2:32:56
  Speaker 1: in its awful solitude, of its impotent striving for at onement.
• 2:33:02
  Speaker 1: A representation of the communion of soul with soul in
• 2:33:06
  Speaker 1: the silence, a tale of the comfort and joy in
• 2:33:10
  Speaker 1: the presence of another human form, a message of the
• 2:33:13
  Speaker 1: brotherhood of man. All this and more is in this group.
• 2:33:20
  Speaker 1: I wonder if the sculptor saw it all, or whether
• 2:33:23
  Speaker 1: he chiseled better than he knew. Sometimes the divine in
• 2:33:28
  Speaker 1: man causes him to write better, paint better, cut better
• 2:33:32
  Speaker 1: than he realizes others see much more in his essays, stories, poems, paintings,
• 2:33:39
  Speaker 1: statuary than the maker knew was there, And the man
• 2:33:44
  Speaker 1: himself after years have passed. Again views his work and
• 2:33:49
  Speaker 1: wonders at the new story he reads. There. He feels
• 2:33:53
  Speaker 1: dazed at having portrayed truths of which he dreamt not
• 2:33:57
  Speaker 1: while he worked. There are within us unexplored depths of
• 2:34:02
  Speaker 1: the existence of which we do not dream. And from
• 2:34:05
  Speaker 1: these depths now and then rise into our consciousness beautiful thoughts,
• 2:34:11
  Speaker 1: beautiful images, which we reproduce on paper, canvas, marble. We
• 2:34:17
  Speaker 1: do not understand these things, and we join with others
• 2:34:20
  Speaker 1: in the feeling of wonder, inspired by the sight of
• 2:34:23
  Speaker 1: the reproduction of that which came from the depths of
• 2:34:26
  Speaker 1: our mental being. And some who have grown closer to
• 2:34:30
  Speaker 1: the real self within them see beauties in our work
• 2:34:34
  Speaker 1: to which we are blind. Not until the scales fall
• 2:34:38
  Speaker 1: from our eyes do we realize the full meaning of
• 2:34:41
  Speaker 1: our work. Some call this inspiration, but those who have
• 2:34:47
  Speaker 1: pierced the veil know that it is inspiration from within,
• 2:34:51
  Speaker 1: not from without. It is the voice of the divine
• 2:34:55
  Speaker 1: spark within man, whispering to the consciousness which is struggling
• 2:34:59
  Speaker 1: to know better that higher self, a whisper of encouragement
• 2:35:04
  Speaker 1: and good cheer, a portent of the future, a glimpse
• 2:35:08
  Speaker 1: of the distant light, a bestowal of a few crumbs
• 2:35:12
  Speaker 1: from the table of the spirit. I know not I
• 2:35:17
  Speaker 1: say whether Laredo taft knew what he chiseled. I know
• 2:35:21
  Speaker 1: not whether he is a man of deep spiritual insight.
• 2:35:26
  Speaker 1: But this I do know that this group, the solitude
• 2:35:30
  Speaker 1: of the soul, is the work of the spirit within
• 2:35:33
  Speaker 1: this man, and his work carries a deep spiritual message
• 2:35:38
  Speaker 1: to those who are ready to receive it. And in
• 2:35:41
  Speaker 1: years to come, this message will be understood by thousands.
• 2:35:45
  Speaker 1: For everyone who receives it today, this work shall live
• 2:35:50
  Speaker 1: long after its maker has forsaken the earthly body that
• 2:35:53
  Speaker 1: he now uses as an instrument. It will live because
• 2:35:58
  Speaker 1: it carries a message, because it conveys a mighty truth.
• 2:36:03
  Speaker 1: Jerry and the Bear The Law's plan of developing an
• 2:36:08
  Speaker 1: individual folly of clinging to old, worn out sheaths. The
• 2:36:14
  Speaker 1: story of Jerry and the Bear. Who Jerry was? He
• 2:36:19
  Speaker 1: meets the Bear, the fight, the result, the consequences, the
• 2:36:26
  Speaker 1: change in Jerry, the moral The Law, in its efforts
• 2:36:33
  Speaker 1: to develop man into a self reliant being, into an individual,
• 2:36:37
  Speaker 1: first tries the simpler plan of bringing a steady pressure
• 2:36:41
  Speaker 1: to bear in the direction of gradual progress. And growth,
• 2:36:45
  Speaker 1: impelling the man to think and act himself into a
• 2:36:48
  Speaker 1: more positive condition each day. After a while, the man,
• 2:36:53
  Speaker 1: feeling behind him the steady push of life, and being
• 2:36:57
  Speaker 1: conscious of the attracting power of the absolute drawing him
• 2:37:00
  Speaker 1: to higher things, leading him up the mountain path of attainment,
• 2:37:05
  Speaker 1: learns to trust the propelling and attracting power, and, ceasing
• 2:37:09
  Speaker 1: his resistance, moves along in the direction of gradual unfoldment
• 2:37:14
  Speaker 1: and growth. He casts off sheath after sheath and grows.
• 2:37:19
  Speaker 1: He does not attempt to impede or interfere with his development,
• 2:37:23
  Speaker 1: but cheerfully and joyfully presses forward to his unfoldment. He
• 2:37:28
  Speaker 1: finds pleasure in each stage, and should pain manifest itself,
• 2:37:32
  Speaker 1: he knows it as the growing pains of the child,
• 2:37:35
  Speaker 1: a promise of greater things. There are some, however, who
• 2:37:40
  Speaker 1: seem determined to cling to their old sheaths and resist
• 2:37:44
  Speaker 1: the pressure of growth to the utmost. They are unable
• 2:37:48
  Speaker 1: to withstand the steady pressure and the attracting power carrying
• 2:37:52
  Speaker 1: them forward, and their resistance brings them much pain in friction,
• 2:37:57
  Speaker 1: and they are pushed this way and that by the
• 2:37:59
  Speaker 1: pressure of the growing self, resisting and struggling all the time.
• 2:38:05
  Speaker 1: The law has several ways of dealing with these people
• 2:38:07
  Speaker 1: for their own good, and often with a supreme effort,
• 2:38:12
  Speaker 1: tears them from the surrounding sheath to which they are
• 2:38:15
  Speaker 1: clinging and forces them into a broader and wider life,
• 2:38:19
  Speaker 1: against their wishes and in spite of their struggles and cries.
• 2:38:25
  Speaker 1: Many of us, looking back over our past lives, smile
• 2:38:30
  Speaker 1: as we recognize how we were forced into new fields
• 2:38:33
  Speaker 1: of work and endeavor, how we were broadened out in
• 2:38:36
  Speaker 1: spite of ourselves, how we were torn from our old
• 2:38:40
  Speaker 1: surroundings and environments, in spite of our lamentations, reproaches, and cries,
• 2:38:45
  Speaker 1: and placed amid new scenes and faces. This thing is
• 2:38:51
  Speaker 1: repeated over and over again until we learn the lesson
• 2:38:55
  Speaker 1: and cease to be unduly attached to persons and things,
• 2:38:59
  Speaker 1: and become will to yield ourselves to the onward moving
• 2:39:02
  Speaker 1: force and cooperate with the law instead of opposing it.
• 2:39:08
  Speaker 1: Many men and women who steadily refuse to stand erect
• 2:39:12
  Speaker 1: and assert their independence are deliberately worked into a position
• 2:39:16
  Speaker 1: where they must declare their freedom from the things upon
• 2:39:19
  Speaker 1: which they have been leaning, and are forced to stand
• 2:39:22
  Speaker 1: up and face conditions from which they have shrunk all
• 2:39:25
  Speaker 1: their lives. The law has a way of picking up
• 2:39:29
  Speaker 1: those shivering mortals who stand around the river's edge and
• 2:39:33
  Speaker 1: throwing them into the stream, bidding them to strike out
• 2:39:37
  Speaker 1: and swim. It prefers the easier way of teaching you
• 2:39:42
  Speaker 1: to swim by degrees, of acquiring knowledge by easy stages.
• 2:39:47
  Speaker 1: But if you refuse to learn in this way, it
• 2:39:50
  Speaker 1: will resort to the vigorous plan just mentioned. But swim
• 2:39:54
  Speaker 1: you must, one way or the other. I am going
• 2:39:59
  Speaker 1: to tell you a story, not a particularly pretty one,
• 2:40:03
  Speaker 1: but one that will give you an idea of what
• 2:40:05
  Speaker 1: I mean and how the plan works. It's about animals,
• 2:40:10
  Speaker 1: but many a truth has been conveyed by fables in
• 2:40:13
  Speaker 1: which animals were the actors, and this homely little tale
• 2:40:16
  Speaker 1: from the wilderness may convey to your minds the point
• 2:40:20
  Speaker 1: of this talk better than do my words. Here's the story.
• 2:40:27
  Speaker 1: Once upon a time, a man away up in one
• 2:40:30
  Speaker 1: of the northwestern states owned a dog named Jerry. He
• 2:40:35
  Speaker 1: was not very much on looks and less in good qualities.
• 2:40:40
  Speaker 1: He was not of any fancy breed, just dog, that's all.
• 2:40:45
  Speaker 1: He had drifted on to the farm from somewhere and
• 2:40:48
  Speaker 1: had been kicked and cuffed around in his early youth
• 2:40:51
  Speaker 1: until he was afraid to claim a right to live
• 2:40:54
  Speaker 1: at all. He grew up into a worthless animal, snapped
• 2:40:59
  Speaker 1: at by smaller dogs, bullied by those of his own size,
• 2:41:03
  Speaker 1: looked down upon by all. He expected to be kicked
• 2:41:07
  Speaker 1: by everybody in sight, and of course got kicked. Men
• 2:41:12
  Speaker 1: and dogs who go around expecting to be abused always
• 2:41:16
  Speaker 1: draw upon them the thing they fear and expect. His
• 2:41:20
  Speaker 1: tail seemed a magnet which attracted all the tin cans
• 2:41:23
  Speaker 1: around that neighborhood. Pitying did not seem to do him
• 2:41:27
  Speaker 1: any good. It only made him more miserable and abject
• 2:41:31
  Speaker 1: than ever, just as it acts in the case of
• 2:41:33
  Speaker 1: some people. The poor Chap gradually dropped down to the
• 2:41:38
  Speaker 1: lowest state of dogdom, and his case seemed hopeless. The
• 2:41:42
  Speaker 1: farmer would drive to town every once in a while,
• 2:41:46
  Speaker 1: and Jerry would sneak along under the wagon in manner
• 2:41:49
  Speaker 1: seeming to apologize for taking up even that space. His
• 2:41:54
  Speaker 1: appearance would be the signal for all the dogs of
• 2:41:57
  Speaker 1: the several farms along the road to chase down to
• 2:42:00
  Speaker 1: the wagon, rout him out, and roll him over in
• 2:42:03
  Speaker 1: the dust, the performance being repeated at every farm to
• 2:42:07
  Speaker 1: and from the town. The farmer, at last, feeling that
• 2:42:11
  Speaker 1: the dog was bringing his establishment into disrepute, and knowing
• 2:42:15
  Speaker 1: that Hopkins's Jerry was becoming a township jest determined to
• 2:42:21
  Speaker 1: put an end to the animal's unhappy career. But destiny intervened,
• 2:42:27
  Speaker 1: possibly in order to give me a tale, to point
• 2:42:30
  Speaker 1: the moral of this talk, and to give you something
• 2:42:33
  Speaker 1: to remember in trying circumstances. Jerry strayed away from the
• 2:42:38
  Speaker 1: farm one evening, being chased a part of the distance
• 2:42:41
  Speaker 1: by some of the smaller dogs who delighted in bullying him.
• 2:42:45
  Speaker 1: He traveled some distance from home and entered the woods.
• 2:42:48
  Speaker 1: Bear tracks had been discovered in that region, and some
• 2:42:51
  Speaker 1: of the boys had dug a pit, baiting it with
• 2:42:54
  Speaker 1: some choice tidbit, pleasing to his bearship, and covering it
• 2:42:57
  Speaker 1: over with a thin roof which would yield to light weight.
• 2:43:01
  Speaker 1: Jerry started across the roof and in he went. Some
• 2:43:05
  Speaker 1: hours after, a young bear came sniffing around, and he
• 2:43:09
  Speaker 1: too dropped in the pit. Then the trouble commenced. The bear,
• 2:43:15
  Speaker 1: feeling infuriated by his unceremonious drop, reached out for Jerry
• 2:43:20
  Speaker 1: and gave him a scratch, which caused him to yell.
• 2:43:24
  Speaker 1: The bear, seeing that there was no fight in his opponent,
• 2:43:27
  Speaker 1: chased him round and round the pit until it seemed
• 2:43:30
  Speaker 1: only a matter of a few minutes more until the
• 2:43:32
  Speaker 1: dog would be relieved of his misery. Things took an
• 2:43:36
  Speaker 1: unexpected turn, however. The bear knocked Jerry over on his
• 2:43:40
  Speaker 1: back and began giving him the finishing touches. This seemed
• 2:43:45
  Speaker 1: to bring to life the last remaining touch of self
• 2:43:48
  Speaker 1: respect left in the poor brute, and with a mighty effort,
• 2:43:52
  Speaker 1: he sprang straight at the bear's throat and gave him
• 2:43:56
  Speaker 1: a bite in which was concentrated all the repressed bites
• 2:44:00
  Speaker 1: of a lifetime. The bear, with a roar, sprang back
• 2:44:04
  Speaker 1: to the other side of the pit. It was hard
• 2:44:07
  Speaker 1: to tell which was the most surprised of the two,
• 2:44:10
  Speaker 1: the bear at the sudden courage of his opponent, or
• 2:44:13
  Speaker 1: Jerry at the fact that he could fight bear. The
• 2:44:17
  Speaker 1: dog's self respect and confidence went up nearly to par.
• 2:44:22
  Speaker 1: The bear's caution adjusted itself accordingly. After a bit, the
• 2:44:27
  Speaker 1: bear cautiously worked his way over toward Jerry, but the
• 2:44:31
  Speaker 1: dog snarled fiercely and showed his teeth. They had several
• 2:44:35
  Speaker 1: rounds before things quieted down, and each time Jerry showed
• 2:44:39
  Speaker 1: his medal, and although he was badly scratched, he had
• 2:44:44
  Speaker 1: bestowed upon the bear several tokens of his valor. His
• 2:44:48
  Speaker 1: self respect and confidence was now an assured thing, and
• 2:44:51
  Speaker 1: the bear treated him with considerable deference and consideration. After
• 2:44:56
  Speaker 1: matters adjusted themselves, the bear and the dog each retired
• 2:45:01
  Speaker 1: to their respective sides of the pit and declared a truce.
• 2:45:06
  Speaker 1: In the morning, the boys came to the pit, shot
• 2:45:09
  Speaker 1: the bear and lifted Jerry out and carried him home.
• 2:45:13
  Speaker 1: His tail was several inches shorter and one ear was missing,
• 2:45:17
  Speaker 1: and his body was scarred and scratched, like the face
• 2:45:21
  Speaker 1: of a Heidelberg student. But away down in his heart
• 2:45:25
  Speaker 1: he felt good and he showed it. The farmer, feeling
• 2:45:30
  Speaker 1: proud of the animal, carefully nursed him until he was
• 2:45:33
  Speaker 1: able to move around the house, and then allowed him
• 2:45:35
  Speaker 1: to go out of doors. As soon as he appeared,
• 2:45:39
  Speaker 1: the other dogs made a rush for him, but something
• 2:45:42
  Speaker 1: in his look caused them to keep at a safe distance,
• 2:45:46
  Speaker 1: and they contented themselves with barking at him and keeping
• 2:45:49
  Speaker 1: out of reach. He did not seem anxious to fight
• 2:45:53
  Speaker 1: but he had that look of confidence in his eyes
• 2:45:57
  Speaker 1: that kept them where they belonged. He had ceased to fear.
• 2:46:02
  Speaker 1: His tail no longer drooped between his legs, but was
• 2:46:06
  Speaker 1: held aloft, as is the tail of every self respecting dog,
• 2:46:10
  Speaker 1: And somehow that tail did not have the attracting power
• 2:46:15
  Speaker 1: for tin cans that had formerly marked it. The boys
• 2:46:19
  Speaker 1: recognized that Jerry had advanced in the scale, and there
• 2:46:22
  Speaker 1: was something about him that they liked and respected. About
• 2:46:27
  Speaker 1: ten days after the dog got well, the farmer took
• 2:46:30
  Speaker 1: a trip to town, and Jerry accompanied him, trotting along
• 2:46:34
  Speaker 1: in an unconcerned manner, alongside, behind, or any other place
• 2:46:40
  Speaker 1: that suited him. As the first farmhouse was reached, the
• 2:46:44
  Speaker 1: dogs came rushing down to have some fun with our friend.
• 2:46:48
  Speaker 1: They pitched in to him as of yore. Something happened.
• 2:46:53
  Speaker 1: The pack ran yelping back to the house for surgical attention,
• 2:46:57
  Speaker 1: and Jerry trotted on just the same. This scene was
• 2:47:02
  Speaker 1: repeated at every farm along the road, Jerry repeating the
• 2:47:06
  Speaker 1: object lesson each time, finishing up his task by rolling
• 2:47:11
  Speaker 1: into the dust. The big bull terrier in front of
• 2:47:13
  Speaker 1: the post office, who heretofore had been the terror of
• 2:47:17
  Speaker 1: the town. The homeward trip was a triumphal progress for
• 2:47:21
  Speaker 1: the dog, and all his old foes vied with each
• 2:47:25
  Speaker 1: other in tail wagging and other demonstrations designed to let
• 2:47:29
  Speaker 1: Jerry know that they were proud to be his friends,
• 2:47:32
  Speaker 1: but he paid little attention to them. He had developed
• 2:47:36
  Speaker 1: into a canine philosopher. After that, he led a happy life.
• 2:47:42
  Speaker 1: He was not seeking fight, but no boy or dog
• 2:47:45
  Speaker 1: seemed to seek fight with him. He had cast out
• 2:47:50
  Speaker 1: fear thought. He feared nothing that walked on legs. He
• 2:47:55
  Speaker 1: had met bear. Now, some of my critics will call
• 2:48:02
  Speaker 1: the attention of their readers to the fact that I
• 2:48:04
  Speaker 1: am advising fight not so good friends. I am using
• 2:48:09
  Speaker 1: this dog story as an illustration, and am trying to
• 2:48:12
  Speaker 1: show you how the law will sometimes force a man
• 2:48:15
  Speaker 1: into tight quarters in order to bring out his courage
• 2:48:18
  Speaker 1: and self confidence. It knows the man has it in him,
• 2:48:23
  Speaker 1: and it proceeds to use vigorous methods to bring it
• 2:48:26
  Speaker 1: out into action, providing always that the man has not
• 2:48:30
  Speaker 1: developed it before. When a man has been placed in
• 2:48:34
  Speaker 1: a position where he faces the worst and is compelled
• 2:48:38
  Speaker 1: to grapple with the bear, he finds that he has
• 2:48:41
  Speaker 1: reserved force within him of which he never dreamt before,
• 2:48:46
  Speaker 1: and he puts forth all his energy to save himself.
• 2:48:50
  Speaker 1: He finds that when he boldly faces the difficulty, the
• 2:48:54
  Speaker 1: difficulty seems as much afraid of him as he had
• 2:48:57
  Speaker 1: been of it. He gained more confidence, until at last
• 2:49:03
  Speaker 1: he beats off the foe and rests secure in his
• 2:49:06
  Speaker 1: own strength. He finds that to the man who has
• 2:49:10
  Speaker 1: abolished fear, and who can smilingly face any situation, fate
• 2:49:15
  Speaker 1: is very respectful and obliging, although to the man who
• 2:49:19
  Speaker 1: fears it is a tormentor. In proportion to a man's
• 2:49:24
  Speaker 1: fear will be his troubles. When he reaches the position
• 2:49:28
  Speaker 1: when he can laugh in the face of fortune, he
• 2:49:32
  Speaker 1: will find her seizing her coquetries and falling desperately in
• 2:49:36
  Speaker 1: love with him. And after the man has met the
• 2:49:40
  Speaker 1: great difficulty, fought the mighty fight, he finds that he
• 2:49:46
  Speaker 1: has ceased to fear the little troubles and trials of life.
• 2:49:50
  Speaker 1: He feels his strength, he knows his source of power.
• 2:49:55
  Speaker 1: He holds his head erect and breathes in the pure
• 2:49:59
  Speaker 1: air of heaven, and feels the warm blood tingling through
• 2:50:03
  Speaker 1: his veins. He has found himself. He has met bear
• 2:50:12
  Speaker 1: the unseen hand, the consciousness of the hand when it
• 2:50:18
  Speaker 1: first was felt, always there, now as the hand of
• 2:50:23
  Speaker 1: a father, now as that of a mother, a lover,
• 2:50:27
  Speaker 1: a brother, always guiding, always leading a mystery. Someday we
• 2:50:36
  Speaker 1: will know the owner of the hand. I have felt
• 2:50:40
  Speaker 1: the unseen hand, have been guided by it, have felt
• 2:50:45
  Speaker 1: the kind but steady urge in the direction which it
• 2:50:48
  Speaker 1: knew to be best. Though my intellect failed to see
• 2:50:52
  Speaker 1: the beauty of the road toward which the hand was
• 2:50:54
  Speaker 1: directing me. For a time I rebelled against the impertinent
• 2:50:59
  Speaker 1: interference of that which seemed to be a thing apart
• 2:51:01
  Speaker 1: from me, a meddler and unasked for helper. I had
• 2:51:06
  Speaker 1: emerged from the dependent state, the state in which I
• 2:51:10
  Speaker 1: thought it necessary to lean upon others. I gloried in
• 2:51:14
  Speaker 1: my independence, my freedom, my ability to stand alone, finding
• 2:51:20
  Speaker 1: that it was good to stand alone, reveling in the
• 2:51:23
  Speaker 1: joy of my new found freedom, rejoicing in the fact
• 2:51:27
  Speaker 1: that the I am within me was a reality, feeling
• 2:51:32
  Speaker 1: within me the ecstasy that comes from the recognition of
• 2:51:36
  Speaker 1: the reality of individuality. I resented any interference from outside,
• 2:51:42
  Speaker 1: but the pressure of the hand was still here. It
• 2:51:46
  Speaker 1: would take my unwilling fingers within its own and lead
• 2:51:49
  Speaker 1: me on, and lead me on. Finding that I could
• 2:51:55
  Speaker 1: not yet rid of this unseen helper, realizing that it
• 2:51:59
  Speaker 1: was intent upon God in spite of my repeated assertions
• 2:52:03
  Speaker 1: that I was able to take care of myself, that
• 2:52:05
  Speaker 1: I was big enough to walk alone, I began to
• 2:52:09
  Speaker 1: study the something that was so determined to take an
• 2:52:12
  Speaker 1: active part in the affairs of my life. I started
• 2:52:15
  Speaker 1: in to become acquainted with it. I found that it
• 2:52:20
  Speaker 1: had always been with me, more or less, but that
• 2:52:23
  Speaker 1: I had not before recognized its presence. So long as
• 2:52:26
  Speaker 1: I felt that I was not able to stand erect
• 2:52:28
  Speaker 1: upon my feet, so long as I feared, so long
• 2:52:33
  Speaker 1: as I failed to recognize the I am, I was
• 2:52:37
  Speaker 1: scarcely aware of this invisible helper. But when I began
• 2:52:41
  Speaker 1: to realize what I was, what was my place in
• 2:52:45
  Speaker 1: the universal order of things, what were my possibilities my future,
• 2:52:51
  Speaker 1: the presence of this unseen hand began to be manifest
• 2:52:56
  Speaker 1: When I at length threw off the last fetter that
• 2:52:59
  Speaker 1: had bound me, When I threw back my shoulders and
• 2:53:02
  Speaker 1: drew my first free breath, when I shouted aloud with
• 2:53:07
  Speaker 1: joy at my freedom, and strength. When I realized the
• 2:53:11
  Speaker 1: power that was within me and at my command, when
• 2:53:15
  Speaker 1: I started out to accomplish that which my awakened mind
• 2:53:19
  Speaker 1: told me was possible of attainment, when I started to
• 2:53:23
  Speaker 1: do these things all by myself, Then I felt for
• 2:53:28
  Speaker 1: the first time the firm clasp of the unseen hand,
• 2:53:34
  Speaker 1: now gently guiding, now leading, now kindly restraining, now giving
• 2:53:41
  Speaker 1: a gentle urge toward people, things, and conditions, Now drawing
• 2:53:46
  Speaker 1: me back from the edge of a precipice, now directing
• 2:53:50
  Speaker 1: toward a better path, Now giving me a gentle, firm
• 2:53:54
  Speaker 1: pressure to reassure me of its presence when I doubted,
• 2:53:59
  Speaker 1: now allowing me to rest my weight upon it when
• 2:54:02
  Speaker 1: I felt tired. Always there. At times this hand has
• 2:54:08
  Speaker 1: placed before me conditions that seemed to me to be
• 2:54:11
  Speaker 1: anything but good. At times it has brought me pain,
• 2:54:16
  Speaker 1: but I have learned to trust it. Have learned to
• 2:54:20
  Speaker 1: trust it. The conditions that have seemed to me to
• 2:54:24
  Speaker 1: be undesirable have brought me to desirable things. The pain
• 2:54:28
  Speaker 1: that I have suffered has brought me pleasure. The experiences
• 2:54:33
  Speaker 1: that have come to me I would not wish to
• 2:54:35
  Speaker 1: part with. The more pain, the more experience, the more experience,
• 2:54:42
  Speaker 1: the more knowledge I have learned to love this hand,
• 2:54:48
  Speaker 1: and the owner of the hand seems to feel and
• 2:54:50
  Speaker 1: return this love, and now and then, by a sympathetic
• 2:54:54
  Speaker 1: little clasp lets me know that I am understood. This
• 2:55:00
  Speaker 1: and sometimes seems to be that of a father, strong
• 2:55:04
  Speaker 1: and firm, leading on with a confident air. Again, it
• 2:55:09
  Speaker 1: seems to be that of a mother, gentle and kind,
• 2:55:13
  Speaker 1: leading me as does the mother lead her child. Again,
• 2:55:17
  Speaker 1: it seems as the hand of a woman who loves me,
• 2:55:21
  Speaker 1: clinging and warm, neither leading nor being led, just moving on,
• 2:55:27
  Speaker 1: clasped in mine, no words, but with a perfect understanding.
• 2:55:33
  Speaker 1: The owner of this hand seems to combine within itself
• 2:55:37
  Speaker 1: the qualities of both sexes. Seems to have within itself
• 2:55:42
  Speaker 1: all the attributes of father, mother, lover, brother, sister. It
• 2:55:48
  Speaker 1: seems to respond to the human need in every direction.
• 2:55:52
  Speaker 1: It seems always the hand of love, even while giving
• 2:55:56
  Speaker 1: me pain. I have never seen the face of the
• 2:56:00
  Speaker 1: owner of this hand. I have never looked into its eyes.
• 2:56:05
  Speaker 1: I have never seen its form, if form it has,
• 2:56:09
  Speaker 1: But I have been conscious at times of being lifted
• 2:56:12
  Speaker 1: up in its arms and being pressed close to its breast.
• 2:56:16
  Speaker 1: I have felt the impulse of the child at such times,
• 2:56:19
  Speaker 1: and have felt for the breast of the mother, and
• 2:56:22
  Speaker 1: have been conscious of the answering mother pressure as I
• 2:56:25
  Speaker 1: was drawn up close to the body of the owner
• 2:56:27
  Speaker 1: of the hand. And at times have I felt rebellious
• 2:56:33
  Speaker 1: at the confining clasp, and have struggled, and have even
• 2:56:36
  Speaker 1: beat against the breast with my puny fists as I
• 2:56:39
  Speaker 1: insisted that I be released from the clasping arms. But Mother,
• 2:56:45
  Speaker 1: like the owner of the hand, only drew me closer
• 2:56:49
  Speaker 1: to the breast until I could feel the very heart
• 2:56:52
  Speaker 1: throbs within the mother body, could feel the vibrations emanating
• 2:56:57
  Speaker 1: from its life, could feel the warm breath upon my cheek,
• 2:57:02
  Speaker 1: as the invisible face bent over me, impelled by the
• 2:57:06
  Speaker 1: mother love Again, it takes on the father form, and
• 2:57:12
  Speaker 1: I place my little hand within it, and, feeling like
• 2:57:16
  Speaker 1: the boy whose father is taking him on a journey,
• 2:57:19
  Speaker 1: I say, lead thou me on, and go cheerfully and
• 2:57:23
  Speaker 1: with faith into new lands, new surroundings, new fields. Why
• 2:57:29
  Speaker 1: should I fear? Have I not hold of my father's hand?
• 2:57:34
  Speaker 1: And the hand at such times rests upon my shoulder
• 2:57:37
  Speaker 1: every once in a while, and I realize that the
• 2:57:41
  Speaker 1: father feels a pride in his son, and sees him
• 2:57:44
  Speaker 1: growing in strength, and knowing that the father looks forward
• 2:57:48
  Speaker 1: to a time when he will be able to talk
• 2:57:50
  Speaker 1: with the boy, who will then have grown in knowledge
• 2:57:54
  Speaker 1: and will be able to understand some of the secrets
• 2:57:57
  Speaker 1: of life that the father will then unfold to him.
• 2:58:01
  Speaker 1: And still again, the hand is that of the loving
• 2:58:05
  Speaker 1: woman who is walking along the path of life with
• 2:58:07
  Speaker 1: the man she loves. It is a tender clasp, the
• 2:58:12
  Speaker 1: fingers tingle with love. The arm presses close to mine.
• 2:58:18
  Speaker 1: I hear no voice, No words are needed. Soul talks
• 2:58:23
  Speaker 1: to soul in the silence. We walk on and on
• 2:58:29
  Speaker 1: and on we understand. And still again, the hand seems
• 2:58:37
  Speaker 1: that of a brother, a twin brother. Neither the protection
• 2:58:41
  Speaker 1: of the father, the loving tenderness of the mother, the
• 2:58:44
  Speaker 1: thrill of the lover's touch is there. I feel not
• 2:58:48
  Speaker 1: that the hand is that of a stronger being. I
• 2:58:51
  Speaker 1: am conscious only of the brotherly clasp, the touch of comradeship,
• 2:58:56
  Speaker 1: the presence of an equal. I feel by my side,
• 2:59:00
  Speaker 1: a helper, someone who will back me up in time
• 2:59:03
  Speaker 1: of need, and I stroll along his side and laugh
• 2:59:07
  Speaker 1: with joy. The joy of the boy is again mine
• 2:59:11
  Speaker 1: the joy of companionship is again mine. And lo, the
• 2:59:16
  Speaker 1: hand of the brother seems to grow. He and I
• 2:59:19
  Speaker 1: are again men, And something in his hand clasp seems
• 2:59:23
  Speaker 1: to say to me, Come, brother, let us go forth
• 2:59:26
  Speaker 1: into the unknown future. Let us have faith. There are
• 2:59:30
  Speaker 1: lands awaiting our coming. Let us enjoy them, let us
• 2:59:34
  Speaker 1: explore them. Let us be filled with the spirit of adventure,
• 2:59:38
  Speaker 1: and go forth. Let us see, let us feel, let
• 2:59:42
  Speaker 1: us know. And I return the clasp and say, ay, brother,
• 2:59:49
  Speaker 1: let us go forth. Whither thou goest? There? Will I go?
• 2:59:53
  Speaker 1: Thy joys shall be my joy, thy pain, my pain.
• 2:59:59
  Speaker 1: Let us go forth, let us go forth to the
• 3:00:02
  Speaker 1: divine adventure, and so manifesting the attributes of all human
• 3:00:08
  Speaker 1: relations in turn and at the proper time. The owner
• 3:00:12
  Speaker 1: of this unseen hand is near me. I feel his presence,
• 3:00:18
  Speaker 1: I am aware of his nearness. At times faith grows faint,
• 3:00:24
  Speaker 1: and I think it all a delusion, a phantasm, a dream.
• 3:00:30
  Speaker 1: All seems lost, and I weep. But lo, in the
• 3:00:35
  Speaker 1: midst of my despair, I feel the hand upon my head.
• 3:00:41
  Speaker 1: I know that it is a reality, and through my
• 3:00:44
  Speaker 1: tears I smile. Shall I ever know the owner of
• 3:00:50
  Speaker 1: this hand? Shall I ever see its face? Shall I
• 3:00:55
  Speaker 1: ever understand the mystery of its existence? I know not,
• 3:01:00
  Speaker 1: but faith whispers in my ear. Wait all is well.
• 3:01:07
  Speaker 1: When the pupil is ready, the master appears. When your
• 3:01:12
  Speaker 1: eyes have a clear vision and can bear the sight.
• 3:01:15
  Speaker 1: Then shall you see the face of the owner of
• 3:01:18
  Speaker 1: the hand. You have entered the path, and there is
• 3:01:21
  Speaker 1: no turning back. Go on, go on in faith, courage
• 3:01:26
  Speaker 1: and confidence. Why should you doubt? Have you not felt
• 3:01:31
  Speaker 1: the pressure of the hand? I? Why should I doubt
• 3:01:37
  Speaker 1: or question? Have I not felt the pressure of the
• 3:01:41
  Speaker 1: unseen hand? Open your hands, friends, that the hand may
• 3:01:46
  Speaker 1: clasp yours as it has mine. While your hand is
• 3:01:51
  Speaker 1: clenched in anger and hate, while it clutches tight the
• 3:01:55
  Speaker 1: gold it has snatched from the hand of another, while
• 3:01:59
  Speaker 1: the fingers are drawn together with fear, it cannot receive
• 3:02:03
  Speaker 1: the unseen hand. Open it wide, reach it out, Offer
• 3:02:10
  Speaker 1: it in friendly clasp, and you will feel within it
• 3:02:14
  Speaker 1: the touch of that which you seek. The unseen hand
• 3:02:19
  Speaker 1: is waiting to clasp yours. Give it welcome, Give it welcome.
• 3:02:27
  Speaker 1: How success comes? Seeking success through mental powers? Holding the
• 3:02:34
  Speaker 1: thought alone not sufficient. How to get the real benefit
• 3:02:39
  Speaker 1: of thought? Force fall in with the workings of the law.
• 3:02:44
  Speaker 1: Stand on your own feet, one step at a time.
• 3:02:50
  Speaker 1: I do as well as I am. Many of the
• 3:02:55
  Speaker 1: men and women who have been seeking prosperity by means
• 3:02:58
  Speaker 1: of the powers of the mind have done so by
• 3:03:01
  Speaker 1: holding the thought and then folding their hands and calmly
• 3:03:05
  Speaker 1: waiting for some lucky event to happen, or, in other words,
• 3:03:09
  Speaker 1: for the long sought for prize to drop down into
• 3:03:12
  Speaker 1: the lapse from out of the nowhere. Now I have
• 3:03:17
  Speaker 1: heard of a number of cases in which things apparently
• 3:03:20
  Speaker 1: came about in this way, although I have always felt
• 3:03:24
  Speaker 1: that a little investigation would have shown some good and
• 3:03:28
  Speaker 1: natural cause behind it all. But as a rule, the
• 3:03:32
  Speaker 1: law does not work in this way. It does not
• 3:03:34
  Speaker 1: leave the old beaten road of cause and effect. It
• 3:03:38
  Speaker 1: is no Aladdin's lamp which is merely to be rubbed
• 3:03:41
  Speaker 1: in order that glittering gems and showers of gold be
• 3:03:44
  Speaker 1: poured out into the lap of the owner as he
• 3:03:47
  Speaker 1: lies back on his cushions, lazily rubbing the lamp with
• 3:03:51
  Speaker 1: the tip of his little finger. The law expects from
• 3:03:55
  Speaker 1: the man who would invoke its mighty aid a little
• 3:03:58
  Speaker 1: honest work on his part. I think that the majority
• 3:04:02
  Speaker 1: of those who have met with a greater share of
• 3:04:04
  Speaker 1: success by means of the wonderful power of thought, have
• 3:04:08
  Speaker 1: met with such success not by having it fall from
• 3:04:12
  Speaker 1: the skies, but by following out the ideas impulses, yes, inspiration,
• 3:04:18
  Speaker 1: if you will, that have come to them. The man
• 3:04:21
  Speaker 1: who has turned his back upon the old negative mental attitude,
• 3:04:25
  Speaker 1: who has turned his face toward the rising sun, who
• 3:04:29
  Speaker 1: has allowed the voice of faith again to be heard,
• 3:04:33
  Speaker 1: who knows that the law, which rules the motions of
• 3:04:36
  Speaker 1: the world's and still takes note of the sparrow's fall,
• 3:04:39
  Speaker 1: has his interest at heart, and asks but for faith,
• 3:04:44
  Speaker 1: that man, I say, finds that from time to time
• 3:04:48
  Speaker 1: ideas will come into his mind just when they are needed.
• 3:04:52
  Speaker 1: Will find that the Law takes cognizance of all human
• 3:04:55
  Speaker 1: needs and has prepared a way to satisfy them. He
• 3:04:59
  Speaker 1: finds that the new ways are pointed out to him,
• 3:05:02
  Speaker 1: avenues of escape from unbearable conditions, signboards pointing out the
• 3:05:08
  Speaker 1: right road. But he must have faith in these little
• 3:05:11
  Speaker 1: hints from the infinite, and must follow them. The Law
• 3:05:15
  Speaker 1: will open the door to you, but will not push
• 3:05:18
  Speaker 1: you in. And when it finds that you refuse to
• 3:05:21
  Speaker 1: see the open door, it softly closes it, and not
• 3:05:25
  Speaker 1: until many weary years have passed do you recognize what
• 3:05:29
  Speaker 1: you have missed. And the law insists upon doing its
• 3:05:32
  Speaker 1: work in its own good way, not in your way.
• 3:05:36
  Speaker 1: You may know what you want, but you may not
• 3:05:40
  Speaker 1: know just the right way to get it, although you
• 3:05:43
  Speaker 1: think you do. The law will give you many a
• 3:05:46
  Speaker 1: hint and many a gentle push in the proper direction,
• 3:05:50
  Speaker 1: but it always leaves you the liberty of choice, the
• 3:05:53
  Speaker 1: right to refuse. It does not insist upon your love
• 3:05:57
  Speaker 1: your faith. That is, it does not make you love
• 3:06:01
  Speaker 1: and have faith. But until you do love and have faith,
• 3:06:05
  Speaker 1: you are not conscious of the promptings of the spirit,
• 3:06:09
  Speaker 1: or at most dismiss them as beneath your notice, Oh
• 3:06:13
  Speaker 1: ye of little faith, when will ye learn? The man
• 3:06:18
  Speaker 1: who understands the workings of the law acts upon the
• 3:06:21
  Speaker 1: tender impulses imparted to him without resistance. He does not
• 3:06:26
  Speaker 1: ask to see the end of the journey, but he
• 3:06:29
  Speaker 1: sees the step just ahead of him, very plainly, and
• 3:06:32
  Speaker 1: he hesitates not about taking it. He does not expect
• 3:06:35
  Speaker 1: the law to bring results and place them in his hand.
• 3:06:39
  Speaker 1: All he asks and desires is that the way be
• 3:06:42
  Speaker 1: pointed out to him, and he is willing and ready
• 3:06:44
  Speaker 1: to do the rest himself. The true man or woman
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  Speaker 1: does not wish to be fed with a spoon. All
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  Speaker 1: they ask is that they may have a fair chance
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  Speaker 1: to reach the source of supply, and they can manage
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  Speaker 1: to handle the spoon themselves. If any man think that
• 3:07:00
  Speaker 1: the law is an incubator of parasites, of leeches, of vampires,
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  Speaker 1: he is greatly mistaken. The lesson of the law is
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  Speaker 1: to teach every man to stand upon his own feet,
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  Speaker 1: to lean not upon another, but at the same time
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  Speaker 1: to feel that he is guided by the great Law
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  Speaker 1: of which he himself is a part, which manifests within
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  Speaker 1: him as well as without him, And that, consequently, while
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  Speaker 1: placing his trust in the Law, he trusts in himself.
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  Speaker 1: Not paradoxical at all when you have the key. Yes, Yes,
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  Speaker 1: the Law expects every man to do well the work
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  Speaker 1: that lies to his hand, and to do it well,
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  Speaker 1: whether it is irksome or distasteful or otherwise. And as
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  Speaker 1: soon as he ceases to rebel and beat his wings
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  Speaker 1: against the bars of the cage, the way is opened
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  Speaker 1: for the next step. And if he does not take
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  Speaker 1: that step, he must work away until he learns to
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  Speaker 1: take it, and so on and on, the lesson of
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  Speaker 1: each task to be learned before the next is presented. Work, Why,
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  Speaker 1: certainly you must work. Everything in the universe works unceasingly.
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  Speaker 1: When you learn to look upon work as a joy
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  Speaker 1: and not a curse, then you are beginning to see
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  Speaker 1: your way out of the grinding process. Then you are
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  Speaker 1: getting a glimpse of the promised land. Why, bless your hearts.
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  Speaker 1: Work is the best friend you have. The only trouble
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  Speaker 1: is that you have treated it as an enemy, and
• 3:08:35
  Speaker 1: it has paid you back in your own coin. When
• 3:08:38
  Speaker 1: you learn to treat it as a friend, it will
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  Speaker 1: be only too glad to make up, and you will
• 3:08:44
  Speaker 1: get along like two old cronies. Now, you people who
• 3:08:49
  Speaker 1: have been sitting with folded hands and calmly waiting and
• 3:08:53
  Speaker 1: complaining that your own has not come to you, listen,
• 3:08:57
  Speaker 1: you are mistaken. Your own has come to you. That's
• 3:09:02
  Speaker 1: just the trouble. Your own is the thing you attract,
• 3:09:06
  Speaker 1: and you have been attracting. Just what has come to you.
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  Speaker 1: Start in today, determined to fall in with the workings
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  Speaker 1: of the law and pay attention to the I do
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  Speaker 1: side of things as well as the I am, and
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  Speaker 1: you will receive new light. Great things are just ahead
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  Speaker 1: of you, but you must reach out for them. They're
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  Speaker 1: not going to drop into folded hands. This is the
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  Speaker 1: law the man with the southern exposure. Southern exposure as
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  Speaker 1: good a thing in a man as in a room.
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  Speaker 1: The man who faces the sun lives one day at
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  Speaker 1: a time and does the best he knows how, and
• 3:09:50
  Speaker 1: is kind, finds joy and carries it to others, simple,
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  Speaker 1: loving kind, Open yourself to the sun. Did you ever
• 3:10:03
  Speaker 1: go house hunting? Then you remember how the agent laid
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  Speaker 1: much stress on the fact that certain rooms had a
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  Speaker 1: southern exposure. No matter how many other good qualities the
• 3:10:14
  Speaker 1: house had, all was subordinated to the fact that the
• 3:10:17
  Speaker 1: best rooms faced the south had the longed for southern exposure.
• 3:10:23
  Speaker 1: The very words conveyed to your mind the sensation of
• 3:10:26
  Speaker 1: balmy breezes, the freedom from the rude blasts of the north,
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  Speaker 1: the cheering rays of the sun, plenty of light and
• 3:10:34
  Speaker 1: healthful vibrations coming from old soul. Ah, that southern exposure.
• 3:10:40
  Speaker 1: How much the words convey. Now, if this southern exposure
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  Speaker 1: is such a good thing in a room, why isn't
• 3:10:49
  Speaker 1: it a good thing in a man? Did you ever
• 3:10:52
  Speaker 1: meet the man with the Southern exposure, the man who
• 3:10:55
  Speaker 1: faces the sun? Do you recall how he brought with
• 3:10:58
  Speaker 1: him the inspiring solar vibrations? Do you remember how the
• 3:11:03
  Speaker 1: wrinkles and frowns disappeared from the faces of those in
• 3:11:06
  Speaker 1: his presence? Do you remember how, long after he had departed,
• 3:11:11
  Speaker 1: the memory of his presence cheered you, the thrill of
• 3:11:15
  Speaker 1: his thought vibrations remained to stimulate. We all know this
• 3:11:19
  Speaker 1: man with the Southern exposure, God bless him. We couldn't
• 3:11:23
  Speaker 1: get along without him. There are a number of him,
• 3:11:26
  Speaker 1: and he is scattered all over the globe. We call
• 3:11:29
  Speaker 1: him by different names, but he is always the same man.
• 3:11:33
  Speaker 1: After we have felt the cold northern chill emanating from
• 3:11:37
  Speaker 1: some of the cold, despondent, negative people with whom we
• 3:11:41
  Speaker 1: have come in contact, what a relief it is to
• 3:11:45
  Speaker 1: meet someone who carries with him the mellowing, sunny vibrations
• 3:11:49
  Speaker 1: of the south wind, the man with the Southern exposure.
• 3:11:54
  Speaker 1: As the vibrations of the sun bring life, energy and
• 3:11:58
  Speaker 1: strength to all things having life, so this sunny man
• 3:12:03
  Speaker 1: brings positive, bright, cheerful, and happy thoughts to us and stimulates, encourages,
• 3:12:09
  Speaker 1: and strengthens us. He actually radiates sunshine and cheer in
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  Speaker 1: all directions, and thaws out the natures that have become
• 3:12:17
  Speaker 1: well nigh frozen from contact with people of the other type. Oh,
• 3:12:21
  Speaker 1: it's a great thing, this southern exposure in a man
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  Speaker 1: or woman. This man faces the sun. He is an optimist.
• 3:12:32
  Speaker 1: He looks on the bright side of things and gets
• 3:12:34
  Speaker 1: all there is in life. He lives. He manages to
• 3:12:39
  Speaker 1: extract fun out of the most unpromising conditions and things,
• 3:12:44
  Speaker 1: and goes on his way with a smile and a
• 3:12:46
  Speaker 1: cheerful song, an abiding faith in the absolute. He lives
• 3:12:52
  Speaker 1: his life one day at a time, loving all of
• 3:12:54
  Speaker 1: God's creatures and letting the creatures know it, carrying a
• 3:12:58
  Speaker 1: message of hope and courage and a helpful suggestion to
• 3:13:02
  Speaker 1: all mankind. He is the salt of the earth, and
• 3:13:06
  Speaker 1: life would lose its flavor if he were taken from us.
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  Speaker 1: And how smooth the pathway of life seems made for him.
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  Speaker 1: It matters not in what station he may be placed,
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  Speaker 1: what seemingly small degree of material prosperity may come to him,
• 3:13:21
  Speaker 1: what may be his surroundings and environments. He makes the
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  Speaker 1: best of everything. He still catches the rays of the
• 3:13:29
  Speaker 1: sun and rejoices he has the southern exposure. He is
• 3:13:35
  Speaker 1: broad and tolerant, merciful and forgiving, devoid of hate, envy,
• 3:13:40
  Speaker 1: and malice, free from fear and worry. He minds his
• 3:13:45
  Speaker 1: own business and grants you the same privilege. He is
• 3:13:49
  Speaker 1: full of love and radiates it to all the world.
• 3:13:53
  Speaker 1: He goes through life in his own sunny way, meeting
• 3:13:56
  Speaker 1: cheerfully the things that drive others to despair and misery.
• 3:14:00
  Speaker 1: Somehow things seem to be smoothed out for him, and
• 3:14:04
  Speaker 1: he passes over the stony road unharmed. His peace comes
• 3:14:09
  Speaker 1: from within, and all who meet him feel his presence.
• 3:14:13
  Speaker 1: He does not seek after friends or love. Friendship and
• 3:14:17
  Speaker 1: love come to him as a right. He attracts them.
• 3:14:22
  Speaker 1: People are glad to see him come and sorry to
• 3:14:25
  Speaker 1: see him go. Little children and animals are drawn to
• 3:14:28
  Speaker 1: him and know him as their friend and lover. He
• 3:14:31
  Speaker 1: is as much at home in the tenement of the
• 3:14:34
  Speaker 1: laborer as in the palace of the wealthy. Both places
• 3:14:38
  Speaker 1: seem home to him and their occupants on a level.
• 3:14:42
  Speaker 1: Brother to both saint and sinner is he and he
• 3:14:45
  Speaker 1: loves one as much as the other, for he somehow
• 3:14:48
  Speaker 1: feels that each is doing his best. He looks for
• 3:14:52
  Speaker 1: the good in the sinner, not for the sin in
• 3:14:55
  Speaker 1: the saint, although he knows that both exist. He is
• 3:14:59
  Speaker 1: not a fair He recognizes within himself all that is
• 3:15:04
  Speaker 1: within both saint and sinner. He knows that he is
• 3:15:07
  Speaker 1: not without sin, so he dares not cast the first stone.
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  Speaker 1: The outcast recognizes in him a brother. The woman who
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  Speaker 1: has passed through the fiery furnace trusts him and is
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  Speaker 1: not afraid, for she knows that he understands. He, being
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  Speaker 1: near the sun, knows that it shines alike on saint
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  Speaker 1: and sinner. He feels that when God withholds his sunbeams
• 3:15:33
  Speaker 1: from his most disobedient child, then may he withdraw his
• 3:15:37
  Speaker 1: love from his most degraded brother or sister. Until that
• 3:15:41
  Speaker 1: time comes he sees fit to love them. He does
• 3:15:45
  Speaker 1: not condemn. He lets God exercise that prerogative if he
• 3:15:49
  Speaker 1: sees fit. He does not feel fit to act as judge.
• 3:15:54
  Speaker 1: He believes that the universe is conducted on sound business principles,
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  Speaker 1: that God knows just what he is about and does
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  Speaker 1: not require any gratuitous advice from man. He works and
• 3:16:06
  Speaker 1: works well. He finds joy in his work, pleasure in
• 3:16:10
  Speaker 1: the humblest tasks. He likes to create things, and he
• 3:16:14
  Speaker 1: is proud of that desire, for he feels that it
• 3:16:17
  Speaker 1: is an inheritance from his father. He does not seem
• 3:16:21
  Speaker 1: to hurry, nor is he rushed. He has plenty of time.
• 3:16:26
  Speaker 1: Eternity lasts a long while, and he is in the now.
• 3:16:30
  Speaker 1: He is not afraid of death or even life. He
• 3:16:34
  Speaker 1: knows them as one. He goes about his way, doing
• 3:16:38
  Speaker 1: his best, and letting the other fellow alone. He has
• 3:16:43
  Speaker 1: an abiding faith in the absolute. He believes in infinite
• 3:16:47
  Speaker 1: justice and ultimate good. He does not fear his father.
• 3:16:51
  Speaker 1: He cannot find room for fear where love abides. He
• 3:16:55
  Speaker 1: does not believe that there is a bottomless pit into
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  Speaker 1: which his loving father intends to lunch him. He has
• 3:17:01
  Speaker 1: too much confidence in his father to think that. He
• 3:17:05
  Speaker 1: believes that there is enough hell on earth to burn
• 3:17:08
  Speaker 1: away the mistakes and ignorance of man, and he believes
• 3:17:12
  Speaker 1: that all the burning ones will eventually emerge, purged of
• 3:17:15
  Speaker 1: their dross. He knows that his father is near him,
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  Speaker 1: for he has felt the pressure of his hand in
• 3:17:23
  Speaker 1: the darkness of the night. He has felt the Father's
• 3:17:26
  Speaker 1: presence by the glare of the lightning flash. He has
• 3:17:29
  Speaker 1: seen his form for a moment, and that memory is
• 3:17:33
  Speaker 1: burned into his brain. He faces the sun, this man
• 3:17:38
  Speaker 1: with the southern exposure. He is simple, loving kind. He
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  Speaker 1: is of the elect He is a prophecy of the future,
• 3:17:50
  Speaker 1: and he is on the increase. On the tree of
• 3:17:53
  Speaker 1: life are many promising buds which the Son of the
• 3:17:56
  Speaker 1: Spirit is nursing into beautiful blossoms that will yet fill
• 3:18:00
  Speaker 1: the world with the delicious fragrance of love. There are
• 3:18:04
  Speaker 1: certain people who have come into our midst silently and
• 3:18:07
  Speaker 1: without announcement. They have found places waiting for them. They
• 3:18:12
  Speaker 1: have come to prepare the way for their brothers and
• 3:18:14
  Speaker 1: sisters who are in the womb of the future. They
• 3:18:18
  Speaker 1: are working quietly to prepare a home for their unborn
• 3:18:21
  Speaker 1: brothers and sisters when they come. They are the forerunners
• 3:18:25
  Speaker 1: of the coming race. Smiled at, sneered at, persecuted, reviled, pitied.
• 3:18:35
  Speaker 1: It matters not. God has sent them. They have his
• 3:18:39
  Speaker 1: message to deliver. That's why they are here. The world
• 3:18:43
  Speaker 1: may raise its eyebrows, shrug its shoulders, tap its forehead significantly.
• 3:18:50
  Speaker 1: But these new people smile. They know, they know. They
• 3:18:56
  Speaker 1: see the misunderstanding multitude as mere babes in the spirit,
• 3:19:00
  Speaker 1: knowing many of them babes unborn, and they heed them.
• 3:19:04
  Speaker 1: Not take notice of these people. They are making their
• 3:19:09
  Speaker 1: presence felt. They are wielding a silent, powerful influence, and
• 3:19:14
  Speaker 1: are molding public opinion far more than are the blatant reformers,
• 3:19:19
  Speaker 1: the boastful leaders, the bespangled figures strutting at the front
• 3:19:23
  Speaker 1: of the stage. The people who are thus being used
• 3:19:27
  Speaker 1: instruments in God's hands are these quiet men and women
• 3:19:31
  Speaker 1: who are facing the sun, these people with the southern exposure.
• 3:19:37
  Speaker 1: If you feel the call to join the ranks of
• 3:19:40
  Speaker 1: these people, do not resist, but answer cheerfully. I hear,
• 3:19:46
  Speaker 1: I obey, I come. Allow the seed to grow into
• 3:19:52
  Speaker 1: the plant, the plant to put forth leaves, bud and blossom.
• 3:19:57
  Speaker 1: When you feel the impulse, do not resist. Open yourself
• 3:20:02
  Speaker 1: to the sun, receive its vibrations, and all will be well.
• 3:20:08
  Speaker 1: Be not afraid. Have within you that love which casteth
• 3:20:14
  Speaker 1: out fear. Place your hand in that of the absolute,
• 3:20:19
  Speaker 1: and say, lead thou me on. After long ages of wandering,
• 3:20:26
  Speaker 1: you are coming home a forward an extract from the
• 3:20:32
  Speaker 1: article of this name, in which the author introduced himself
• 3:20:34
  Speaker 1: to the readers of the magazine New Thought upon assuming
• 3:20:37
  Speaker 1: the position of co editor in December nineteen oh one.
• 3:20:43
  Speaker 1: An individualist wearing no ticket or label. No one has
• 3:20:49
  Speaker 1: a corner on truth enough to go around the infinite
• 3:20:54
  Speaker 1: power back of all things. The real self is spirit,
• 3:20:59
  Speaker 1: the law of attraction, fear, thought, the brotherhood of man.
• 3:21:06
  Speaker 1: I generally call myself a mental scientist, and am so
• 3:21:10
  Speaker 1: known to my friends. But I merely use the term
• 3:21:13
  Speaker 1: because it is broad and comprehensive, not because I bear
• 3:21:17
  Speaker 1: the ticket of any particular school of the New Thought,
• 3:21:20
  Speaker 1: not because I wear the badge of any special leader.
• 3:21:24
  Speaker 1: I am an individualist. I believe in the right of
• 3:21:27
  Speaker 1: every man to think his own thoughts, to find his
• 3:21:30
  Speaker 1: way to the truth by whatever road he may see fit,
• 3:21:34
  Speaker 1: even if he prefers to cut across fields in getting there.
• 3:21:38
  Speaker 1: I believe that whilst all men are brothers and each
• 3:21:41
  Speaker 1: a part of a mighty whole, still each one must
• 3:21:44
  Speaker 1: stand squarely upon his own feet, must work out his
• 3:21:47
  Speaker 1: own salvation, must do his own thinking. I believe that
• 3:21:52
  Speaker 1: truth is everywhere in everything, and that we may uncover
• 3:21:56
  Speaker 1: a bit of it, wherever we may happen to dig.
• 3:21:59
  Speaker 1: I do do not believe that any person has a
• 3:22:02
  Speaker 1: corner on the truth, a monopoly of knowing. I do
• 3:22:06
  Speaker 1: not believe in popes. In or out of the New thought.
• 3:22:10
  Speaker 1: Each of us will uncover his own little bit of
• 3:22:13
  Speaker 1: the truth. But we must not imagine that we have
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  Speaker 1: the whole thing. There's enough truth to go around and
• 3:22:20
  Speaker 1: to spare. I believe that there is an infinite power
• 3:22:25
  Speaker 1: in and of all things. I believe that although today
• 3:22:30
  Speaker 1: we have but the faintest idea of that power, still
• 3:22:34
  Speaker 1: we will steadily grow to comprehend it more fully. We'll
• 3:22:37
  Speaker 1: get in closer touch with it. Even now we have
• 3:22:41
  Speaker 1: momentary glimpses of its existence, a momentary consciousness of oneness
• 3:22:46
  Speaker 1: with the absolute. I believe that the greatest happiness consists
• 3:22:51
  Speaker 1: in maintaining toward the absolute the attitude of the trusting child, who,
• 3:22:56
  Speaker 1: feeling no doubt of the parent's love, no doubt of
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  Speaker 1: his wisdom, places his little hand in that of the parent,
• 3:23:04
  Speaker 1: and says, lead thou me on. I believe that he
• 3:23:10
  Speaker 1: who feels towards the absolute, the trustfulness of the babe,
• 3:23:14
  Speaker 1: which places its tired little head close to the breast
• 3:23:18
  Speaker 1: of the mother will also be conscious of the tender,
• 3:23:21
  Speaker 1: answering pressure as the babe is drawn just a little
• 3:23:25
  Speaker 1: closer to the mother heart. I believe these things, I
• 3:23:30
  Speaker 1: have felt them. I believe that man is immortal, that
• 3:23:37
  Speaker 1: the real self is spirit, which uses mind and body
• 3:23:41
  Speaker 1: as its tools, and manifests itself according to the fitness
• 3:23:45
  Speaker 1: of the tools. I believe that man is rapidly growing
• 3:23:49
  Speaker 1: into a new plane of consciousness, in which he will
• 3:23:53
  Speaker 1: know himself as he is, will recognize thee I am,
• 3:23:58
  Speaker 1: the something within. Many are having glimpses of the truth
• 3:24:02
  Speaker 1: every day. The first glimpses of the light of the
• 3:24:05
  Speaker 1: Great Dawn are even now being perceived by those who
• 3:24:08
  Speaker 1: are awake and watching. I believe that the mind of
• 3:24:14
  Speaker 1: man contains the greatest of all forces, that thought is
• 3:24:18
  Speaker 1: one of the greatest manifestations of energy. I believe that
• 3:24:23
  Speaker 1: the man who understands the use of thought force can
• 3:24:26
  Speaker 1: make of himself practically what he will. I believe that
• 3:24:30
  Speaker 1: not only is one's body subject to the control of
• 3:24:33
  Speaker 1: the mind, but that also one may change environment, luck
• 3:24:39
  Speaker 1: circumstances by positive thought taking the place of negative I
• 3:24:45
  Speaker 1: know that the I can, and I will. Attitude will
• 3:24:49
  Speaker 1: carry one forward to success that will seem miraculous to
• 3:24:53
  Speaker 1: the man on the I can't plane. I believe that
• 3:24:58
  Speaker 1: thoughts are things, and that the law of attraction in
• 3:25:02
  Speaker 1: the thought world will draw to one just what he
• 3:25:05
  Speaker 1: desires or fears. I believe that fear thought is the
• 3:25:11
  Speaker 1: root of more misery, unhappiness, disease, crime, failure, and other
• 3:25:16
  Speaker 1: undesirable things than any one thing in the world. I
• 3:25:21
  Speaker 1: intend to attack this monster most vigorously through these columns.
• 3:25:26
  Speaker 1: I intend going for him with the grace of God
• 3:25:29
  Speaker 1: in my heart and a good hickory club in my hand.
• 3:25:33
  Speaker 1: I will cause many of you to tear out fear
• 3:25:36
  Speaker 1: by the roots. You don't need it about you. I
• 3:25:41
  Speaker 1: will preach the gospel of fearlessness. There is nothing in
• 3:25:45
  Speaker 1: the world or out of it to fear except fear.
• 3:25:51
  Speaker 1: I will also preach the gospel of backbone to you,
• 3:25:54
  Speaker 1: will insist upon your inserting a steel rowed vertebra in
• 3:25:58
  Speaker 1: the place of that in a rubber affair that some
• 3:26:01
  Speaker 1: of you are carrying around with you. You doubt this, do you? Well?
• 3:26:06
  Speaker 1: Just you wait and see. I believe in the brotherhood
• 3:26:10
  Speaker 1: of man. I believe in being kind. I believe in
• 3:26:14
  Speaker 1: everyone minding his own business and allowing everyone else the
• 3:26:18
  Speaker 1: same privilege. I believe that we have no right to condemn.
• 3:26:24
  Speaker 1: Let him who is without sin cast the first stone.
• 3:26:28
  Speaker 1: I believe that he who hates is an assassin, that
• 3:26:33
  Speaker 1: he who covets is a thief, that he who lusts
• 3:26:37
  Speaker 1: is an adulterer. That the gist of a crime is
• 3:26:40
  Speaker 1: in its desire. Seeing this, looking into our own hearts,
• 3:26:47
  Speaker 1: how can we condemn. I believe that evil is but ignorance.
• 3:26:53
  Speaker 1: I believe that to know all is to forgive all.
• 3:26:59
  Speaker 1: I believe that there is good in every man, let
• 3:27:02
  Speaker 1: us help him to manifest it. I believe in the
• 3:27:06
  Speaker 1: absolute equality of the man and the woman. Sometimes I
• 3:27:10
  Speaker 1: think that the odds are slightly in favor of the woman.
• 3:27:13
  Speaker 1: I believe in the sacredness of sex, but I also
• 3:27:17
  Speaker 1: believe that sex manifests on the spiritual and mental planes
• 3:27:21
  Speaker 1: as well as on the physical. And I believe that
• 3:27:25
  Speaker 1: to the pure, all things are pure. I also believe
• 3:27:29
  Speaker 1: in the Gospel of work in hustling. I believe in
• 3:27:34
  Speaker 1: the ey do as well as the I am. I
• 3:27:39
  Speaker 1: know that the man who will take advantage of the
• 3:27:42
  Speaker 1: power of the mind, and who will manifest that power
• 3:27:46
  Speaker 1: in action will go forward to success as surely and
• 3:27:50
  Speaker 1: as steadily as the arrow from the bow of the
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  Speaker 1: skilled archer.
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  Speaker 2: Partnership, Next to marriage, partnership is the most important association
• 3:28:04
  Speaker 2: mental partnerships. Be careful whom you choose as your mental partners.
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  Speaker 2: Get into partnership with the best thoughts. Dissolve partnership with
• 3:28:17
  Speaker 2: the other kind. I can, I will, I do, I dare.
• 3:28:27
  Speaker 2: Next to marriage, a partnership arrangement is the most important
• 3:28:32
  Speaker 2: association into which a man or woman may enter. Its
• 3:28:37
  Speaker 2: consequences are far reaching and difficult to escape, and to
• 3:28:43
  Speaker 2: a very considerable extent, one is bound by the acts
• 3:28:47
  Speaker 2: of his partners. This being the case, it is of
• 3:28:51
  Speaker 2: the utmost importance that one should exercise the greatest diligence
• 3:28:57
  Speaker 2: and care in selecting partners. If any of my readers
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  Speaker 2: were to contemplate entering into a partnership agreement with others,
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  Speaker 2: he would be sure to select those who were possessed
• 3:29:12
  Speaker 2: of the most desirable qualities and those most conducive to success.
• 3:29:18
  Speaker 2: He would carefully avoid those possessed of lack of confidence, fear, worry, discouragement,
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  Speaker 2: and others. Of the I can't class. He would seek
• 3:29:31
  Speaker 2: out the courageous, confident I can and I will men.
• 3:29:38
  Speaker 2: He would keep away from those in whom hate, malice, jealousy, envy, bigotry,
• 3:29:46
  Speaker 2: and other traits of ignorance were strongly manifest. He would,
• 3:29:52
  Speaker 2: in short, choose those who possessed, to the greatest possible
• 3:29:56
  Speaker 2: degree the qualities most conducive to success, and would as
• 3:30:01
  Speaker 2: carefully avoid those possessed of opposite qualities. There is no
• 3:30:07
  Speaker 2: doubt of the truth of what I have just said.
• 3:30:10
  Speaker 2: Every one of you will admit it. Now. I do
• 3:30:16
  Speaker 2: not purpose telling you about business partnerships of the ordinary kind.
• 3:30:21
  Speaker 2: You know all about those. But I will call your
• 3:30:25
  Speaker 2: attention to the fact that you are every day forming
• 3:30:30
  Speaker 2: partnerships of a most important character and far reaching in
• 3:30:35
  Speaker 2: their effects, but of which you probably have been unaware.
• 3:30:41
  Speaker 2: When your attention is once called to the matter, many
• 3:30:45
  Speaker 2: things will seem clear to you that have heretofore appeared
• 3:30:50
  Speaker 2: quite dark, and you will be able to avoid mistakes
• 3:30:54
  Speaker 2: in the future that have been quite common in the past.
• 3:30:59
  Speaker 2: This is an important lesson, and I trust that you
• 3:31:03
  Speaker 2: will give heed to what I say. I have stated
• 3:31:09
  Speaker 2: in previous articles that your mind is a mighty magnet
• 3:31:14
  Speaker 2: attracting to itself. The thoughts emanating from the minds of
• 3:31:18
  Speaker 2: others like attracts like in the world of thought, and
• 3:31:23
  Speaker 2: the prevailing character of your thoughts will be manifested in
• 3:31:27
  Speaker 2: the character of thought waves drawn to you from the
• 3:31:30
  Speaker 2: great ocean of thought. Your thought mingles and colesses with
• 3:31:36
  Speaker 2: thoughts of a corresponding nature send out from the minds
• 3:31:40
  Speaker 2: of others, and both you and the other senders are
• 3:31:44
  Speaker 2: strengthened in the mental attitude. By reason of the joining
• 3:31:48
  Speaker 2: of forces. You are entering into a mental partnership with
• 3:31:53
  Speaker 2: those unknown thinkers and attracting them to you, and you
• 3:31:58
  Speaker 2: to them. Why do birds of a feather flock together
• 3:32:04
  Speaker 2: in business an every day life, simply because they are
• 3:32:08
  Speaker 2: irresistibly drawn to each other by the law of mental attraction.
• 3:32:14
  Speaker 2: The people with whom you are brought in contact are
• 3:32:17
  Speaker 2: those of the same mental key as yourself. You may
• 3:32:22
  Speaker 2: not agree with this statement, but a close analysis will
• 3:32:26
  Speaker 2: prove it. The pushing, hustling, wide awake man will attract
• 3:32:31
  Speaker 2: to himself thought partners of the same stamp, while the
• 3:32:36
  Speaker 2: man who is afraid is always sure to find himself
• 3:32:40
  Speaker 2: surrounded by people having the same defects. And not only
• 3:32:46
  Speaker 2: is this true in the sense that the law brings
• 3:32:48
  Speaker 2: you into actual contact with people of the same mental key,
• 3:32:52
  Speaker 2: but you are connecting yourself with hundreds of others who
• 3:32:57
  Speaker 2: are thinking along the same lines. Though you may never
• 3:33:01
  Speaker 2: actually come in physical contact with these people, you are
• 3:33:06
  Speaker 2: going into partnership with them and will share in the
• 3:33:09
  Speaker 2: firms profits and losses, just as you would in case
• 3:33:14
  Speaker 2: of an ordinary business partnership, and it is easy to
• 3:33:18
  Speaker 2: foretell upon just what side of the firm, letger, the
• 3:33:22
  Speaker 2: balance will appear. When you approach a man on business
• 3:33:28
  Speaker 2: with your mind ladened with thoughts of fear, lack of confidence, etc.
• 3:33:34
  Speaker 2: You strike a similar keynote in that man, and he
• 3:33:38
  Speaker 2: instinctively feels that he has no confidence in you or
• 3:33:42
  Speaker 2: your business. And if he is a man who is
• 3:33:46
  Speaker 2: predominant to not discourage, he will feel the in harmony
• 3:33:50
  Speaker 2: and get rid of you as soon as he can. If,
• 3:33:54
  Speaker 2: on the contrary, he is also an I can't man,
• 3:33:58
  Speaker 2: he will feel a fellow feeling for you, but it
• 3:34:02
  Speaker 2: will do you no good. It will be a case
• 3:34:05
  Speaker 2: of misery loves company, and the first thing you know,
• 3:34:09
  Speaker 2: you will find yourself and that man in an earnest
• 3:34:13
  Speaker 2: conversation about dull times, poor crops. The country is going
• 3:34:19
  Speaker 2: to the dogs. No chance for a man nowadays. We
• 3:34:23
  Speaker 2: are all going to the poorhouse, et cetera, et cetera.
• 3:34:27
  Speaker 2: I've seen it happen many a time, haven't you. But
• 3:34:33
  Speaker 2: if you are an I can, and I will man
• 3:34:36
  Speaker 2: and he is the same. See how different things are.
• 3:34:41
  Speaker 2: He will warm up to you and will feel that
• 3:34:44
  Speaker 2: he understands you, and sooner or later you and he
• 3:34:48
  Speaker 2: will do business with each other. In fact, the arrangement
• 3:34:53
  Speaker 2: is begun with your first meeting. If you can get
• 3:34:57
  Speaker 2: yourself in something like the same ment attitude of a
• 3:35:01
  Speaker 2: man with whom you wish to do business, you will
• 3:35:04
  Speaker 2: get along with him. Never fear. When you have something
• 3:35:09
  Speaker 2: in mind upon which you are working, and you are
• 3:35:13
  Speaker 2: at the same time maintaining the proper mental attitude, you
• 3:35:17
  Speaker 2: are placing yourself in psychic touch with every other man
• 3:35:21
  Speaker 2: in the same line who is holding the same mental attitude.
• 3:35:26
  Speaker 2: You drew an inspiration from them, and both parties to
• 3:35:30
  Speaker 2: the mental partnership share in the profits. Both will share
• 3:35:35
  Speaker 2: to a certain extent in each other's progress, and both
• 3:35:39
  Speaker 2: will draw largely from the mental stock of those who
• 3:35:43
  Speaker 2: are working along the same lines, but who are holding
• 3:35:47
  Speaker 2: a negative mental attitude. In fact, the whole store of
• 3:35:51
  Speaker 2: knowledge and progress along those lines will be tapped by
• 3:35:55
  Speaker 2: these partners holding the positive mental attitude. Plans, ideas, combinations, schemes,
• 3:36:04
  Speaker 2: devices will spring into being in their minds, and they
• 3:36:08
  Speaker 2: will not only help each other, but will draw upon
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  Speaker 2: the less positive people. This seems a hard law, but
• 3:36:16
  Speaker 2: it is, like all of nature's laws, so severe that
• 3:36:20
  Speaker 2: we are forced sooner or later to learn the lesson
• 3:36:25
  Speaker 2: we learn by experience. Only. This operation of law of
• 3:36:30
  Speaker 2: mental attraction is a good example of one of the
• 3:36:34
  Speaker 2: meanings of that saying, so dark to many, to him
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  Speaker 2: that hath shall be given to him, that hath not
• 3:36:42
  Speaker 2: shall be taken away, even that which he hath at
• 3:36:47
  Speaker 2: any rate. That is the way the law works. And
• 3:36:53
  Speaker 2: it is not only in the matter of success that
• 3:36:56
  Speaker 2: this mental partnership works. Its operations are manifest everywhere. You
• 3:37:03
  Speaker 2: will notice that the negative emotions drow to themselves people, thoughts,
• 3:37:09
  Speaker 2: and things upon which they can feed. Let a man
• 3:37:14
  Speaker 2: or woman manifest jealousy, and lo as if from the
• 3:37:18
  Speaker 2: earth spring apparent causes for that jealous feeling all sorts
• 3:37:24
  Speaker 2: of things seem to conspire to feed the green eyed
• 3:37:28
  Speaker 2: monster into a state of fatness. And let a man
• 3:37:32
  Speaker 2: or woman get a notion that people are trying to
• 3:37:35
  Speaker 2: slight them, and let them continue to hold this thought,
• 3:37:40
  Speaker 2: and it will soon seem to the poor victim of
• 3:37:43
  Speaker 2: fear thought as if everybody in the world was determined
• 3:37:48
  Speaker 2: to snub, slight and tread upon him and hurt his feelings.
• 3:37:55
  Speaker 2: If he persists in this attitude, life will become a
• 3:37:59
  Speaker 2: burden too heavy to bear, and there will be no
• 3:38:03
  Speaker 2: possible relief for him except a change of mental front.
• 3:38:08
  Speaker 2: Let one imagine that every one is trying to cheat him,
• 3:38:12
  Speaker 2: and he will be a lucky man if he does
• 3:38:15
  Speaker 2: not find that the things he feared have come upon him.
• 3:38:20
  Speaker 2: Let a man cherish thoughts of hate and malice, and
• 3:38:23
  Speaker 2: sooner or later he will become involved in all sorts
• 3:38:27
  Speaker 2: of hateful, malicious schemes and occurrences with his partners whom
• 3:38:32
  Speaker 2: he has drawn to him. He who lives by the
• 3:38:36
  Speaker 2: sword shall die by the sword. Is proven every day
• 3:38:41
  Speaker 2: he who thinks every man is a rogue will see
• 3:38:44
  Speaker 2: enough rogues to justify him in his belief, and will
• 3:38:49
  Speaker 2: probably end up by having people think of him as
• 3:38:52
  Speaker 2: a rogue. He will draw all sorts of roguish people, things,
• 3:38:56
  Speaker 2: and circumstances to him. Did you ever start in the
• 3:39:02
  Speaker 2: morning feeling cross and crabbed? Well, if you did, you
• 3:39:07
  Speaker 2: probably found that, after the inevitable domestic row over the
• 3:39:11
  Speaker 2: buckwheat cakes and coffee, after you had left your wife
• 3:39:16
  Speaker 2: with tears in her eyes and the children in good
• 3:39:20
  Speaker 2: shape to get into trouble in school, that everyone seems
• 3:39:25
  Speaker 2: to have it in for you. Some fellow in the
• 3:39:28
  Speaker 2: train seemed to deliberately tread on your pet corn, another
• 3:39:33
  Speaker 2: jostled you, and so on. When you got down to business,
• 3:39:38
  Speaker 2: everything went wrong, and unless you brought yourself up with
• 3:39:43
  Speaker 2: a short turn, you had a dreadful time of it
• 3:39:46
  Speaker 2: all day, and were glad when night came that you
• 3:39:50
  Speaker 2: might sleep it off. You will always find that there
• 3:39:54
  Speaker 2: are plenty of people waiting to go into mental partnership
• 3:39:58
  Speaker 2: with you. In such cases, if you are looking for
• 3:40:01
  Speaker 2: a fight, you will get it. I tell you, friends,
• 3:40:07
  Speaker 2: that people are all more or less in psychic touch
• 3:40:11
  Speaker 2: with each other, and the sooner we recognize this fact,
• 3:40:15
  Speaker 2: the better it will be for us. This law of
• 3:40:18
  Speaker 2: mental attraction works either good or bad for us, according
• 3:40:24
  Speaker 2: to the uses we make of it. If we run
• 3:40:27
  Speaker 2: contrary to the law, we will be taught lesson after
• 3:40:31
  Speaker 2: lesson until we learn something. But if we fall in
• 3:40:35
  Speaker 2: with the workings of the law, we will reap the
• 3:40:38
  Speaker 2: benefits that come to man when he masters and controls
• 3:40:43
  Speaker 2: any of nature's great forces. Now, don't make partnerships of
• 3:40:50
  Speaker 2: an undesirable kind. If you do, you will have to
• 3:40:55
  Speaker 2: bear the consequences. If you have already formed such a
• 3:40:59
  Speaker 2: partner ship, dissolve it at once and go into liquidation.
• 3:41:04
  Speaker 2: After a while you will have cleared up the old
• 3:41:07
  Speaker 2: deaths and straightened matters out, and will begin to do
• 3:41:12
  Speaker 2: business on another basis. And I want to tell you
• 3:41:16
  Speaker 2: right here that you can get into the best mental
• 3:41:19
  Speaker 2: firms in the world if you only go about it right.
• 3:41:24
  Speaker 2: They will not object to you if you are a
• 3:41:27
  Speaker 2: fit member, and in fact, they could not keep you
• 3:41:31
  Speaker 2: out even if they wished. The doors will open at
• 3:41:35
  Speaker 2: the magic touch of the spoken word, packed up by
• 3:41:39
  Speaker 2: the proper mental attitude, Cut loose from the old thought
• 3:41:43
  Speaker 2: associations and form new connections. Get in touch with the
• 3:41:48
  Speaker 2: right kind of thought waves, People and things cultivate the
• 3:41:53
  Speaker 2: proper mental attitude and demand an entrance to the firm
• 3:41:58
  Speaker 2: you wish. Good men are scarce in all branches of business,
• 3:42:03
  Speaker 2: trades and professions. There's room for you away up at
• 3:42:07
  Speaker 2: the top two. Get what belongs to you. Do not
• 3:42:11
  Speaker 2: be cheated out of your heritage. Assert yourself. Join today
• 3:42:17
  Speaker 2: that good hustling firm whose name on the sign board reads,
• 3:42:23
  Speaker 2: I can, I will, I do, I dare.
• 3:42:29
  Speaker 1: The seekers the secret of life, the riddle of existence.
• 3:42:36
  Speaker 1: Sought now as ever, the wieness of things attempts to
• 3:42:42
  Speaker 1: answer the riddle. The seekers fantastic creeds and queer philosophies,
• 3:42:49
  Speaker 1: revamping old ideas, the story of the man and the stars,
• 3:42:55
  Speaker 1: the answer to be found within the soul. I laugh
• 3:43:00
  Speaker 1: at the lore and the pride of man, at the
• 3:43:02
  Speaker 1: softest schools and the learned clan, For what are they
• 3:43:07
  Speaker 1: all in their high conceit? When man in the bush
• 3:43:11
  Speaker 1: with God may meet Emerson. Man is trying to reason out, now,
• 3:43:19
  Speaker 1: as in the past, the secret of life, the riddle
• 3:43:22
  Speaker 1: of existence. He seeks to know from whence he comes,
• 3:43:26
  Speaker 1: whither he goes, and what is the object of his existence.
• 3:43:30
  Speaker 1: He wants to know the whyness of things, what it
• 3:43:33
  Speaker 1: all means. He is like the squirrel in the cage,
• 3:43:37
  Speaker 1: which exhausts itself in traveling the long road of the wheel,
• 3:43:41
  Speaker 1: only to find itself at the end of its journey
• 3:43:44
  Speaker 1: just where it started, or worse still, like the newly
• 3:43:49
  Speaker 1: caged wild bird. He dashes against the bars of his
• 3:43:52
  Speaker 1: prison again and again in his efforts to regain his freedom,
• 3:43:56
  Speaker 1: until at last he lies weak and bleeding still. It
• 3:44:02
  Speaker 1: has ever been so. From the childhood of the race
• 3:44:05
  Speaker 1: until the present time. Sages, seers, prophets, and philosophers have
• 3:44:11
  Speaker 1: endeavored to reason out the problem, but their labors have
• 3:44:14
  Speaker 1: availed nothing, and the riddle remains unanswered. Man has traveled
• 3:44:19
  Speaker 1: over and over the circular road of thought, only to
• 3:44:23
  Speaker 1: discover that it has no beginning, no ending. He thinks
• 3:44:27
  Speaker 1: that he has explained things, but he has merely given
• 3:44:31
  Speaker 1: them names. All the scientific research, all the theological and
• 3:44:36
  Speaker 1: metaphysical speculation, has failed even to explain the sprouting of
• 3:44:41
  Speaker 1: the mustard seed. Life and death is a mystery to
• 3:44:45
  Speaker 1: the most brilliant man of this civilization, as it was
• 3:44:49
  Speaker 1: to the ignorant creature of the Stone Age. Races, Nations,
• 3:44:54
  Speaker 1: civilizations rise and fall. Creeds are born, grow strong, weaken,
• 3:45:00
  Speaker 1: and die, but the secret remains a secret still. The
• 3:45:06
  Speaker 1: present day seems to have reawakened the latent desire of
• 3:45:10
  Speaker 1: man to see behind the veil. The pendulum which carried
• 3:45:14
  Speaker 1: so many thinkers to the materialistic extreme, is beginning to
• 3:45:18
  Speaker 1: swing in the opposite direction, and is causing a strange
• 3:45:21
  Speaker 1: and wonderful revival of ancient creeds and philosophies. Those who
• 3:45:26
  Speaker 1: have long since turned their backs upon the accepted creeds
• 3:45:30
  Speaker 1: now find themselves in the company of those who still
• 3:45:32
  Speaker 1: claim allegiance to the church, but who feel themselves cramped
• 3:45:36
  Speaker 1: by the creeds fashioned for them by their fathers. The
• 3:45:41
  Speaker 1: leader of the new thought, reaching the top of the
• 3:45:43
  Speaker 1: mountain often finds himself face to face with a scientific
• 3:45:47
  Speaker 1: savant who has reached the same place by climbing up
• 3:45:51
  Speaker 1: the other side of the hill. And the scientist and
• 3:45:55
  Speaker 1: the new thought man need not be surprised to find
• 3:45:58
  Speaker 1: a leader of advanced religious thoughts claiming a foothold on
• 3:46:01
  Speaker 1: the top of the same hill. But the trio, after
• 3:46:05
  Speaker 1: they have congratulated themselves upon reaching the summit and ending
• 3:46:09
  Speaker 1: their journey, look around them and low their mountain is
• 3:46:13
  Speaker 1: but a foothill, and far above them, towering higher and
• 3:46:18
  Speaker 1: higher rise range after range of the real mountains, the
• 3:46:23
  Speaker 1: highest peaks being hidden among the clouds. One has but
• 3:46:28
  Speaker 1: to look around him to see how strenuous has grown
• 3:46:31
  Speaker 1: the search for the answer to the riddle. New creeds, philosophies, cults,
• 3:46:35
  Speaker 1: and schools confront us at every turn. The past has
• 3:46:39
  Speaker 1: been ransacked for its discarded philosophies, which have been renovated
• 3:46:44
  Speaker 1: and trimmed anew for modern use. The dust has been
• 3:46:48
  Speaker 1: brushed off many and old and almost forgotten creed, which
• 3:46:52
  Speaker 1: is pushed to the front under a new name and
• 3:46:54
  Speaker 1: with new trimmings. Plato is worked over time to furnish
• 3:46:58
  Speaker 1: the twentieth century creed promoters with material to be done over.
• 3:47:02
  Speaker 1: The wildest dreams of the ancients are toned down a
• 3:47:05
  Speaker 1: little and boldly offered to the eager multitude as the
• 3:47:08
  Speaker 1: long sought for solution of it. All priests and teachers
• 3:47:13
  Speaker 1: of all the religions of all lands are among us,
• 3:47:16
  Speaker 1: vying with the priests and priestesses of the new philosophies
• 3:47:20
  Speaker 1: and creeds of our own land, and bidding for public favor.
• 3:47:24
  Speaker 1: And these new home made philosophies how frightfully and wonderfully
• 3:47:29
  Speaker 1: are they made. The old philosophies of Greece and Rome
• 3:47:33
  Speaker 1: are skillfully dovetailed with the creeds of the Orient, and
• 3:47:36
  Speaker 1: the result is a thing differing from anything ever seen
• 3:47:39
  Speaker 1: before by gods or men. Brahmins, Buddhists, Confucians, Mahommedans, and
• 3:47:47
  Speaker 1: sun worshipers claim thousands of followers in our land, and
• 3:47:51
  Speaker 1: Isis and Osiris will before long again be given a
• 3:47:56
  Speaker 1: place and duly installed in the new Pantheon. Thor and
• 3:48:00
  Speaker 1: Odin will doubtless be revamped and the rights of the
• 3:48:03
  Speaker 1: Druids revived. We are looking every day for the arrival
• 3:48:08
  Speaker 1: on our shores of the advance agent of the Joss
• 3:48:11
  Speaker 1: propaganda from the celestial Kingdom, and the home product is,
• 3:48:16
  Speaker 1: if possible, more fantastic and bizarre than the imported article.
• 3:48:22
  Speaker 1: The wildest claims and statements are made with an air
• 3:48:24
  Speaker 1: of authority, and are accepted as gospel by the adherents
• 3:48:28
  Speaker 1: of the several sects. One does not know whether to
• 3:48:32
  Speaker 1: sigh or weep as he watches some of the modern
• 3:48:35
  Speaker 1: prophets and prophetesses strutting their little stage and cutting fantastic
• 3:48:40
  Speaker 1: capers before high Heaven, thus adding to the gaiety of
• 3:48:43
  Speaker 1: the nations. The demand for these things has been created,
• 3:48:48
  Speaker 1: and nothing seems too highly spiced for the devotees of
• 3:48:51
  Speaker 1: the latter day creeds and the followers of those strange prophets.
• 3:48:56
  Speaker 1: What of them? Many of them are mere excitement, others
• 3:49:02
  Speaker 1: that class of people possessed of a consuming thirst for
• 3:49:05
  Speaker 1: something new. Some are honest seekers for the truth, and
• 3:49:10
  Speaker 1: others are those who have cut away from their old
• 3:49:12
  Speaker 1: moorings and are drifting about rudderless and without an anchor,
• 3:49:17
  Speaker 1: at the mercy of any stray current which may sweep
• 3:49:19
  Speaker 1: them along. There are thousands of people who never heard
• 3:49:24
  Speaker 1: of the philosophies and creeds of the ancients, who are
• 3:49:27
  Speaker 1: now dazzled by the revamped doctrines expounded by the modern prophets,
• 3:49:32
  Speaker 1: and who being impressed with the strangeness and novelty of
• 3:49:35
  Speaker 1: the to them new truths. Except them as inspired and
• 3:49:40
  Speaker 1: emanating from the absolute, new gods have arisen, and also
• 3:49:45
  Speaker 1: new devils. The malicious mental magnetism of the Christian scientists
• 3:49:52
  Speaker 1: is as much a devil to them as was the
• 3:49:55
  Speaker 1: Orthodox devil of one hundred years ago to our forefathers.
• 3:50:00
  Speaker 1: The new cults usually begin by performing cures by means
• 3:50:03
  Speaker 1: of the power of the mind and other natural laws,
• 3:50:06
  Speaker 1: which they attribute to the principles and teachings of their
• 3:50:09
  Speaker 1: particular sex. Many of them, now, however, frankly admit that
• 3:50:14
  Speaker 1: they are past the healing stage, and look down upon
• 3:50:18
  Speaker 1: the mere healing of disease as a thing too nearly
• 3:50:21
  Speaker 1: allied to the detested material plane to be seriously considered.
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  Speaker 1: The time of the leaders is now principally occupied in
• 3:50:29
  Speaker 1: announcing and elucidating wonderful, high spiritual truths for the seekers,
• 3:50:35
  Speaker 1: soaring away up in the clouds of transcendentalism, leaving their
• 3:50:40
  Speaker 1: followers behind, gaping upwards like a crowd at a country
• 3:50:44
  Speaker 1: balloon ascension. Once upon a time there was a reformer
• 3:50:49
  Speaker 1: who attended a public meeting and took part in an
• 3:50:52
  Speaker 1: exciting debate on an important question of the day. At last, heated,
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  Speaker 1: wearied and disgusted by the fruitless lies struggle, he left
• 3:51:01
  Speaker 1: the hall and started for home. It was a beautiful,
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  Speaker 1: cold winter's night, and the heavens were studded with stars
• 3:51:09
  Speaker 1: shining bright through the clear, frosty atmosphere. Pausing for a
• 3:51:13
  Speaker 1: moment in his rapid walk. He glanced upward. The stars
• 3:51:18
  Speaker 1: were twinkling away merrily. They did not seem to be
• 3:51:21
  Speaker 1: at all disturbed by what had been going on in
• 3:51:24
  Speaker 1: the meeting. They appeared just the same as when in
• 3:51:27
  Speaker 1: years past, as a boy, he had looked at them
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  Speaker 1: with wondering eyes. As he gazed, a peaceful calm came
• 3:51:35
  Speaker 1: over him, and his worry, doubts, and fears seemed very petty.
• 3:51:42
  Speaker 1: At last, one little star appeared to notice him, and
• 3:51:46
  Speaker 1: he thought he could see it, cast a good natured
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  Speaker 1: glance downward, saying in a cheerful voice, why so hot,
• 3:51:54
  Speaker 1: little man? When we feel cast down with doubt, torn
• 3:52:01
  Speaker 1: with anxiety, weak from loss of faith, feinate with fear,
• 3:52:07
  Speaker 1: let us look aloft at the stars when we see
• 3:52:11
  Speaker 1: those distant points of light, knowing them to be centers
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  Speaker 1: of solar systems, knowing that beyond, beyond and beyond are
• 3:52:21
  Speaker 1: countless other suns and world. Let us pluck up a
• 3:52:26
  Speaker 1: little courage and realize that we are a part of
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  Speaker 1: a mighty law, a stupendous plan. Let us know that
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  Speaker 1: the power which called these things into life, and which
• 3:52:38
  Speaker 1: is able to manage them and even greater things, has
• 3:52:42
  Speaker 1: us in charge. And will not allow us to be destroyed.
• 3:52:46
  Speaker 1: Let us know that we are but in the kindergarten
• 3:52:49
  Speaker 1: stage of existence, and that we shall go on and
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  Speaker 1: on and on, from plane to plane, ever onward and
• 3:52:57
  Speaker 1: upward in the scale, until at las last we shall
• 3:53:01
  Speaker 1: be able to spell out the lines of the primmer
• 3:53:04
  Speaker 1: of life and learn the multiplication table of the universe.
• 3:53:10
  Speaker 1: Let us, in the meanwhile, live on in trust and hope,
• 3:53:14
  Speaker 1: one day at a time, living our own lives, doing
• 3:53:18
  Speaker 1: our best work, getting the joy which comes from the
• 3:53:21
  Speaker 1: simple human life, lending a helping hand. Let us abolish
• 3:53:27
  Speaker 1: fear and hate and replace them with courage, confidence, and love.
• 3:53:33
  Speaker 1: Let us look for good rather than evil. Let us
• 3:53:36
  Speaker 1: know failure as merely a lesson in success. Let us
• 3:53:40
  Speaker 1: look upon death as birth. Let us do the best
• 3:53:44
  Speaker 1: we can with this world, knowing that the next world
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  Speaker 1: will find us prepared for its task. Let us know
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  Speaker 1: that we are in eternity right now. Let us know
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  Speaker 1: that God is not so far away as we have
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  Speaker 1: been taught. For is it not true that in Him
• 3:54:03
  Speaker 1: we live and move and have our being. Let us
• 3:54:07
  Speaker 1: preserve our sense of humor, for it will guard us
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  Speaker 1: against many a fear, many a folly many a delusion.
• 3:54:16
  Speaker 1: And finally, let us keep out of the throng which
• 3:54:19
  Speaker 1: is rushing wildly hither and thither after leaders, prophets, sages, sears.
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  Speaker 1: Let us look within ourselves and see the little flame
• 3:54:31
  Speaker 1: which burns steadily there. Let us know that we have
• 3:54:36
  Speaker 1: within us the light of the spirit, which naught can extinguish.
• 3:54:41
  Speaker 1: And let us say, with good old newman, lead kindly,
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  Speaker 1: light amid the encircling gloom. Lead thou me on. The
• 3:54:52
  Speaker 1: night is dark, and I am far from home. Lead
• 3:54:56
  Speaker 1: thou me on, keep thou my feet h I do
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  Speaker 1: not ask to see the distant scene. One step enough
• 3:55:04
  Speaker 1: for me. Lead thou me on.
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  Speaker 2: Mental pictures. I hang bright pictures in my mind. Bright
• 3:55:15
  Speaker 2: pictures encourage one. Gloomy ones depress. Get rid of your
• 3:55:21
  Speaker 2: old gloomy mental pictures, make a bonfire of them, get
• 3:55:26
  Speaker 2: rid of the particularly miserable one first of all, then
• 3:55:31
  Speaker 2: put bright ones in their places. I now hang bright
• 3:55:37
  Speaker 2: pictures in my mind, said a friend to me recently.
• 3:55:42
  Speaker 2: Her remark explained to me, without the necessity of further words,
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  Speaker 2: the cause of her bright, cheerful and happy disposition so
• 3:55:52
  Speaker 2: greatly in contrast with that of the despondent, fretful woman
• 3:55:57
  Speaker 2: I had known a few months ago. The change seems
• 3:56:01
  Speaker 2: so remarkable that one would have almost expected her to
• 3:56:06
  Speaker 2: have claimed some startling occurrence as the cause of the
• 3:56:10
  Speaker 2: wondrous transformation, and instead of giving so commonplace an explanation.
• 3:56:18
  Speaker 2: But just think how much there is in this thought
• 3:56:22
  Speaker 2: I hang bright pictures in my mind. Stop a moment,
• 3:56:27
  Speaker 2: and let the thought sink deep into your inner consciousness.
• 3:56:33
  Speaker 2: Bright pictures in the mind. Why not? Indeed, if we
• 3:56:39
  Speaker 2: wish to make a chamber or office bright and cheery,
• 3:56:44
  Speaker 2: we see that nothing but pictures representing bright, cheerful subjects
• 3:56:50
  Speaker 2: are hung there. They may be the choicest engravings or paintings,
• 3:56:56
  Speaker 2: or they may be some little inexpensive thing, But just
• 3:57:01
  Speaker 2: so they are bright and cheery. The purpose is accomplished,
• 3:57:06
  Speaker 2: and the room somehow seems a happier, more joyous place
• 3:57:11
  Speaker 2: than before. If we were preparing a new room for
• 3:57:16
  Speaker 2: the occupancy of some dear one, would we place there
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  Speaker 2: any but the brightest picture? Would we hang there pictures
• 3:57:26
  Speaker 2: of pain and misery, hate and murder, jealousy and revenge, sickness,
• 3:57:33
  Speaker 2: suffering and death, failure and discouragement? Would we do this thing,
• 3:57:39
  Speaker 2: I ask you, would you do it? And if not,
• 3:57:45
  Speaker 2: why not pray? Simply because you inextinctively feel that the gloomy,
• 3:57:52
  Speaker 2: hateful subjects would react upon the loved one, and you
• 3:57:57
  Speaker 2: know is the same way that the bride, cheerful and
• 3:58:01
  Speaker 2: aspiring subjects are likely to uplift, stimulate, encourage, and make
• 3:58:07
  Speaker 2: better the occupant of the chamber. Have you ever noticed
• 3:58:13
  Speaker 2: that some rooms always seem to exert a beneficial effect
• 3:58:17
  Speaker 2: upon you, while others seem to depress you? Certainly you have.
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  Speaker 2: Well the next time you go into these rooms, look
• 3:58:27
  Speaker 2: around a little and see if the explanation of your
• 3:58:31
  Speaker 2: moods is not to be found in the character of
• 3:58:34
  Speaker 2: the pictures on the walls. You may not have specially
• 3:58:38
  Speaker 2: noticed them before, but your subconscious mental faculties have taken
• 3:58:44
  Speaker 2: up the impression and the reflex action has affected you.
• 3:58:49
  Speaker 2: Who can resist the fetching qualities of a bright baby
• 3:58:52
  Speaker 2: face smiling from a little picture on the mantle or
• 3:58:56
  Speaker 2: on the wall, Not I, for one? And who can
• 3:59:01
  Speaker 2: help feeling the sense of comradeship for the kindly sand Bernard,
• 3:59:06
  Speaker 2: whose great affectionate eyes look down upon you from the
• 3:59:10
  Speaker 2: engraving on the other side of the room. And on
• 3:59:14
  Speaker 2: the other hand, who could. But now I'm not going
• 3:59:18
  Speaker 2: to describe the other kind of pictures in this article.
• 3:59:23
  Speaker 2: But now to get back to the pictures in the mind.
• 3:59:27
  Speaker 2: If the gloomy pictures on the wall affect people, what
• 3:59:31
  Speaker 2: do you suppose will be the effect of carrying around gloomy, fearful, hateful, jealous, envious,
• 3:59:39
  Speaker 2: despondent mental pictures? Can any good come of lugging this
• 3:59:45
  Speaker 2: trash around with you? Come? Now, be honest, why don't
• 3:59:50
  Speaker 2: you bundle up these horrible corimus of the mind and
• 3:59:54
  Speaker 2: then make a bonfire of the lot. Now is the
• 3:59:58
  Speaker 2: time for a mental house cli get to work and
• 4:00:01
  Speaker 2: clean out these miserable DoBeS and replace them with a nice, bright, cheerful, happy,
• 4:00:09
  Speaker 2: sunny mental works of art. Do it today. You can't
• 4:00:15
  Speaker 2: afford to put it off until tomorrow. Indeed you can't.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yes, I know that you have grown attached to
• 4:00:26
  Speaker 2: some of these old mental pictures. You've had them round
• 4:00:30
  Speaker 2: so long that you hate to part with them. There's
• 4:00:34
  Speaker 2: that particular miserable one at which you're so fond of looking.
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  Speaker 2: You know which one? I mean, you see, I know
• 4:00:44
  Speaker 2: all about it. You've been in the habit of standing
• 4:00:48
  Speaker 2: before it with folded hands and gazing and gazing and
• 4:00:52
  Speaker 2: gazing at it. And the more you gazed, the more
• 4:00:56
  Speaker 2: miserable you grew, until at last you felt that you
• 4:01:01
  Speaker 2: would like to lie down and die, only that there
• 4:01:05
  Speaker 2: was some work to do around the house and you
• 4:01:08
  Speaker 2: couldn't spare the time. Yes, that's the picture. I mean.
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  Speaker 2: Take it down and put it on top of the
• 4:01:17
  Speaker 2: bonfire pile, and touch off the whole lot. Then go
• 4:01:23
  Speaker 2: back into the house and hang up all the new
• 4:01:26
  Speaker 2: ones to be found, And the brightest one of the
• 4:01:29
  Speaker 2: lot must hang in the place of that dear, old,
• 4:01:34
  Speaker 2: miserable one that you threw out last, that one which
• 4:01:38
  Speaker 2: was so hard to part with, the meanest one in
• 4:01:42
  Speaker 2: the lot. Always, and after you have done these things,
• 4:01:49
  Speaker 2: how good you will feel. See how bright and cheerful
• 4:01:54
  Speaker 2: the sun is shining, How pure and fresh the air seems.
• 4:01:59
  Speaker 2: Take a good look long draft of it. Look out
• 4:02:02
  Speaker 2: the window and see the fleecing white clouds floating across
• 4:02:07
  Speaker 2: the sky, the sky itself, how blue it is, And
• 4:02:13
  Speaker 2: just listen to the bluebirds down by the old gate.
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  Speaker 2: Spring must be coming. Ah, how good it is to
• 4:02:22
  Speaker 2: be alive? Don't reteal your woes. A miserable habit, it
• 4:02:30
  Speaker 2: grows as it is fed, a nuisance to friends and neighbors,
• 4:02:35
  Speaker 2: it brings to you more of the same kind. You
• 4:02:39
  Speaker 2: will get what you look for. Looking for trouble brings it.
• 4:02:44
  Speaker 2: Don't imagine that you are being put upon. Don't reteal
• 4:02:50
  Speaker 2: your woes. Don't reteal your woes. Do you think that
• 4:02:56
  Speaker 2: it does you any good to go around with a
• 4:02:59
  Speaker 2: long face, telling your tale of woe to everyone whom
• 4:03:04
  Speaker 2: you can induce to listen to you? Do you think
• 4:03:08
  Speaker 2: that it does you any good? Do you think it
• 4:03:12
  Speaker 2: helps you to overcome your troubles or makes your burden
• 4:03:16
  Speaker 2: any lighter? No, I don't believe that you think any
• 4:03:21
  Speaker 2: such things. All your experience teaches you that people don't
• 4:03:27
  Speaker 2: like to listen to long drawn out tails of your troubles.
• 4:03:32
  Speaker 2: They have enough of their own. Even those who are
• 4:03:36
  Speaker 2: always ready to lend a helping hand and to give
• 4:03:39
  Speaker 2: what aid they can to one who needs it. Resent
• 4:03:43
  Speaker 2: being made targets for a continuous fusillade of troubles, woes, griefs,
• 4:03:50
  Speaker 2: et cetera. And you know very well that a constant
• 4:03:54
  Speaker 2: repetition of your own woes will only make them seem
• 4:03:58
  Speaker 2: greater and more real to you. And then the chronic
• 4:04:03
  Speaker 2: retailer of woe grows to be like the journalist, develops
• 4:04:08
  Speaker 2: a keen scent for matter to be dished out to others.
• 4:04:12
  Speaker 2: She needs it in her business. When one gets into
• 4:04:16
  Speaker 2: this habit of carrying about tales to her friends, she
• 4:04:20
  Speaker 2: runs out of ready material and eagerly looks around for
• 4:04:25
  Speaker 2: more with which to supply the demand. She becomes quite
• 4:04:29
  Speaker 2: an adapt at discovering insults, sneers, double meaning remarks, et
• 4:04:35
  Speaker 2: cetera on the part of her friends and relatives, where
• 4:04:39
  Speaker 2: nothing of the kind was intended, And she rules these
• 4:04:43
  Speaker 2: things over and over in her mind like sweet morsels,
• 4:04:48
  Speaker 2: before she serves them up with appropriate trimmings to her listeners.
• 4:04:54
  Speaker 2: You will notice that I say her in speaking of
• 4:04:59
  Speaker 2: the victim of demoralizing habit, and some of my readers
• 4:05:04
  Speaker 2: of that sex will undoubtedly take me to task for
• 4:05:08
  Speaker 2: blaming it on the woman in instead of the man. Well,
• 4:05:12
  Speaker 2: you all know my ideas about the equality of the sexes,
• 4:05:16
  Speaker 2: about their being different, but one being as good as
• 4:05:20
  Speaker 2: the other, with the odds a little in favor of
• 4:05:23
  Speaker 2: the woman. But I feel justified in saying that this
• 4:05:28
  Speaker 2: habit is one that seems to have a special liking
• 4:05:32
  Speaker 2: for women, and it generally picks out a woman for
• 4:05:35
  Speaker 2: its victim in preference to a man. When a man
• 4:05:40
  Speaker 2: acquires this habit, he becomes such a nuisance to his
• 4:05:44
  Speaker 2: friends and associates that sooner or later he will notice
• 4:05:49
  Speaker 2: that they avoid him, and the chances are that some
• 4:05:53
  Speaker 2: blunt fellow will tell him that he has no time
• 4:05:57
  Speaker 2: for listening to tales of this kind, and that if he,
• 4:06:01
  Speaker 2: the complainer, would display the same energy in attending to
• 4:06:05
  Speaker 2: his business that he does to peddling around tales about
• 4:06:10
  Speaker 2: how badly he has been used, he would not need
• 4:06:13
  Speaker 2: any sympathy. But woman, God bless her, does not like
• 4:06:18
  Speaker 2: to hurt the feelings of others in this way. She
• 4:06:22
  Speaker 2: suffers the infliction in silence, and then tells her friends
• 4:06:26
  Speaker 2: how she has been bored. She will listen to her
• 4:06:29
  Speaker 2: whoe retailing friend and seem to sympathize with her and say, oh,
• 4:06:35
  Speaker 2: isn't it dreadful? How could she speak so harshly of you,
• 4:06:41
  Speaker 2: you poor dear, How you must have suffered? How could
• 4:06:46
  Speaker 2: he have treated you so unjustly? And other things of
• 4:06:50
  Speaker 2: that kind. But when the visitor goes, she yawns and says,
• 4:06:57
  Speaker 2: dear me, if missus Groan would own only try to
• 4:07:00
  Speaker 2: say something more cheerful. She gives me the horrors with
• 4:07:05
  Speaker 2: her tales about her husband, her relatives, her friends, and
• 4:07:10
  Speaker 2: everybody else. But missus Groan never seems to see the point,
• 4:07:16
  Speaker 2: and she adds to her list of people who have
• 4:07:19
  Speaker 2: put upon her as she goes along, her tired out
• 4:07:23
  Speaker 2: friends being added to the number as their patience wears out.
• 4:07:30
  Speaker 2: And then the effect upon the woman herself. You know
• 4:07:33
  Speaker 2: the effect of holding certain lines of thoughts, of auto suggestion,
• 4:07:38
  Speaker 2: of the attractive power of thought. And you can readily
• 4:07:42
  Speaker 2: see how this woman makes things worse for herself all
• 4:07:46
  Speaker 2: the time. She goes around with her mind fixed upon
• 4:07:50
  Speaker 2: the idea that everybody's hand is against her, and she
• 4:07:55
  Speaker 2: carries about with her an aura that attracts to her
• 4:07:58
  Speaker 2: all the unpleasant things things in the neighborhood. She goes
• 4:08:02
  Speaker 2: around looking for trouble, and of course she gets it.
• 4:08:07
  Speaker 2: Did you ever notice a man or a woman looking
• 4:08:10
  Speaker 2: for trouble? And how soon they found it? The man
• 4:08:15
  Speaker 2: looking for a fight, it generally accommodated the woman looking
• 4:08:19
  Speaker 2: for slights always gets them, whether the giver intends them
• 4:08:24
  Speaker 2: or not. This sort of mental attitude fairly draws out
• 4:08:30
  Speaker 2: the worse in those with whom we come in contact,
• 4:08:34
  Speaker 2: and the predominant thought drows to itself all the corresponding
• 4:08:38
  Speaker 2: thought within its radius. One who dwells upon the fancied
• 4:08:43
  Speaker 2: fact that everybody is going around trying to injure him,
• 4:08:48
  Speaker 2: treat him unkindly, sneer at him, slight him, and generally
• 4:08:53
  Speaker 2: use him up is pretty sure to find that he
• 4:08:57
  Speaker 2: has attracted to him enough people who will humor his
• 4:09:01
  Speaker 2: fancy and give him what he expects in thought force.
• 4:09:07
  Speaker 2: You will remember, I tell the story of the two dogs.
• 4:09:11
  Speaker 2: The one dog, dignified and self respecting, whom no boy
• 4:09:16
  Speaker 2: ever thinks of bothering. The other dog, who expects to
• 4:09:20
  Speaker 2: be kicked by every passing boy, and who draws himself
• 4:09:24
  Speaker 2: up and places his tail between his legs and actually
• 4:09:28
  Speaker 2: suggests the cake to the passing boy. Of course, he
• 4:09:32
  Speaker 2: gets kicked. It's wrong for the boy to do it,
• 4:09:35
  Speaker 2: I know, But the dog's attitude is too much for
• 4:09:39
  Speaker 2: the nature of the average boy, and grown ups are
• 4:09:42
  Speaker 2: built upon the same plan. These people who are going
• 4:09:47
  Speaker 2: around in the mental attitude which invites unkind treatment generally
• 4:09:53
  Speaker 2: managed to find someone who will have his natural meanness
• 4:09:57
  Speaker 2: drawn out to such a convenient lightning rod. And in
• 4:10:01
  Speaker 2: fact such people often generate harsh feelings in persons who
• 4:10:07
  Speaker 2: scarcely ever manifest them. Like attracts like in the world
• 4:10:11
  Speaker 2: of thought, and one draws upon him the things he
• 4:10:15
  Speaker 2: fears in many cases. But one of the most regrettable
• 4:10:21
  Speaker 2: things about this woe retailing woman is the effect the
• 4:10:25
  Speaker 2: habit has upon her own mind and character. When we
• 4:10:30
  Speaker 2: understand how one is constantly building up character, adding a
• 4:10:35
  Speaker 2: little every day, and that our thoughts of the day
• 4:10:38
  Speaker 2: are the material which are going into our character structure,
• 4:10:42
  Speaker 2: it will be seen that it is a matter of
• 4:10:45
  Speaker 2: the greatest importance what kind of thoughts we think. Thoughts
• 4:10:50
  Speaker 2: are not wasted. They not only go out in all directions,
• 4:10:55
  Speaker 2: influencing others, attracting persons and things to ourselves, but they
• 4:11:01
  Speaker 2: have a creative effect upon our own mind and character.
• 4:11:06
  Speaker 2: Thought along a certain line will develop certain brain cells
• 4:11:10
  Speaker 2: to a great extent, and the cells manifesting the contrary
• 4:11:14
  Speaker 2: line of thought are allowed to dwindle away and shrivel up. Now,
• 4:11:20
  Speaker 2: when we have our minds fixed upon the thought that
• 4:11:23
  Speaker 2: we are long suffering mortals, and that everyone else is
• 4:11:27
  Speaker 2: trying to do mean things to us, that we are
• 4:11:30
  Speaker 2: not appreciated, and that those who should care most for
• 4:11:35
  Speaker 2: us are only biding their time until they can hurt us.
• 4:11:39
  Speaker 2: We are building up our minds along that line, and
• 4:11:43
  Speaker 2: we find ourselves in the habit of looking for the
• 4:11:46
  Speaker 2: worst in everybody, and we often manage to bring it
• 4:11:50
  Speaker 2: to the surface, even if we have to take hard
• 4:11:53
  Speaker 2: for it. Some of this class of people seem to
• 4:11:58
  Speaker 2: take a particular delight in bringing upon their head the
• 4:12:02
  Speaker 2: harsh words and slights of others. Now I really mean this.
• 4:12:08
  Speaker 2: I have seen people go around with that I'm a
• 4:12:11
  Speaker 2: warm of the dust, please tread on me air, and
• 4:12:15
  Speaker 2: the same expression as that in the eyes of the
• 4:12:18
  Speaker 2: dog which expected to be kicked. And when somebody would
• 4:12:22
  Speaker 2: be nagged into saying or doing something that they would
• 4:12:26
  Speaker 2: not otherwise have thought of, the wool seeker's eyes would
• 4:12:30
  Speaker 2: assume an expression of I told you so, and it's
• 4:12:36
  Speaker 2: only poor me, and it's all I can expect. Everybody
• 4:12:42
  Speaker 2: wishes to crush me, and a few other assorted thoughts
• 4:12:46
  Speaker 2: of that kind, and then she will go to her
• 4:12:50
  Speaker 2: room and moan and weep and dwell upon her miseries
• 4:12:54
  Speaker 2: until they seem to be as large as a mountain.
• 4:12:58
  Speaker 2: And then the chance she gets, she will run around
• 4:13:02
  Speaker 2: the corner to a friend and will reteal all the
• 4:13:06
  Speaker 2: new stock of woes which she has accumulated with fancy trimmings.
• 4:13:12
  Speaker 2: You may feel sure, and the friend will try hard
• 4:13:16
  Speaker 2: to avoid showing that she is bored at the tale
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  Speaker 2: she has so often heard, but will say nice little
• 4:13:23
  Speaker 2: things until the mourner is sure that the whole world
• 4:13:28
  Speaker 2: sympathizes with her, and she feels a glow of righteous indignation,
• 4:13:33
  Speaker 2: self pity, and martyrdom. Oh the pity of it all.
• 4:13:39
  Speaker 2: These people go through the world making things harder for themselves,
• 4:13:45
  Speaker 2: their friends, their relatives, and everyone else with whom they
• 4:13:49
  Speaker 2: come in contact. They are constantly seeking to keep their
• 4:13:54
  Speaker 2: stock fresh and attractive, and display more energy in their
• 4:13:59
  Speaker 2: retailing than the average man or woman does in business.
• 4:14:05
  Speaker 2: This thing of looking for trouble is a very unfortunate
• 4:14:08
  Speaker 2: thing in families. As a rule, I think that woman
• 4:14:12
  Speaker 2: gets the worse of it in family troubles. The economic
• 4:14:16
  Speaker 2: position places her at a disadvantage, and she often suffers
• 4:14:20
  Speaker 2: all sorts of horrible things rather than have her troubles
• 4:14:24
  Speaker 2: made public. But I must say that some women bring
• 4:14:28
  Speaker 2: upon themselves all that they get. I have known them
• 4:14:33
  Speaker 2: to get in a frame of mind in which they
• 4:14:35
  Speaker 2: could see nothing but unkindness, where the utmost kindness was meant.
• 4:14:41
  Speaker 2: Man is not an angel, far from it. But the
• 4:14:44
  Speaker 2: attitude of some women is enough to bring out all
• 4:14:48
  Speaker 2: the qualities other than angelic. They assume that they are
• 4:14:52
  Speaker 2: put upon and live up to that idea. Every word
• 4:14:57
  Speaker 2: that the man says is twisted and disorted into something
• 4:15:01
  Speaker 2: entirely different from what he intended. The mental attitude produces
• 4:15:06
  Speaker 2: moral astigmatism, and things are seen at the wrong angle.
• 4:15:11
  Speaker 2: All the little things that happened are promptly retailed to
• 4:15:15
  Speaker 2: some mischief making neighbor, who is in the game for
• 4:15:19
  Speaker 2: the excitement it affords her, and who laughs at the
• 4:15:22
  Speaker 2: wife behind her back, and talks about her in turn
• 4:15:26
  Speaker 2: to some third person. And the wife fairly draws upon
• 4:15:30
  Speaker 2: herself all sorts of things that never would have happened otherwise.
• 4:15:36
  Speaker 2: She knows that her neighbor is waiting for today's budget
• 4:15:39
  Speaker 2: of news, and she almost unconsciously shapes things so that
• 4:15:44
  Speaker 2: the facts justifying the news are forthcoming. Did you ever
• 4:15:49
  Speaker 2: notice that woman who keeps her troubles to herself does
• 4:15:54
  Speaker 2: not have nearly as much pickering and strife in her
• 4:15:58
  Speaker 2: households as the one who has acquired the retailing habit.
• 4:16:04
  Speaker 2: Don't retail your woes. Keep them to yourself and they
• 4:16:09
  Speaker 2: will die. But spread them and they will grow like weeds.
• 4:16:14
  Speaker 2: You are making things worse for yourself, are drawing things
• 4:16:19
  Speaker 2: to you, and are spoiling your mind, disposition, and character
• 4:16:25
  Speaker 2: by dis miserable business of retelling woes.
• 4:16:30
  Speaker 1: Life. There is in each of us a potential something
• 4:16:35
  Speaker 1: for expression, the something within the plant of life. No
• 4:16:41
  Speaker 1: use trying to repress it, for develop it must. Life
• 4:16:45
  Speaker 1: has a meaning growth, development, and unfoldment, the lesson of life.
• 4:16:55
  Speaker 1: There is in each of us a potential something pressing
• 4:16:59
  Speaker 1: forth for express and growth in the direction of ultimate good,
• 4:17:03
  Speaker 1: casting off sheath after sheath, in its progressive development and unfoldment,
• 4:17:08
  Speaker 1: impelled by the impulse imparted by the primal cause, attracted
• 4:17:12
  Speaker 1: upward by the absolute. Failing to understand this impulse of
• 4:17:17
  Speaker 1: the growing something seeking relief from its steady pressure, we
• 4:17:22
  Speaker 1: look upon it as an intruder and instead of allowing
• 4:17:25
  Speaker 1: it to develop and grow naturally, we endeavor to kill
• 4:17:28
  Speaker 1: it or to train its growth. After our own petty notions.
• 4:17:33
  Speaker 1: We fail to see that this something is like unto
• 4:17:36
  Speaker 1: the plant, which grows on steadily and surely from seed
• 4:17:39
  Speaker 1: to blossom until its potentialities are fully expressed. We do
• 4:17:44
  Speaker 1: not realize that this plant of life should be allowed
• 4:17:48
  Speaker 1: to grow as does the lily, freely and without restraint,
• 4:17:52
  Speaker 1: unfolding leaf after leaf, until the plant stands in its
• 4:17:56
  Speaker 1: complete beauty, crowned with its divine flower. We would train
• 4:18:02
  Speaker 1: the plant into some fantastic shape, dwarf it as the
• 4:18:06
  Speaker 1: Chinese do the oak, that it may become the pretty
• 4:18:09
  Speaker 1: ornament of the parlor instead of the noble monarch of
• 4:18:12
  Speaker 1: the forest. We would have it grow our way, not
• 4:18:16
  Speaker 1: according to the law of its being. We fancy that
• 4:18:20
  Speaker 1: we know what is best for it, losing sight of
• 4:18:22
  Speaker 1: the fact that, deep down in the subconscious depths of
• 4:18:25
  Speaker 1: its being reposes that which directs its every effort toward
• 4:18:30
  Speaker 1: the good. Forgetting that its attraction toward the absolute is
• 4:18:35
  Speaker 1: drawing it steadily and irresistibly in the right direction, we
• 4:18:40
  Speaker 1: forget that the plant will fulfill these impulses, so long
• 4:18:43
  Speaker 1: as there remains in it one atom of life. The
• 4:18:47
  Speaker 1: seed in the ground will express itself in its little shoot,
• 4:18:51
  Speaker 1: often moving weights a thousand times heavier than itself, in
• 4:18:55
  Speaker 1: its efforts to reach the rays of the sun. The
• 4:18:58
  Speaker 1: sapling may be bent and confined to the ground, but
• 4:19:02
  Speaker 1: its branches, following the laws of its being, will instinctively
• 4:19:08
  Speaker 1: shoot upward. Restrict the growth of the plant if you can,
• 4:19:12
  Speaker 1: but nevertheless it will move along the lines of least
• 4:19:16
  Speaker 1: resistance and grow toward the sun in spite of your efforts.
• 4:19:21
  Speaker 1: And so it is with the plant of life, the
• 4:19:24
  Speaker 1: something within us. We are afraid to allow it to
• 4:19:27
  Speaker 1: grow according to the laws of its being, but wish
• 4:19:30
  Speaker 1: to model it and shape it in accordance with the
• 4:19:33
  Speaker 1: theories of ourselves or others. More frequently, the latter, for
• 4:19:37
  Speaker 1: most of our ideas on the subject are borrowed. We
• 4:19:40
  Speaker 1: seem to imagine that the intelligence that thought the plant
• 4:19:43
  Speaker 1: into existence did not understand its business, and we are
• 4:19:47
  Speaker 1: afraid that without the assistance of our mighty intellect, the
• 4:19:51
  Speaker 1: poor thing will grow into a misshapen and unsightly thing.
• 4:19:55
  Speaker 1: We would alter the shape designed by its maker, and
• 4:19:59
  Speaker 1: would twist into the form approved of by the passing
• 4:20:02
  Speaker 1: fashion of the hour. We would substitute for the beauty
• 4:20:06
  Speaker 1: and symmetry of nature our own fantastic ideas of form.
• 4:20:12
  Speaker 1: But like the plant, this something of ours will not
• 4:20:16
  Speaker 1: submit to the confining bonds, will not conform to the
• 4:20:20
  Speaker 1: false standards which we would set up for it, Submitting
• 4:20:24
  Speaker 1: as long as it must. It stores up reserve strength
• 4:20:27
  Speaker 1: day by day and keeps up a continuous, steady pressure
• 4:20:31
  Speaker 1: in the direction of its desire, And some day, by
• 4:20:36
  Speaker 1: a supreme effort, it throws off the interfering obstacles, and,
• 4:20:40
  Speaker 1: obeying the laws of its being, again, grows towards the sun.
• 4:20:46
  Speaker 1: Life is growth. It moves along, pressing this way and
• 4:20:51
  Speaker 1: that way, along the lines of least resistance, drawing to
• 4:20:55
  Speaker 1: itself that which it needs for its complete expression and growth.
• 4:20:59
  Speaker 1: Use this thing and that thing today, and discarding them
• 4:21:03
  Speaker 1: tomorrow after they have served their purpose, after their helpful
• 4:21:07
  Speaker 1: qualities have been extracted. It assumes many forms in its growth,
• 4:21:12
  Speaker 1: discarding sheath after sheath as outgrown. Any attempt to compel
• 4:21:17
  Speaker 1: it to retain a sheath which has become outgrown will
• 4:21:21
  Speaker 1: cause its life nature to revolt, and in the end
• 4:21:24
  Speaker 1: with a mighty effort, it will burst forth, tearing the
• 4:21:28
  Speaker 1: confining sheath into fragments. This something may be restrained temporarily,
• 4:21:35
  Speaker 1: but its growth is as sure as the rising of
• 4:21:37
  Speaker 1: tomorrow's sun, and its attempted restraint only results in the
• 4:21:41
  Speaker 1: end in a violent assertion of its right to unfold
• 4:21:45
  Speaker 1: and develop according to law. When we finally come to
• 4:21:50
  Speaker 1: realize that life has a meaning, that we are here
• 4:21:53
  Speaker 1: for a purpose, that the process of spiritual evolution is
• 4:21:57
  Speaker 1: being expressed in us and through us, that our growth
• 4:22:01
  Speaker 1: is in accordance with law, that the Absolute understands its business,
• 4:22:06
  Speaker 1: then will we cease to attempt to meddle with the
• 4:22:09
  Speaker 1: great plan. We will then cease our futile efforts to
• 4:22:13
  Speaker 1: mold to our absurd and arbitrary shapes that which is
• 4:22:17
  Speaker 1: intended to grow in the beautiful form of nature's designing.
• 4:22:22
  Speaker 1: We will realize that the power which called into being
• 4:22:25
  Speaker 1: this life of ours knew just what it was about.
• 4:22:29
  Speaker 1: That this power placed within that life, the energy which
• 4:22:34
  Speaker 1: is expressing itself in changing form and color, but which
• 4:22:38
  Speaker 1: has but one real object, growth toward the sun. And
• 4:22:42
  Speaker 1: when we realize this truth, we will begin to have
• 4:22:45
  Speaker 1: faith and will trust the law to do that which
• 4:22:49
  Speaker 1: is best to be done, will realize the folly of
• 4:22:53
  Speaker 1: imagining that the weight of the universe rests upon our shoulders.
• 4:22:58
  Speaker 1: Some of these days we will awaken to the fact
• 4:23:00
  Speaker 1: that ours is the conceit of the fly resting upon
• 4:23:04
  Speaker 1: the mighty revolving wheel, imagining that the fanning of his
• 4:23:08
  Speaker 1: wings causes the wheel to revolve. Some of these times,
• 4:23:13
  Speaker 1: the fly, tired with its exertions, will stop to rest
• 4:23:17
  Speaker 1: for a few moments, when it will find that the
• 4:23:20
  Speaker 1: wheel continues to revolve quite well.
• 4:23:22
  Speaker 2: Thank you.
• 4:23:23
  Speaker 1: Without its active assistance, we have been taking our little
• 4:23:28
  Speaker 1: selves quite seriously. Indeed, the something within is moving steadily
• 4:23:34
  Speaker 1: and surely towards its goal, and much of the pain
• 4:23:37
  Speaker 1: of life comes to us by reason of our efforts
• 4:23:39
  Speaker 1: to restrict it, our efforts to change its motion, direction speed.
• 4:23:45
  Speaker 1: It is a mighty aid to those who understand and
• 4:23:47
  Speaker 1: move along with it, but woe unto those who get
• 4:23:51
  Speaker 1: in its way and endeavor to obstruct its progress. If unobstructed,
• 4:23:57
  Speaker 1: there is no friction. If interfere with it, manifests friction,
• 4:24:03
  Speaker 1: which means pain. This pain is the notice given to
• 4:24:08
  Speaker 1: us by the law, to the effect that we are
• 4:24:10
  Speaker 1: obstructing the growth of the life plant, and if we
• 4:24:14
  Speaker 1: are wise, we will heed the warning. By conforming to
• 4:24:18
  Speaker 1: the growth, we will find that there is little or
• 4:24:21
  Speaker 1: no friction, and life begins to take on new pleasures.
• 4:24:25
  Speaker 1: By cooperating with the law and moving along with it,
• 4:24:28
  Speaker 1: we will find that things will come our way in
• 4:24:31
  Speaker 1: a most unexpected manner. The law is a good friend
• 4:24:35
  Speaker 1: and helper, and is of the greatest assistance to us
• 4:24:39
  Speaker 1: if we but trust it to do its work well
• 4:24:42
  Speaker 1: in its own good way. We can use its growing
• 4:24:45
  Speaker 1: force to aid us in our daily pursuits if we
• 4:24:48
  Speaker 1: will trust it and move along with it. But we
• 4:24:51
  Speaker 1: must heed the first sign of friction and understand that
• 4:24:55
  Speaker 1: we are in some way interfering with its natural growth.
• 4:24:59
  Speaker 1: By living in a accordance with the law, instead of
• 4:25:02
  Speaker 1: attempting to oppose it, we will find that we are
• 4:25:05
  Speaker 1: guided in the direction of places, people, and occupations best
• 4:25:09
  Speaker 1: suited to develop us and to impart to us the
• 4:25:13
  Speaker 1: experience needed to round out our lives. A realization of
• 4:25:17
  Speaker 1: this fact by those who've experienced it has given rise
• 4:25:21
  Speaker 1: to the saying, nothing ever happens. We find the teachers
• 4:25:27
  Speaker 1: and helpers that we require, and they find us. If
• 4:25:31
  Speaker 1: we need certain information, we will find it in some
• 4:25:35
  Speaker 1: person or book, and will thus be placed upon the
• 4:25:38
  Speaker 1: track of that which we seek. The law will sometimes
• 4:25:42
  Speaker 1: accomplish its results in ways far different from that which
• 4:25:46
  Speaker 1: we would have supposed to be the best. But after
• 4:25:50
  Speaker 1: time has passed, we can look back and will see
• 4:25:54
  Speaker 1: that the way by which the results were accomplished was
• 4:25:57
  Speaker 1: the best possible under all the circumstances. We may meet
• 4:26:01
  Speaker 1: with some bitter disappointments, losses, sorrows, but in the end
• 4:26:06
  Speaker 1: these things will be seen as good, will be seen
• 4:26:09
  Speaker 1: as having been necessary to give us the experience needed
• 4:26:13
  Speaker 1: to round out our characters, to enable us to understand.
• 4:26:18
  Speaker 1: There are none who would be willing to part with
• 4:26:20
  Speaker 1: the experience gained from even the most painful events of
• 4:26:23
  Speaker 1: their lives after say, ten years have elapsed. No man
• 4:26:28
  Speaker 1: would be willing to have the memory and recollection of
• 4:26:31
  Speaker 1: his greatest pain eradicated, if at the same time he
• 4:26:35
  Speaker 1: would have to part with the experience and knowledge which
• 4:26:38
  Speaker 1: have come to him by reason of that pain. The
• 4:26:42
  Speaker 1: pain and its resulting experience have become a part of us,
• 4:26:46
  Speaker 1: and we are not willing to be robbed of our
• 4:26:49
  Speaker 1: own and we will realize in looking backward that if
• 4:26:54
  Speaker 1: we had been living in accordance with the law in
• 4:26:56
  Speaker 1: the past, if we had understood its working, these very sorrows, disappointments,
• 4:27:04
  Speaker 1: losses would have been considered only in view of their
• 4:27:08
  Speaker 1: ultimate good, and the very sting of the pain would
• 4:27:11
  Speaker 1: thus have been removed. When we learn to regard the
• 4:27:14
  Speaker 1: pain of today as we do the pain of ten
• 4:27:17
  Speaker 1: years ago, we may feel that we are beginning to
• 4:27:20
  Speaker 1: understand something of the operation of the law of good.
• 4:27:24
  Speaker 1: And when we reach this stage, we will find that
• 4:27:27
  Speaker 1: the pain is no longer pain, but only a form
• 4:27:31
  Speaker 1: of good. When we cease to cause friction, friction no
• 4:27:36
  Speaker 1: longer exists for us. The lessons of life must be
• 4:27:41
  Speaker 1: learned sooner or later. It depends upon us whether they
• 4:27:45
  Speaker 1: shall be forced upon us in spite of our resistance,
• 4:27:48
  Speaker 1: with much pain, or accepted by us understandingly with knowledge.
• 4:27:55
  Speaker 1: In one case, we will have the pain which comes
• 4:27:57
  Speaker 1: from opposing the law. In the other, we will learn
• 4:28:01
  Speaker 1: the lesson equally well, without the pain of the birching.
• 4:28:05
  Speaker 1: The lesson must be well learned in either case. Choose
• 4:28:09
  Speaker 1: your method now. I do not wish to be understood
• 4:28:14
  Speaker 1: as meaning that we should simply fold our hands and
• 4:28:17
  Speaker 1: wait for the Law to bring all things to us
• 4:28:19
  Speaker 1: without any labor on our part. Try this way, though,
• 4:28:22
  Speaker 1: if you like, and see how quickly the law will
• 4:28:25
  Speaker 1: wrap you over the knuckles to remind you that a
• 4:28:28
  Speaker 1: task is set before you. The proper way is to
• 4:28:31
  Speaker 1: take up the task that lies nearest your hand, and
• 4:28:35
  Speaker 1: some task is always there, and do it well, with
• 4:28:39
  Speaker 1: the knowledge that the task has been placed there in
• 4:28:41
  Speaker 1: accordance with the law. If the task is not to
• 4:28:45
  Speaker 1: your liking, you will know that that is the very
• 4:28:49
  Speaker 1: reason that it has been placed before you. You have
• 4:28:52
  Speaker 1: a lesson to learn from it. When the time comes
• 4:28:55
  Speaker 1: for a change, you will find a strong desire for
• 4:28:58
  Speaker 1: something else full grown within you. Now is your chance
• 4:29:03
  Speaker 1: trust to the law to aid you in working out
• 4:29:05
  Speaker 1: your desire. The desire is there in accordance with the law.
• 4:29:10
  Speaker 1: Its very existence is a promise of its fulfillment. With
• 4:29:15
  Speaker 1: the aid of the law, you will work out your desire.
• 4:29:19
  Speaker 1: It is true that when you attain the object of
• 4:29:22
  Speaker 1: your desire, it may not be just what you had thought.
• 4:29:25
  Speaker 1: It may not be at all what you want. Well,
• 4:29:30
  Speaker 1: what of that you have learned the necessary lesson have
• 4:29:35
  Speaker 1: lived out the desire, and will now outlive it. Something
• 4:29:39
  Speaker 1: else will take his place, and you will be surprised
• 4:29:42
  Speaker 1: at the way that the law has brought about the
• 4:29:44
  Speaker 1: accomplishment of your desire. You will learn another lesson in
• 4:29:49
  Speaker 1: this when you have learned to work on merrily doing
• 4:29:54
  Speaker 1: your best, living out each day's life with faith and trust,
• 4:29:59
  Speaker 1: confidence and fearlessness, accepting the development of each day as
• 4:30:04
  Speaker 1: meaning ultimate good, seeing and feeling that the law of
• 4:30:08
  Speaker 1: good is in full operation, being willing to accept whatever
• 4:30:13
  Speaker 1: it may bring you. Then and not until then, good friend,
• 4:30:18
  Speaker 1: will you begin to know what is life.
• 4:30:22
  Speaker 2: Let us have faith, faith necessary in every human undertaking.
• 4:30:30
  Speaker 2: You have faith in man, but are afraid to trust God.
• 4:30:34
  Speaker 2: The universe if governed by law. The law is in
• 4:30:38
  Speaker 2: operation everywhere. Don't be afraid. You are a part of
• 4:30:43
  Speaker 2: the plan. Fall in with the law, Have faith, have faith.
• 4:30:52
  Speaker 2: When you take a journey by rail, you step into
• 4:30:55
  Speaker 2: the car, settle yourself, take out a book and read,
• 4:31:00
  Speaker 2: and give little or no thought to the engine or
• 4:31:04
  Speaker 2: engineer in charge of the train. You go rushing across
• 4:31:08
  Speaker 2: the country at the rate of fifty miles an hour,
• 4:31:12
  Speaker 2: with no thought of possible disaster or accident, and for
• 4:31:17
  Speaker 2: the time forgetting that there is such a person in
• 4:31:20
  Speaker 2: existence as the engineer. You have absolute faith in the
• 4:31:25
  Speaker 2: careful management of the road and in the intelligence of
• 4:31:29
  Speaker 2: the man who has been placed in the engine. The
• 4:31:33
  Speaker 2: lives of yourself and hundreds of fellow passengers are practically
• 4:31:38
  Speaker 2: in the hands of one man, and that man is
• 4:31:41
  Speaker 2: a stranger to you. You have never seen him, You
• 4:31:45
  Speaker 2: know nothing of his qualifications. You only know that the
• 4:31:50
  Speaker 2: management has picked him out to safely conduct you across
• 4:31:54
  Speaker 2: the country. You take a steamship to Europe and place
• 4:31:59
  Speaker 2: your in the hands of a few men who are
• 4:32:03
  Speaker 2: total strangers to you. You stake your life on their skill,
• 4:32:07
  Speaker 2: judgment and intelligence. You feel that they would not be
• 4:32:12
  Speaker 2: where they are unless the management of the line consider
• 4:32:15
  Speaker 2: them competent. It is all a matter of trust of confidence.
• 4:32:21
  Speaker 2: The same thing is true when you take your seat
• 4:32:25
  Speaker 2: on a trolley car, or on the elevated railroad, or
• 4:32:29
  Speaker 2: even in a stage coach or a private carriage. In
• 4:32:34
  Speaker 2: each case, you place yourself in the charge of another
• 4:32:38
  Speaker 2: person in whom you have a certain amount of confidence,
• 4:32:42
  Speaker 2: although he may be comparatively or wholly unknown to you.
• 4:32:49
  Speaker 2: You place your wealth in a bank, having confidence in
• 4:32:52
  Speaker 2: its management. You have business dealings with men whom you
• 4:32:56
  Speaker 2: scarcely know, trusting to their honesty of purpose. In every
• 4:33:02
  Speaker 2: transaction in life, you are compelled to have confidence in people.
• 4:33:07
  Speaker 2: Your lawyer, your physician, your grocer, your clerks are all
• 4:33:12
  Speaker 2: taken on faith. One cannot get away from it. If
• 4:33:17
  Speaker 2: confidence were destroyed, the wills of modern life would stop
• 4:33:21
  Speaker 2: in a minute. The so called hard headed practical man
• 4:33:26
  Speaker 2: may is near at faith, but it underlies every manifestations
• 4:33:31
  Speaker 2: of the life of his civilization. Man has faith and
• 4:33:37
  Speaker 2: confidence in man, but is afraid to trust God. He
• 4:33:42
  Speaker 2: looks about him and sees millions of worlds, each in
• 4:33:46
  Speaker 2: its appointed place, each revolving in its own orbit. He
• 4:33:51
  Speaker 2: has faith that at a certain time each world will
• 4:33:55
  Speaker 2: be in a certain position, which position may be calculated
• 4:34:00
  Speaker 2: centuries in advance. But he lacks faith in the power
• 4:34:04
  Speaker 2: that created these worlds and keeps them in their places.
• 4:34:09
  Speaker 2: He has faith in certain laws, but he doubts the
• 4:34:13
  Speaker 2: existence of the law maker. He sees the wondrous manifestation
• 4:34:18
  Speaker 2: of life in great and small. He takes advantage of
• 4:34:22
  Speaker 2: the telescope and the microscope and explores new regions and
• 4:34:28
  Speaker 2: finds the law in operation everywhere, But he doubts the
• 4:34:32
  Speaker 2: existence of the great law which governs his life, his
• 4:34:36
  Speaker 2: incomings and his outgoings, his great deeds and his petty acts.
• 4:34:42
  Speaker 2: He fails to realize the truth of the saying that
• 4:34:46
  Speaker 2: the hairs on his head are numbered, and that not
• 4:34:50
  Speaker 2: a sparrow may fall unnoticed. He seems to think that
• 4:34:55
  Speaker 2: if there is a God, he must have made the
• 4:34:58
  Speaker 2: world and then read away and left it to take
• 4:35:01
  Speaker 2: care of itself. He fails to see that the law
• 4:35:05
  Speaker 2: must govern man's life as it governs the unfolding of belief,
• 4:35:10
  Speaker 2: the development of the lily. He fails to see that
• 4:35:15
  Speaker 2: law is in full operation within him as well as
• 4:35:19
  Speaker 2: without him. He fails to see that as he opposes
• 4:35:23
  Speaker 2: the operation of law, pain comes by reason of the friction.
• 4:35:28
  Speaker 2: He fails to see that the only true philosophy is
• 4:35:31
  Speaker 2: that which teaches one to fall in with the operations
• 4:35:35
  Speaker 2: of law and to let it work in him and
• 4:35:38
  Speaker 2: through him. Do you think for a moment that God
• 4:35:43
  Speaker 2: does not know what he is about? Do doubt the
• 4:35:47
  Speaker 2: supreme intelligence which knows all things and is conscious of
• 4:35:52
  Speaker 2: all things? Do doubt the supreme power which manifests itself
• 4:35:58
  Speaker 2: in all forms of power. Do you doubt the universal
• 4:36:02
  Speaker 2: presence which is in all places at all times. Do
• 4:36:07
  Speaker 2: you suppose that the manifestation is everything and the manifestore nothing,
• 4:36:13
  Speaker 2: poor man, Either the universe is without law, without meaning,
• 4:36:19
  Speaker 2: without reason, or it is the manifestation of supreme and
• 4:36:24
  Speaker 2: an infinite reason. Either it is the work of a
• 4:36:28
  Speaker 2: demon who sits somewhere and grins and glouts over our misfortunes,
• 4:36:33
  Speaker 2: our trials, our troubles, our pain, our follies. Or it
• 4:36:40
  Speaker 2: is the work of an all knowing, all powerful, all
• 4:36:44
  Speaker 2: present intelligence, power presence which has taken into consideration everything
• 4:36:50
  Speaker 2: within the universe, down to the tinest thing, down to
• 4:36:54
  Speaker 2: the merest detail. And if this last be true, then
• 4:36:59
  Speaker 2: every that happens must be in accordance with law. Everything
• 4:37:05
  Speaker 2: that happens to us must be the very best thing
• 4:37:08
  Speaker 2: that could happen to us at that particular time and
• 4:37:13
  Speaker 2: that particular place. Things are not run by blind chains.
• 4:37:19
  Speaker 2: There is law under everything. Everything has some connection with
• 4:37:24
  Speaker 2: every other thing. Every person has a relationship with every
• 4:37:29
  Speaker 2: other person. All is one. The manifestations are varied, but
• 4:37:34
  Speaker 2: there is but one reality. There is a great plan
• 4:37:38
  Speaker 2: underlying all life, and life itself is in accordance with
• 4:37:43
  Speaker 2: that plan. Nothing ever happens. Every occurrence has a bearing
• 4:37:48
  Speaker 2: on every other occurrence. Chance has no part in the plan.
• 4:37:54
  Speaker 2: Everything is in accord with well ordered laws. There is
• 4:37:58
  Speaker 2: always an end in view. In every thought, word, or act.
• 4:38:03
  Speaker 2: We are constantly being used for the benefit of the whole.
• 4:38:07
  Speaker 2: There is no escape, And when we get to know,
• 4:38:10
  Speaker 2: we cease to wish to escape. He who understands not
• 4:38:15
  Speaker 2: law is constantly struggling, striving, fighting and contending against it,
• 4:38:21
  Speaker 2: and producing friction. He feels pain. He who understands something
• 4:38:26
  Speaker 2: of law cease to content against it. He lets it
• 4:38:30
  Speaker 2: work through him, and is carried along with a mighty force,
• 4:38:35
  Speaker 2: doing each day the best he knows how, expressing himself
• 4:38:39
  Speaker 2: in the best possible manner, sailing to the right and
• 4:38:43
  Speaker 2: to the left, with the wind and against the wind,
• 4:38:47
  Speaker 2: but still being borne on by the mighty current, and
• 4:38:50
  Speaker 2: resisting it not. He enjoys every mile of the journey,
• 4:38:55
  Speaker 2: seeing new sights and hearing new sounds, moving on a
• 4:39:01
  Speaker 2: He who understands not rebels at being swept along. He
• 4:39:06
  Speaker 2: wishes to stay where he is. But there is no
• 4:39:09
  Speaker 2: such thing as staying. Life is motion, life is growth.
• 4:39:16
  Speaker 2: If you prefer to pull against the tide, to row
• 4:39:19
  Speaker 2: up a stream by all means, do so. After a
• 4:39:24
  Speaker 2: while you will grow tired and weary, and will rest
• 4:39:28
  Speaker 2: on your oars. Then you will find that you are
• 4:39:31
  Speaker 2: moving on just the same to where the unknown seas.
• 4:39:35
  Speaker 2: And you will find that it is much easier work
• 4:39:39
  Speaker 2: rowing or sailing with the current, or from one side
• 4:39:43
  Speaker 2: of the river to another, than to attempt to stay
• 4:39:46
  Speaker 2: in the same place or to pull up the stream.
• 4:39:52
  Speaker 2: All this fretting, all this worrying, all this contention and strife,
• 4:39:57
  Speaker 2: comes from a lack of faith. We may assert feverently
• 4:40:02
  Speaker 2: that we know that all is good, and that all
• 4:40:05
  Speaker 2: is best for us, et cetera, et cetera, But have
• 4:40:08
  Speaker 2: we enough faith to manifest it in our lives? See
• 4:40:13
  Speaker 2: how we endeavor to tie onto things, people, and environments.
• 4:40:18
  Speaker 2: How we resist the steady pressure that is tearing us loose,
• 4:40:23
  Speaker 2: often with pain, from the places to which we have
• 4:40:28
  Speaker 2: wished to stay fastened. Like a parnicle, the life horse
• 4:40:33
  Speaker 2: is back of us, urging us along, pushing us along,
• 4:40:38
  Speaker 2: and move we must. The process of growth, development, and
• 4:40:42
  Speaker 2: unfoldment is going on steadily. What's the use of attempting
• 4:40:47
  Speaker 2: to resist it. You are no more than a water
• 4:40:51
  Speaker 2: bug on the surface of the river. You may dart
• 4:40:55
  Speaker 2: here and there, and apparently are running things to suit
• 4:40:58
  Speaker 2: yourself without reference to the current, but all the time
• 4:41:02
  Speaker 2: you are moving along with it. The water bug plan
• 4:41:06
  Speaker 2: is all right, just so long as we do not
• 4:41:09
  Speaker 2: attempt to stop the current or to swim right against it.
• 4:41:14
  Speaker 2: When we try this, we find out very quickly that
• 4:41:18
  Speaker 2: the current has something to say about it, And before
• 4:41:22
  Speaker 2: long we get so tired that we are willing to
• 4:41:25
  Speaker 2: fall in with the law behind the current. And yet
• 4:41:29
  Speaker 2: even the opposition is good, for it teaches us that
• 4:41:33
  Speaker 2: the current is there. We gain by experience. The new
• 4:41:37
  Speaker 2: thought does not teach people to stem the current or
• 4:41:41
  Speaker 2: to swim upstream, although some teachers and some students seem
• 4:41:46
  Speaker 2: to be of that opinion. On the contrary, the real
• 4:41:50
  Speaker 2: new thought teaches us of the existence of the stream
• 4:41:55
  Speaker 2: and that it is moving steadily toward the sea of good.
• 4:41:59
  Speaker 2: It teaches us how to fall in with it and
• 4:42:02
  Speaker 2: be borne further along in instead of attempting to hold
• 4:42:06
  Speaker 2: back and become Parnicles, or to try to push back
• 4:42:10
  Speaker 2: up the stream. It also teaches us to live in
• 4:42:14
  Speaker 2: the now, to enjoy the darting backward and forward over
• 4:42:19
  Speaker 2: the face of the waters. It also tells us of
• 4:42:23
  Speaker 2: the direction in which the current is moving, that we
• 4:42:26
  Speaker 2: may move along that way without wasting our energies in
• 4:42:30
  Speaker 2: trying to go the other. It teaches us cooperation with
• 4:42:35
  Speaker 2: law in instead of opposition to it. Why do we
• 4:42:40
  Speaker 2: not have faith? Why do we not see the great
• 4:42:44
  Speaker 2: plan behind it all? Why do we not recognize law
• 4:42:49
  Speaker 2: as we have seen? We place our confidence in the
• 4:42:53
  Speaker 2: engineer of the train, the pilot, the captain, the coach driver,
• 4:42:58
  Speaker 2: and the other guiding hands, and yet we hesitate to
• 4:43:02
  Speaker 2: trust ourselves in the hands of the infinite. Of course,
• 4:43:07
  Speaker 2: it makes no difference to the infinite whether or not
• 4:43:11
  Speaker 2: we repose trust in it. It moves along just the same,
• 4:43:16
  Speaker 2: guiding and directing, steering and regulating speed. It minds not
• 4:43:22
  Speaker 2: our doubts and obstructions, any more than does the great
• 4:43:27
  Speaker 2: driving wheal mind the fly who is purshed upon it,
• 4:43:31
  Speaker 2: and who does not like the movement and attempts to
• 4:43:34
  Speaker 2: stop it by spreading out its wings and buzzing. The
• 4:43:38
  Speaker 2: great will of the universe is moving around steadily and mightily.
• 4:43:44
  Speaker 2: Let us go with it. And while we are going,
• 4:43:48
  Speaker 2: let us spare ourselves the trouble and fully of the
• 4:43:51
  Speaker 2: buzzing wings spreading business. Let us part with fear and worry.
• 4:43:59
  Speaker 2: Let us see our imagining that we can run the
• 4:44:02
  Speaker 2: universe better than the engineer who has his hand on
• 4:44:07
  Speaker 2: the throttle. Let us cease imagining that God needs advice
• 4:44:12
  Speaker 2: on the subject. Let us stop this folly of saying,
• 4:44:17
  Speaker 2: poor God with no one to help him run things.
• 4:44:21
  Speaker 2: Let us trust the engineer, Let us have faith, Let
• 4:44:26
  Speaker 2: us have faith. Do it now. Do today's tasks now.
• 4:44:33
  Speaker 2: Don't try to do tomorrow's work today, but be sure
• 4:44:38
  Speaker 2: and do the day's work now. The painful effects of
• 4:44:43
  Speaker 2: procrastination not fair to yourself. Demoralization attendant upon putting off things.
• 4:44:52
  Speaker 2: The world looking for people who can't do things now.
• 4:44:58
  Speaker 2: If you have anything to do, you do it. If
• 4:45:02
  Speaker 2: you have any task to perform today, do it now.
• 4:45:07
  Speaker 2: If the matter cannot possibly be performed today, stop bothering
• 4:45:12
  Speaker 2: about it and get to work doing the things of today.
• 4:45:18
  Speaker 2: But don't get into that miserable habit of pushing off
• 4:45:22
  Speaker 2: things until later in the day or later in the week.
• 4:45:27
  Speaker 2: Do them now. The old proverb procrastination is the thief
• 4:45:33
  Speaker 2: of time, is true, but it does not go far enough.
• 4:45:39
  Speaker 2: Procrastination is not only the thief of time, but the
• 4:45:43
  Speaker 2: thief of energy, the thief of efficiency, the thief of success.
• 4:45:50
  Speaker 2: We have had much to say about living in the now,
• 4:45:54
  Speaker 2: about not dwelling in the past or pretting about the future,
• 4:45:58
  Speaker 2: and all this is true, and I will probably say
• 4:46:02
  Speaker 2: it over and over again during the year, because I
• 4:46:07
  Speaker 2: believe in it and wish you to get acquainted with
• 4:46:10
  Speaker 2: the idea. But living in the now does not merely
• 4:46:15
  Speaker 2: mean the thinking of the thoughts of today, the carrying
• 4:46:19
  Speaker 2: of the burdens of today, the meeting of the problems
• 4:46:23
  Speaker 2: of today. It also means the doing of the work
• 4:46:27
  Speaker 2: of today. To attempt to carry last year's burdens or
• 4:46:33
  Speaker 2: next week's burdens today is fully of the worst kind,
• 4:46:37
  Speaker 2: as you well know. But it is equally foolish to
• 4:46:41
  Speaker 2: put off today's work until tomorrow. Is not treating tomorrow right,
• 4:46:47
  Speaker 2: not giving it a chance. The self of tomorrow is
• 4:46:52
  Speaker 2: not exactly the self of today. That is, it has
• 4:46:56
  Speaker 2: grown a little and is the self of today plus
• 4:47:00
  Speaker 2: the added experience of the day, and it is just
• 4:47:05
  Speaker 2: as selfish for the self of to day to attempt
• 4:47:09
  Speaker 2: to throw his burdens upon the self of tomorrow, as
• 4:47:13
  Speaker 2: it would be for you to attempt to throw your
• 4:47:17
  Speaker 2: burdens upon your brother or sister. It is not only selfish,
• 4:47:22
  Speaker 2: but it is hurtful to you. It impedes your growth.
• 4:47:27
  Speaker 2: To day's work is set before you because of the
• 4:47:30
  Speaker 2: lesson it contains, and if you refuse to accept your lesson,
• 4:47:35
  Speaker 2: you are the loser. You cannot get away from the task.
• 4:47:41
  Speaker 2: It will be placed before you again and again until
• 4:47:45
  Speaker 2: it is performed, and you might as well do it
• 4:47:48
  Speaker 2: at once, and get your lesson at the proper time,
• 4:47:52
  Speaker 2: and not be compelled like the schoolboy to catch up
• 4:47:56
  Speaker 2: in his work by putting off things until to morrow.
• 4:48:00
  Speaker 2: Your simply heaping of troubles for yourself tomorrow, as to
• 4:48:04
  Speaker 2: morrow's own work will have to be done as well
• 4:48:08
  Speaker 2: as your leftover tasks, and the chances are that neither
• 4:48:12
  Speaker 2: of them will be done properly. There is no sense
• 4:48:16
  Speaker 2: whatever in this habit of procrastinating. It is fully of
• 4:48:20
  Speaker 2: the worst kind, and not only in the immediate effects.
• 4:48:26
  Speaker 2: Is procrastination hurtful to one. One of the worst features
• 4:48:31
  Speaker 2: of the case is the demoralizing effect it has upon
• 4:48:35
  Speaker 2: the whole mental attitude of the man. It cultivates laziness, indecision, shiftlessness, slackness,
• 4:48:44
  Speaker 2: and many other undesirable habits of thought and action. It
• 4:48:49
  Speaker 2: manifests itself in numberless ways in the character of the
• 4:48:53
  Speaker 2: man who has allowed himself to be tangled in it.
• 4:48:57
  Speaker 2: It impairs his efficiency, affects his value. Then again, you
• 4:49:04
  Speaker 2: are really unfair to yourself if you get in the
• 4:49:07
  Speaker 2: way of putting off things. You never have any time
• 4:49:12
  Speaker 2: to yourself if you have a number of all matters
• 4:49:16
  Speaker 2: demanding your attention. The man who procrastinates is never able
• 4:49:21
  Speaker 2: to spare time for mental improvement, because he always has
• 4:49:26
  Speaker 2: some old loose ends to wind up, some old tangle
• 4:49:31
  Speaker 2: to straighten out, and he loses all idea of the
• 4:49:35
  Speaker 2: value of time, of getting the most out of every hour,
• 4:49:40
  Speaker 2: every minute. The procrastinator is the veriest drudge. He has
• 4:49:45
  Speaker 2: his nose to the grimstone all the time. He never
• 4:49:50
  Speaker 2: has any time he can call his own. He is
• 4:49:53
  Speaker 2: a slave to his own habit of laying things aside.
• 4:49:58
  Speaker 2: Poor man, I am satisfied that half the failures of life, yes,
• 4:50:05
  Speaker 2: three quarters of them, are due to the failure of
• 4:50:09
  Speaker 2: persons to do the thing now not only because of
• 4:50:14
  Speaker 2: what they lose directly by this habit, but because of
• 4:50:17
  Speaker 2: the effect it produces upon their character. The shiftless habit
• 4:50:22
  Speaker 2: of thought manifests itself in action. The thought and action
• 4:50:27
  Speaker 2: long persist in will lead to a demoralization of the
• 4:50:32
  Speaker 2: entire character of the individual. He soon forgets how to
• 4:50:36
  Speaker 2: do things right, and that is where so many people fail.
• 4:50:41
  Speaker 2: The world is looking for people who can do things,
• 4:50:45
  Speaker 2: and who can do them now. If you are one
• 4:50:50
  Speaker 2: of the procrastinating kind, start in at once and get
• 4:50:55
  Speaker 2: over it. Put up a sign before your desk, your
• 4:50:59
  Speaker 2: sewing machine, in your work bench, or wherever you spend
• 4:51:03
  Speaker 2: most of your time, and have these words in big
• 4:51:07
  Speaker 2: black letters on the sign. Do it now. By carrying
• 4:51:13
  Speaker 2: the thought of this now way of doing things and
• 4:51:17
  Speaker 2: letting it manifest itself in action as frequently as possible,
• 4:51:22
  Speaker 2: you will find that before long your entire mental attitude
• 4:51:26
  Speaker 2: regarding work has changed, and you will find yourself doing
• 4:51:31
  Speaker 2: things when they should be done without any particular effort
• 4:51:35
  Speaker 2: on your part. The mind can be trained and taught
• 4:51:40
  Speaker 2: to do things right. It needs a little courage, a
• 4:51:44
  Speaker 2: little perseverance, a little will power, but the result will
• 4:51:49
  Speaker 2: pay you for your trouble. Start in to cure yourself
• 4:51:54
  Speaker 2: of this bad habit. Start in at once. Do it now.
• 4:52:02
  Speaker 1: Get in tune Marconi's wireless messages. Vibrations reach only the
• 4:52:10
  Speaker 1: instruments attuned to the sender. The same law in operation
• 4:52:14
  Speaker 1: on the mental plane. The correct pitch is the thing.
• 4:52:19
  Speaker 1: Get in tune with the proper vibrations. Get the messages
• 4:52:23
  Speaker 1: from the best senders. I have just finished reading an
• 4:52:29
  Speaker 1: account of Marconi's wireless telegraphy. It seems that when a
• 4:52:34
  Speaker 1: message is sent from the Marconi transmitter, the vibrations travel
• 4:52:38
  Speaker 1: in all directions, and not alone in the direction of
• 4:52:41
  Speaker 1: the person to whom the message is sent. It would
• 4:52:44
  Speaker 1: seem to the reader at first that any instrument in
• 4:52:48
  Speaker 1: any direction from the sender could and would be affected
• 4:52:52
  Speaker 1: by the vibrations, and would take up and record them.
• 4:52:56
  Speaker 1: But such is not the case. For Marconi finds the
• 4:53:00
  Speaker 1: he can attune his receiving instrument to a certain pitch,
• 4:53:04
  Speaker 1: and that the instrument will receive and record only vibrations
• 4:53:08
  Speaker 1: emanating from a sending instrument attuned to the same pitch.
• 4:53:13
  Speaker 1: This is true no matter how near the instruments may
• 4:53:16
  Speaker 1: be to each other or in what direction they may
• 4:53:19
  Speaker 1: be from each other, And all instruments, irrespective of number,
• 4:53:24
  Speaker 1: that may be within sending distance, will receive the message,
• 4:53:28
  Speaker 1: providing they are attuned to the same pitch. Now, just
• 4:53:34
  Speaker 1: notice how much this corresponds to what we know of
• 4:53:37
  Speaker 1: the working of thought force. People whose minds are attuned
• 4:53:42
  Speaker 1: to a certain pitch will receive the vibrations from the
• 4:53:45
  Speaker 1: minds of others whose mental keynote is the same, And
• 4:53:49
  Speaker 1: if one maintains a high positive keynote, he will not
• 4:53:52
  Speaker 1: be affected by the vibrations emanating from the mind of
• 4:53:55
  Speaker 1: another who may have a low negative pitch nearer to
• 4:54:00
  Speaker 1: our pitch the mind of another may be the more
• 4:54:03
  Speaker 1: we feel the sympathetic vibrations in our own mind, the
• 4:54:07
  Speaker 1: greater the difference in the pitch, the less we will
• 4:54:09
  Speaker 1: feel in sympathy with them. This will account for the
• 4:54:13
  Speaker 1: instinctive likes or dislikes that many of us experience when
• 4:54:17
  Speaker 1: coming into the presence of other people. And how soon
• 4:54:20
  Speaker 1: do people of kindred vibrations seek out and find each
• 4:54:23
  Speaker 1: other in a mixed assembly. Many likes unexplainable by any
• 4:54:29
  Speaker 1: theory of personal appearance et ce arise from this cause.
• 4:54:33
  Speaker 1: And as the Marconi instruments may have their pitch changed,
• 4:54:37
  Speaker 1: so are our mental keynotes changed from time to time
• 4:54:41
  Speaker 1: as we adjust ourselves to new conditions as we grow.
• 4:54:46
  Speaker 1: This will explain why two people who at one time
• 4:54:49
  Speaker 1: seemed to be in perfect attuonement with each other will
• 4:54:52
  Speaker 1: drift apart until at last they seem to have scarcely
• 4:54:55
  Speaker 1: a thought or feeling in common. And yet both of
• 4:54:58
  Speaker 1: them may be good people, really anxious to be helpful
• 4:55:01
  Speaker 1: to the other. But this is not the only way
• 4:55:05
  Speaker 1: in which the working of the Marconi system resembles the
• 4:55:08
  Speaker 1: workings of the mind. I have often called your attention
• 4:55:12
  Speaker 1: to the fact that the holding of certain mental attitudes
• 4:55:15
  Speaker 1: resulted in the attraction to one's self of thought vibrations
• 4:55:19
  Speaker 1: corresponding to the general character or the thought held in
• 4:55:23
  Speaker 1: the mind of the person. Let a man be filled
• 4:55:26
  Speaker 1: with the spirit of jealousy, and everything seems to feed
• 4:55:30
  Speaker 1: that feeling. He hears of cases of faithlessness on the
• 4:55:34
  Speaker 1: part of other persons. Every circumstance seems to confirm him
• 4:55:38
  Speaker 1: in his belief. The actions of the loved one seem
• 4:55:41
  Speaker 1: doubly suspicious signs of guilt are seen in every expression,
• 4:55:46
  Speaker 1: every move, he draws to himself the thought waves of
• 4:55:49
  Speaker 1: other minds vibrating on the same pitch, like attracts like.
• 4:55:55
  Speaker 1: Let a man drop into the fear thought condition, and
• 4:55:58
  Speaker 1: immediately he feels the rush of fear to his mind.
• 4:56:02
  Speaker 1: Let him cast aside fear and attune himself to the
• 4:56:05
  Speaker 1: fearless pitch, and he feels an influx of courage, fearlessness, confidence, energy,
• 4:56:12
  Speaker 1: and other positive thoughts. And according to the character of
• 4:56:16
  Speaker 1: your thoughts, will you draw to yourself people calculated to
• 4:56:20
  Speaker 1: cooperate with you and be of assistance to you. Even
• 4:56:25
  Speaker 1: things seem to shape themselves to fit in with the
• 4:56:27
  Speaker 1: keynote you have sounded. Not only do you attract to
• 4:56:31
  Speaker 1: yourself people and things corresponding with your mental pitch, but
• 4:56:35
  Speaker 1: you send out thought waves affecting others, creating impressions upon them.
• 4:56:41
  Speaker 1: Go into the presence of an I can and I
• 4:56:44
  Speaker 1: will man, and if you are of the same kind,
• 4:56:48
  Speaker 1: he will instantly perceive it and will be glad to
• 4:56:51
  Speaker 1: talk to you. On the other hand, approach a man
• 4:56:54
  Speaker 1: of this kind with your mind full of I can't,
• 4:56:58
  Speaker 1: and he will be conscious of in harmony and will
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  Speaker 1: want to be rid of your presence at once. Be
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  Speaker 1: a man with the southern exposure, such as I describe
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  Speaker 1: to you in another article, and you will find that
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  Speaker 1: you will extract and draw to yourself all the sunniness
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  Speaker 1: in the nature of people with whom you come in contact.
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  Speaker 1: Be a human wet blanket such as I have described
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  Speaker 1: in another article, and you will find that you will
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  Speaker 1: get the meanest qualities inherent in the nature of people
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  Speaker 1: with whom you come in contact. In fact, you will
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  Speaker 1: be able to attract only that kind of people who
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  Speaker 1: are as musty and unwholesome as yourself. Get rid of
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  Speaker 1: the old negative notes, Start in and cultivate the positive, joyous,
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  Speaker 1: active vibrations until you reach the steady mental pitch of
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  Speaker 1: the new thought man. Then will all the negative vibrations
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  Speaker 1: pass you by, finding no encouragement to enter your mentality.
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  Speaker 1: Then will you receive the bright, cheerful, happy, fearless vibrations
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  Speaker 1: coming from others who have reached the same plane of thought.
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  Speaker 1: Get in tune. Get in tune.
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  Speaker 2: Mental toxin and antitoxin and new toxin. The microbes in
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  Speaker 2: the thoughts we think the new antiitoxin thoughts may poison
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  Speaker 2: fear causes paralysis, Hate causes insanity. Fear and hate have
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  Speaker 2: killed their thousands Gates experiments How to overcome the poison
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  Speaker 2: of bad thinking in these days of toxin and antiitoxin,
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  Speaker 2: of poison in sausages, oysters, canned beef, ice cream of
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  Speaker 2: antiitoxin serums that often are more deadly than the original toxin.
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  Speaker 2: For the prevention and cure of tuberculosis, leprosy, pneumonia, typhoid fever, tetanus,
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  Speaker 2: bubonic plague, diphtheria, and the rest of the list. It
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  Speaker 2: requires courage to call the attention of the public to
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  Speaker 2: a new toxin, even if at the same time we
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  Speaker 2: furnish an antitoxin that antitoxicates. We shudder at the thought
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  Speaker 2: of microbes and basilly, and thereby attract them to us.
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  Speaker 2: We filter our drinking water after boiling all the life
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  Speaker 2: out of it, we develop into microbe hunters and sea
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  Speaker 2: poison in everything we wear, eat, drink, or breathe. But
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  Speaker 2: we overlook the microbes in the thoughts we think. We
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  Speaker 2: encourage the enterprising doctor in his giddy chase after the
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  Speaker 2: nimble dollar as he produces antitoxin serums to order. The poor,
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  Speaker 2: broken down, carved horse is worked over time in producing
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  Speaker 2: fuelthy puss and serum for the serum miniac to inject
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  Speaker 2: into our circulation. But we overlook the pure, harmless, powerful
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  Speaker 2: antitoxin obtained fresh from the cells of the brain white.
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  Speaker 2: Thinking that thoughts may poison is a well proven fact.
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  Speaker 2: Depressing thoughts interfere with the cerebral circulation, impairing the nutrition
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  Speaker 2: of the cells and nerve centers. The result is that
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  Speaker 2: the organs and tissues manifests lost or impaired function. Loss
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  Speaker 2: of general nutrition follows, and a breakdown is inevitable. Fear, worry, anger, envy, jealousy,
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  Speaker 2: and other negative thoughts reflect themselves most disastrously in the
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  Speaker 2: human system. Fear has paralyzed nerve centers and turn the
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  Speaker 2: hair white over night. A mother's milk has been poisoned
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  Speaker 2: by a fit of anger, fear and hate. Father and
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  Speaker 2: son have produced insanity, idiocy, paralysis, cholorina, joindice, sudden decay
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  Speaker 2: of teeth, fatal anemia, skin diseases, erycipolis, and exema. Epidemics
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  Speaker 2: owe their rapid spread and heavy death rate to fear
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  Speaker 2: and ignorance. Epidemics may kill their dozens. Fear kills its thousands.
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  Speaker 2: All the brood of negative, fearful, selfish, hateful thoughts manifest
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  Speaker 2: themselves in the physical conditions. Stigmata, or marks upon the
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  Speaker 2: body caused by fear or desire, are quite common in
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  Speaker 2: the annals of Medical science and psychology. Professor Gates of
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  Speaker 2: the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, d C. In his investigation of
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  Speaker 2: the effect of the mental states upon the body, found
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  Speaker 2: that irascible, manivolent, and depressing emotions generated in the system
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  Speaker 2: injurious compounds, some of which were extremely poisonous. He also
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  Speaker 2: found that agreeable, happy emotions generated chemical compounds of nutritious value,
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  Speaker 2: which stimulated the cells to manufacture energy. He says, there
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  Speaker 2: and unpleasant feelings create harmful chemical products in the body
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  Speaker 2: which are physically injurious. Good pleasant, benevolent feelings create beneficial
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  Speaker 2: chemical products which are physically healthful. These products may be
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  Speaker 2: detected by chemical analysis in the perspiration and secretions of
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  Speaker 2: the individual. More than forty of the good and as
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  Speaker 2: many of the bad, have been detected. Suppose half a
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  Speaker 2: dozen men in a room. One feels depressed, another remorseful,
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  Speaker 2: another ill tempered, another jealous, another cheerful, another benevolent. Samples
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  Speaker 2: of their perspiration are placed in the hands of the psychophysicists.
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  Speaker 2: Under his examination, they reveal all that these emotional conditions
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  Speaker 2: distinctly and unmistakably. Remember this is not the airy fancy
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  Speaker 2: of some enthusiastic mental scientists, but is the testimony of
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  Speaker 2: a leading scientific investigator in the laboratories of the Smithsonian Institution,
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  Speaker 2: one of the best known scientific institutions of the world.
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  Speaker 2: Chemical analysis. Mind you not transcendental imaginings. Now I have
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  Speaker 2: said enough about the tocsin and some little about the
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  Speaker 2: antitoxin of the mind. I might go on for hours
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  Speaker 2: stating example after example, illustration after illustration, but the tale
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  Speaker 2: would be just the same. Now, what are you going
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  Speaker 2: to do about it? Are you going to keep on
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  Speaker 2: poisoning yourself and those around you with vile, malignant thoughts,
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  Speaker 2: reeking with masmatic effluvia of hate, emitting the noxious exhalation
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  Speaker 2: of fear and worry, Or will you cease being a
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  Speaker 2: psychic pest house and begin to fumigate and disinfect your mind?
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  Speaker 2: And after getting rid of all the microbes of fear
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  Speaker 2: and worry and the policy of hate, jealousy, and envy,
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  Speaker 2: open wide the windows of the mind and admit the
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  Speaker 2: bright sunshine of love and the bracing air of confidence
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  Speaker 2: and fearlessness. Come, friends, let us get out of this
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  Speaker 2: habit of poisoning the air with fear, worry, and hate thought.
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  Speaker 2: Let us join the ranks of the don't worry Company,
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  Speaker 2: the fearless Brigade, the invinci conquering army of love. Let
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  Speaker 2: us be bright, cheerful, and happy. The other things are
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  Speaker 2: not worth while. Let us be confident, expectant, hopeful, and fearless.
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  Speaker 2: These things are winners. Let us be filled with love
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  Speaker 2: for all men, and we will find that life is
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  Speaker 2: one sweet song. Love, faith, and fearlessness are the ingredients
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  Speaker 2: of life's great antitoxin. Try it and be blessed.