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Path to Prosperity (version 2)-James Allen · As a Man Thinketh - James Allen

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  Speaker 1: Recording by Algie Pugg Section 1 The Lesson of Evil
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  Speaker 1: Unrest and pain and sorrow are the shadows of life.
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  Speaker 1: There is no heart in all the world that has
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  Speaker 1: not felt the sting of pain, no mind that has
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  Speaker 1: not been tossed upon the dark waters of trouble, no
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  Speaker 1: eye that has not wept the hot blinding tears of
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  Speaker 1: unspeakable anguish. There is no household where the great destroyers,
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  Speaker 1: disease and death, have not entered, severing heart from heart
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  Speaker 1: and casting over all the dark pall of sorrow. In
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  Speaker 1: the strong and apparently indestructible meshes of evil, all are
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  Speaker 1: more or less fast caught, and pain, unhappiness and misfortune
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  Speaker 1: wait upon mankind. With the object of escaping, or in
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  Speaker 1: some way mitigating this overshadowing gloom, Men and women rush
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  Speaker 1: blindly into innumerable devices, pathways by which they fondly hope
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  Speaker 1: to enter into a happiness which will not pass away.
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  Speaker 2: Such are the.
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  Speaker 1: Drunkard and the harlot who revel in sensual excitements. Such
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  Speaker 1: is the exclusive aesthet who shuts himself out from the
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  Speaker 1: sorrows of the world and surrounds himself with enervating luxuries.
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  Speaker 1: Such is he who thirsts for wealth or fame and
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  Speaker 1: subordinates all things to the achievement of that object, and
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  Speaker 1: such are they who seek consolation in the performance of
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  Speaker 1: religious rites. And to all the happiness sought seems to come,
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  Speaker 1: and the soul, for a time, is lulled into a
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  Speaker 1: sweet security, and an intoxicating forgetfulness of the existence of evil.
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  Speaker 1: But the day of disease comes at last. or some
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  Speaker 1: great sorrow, temptation, or misfortune breaks suddenly in on the
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  Speaker 1: unfortified soul, and the fabric of its fancied happiness is
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  Speaker 1: torn to shreds. So, over the head of every personal
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  Speaker 1: joy hangs the Damoclesian sword of pain, ready, at any moment,
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  Speaker 1: to fall and crush the soul of him who is
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  Speaker 1: unprotected by knowledge. The child cries to be a man
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  Speaker 1: or woman. The man and woman sigh for the lost
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  Speaker 1: felicity of childhood. The poor man chafes under the chains
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  Speaker 1: of poverty by which he is bound, and the rich
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  Speaker 1: man often lives in fear of poverty or scours the
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  Speaker 1: world in search of an elusive shadow he calls happiness.
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes the soul feels that it has found a secure
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  Speaker 1: peace and happiness in adopting a certain religion, in embracing
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  Speaker 1: an intellectual philosophy, or in building up an intellectual or
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  Speaker 1: artistic ideal. But some overpowering temptation proves the religion to
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  Speaker 1: be inadequate or insufficient. The theoretical philosophy is found to
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  Speaker 1: be a useless prop, or, in a moment, the idealistic
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  Speaker 1: statue upon which the devotee has for years been labouring
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  Speaker 1: is shattered into fragments at his feet. Is there, then,
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  Speaker 1: no way of escape from pain and sorrow? Are there
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  Speaker 1: no means by which bonds of evil may be broken?
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  Speaker 1: Is permanent happiness, secure prosperity, unabiding peace, a foolish dream? No,
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  Speaker 1: there is a way, and I speak it with gladness,
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  Speaker 1: by which evil can be slain for ever. There is
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  Speaker 1: a process by which disease, poverty, or any adverse condition
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  Speaker 1: or circumstance can be put on one side, never to return.
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  Speaker 1: There is a method by which a permanent prosperity can
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  Speaker 1: be secured, free from all fear of the return of adversity,
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  Speaker 1: and there is a practice by which unbroken and unending
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  Speaker 1: peace and bliss can be partaken of and realized. And
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  Speaker 1: the beginning of the way which leads to this glorious
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  Speaker 1: realization is the acquirement of a right understanding of the
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  Speaker 1: nature of evil. It is not sufficient to deny or
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  Speaker 1: ignore evil. It must be understood. It is not enough
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  Speaker 1: to pray to God to remove the evil. You must
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  Speaker 1: find out why it is there and what lesson it
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  Speaker 1: has for you. It is of no avail to fret
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  Speaker 1: and fume and chafe at the chains which bind you.
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  Speaker 1: You must know why and how you are bound. Therefore, reader,
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  Speaker 1: you must get outside yourself and must begin to examine
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  Speaker 1: and understand yourself. You must cease to be a disobedient
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  Speaker 1: child in the school of experience. and must begin to learn,
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  Speaker 1: with humility and patience, the lessons that are set for
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  Speaker 1: your edification and ultimate perfection. For evil, when rightly understood,
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  Speaker 1: is found to be not an unlimited power or principle
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  Speaker 1: in the universe, but a passing phase of human experience,
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  Speaker 1: and it therefore becomes a teacher to those who are
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  Speaker 1: willing to learn. Evil is not an abstract something outside yourself.
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  Speaker 1: It is an experience in your own heart, and by
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  Speaker 1: patiently examining and rectifying your heart, you will be gradually
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  Speaker 1: led into the discovery of the origin and nature of evil,
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  Speaker 1: which will necessarily be followed by its complete eradication. All
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  Speaker 1: evil is corrective and remedial, and is therefore not permanent.
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  Speaker 1: It is rooted in ignorance, ignorance of the true nature
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  Speaker 1: and relation of things, and so long as we remain
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  Speaker 1: in that state of ignorance, we remain subject to evil.
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  Speaker 1: There is no evil in the universe which is not
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  Speaker 1: the result of ignorance, and which would not, if we
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  Speaker 1: were ready and willing to learn its lesson, lead us
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  Speaker 1: to higher wisdom, and then vanish away. But men remain
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  Speaker 1: in evil, and it does not pass away, because men
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  Speaker 1: are not willing or prepared to learn the lesson which
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  Speaker 1: he came to teach them.
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  Speaker 2: I knew a.
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  Speaker 1: Child who, every night when his mother took it to bed,
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  Speaker 1: cried to be allowed to play with a candle, and
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  Speaker 1: one night, When the mother was off guard for a moment,
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  Speaker 1: the child took hold of the candle. The inevitable result followed,
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  Speaker 1: and the child never wished to play with the candle again.
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  Speaker 1: By its one foolish act, it learned, and learned perfectly,
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  Speaker 1: the lesson of obedience, and entered into the knowledge that
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  Speaker 1: fire burns. And this incident is a complete illustration of
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  Speaker 1: the nature meaning an ultimate result of all sin and evil.
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  Speaker 1: As the child suffered through its own ignorance of the
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  Speaker 1: real nature of fire, so older children suffer through their
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  Speaker 1: ignorance of the real nature of the things which they
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  Speaker 1: weep for and strive after, and which harm them when
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  Speaker 1: they are secured. The only difference being that, in the
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  Speaker 1: latter case, the ignorance and evil are more deeply rooted
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  Speaker 1: and obscure. Evil has always been symbolized by darkness and
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  Speaker 1: good by light, and hidden within the symbol is contained
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  Speaker 1: the perfect interpretation, the reality, for just as light always
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  Speaker 1: floods the universe, and darkness is only a mere speck
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  Speaker 1: or shadow cast by a small body intercepting a few
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  Speaker 1: rays of the illimitable light, so the light of the
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  Speaker 1: supreme good is the positive and life-giving power which floods
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  Speaker 1: the universe, and evil the insignificant shadow cast by the
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  Speaker 1: self that intercepts and shuts off the illuminating rays which
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  Speaker 1: strive for entrance. When night folds the world in its
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  Speaker 1: black impenetrable mantle, no matter how dense the darkness, it
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  Speaker 1: covers but the small space of half our little planet,
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  Speaker 1: while the whole universe is ablaze with living light, and
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  Speaker 1: every soul knows that it will awake in the light
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  Speaker 1: in the morning. Know, then, that when the dark night
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  Speaker 1: of sorrow, pain, or misfortune settles down upon your soul,
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  Speaker 1: and you stumble along with weary and uncertain steps, that
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  Speaker 1: you are merely intercepting your own personal desires between yourself
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  Speaker 1: and the boundless light of joy and bliss, and the
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  Speaker 1: dark shadow that covers you is cast by none and
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  Speaker 1: nothing but yourself. And just as the darkness without is
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  Speaker 1: but a negative shadow, an unreality which comes from nowhere,
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  Speaker 1: goes to nowhere, and has no abiding dwelling place, so
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  Speaker 1: the darkness within is equally a negative shadow itself, passing
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  Speaker 1: over the evolving and light-born soul. But, I fancy I
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  Speaker 1: hear someone say, why pass through the darkness of evil
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  Speaker 1: at all? Because, by ignorance, you have chosen to do so,
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  Speaker 1: and because, by doing so, you may understand both good
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  Speaker 1: and evil, and may the more appreciate the light by
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  Speaker 1: having passed through the darkness. As evil is the direct
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  Speaker 1: outcome of ignorance, so, when the lessons of evil are
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  Speaker 1: fully learned, ignorance passes away and wisdom takes its place.
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  Speaker 1: But as a disobedient child refuses to learn its lessons
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  Speaker 1: at school, so it is possible to refuse to learn
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  Speaker 1: the lessons of experience, and thus to remain in continual
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  Speaker 1: darkness and to suffer continually recurring punishments in the form
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  Speaker 1: of disease, disappointment and sorrow. He, therefore, who would shake
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  Speaker 1: himself free of the evil which encompasses him, must be
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  Speaker 1: willing and ready to learn, and must be prepared to
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  Speaker 1: undergo that disciplinary process without which no grain of wisdom
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  Speaker 1: or abiding happiness and peace can be secured. A man
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  Speaker 1: may shut himself up in a dark room and deny
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  Speaker 1: that the light exists, but it is everywhere without, and
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  Speaker 1: darkness exists only in his own little room. So you
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  Speaker 1: may shut out the light of truth, or you may
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  Speaker 1: begin to pull down the walls of prejudice, self-seeking, and
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  Speaker 1: error which you have built around yourself. And so let
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  Speaker 1: in the glorious and omnipresent light. By earnest self-examination, strive
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  Speaker 1: to realize, and not merely hold as a theory, that
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  Speaker 1: evil is a passing phase, a self-created shadow, that all
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  Speaker 1: your pains, sorrows and misfortunes have come to you by
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  Speaker 1: a process of undeviating and an absolutely perfect law, have
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  Speaker 1: come to you because you deserve and require them, and that,
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  Speaker 1: by first enduring and then understanding them, you may be
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  Speaker 1: made stronger, wiser, nobler. When you have fully entered into
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  Speaker 1: this realization, you will be in a position to mold
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  Speaker 1: your own circumstances, to transmute all evil into good, and
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  Speaker 1: to weave with a master hand the fabric of your destiny.
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  Speaker 1: What of the night, O watchman? Seest thou yet the
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  Speaker 1: glimmering dawn upon the mountain heights, the golden herald of
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  Speaker 1: the light of lights? Are his fair feet upon the
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  Speaker 1: hilltops set? Cometh he yet to chase away the gloom,
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  Speaker 1: and with it all the demons of the night? Strike
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  Speaker 1: yet his darting rays upon thy sight? Hearest thou his voice,
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  Speaker 1: the sound of error's doom? The morning cometh, lover of
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  Speaker 1: the light, Even now he gilds with gold the mountain's brow.
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  Speaker 1: Dimly I see the path whereon even now his shining
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  Speaker 1: feet are set toward the night. Darkness shall pass away,
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  Speaker 1: and all the things that love the darkness and that
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  Speaker 1: hate the light shall disappear forever with the night. Rejoice,
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  Speaker 1: for thus the speeding herald sings. a reflex of mental states.
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  Speaker 1: What you are, so is your world. Everything in the
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  Speaker 1: universe is resolved into your own inward experience. It matters
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  Speaker 1: little what is without, for it is all a reflection
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  Speaker 1: of your own state of consciousness. It matters everything what
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  Speaker 1: you are within, for everything without will be mirrored and
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  Speaker 1: coloured accordingly. All that you positively know is contained in
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  Speaker 1: your own experience. All that you ever will know must
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  Speaker 1: pass through the gateway of experience and so become part
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  Speaker 1: of yourself. Your own thoughts, desires and aspirations comprise your
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  Speaker 1: world and to you all that there is in the
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  Speaker 1: universe of beauty and joy and bliss or of ugliness
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  Speaker 1: and sorrow and pain is contained within yourself. By your
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  Speaker 1: own thoughts you make or mar your life, your world,
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  Speaker 1: your universe. As you build within by the power of thought,
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  Speaker 1: so will your outward life and circumstances shape themselves accordingly.
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  Speaker 1: Whatsoever you harbour in the inmost chambers of your heart will,
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  Speaker 1: sooner or later, by the inevitable law of reaction, shape
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  Speaker 1: itself in your outward life. The soul that is impure,
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  Speaker 1: sordid and selfish is gravitating with unerring precision towards misfortune
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  Speaker 1: and catastrophe. The soul that is pure, unselfish and noble
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  Speaker 1: is gravitating with equal precision toward happiness and prosperity. Every
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  Speaker 1: soul attracts its own, and nothing can possibly come to
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  Speaker 1: it that does not belong to it. To realize this
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  Speaker 1: is to recognize the universality of divine law. The incidents
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  Speaker 1: of every human life, which both make and mar, are
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  Speaker 1: drawn to it by the quality and power of its
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  Speaker 1: own inner thought-life. Every soul is a complex combination of
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  Speaker 1: gathered experiences and thoughts, and the body is but an
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  Speaker 1: improvised vehicle for its manifestation. What, therefore, your thoughts are,
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  Speaker 1: that is your real self, and the world around, both
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  Speaker 1: animate and inanimate, was the aspect with which your thoughts clothed.
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  Speaker 1: All that we are is the result of what we
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  Speaker 1: have thought, It is founded on our thoughts. It is
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  Speaker 1: made up of our thoughts. Thus said Buddha. And it
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  Speaker 1: therefore follows that if a man is happy, it is
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  Speaker 1: because he dwells in happy thoughts. If miserable, because he
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  Speaker 1: dwells in despondent and debilitating thoughts. Whether one be fearful
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  Speaker 1: or fearless, foolish or wise, troubled or serene, within that
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  Speaker 1: soul lies the cause of its own state or states,
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  Speaker 1: and never without. And now I seem to hear a
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  Speaker 1: chorus of voices exclaim, But do you really mean to
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  Speaker 1: say that outward circumstances do not affect our minds? I
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  Speaker 1: do not say that, but I say this, and know
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  Speaker 1: it to be an infallible truth, that circumstances could only
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  Speaker 1: affect you insofar as you allow them to do so.
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  Speaker 1: You are swayed by circumstances because you have not a
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  Speaker 1: right understanding of the nature, use, and power of thought.
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  Speaker 2: You believe.
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  Speaker 1: And upon this little word hang all our sorrows and joys,
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  Speaker 1: that outward things have the.
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  Speaker 2: Power to make or mar your life.
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  Speaker 1: By so doing you submit to those outward things, confess
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  Speaker 1: that you are their slave, and they your unconditional master.
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  Speaker 1: By so doing you invest them with a power which
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  Speaker 1: they do not of themselves possess, and you succumb in reality,
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  Speaker 1: not to the mere circumstances, but to the gloom or gladness,
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  Speaker 1: the fear or hope, the strength or weakness which your
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  Speaker 1: thought sphere has thrown around them. I knew two men who,
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  Speaker 1: at an early age, lost the hard-earned savings of years.
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  Speaker 1: One was very deeply troubled and gave way to chagrin,
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  Speaker 1: worry and despondency. The other, on reading in his morning
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  Speaker 1: paper that the bank in which his money was deposited
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  Speaker 1: had hopelessly failed and that he had lost all, quietly
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  Speaker 1: and firmly remarked, Well, it's gone, and trouble and worry
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  Speaker 1: won't bring it back, but hard work will. He went
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  Speaker 1: to work with renewed vigour and rapidly became prosperous, while
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  Speaker 1: a former man, continuing to mourn the loss of his
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  Speaker 1: money and to grumble at his bad luck, remained the
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  Speaker 1: sport and tool of adverse circumstances, in reality, of his
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  Speaker 1: own weak and slavish thoughts. The loss of money and
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  Speaker 1: was a curse to the one because he clothed the
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  Speaker 1: event with dark and dreary thoughts. It was a blessing
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  Speaker 1: to the other because he threw around it thoughts of strength,
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  Speaker 1: of hope, and renewed endeavour. If circumstances had the power
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  Speaker 1: to bless or harm, they would bless and harm all
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  Speaker 1: men alike. But the fact that the same circumstances will
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  Speaker 1: be alike good and bad to different souls proves that
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  Speaker 1: the good or bad is not in the circumstances but
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  Speaker 1: only in the mind of him that encounters it. When
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  Speaker 1: you begin to realize this, you will begin to control
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  Speaker 1: your thoughts, to regulate and discipline your mind, and to
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  Speaker 1: rebuild the inward temple of your soul, eliminating all useless
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  Speaker 1: and superfluous material and incorporating into your being thoughts alone
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  Speaker 1: of joy and serenity, of strength and life, of compassion
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  Speaker 1: and love, of beauty and immortality. And as you do this,
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  Speaker 1: you will become joyful and serene, strong and healthy, compassionate
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  Speaker 1: and loving, and beautiful with the beauty of immortality. And
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  Speaker 1: as we clothe events with the drapery of our own thoughts,
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  Speaker 1: so likewise do we clothe the objects of the visible
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  Speaker 1: world around us, and where one sees harmony and beauty,
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  Speaker 1: another sees revolting ugliness. An enthusiastic naturalist was one day
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  Speaker 1: roaming the country lanes in pursuit of his hobby of
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  Speaker 1: and during his rambles came upon a pool of brackish
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  Speaker 1: water near a farmyard. As he proceeded to fill a
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  Speaker 1: small bottle with the water for the purpose of examination
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  Speaker 1: under the microscope, he dilated, with more enthusiasm than discretion,
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  Speaker 1: to an uncultivated son of the plough who stood close by,
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  Speaker 1: upon the hidden and innumerable wonders contained in the pool,
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  Speaker 1: and concluded by saying, Yes, my friend, within this pool
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  Speaker 1: is contained a hundred, nay, a million universes, had we
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  Speaker 1: but the sense or the instrument by which we could
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  Speaker 1: apprehend them. And the unsophisticated one ponderously remarked, I know
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  Speaker 1: the water be full of tadpoles, but they be easy
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  Speaker 1: to catch. Were the naturalist, his mind stored with a
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  Speaker 1: knowledge of natural facts, saw beauty, harmony, and hidden glory,
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  Speaker 1: the mind, unenlightened upon those things, saw only an offensive mud-puddle.
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  Speaker 1: The wild flower, which the casual wayfarer thoughtlessly tramples on, is,
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  Speaker 1: to the spiritual eye of the poet, an angelic messenger
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  Speaker 1: from the invisible. To the many, the ocean is but
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  Speaker 1: a dreary expanse of water on which ships sail, and
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  Speaker 1: are sometimes wrecked. To the soul of the musician, it
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  Speaker 1: is a living thing, and he hears, in all its
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  Speaker 1: changing moods, divine harmonies. Where the ordinary mind sees disaster
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  Speaker 1: and confusion, the mind of the philosopher sees the most
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  Speaker 1: perfect sequence of cause and effect. And where the materialist
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  Speaker 1: sees nothing but endless death, the mystic sees pulsating and
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  Speaker 1: eternal life. And as we clothe both events and objects
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  Speaker 1: with our own thoughts, so likewise do we clothe the
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  Speaker 1: souls of others in the garments of our thoughts. The
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  Speaker 1: suspicious believe everybody to be suspicious. The liar feels secure
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  Speaker 1: in the thought that he is not so foolish as
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  Speaker 1: to believe that there is such a phenomenon as a
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  Speaker 1: strictly truthful person. The envious see envy in every soul.
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  Speaker 1: The miser thinks everybody is eager to get his money.
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  Speaker 1: He who has subordinated conscience in the making of his
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  Speaker 1: wealth sleeps with a revolver under his pillow, wrapped in
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  Speaker 1: the delusion that the world is full of consciousnessless people
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  Speaker 1: who are eager to rob him, and the abandoned sensualist
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  Speaker 1: looks upon the saint as a hypocrite. On the other hand,
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  Speaker 1: those who dwell in loving thoughts see that in all
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  Speaker 1: which calls forth their love and sympathy. the trusting and
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  Speaker 1: honest are not troubled by suspicions. The good-natured and charitable,
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  Speaker 1: who rejoice at the good fortune of others, scarcely know
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  Speaker 1: what envy means, and he who has realized the divine
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  Speaker 1: within himself recognizes it in all beings, even in the beasts.
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  Speaker 1: And men and women are confined in their mental outlook
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  Speaker 1: because of the fact that by the law of cause
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  Speaker 1: and effect they attract to themselves that which they send forth.
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  Speaker 1: and so come in contact with people similar to themselves.
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  Speaker 1: The old adage, birds of a feather flock together, has
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  Speaker 1: a deeper significance than is generally attached to it, for
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  Speaker 1: in the thought world, as in the world of.
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  Speaker 2: Matter, each clings to its kind. Do you wish for kindness?
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  Speaker 1: Be kind. Do you wish for truth? Be true. What
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  Speaker 1: you give of yourself you find... Your world is a
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  Speaker 1: reflex of you.
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  Speaker 2: If you.
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  Speaker 1: Are one of those who are praying for and looking
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  Speaker 1: forward to a happier world beyond the grave, here is
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  Speaker 1: a message of gladness for you. You may enter into
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  Speaker 1: and realize that happy world now. It fills the whole universe,
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  Speaker 1: and it is within you, waiting for you to find, acknowledge,
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  Speaker 1: and possess. Said one who knew the inner laws of being,
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  Speaker 1: When men shall say, Lo here, or lo there, go
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  Speaker 1: not after them. The kingdom of God is within you.
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  Speaker 1: What you have to do is to believe this. Simply
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  Speaker 1: believe it with a mind unshadowed by doubt, and then
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  Speaker 1: meditate upon it till you understand it. You will then
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  Speaker 1: begin to purify and to build your inner world, and
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  Speaker 1: as you proceed, passing from revelation to revelation, from realization
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  Speaker 1: to realization, you will discover the utter powerlessness of outward
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  Speaker 1: things beside the magic potency of a self-governed soul. If
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  Speaker 1: thou wouldst right the world and banish all its evils
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  Speaker 1: and its woes, make its wild places bloom and its
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  Speaker 1: drear deserts blossom as the rose, then right thyself.
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  Speaker 2: If thou wouldst.
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  Speaker 1: Turn the world from its long, lone captivity in sin,
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  Speaker 1: restore all broken hearts, slay grief, and let sweet consolation in,
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  Speaker 1: turn thou thyself. If thou wouldst cure the world of
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  Speaker 1: its long sickness, end its grief and pain, bring in
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  Speaker 1: all healing joy, and give to the afflicted rest again,
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  Speaker 1: then cure thyself. If thou wouldst wake the world out
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  Speaker 1: of its dream of death and darkening strife, bring it
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  Speaker 1: to love and peace and light and brightness of immortal life,
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  Speaker 1: Wake thou thyself. Section 3 The Way Out of Undesirable
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  Speaker 1: Conditions Having seen and realised that evil is but a
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  Speaker 1: passing shadow thrown by the intercepting self across the transcendent
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  Speaker 1: form of the eternal good, and that the world is
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  Speaker 1: a mirror in which each sees a reflection of himself,
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  Speaker 1: we now ascend, by firm and easy steps, to that
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  Speaker 1: plane of perception whereon is seen and realized the vision
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  Speaker 1: of the law. With this realization comes the knowledge that
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  Speaker 1: everything is included in the ceaseless interaction of cause and effect,
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  Speaker 1: and that nothing can possibly be divorced from law. From
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  Speaker 1: the most trivial thought, word, or act of man, up
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  Speaker 1: to the groupings of the celestial bodies, law reigns supreme.
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  Speaker 1: No arbitrary condition can, even for one moment, exist, for
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  Speaker 1: such a condition would be a denial and an annihilation
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  Speaker 1: of law. Every condition of life is, therefore, bound up
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  Speaker 1: in an orderly and harmonious sequence, and the secret and
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  Speaker 1: cause of every condition is contained within itself. The law,
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  Speaker 1: whatsoever a man sows, that shall he also reap, is
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  Speaker 1: inscribed in flaming letters upon the portal of eternity, and
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  Speaker 1: none can deny it. none can cheat it, none can
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  Speaker 1: escape it. He who puts his hand in the fire
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  Speaker 1: must suffer the burning until such time as it has
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  Speaker 1: worked itself out, and neither curses nor prayers can avail
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  Speaker 1: to alter it. And precisely the same law governs the
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  Speaker 1: realm of mind. Hatred, anger, jealousy, envy, lust, covetousness, All
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  Speaker 1: these are fires which burn, and whoever even so much
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  Speaker 1: as touches them must suffer the torments of burning. All
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  Speaker 1: these conditions of mind are rightly called evil, for they
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  Speaker 1: are the efforts of the soul to subvert, in its ignorance,
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  Speaker 1: the law, and they, therefore, lead to chaos and confusion within,
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  Speaker 1: and are, sooner or later, actualized in the outward circumstances
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  Speaker 1: as disease, failure, and misfortune. coupled with grief, pain, and despair.
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  Speaker 1: Whereas love, gentleness, goodwill, purity, are cooling airs which breathe
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  Speaker 1: peace upon the soul that woos them, and, being in
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  Speaker 1: harmony with the eternal law, they become actualized in the
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  Speaker 1: form of health, peaceful surroundings, and undeviating success and good fortune.
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  Speaker 1: A thorough understanding of this great law which permeates the
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  Speaker 1: universe leads to the acquirement of that state of mind
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  Speaker 1: known as obedience. To know that justice, harmony and love
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  Speaker 1: are supreme in the universe is likewise to know that
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  Speaker 1: all adverse and painful conditions are the result of our
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  Speaker 1: own disobedience to that law. Such knowledge leads to strength
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  Speaker 1: and power, and it is upon such knowledge alone that
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  Speaker 1: a true life and an enduring success and happiness can
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  Speaker 1: be built. To be patient under all circumstances, and to
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  Speaker 1: accept all conditions as necessary factors in your training, is
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  Speaker 1: to rise superior to all painful conditions, and to overcome
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  Speaker 1: them with an overcoming which is sure, and which leaves
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  Speaker 1: no fear of their return, for by the power of
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  Speaker 1: obedience to law they are utterly slain. Such an obedient
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  Speaker 1: one is working in harmony with the law. has, in fact,
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  Speaker 1: identified himself with the law, and whatsoever he conquers, he
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  Speaker 1: conquers forever. Whatsoever he builds can never be destroyed. The
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  Speaker 1: cause of all power, as of all weakness, is within.
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  Speaker 1: The secret of all happiness, as of all misery, is
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  Speaker 1: likewise within. There is no progress apart from enfoldment within,
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  Speaker 1: and no sure foothold of prosperity or peace except by
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  Speaker 1: orderly advancement in knowledge. You say you are chained by circumstances.
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  Speaker 1: You cry out for better opportunities, for a wider scope,
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  Speaker 1: for improved physical conditions, and perhaps you inwardly curse the
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  Speaker 1: fate that binds you hand and foot. It is for
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  Speaker 1: you that I write. It is to you that I speak. Listen,
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  Speaker 1: and let my words burn themselves into your heart, for
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  Speaker 1: that which I say to you is truth, You may
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  Speaker 1: bring about that improved condition in your outward life which
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  Speaker 1: you desire, if you will unswervingly resolve to improve your
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  Speaker 1: inner life.
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  Speaker 2: I know this.
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  Speaker 1: Pathway looks barren at its commencement.
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  Speaker 2: Truth always does.
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  Speaker 1: It is only error and delusion which are at first
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  Speaker 1: inviting and fascinating. But if you undertake to walk it,
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  Speaker 1: if you perseveringly discipline your mind, eradicating your weaknesses, and
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  Speaker 1: allowing your soul forces and spiritual powers to unfold themselves,
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  Speaker 1: you will be astonished at the magical changes which will
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  Speaker 1: be brought about in your outward life. As you proceed,
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  Speaker 1: golden opportunities will be strewn across your path, and the
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  Speaker 1: power and judgment to properly utilize them will spring up
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  Speaker 1: within you. Genial friends will come unbidden to you. Sympathetic
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  Speaker 1: souls will be drawn to you as the needle is
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  Speaker 1: to the magnet. and books, and all outward aids that
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  Speaker 1: you require, will come to you unsought. Perhaps the chains
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  Speaker 1: of poverty hang heavily upon you, and you are friendless
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  Speaker 1: and alone, and you long with an intense longing that
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  Speaker 1: your load may be lightened, but the load continues, and
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  Speaker 1: you seem to be enveloped in an ever-increasing darkness. Perhaps
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  Speaker 1: you complain, you bewail your lot, you blame your birth,
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  Speaker 1: your parents, your employer, or the unjust powers which have
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  Speaker 1: bestowed upon you so undeservedly poverty and hardship, and upon
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  Speaker 1: another affluence and ease. Cease your complaining and fretting. None
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  Speaker 1: of these things which you blame are the cause of
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: your poverty. The cause is within yourself, and where the
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  Speaker 1: cause is, there is the remedy. The very fact that
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  Speaker 1: you are a complainer shows that you deserve your lot,
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  Speaker 1: shows that you lack that faith which is the ground
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  Speaker 1: of all effort and progress. There is no room for
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  Speaker 1: a complainer in a universe of law, and worry is
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  Speaker 1: sole suicide. By your very attitude of mind you are
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  Speaker 1: strengthening the chains which bind you, and are drawing about
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  Speaker 1: you the darkness by which you are enveloped. Alter your
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  Speaker 1: outlook upon life, and your outward life will alter. Build
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  Speaker 1: yourself up in faith and knowledge, and make yourself worthy
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  Speaker 1: of better surroundings and wider opportunities. Be sure, first of all,
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  Speaker 1: that you are making the best of what you have.
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  Speaker 1: Do not delude yourself into supposing that you can step
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  Speaker 1: into greater advantages whilst overlooking smaller ones, for if you could,
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  Speaker 1: the advantage would be impermanent and you would quickly fall
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  Speaker 1: back again in order to learn the lesson which you
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  Speaker 1: had neglected. As the child at school must master one
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  Speaker 1: standard before passing on to the next, so, before you
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  Speaker 1: can have that greater good which you so desire, must
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  Speaker 1: you faithfully employ that which you already possess. The parable
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  Speaker 1: of the talents is a beautiful story illustrative of this truth,
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  Speaker 1: for does it not plainly show that if we misuse, neglect,
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  Speaker 1: or degrade that which we possess, be it ever so
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  Speaker 1: mean and insignificant, even that little will be taken from us, for,
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  Speaker 1: by our conduct, we show that we are unworthy of it.
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  Speaker 1: Perhaps you are living in a small cottage, and are
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  Speaker 1: surrounded by unhealthy and vicious influences. You desire a larger
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  Speaker 1: and more sanitary residence. Then you must fit yourself for
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  Speaker 1: such a residence by first of all making your cottage,
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  Speaker 1: as far as possible, a little paradise. Keep it spotlessly clean.
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  Speaker 1: Make it look as pretty and sweet as your limited
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  Speaker 1: means will allow. Cook your plain food with all care
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  Speaker 1: and arrange your humble table as tastefully as you possibly can.
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  Speaker 1: If you cannot afford a carpet, let your rooms be
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  Speaker 1: carpeted with smiles and welcomes, fastened down with the nails
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  Speaker 1: of kind words driven in with the hammer of patience.
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  Speaker 1: Such a carpet will not fade in the sun. and
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  Speaker 1: constant use will.
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  Speaker 2: Never wear it away.
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  Speaker 1: By so ennobling your present surroundings, you will rise above them,
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  Speaker 1: and above the need of them, and at the right
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  Speaker 1: time you will pass on into the better house and
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  Speaker 1: surroundings which have all along been waiting for you, and
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  Speaker 1: which you have fitted yourself to occupy. Perhaps you desire
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  Speaker 1: more time for thought and effort, and feel that your
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  Speaker 1: hours of labour are too hard and long. then see
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  Speaker 1: to it that you are utilising to the fullest possible
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  Speaker 1: extent what little spare time you have. It is useless
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  Speaker 1: to desire more time if you are already wasting what
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  Speaker 1: little you have, for you would only grow more indolent
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  Speaker 1: and indifferent. Even poverty and lack of time and leisure
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  Speaker 1: are not the evils that you imagine they are, and
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  Speaker 1: if they hinder you in your progress, it is because
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  Speaker 1: you have clothed them in your own weaknesses, and the
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  Speaker 1: evil that you see in them is really in yourself.
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  Speaker 1: Endeavour to fully and completely realise that insofar as you
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  Speaker 1: shape and mould your mind, you are the maker of
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  Speaker 1: your destiny. And as, by the transmuting power of self-discipline,
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  Speaker 1: you realise this more and more, you will come to
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  Speaker 1: see that these so-called evils may be converted into blessings.
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  Speaker 1: You will then utilise your poverty for the cultivation of patience,
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  Speaker 1: hope and courage. and your lack of time in the
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  Speaker 1: gaining of promptness of action and decision of mind by
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  Speaker 1: seizing the precious moments as they present themselves for your acceptance.
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  Speaker 1: As in the rankest soil the most beautiful flowers are grown,
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  Speaker 1: so in the dark soil of poverty the choicest flowers
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  Speaker 1: of humanity have developed and bloomed. Where there are difficulties
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  Speaker 1: to cope with and unsatisfactory conditions to overcome, there virtue
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  Speaker 1: most flourishes and manifests its glory. It may be that
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  Speaker 1: you are in the employ of a tyrannous master or mistress,
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  Speaker 1: and you feel that you are harshly treated. Look upon
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  Speaker 1: this also as necessary to your training. Return your employer's
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  Speaker 1: unkindness with gentleness and forgiveness. Practice unceasingly patience and self-control.
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  Speaker 1: Turn the disadvantage to account by utilizing it for the
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  Speaker 1: gaining of mental and spiritual strength. and by your silent
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  Speaker 1: example and influence you will thus be teaching your employer,
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  Speaker 1: will be helping him to grow ashamed of his conduct,
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  Speaker 1: and will, at the same time, be lifting yourself up
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  Speaker 1: to that height of spiritual attainment by which you will
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  Speaker 1: be enabled to step into new and more congenial surroundings
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  Speaker 1: at the time when they are presented to you. Do
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  Speaker 1: not complain that you are a slave, but lift yourself up,
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  Speaker 1: by noble conduct, above the plane of slavery. Before complaining
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  Speaker 1: that you are a slave to another, be sure that
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  Speaker 1: you are not a slave to self. Look within, look searchingly,
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  Speaker 1: and have no mercy upon yourself. You will find there, perchance,
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  Speaker 1: slavish thoughts, slavish desires, and in your daily life and conduct,
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  Speaker 1: slavish habits. Conquer these, cease to be a slave to self,
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  Speaker 1: and no man will have the power to enslave you.
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  Speaker 1: As you overcome self, you will overcome all adverse conditions,
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  Speaker 1: and every difficulty will fall before you. Do not complain
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  Speaker 1: that you are oppressed by the rich. Are you sure
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  Speaker 1: that if you gained riches, you would not be an
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  Speaker 1: oppressor yourself? Remember that there is the eternal law which
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  Speaker 1: is absolutely just, and that he who oppresses today must
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  Speaker 1: himself be oppressed tomorrow, and from this there is no
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  Speaker 1: way of escape. And perhaps you, yesterday, in some former existence,
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  Speaker 1: were rich and an oppressor, and that you are now
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  Speaker 1: merely paying off the debt which you owe to the
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: great law. Practice, therefore, fortitude and faith. Dwell constantly in
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  Speaker 1: mind upon the eternal justice, the eternal good. Endeavour to
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  Speaker 1: lift yourself above the personal and the transitory into the
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  Speaker 1: impersonal and the permanent. Shake off the delusion that you
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  Speaker 1: are being injured or oppressed by another, and try to realize,
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  Speaker 1: by a profounder comprehension of your inner life and the
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  Speaker 1: laws which govern that life, that you are only really
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  Speaker 1: injured by what is within you. There is no practice
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  Speaker 1: more degrading, debasing, and soul-destroying than that of self-pity. Cast
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  Speaker 1: it out from you. While such a canker is feeding
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  Speaker 1: upon your heart, you can never expect to grow into
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  Speaker 1: a fuller life. Cease from the condemnation of others and
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  Speaker 1: begin to condemn yourself. Condone none of your acts, desires
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  Speaker 1: or thoughts that will not bear comparison with spotless purity
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  Speaker 1: or endure the light of sinless good. By so doing,
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  Speaker 1: you will be building your house upon the rock of
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  Speaker 1: the eternal and all that is required for your happiness
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  Speaker 1: and well-being will come to you in its own time.
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  Speaker 1: There is positively no way of permanently rising above poverty
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  Speaker 1: or any undesirable condition except by eradicating those selfish and
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  Speaker 1: negative conditions within, of which these are the reflection, and
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  Speaker 1: by virtue of which they continue. The way to true
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: riches is to enrich the soul by the acquisition of virtue.
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  Speaker 1: Outside of real heart virtue there is neither prosperity nor power,
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  Speaker 1: but only the appearances of these. I am aware that
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  Speaker 1: men make money who have acquired no measure of virtue
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  Speaker 1: and have little desire to do so, but such money
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  Speaker 1: does not constitute true riches, and its possession is transitory
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  Speaker 1: and feverish. Here is David's testimony. For I was envious
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  Speaker 1: at the foolish when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.
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  Speaker 1: Their eyes stand out with fatness. They have more than
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  Speaker 1: heart could wish. Verily I have cleansed my heart in vain,
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  Speaker 1: and washed my hands in innocence. When I thought to
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  Speaker 1: know this, it was too painful to me, until I
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  Speaker 1: went into the sanctuary of God. Then understood I their end.
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  Speaker 1: The prosperity of the wicked was a great trial to David,
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  Speaker 1: until he went into the sanctuary of God, and then
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  Speaker 1: he knew their end. You likewise may go into that sanctuary.
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  Speaker 1: It is within you. It is that state of consciousness
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  Speaker 1: which remains when all that is sordid and personal and
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  Speaker 1: impermanent is risen above and universal and eternal principles are realized.
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  Speaker 1: That is the God state of consciousness. It is the
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  Speaker 1: sanctuary of the Most High. when, by long strife and self-discipline,
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  Speaker 1: you have succeeded in entering the door of that holy temple,
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  Speaker 1: you will perceive, with unobstructed vision, the end and fruit
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  Speaker 1: of all human thought and endeavour, both good and evil.
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  Speaker 1: You will then no longer relax your faith when you
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: see the immoral man accumulating outward riches, for you will
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  Speaker 1: know that he must come again to poverty and degradation.
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  Speaker 1: The rich man who is barren of virtue is, in reality, whore,
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  Speaker 1: and as surely as the waters of the river are
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  Speaker 1: drifting to the ocean, so surely is he, in the
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  Speaker 1: midst of all his riches, drifting towards poverty and misfortune.
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  Speaker 1: And though he die rich, yet must he return to
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  Speaker 1: reap the bitter fruit of all his immorality. And though
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  Speaker 1: he become rich many times, yet as many times must
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  Speaker 1: he be thrown back into poverty, until, by long experience
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  Speaker 1: and suffering, he conquers the poverty within. But the man
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  Speaker 1: who is outwardly poor, yet rich in virtue, is truly rich,
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  Speaker 1: and in the midst of all his poverty he is
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  Speaker 1: surely travelling towards prosperity, and abounding joy and bliss await
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  Speaker 1: his coming. If you would become truly and permanently prosperous,
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  Speaker 1: you must first become virtuous. It is therefore unwise to
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  Speaker 1: aim directly at prosperity, to make it the one object
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  Speaker 1: of life, to reach out greedily for it. To do this,
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  Speaker 1: is to ultimately defeat yourself. But rather, aim at self-perfection,
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  Speaker 1: make useful and unselfish service the object of your life,
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  Speaker 1: and ever reach out hands of faith towards the supreme
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  Speaker 1: and unalterable good. You say you desire wealth, not for
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: your own sake, but in order to do good with
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  Speaker 1: it and to bless others. If this is your real
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: motive in desiring wealth, then wealth will come to you,
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  Speaker 1: for you are strong and unselfish indeed, if, in the
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  Speaker 1: midst of riches, you are willing to look upon yourself
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  Speaker 1: as steward and not as owner. But examine well your motive,
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  Speaker 1: for in the majority of instances where money is desired
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: for the admitted object of blessing others, the real underlying
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: motive is a love of popularity and a desire to
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: pose as a philanthropist or reformer. If you are not
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: doing good with what little you have, depend upon it
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: the more money you got, the more selfish you would become,
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: and all the good you appeared to do with your money,
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: if you attempted to do any, would be so much
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: insinuating self-laudation. If your real desire is to do good,
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: there is no need to wait for money before you
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: do it. You can do it now, this very moment,
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  Speaker 1: and just where you are. If you are really so
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: unselfish as you believe yourself to be, you will show
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  Speaker 1: it by sacrificing yourself for others now. No matter how
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  Speaker 1: poor you are, there is room for self-sacrifice, for did
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: not the widow put her all into the treasury? The
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  Speaker 1: heart that truly desires to do good does not wait
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  Speaker 1: for money before doing it, but comes to the altar
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  Speaker 1: of sacrifice, and leaving there the unworthy elements of self,
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  Speaker 1: goes out and breathes upon the neighbor and stranger, friend
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  Speaker 1: and enemy alike, the breath of blessedness. As the effect
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  Speaker 1: is related to the cause, so is prosperity and power
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  Speaker 1: related to the inward good and poverty and weakness to
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: the inward evil. Money does not constitute true wealth, nor position,
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: nor power, and to rely upon it alone is to
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  Speaker 1: stand upon a slippery place. Your true wealth is your
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: stock of virtue, and your true power the uses to
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  Speaker 1: which you put it. Rectify your heart, and you will
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: rectify your life. hatred, anger, vanity, pride, covetousness, self-indulgence, self-seeking, obstinacy.
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  Speaker 1: All these are poverty and weakness. Whereas love, purity, gentleness, meekness, compassion, generosity,
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  Speaker 1: self-forgetfulness and self-renunciation, all these are wealth and power. As
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  Speaker 1: the elements of poverty and weakness are overcome, An irresistible
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  Speaker 1: and all-conquering power is evolved from within, and he who
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  Speaker 1: succeeds in establishing himself in the highest virtue brings the
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  Speaker 1: whole world to his feet. But the rich, as well
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  Speaker 1: as the poor, have their undesirable conditions, and are frequently
• 43:53
  Speaker 1: farther removed from happiness than the poor. And here we
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: see how happiness depends not upon outward aids or possessions,
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  Speaker 1: but upon the inward life. Perhaps you are an employer,
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  Speaker 1: and you have endless trouble with those whom you employ,
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  Speaker 1: and when you get good and faithful servants, they quickly
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  Speaker 1: leave you. As a result, you are beginning to lose
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  Speaker 1: or have completely lost your faith in human nature. You
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  Speaker 1: try to remedy matters by giving better wages and by
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  Speaker 1: allowing certain liberties, yet matters remain unaltered. Let me advise you,
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  Speaker 1: the secret of all your trouble is not in your servants,
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  Speaker 1: it is in yourself. and if you look within with
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: a humble and sincere desire to discover and eradicate your error,
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  Speaker 1: you will, sooner or later, find the origin of all
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  Speaker 1: your unhappiness. It may be some selfish desire, or lurking suspicion,
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: or unkind attitude of mind which sends out its poison
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  Speaker 1: upon those about you and reacts upon yourself, even though
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  Speaker 1: you may not show it in your manner or speech.
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  Speaker 1: Think of your servants with kindness. consider of them that
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  Speaker 1: extremity of service which you yourself would not care to
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  Speaker 1: perform were you in their place. Rare and beautiful is
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  Speaker 1: that humility of soul by which a servant entirely forgets
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  Speaker 1: himself in his master's good. But far rarer and beautiful
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: with a divine beauty is that nobility of soul by
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  Speaker 1: which a man, forgetting his own happiness, seeks the happiness
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  Speaker 1: of those who are under his authority and who depend
• 45:30
  Speaker 1: upon him for their bodily sustenance. and such a man's
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  Speaker 1: happiness is increased tenfold, nor does he need to complain
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  Speaker 1: of those whom he employs. Said a well-known and extensive
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  Speaker 1: employer of labour, who never needs to dismiss an employee,
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  Speaker 1: I have always had the happiest relations with my work people.
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  Speaker 1: If you ask me how it is to be accounted for,
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  Speaker 1: I can only say that it has been my aim
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  Speaker 1: from the first to do to them as I would
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  Speaker 1: wish to be done by. Herein lies the secret by
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  Speaker 1: which all desirable conditions are secured, and all that are
• 46:05
  Speaker 1: undesirable are overcome. Do you say you are lonely and unloved,
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  Speaker 1: and have not a friend in the world? Then I
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  Speaker 1: pray you, for the sake of your own happiness, blame
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  Speaker 1: nobody but yourself. Be friendly towards others, and friends will
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  Speaker 1: soon flock round you. Make yourself pure and lovable, and
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  Speaker 1: you will be loved by all. Whatever conditions are rendering
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  Speaker 1: your life burdensome, you may pass out of and beyond
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  Speaker 1: them by developing and utilising within yourself the transforming power
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  Speaker 1: of self-purification and self-conquest. Be it the poverty which galls,
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  Speaker 1: remember that the poverty upon which I have been dilating
• 46:48
  Speaker 1: is that poverty which is a source of misery, and
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  Speaker 1: not that voluntary poverty which is the glory of emancipated souls,
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  Speaker 1: or the riches which burden, or the many misfortunes, griefs
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  Speaker 1: and annoyances which form the dark background in the web
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  Speaker 1: of life, you may overcome them by overcoming the selfish
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  Speaker 1: elements within which give them life. It matters not that
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  Speaker 1: by the unfailing law there are past thoughts and acts
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  Speaker 1: to work out and to atone for, as, by the
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  Speaker 1: same law, we are setting in motion, during every moment
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  Speaker 1: of our life, fresh thoughts and acts, and we have
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  Speaker 1: the power to make them good or ill. Nor does
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  Speaker 1: it follow that if a man, reaping what he has sown,
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  Speaker 1: must lose money or forfeit position, that he must also
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  Speaker 1: lose his fortitude or forfeit his uprightness. And it is
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  Speaker 1: in these that his wealth and power and happiness are
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  Speaker 1: to be found. He who clings to self is his
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  Speaker 1: own enemy and is surrounded by enemies. He who relinquishes
• 47:52
  Speaker 1: self is his own saviour and is surrounded by friends
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  Speaker 1: like a protecting belt. Before the divine radiance of a
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  Speaker 1: pure heart, all darkness vanishes and all clouds melt away,
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  Speaker 1: and he who has conquered self has conquered the universe. Come, then,
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  Speaker 1: out of your poverty. Come out of your pain. Come
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  Speaker 1: out of your troubles and sighings and complainings and heartaches
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  Speaker 1: and loneliness by coming out of yourself. Let the old
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  Speaker 1: tattered garment of your petty selfishness fall from you. and
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  Speaker 1: put on the new garment of universal love, you will
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  Speaker 1: then realize the inward heaven, and it will be reflected
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  Speaker 1: in all your outward life. He who has set his
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  Speaker 1: foot firmly upon the path of self-conquest, who walks, aided
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  Speaker 1: by the staff of faith, the highway of self-sacrifice, will
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  Speaker 1: assuredly achieve the highest prosperity, and will reap abounding and
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  Speaker 1: enduring joy and bliss. To them that seek the highest good,
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  Speaker 1: All things subserve the wisest ends. Nought comes as ill,
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  Speaker 1: and wisdom lends wings to all shapes of evil brood.
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  Speaker 1: The darkening sorrow veils a star that waits to shine
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  Speaker 1: with gladsome light. Hell waits on heaven, and after night
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  Speaker 1: comes golden glory from afar. Defeats are steps by which
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  Speaker 1: we climb with pure aim to nobler ends. Loss leads
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  Speaker 1: to gain, and joy attends true footsteps up the hills
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  Speaker 1: of time. Pain leads to paths of holy bliss, to
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  Speaker 1: thoughts and words and deeds divine. and clouds that gloom
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  Speaker 1: and rays that shine along life's upward highway kiss. Misfortune
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  Speaker 1: does but cloud the way whose end and summit in
• 49:46
  Speaker 1: the sky of bright success, sun-kissed and high, awaits our
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  Speaker 1: seeking and our stay. The heavy pall of doubts and fears,
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  Speaker 1: the clouds the valley of our hopes, the shades with
• 49:59
  Speaker 1: which the spirit copes, the bitter harvesting of tears— the heartaches,
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  Speaker 1: miseries and griefs, the bruisings born of broken ties, all
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  Speaker 1: these are steps by which we rise to living ways
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  Speaker 1: of sound beliefs. Love, pitying, watchful, runs to meet the
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  Speaker 1: pilgrim from the land of fate. All glory and all
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  Speaker 1: good await the coming of obedient feet. Section 4 The
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  Speaker 1: Silent Power of Thought Controlling and Directing One's Forces The
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  Speaker 1: most powerful forces in the universe are the silent forces,
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  Speaker 1: and in accordance with the intensity of its power does
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  Speaker 1: a force become beneficent when rightly directed and destructive when
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  Speaker 1: wrongly employed. This is common knowledge in regard to the
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  Speaker 1: mechanical forces, such as steam, electricity, etc.
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  Speaker 2: But few have.
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  Speaker 1: Yet learned to apply this knowledge to the realm of mind,
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  Speaker 1: where the thought forces, most powerful of all, are continually
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  Speaker 1: being generated and sent forth as currents of salvation or destruction.
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  Speaker 1: At this stage of his evolution, man has entered into
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  Speaker 1: the possession of these forces, and the whole trend of
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  Speaker 1: his present advancement is their complete subjugation. All the wisdom
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  Speaker 1: possible to man on this material earth is to be
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  Speaker 1: found only in complete self-mastery and the command, Love thy enemies,
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  Speaker 1: resolved itself into an exhortation to enter, here and now,
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  Speaker 1: into the possession of that sublime wisdom by taking hold of,
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  Speaker 1: mastering and transmuting, those mind forces to which man is
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  Speaker 1: now slavishly subject, and by which he is helplessly born,
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  Speaker 1: like a straw on the stream, upon the currents of selfishness.
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  Speaker 1: The Hebrew prophets, with their perfect knowledge of the supreme law,
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  Speaker 1: always related outward events to inward thought. and associated national
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  Speaker 1: disaster or success with the thoughts and desires that dominated
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  Speaker 1: the nation at the time. The knowledge of the causal
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  Speaker 1: power of thought is the basis of all their prophecies,
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  Speaker 1: as it is the basis of all real wisdom and power.
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  Speaker 1: National events are simply the working out of the psychic
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  Speaker 1: forces of the nation. Wars, plagues and famines are the
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  Speaker 1: meeting and clashing of wrongly directed thought forces. the culminating
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  Speaker 1: points at which destruction steps in as the agent of
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  Speaker 1: the law. It is foolish to ascribe war to the
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  Speaker 1: influence of one man or to one body of men.
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  Speaker 1: It is the crowning horror of national selfishness. It is
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  Speaker 1: the silent and conquering thought forces which bring all things
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  Speaker 1: into manifestation. The universe grew out of thought. Matter, in
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  Speaker 1: its last analysis, is found to be merely objectivized thought.
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  Speaker 1: All men's accomplishments were first wrought out in thought and
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  Speaker 1: then objectivized. The author, the inventor, the architect first builds
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  Speaker 1: up his work in thought, and having perfected it in
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  Speaker 1: all its parts as a complete and harmonious whole upon
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  Speaker 1: the thought plane, he then commences to materialize it, to
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  Speaker 1: bring it down to the material or sense plane. When
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  Speaker 1: the thought forces are directed in harmony with the overruling law,
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  Speaker 1: They are upbuilding and preservative, but when subverted they become
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  Speaker 1: disintegrating and self-destructive. To adjust all your thoughts to a
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  Speaker 1: perfect and unswerving faith in the omnipotence and supremacy of
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  Speaker 1: good is to cooperate with that good and to realize
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  Speaker 1: within yourself the solution and destruction.
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  Speaker 2: Of all evil.
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  Speaker 1: Believe and ye shall live. And here we have the
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  Speaker 1: true meaning of salvation. salvation from the darkness and negation
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  Speaker 1: of evil by entering into and realising the living light
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  Speaker 1: of the eternal good. Where there is fear, worry, anxiety, doubt, trouble,
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  Speaker 1: chagrin or disappointment, there is ignorance and lack of faith.
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  Speaker 1: All these conditions of mind are the direct outcome of
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  Speaker 1: selfishness and are based upon an inherent belief in the
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  Speaker 1: power and supremacy of evils. They, therefore, constitute practical atheism
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  Speaker 1: and to live in and become subject to these negative
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  Speaker 1: and soul-destroying conditions of mind is the only real atheism.
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  Speaker 1: It is salvation from such conditions that the race needs
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  Speaker 1: and let no man boast of salvation while he is
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  Speaker 1: their helpless and obedient slave. To fear or to worry
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  Speaker 1: is as sinful as to curse for how can one
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  Speaker 1: fear or worry if he intrinsically believes in the eternal justice,
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  Speaker 1: the omnipotent good, the boundless love. To fear, to worry,
• 55:00
  Speaker 1: to doubt, is to deny, to disbelieve. It is from
• 55:05
  Speaker 1: such states of mind that all weakness and failure proceed,
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  Speaker 1: for they represent the annulling and disintegrating of the positive
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  Speaker 1: thought forces which would otherwise speed to their object with
• 55:16
  Speaker 1: power and bring about their own beneficent results. To overcome
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  Speaker 1: these negative conditions is to enter into a life of power,
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  Speaker 1: is to cease to be a slave and to become
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  Speaker 1: a master. And there is only one way by which
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  Speaker 1: they can be overcome, and that is by steady and
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  Speaker 1: persistent growth in inward knowledge. To mentally deny evil is
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  Speaker 1: not sufficient. It must, by daily practice, be risen above
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  Speaker 1: and understood. To mentally affirm the good is inadequate.
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  Speaker 2: It must.
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  Speaker 1: by unswerving endeavor, be entered into and comprehended. The intelligent
• 55:55
  Speaker 1: practice of self-control quickly leads to a knowledge of one's
• 55:59
  Speaker 1: interior thought forces and, later on, the acquisition of that
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  Speaker 1: power by which they are rightly employed and directed. In
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  Speaker 1: the measure that you master self, that you control your
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  Speaker 1: mental forces instead of being controlled by them, In just
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  Speaker 1: such measure will you master affairs and outward circumstances. Show
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  Speaker 1: me a man under whose touch everything crumbles away, and
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  Speaker 1: who cannot retain success even when it is placed in
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  Speaker 1: his hands, and I will show you a man who
• 56:31
  Speaker 1: dwells constantly in those conditions of mind which are the
• 56:34
  Speaker 1: very negation of power. To be forever wallowing in the
• 56:39
  Speaker 1: bogs of doubt, to be drawn continually into the quicksands
• 56:42
  Speaker 1: of fear, or blown ceaselessly about by the winds of anxiety,
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  Speaker 1: is to be a slave, and to live the life
• 56:50
  Speaker 1: of a slave, even though success and influence be forever
• 56:54
  Speaker 1: knocking at your door.
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  Speaker 2: Seeking for admittance.
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  Speaker 1: Such a man, being without faith and without self-government, is
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  Speaker 1: incapable of the right government of his affairs, and is
• 57:06
  Speaker 1: a slave to circumstances. in reality, a slave to himself.
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  Speaker 1: Such are taught by affliction and ultimately pass from weakness
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  Speaker 1: to strength by the stress of bitter experience. Faith and
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  Speaker 1: purpose constitute the motive power of life. There is nothing
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  Speaker 1: that a strong faith and an unflinching purpose may not accomplish.
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  Speaker 1: By the daily exercise of silent faith, the thought forces
• 57:33
  Speaker 1: are gathered together and by the daily strengthening of silent purpose,
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  Speaker 1: those forces are directed toward the object of accomplishment. Whatever
• 57:42
  Speaker 1: your position in life may be, before you can hope
• 57:45
  Speaker 1: to enter into any measure of success, usefulness and power,
• 57:49
  Speaker 1: you must learn how to focus your thought forces by
• 57:52
  Speaker 1: cultivating calmness and repose. It may be that you are
• 57:56
  Speaker 1: a businessman and you are suddenly confronted with some overwhelming
• 58:00
  Speaker 1: difficulty or probable disaster. you grow fearful and anxious and
• 58:05
  Speaker 1: are at your wit's end. To persist in such a
• 58:09
  Speaker 1: state of mind would be fatal, for when anxiety steps in,
• 58:13
  Speaker 1: correct judgment passes out. Now, if you will take advantage
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  Speaker 1: of a quiet hour or two in the early morning
• 58:20
  Speaker 1: or at night and go away to some solitary spot
• 58:23
  Speaker 1: or to some room in your house where you know
• 58:26
  Speaker 1: you will be absolutely free from intrusion, and having seated
• 58:29
  Speaker 1: yourself in an easy attitude, you forcibly direct your mind
• 58:33
  Speaker 1: right away from the object of anxiety by dwelling upon
• 58:37
  Speaker 1: something in your life that is pleasing and bliss-giving, a calm,
• 58:41
  Speaker 1: reposeful strength will gradually steal into your mind and your
• 58:45
  Speaker 1: anxiety will pass away. Upon that instant that you find
• 58:50
  Speaker 1: your mind reverting to the lower plane of worry, bring
• 58:53
  Speaker 1: it back again and re-establish it on the plane of
• 58:56
  Speaker 1: peace and strength. When this is fully accomplished, you may
• 59:01
  Speaker 1: then concentrate your whole mind upon the solution of your
• 59:04
  Speaker 1: difficulty and what was intricate and insurmountable to you in
• 59:08
  Speaker 1: your hour of anxiety. will be made plain and easy
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  Speaker 1: and you will see with a clear vision and perfect
• 59:15
  Speaker 1: judgment which belong only to a calm and untroubled mind
• 59:19
  Speaker 1: the right course to pursue and the proper end to
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  Speaker 1: be brought about It may be that you will have
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  Speaker 1: to try day after day before you will be able
• 59:29
  Speaker 1: to perfectly calm your mind. But if you persevere, you
• 59:33
  Speaker 1: will certainly accomplish it, and the course which is presented
• 59:37
  Speaker 1: to you in that hour of calmness must be carried out. Doubtless,
• 59:42
  Speaker 1: when you are again involved in the business of the day,
• 59:45
  Speaker 1: and worries again creep in and begin to dominate you,
• 59:49
  Speaker 1: you will begin to think that the course is a
• 59:51
  Speaker 1: wrong or foolish one, But do not heed such suggestions.
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  Speaker 1: Be guided absolutely and entirely by the vision of calmness
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 1: and not by the shadows of anxiety. The hour of
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 1: calmness is the hour of illumination and correct judgment. By
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 1: such a course of mental discipline the scattered thought forces
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 1: are reunited and directed like the rays of the searchlight
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 1: upon the problem at issue with the result that it
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 1: gives way before them. There is no difficulty, however great,
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 1: but will yield before a calm and powerful concentration of thought,
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 1: and no legitimate object but may be speedily actualized by
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 1: the intelligent use and direction of one's soul forces. Not
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 1: until you have gone deeply and searchingly into your inner
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 1: nature and have overcome many enemies that lurk there can
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 1: you have any approximate conception of the subtle power of thought.
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 1: of its inseparable relation to outward and material things, or
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 1: of its magical potency when rightly poised and directed in
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 1: readjusting and transforming the life conditions. Every thought, you think,
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 1: is a force sent out, and in accordance with its
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 1: nature and intensity will it go out to seek a
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 1: lodgment in minds receptive to it, and will react upon
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 1: yourself for good or evil. there is ceaseless reciprocity between
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 1: mind and mind and a continual interchange of thought forces.
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 1: Selfish and disturbing thoughts are so many malignant and destructive forces,
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 1: messengers of evil, sent out to stimulate and augment the
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 1: evil in other minds, which in turn send them back
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 1: upon you with added power. While thoughts that are calm,
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 1: pure and unselfish are so many angelic messengers sent out
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 1: into the world with health, healing and blessedness upon their wings,
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 1: counteracting the evil forces, pouring the oil of joy upon
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 1: the troubled waters of anxiety and sorrow, and restoring to
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 1: broken hearts their heritage of immortality. Think good thoughts, and
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 1: they will quickly become actualized in your outward life in
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 1: the form of good conditions. Control your soul forces, and
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 1: you will be able to shape your outward life as
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 1: you will. The difference between a saviour and a sinner
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 1: is this, that the one has a perfect control of
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 1: all the forces within him, the other is dominated and
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 1: controlled by them. There is absolutely no other way to
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 1: true power and abiding peace but by self-control, self-government, self-purification.
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 1: To be at the mercy of your disposition is to
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 1: be impotent, unhappy and of little real use in the world.
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 1: the conquest of your petty likes and dislikes, your capricious
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 1: loves and hates, your fits of anger, suspicion, jealousy, and
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 1: all the changing moods to which you are more or
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 1: less helplessly subject. This is the task which you have
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 1: before you if you would weave into the web of
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 1: life the golden threads of happiness and prosperity. Insofar as
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 1: you are enslaved by the changing moods within you, will
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 1: you need to depend upon others and upon outward aids
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 1: as you walk through life. If you would walk firmly
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 1: and securely, and would accomplish any achievement, you must learn
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 1: to rise above and control all such disturbing and retarding vibrations.
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 1: You must daily practice the habit of putting your mind
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 1: at rest, going into the silence, as it is commonly called.
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 1: This is a method of replacing a troubled thought with
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 1: one of peace, a thought of weakness with one of strength.
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 1: Until you succeed in doing this, you cannot hope to
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 1: direct your mental forces upon the problems and pursuits of
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 1: life with any appreciable measure of success. It is a
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 1: process of diverting one's scattered forces into one powerful channel.
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 1: just as a useless marsh may be converted into a
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 1: field of golden corn or a fruitful garden by draining
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 1: and directing the scattered and harmful streams into one well-cut channel,
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 1: so he who acquires calmness and subdues and directs the
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 1: thought currents within himself saves his soul and fructifies his
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 1: heart and life. As you succeed in gaining mastery over
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 1: your impulses and thoughts, you will begin to feel, growing
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 1: up within you, a new and silent power, and a
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 1: settled feeling of composure and strength will remain with you.
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 1: Your latent powers will begin to unfold themselves, and whereas
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 1: formerly your efforts were weak and ineffectual, you will now
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 1: be able to work with that calm confidence which commands success.
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 1: And along with this new power and strength, there will
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 1: be awakened within you that interior illumination known as intuition,
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 1: and you will walk no longer in darkness and speculation,
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 1: but in light and certainty. With the development of this
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 1: soul vision, judgment and mental penetration will be incalculably increased,
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  Speaker 1: and there will evolve within you that prophetic vision by
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  Speaker 1: the aid of which you will be able to sense
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  Speaker 1: coming events and to forecast with remarkable accuracy the result.
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  Speaker 2: Of your efforts.
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  Speaker 1: And in just the measure that you alter from within,
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  Speaker 1: will your outlook upon life alter. And as you alter
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  Speaker 1: your mental attitude towards others, they will alter in their
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  Speaker 1: attitude and conduct toward you. As you rise above the lower,
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  Speaker 1: debilitating and destructive thought forces, you will come in contact
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  Speaker 1: with the positive, strengthening and upbuilding currents generated by strong,
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  Speaker 1: pure and noble minds. Your happiness will be immeasurably intensified.
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  Speaker 1: and you will begin to realize the joy, strength, and
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  Speaker 1: power which are born only of self-mastery. And this joy, strength,
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  Speaker 1: and power will be continually radiating from you, and without
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  Speaker 1: any effort on your part, nay, though you are utterly
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  Speaker 1: unconscious of it, strong people will be drawn toward you,
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  Speaker 1: influence will be put into your hands, and in accordance
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  Speaker 1: with your altered thought world, will outward events shape themselves.
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  Speaker 1: A man's foes are they of his own household, and
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  Speaker 1: he who would be useful, strong, and happy must cease
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  Speaker 1: to be a passive receptacle for the negative, beggarly, and
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  Speaker 1: impure streams of thought. And as a wise householder commands
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  Speaker 1: his servants and invites his guests, so must he learn
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  Speaker 1: to command his desires, and to say, with authority, what
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  Speaker 1: thoughts he shall admit into the mansion of his soul.
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  Speaker 1: Even a very partial success in self-mastery adds greatly to
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  Speaker 1: one's power, and he who succeeds in perfecting this divine
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  Speaker 1: accomplishment enters into possession of undreamed-of wisdom and inward strength
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  Speaker 1: and peace, and realizes that all the forces of the
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  Speaker 1: universe aid and protect his footsteps, who is master of
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  Speaker 1: his soul. Would you scale the highest heaven? Would you
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  Speaker 1: pierce the lowest hell? Live in dreams of constant beauty,
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  Speaker 1: Or in basest thinkings dwell? For your thoughts are heaven
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  Speaker 1: above you, And your thoughts are hell below. Bliss is not,
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  Speaker 1: except in thinking, Torment naught, but thought can know. Worlds
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  Speaker 1: would vanish but for thinking, Glory is not but in dreams,
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  Speaker 1: And the drama of the ages From the thought eternal streams.
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  Speaker 1: Dignity and shame and sorrow Pain and anguish, love and hate,
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  Speaker 1: are but maskings of the mighty pulsing thought that governs fate.
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  Speaker 1: As the colours of the rainbow make the one uncoloured beam,
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  Speaker 1: so the universal changes make the one eternal dream. And
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  Speaker 1: the dream is all within you, and the dreamer waiteth
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  Speaker 1: long for the morning to awake him to the living
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  Speaker 1: thought and strong. That shall make the ideal real, make
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  Speaker 1: to vanish streams of hell in the highest, holiest heaven
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  Speaker 1: where the pure and perfect dwell. Evil is the thought
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  Speaker 1: that thinks it, good the thought that makes it so.
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  Speaker 1: Light and darkness, sin and pureness, likewise out of thinking grow.
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  Speaker 1: Dwell in thought upon the grandest, and the grandest you
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  Speaker 1: shall see. Fix your thought upon the highest, and the
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  Speaker 1: highest you shall be. Section 5 The Secret of Health,
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  Speaker 1: Success and Power We all remember, with what intense delight,
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  Speaker 1: as children we listened to the never-tiring fairy tale. how
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  Speaker 1: eagerly we followed the fluctuating fortunes of the good boy
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  Speaker 1: or girl, ever protected in the hour of crisis from
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  Speaker 1: the evil machinations of the scheming witch, the cruel giant,
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  Speaker 1: or the wicked king. And our little hearts never faltered
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  Speaker 1: for the fate of the hero or heroine, nor did
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  Speaker 1: we doubt their ultimate triumph over all their enemies, for
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  Speaker 1: we knew that the fairies were infallible, and that they
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  Speaker 1: would never desert those who had consecrated themselves to the
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  Speaker 1: good and the true. And what unspeakable joy pulsated within
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  Speaker 1: us when the Fairy Queen, bringing all her magic to
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  Speaker 1: bear at the critical moment, scattered all the darkness and trouble,
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  Speaker 1: and granted them the complete satisfaction of all their hopes,
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  Speaker 1: and they were happy ever after. with the accumulating years
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  Speaker 1: and an ever-increasing intimacy with the so-called realities of life,
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  Speaker 1: our beautiful fairy world became obliterated, and its wonderful inhabitants
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  Speaker 1: were relegated in the archives of memory to the shadowy
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  Speaker 1: and unreal. And we thought we were wise and strong
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  Speaker 1: in thus leaving forever the land of childish dreams. but
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  Speaker 1: as we re-become little children in the wondrous world of wisdom,
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  Speaker 1: we shall return again to the inspiring dreams of childhood,
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  Speaker 1: and find that they are, after all, realities. The fairy folk,
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  Speaker 1: so small and nearly always invisible, yet possessed of an
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  Speaker 1: all-conquering and magical power, who bestow upon the good, health, wealth,
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  Speaker 1: and happiness, along with all the gifts of nature in
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  Speaker 1: lavish profusion, start again into reality and become immortalized in
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  Speaker 1: the soul realm of him who, by growth in wisdom,
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  Speaker 1: has entered into a knowledge of the power of thought
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  Speaker 1: and the laws which govern the inner world of being.
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  Speaker 1: To him the fairies live again as thought people, thought messengers,
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  Speaker 1: thought powers working in harmony with the overruling good, and
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  Speaker 1: they who, day by day, endeavour to harmonise their hearts
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  Speaker 1: with the heart of the supreme good, do in reality
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  Speaker 1: acquire true health, wealth and happiness. There is no protection
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  Speaker 1: to compare with goodness, and by goodness I do not
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  Speaker 1: mean a mere outward conformity to the rules of morality.
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  Speaker 1: I mean pure thought, noble aspiration, unselfish love, and freedom
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  Speaker 1: from vain glory. To dwell continually in good thoughts is
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  Speaker 1: to throw around oneself a psychic atmosphere of sweetness and
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  Speaker 1: power which leaves its impress upon all who come in
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  Speaker 1: contact with it. As the rising sun puts to rout
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  Speaker 1: the helpless shadows, so are all the impotent forces of
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  Speaker 1: evil put to flight by the searching rays of positive
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  Speaker 1: thought which shine from a heart made strong in purity
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  Speaker 1: and faith. Where there is sterling faith and uncompromising purity,
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  Speaker 1: there is health, there is success, there is power. In
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  Speaker 1: such a one, disease, failure and disaster can find no lodgment,
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  Speaker 1: for there is nothing on which they can feed. Even
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  Speaker 1: physical conditions are largely determined by mental states. and to
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  Speaker 1: this truth the scientific world is rapidly being drawn. The
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  Speaker 1: old materialistic belief that a man is what his body
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  Speaker 1: makes him is rapidly passing away, and is being replaced
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  Speaker 1: by the inspiring belief that man is superior to his body,
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  Speaker 1: and that his body is what he makes it by
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  Speaker 1: the power of thought. Men everywhere are ceasing to believe
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  Speaker 1: that a man is despairing because he is dyspeptic, and
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  Speaker 1: are coming to understand that he is dyspeptic because he
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  Speaker 1: is despairing, and in the near future the fact that
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  Speaker 1: all disease has its origin in the mind will become
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  Speaker 1: common knowledge. There is no evil in the universe but
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  Speaker 1: has its root and origin in the mind, and sin, sickness,
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  Speaker 1: sorrow and affliction do not in reality exist. belong to
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  Speaker 1: the universal order, are not inherent in the nature of things,
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  Speaker 1: but are the direct outcome of our ignorance of the
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  Speaker 1: right relations of things. According to tradition, there once lived
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  Speaker 1: in India a school of philosophers who led a life
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  Speaker 1: of such absolute purity and simplicity that they commonly reached
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  Speaker 1: the age of one hundred and fifty years, and to
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  Speaker 1: fall sick was looked upon by them as an unpardonable disgrace,
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  Speaker 1: for it was considered to indicate a violation of law.
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  Speaker 1: The sooner we realize and acknowledge that sickness, far from
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  Speaker 1: being the arbitrary visitation of an offender to God, or
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  Speaker 1: the test of an unwise providence, is the result of
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  Speaker 1: our own error or sin, the sooner shall we enter
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  Speaker 1: upon the highway of health. Disease comes to those who
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  Speaker 1: attract it. to those whose minds and bodies are receptive
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  Speaker 1: to it, and flees from those whose strong, pure and
• 1:14:12
  Speaker 1: positive thought sphere generates healing and life-giving currents. If you
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  Speaker 1: are given to anger, worry, jealousy, greed, or any other
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  Speaker 1: inharmonious state of mind, and expect perfect physical health, you
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  Speaker 1: are expecting the impossible, for you are continually sowing the
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  Speaker 1: seed of disease in your mind. Such conditions of mind
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  Speaker 1: are carefully shunned by the wise man, for he knows
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  Speaker 1: them to be far more dangerous than a bad drain
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  Speaker 1: or an infected house. If you would be free from
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  Speaker 1: all physical aches and pains and would enjoy perfect physical harmony,
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  Speaker 1: then put your mind in order and harmonize your thoughts.
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  Speaker 1: Think joyful thoughts. Think loving thoughts. Let the elixir of
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  Speaker 1: goodwill course through your veins and you will need no
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  Speaker 1: other medicines. Put away your jealousies, your suspicions, your worries,
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  Speaker 1: your hatreds, your selfish indulgences, and you will put away
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  Speaker 1: your dyspepsia, your biliousness, your nervousness, and aching joints. If
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  Speaker 1: you will persist in clinging to these debilitating and demoralizing
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  Speaker 1: habits of mind, then do not complain when your body
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  Speaker 1: is laid low with sickness. The following story illustrates the
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  Speaker 1: close relation that exists between habits of mind and bodily conditions.
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  Speaker 1: A certain man was afflicted with a painful disease, and
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  Speaker 1: he tried one physician after another, but all to no purpose.
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  Speaker 1: He then visited towns which were famous for their curative waters,
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  Speaker 1: and after having bathed in them all, his disease was
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  Speaker 1: more painful than ever. One night he dreamed that a
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  Speaker 1: presence came to him and said, Brother, hast thou tried
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  Speaker 1: all the means of cure? And he replied, I have
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  Speaker 1: tried all. Nay, said the presence, come with me, and
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  Speaker 1: I will show thee a healing bath which has escaped
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  Speaker 1: thy notice. The afflicted man followed, and the presence led
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  Speaker 1: him to a clear pool of water, and said, Plunge
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  Speaker 1: thyself in this water, and thou shalt surely recover, and
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  Speaker 1: thereupon vanished. The man plunged into the water, and on
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  Speaker 1: coming out, lo, his disease had left him, and at
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  Speaker 1: the same time he saw written above the pool the word, Renounce.
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  Speaker 1: Upon waking, the full meaning of his dream flashed across
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  Speaker 1: his mind, and looking within, he discovered that he had,
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  Speaker 1: all along, been a victim to a sinful indulgence, and
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  Speaker 1: he vowed that he would renounce it forever. He carried
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  Speaker 1: out his vow, and from that day his affliction began
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  Speaker 1: to leave him, and in a short time he was
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  Speaker 1: completely restored to health. Many people complain that they have
• 1:17:01
  Speaker 1: broken down through overwork. In the majority of such cases,
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  Speaker 1: the breakdown is more frequently the result of foolishly wasted energy.
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  Speaker 1: If you would secure health, you must learn to work
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  Speaker 1: without friction. To become anxious or excited, or to worry
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  Speaker 1: over needless details, is to invite a breakdown. Work, whether
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  Speaker 1: of brain or body, is beneficial and health-giving. and the
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  Speaker 1: man who can work with a steady and calm persistency,
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  Speaker 1: freed from all anxiety and worry, and with his mind
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  Speaker 1: utterly oblivious to all but the work he has in hand,
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  Speaker 1: will not only accomplish far more than the man who
• 1:17:40
  Speaker 1: is always hurried and anxious, but he will retain his health,
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  Speaker 1: a boon which the other quickly forfeits. True health and
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  Speaker 1: true success go together, for they are inseparably intertwined in
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  Speaker 1: the thought realms. as mental harmony produces bodily health, so
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  Speaker 1: it also leads to a harmonious sequence in the actual
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  Speaker 1: working out.
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  Speaker 2: Of one's plans.
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  Speaker 1: Order your thoughts, and you will order your life. Pour
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  Speaker 1: the oil of tranquility upon the turbulent waters of the
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  Speaker 1: passions and prejudices, and the tempests of misfortune, howsoever they
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  Speaker 1: may threaten, will be powerless to wreck the bark of
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  Speaker 1: your soul, as it threads its way across the ocean
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  Speaker 1: of life. and if that bark be piloted by a
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  Speaker 1: cheerful and never-failing faith, its course will be doubly sure,
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  Speaker 1: and many perils will pass it by which would otherwise
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  Speaker 1: attack it. By the power of faith every enduring work
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  Speaker 1: is accomplished. Faith in the Supreme, faith in the overruling law,
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  Speaker 1: faith in your work, and in your power to accomplish
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  Speaker 1: that work. Here is the rock upon which you must
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  Speaker 1: build if you would achieve if you would stand and
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  Speaker 1: not fall to follow under all circumstances the highest promptings
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  Speaker 1: within you to be always true to the divine self
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  Speaker 1: to rely upon the inward light, the inward voice, and
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  Speaker 1: to pursue your purpose with a fearless and restful heart,
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  Speaker 1: believing that the future will yield unto you the mead
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  Speaker 1: of every thought and effort, knowing that the laws of
• 1:19:17
  Speaker 1: the universe can never fail, and that your own will
• 1:19:20
  Speaker 1: come back to you with mathematical exactitude. This is faith,
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  Speaker 1: and the living of faith. By the power of such
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  Speaker 1: a faith, the dark waters of uncertainty are divided. Every
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  Speaker 1: mountain of difficulty crumbles away, and the believing soul passes
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  Speaker 1: on unharmed. Strive, O reader, to acquire above everything the
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  Speaker 1: priceless possession of this dauntless faith, for it is the
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  Speaker 1: talisman of happiness, of success, of peace, of power, of
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  Speaker 1: all that makes life great and superior to suffering. Build
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  Speaker 1: upon such a faith, and you build upon the rock
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  Speaker 1: of the eternal and with the materials of the eternal
• 1:20:03
  Speaker 1: and the structure that you erect will never be dissolved
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  Speaker 1: for it will transcend all the accumulations of material luxuries
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  Speaker 1: and riches the end of which is dust whether you
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  Speaker 1: are hurled into the depths of sorrow or lifted upon
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  Speaker 1: the heights of joy ever retain your hold upon this
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  Speaker 1: faith ever return to it as your rock of refuge
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  Speaker 1: and keep your feet firmly planted upon its immortal and
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  Speaker 1: immovable base. Centred in such a faith, you will become
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  Speaker 1: possessed of such a spiritual strength as will shatter, like
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  Speaker 1: so many toys of glass, all the forces of evil
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  Speaker 1: that are hurled against you, and you will achieve a
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  Speaker 1: success such as the mere striver after worldly gain can
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  Speaker 1: never know or even dream of. If ye have faith,
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  Speaker 1: and doubt not, ye shall not only do this, But
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  Speaker 1: if ye shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed,
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  Speaker 1: and be thou cast into the sea, it shall be done.
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  Speaker 1: There are those today, men and women, tabernacled in flesh
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  Speaker 1: and blood, who have realized this faith, who live in
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  Speaker 1: it and by it, day by day, and who, having
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  Speaker 1: put it to the uttermost test, have entered into the
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  Speaker 1: possession of its glory and peace. Such have sent out
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  Speaker 1: the word of command, and the mountains of sorrow and disappointment,
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  Speaker 1: of mental weariness and physical pain, have passed from them
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  Speaker 1: and have been cast into the sea of oblivion. If
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  Speaker 1: you will become possessed of this faith, you need not
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  Speaker 1: trouble about your success or failure, and success will come.
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  Speaker 1: You will not need to become anxious about results, but
• 1:21:46
  Speaker 1: will work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and
• 1:21:50
  Speaker 1: right efforts will inevitably bring about right results. I know
• 1:21:55
  Speaker 1: a lady who has entered into many blissful satisfactions, and
• 1:21:59
  Speaker 1: recently a friend remarked to her, Oh, how fortunate you are!
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  Speaker 1: You have only to wish for a thing, and it
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  Speaker 1: comes to you. And it did indeed appear so on
• 1:22:10
  Speaker 1: the surface, but in reality all the blessedness that has
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  Speaker 1: entered into this woman's life is the direct outcome of
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  Speaker 1: the inward state of blessedness which she has, throughout life,
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  Speaker 1: been cultivating and training toward perfection. Mere wishing brings nothing
• 1:22:27
  Speaker 1: but disappointment. It is living that tells. The foolish wish
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  Speaker 1: and grumble, the wise work and wait, and this woman
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  Speaker 1: had worked, worked without and within, but especially within upon
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  Speaker 1: heart and soul, and with the invisible hands of the
• 1:22:44
  Speaker 1: spirit she had built up, with the precious stones of faith, hope, joy, devotion,
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  Speaker 1: and love, a fair temple of light, whose glorifying radiance
• 1:22:55
  Speaker 1: was ever round about her. It beamed in her eye,
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  Speaker 1: it shone through her countenance, it vibrated in her voice,
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  Speaker 1: and all who came into her presence felt its captivating spell.
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  Speaker 1: And so with her, so with you. Your success, your failure,
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  Speaker 1: your influence, your whole life you carry about with you,
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  Speaker 1: for your dominant trends of thought are the determining factors
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  Speaker 1: in your destiny. Send forth loving, stainless, and happy thoughts,
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  Speaker 1: and blessings will fall into your hands, and your table
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  Speaker 1: will be spread with the cloth of peace. Send forth hateful, impure,
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  Speaker 1: and unhappy thoughts, and curses will rain down upon you,
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  Speaker 1: and fear and unrest will wait upon your pillow. You
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  Speaker 1: are the unconditional maker of your fate. Be that fate
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  Speaker 1: what it may. Every moment you are sending forth from
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  Speaker 1: you influences which will make or mar your life. Let
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  Speaker 1: your heart grow large and loving and unselfish, and great
• 1:23:59
  Speaker 1: and lasting will be your influence and success, even though
• 1:24:03
  Speaker 1: you make little money. Confine it within the narrow limits
• 1:24:07
  Speaker 1: of self-interest, and even though you become a millionaire, your
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  Speaker 1: influence and success at the final reckoning will be found
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  Speaker 1: to be utterly insignificant. Cultivate then this pure and unselfish spirit,
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  Speaker 1: and combine it with purity in faith, singleness of purpose,
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  Speaker 1: and you are evolving from within the elements not only
• 1:24:27
  Speaker 1: of abounding health and enduring success, but of greatness and power.
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  Speaker 1: If your present position is distasteful to you, and your
• 1:24:37
  Speaker 1: heart is not in your work, Nevertheless, perform your duties
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  Speaker 1: with scrupulous diligence, and whilst resting your mind in the
• 1:24:44
  Speaker 1: idea that the better position and greater opportunities are waiting
• 1:24:48
  Speaker 1: for you, ever keep an active mental outlook for budding possibilities,
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  Speaker 1: so that when the critical moment arrives and the new
• 1:24:55
  Speaker 1: channel presents itself, you will step into it with your
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  Speaker 1: mind fully prepared for the undertaking, and with that intelligence
• 1:25:02
  Speaker 1: and foresight which is born of mental discipline. Whatever your
• 1:25:07
  Speaker 1: task may be, concentrate your whole mind upon it. Throw
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  Speaker 1: into it all the energy of which you are capable.
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  Speaker 1: The faultless completion of small tasks leads inevitably to larger tasks.
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  Speaker 1: See to it that you rise by steady climbing and
• 1:25:23
  Speaker 1: you will never fall. And herein lies the secret of
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  Speaker 1: true power. Learn, by constant practice, how to husband your
• 1:25:32
  Speaker 1: resources and to concentrate them at any moment, upon a
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  Speaker 1: given point. The foolish waste all their mental and spiritual
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  Speaker 1: energy in frivolity, foolish chatter, or selfish argument, not to
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  Speaker 1: mention wasteful physical excesses. If you would acquire overcoming power,
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  Speaker 1: you must cultivate poise and passivity. You must be able
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  Speaker 1: to stand alone. All power is associated with immovability. The mountain,
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  Speaker 1: the massive rock, the storm-tried oak, all speak to us
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  Speaker 1: of power because of their combined solitary grandeur and defiant fixity,
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  Speaker 1: while the shifting sand, the yielding twig and the waving
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  Speaker 1: reed speak to us of weakness because they are movable
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  Speaker 1: and non-resistant and are utterly useless when detached from their fellows.
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  Speaker 1: He is the man of power who, when all his
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  Speaker 1: fellows are swayed by some emotion or passion, remains calm
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  Speaker 1: and unmoved. He only is fitted to command and control
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  Speaker 1: who has succeeded in commanding and controlling himself. The hysterical,
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  Speaker 1: the fearful, the thoughtless and frivolous, let such seek company,
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  Speaker 1: or they will fall for lack of support. But the calm,
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  Speaker 1: the fearless and the thoughtful, let such seek the solitude
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  Speaker 1: of the forest, the desert and the mountaintop, and to
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  Speaker 1: their power more power will be added. and they will
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  Speaker 1: more and more successfully stem the psychic currents and whirlpools
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  Speaker 1: which engulf mankind. Passion is not power. It is the
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  Speaker 1: abuse of power, the dispersion of power. Passion is like
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  Speaker 1: a furious storm which beats fiercely and wildly upon the
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  Speaker 1: embattled rock, while power is like the rock itself, which
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  Speaker 1: remains silent and unmoved through it all. That was a
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  Speaker 1: manifestation of true power when Martin Luther said, Worried with
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  Speaker 1: the persuasions of his fearful friends, who were doubtful as
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  Speaker 1: to his safety should he go to Worms, replied, If
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  Speaker 1: there were as many devils in Worms as there are
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  Speaker 1: tiles on the housetops, I would go. And when Benjamin
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  Speaker 1: Disraeli broke down in his first parliamentary speech and brought
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  Speaker 1: upon himself the derision of the House, that was an
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  Speaker 1: exhibition of German power when he exclaimed, The day will
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  Speaker 1: come when you will consider it an honour to listen
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  Speaker 1: to me. And when that young man, whom I knew,
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  Speaker 1: was passing through continual reverses and misfortunes, was mocked by
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  Speaker 1: his friends, and told to desist from further effort, and
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  Speaker 1: he replied, The time is not far distant when you
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  Speaker 1: will marvel at my good fortune and success. He showed
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  Speaker 1: that he was possessed of that silent and irresistible power,
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  Speaker 1: which has taken him over innumerable difficulties and crowned his
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  Speaker 1: life with success. If you have not this power... you
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  Speaker 1: may acquire it by practice, and the beginning of power
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  Speaker 1: is likewise the beginning of wisdom. You must commence by
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  Speaker 1: overcoming those purposeless tribulations. to which you have hitherto been
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  Speaker 1: a willing victim. Boisterous and uncontrolled laughter, slander and idle talk,
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  Speaker 1: and joking merely to raise a laugh, all these things
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  Speaker 1: must be put on one side as so much waste
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  Speaker 1: of valuable energy. St. Paul never showed his wonderful insight
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  Speaker 1: into the hidden laws of human progress to greater advantage
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  Speaker 1: than when he warned the Ephesians against foolish talking and jesting,
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  Speaker 1: which is not convenient, for to dwell habitually in such
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  Speaker 1: practices is to destroy all spiritual power and life. As
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  Speaker 1: you succeed in rendering yourself impervious to such mental dissipations,
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  Speaker 1: you will begin to understand what true power is, and
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  Speaker 1: you will then commence to grapple with the more powerful
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  Speaker 1: desires and appetites which hold your soul in bondage and
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  Speaker 1: bar the way to power, and your further progress will
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  Speaker 1: then be made clear. Above all, be of single aim.
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  Speaker 1: Have a legitimate and useful purpose, and devote yourself unreservedly
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  Speaker 1: to it. Let nothing draw you aside. Remember that the
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  Speaker 1: double-minded man is unstable in all his ways. Be eager
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  Speaker 1: to learn more. but slow to beg. Have a thorough
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  Speaker 1: understanding of your work, and let it be your own,
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  Speaker 1: and as you proceed, ever following the inward guide, the
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  Speaker 1: infallible voice, you will pass on from victory to victory,
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  Speaker 1: and will rise, step by step, to higher resting places,
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  Speaker 1: and your ever-broadening outlook will gradually reveal to you the
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  Speaker 1: essential beauty and purpose of life. Self-purified, health will be yours.
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  Speaker 1: Faith protected, success will be yours. Self-governed, power will be yours.
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  Speaker 1: And all that you do will prosper, for, ceasing to
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  Speaker 1: be a disjointed unit, self-enslaved, you will be in harmony
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  Speaker 1: with the great law, no longer working against but with
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  Speaker 1: the universal life, the eternal good. And what health you gain,
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  Speaker 1: it will remain with you. What success you achieve, will
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  Speaker 1: be beyond all human computation and will never pass away,
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  Speaker 1: and what influence and power you wield will continue to
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  Speaker 1: increase throughout the ages, for it will be a part
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  Speaker 1: of that unchangeable principle which supports the universe. This, then,
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  Speaker 1: is the secret of health, a pure heart and a
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  Speaker 1: well-ordered mind. This is the secret of success. an unfaltering faith,
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  Speaker 1: and a wisely directed purpose, and to reign in, with
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  Speaker 1: unfaltering will, the dark steed of desire, this is the
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  Speaker 1: secret of power. Always awaiting for my feet to tread,
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  Speaker 1: the light and dark, the living and the dead, the
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  Speaker 1: broad and narrow way, the high and low, the good
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  Speaker 1: and bad, and with quick step or slow, I now
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  Speaker 1: may enter any way I will, and find, by walking,
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  Speaker 1: which is good, which ill. And all good things my
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  Speaker 1: wandering feet await, if I but come, with vow inviolate,
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  Speaker 1: unto the narrow, high, and holy way of heart-born purity,
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  Speaker 1: and therein stay, walking, secure from him who taunts and scorns,
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  Speaker 1: to flowery meads across the path of thorns. And I
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  Speaker 1: may stand where health, success, and power await my coming, if,
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  Speaker 1: Each fleeting hour I cling to love and patience, and
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  Speaker 1: abide with stainlessness, and never step aside from high integrity.
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  Speaker 1: And so shall I see at last the land of immortality.
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  Speaker 1: And I may seek and find, I may achieve, I
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  Speaker 1: may not claim, but losing may retrieve. The law bends
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  Speaker 1: not for me, but I must bend unto the law,
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  Speaker 1: if I would reach the end of my afflictions. if
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  Speaker 1: I would restore my soul to light and life, and
• 1:32:47
  Speaker 1: weep no more. Not mine the arrogant and selfish claim
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  Speaker 1: to all good things, be mine the lowly aim to
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  Speaker 1: seek and find, to know and comprehend, and wisdom ward
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  Speaker 1: all holy footsteps wend. Nothing is mine to claim or
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  Speaker 1: to command, but all is mine to know and understand.
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  Speaker 1: Section 6. The Secret of Abounding Happiness Great is the
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  Speaker 1: thirst for happiness, and equally great is the lack of happiness.
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  Speaker 1: The majority of the poor long for riches, believing that
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  Speaker 1: their possession would bring them supreme and lasting happiness. Many
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  Speaker 1: who are rich, having gratified every desire and whim, suffer
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  Speaker 1: from ennui and repletion, and are farther from the possession
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  Speaker 1: of happiness even than the very poor. If we reflect
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  Speaker 1: upon this state of things, it will ultimately lead us
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  Speaker 1: to a knowledge of the all-important truth that happiness is
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  Speaker 1: not derived from mere outward possessions, nor misery from the
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  Speaker 1: lack of them. For if this were so, we should
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  Speaker 1: find the poor always miserable and the rich always happy,
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  Speaker 1: whereas the reverse is frequently the case. Some of the
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  Speaker 1: most wretched people whom I have known were those who
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  Speaker 1: were surrounded with riches and luxury, whilst some of the
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  Speaker 1: brightest and happiest people I have met were possessed of
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  Speaker 1: only the barest necessities of life. Many men who have
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  Speaker 1: accumulated riches have confessed that the selfish gratification which followed
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  Speaker 1: the acquisition of riches has robbed life of its sweetness,
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  Speaker 1: and that they were never so happy as when they
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  Speaker 1: were poor. What, then, is happiness, and how is it
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  Speaker 1: to be secured? Is it a figment, a delusion? and
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  Speaker 1: is suffering alone perennial, we shall find, after earnest observation
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  Speaker 1: and reflection, that all, except those who have entered the
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  Speaker 1: way of wisdom, believe that happiness is only to be
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  Speaker 1: obtained by the gratification of desire. It is this belief,
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  Speaker 1: rooted in the soil of ignorance, and continually watered by
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  Speaker 1: selfish cravings, that is the cause of all the misery.
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  Speaker 2: In the world.
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  Speaker 1: And I do not limit the word desire to the
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  Speaker 1: grosser animal cravings. It extends to the higher psychic realm,
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  Speaker 1: where far more powerful, subtle, and insidious cravings hold in
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  Speaker 1: bondage the intellectual and refined, depriving them of all that beauty, harmony,
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  Speaker 1: and purity of soul whose expression is happiness. Most people
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  Speaker 1: will admit that selfishness is the cause of all the
• 1:35:31
  Speaker 1: unhappiness in the world, but they fall under the soul-destroying
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  Speaker 1: delusion that it is someone else's selfishness, and not their own.
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  Speaker 1: When you are willing to admit that all your unhappiness
• 1:35:44
  Speaker 1: is the result of your own selfishness, you will not
• 1:35:46
  Speaker 1: be far from the gates of paradise. But so long
• 1:35:50
  Speaker 1: as you are convinced that it is the selfishness of
• 1:35:52
  Speaker 1: others that is robbing you of joy, so long will
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  Speaker 1: you remain a prisoner in your self-created purgatory. Happiness is
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  Speaker 1: that inward state of perfect satisfaction which is joy and peace,
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  Speaker 1: and from which all desire is eliminated. The satisfaction which
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  Speaker 1: results from gratified desire is brief and illusionary, and is
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  Speaker 1: always followed by an increased demand for gratification. Desire is
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  Speaker 1: as insatiable as the ocean, and clamors louder and louder
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  Speaker 1: as its demands are attended to. It claims ever-increasing service
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  Speaker 1: from its deluded devotees, until at last they are struck
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  Speaker 1: down with physical or mental anguish and are hurled into
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  Speaker 1: the purifying fires of suffering. Desire is the region of hell,
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  Speaker 1: and all torments are centered there. The giving up of
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  Speaker 1: desire is the realization of heaven, and all delights await
• 1:36:51
  Speaker 1: the pilgrim there. I sent my soul through the invisible
• 1:36:56
  Speaker 1: some letter of that afterlife to spell, and by and
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  Speaker 1: by my soul returned to me and whispered, I myself
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  Speaker 1: am heaven and hell. Heaven and hell are inward states.
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  Speaker 1: Sink into self and all its gratifications and you sink
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  Speaker 1: into hell. Rise above self into that state of consciousness
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  Speaker 1: which is the utter denial and forgetfulness of self, and
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  Speaker 1: you enter heaven. Self is blind, without judgment, not possessed
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  Speaker 1: of true knowledge, and always leads to suffering. Correct perception,
• 1:37:34
  Speaker 1: unbiased judgment, and true knowledge belong only to the divine state,
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  Speaker 1: and only insofar as you realize this divine consciousness can
• 1:37:42
  Speaker 1: you know what real happiness is. So long as you
• 1:37:46
  Speaker 1: persist in selfishly seeking for your own personal happiness, so
• 1:37:51
  Speaker 1: long will happiness elude you, and you will be sowing
• 1:37:53
  Speaker 1: the seeds of wretchedness. Insofar as you succeed in losing
• 1:37:59
  Speaker 1: yourself in the service of others, in that measure will
• 1:38:02
  Speaker 1: happiness come to you, and.
• 1:38:04
  Speaker 2: You will reap a harvest of bliss.
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  Speaker 1: It is in loving, not in being loved, the heart
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  Speaker 1: is blessed. It is in giving, not in seeking gifts,
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  Speaker 1: we find our quest. Whatever be thy longing or thy need,
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  Speaker 1: That do thou give, so shall thy soul be fed,
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  Speaker 1: and thou indeed shalt truly live.
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  Speaker 2: Cling to self, and you cling to yourself. to sorrow.
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  Speaker 1: Relinquish self, and you enter into peace. To seek selfishly
• 1:38:36
  Speaker 1: is not only to lose happiness, but even that which
• 1:38:39
  Speaker 1: we believe to be the source of happiness. See how
• 1:38:43
  Speaker 1: the glutton is continually looking about for a new delicacy
• 1:38:47
  Speaker 1: wherewith to stimulate his deadened appetite. And how, bloated, burdened,
• 1:38:53
  Speaker 1: and diseased, scarcely any food at last is eaten with pleasure.
• 1:38:59
  Speaker 1: Whereas he who has mastered his appetite, and not only
• 1:39:03
  Speaker 1: does not seek, but never thinks of gustatory pleasure, finds
• 1:39:07
  Speaker 1: delight in the most frugal meal, the angel form of
• 1:39:10
  Speaker 1: happiness which men, looking through the eyes of self, imagine
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  Speaker 1: they see in gratified desire, when clasped is always found
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  Speaker 1: to be the skeleton of misery. Truly, he that seeketh
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  Speaker 1: his life shall lose it, and he that loseth his life.
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  Speaker 2: Shall find it.
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  Speaker 1: Abiding happiness will come to you when, ceasing to selfishly cling,
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  Speaker 1: you are willing to give up. When you are willing
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  Speaker 1: to lose, unreservedly, that impermanent thing which is so dear
• 1:39:41
  Speaker 1: to you, and which, whether you cling to it or not,
• 1:39:44
  Speaker 1: will one day be snatched from you, then you will
• 1:39:46
  Speaker 1: find that that which seemed to you like a painful
• 1:39:49
  Speaker 1: loss turns out to be a supreme gain. To give
• 1:39:53
  Speaker 1: up in order to gain, than this there is no
• 1:39:56
  Speaker 1: greater delusion, nor no more prolific source of misery, but
• 1:40:01
  Speaker 1: to be willing to yield up and to suffer loss,
• 1:40:03
  Speaker 1: this is indeed the way of life. How is it
• 1:40:08
  Speaker 1: possible to find real happiness by centering ourselves in those
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  Speaker 1: things which, by their very nature, must pass away? Abiding
• 1:40:16
  Speaker 1: and real happiness can only be found by centering ourselves
• 1:40:20
  Speaker 1: in that which is permanent. Rise, therefore, above the clinging
• 1:40:26
  Speaker 1: to and the craving for impermanent things, and you will
• 1:40:29
  Speaker 1: then enter into a consciousness of the eternal, and as,
• 1:40:34
  Speaker 1: rising above self, and by growing more and more into
• 1:40:37
  Speaker 1: the spirit of purity, self-sacrifice and universal love, you become
• 1:40:42
  Speaker 1: centred in that consciousness. You will realise that happiness which
• 1:40:46
  Speaker 1: has no reaction and which can never be taken from you.
• 1:40:50
  Speaker 1: The heart that has reached utter self-forgetfulness in its love
• 1:40:54
  Speaker 1: for others has not only become possessed of the highest
• 1:40:57
  Speaker 1: happiness but has entered into immortality for it has realised
• 1:41:01
  Speaker 1: the divine. Look back upon your life and you will
• 1:41:06
  Speaker 1: find that the moments of supremest happiness were those in
• 1:41:09
  Speaker 1: which you uttered some word or performed some act of
• 1:41:13
  Speaker 1: compassion or self-denying love. Spiritually, happiness and harmony are synonymous.
• 1:41:20
  Speaker 1: Harmony is one phase of the great law whose spiritual
• 1:41:24
  Speaker 1: expression is love. All selfishness is discord, and to be
• 1:41:28
  Speaker 1: selfish is to be out of harmony with the divine order.
• 1:41:33
  Speaker 1: As we realize that all-embracing love, which is the negation
• 1:41:37
  Speaker 1: of self, we put ourselves in harmony with the divine music,
• 1:41:41
  Speaker 1: the universal song, and that ineffable melody which is true
• 1:41:45
  Speaker 1: happiness becomes our own. Men and women are rushing hither
• 1:41:50
  Speaker 1: and thither in the blind search for happiness and cannot
• 1:41:53
  Speaker 1: find it, nor ever will until they recognize that happiness
• 1:41:58
  Speaker 1: is already within them and round about them, filling the universe,
• 1:42:02
  Speaker 1: and that they, in their selfish searching, are shutting themselves
• 1:42:06
  Speaker 1: out from it. I followed happiness to make her mine,
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  Speaker 1: past towering oak and swinging ivy vine. She fled, I chased,
• 1:42:17
  Speaker 1: o'er slanting hill and dale, o'er fields and meadows in
• 1:42:21
  Speaker 1: the purpling vale, pursuing rapidly o'er dashing stream. I scaled
• 1:42:26
  Speaker 1: the dizzy cliffs where eagles scream. I traversed swiftly every
• 1:42:31
  Speaker 1: land and sea, but always happiness eluded me. Exhausted, fainting,
• 1:42:39
  Speaker 1: I pursued no more, but sank to rest upon a
• 1:42:42
  Speaker 1: barren shore. One came and asked for food, and one
• 1:42:47
  Speaker 1: for arms. I placed the bread and gold in bony palms.
• 1:42:52
  Speaker 1: One came for sympathy, and one for rest. I shared
• 1:42:56
  Speaker 1: with every needy one my best. When, lo, sweet happiness
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  Speaker 1: with form divine stood by me, whispering softly, I am thine.
• 1:43:08
  Speaker 1: These beautiful words of Burley's express the secret of all
• 1:43:12
  Speaker 1: abounding happiness. Sacrifice the personal and transient, and you rise
• 1:43:17
  Speaker 1: at once into the impersonal and permanent. Give up that narrow,
• 1:43:23
  Speaker 1: cramped self that seeks to render all things subservient to
• 1:43:27
  Speaker 1: its own petty interests, and you will enter into the
• 1:43:30
  Speaker 1: company of the angels, into the very heart and essence
• 1:43:34
  Speaker 1: of universal love. Forget yourself entirely in the sorrows of
• 1:43:39
  Speaker 1: others and in ministering to others, and divine happiness will
• 1:43:43
  Speaker 1: emancipate you from all sorrow and suffering. Taking the first
• 1:43:48
  Speaker 1: step with a good thought, the second with a good word,
• 1:43:52
  Speaker 1: and the third with a good deed, I entered paradise.
• 1:43:57
  Speaker 1: And you also may enter into paradise by pursuing the
• 1:44:00
  Speaker 1: same course. It is not beyond, it is here. It
• 1:44:05
  Speaker 1: is realized only by the unselfish. It is known in
• 1:44:09
  Speaker 1: its fullness only to the pure in heart. If you
• 1:44:12
  Speaker 1: have not realized this unbounded happiness, you may begin to
• 1:44:16
  Speaker 1: actualize it by ever holding before you the lofty ideal
• 1:44:20
  Speaker 1: of unselfish love and aspiring towards it. Aspiration or prayer
• 1:44:26
  Speaker 1: is desire turned upward. It is the soul turning toward
• 1:44:30
  Speaker 1: its divine source. where alone permanent satisfaction can be found.
• 1:44:36
  Speaker 1: By aspiration, the destructive forces of desire are transmuted into
• 1:44:40
  Speaker 1: divine and all-preserving energy. To aspire is to make an
• 1:44:45
  Speaker 1: effort to shake off the trammels of desire. It is
• 1:44:48
  Speaker 1: the prodigal made wise by loneliness and suffering, returning to
• 1:44:53
  Speaker 1: his father's mansion. As you rise above the sordid self,
• 1:44:58
  Speaker 1: as you break, one after another, the chains that bind you,
• 1:45:02
  Speaker 1: will you realize the joy of giving as distinguished from
• 1:45:06
  Speaker 1: the misery of grasping, giving of your substance, giving of
• 1:45:10
  Speaker 1: your intellect, giving of the love and light that is
• 1:45:14
  Speaker 1: growing within you. You will then understand that it is
• 1:45:18
  Speaker 1: indeed more blessed to give than to receive, but the
• 1:45:22
  Speaker 1: giving must be of the heart without any taint of self,
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  Speaker 1: without desire for reward. The gift of pure love is
• 1:45:30
  Speaker 1: always attended with bliss. If, after you have given, you
• 1:45:34
  Speaker 1: are wounded because you are not thanked or flattered or
• 1:45:37
  Speaker 1: your name put in the paper, know then that your
• 1:45:40
  Speaker 1: gift was prompted by vanity and not by love, and
• 1:45:44
  Speaker 1: that you were giving merely in order to get. We're
• 1:45:47
  Speaker 1: not really giving, but grasping. Lose yourself in the welfare
• 1:45:52
  Speaker 1: of others. Forget yourself in all that you do. This
• 1:45:56
  Speaker 1: is the secret of abounding happiness.
• 1:46:00
  Speaker 2: Ever be on the watch to.
• 1:46:01
  Speaker 1: Guard against selfishness and learn faithfully the divine lessons of
• 1:46:05
  Speaker 1: inward sacrifice, so shall you climb the highest heights of
• 1:46:10
  Speaker 1: happiness and shall remain in the never-clouded sunshine of universal joy,
• 1:46:15
  Speaker 1: clothed in the shining garment of immortality. Are you searching
• 1:46:20
  Speaker 1: for the happiness that does not fade away? Are you
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  Speaker 1: looking for the joy that lives? and leaves no grievous day?
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  Speaker 1: Are you panting for the water brooks of love and
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  Speaker 1: life and peace? Then let all dark desires depart and
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  Speaker 1: selfish seeking cease. Are you lingering in the paths of pain,
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  Speaker 1: grief haunted, stricken sore? Are you wandering in the ways
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  Speaker 1: that wound your weary feet the more? Are you sighing
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  Speaker 1: for the resting place where tears and sorrows cease? then
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  Speaker 1: sacrifice your selfish heart and find the heart of peace.
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  Speaker 1: Section 7. The Realization of Prosperity It is granted only
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  Speaker 1: to the heart that abounds with integrity, trust, generosity and
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  Speaker 1: love to realize true prosperity. The heart that is not
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  Speaker 1: possessed of these qualities cannot know prosperity, for prosperity, like happiness,
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  Speaker 1: is not an outward possession, but an inward realisation. The
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  Speaker 1: greedy man may become a millionaire, but he will always
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  Speaker 1: be wretched and mean and poor and will even consider
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  Speaker 1: himself outwardly poor as long as there is a man
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  Speaker 1: in the world who is richer than himself, whilst the upright,
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  Speaker 1: open-handed and loving will realise a full and rich prosperity
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  Speaker 1: even though their outward possessions may be small. He is
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  Speaker 1: poor who is dissatisfied. He is rich who is contented
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  Speaker 1: with what he has, and he is richer who is
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  Speaker 1: generous with what he has. When we contemplate the fact
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  Speaker 1: that the universe is abounding in all good things, material
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  Speaker 1: as well as spiritual, and compare it with man's blind
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  Speaker 1: eagerness to secure a few gold coins or a few
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  Speaker 1: acres of dirt, it is then that we realize how
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  Speaker 1: dark and ignorant selfishness is. It is then that we
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  Speaker 1: know that self-seeking is self-destruction. Nature gives all without reservation
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  Speaker 1: and loses nothing. Man, grasping all, loses everything. If you
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  Speaker 1: would realize true prosperity, do not settle down as many
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  Speaker 1: have done into the belief that if you do.
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  Speaker 2: Right, everything will go wrong.
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  Speaker 1: Do not allow the word competition to shake your faith
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  Speaker 1: in the supremacy of righteousness. I care not what men
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  Speaker 1: may say about the laws of competition, for do I
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  Speaker 1: not know the unchangeable law which shall one day put
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  Speaker 1: them all to rout, and which puts them to rout
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  Speaker 1: even now in the heart and life of the righteous man?
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  Speaker 1: And knowing this law, I can contemplate all dishonesty with
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  Speaker 1: undisturbed repose, for I know where certain destruction awaits it.
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  Speaker 1: Under all circumstances, do that which you believe to be right,
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  Speaker 1: and trust the law. Trust the divine power that is
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  Speaker 1: imminent in the universe, and it will never desert you,
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  Speaker 1: and you will always be protected. By such a trust,
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  Speaker 1: all your losses will be converted into gains, and all
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  Speaker 1: curses which threaten will be transmuted into blessings. Never let
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  Speaker 1: go of integrity, generosity and love, for these, coupled with energy,
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  Speaker 1: will lift you into the truly prosperous state. Do not
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  Speaker 1: believe the world when it tells you that you must
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  Speaker 1: always attend to number one first, and to others afterwards.
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  Speaker 1: To do this is not to think of others at all,
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  Speaker 1: but only of one's own comforts. To those who practice this,
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  Speaker 1: The day will come when they will be deserted by all,
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  Speaker 1: and when they cry out in their loneliness and anguish,
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  Speaker 1: there will be no one to hear and help them.
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  Speaker 1: To consider oneself before all others is to cramp and
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  Speaker 1: warp and hinder every noble and divine impulse. Let your
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  Speaker 1: soul expand. Let your heart reach out to others in
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  Speaker 1: loving and generous warmth, and great and lasting will be
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  Speaker 1: your joy, and all prosperity will come to you. Those
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  Speaker 1: who have wandered from the highway of righteousness guard themselves
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  Speaker 1: against competition. Those who always pursue the right need not
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  Speaker 1: trouble about such defence. This is no empty statement. There
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  Speaker 1: are men today who, by the power of integrity and faith,
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  Speaker 1: have defied all competition, and who, without swerving in the
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  Speaker 1: least from their methods when competed with, have risen steadily
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  Speaker 1: into prosperity, whilst those who tried to undermine them have
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  Speaker 1: fallen back, defeated. To possess those inward qualities which constitute
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  Speaker 1: goodness is to be armoured against all the powers of
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  Speaker 1: evil and to be doubly protected in every time of trial.
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  Speaker 1: And to build oneself up in those qualities is to
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  Speaker 1: build up a success which cannot be shaken and to
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  Speaker 1: enter into a prosperity which will endure forever. The white
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  Speaker 1: robe of the heart invisible is stained with sin and
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  Speaker 1: sorrow forever. grief and pain, and all repentant pools and
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  Speaker 1: springs of prayer shall not avail to wash it white again.
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  Speaker 1: While in the path of ignorance I walk, the stains
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  Speaker 1: of error will not cease to cling. Defilements mark the
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  Speaker 1: crooked path of self, where anguish lurks and disappointments sting.
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  Speaker 1: Knowledge and wisdom only can avail to purify and make
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  Speaker 1: my garment clean, for therein lie love's waters, Therein rests
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  Speaker 1: peace undisturbed, eternal and serene. Sin and repentance is the
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  Speaker 1: path of pain. Knowledge and wisdom is the path of peace.
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  Speaker 1: By the near way of practice I will find where
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  Speaker 1: bliss begins, how pains and sorrows cease. Self shall depart
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  Speaker 1: and truth shall take its place. The changeless one the
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  Speaker 1: indivisible shall take up his abode in me and cleanse
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  Speaker 1: the white robe of the heart invisible.