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will do the work of water in his engine. Don't waste time over that foolishness, but turn on the water and go ahead.

Seek the real self, and if you do not find it, or even get a glimpse of it, or feel a. vitalizing sense of its presence, if a great peace does not come over your spirit while your troubles melt into thin air and your diseases fall away like the old plumage from a bird in the spring -- why, if all this does not happen, and much more that is good, then you can go back to metaphysical discussion, but in my opinion you will never need to go back to it, for you will have found something so much better. Instead of theorizing about the REAL THING you will have found it.

It will help you very much to see in mind the painting just mentioned with the two selves so well portrayed. One restless, sad, unsatisfied, hungry, anxious and longing for it knows not what, the other perfect in its serenity and a study in calmness and peace. And remember that Other Self, that Great Self, is so close, so close!

The little self compared with it is as a wave on the surface of the great ocean. It rises, asserts itself, then seeks again its source and is one with it. Some writers call this the loss of identity. I call it the finding. The wave is not lost when it mingles with ocean, for does it not come forth again?