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We are driven by lash and spur out of ignorance into wisdom, out of error into truth, out of illusion into reality. Suffering and unrest are the goads which drive us on. They can not touch the real Self. That sits in motionless calm watching the apparent self that is exploiting in the outer field of illusion, and later in that of the true life. The Self is the riddle of the Sphinx, the riddle of the ages.

If you would solve this riddle watch your Self. See how the real you stands back of all action. Then see how the apparent you, the one which you know more intimately, looks to the real you for approval, for guidance and for continued existence; for this apparent you has no independent life of its own. It is as dependent upon the real Self as the shadow upon the object which casts it. Remove the object and the shadow goes, too. But the real Self is something which can not be removed; therefore its shadow lingers until the Sun is at meridian. Then is the shadow lost in substance.

And what is the true Self? It is Deity. It is Divinity. Let us not be afraid to affirm it.

I have apparently given you two contradictory statements. I have said in one paragraph that the spiritual or true Self moves and acts and in another that this same Self is motionless as the Sphinx. How can both statements be true? How does the true Self act?