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Preface - Introduction - The New Point of View - Educational Ideals - Equanimity - The Subconscious Mind - The Spiritual Ideal in Childhood - An Experiment in Education - The Expression of the Spirit - An Ideal Summer Conference - The Ministry of the Spirit - The Mystery of Pain and Evil - The Philosophical Ideal - The Criteria of Truth - Organic Perfection - Immortality - Index - p. 247

heard suggests that a presence is felt beyond all power of words to describe.

If we could see as the Spirit sees, if we could see even as those exalted souls regard us who have attained the greater heights of the spiritual world, we should doubtless learn that a wealth of wisdom, a world of peace, and a great heart of love, await us; but we are too active to receive. Therefore as we meet here once more beneath the pines, this glad summer day, our hearts yearning for spiritual life and wisdom, let or listen as we never listened before, in community of spirit, in oneness of aspiration, with renewed dedication to the promptings and ideals of the Spirit.

Peace, be still! Let all problems rest for a time. Let all anxiety cease. Be not so eager. Be trustful, restful, contemplative, gradually turning in consciousness beyond all that troubles the heart and disturbs the mind to that abode where the soul feels its oneness with eternity, looking before and after as if time were naught. Become centred there. Live and breathe in that purer region. Open the entire being in the attitude of assimilative listening. Peace, be still!

There is a living water which shall quench the thirst of the soul. There is a living food whereof the soul may eat and be truly fed. All about as here to-day, in and around every heart that beats and every soul that thinks, there is a power, a wisdom, a love ready to fill and to guide the soul, if

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