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The Power of Silence

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Preface to the New Edition - The Point of View - Immanent God - World of Manifestation - Nature of Existence - Mental Life - Meaning of Idealism - Nature of Mind - Meaning of Suffering - Duality of Self - Adjustment - Poise - Self-Help - Entering the Silence - The Outlook - Contents - Index

between our souls and the Father in whom, in the most literal sense, " we live and move and have our being." All nature reveals God--the sea, the sky, the mountains, the complex life of great cities, the simple life of the country, the admiration of the poet, the thought and feeling of all men, all nations, all books, all churches, all religions. All thinkers, all artists and lovers of the beautiful, are "feeling after" Him.

God, then, is revealed in nature, yet He is more than nature can manifest. He is Person, yet in a sense is beyond personality as we ordinarily conceive of it. On the one hand, He is the omnipresent power which all forces exemplify, the source of the substance which all forms contain, the basis of life whereby all beings exist. Yet He is more than this, He is Spirit, Intelligence, apprehended rather by the supreme insight of the soul than through objective experience. He is Power, yet also Love; the Author of the total universe, yet near enough so that Jesus, most truly of all, named Him "Father" in a particularly personal sense. His complete nature is made known, if at all, in the total universe. Yet He is as genuinely knowable in human life. Hence God is at once Spirit without form, and the Essence which all forms reveal, the all-loving Father who is unknown and unperceived in this larger and deeper sense, except by those who have

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