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Serving New Thought is pleased to present
Horatio W. Dresser's
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
contented, polite
and agreeable, so long as nothing comes to disturb them; and they take
care that nothing shall disturb them, so far as their power extends. If
they are ill, everyone must become a servant. Every sensation is watched
and carefully nursed. Everything must give way to their wishes. Everybody
must help by expressions of sympathy and devotion. But place such people
on their own resources, put them where something does disturb, and they
are utterly helpless.
Progress brings conflict. We
need to be stirred once in a while, and put where we must show what we
are really worth. Then comes the real test. If we are adjusted, not to
some transient set of circumstances which we personally try to maintain
undisturbed, but to life as a whole so far as we understand it, we shall
be able to meet any emergency, meet it manfully, trustfully, contentedly.
There is no better test of one's philosophy than at these times, when we
are called upon to act as if we believed it true. There is no better way
to prepare for such emergencies than to meet the circumstances of daily
life as though we were superior to them.
It is a matter of economy, it
is a source of happiness to ourselves and our friends, if we habitually
look for the good wherever we go, and in this way show our superiority
to all that is belittling and mean. We shall soon find no time left for
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