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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
complaint and discouragement if we undertake this happy task with a will.
We shall discover new traits of character in our friends, new sources of
enjoyment in trivial things, and new pleasures even in the weather--that
potent cause of useless complaint and regret. New beauties will reveal
themselves in nature and in human life. We shall gradually learn to see
life through the artist's eyes, to look for its poetry, its harmony, its
divine meaning.
The traveller in foreign lands
is compelled to meet experience in such a philosophical mood. He knows
that each day is bound to bring its annoyances; and he determines to see
their comical side. In a foreign land one makes it an occupation to hunt
up all that is curious and interesting. The spirits are quickened, enthusiasm
is aroused; and one notices a hundred little effects, changes, and beauties
in sky and landscape, on the street and in people, that are passed unnoticed
at home. We make note of them in order to describe them to our friends.
Imagination lends its charm even to the most disagreeable experiences,
and all our journeyings stand out in the vistas of memory painted in golden
hues.
Such experiences should give
us the cue in looking for the good at home. It is well, too, in matters
of disagreement with friends, to preserve the same large spirit and breadth
of view, remembering
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