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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
To some it seems impossible
that the world could have been better than it is. Others hold that life
could not have been worse. All conclusions and all ideals are relative
to the state of development. Yet for all men life is some sort of adjustment
between inner and outer conditions. To discover that life moves forward
and each of us suffers or rejoices according to our dynamic relation to
it is perhaps the chief need. And probably the majority of men would agree
that the highest aim of life is the full development of the soul. It is
character that avails. If we are cast about by every wind that blows it
is because we lack the repose that character brings. And to possess character
is in some degree to possess one's soul.
Hence it is not out of place
to ask, What is the soul? How difficult it is to answer except in empirical
terms! One may as well undertake to state what God is apart from His world,
as to define the soul apart from what we have felt and thought and willed.
Yet we know fairly well what we mean by the term "soul" until
we are asked to define it; and we have some conception of the ideal realm
of thought, where dwell the poets and philosophers who speak words of comfort
to the soul. Our own deepest reflection transports us there, and we seem
larger as a result of
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