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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
ourselves,
we discover our inner centre, and become poised, grounded in eternal reason
and calm in eternal peace. This is at once the highest use of the will
and the truest spiritual self-possession; for it is in these moments of
calm decision, when we realise our relationship to eternal power, that
the mind changes, and brings all things round to correspond to our deep
desire. The ideal of daily conduct is to maintain this inward repose, to
keep it steadily and persistently in view, to regain it when we lose it,
to seek it when we need help, to have a calm centre within which is never
disturbed, come what may,--a never-yielding citadel of the higher self.
It is evident, then, that all
that we have considered in the foregoing chapters, may be restated with
deeper meaning in terms of the soul, of spiritual experience. The soul
must learn what it is and why it is here. It must gain this knowledge by
actual experience, in order to learn the value of right conduct, in order
to learn that there is an immanent Wisdom, a Love, that is equal to all
occasions. It must descend into density, or matter, and become acquainted
with darkness, in order to discover the meaning of life and become conscious
of itself as an individualisation of God. It struggles upward and forward
to completion. It is ever trying to come forth and express itself; and,
when man comes to consciousness of what it
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