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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
evidence
that we have been guided, is for many the strongest assurance that our
world-order is the best possible order. They are conscious of being led
to certain lines of conduct at what they call "the right moment."
They see their humble place in the world, and await the next step in quiet
expectancy. One may as well tell them they have no eyes as to deny this
inward guidance, for it leads them from task to task with a certain system.
If it does not tell them what to do, it at least opposes no
obstacle. One cannot hasten it. One cannot always discern the proper course
until the proper moment. It often comes unexpectedly, causing humility
and surprise that so much should be given. But the right thought comes
in the fitness of time to those who quietly await it.
Thus one is drawn at last out
of the narrow prison of self-consciousness into the larger thought of the
whole. It gives rest and trust to feel one's self part of an organism so
wonderfully and systematically adjusted, where the world tendency is not
alone concerned with the selfish needs of one man, nor the wrongs which
one would like to see swept away because we do not see their meaning, but
with the total needs of all as related to the total universe.
One loses all sense of time
and space under the power of this thought of the wholeness which shades off into eternity. This transient thought
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