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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 learn, which opens one to the Spirit; and, if one approaches
this experience in a purely intellectual attitude, one is not likely to
feel the' warmth of the Spirit.
In such cases, as, in fact,
in all cases of trouble and suffering, the mind revolves in a channel that
is too narrow. One needs to escape into a larger life, out of this narrow
sphere of consciousness which has dwarfed and limited one's development.
The very principles, and the habits, whereby one becomes devoted to a certain
line of work to the exclusion of all others, cause the mind to act in given
channels, and never to pass beyond them. If this process is long continued,
with but little rest or recreation, nature is sure to rebel, and to warn
us that we must be wiser and broader in our thinking. And probably the
surest way of getting out of ruts, and thereby avoiding the long list of
troubles which result from the constant pursuit of one idea, is to realise
our relation to the universal Life in which our own qualities of intellect
and power inhere, and which demands of us all-round development, that we
may come into full self-possession and complete soul-freedom. Rightly used,
then, the intellect is the basis, it gives the only firm basis on which
to rest the superstructure of the spiritual life.
On the physical plane the first
essential is to
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