ascending, expanding, growing, developing, transcending tendency; that is, to break bounds continually and to rise perpetually in the scale of being, power and life. In brief, the free mind turns neither to the left nor to the right, but moves upward and onward eternally. The one purpose of such a mind is progress, and its ruling desire is to be all that is possible for a limitless mind to be.

To be free is not to have the privilege to anything you like regardless of whether those likes be normal or abnormal. To be free is to have the privilege to do that which leads to greater things; and than this there is nothing that could please us more. The man who does what he pleases will never be pleased with anything he has done, while the man who never pleases his personal self, but who gives his entire attention to his superior self, will be pleased with everything he has done. He will give a magic touch of high worth to every thought and to every act because he is living in the mental world of high worth. Besides, he is daily rising in the scale and will in consequence be more and more pleased with everything he may do or undertake.

There is no pleasure that is greater, no satisfaction that is more thorough, and no attainment that penetrates the soul more deeply than that which comes when we realize that we are steadily gaining ground. But to gain ground steadily we must transcend the present. We must grow out of the limited,