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I have seen a simple soul filled with a joy and peace which a brighter intellect might envy and seek in vain. The simpler soul had found that which no argument reveals and no process of reasoning brings closer to the perception.

Does it require an argument to prove to you that you exist? Can any word or series of words convey to you the fact of your existence? No! You simply feel that you exist. You may have reached that feeling through a long line of experiences in which thought played an important role, still the result of it all is a feeling just the same, and that feeling is realization.

Starting with a realization of your own being, which realization you possess now, is it so difficult a matter to extend that realization and see that being of yours widen and widen until it exceeds all your past conceptions? Can you not imagine yourself on the inner side opening into the deeps of infinity as a river opens into the ocean? To think about it will aid you in believing it possible, but the only thing which will make it real is to reach out as does the anemone with the tentacles of your spirit in order to feel or experience or touch that which you seek.

That, and that alone, is realization.

I have said again and again that thought without feeling avails nothing in the establishment of health and happiness. I can not