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Preface - Introduction - The New Point of View - Educational Ideals - Equanimity - The Subconscious Mind - The Spiritual Ideal in Childhood - An Experiment in Education - The Expression of the Spirit - An Ideal Summer Conference - The Ministry of the Spirit - The Mystery of Pain and Evil - The Philosophical Ideal - The Criteria of Truth - Organic Perfection - Immortality - Index - p. 247

This is the secret of all life.

This is Nature's line of least resistance, the secret of her marvellous power. For Nature works, not by fits and starts, not through excess or haste, but through patient evolution, measured rhythmic action, and the economy of force.

Hence one may generalise, and say: Only gradual, rhythmic change is permanent. All revolutions and excesses are diseases; that is, discords. If I strain myself to attain an abstract ideal by affirming that I am perfect now, or that I can see, when in deepest truth I am imperfect, or blind, the chief result is nervous strain; for all departures from normal, steady, concrete work in which energy is conserved are excesses for which one must pay the penalty.

It is utterly impossible for any healer or minister to give this one infallible remedy for all discord. It is a problem for each individual to work out patiently and persistently for himself. It is a part of our whole education. Start with the fact that you are a self-conscious, self-acting soul, played upon night and day, moment after moment, by a tireless stream of force. In so far as you understand and are adjusted, harmony results. In so far as you lack poise or oppose, you suffer. Not all the drugs in Christendom, not all the treatments that were ever heard of, can accomplish for you that which is absolutely and always an affair of conscious personal adjustment. What you think is of secondary consequence. For it may or may not assume dynamic form. It is your vital attitude, your

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