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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

multitudes of servants to anticipate every wish, but there is little spirituality and no democracy in this sort of life. It is more like absolute slavery. The free man is one who can adjust himself to any environment, to any kind of weather, to any climate, any sort of bed or food. The serene man is he who can calmly see any possible change take place in a chosen environment, who meets all the accidents of travel with composure, and avoids the wear and tear of nervous friction by living above all this in a transcendental world.

To triumph is better than to succumb or to command a favourable environment. Any environment favourable if we know how to meet it with equanimity. It is not that when we attain equanimity we no longer suffer and contend, but that we learn how to conquer without that burdensome friction which wears away the majority of people long before their earth life is complete. It is inner self-control and serenity which creates the very calmness, the receptivity in which we can clearly see how to act and how to overcome. When a man thus triumphs over that which at first seemed wholly unfavourable, he earns the right to those days and weeks of uninterrupted work in which the closest thinking can alone be done.

There is a difference, then, between obstacles as signs that one is nearing the danger line of excess, and obstacles which, because of the moral and spiritual evolution they bring, must be met and conquered. The difference between them is clearly

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