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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
enjoy true
freedom in co-operation with the omnipresent Helper, whom we once despised.
Gradually, a simple system of conduct and of adjustment takes shape in
our minds, until, like the peasant preparing to take part in the play,
we know no other ideal. To suggest this ideal so far as one person may
indicate it to another is the purpose of this chapter. In the first place,
let us make sure that we understand how conduct is shaped by an idea. When
we leave home, for instance, to go to the business portion of the town
or city in which we live, it is usually because we have some definite object
in view. Our conduct for the time is guided by a transient desire; and,
in order to carry out this desire, we adjust ourselves to a certain arrangement
of natural phenomena, and make use of certain mechanisms invented by man.
We take a car or carriage. We are compelled to follow certain streets in
order to reach our destination. We must avoid collision with other people,
with electric cars and carriages. We must good-naturedly take the situation
as we find it. And all these actions are governed, almost unconsciously,
by a single desire; and we keep this end in view until we realise the desire.
Thus we might analyse the conduct
of any day or any moment, and find that wish or desire is largely fundamental.
When learning a language, we keep the object in view of reading and speaking
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