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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
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"evil" is not then a warfare of good and evil forces; for that
which tries to pull us down is as necessary as that which is eager to lift
us up. We entirely misunderstand if we condemn the one as good and the
other as evil. Either force carried to excess brings pain. Virtue becomes
vice if carried too far. Vice also becomes virtue by reaction from excess.
The friction resides in neither force alone; it is the lack of adjustment
between them. The real meaning of our long vibration between extremes is
our search for harmony. If we could attain such adjustment as the harmony
which the revolutions of the planets exemplify we should scarcely know
that there are two forces. Harmony is the perfect balance of opposites;
it cannot exist without the two.
Let us then understand this
duality through and through, as a law of life. Let us seek first that calmness
which spares us the petty frictions of life, then gradually attain adjustment.
Since it is the
little interior friction, the mental worry and the nervous tension which
wears us out, we should pause and let down the tension, take off the strain.
Inner poise we must have if we would be outwardly at peace; and poise is
a balance of opposites, a nice adjustment such that we move along with
the stream of life, instead of against it. We are neither impatient nor
indolent. We are not trying to manage the universe. We are not
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