We have the option--oh, yes!--the option whether we will express them or not. We have the option whether we will do something worth while in the world's thinking, in invention, in industry--or remain merely followers and trailers of the men and women who do use their ideas, and lead.

Now the purpose of all meditation, of all going into the silence, of all listening for the voice, is to receive ideas. Sometimes ideas pop into our mind when we are not consciously seeking them. Sometimes they come as the result of deliberate seeking for them. Sometimes they come promptly and easily; sometimes after long labor and "cudgeling of brain." And sometimes they come after we have given up the effort to get them--they just rise up out of the subconscious mind, like people whom we have invited to dinner and who come after we have given up expecting them.

Some of us study this operation of going into the silence, yearning and longing for the rewards that it promises yet utterly overlooking the ideas that come to us in our silent thought, just because they are not exactly what we expected.

I knew a man who was working on an invention. His purpose was so dear to him that he began to think that it might be wrong in him to cherish it. He was a student of Truth, and so tried to practice the silence to learn what was right for him to do. But he found that whenever he tried to get still and listen, all he would get would be a mind full of seething