of being self-controlled. You have your little corner of the Great Mind to control, and I have mine. And creation is all the really controlled mind there is. Outside of that all is as yet uncontrolled mind.

All that part of you which goes flitting and jiggling at the mercy of outward conditions, is an enormous but uncontrolled force. It is a force great enough to create millions of times more than you have yet created. But of what value is it until you can use it at will, instead of letting it run away with you at its own caprice? Undirected mind is simply undirected lightning.

To gain control of this immense unused power is the object of all thought, all creation and all uncreation. Mind comes into control through action, through work. Mind builds and moves all things. Mind continually re-builds and refines them as it is better controlled.

Having directed mind once to make the movements of scrubbing up a kitchen floor, it becomes easier to direct it again in the same way. You thus become able to direct your mind to scrubbing a floor when you are totally unable to direct it in some other line. Consequently when your mind gets "all stirred up" and apparently beyond your control, if you will just begin your controlling at the easiest place --- if you will set your mind to scrubbing up the floor in the very best possible manner, following painstakingly every movement, you will find by the time the floor is done, that your mind is much quieter and more docile than when you began. If it is not yet quiet enough, go direct it to more work, and keep at it until you can get your mind under full control: --- that, is, until you