HAVE FAITH

Besides, life in each moment is good to the man of simple needs and inward balance ; and f ull of promise, also, since the bigger life is always near and hère, and will enter in by unexpected ways at the slightest opportunity. Let him habituate himself to calnmess and readiness.

Is your présent expérience hard to bear ?

Yet remember that never again in ail your days ^will you bave another chance of the same.

Do not fly the lesson, but bave a care that you master it while you bave the opportunity.^

Fretting and anxious concern are as imdignified as they are futile ; there is no greater enemy of good work than a painful nervous eagerness to do it, unless it be the désire to do it just because it is reckoned good.

As long as you harbour motives, so long are you giving hostages to tîie enemy; while you are a slave to this and that you can only obey. It is not You who are acting at ail.

Brush it ail aside. Pass disembodied out of yourself.

Enter into the life which is etemal, pass through the gâte of IndifEerenoe into the palace of Mastery ;

Give away aU that you bave, become poor and without possessions— and behold I you shall be lord and sovereign of aU things.*

The pathway to Freedom, then, is one which leads inward towards the deeper régions of the self-life; it involves withdrawal from circumference fretting and friction, disentanglement