Every Test Successfully Met Is

The Source Of Wisdom And Power, Of Love And Beauty, Is Within Ourselves, But Not Within Our Egos. It Is Within Our Consciousness. Indeed, Its Presence Provides Us With A Conscious Contrast Which Enables Us To Speak Of The Ego As If It Were Something Different And Apart: It Is The True Self Whereas The Ego Is Only An Illusion Of The Mind.

Such Excessive Preoccupation With His Faults Is Not A Truly Spiritual Activity But, On The Contrary, A Highly Egoistic One.the Recognition Of His Own Faults Should Make A Man Humbler, When It Is Beneficial, Not Prouder, Which The Thought That He Ought To Have Been Above These Faults Makes Him.

Every Discussion Which Is Made From An Egoistic Standpoint Is Corrupted From The Start And Cannot Yield An Absolutely Sure Conclusion. The Ego Puts Its Own Interest First And Twists Every Argument, Word, Even Fact To Suit That Interest.

Look How The Smaller Birds Greet The Sun, With So Much Merry Chirruping And So Much Outpouring Of Song! It Is Their Way Of Expressing Worship For The Only Light They Can Know, An Outer One. But Man Can Also Know The Inner Sun, The Light Of The Overself. How Much More Reason Has He To Chirp And Sing Than The Little Birds! Yet How Few Man Feel Gratitude For Such Privilege.

No Man Who Has Lived Through A Temporary Spiritual Experience Is Ever Likely To Forget It. His Days Will Be Haunted Until He Sets Out To Seek Ways And Means Of Repeating It.