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--- is corroding your heart --- is poisoning your mind --- take it out and look at it for the last time. Give it a last long lingering gaze. Kiss it good-bye. Weep over it if you like, for this is the last you will see of it. Then throw open the window of your mind and pitch it out into the outer darkness. FORGET IT!

Chapter 9 - THE KINDERGARTEN OF GOD. - p. 36

Life a great school --- Man a child learning his lesson --- Preparing for higher grades --- The game-task --- What it all means --- Things as they are --- The rules wise and good --- Each task means something --- Greeting the Kindergartner.
I see Life as a great school --- Man as a tiny child, learning his little lessons, performing his little tasks, playing his little games, enjoying his little pleasures, suffering his little pains, disappointments, trials and sorrows.
I feel that we are in but the kindergarten stage of existence, learning the first lessons of Life --- fitting ourselves for the grander, broader, fuller life in store for us. And I feel that this little kindergarten experience will continue until we have learned its lessons well --- have firmly grasped the principles designed for our baby minds. And I feel that when we have proven our ability to weave our little mats --- build our little blocks --- draw our little pictures --- mold our little clay forms --- sing our little songs --- then, and not until then, will we pass into a higher grade, where we will spell out the lines of the Primer of Life, and acquire the elementary principles of Cosmic Mathematics. And I feel that each little lesson must be learned, thoroughly, before the next step is taken. And I feel that every one of us must perform his own task --- must memorize his own lesson --- before he can gain the experience --- can profit by the knowledge acquired in the performance of the task. We may be inspired by some brighter pupil --- be encouraged by the loving sympathy of some fellow-scholar, but the task is ours to perform, sooner or later --- and ours is the joy of accomplishment.
I believe that as some children, even whilst fascinated by the game-task of the kindergarten, know that it is only a childish task and not the real thing of life, so may we come to a point, where, whilst enjoying the constantly changing play of life, we will realize that it is but the training for greater things, and important only in that sense. The perception of this fact by the child need not interfere with his interest in the game --- need not prevent him from feeling the joy of doing, creating, working, gaining new experiences; nor need it prevent us from playing the kindergarten games