a means or agent for lighting
that gas. No man makes or invents a truth.
Truth is as general and widely spread
and belongs to every individual as much
as the air we breathe, and there is pleasure
enough in being its torch-bearer without
presuming to claim the power of its Creator.
Above all demand more
and more courage of the Supreme Power.
REACH FORWARD
THE tendency
with many people after they are a little
"advanced in years" is to look
backward and with regret. The "looking"
should be the other way--forward. If you
want to go backward in every sense, mental
and physical, keep on cultivating the
mood of living regretfully in your past
life.
It is one
chief characteristic of the material mind
to hold tenaciously to the past. It likes
to recall the past and mourn over it.
The material mind has a never-ending series
of solemn amusement, in recalling past
joys, and feeling sad because they are
never to come again.
But the real
self, the spirit, cares relatively little
for its past. it courts change. II expects
to be a different individual in thought
a year hence from that it is today. It
is willing a thousand years hence to forget
who or what it is today, for it knows
that this intense desire to remember itself
for what it has been retards its advance
toward
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