He Is Beginning To Master Wisdom When

Now An Extraordinary And Helpful Fact Is That By Making Mind The Object Of Our Attention, Not Only Does The Serenity Which Is Its Nature Begin To Well Up Of Its Own Accord But Its Steady Unchanging Character Itself Helps Spontaneously To Repel All Disturbing Thoughts.

It Is A Grave Misconception To Regard The Mystical Progress As Passing Mostly Through Ecstasies And Raptures. On The Contrary, It Passes Just As Much Through Broken Hearts And Bruised Emotions, Through Painful Sacrifices And Melancholy Renunciations.

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.

He Is Beginning To Master Wisdom When He Tries To Learn How Not To Try.

You May Accept The Inevitable With Bitterness And Resentment Or With Patience And Grace. Mere Acceptance Is Not Sufficient.