Man has all power now; but not knowing this, he says, “I will be perfect next year, or in so many years.” The dwellers in the Kingdom of God, who live only in the now, say, “I am perfect now”; refraining from all sin now, and ceaselessly guarding the portals of the mind, not looking to the past nor to the future, not turning to the left nor right, they remain eternally holy and blessed. “Now is the accepted time; now is the day of salvation.”
Say to yourself, “I will live in my Ideal now; I will manifest my Ideal now; I will be my Ideal now; I will listen to the voice of my Ideal now.” Thus resolving, and thus doing, you shall remain in the Highest, and shall eternally manifest the True.
“Afoot and lighthearted, I take to the open road.
Henceforth I ask not good fortune: I myself am
good fortune.
Henceforth I whimper no more, postpone no more,
need nothing;
Done with indoor complaints, libraries, querulous
criticisms.
Strong and content, I take to the open road.”
Cease to tread every byway of dependence, every winding side-path that tempts
