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THE DIVINE CENTRE

The secret of life, of abundant life, with its strength, its felicity, and its unbroken peace, is to find the Divine Centre within oneself and to live in and from that, instead of in that outer circumference of disturbances—the clamors, cravings, and argumentations that make up the animal and intellectual man. These selfish elements constitute the mere husks of life, and must be thrown away by him who would penetrate to the Central Heart of things—to Life itself.

Not to know that within you which is changeless and defiant of time and death, is not to know anything, but to play vainly with unsubstantial reflections in the Mirror of Time. Not to find within you the passionless Principles that are unmoved by the strifes and shows and vanities of the world, is to find nothing but illusions that vanish as they are grasped.