ings, the spring of all our joys. Alter the inner world of thoughts, and the outer world of events will cease to bring you sorrow; make the heart pure, and to you all things will be pure, all occurrences happy and in true order.
“Within yourselves deliverance must be sought,
Each man his prison makes.
Each hath such lordship as the loftiest ones;
Nay, for with Powers above, around,
below
As with all flesh and whatsoever lives,
Act maketh joy or woe.”
Our life is good or bad, enslaved or free, according to its causation in our thoughts, for out of these thoughts spring all our deeds; and from these deeds come equitable results. We cannot seize good results violently, like a thief, and claim and enjoy them, but we can bring them to pass by setting in motion the causes within ourselves.
Men strive for money, sigh for happi-
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