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“Happiest man is he who is happy under all circumstances”
vi) The attitude of “not being able to govern events, I govern myself.”
vii) The attitude that “Even on the most exalted throne in the world we are only sitting on our bottom.”
It is the understanding of the travelers in the path that in proportion as he simplifies his life, the laws of the universe will appear less complex, and solitude will not be solitude, or poverty poverty, or weakness weakness. If unfortunately we have built castles in the air, our work need not be lost because that is where they should be. It is remembering the wisdom of the ancients that we should attach ourselves to Him who is free from all attachments and bind ourselves to that bond in order that all other bonds may be broken. In such a person who has grown to live, move and have his being in the higher tendencies of the mind there will be a perceptible glow of happiness as we have found in our Masters.
When we have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, we know that man can have no other vocation than to awaken
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