nsitive only to the rays of good.

"I could recount many experiences which prove a brand-new condition of
mind, but one will be sufficient. Without the slightest feeling of
annoyance or impatience, I have seen a train that I had planned to take
with a good deal of interested and pleasurable anticipation move out of
the station without me, because my baggage did not arrive. The porter
from the hotel came running and panting into the station just as the
train pulled out of sight. When he saw me, he looked as if he feared a
scolding. and began to tell of being blocked in a crowded street and
unable to get out. When he had finished, I said to him: 'It doesn't
matter at all, you couldn't help it, so we will try again to-morrow.
Here is your fee, I am sorry you had all this trouble in earning it.'
The look of surprise that came over his face was so filled with
pleasure that I was repaid on the spot for the delay in my departure.
Next day he would not accept a cent for the service, and he and I are
friends for life.

"During the first weeks of my experience I was on guard only against
worry and anger; but, in the mean time, having noticed the absence of
the other depressing and dwarfing passions, I began to trace a
relationship, until I was convinced that they are all growths from the
two roots I have specified. I have felt the freedom now for so long a
time that I am sure of my relation toward it; and I could no more
harbor any of the thieving and depressing influences that once I nursed
as a heritage of humanity than a fop would voluntarily wallow in a
filthy gutter.

"There is no doubt in my mind that pure Christianity and pure Buddhism,
and the Mental Sciences and all Religions fundamentally teach what has
been a discovery to me; but none of them have presented it in the light
of a simple and easy process of elimination. At one time I wondered if
the elimination would not yield to indifference and sloth. In my
experience, the contrary is the result. I feel such an increased
desire to do something useful that it seems as if I were a boy again
and the energy for play had returned. I could fight as readily as (and
better than) ever, if there were occasion for it. It does not make one
a coward. It can't, since fear is one of the things eliminated. I
notice the absence of timidity in the presence of any audience. When a
boy, I was standing under a tree which was struck by lightning, and
received a shock from th