al to the Supreme and our life is governed by a principle,
we are not governed either by fear of public opinion or loss of others'
approbation, and we may be sure that the Supreme will sustain us. If
in any way we try to live to suit others we never shall suit them, and
the more we try the more unreasonable and exacting do they become. The
government of your life is a matter that lies entirely between God and
yourself, and when your life is swayed and influenced from any other
source you are on the wrong path." When we find the kingdom within and
become centred in the Infinite, then we become a law unto ourselves.
When we become a law unto ourselves, then we are able to bring others
to a knowledge of laws higher than they are governed or many times even
enslaved by.
When we have found this centre, then that beautiful simplicity, at once
the charm and the power of a truly great personality, enters into our
lives. Then all striving for effect,--that sure indicator of weakness
and a lack of genuine power,--is absent. This striving for effect that
is so common is always an indicator of a lack of something. It brings
to mind the man who rides behind a dock-tailed horse. Conscious of the
fact that there is not enough in _himself_ to attract attention, in
common with a number of other weaklings, he adopts the brutal method of
having his horse's tail sawed off, that its unnatural, odd appearance
may attract from people the attention that he of himself is unable to
secure.
But the one who strives for effect is always fooled more than he
succeeds in fooling others. The man and the woman of true wisdom and
insight can always see the causes that prompt, the motives that
underlie the acts of all with whom he or she comes in contact. "He is
great who is what he is from nature and who never reminds us of others."
The men and the women who are truly awake to the real powers within are
the men and women who seem to be doing so little, yet who in reality
are doing so much. They seem to be doing so little because they are
working with higher agencies, and yet are doing so much because of this
very fact. They do their work on the higher plane. They keep so
completely their connection with the Infinite Power that _It_ does the
work for them and they are relieved of the responsibility. They are
the care-less people. They are care-less because it is the Infinite
Power that is working through them, and with this Infinite Pow
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