nor is there even in all the wide universe. Are we not
satisfied with whatever comes into our lives? The thing to do, then,
is not to spend time in railing against the imaginary something we
create and call fate, but to look to the within, and change the causes
at work there, in order that things of a different nature may come, for
there will come exactly what we cause to come. This is true not only
of the physical body, but of all phases and conditions of life. We
invite whatever comes, and did we not invite it, either consciously or
unconsciously, it could not and it would not come. This may
undoubtedly be hard for some to believe, or even to see, at first. But
in the degree that one candidly and open-mindedly looks at it, and then
studies into the silent, but subtle and, so to speak, omnipotent
workings of the thought forces, and as he traces their effects within
him and about him, it becomes clearly evident, and easy to understand.

And then whatever does come to one depends for its effects entirely
upon his mental attitude toward it. Does this or that occurrence or
condition cause you annoyance? Very well; it causes you annoyance, and
so disturbs your peace merely because you allow it to. You are born to
have absolute control over your own dominion, but if you voluntarily
hand over this power, even if for a little while, to some one or to
some thing else, then you of course, become the creature, the one
controlled.

To live undisturbed by passing occurrences you must first find your own
centre. You must then be firm in your own centre, and so rule the
world from within. He who does not himself condition circumstances
allows the process to be reversed, and becomes a conditioned
circumstance. Find your centre and live in it. Surrender it to no
person, to no thing. In the degree that you do this will you find
yourself growing stronger and stronger in it. And how can one find his
centre? By realizing his oneness with the Infinite Power, and by
living continually in this realization.

But if you do not rule from your own centre, if you invest this or that
with the power of bringing you annoyance, or evil, or harm, then take
what it brings, but cease your railings against the eternal goodness
and beneficence of all things.

"I swear the earth shall surely be complete
To him or her who shall be complete;
The earth remains jagged and broken
Only to him who remains jagged and broken."

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