In this noisy, restless, bewildering age, there is a great need for quietness of spirit. Even in our communion with God we are so busy presenting our problems, asking for help, seeking relief that we leave no moments of silence to listen for God's answers. By practice we can learn to submerge our spirits beneath the turbulent surface waves of life and reach that depth of our being where all is still, where no storms can reach us. Here only can we forget the material world and its demands on us.

even though disease and sorrow are all about us, health and happiness are the normal state of man.

Some folks goes right under when trouble comes, but I carry mine fur an' easy.

Somehow, I never feel like good things b'long to me till I pass 'em on to somebody else.

The discovery that it is in our power to change our lives by the thoughts we think is the first step toward spiritual mastery.

Half of our sorrows come from setting exalted standards for people and then breaking our hearts when they fail to live up to them.

No teaching that is not based on reason can be tolerated by critical minds, but the belief that an accident of blind force produces this highly organized world is far more fantastic than the theory that a Super Intelligence devised its ordered evolution.