"How To Develop Positive Thinking, Right and Wrong Thinking & Their Results..."

A modern writer has truly said, though with a note of sadness which does not belong to it, that "in all its deepest experiences the soul is solitary.

Every crucial choice must be solitary." Though this mental solitariness is a necessity, it does not cause a man to hold aloof from others, nor does it prohibit one single valuable social pleasure or advantage; but it is a boon, and a glory as well, and it may bring a consciousness of power, dominion, and freedom that cannot come from any other source.

He, who has trained his mind to obey his own behests and has asserted and realized his rightful mental supremacy over himself, can better enjoy contact with his fellows and can reap greater advantage from association with them.

Over him there can- not be any domination by others, whatever their course, and he will enjoy a freedom that nothing but mental control can give.

Here at last is ideal freedom, which, when coupled with recognition of the self-control which is inseparable from it, gives man a sense of ability to be and to do such as nothing else can. The greatest strength lies in the vivid realization of this fact when one really awakes to its existence.

He can himself, as he chooses, thrust aside impedimenta within himself without interfering with another, and with no one to interfere with his action or to ask why.

This ability is not to be spasmodically expressed, but is always to be steadily maintained.

In nothing else does man need to be alone, but here he stands entirely alone and yet without any sense of loneliness; indeed, this very aloneness may become one of his greatest blessings, for, having banished discordant thoughts, here one may, as Emerson directs, "stay at home in his heaven."

The results for good may reach out into the vast unknown of humanity in unexpected and undreamed-of ways which were never planned.