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Speaker 1: Happy endings. Such is the law which moves to righteousness,

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which none at last can turn aside or stay. The

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heart of it is love, and the end of it

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is peace and consummation. Sweet obey the light of Asia.

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So haply, When thy task shall end, the wrong shall

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lose itself and right, and all thy weak day sabbath

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splend with the long sabbath of the light. Wittier life

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has many happy endings because it has much that is

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noble and pure and beautiful. Although there is much sin

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and ignorance in the world, many tears, and much pain

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and sorrow, there is also much purity and knowledge, many smiles,

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and much healing and gladness. No pure thought, no unselfish deed,

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can fall short of its felicitous result, And every such

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result is a happy consummation. A pleasant home is a

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happy ending. A successful life is a happy ending. A

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task well and faithfully done is a happy ending. To

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be surrounded by kind friends is a happy ending. A

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quarrel put away, grudges wiped out, unkind words confessed and forgiven,

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friend restored to friend. These are all happy endings. To

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find that which one has long and tediously sought to

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be restored from tears to gladness, to awaken in the

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bright sunlight, out of the painful nightmare of sin, to

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strike after much searching, the heavenly way in life. These

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are indeed blessed consummations. He who looks for finds and

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enters the byways which I have indicated, will come to

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this one without seeking it, for his whole life will

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be filled with happy endings. He who begins right and

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continues does not need to desire and search for felicitous results.

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They are already at hand. They follow as a consequence.

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They are the certainties, the realities of life. There are

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happy endings which belong solely to the material world. These

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are transient, and they pass away. There are happy endings

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which belong to the spiritual world. These are eternal, and

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they do not pass away. Sweet are companionships, pleasures, and

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material comforts, but they change and fade away. Sweeter still

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are purity, wisdom, and the knowledge of truth, and these

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never change nor fade away. Wherever a man in this

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world can take his worldly possessions with him, but he

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soon must part company with them. And if he stands

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upon these alone, deriving all his happiness, from them, he

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will come to a spiritual ending of great emptiness and want.

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But he who has attained to the possession of spirit

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can never be deprived of his source of happiness. He

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will never have to part company with it. And wherever

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he goes in the whole universe, he will carry his

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possessions with him. His spiritual end will be the fullness

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of joy, happy in the eternal happiness. Is he who

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has come to that life form which the thought of

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self is abolished already even now, and in this life,

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has entered into the kingdom of Heaven, Nirvana Paradise, the

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New Jerusalem, the Olympus of Jupiter, the Valhalla of the Gods.

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He knows the final unity of life, the great reality

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of which these fleeting and changing names are but feeble utterances.

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He is at rest on the bosom of the infinite.

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Sweet is the rest and deep the bliss of him

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who has freed his heart from its loss and hatreds

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and dark desires. And he who, without any shadow of

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bitterness or selfishness, resting upon him and looking out upon

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the world with boundless compassion and love, can breathe in

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his inmost heart the blessing peace unto all living things,

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making no exceptions or distinctions. Such a man has reached

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that happy ending which can never be taken away. For

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this is the perfection of life, the fullness of peace,

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and the consummation of perfect blessedness.